Category: Miscellaneous

Hangar 18 is a hangar at a top-secret military installation, Groom Lake Base (also known as Area 51), located approximately 90 miles (145km) north of…

As an associate professor of history at Temple University in Philadelphia, David M. Jacobs specializes in the histories of American popular culture, twentieth-century America, and…

Skeptics often cite sleep paralysis as the cause of out-of-body experiences and alien abduction experiences. Sleep paralysis, in which the body becomes paralyzed at certain…

Superstitions are beliefs and practices that are not based on rational thought. In most cases these beliefs involve causal relationships. For example, a hockey player…

Incorruptibility is a phenomenon whereby a dead body fails to decay, even after long periods of time. There are many examples of incorruptibility in historical…

The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen said to be the cloth that wrapped Jesus Christ’s body, as was the custom of the…

Society for Psychical Research Parapsychological Association, the Founded in 1957 in Durham, North Carolina, at the urging of noted parapsychologist J.B. Rhine, the Parapsychological Association…

One of the foremost researchers into the alien abduction experience, Budd Hopkins helped spread public awareness of this phenomenon through three popular books, Missing Time…

Allen J. Hynek (1910–ca. 1986) An astronomer first at the Ohio State University and then at Northwestern University, where he was chair of the astronomy…

Circles of large upright stones—commonly known as menhirs, which is Celtic for “long stones”—erected in prehistoric times, have been found in various parts of the…