Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception. By Matthew Hutson.

The U.S. Army even recruited “psychic soldiers” from within its own ranks. By James Clark.

“Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?” — William James. By Aaron Dabbah.

115 years ago, divers found a hunk of bronze off a Greek island. It changed our understanding of human history. By Brian Resnick.

In “Phenomena,” Annie Jacobsen explores the government’s research into things that go bump in the night. By Dick Teresi.

Spoiler alert: science won. By Eric Grundhauser.

You feel somebody is looking at you, but you don’t know why. The explanation lies in some intriguing neuroscience and the study of a strange form of brain injury. By Tom Stafford.

Mr. Sand earned a reputation in the 1960s for making some of the purest LSD on the market, including Orange Sunshine, before the law finally caught up with him. By Williiam Grimes.

“Once you accept the notion that some kind of anima invigorates our skin and bones, there’s no reason we couldn’t reverse the logic and say that people are just ghosts that happen to have physical bodies. “ By Aaron Dabbah.

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Many people text dead loved ones to cope with their grief – but trouble arises when they get an unexpected reply.  By Amelia Tait.

Louise Erdrich on Postcommodity’s Ceremonial Transformation of LRAD.

A blind woman describes how she learnt she had one of the world’s most intriguing senses.

Glimpsed through the lens of Guite’s biography, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” constitutes the “involucrum” of Coleridge’s existential chrysalis. By Kelly Grovier.

The artwork, said U.K. tabloids of the time, was haunted. By Natalie Zarrelli.

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Kelsey L. Munger on her childhood and her devout parents, who raised her to fear and battle demons.

Alicia Puglionesi explores a curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War, in which old ideas about the prophetic nature of dreaming collided with loss, longing, and new possibilities of communication at a distance.

The benefits of looking directly at the sun might outweigh the costs. By Sam Kriss.