Category: Paranormal

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

A crystal ball is one of the best-known magical Tools for Divination. The use of a crystal ball for Scrying, the seeing of the future,…

The performing horse Clever Hans with his trainer, Wilhelm von Osten, 1904. The phrase Clever Hans phenomenon refers to an experience that involved a horse…

Millions of people are reported missing in the United States each year; by some estimates, more than 95 percent of them return home safely, and…

Occasionally, an animal thought to be extinct is rediscovered, either accidentally or after careful searching. Such animals typically live in areas that are so remote…