Paranormal

Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.

Ghosts

Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there

Ishan Singh -
While Pulau Tekong's hauntings and spooky occurrences may not be real, the impressions they make on the young military recruits who train there are very real
Paranormal

Why Millennials and Gen Z are turning to tarot as a form of “therapy”

Nandini Nair -
Tarot's TikTok popularity is just the latest sign of the younger generation looking for whatever answers they can find - even if they're not true
Paranormal

The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America

Deborah Hyde -
The Satanic Panic of the 1980s showed we don't actually need a real Satan - well-meaning, deluded and fervent people will do His work for Him.
Astrology

When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up

Nagesh Rajopadhye -
The data collected in the famous double-blind test of Indian astrology in 2008 allows us to put the other basic astrological principles to the test
Ghosts

The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator

Deborah Hyde -
The Battersea Poltergeist demonstrates how supposedly supernatural phenomena need attention and validation to thrive
History

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter

Matt Mills -
Stories of spontaneous human combustion have been retold since the 1920s, but do those retellings reflect the truth?
Cryptozoology

What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?

David Mountain -
The connection between three legendary paranormal sightings tells us a lot about why we see what isn't there... and miss what's really there
Hilary Evans Paranormal Library

‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman

Deborah Hyde -
This cover of pulp magazine 'Startling Stories' from 1944 features a reanimated cadaver - a zombie, traceable to Haitian folklore
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