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Oct 14, 2022

Surprising Realities Behind 'Spiderwick'

If you’ve visited a bookstore in the last few years, you may have seen those cute books about fairies or gnomes where it looks like the author found and smashed one of the poor creatures between the pages. The whimsical drawings of the squashed little folk are at once both...

Oct 21, 2022

Top 10 most famous ghosts

Ghosts are both everywhere and nowhere, stories would have us believe. Their existence is constantly being investigated, but highly doubted, yet despite that healthy scepticism ghosts feature prominently in our culture. They are in television and film, from Harry Potter to The Sixth Sense. Ghost stories are told around campfires...

Oct 21, 2022

11 of the most haunted places in the US

You don’t need to believe in ghosts to enjoy a ghost story about some of the most haunted places. The tales that have grown over generations around reputedly haunted houses can take on a fantastic life of their own in folklore, and the stories that surround a place can influence...

Oct 21, 2022

10 Ghost Stories That Will Haunt You for Life

Ghost stories (Image credit: Photo by Antonio Verrio, CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported)From a spooky 3,200-year-old tale written on broken pottery pieces to amateur YouTube videos of ghost chases, frightening tales of apparitions, demons and goblins have been documented since ancient times and continue to fascinate people today. Although these paranormal...

Oct 21, 2022

Science of the Paranormal: Can You Trust Your Own Mind?

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more....

Nov 14, 2022

Why does the devil have horns and hooves?

Satan is often shown in popular depictions with horns on its head, furry legs and cloven hooves of a goat. But just why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves? It turns out that historians don’t agree on when this depiction of the devil became popular and where it...

Nov 15, 2022

Crop circles: Myth, theories and history

Crop circles are a very straightforward phenomenon: They are a type of landscape art made by humans. Despite evidence to the contrary, some people remain convinced that crop circles were made by aliens brought by UFOs. But how did unidentified flying objects come to be linked with flattened expanses of...

Nov 16, 2022

Is Bigfoot real? Everything you need to know about the Sasquatch

Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is a giant ape-like creature that some people believe roams North America. It is a cryptid (or species rumored to exist) and just like the Chupacabra or Loch Ness monster, there's scant physical evidence to suggest Bigfoot is actually out there. But that doesn't stop alleged sightings...

Nov 23, 2022

4 in 10 people worldwide believe in witches

Worldwide, more than four in 10 people believe in witchcraft, a new survey suggests. However, witchcraft, or the concept that people can use supernatural abilities to cause harm is a belief that varies dramatically between nations. Just 9% of people in Sweden believe in witchcraft, while more than 90% of...

Dec 27, 2022

The most famous Bigfoot sightings

Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is one of North America's most enduring legends. The scientific community largely dismisses the idea of a large, unknown ape-like creature sauntering through the forests because there's never been any hard evidence that such an animal exists. Nonetheless, there have been thousands of reported eyewitness accounts over...

Jan 27, 2023

Flat Earth 'theory': Why do some people think the Earth is flat?

Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet's shape (and even its circumference) in the third century B.C. But a fringe society founded in the 1950s, dedicated to insisting that...

Mar 20, 2023

How do flat-Earthers explain the equinox? We investigated.

The spring equinox is upon us. On Monday (March 20), the sun will shine directly on the Earth's equator, spring will officially begin in the northern hemisphere, and the length of day and night will be nearly equal across the globe ... or, across the disk, if you're a flat-Earther....

Jul 11, 2023

20 of the best conspiracy theories

Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Conspiracies are sometimes real. The Watergate break-in is a good example of...

Aug 24, 2023

The biggest hunt for the Loch Ness Monster in 50 years is about to begin

Hundreds of monster hunters will descend on Loch Ness this weekend for what organizers claim is the biggest Nessie search in more than 50 years — but don't expect a monster discovery. The Loch Ness Centre, a visitor attraction in Scotland, announced earlier this month that it was looking for...

Oct 6, 2023

Are ghosts real?

If you believe in ghosts, you're not alone. Cultures all around the world believe in spirits that survive death to live in another realm. In fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomenon: Millions of people are interested in ghosts. It's more than mere entertainment; A 2019...