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. […]
Bigfoot: Analyzing the Evidence of Sasquatch
The evidence for Bigfoot, the large hairy hominid reported across North America’s forests, falls into four classes: the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, plaster footprint casts, the 2014 Sykes DNA study, and tens of thousands of eyewitness reports. Each class records a real human experience; none has yet produced a body. Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: […]
The Banshee: Ireland’s Wailing Spirit of Death
What Is the Banshee in Irish Tradition? The banshee (Irish bean sídhe, “woman of the fairy mound”) is a female spirit in Irish folk tradition whose wailing cry, the caoineadh, is held to foretell a death in certain old Gaelic families. She belongs to the wider Otherworld of the Sídhe, the supernatural people of pre-Christian […]
Stargate Project at SRI 1972-1995: 23 Years of CIA-Declassified Remote-Viewing Records
The Stargate Project ran for twenty-three years inside the United States intelligence community, from a 1972 SRI International parapsychology contract to its 1995 closure at Fort Meade, and the bulk of its operational and laboratory record is now declassified, sitting under the CREST reading-room banner at the Central Intelligence Agency. The interesting question is no […]
Mysterious Humming Noises Worldwide
By Linnea Voss · Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 13, 2026. A woman in Taos walks me to the corner of her kitchen and asks me to stand still. She is in her late sixties. She tells me the hum is loudest here, against the south wall, near […]
The Hermetic Tradition: Rediscovering Ancient Wisdom
By Linnea Voss · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 A Florentine monk named Leonardo da Pistoia stepped off a road in Macedonia in 1460 carrying a Greek manuscript he believed was older than Moses. He brought it to Cosimo de’ Medici, who set the rest of Plato aside and ordered the […]
Journeys Beyond the Veil: Documenting NDEs
By Linnea Voss · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 8, 2026. What People Report on the Threshold A near-death experience, in the working sense used by the researchers who first named it, is a structured account given by someone who survived a close brush with death. Common features […]
Experiences with Angels: Personal Testimonies
By Linnea Voss · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 8, 2026. Experiences with Angels: Personal Testimonies A woman in Indiana tells me, plainly, that the man who pulled her car out of a snowdrift on Christmas Eve 1983 left no footprints in the unbroken snow. She is not […]
The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel: A True Account
By Linnea Voss · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel: A True Account Between September 1975 and July 1976, in the Bavarian town of Klingenberg, a 23-year-old university student named Anneliese Michel underwent 67 Roman Catholic exorcism sessions performed by two diocesan priests with episcopal permission. She […]
ESP: Exploring Extrasensory Perception
By Linnea Voss · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. ESP: What a Folklorist Notices First Extrasensory perception is the claimed acquisition of information without the recognized senses, sorted in the parapsychological literature into telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis. After ninety years of laboratory work, no robust […]