Lourdes
A city near Paris, France, Lourdes is a place where many people believe that miracle cures have taken place. Seemingly miraculous cures began happening in…
Author: Lux Ferre
False Memories
Sceptics say that memories of a paranormal experience, which sometimes can only be recalled with the help of hypnosis are false—that the events the subject…
Pentagrams
A pentagram is an image of a five-pointed star, often inscribed within a circle. This image, also called a pentacle, has been associated with magical…
Woughton-on-the-Green
According to a tradition recounted by Horace Harman in Sketches of the Bucks Countryside (1934), the Old Swan Inn at Woughton became one of the…
Pendulums
Pendulums are objects suspended from a fixed point so that they can swing freely back and forth. Small pendulums hung from strings, cords, ribbons, light…
Eddy brothers
Eddy brothers : During the 1800s, brothers William and Horatio Eddy were famous mediums who, while apparently in trances, supposedly could summon spirits. They were…
Human Magnetism
Beginning in the nineteenth century, there have been reports of people exhibiting strange magnetic qualities, often accompanied by unusual displays of electric energy. Scientists are…
Burleydam
In the 1950s and ’60s, members of Women’s Institutes in Cheshire compiled two volumes of ‘village memories’, which include many interesting items of tradition and…
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a process whereby a person’s mental state is altered in such a way that the conscious mind no longer stands in the way…
Forer effect
The Forer effect occurs when people consider certain statements to refer specifically to them, when in fact the statements are so general that they could…
