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.

The Defamation Trial of the Curé of Cideville. By Aaron Dabbah.

The “Strawberries With Sugar” outbreak is just one example of mass hysteria, which goes back centuries. By Lorraine Boissoneault.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin vs. the Marabouts. By Aaron Dabbah.

“People tend to say ‘I like independent thinkers but they must think what I want them to think independently’” – Rassool Jibraeel Snyman.

The modern-day corpse of a human-like hominid, preserved in a block of ice, encountered by researchers in the 1960s, you say? Surely the zoological discovery of the century!  By Darren Naish.

Rai hears roughly 13 different voices, but she doesn’t let them get in the way of her life. By Louise Donovan.

History’s spookiest spook. By Andy Wright.

There’s no such thing as a giant flying lizard that breathes fire. But the natural world has plenty of real dragons, and some of them can fly. By Ella Davies. (Apr. 26, 2015)

The horse deer was so rare it was said to be a myth. By Marshall Connolly.

Some mysterious vanishings manage to strike a perfect balance between the weird, the unexplained, and the victim’s life in general. In some cases these disappearances seem almost fitting, as if they were fated to be and that they could not have happened any other way. One such case surely must be the disappearance of a talented author who wrote extensively of the world of the supernatural and strange vanishings, only to follow suit… By Brent Swancer.

Russian submarines? Black-ops helicopters? Vigilante sheepdogs? Cannibal snakes? Weird theories abound for the causes of the baffling case. By Brian Kevin.

Why do people talk to themselves, and when does it become a problem? By Jerome Groopman.

Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real. By Sarah Zhang.

Dr. Joseph Rhine believed that psychic powers could be studied—and that he had the tools to do it. By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie,

We talked to self-proclaimed expert of the metaphysical Ki Narto after Indonesia’s House of Representatives proposed a controversial set of laws to legislate the supernatural. By Bramaseta Janottama,

People have reported “near death experiences”, or NDE’s, over centuries and across cultures. The nature of them has historically been the territory of religion and philosophy. But now science has staked its claim in the discussion. And the questions are profound: where is consciousness produced, in the brain, or somewhere else? Can consciousness continue to exist even after the heart and brain have stopped working? Contributor Ashley Walters explores the science and the meaning of near death experiences. [Audio program]

Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history. By Burkhard Bilger.

New Broadway play revisits a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. By Nina Strochlic.

“Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism” – Louis Pasteur