The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima: Analyzing The Occurrence

By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On the rainy afternoon of October 13, 1917, a crowd estimated by contemporary reporters at thirty thousand to fifty thousand people stood in the muddy basin called the Cova da Iria, on a Portuguese hillside outside the village of Fátima. Three shepherd […]
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 […]
The Amityville Horror: Truth or Fiction?

By Linnea Voss · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The Amityville Horror: What the Record Actually Shows The Amityville horror is a documented hoax that became a permanent piece of American folklore. The 1977 Jay Anson book describes a 28-day haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue in Long Island that the Lutz […]