Parapsychology

From the archives in 1988, Chris Scott recounts Soal's experiments, which suggested precognitive abilities, but turned out to be statistical fakery

Gef the talking mongoose - supernatural resident of an Isle of Man farmhouse - is legendary in skeptical lore... even if he was merely the invention of a 13 year old girl

Hypnotists and Hollywood were amazed when Virginia Tighe recalled her past life as Bridey Murphy - an impressive feat... but Murphy never existed

Daryl Bem's precognition studies made worldwide headlines in 2011 - yet it's easy to predict proof Bem's work was flawed won't get the same attention

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

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

Bligh Bond's 1919 book 'The Gates of Remembrance' is one of the first documented examples of so-called psychic archaeology, claimed to be written using automatic writing.

From the archives, Richard Wiseman describes the very first experiment into the unreliability of eyewitness testimony - the pioneering work of Mr S.J. Davey.