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Where the Wild Things Are: Anomalies and the Poverty of Critical Thinking
“People tend to say ‘I like independent thinkers but they must think what I want them to think independently’” – Rassool Jibraeel Snyman.
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The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman
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.
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What It’s Like to Hear Voices in Your Head Every Day
Rai hears roughly 13 different voices, but she doesn’t let them get in the way of her life. By Louise Donovan.
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How a KGB Officer Became One of America’s Top Paranormal Researchers
History’s spookiest spook. By Andy Wright.
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Ten real-life animals that are dragons
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)
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Scientists stunned to discover that one mythological animal is perfectly real, and has now been captured on film
The horse deer was so rare it was said to be a myth. By Marshall Connolly.
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The Mysterious Vanishing of Ambrose Bierce
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.
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The Mystery of Seahorse Key’s Missing Bird Colony Veers Into Strange Territory
Russian submarines? Black-ops helicopters? Vigilante sheepdogs? Cannibal snakes? Weird theories abound for the causes of the baffling case. By Brian Kevin.
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The Voices in Our Heads
Why do people talk to themselves, and when does it become a problem? By Jerome Groopman.
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How Getting Hit by Lightning Changed a Woman's Synesthesia
Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real. By Sarah Zhang.
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How One Man Used a Deck of Cards to Make Parapsychology a Science
Dr. Joseph Rhine believed that psychic powers could be studied—and that he had the tools to do it. By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie,
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Hanging Out with One of Indonesia’s Celebrity Sorcerers
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,
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Decoding Death: The Science and Significance of Near Death Experiences
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]
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Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead
Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history. By Burkhard Bilger.
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A Forgotten Adventure With a Telepathic Tribe
New Broadway play revisits a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. By Nina Strochlic.
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Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy
“Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism” – Louis Pasteur
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A Bigfoot hunter on how to have smart political discourse
Ranae Holland, a host of Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot,” had a sense Hillary Clinton wouldn’t win the election. By Bill Radke and Matt Martin.
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The Great New England Vampire Panic
Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living. By Abigail Tucker.
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The Headless Hitchhiker of St. Leonard’s Forest
“We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There’s always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete” – Colin Trevorrow
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When the Devil Enters
A town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers. By Ariel Ramchandani.
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