Spirit Drawings review – awe-inspiring visions of a Victorian medium. By Jonathan Jones.

Exploring the link between this cross-wiring of the senses and creativity. By Jacoba Urist.

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk” – Robert Bloch

The many precautions people have taken to keep corpses in their graves. By James Close. (May 18, 2016)

Over 100 years after the most powerful explosion in documented history, researchers are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. By Melissa Hogenboom.

If you think all of your memories are real and accurate, think again. By Julia Shaw. (June 13, 2016)

We still believe, we just don’t talk about it anymore. By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie.

Hubert Airy’s drawings anticipated discoveries in neuroscience that were still decades in the future. By Betsy Mason and Greg Miller.

If the occult can be defined as a secret knowledge of the hidden and supernatural, then London can claim to be one of the great occult cities... By Robert Greer.

Zombies have become a mainstream way to suspend our disbelief and engage with the land of make-believe. However, they may be walking among us in real life thanks to a rare mental illness called Cotard’s Syndrome. By Jaleesa Baulkman. (May 25, ’16)

What happens after we die, and what becomes of us after we push through the mysterious boundary between life and death? By Brent Swancer.

Cellular Pre-sense in the Primordial Soup. By Eric Wargo.

Ancient demons. Alien abductions. Sex-crazed witches. Are the terrifying hallucinations of sleep paralysis as old as sleep itself? By Karen Emslie.

In 2008, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, MD, woke up in excruciating pain. Within hours, he was in full grand mal seizure and was rushed to the hospital. The diagnosis was a rare and usually fatal form of E. coli bacterial meningitis, and his prognosis was grim. For seven days he lay in a deep coma. Despite the overwhelming odds against his survival, he not only woke up, but...

The woman known as the mother of modern witchcraft was also a Bletchley Park codebreaker and a friend of the Queen Mother, a new book claims. By Ben James.

Is the Hum, a mysterious noise heard around the world, science or mass delusion? By Colin Dickey.

As an icon of Kiwi occultism goes up for sale, Greg Roughan delves into the bizarre history behind Auckland’s Temple of Higher Thought – and its links with Havelock North’s strangest secret. By Greg Roughan.

Science and Shamanism in the Arctic. By Tim Fulford. (July ’13)

Before her accident Heather Thompson was, by any measure, very successful. She lived just outside Seattle’s urban sprawl, was a CEO and a nationally respected business strategist, married, and had a two-year-old daughter. “I was at the pinnacle of my career,” she said. Then… By Tanya Basu.

What if some of the most haunting symbolism of the twentieth century was the invention of a shadowy figure who pirated innocuous images from a famous church in order to construct the mythos of a secret society? By Andrew Gough.