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The Truth Is Out There, and the Feds Paid to Find It
In “Phenomena,” Annie Jacobsen explores the government’s research into things that go bump in the night. By Dick Teresi.
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When Science and the Occult Went Head-to-Head on a German Mountaintop
Spoiler alert: science won. By Eric Grundhauser.
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What causes that feeling of being watched
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.
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Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75
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.
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Haunted House Hunting with Mrs. Butler
“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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The Necronomicon
Do you want to be a nicer person? Are you looking for inspiration to do good things? Well keep looking. But if you’re into opening up terrifying vistas of reality then the Esoteric Order of the Old Ones and Cthulhu Cultists want to help. Contact us today to find out how.
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“I begged him to come home”: Breaking the taboo around texting the dead
Many people text dead loved ones to cope with their grief – but trouble arises when they get an unexpected reply. By Amelia Tait.
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Sonic Spirituality
Louise Erdrich on Postcommodity’s Ceremonial Transformation of LRAD.
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The woman with a strange ‘second sight’
A blind woman describes how she learnt she had one of the world’s most intriguing senses.
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Rime without reason: Did Coleridge foretell his own future in a poem?
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.
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A Painting of a Crying Boy Was Blamed For a Series of Fires in the ‘80s
The artwork, said U.K. tabloids of the time, was haunted. By Natalie Zarrelli.
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Miner’s Silver Ghost
Merle Haggard
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Falling Tide 落潮
Ning Cheng
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The Oil Cross: On Being Raised to Wage Spiritual Warfare
Kelsey L. Munger on her childhood and her devout parents, who raised her to fear and battle demons.
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Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
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.
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What happens when you stare at the sun?
The benefits of looking directly at the sun might outweigh the costs. By Sam Kriss.
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Mythical Chinese psychic beings identified in Dazu Rock Carvings
What do the mythical figures of clairvoyance and clairaudience look like and what weapons do they use? The answers could be found in the world-renowned Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing municipality. By Bi Nan.
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Prosecuting a Poltergeist
The Defamation Trial of the Curé of Cideville. By Aaron Dabbah.
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How a Soap Opera Virus Felled Hundreds of Students in Portugal
The “Strawberries With Sugar” outbreak is just one example of mass hysteria, which goes back centuries. By Lorraine Boissoneault.
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The Algerian War of the Wizards
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin vs. the Marabouts. By Aaron Dabbah.
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