Ghost Hunting: Techniques and Technology
Ghost hunting is the practice of investigating places reported as haunted, using sensors, cameras, and audio recorders alongside witness interviews. Modern investigators rely on EMF meters, digital voice recorders, spirit boxes, thermal cameras, and structured-light sensors, though no device has produced evidence the scientific community accepts as proof of ghosts. Published: 2026-06-05. Last reviewed: 2026-06-05. […]
Ley Lines: The Mysterious Alignments Across the Earth
Ley lines are hypothetical straight lines connecting ancient landmarks, megaliths, and sacred sites across a landscape. The amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins proposed them in 1921 as prehistoric trade routes; later New Age writers reimagined them as channels of earth energy. No scientific evidence supports either claim. I have stood on a Herefordshire hill at the […]
Unusual Mutations: Animals With Extra Limbs
Polymelia is the growth of one or more limbs beyond a species’ normal set. In animals it arises mainly three ways: a parasite that scrambles limb-bud signaling, as Ribeiroia ondatrae does in frogs; incomplete conjoined twinning in mammals; and atypical regeneration after injury, as in branch-armed octopuses. Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: June 5, […]