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Oct 14, 2022

Contradictions Don't Deter Conspiracy Theorists

Did Princess Diana fake her own death to escape the public eye? Or was she killed by a rogue element of the British secret service? If you agree with one of these theories, there's a good chance you'll subscribe to both even though one suggests Princess Diana is alive, the...

Oct 14, 2022

Nearly 50% in US Believe in Medical Conspiracy Theories

About half of Americans agree with at least one medical conspiracy theory, a new study suggests. The study surveyed more than 1,300 Americans to see whether they agreed with six popular medical conspiracy theories — such as the discredited link between vaccines and autism, or the belief that water fluoridation...

Oct 14, 2022

In Photos: Mysterious Crop Circles

Relatively Recent Phenomenon (Image credit: winjohn | sxc.hu)Crop circles first began cropping up in the 1970s, sparking claims that they were created by extraterrestrials. Although two men came forward in 1991 and said that they had created the patterns as a UFO hoax, they didn’t take responsibility for all of...

Oct 14, 2022

Mermaid Sightings Claimed in Israel

Locals and tourists in the Israeli town of Kiryat Yam have been flocking to the coast in hopes of glimpsing a creature that most people believe only exist in fairy tales. An alleged mermaid, said to resemble a cross between a fish and a young girl, only appears at sunset....

Oct 14, 2022

Surprising Realities Behind 'Spiderwick'

If you’ve visited a bookstore in the last few years, you may have seen those cute books about fairies or gnomes where it looks like the author found and smashed one of the poor creatures between the pages. The whimsical drawings of the squashed little folk are at once both...

Oct 21, 2022

Top 10 most famous ghosts

Ghosts are both everywhere and nowhere, stories would have us believe. Their existence is constantly being investigated, but highly doubted, yet despite that healthy scepticism ghosts feature prominently in our culture. They are in television and film, from Harry Potter to The Sixth Sense. Ghost stories are told around campfires...

Oct 21, 2022

11 of the most haunted places in the US

You don’t need to believe in ghosts to enjoy a ghost story about some of the most haunted places. The tales that have grown over generations around reputedly haunted houses can take on a fantastic life of their own in folklore, and the stories that surround a place can influence...

Oct 21, 2022

10 Ghost Stories That Will Haunt You for Life

Ghost stories (Image credit: Photo by Antonio Verrio, CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported)From a spooky 3,200-year-old tale written on broken pottery pieces to amateur YouTube videos of ghost chases, frightening tales of apparitions, demons and goblins have been documented since ancient times and continue to fascinate people today. Although these paranormal...

Oct 21, 2022

Science of the Paranormal: Can You Trust Your Own Mind?

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more....

Nov 14, 2022

Why does the devil have horns and hooves?

Satan is often shown in popular depictions with horns on its head, furry legs and cloven hooves of a goat. But just why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves? It turns out that historians don’t agree on when this depiction of the devil became popular and where it...

Nov 15, 2022

Crop circles: Myth, theories and history

Crop circles are a very straightforward phenomenon: They are a type of landscape art made by humans. Despite evidence to the contrary, some people remain convinced that crop circles were made by aliens brought by UFOs. But how did unidentified flying objects come to be linked with flattened expanses of...

Nov 16, 2022

Is Bigfoot real? Everything you need to know about the Sasquatch

Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is a giant ape-like creature that some people believe roams North America. It is a cryptid (or species rumored to exist) and just like the Chupacabra or Loch Ness monster, there's scant physical evidence to suggest Bigfoot is actually out there. But that doesn't stop alleged sightings...

Nov 23, 2022

4 in 10 people worldwide believe in witches

Worldwide, more than four in 10 people believe in witchcraft, a new survey suggests. However, witchcraft, or the concept that people can use supernatural abilities to cause harm is a belief that varies dramatically between nations. Just 9% of people in Sweden believe in witchcraft, while more than 90% of...

Dec 27, 2022

The most famous Bigfoot sightings

Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is one of North America's most enduring legends. The scientific community largely dismisses the idea of a large, unknown ape-like creature sauntering through the forests because there's never been any hard evidence that such an animal exists. Nonetheless, there have been thousands of reported eyewitness accounts over...

Jan 27, 2023

Flat Earth 'theory': Why do some people think the Earth is flat?

Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet's shape (and even its circumference) in the third century B.C. But a fringe society founded in the 1950s, dedicated to insisting that...