UFOs, loud booms, strange creatures,the Missouri witch hunts, plagues. a comet and a native american prophecy. Events surrounding the earthquake.

Amputees often feel eerie sensations from their missing limbs. These “phantom limb” feelings can include pain, itching, tingling, or even a sense of trying to pick something up. Patients who lose an eye may have similar symptoms—with the addition of actual phantoms...

There's been little news on the project as of late but last year we heard that Ridley Scott was developing a miniseries based on the life of Jack Parsons, the co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratories and inventor of solid rocket fuel... By Christopher Knowles.

For nearly five decades, residents of Greenock, Scotland have been reporting encounters with a "catman". When he was captured on camera, people finally...

In 1835 a labourer was digging a field just outside the English seaside town of Margate. His work was interrupted when he thrust his spade in to the soil and it simply vanished in to the ground...

“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men” - Herodotus

Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive dialogue on the nature of science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. This first month, the focus is on materialism in science.

Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles.

Quick: Name the world’s greatest magician, a man who became famous by sawing women in half, making cards rise unassisted from their decks, pulling rabbits from audience member’s coats, and levitating assistants far above the stage. Harry Houdini? David Blaine? You probably didn’t say Howard Thurston...

Robin Ince takes listeners on a tour of a world beneath the earth's crust. [Audio]

In Russia, there are more faith healers than professional doctors. It's a symptom of decades of chaos and authoritarian rule.

“Sasquatch Chronicles” had a cult following for its weekly Bigfoot podcasts—until its founder’s own story started to unravel.

New series The Enfield Haunting begins on Sunday nights and is based on supposed poltergeist activity. But what does science say about such phenomena?

The psychoactive nature of acacia was fairly widely known in certain Masonic circles at least up until the late 1700s. However, some time between the mid to late 18th century and the 19th century occult revival, the secrets of acacia, like the true word of a Master Mason, appear to have been lost.

A baby in India born with a conjoined twin is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a god.

The region's lakes seem to be connected by networks of salty, below-freezing liquid water that could host microbial life.

A second robotic probe has investigated the interior of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Using its onboard camera, it sent back eerie images of the plant’s interior, including what appears to be a mysterious green glow.

Fifty years after deadly plutonium was lost on India’s second highest mountain, the enigma continues

The pendulum clock of Longitude hero John Harrison is tested and declared a masterpiece

Karsten Erstad is a biologist from Norway. But despite his experience of the animal world, he couldn't believe his eyes when, whilst skiing, he came across thousands upon thousands of earthworms. At first, he thought they had been driven up from the ground...