Category: Paranormal

Maxwell Cade was a British biophysicist, psychologist, and researcher best known for his pioneering work in biofeedback and consciousness studies. A dedicated scientist with a…

Sudar Singh is a spiritual figure who was claimed by Paul Twitchell, the founder of Eckankar, to be his spiritual teacher. According to Twitchell, he…

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the terms ghost hunter and ghost investigator were interchangeably used to refer to any person who investigated suspected…

A form of extrasensory perception, clairsentience (“clear sensing”) is the receiving of tastes, smells, and sensations remotely. Clairsentience can also involve the mental receipt of…

At the height of the New Age movement, crystals became popular as tools of physical or emotional healing and as devices to influence various aspects…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…