paranormal

Not only does this fire chief resemble a Civil War general in many ways, his fire crew resembles the general’s troops.

Declared dead, a man allegedly viewed the hospital in spirit, returning to tell what he saw. His surgeon was unable to provide a conventional explanation.

Many people have reportedly experienced the afterlife in some way, and many scientists have delved into what could be behind these experiences.

A theoretical physicist who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Henry Stapp says the existence of the soul fits within the laws of physics.

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by an estimated 200,000 Americans a year, and studies around the world suggest NDEs are a common human experience. They have been recorded in the folklore of many cultures, and reported by people from diverse backgrounds and in widely varying circumstances.

Materialism and psychical research are often viewed as antithetical. But psychic phenomena and the occult have been with us all throughout the development of science, and—like it or not—they have their place in modern science.

When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological and psychological factors.

“And suddenly I was ejected from my body and I wasn’t angry anymore,” she said. A blaze of light appeared and she felt an energy pervading everything, including herself.

20 million men in China will never find a wife! That’s how many more men than women there are and in a few decades that number could be 40 million. It’s gotten so bad that some places have revived the tradition of Ghost Weddings—marrying deceased men and women to other corpses. It’s just one solution to the leftover men problem left behind by the One Child Policy and decades of sex selective abortions.

“The stranger said his name was Jophar Vorin, and that he came from a country called Laxaria, situated in the portion of the world called Sakria.”

Charles Hoy Fort was an American “self-educated newspaperman, modestly-successful short story writer, unsuccessful novelist and inventor, and eccentric natural philosopher.”

Long after the tsunami that devastated a stretch of Japan’s coast in 2011, a fire station in Tagajo received calls to neighborhoods that had been leveled.

Many people, shortly before they died, reported seeing deceased friends or family members who said they were there to help them pass to the afterlife.

When it comes to the phenomenon of purportedly hearing ghost voices, some studies say it could be supernatural, some say it’s all in the mind.

Eye floaters have a physiological explanation, but that explanation is debatable. Could they be related to consciousness?

The occult has its place in American courtrooms—and police stations, and even business strategies.

Strange phenomena remain unexplained in India, including a motorcycle said to continuously return to its owner’s fatal crash site even when it’s been chained down elsewhere.