The Hierarchies of Angels: Understanding the Orders
Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: June 5, 2026. What Are the Hierarchies of Angels? The hierarchies of angels are a ninefold ranking of celestial beings, grouped into three triads, first systematized by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite around 500 CE. From highest to lowest the orders run Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and […]
The Science Behind Telepathy: Is It Possible?
Telepathy is the claimed transfer of thoughts or feelings between minds without any sensory contact. The science behind telepathy has produced more than a century of experiments, from Zener cards to ganzfeld trials, that yield small, statistically odd results no laboratory has reliably reproduced. Mainstream science remains unconvinced. Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: June […]
Goetic Demons and Their Historical Accounts
Goetic demons are the seventy-two spirits catalogued in the Ars Goetia, the first book of the seventeenth-century grimoire known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. Each entry records a name, rank, seal, and office, framing the spirits as entities King Solomon was said to have bound and questioned. Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: June […]
Haunted Castles of Europe: A Ghostly Tour
What Makes a European Castle Haunted? Haunted castles of Europe are historic fortresses, from Scotland to the Czech Republic, where recurring eyewitness accounts of apparitions, sounds, and cold spots have been recorded across centuries. Edinburgh Castle, Leap Castle, Chillingham Castle, and Château de Brissac are among the most documented, each carrying a named resident ghost […]
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 […]