Paranormal

As pseudoscience flourishes in Brazil, What Nonsense! by Carlos Orsi and Natalia Pasternak seeks to redress the balance, and push back against irrationality

Where big touring psychics used to play to thousands in grand theatres, these days they perform in small, rural venues, for audiences of their remaining die-hard fans

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may have disappointed, but the crystal skulls are real, and their history is fascinating

Superstitions can often seem fairly harmless for most people, but for some they can become repetitive, compulsive and a signal of a need for real help

Cryptids may seem like unfalsifiable hypotheses, as we can't prove they don't exist, but we can still track their cultural evolution over time

In Chinese tradition, your birthdate can occasionally be seen as unlucky - which is why people spend money to appease the gods they fear their birth has offended

Chinese funerals are extremely expensive, with prescriptive periods of extended mourning - but their value is for the living, not the dead

According to legend, in 1943 the USS Eldridge disappeared, victim of an experiment gone wrong - but the reality was much more mundane