Paranormal

The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread

The New Jersey drone scare is a perfect case study in how panics seize on oddities and unfounded speculation in order to spread fear

Droning on: shedding a skeptical light on the New Jersey UAP panic

At the end of last year, people began to report mysterious 'UAP' lights above the skies of New Jersey - though the real cause was far more human than alien

When it comes to science, the standard has to be truth and accuracy – not false balance

When it comes to matters of science, giving equal time to promoters of misinformation might make for 'good TV', but it is wholly irresponsible

The Estes method is an update to the ghost hunter’s Spirit Box, with all the same flaws

A modern take on the Spirit Box, the Estes Method is similarly doomed to fail, as long as ghost hunters continue to put their biases ahead of the science

The ‘Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis’ that wants us to believe aliens have always been among us

In order to answer difficult questions about UAPs, the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis posits that the aliens were always among us, based on the flimsiest of evidence

Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic

Drawing on her work as journalist at the time, Rosie Waterhouse's "Satanic Panic - A Modern Myth" details the creation of the notorious moral panic

An unconvincing ‘psychic’ night in Hamilton with medium Elaine Claire

Elaine Claire's psychic show in Hamilton felt like a lukewarm performance of cold reading, but that didn't stop an eager and grieving audience from believing

The Bat Beast of Kent: mysterious figure spooks four at Sandling Railway Station

In 1963, four teenagers in Kent claimed to witness a shadowy figure, five-feet tall, with bat-like wings - soon to be dubbed the "Bat Beast of Kent"
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