Paranormal
Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.
Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?
Given that psychics aren't actually performing paranormal feats, is it fair to separate them into the deceitful and the deluded?
Blackpool’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ park is built on racist assumptions about the past
By celebrating the long-debunked claims of Erich von Däniken, Blackpool's new entertainment park perpetuates deeply racist assumptions
When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance
When their predictions don't come true, cults are faced with a choice: accept reality, or rationalise the failure. Which road will Qanon take?
Pandemic prediction problems: meet the psychics who claim to have predicted COVID-19
Psychics and astrologers now claim to have successfully predicted the pandemic, here's what their 2020 predictions actually said
Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil
Kardecism - an 19th century off-shoot of spiritualism - found fertile ground in Brazil, and grew to wholly undermine trust in science and medicine.
Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?
Familiarity and caution may have killed off the story of the phantom hitchhiker, but our draw towards creepy tales will always find an outlet.
Is the US government in contact with an alien “galactic federation”?
Haim Eshed, former head of Israel’s Defense Ministry, claims aliens are working with the US government. I'd like to see some evidence.
‘Fisherman and Djinn’: Illustration by A Stieren in ‘Tausend und eine Nacht’
The latest image from the Hilary Evans Paranormal Library is for all of us who are frustrated at being unable to go to a pantomime this year and shout 'BEHIND YOU' at the tops of our voices.
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