Lycantrophy
Lycanthropy is the clinical term for the delusion on the part of a person that he or she has turned into a wolf. In most…
Month: January 2022
Deros
Associated Concepts: Hollow Earth, Lemuria, Shaver Mystery Origin: United States, mid-20th century fringe cosmology Believers in theories proposing that the Earth possesses a hollow, inhabitable…
Ramtha
According to self-professed spirit channeler J.Z. Knight of Tacoma, Washington, Ramtha is a thirty-five-thousand-year-old warrior who Knight says speaks through her whenever she is in…
Hallucinations
Hallucinations are experiences of one or more senses—sight, sound, hearing, smell, touch, and taste—that appear real to the person experiencing them but are not. Skeptics…
Faces appearing in Objects
Sometimes people look at stains, burns, lines, or other marks on objects and believe that they can discern faces in them. On rare occasions, such…
Extrasensory Perception
Someone who receives or imparts information without using the five senses— taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell—is said to have extrasensory perception (ESP). Parapsychologists (people…
The Dungarvon Whooper – Blackville
A legend of a young cook named Ryan who was murdered in a lumber camp. His ghost is said to make loud whooping and yelling…