Lux Ferre

First identified in 1852 by William B. Carpenter, who was both a psychologist and a physiologist, the ideomotor effect occurs when the human brain sends messages to certain muscles in the body

Identified by psychologists in the 1970s, true-believer syndrome is a condition whereby someone who believes that an event has a paranormal cause refuses to alter this view even after the event is

The phrase psi assumption has been coined by skeptics to refer to the belief, held by parapsychologists and others, that the laws of chance can be used as a basis for proving

Also called Spring Heeled Jack or Springald, Springheel Jack was the nickname for a mysterious sexual predator who terrorized London, England, from 1837 through 1838 and was seen again from 1843 through

Some people who believe that it is possible to move either mentally or physically time and back and forth through time, and perhaps through other dimensions of reality as well, say that

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 interior sometimes also accept the existence of

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 a trance. Knight began channeling Ramtha in

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 often accuse people who say they have