Paranormal

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History

Hollow Earth flying saucers: the bossa-nova of pseudoscience

Carlos Orsi -
The belief in a hollow earth - filled with inhabitants, animals and aliens - can be traced back, in part, to the new-age movement in Brazil
Cryptozoology

Creating a Monster: the case of Eachy, the Wikipedia monster of Bassenthwaite

Charles Paxton -
The online life (and eventual death) of Eachy, the monster of Bassenthwaite lake, shows the potential risk of feedback loops in Wikipedia's citation policies
Ghosts

The mystery of Glastonbury Abbey: On knowing more than we know we know

Chris French -
While the messages at Glastonbury Abbey almost certainly did not come from spirits, a number of studies have shown that they may not have been created by deliberate fraud
Ancient Aliens

When the Ancient Aliens came to Blackpool: reporting from Awakenings Expo 2022

Mark Horne -
At the Awakenings Expo in Blackpool, Ancient Aliens celebrities Erich von Däniken and Giorgio A Tsoukalos sought to distance themselves from the more extreme alien claims
Paranormal

Bizarre double death: spontaneous human combustion, or merely tragic coincidence?

Andy Owens -
Alice Ann Kirby and her little sister Amy died in separate, mysterious fires - some claim spontaneous human combustion explains the double tragedy
Paranormal

75 years on, the Roswell mythology continues to captivate ufologists and the public alike

Nigel Watson -
Three quarters of a century later, the Roswell mythology is still alive and well - even as the facts of the original reports get twisted and overlooked
Ghosts

The mystery of Glastonbury Abbey: When the spirit moves you

Chris French -
Critics often accuse Bligh of making up his claims about automatic writing, but experiments show that it's quite possible that he was sincere, albeit mistaken, in his claims
Paranormal

The Hairy Hands of Devon: how a tabloid tale spiraled into a full-blown urban legend

Blake Smith -
Legendary horror stories of monstrously hairy hands sending drivers in Devon to their death can be traced back to a spate of tabloid tales in the 1920s
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