Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Discovery News It seems that stories of the paranormal sprout up every day, and everywhere, in pop culture and the media. Weird news ...

Early psychical research included spiritualist cults, mediums, ghost-hunters, mind-readers, and levitators of tables and mystics of all sorts. By the 1930s, excitement in the U.S. attracted the ...

My own limited experience in the field of parapsychology wasn’t of much help when it came to deciding how to best go about better understanding what many people write off as a pseudo-science for ...

Parapsychology has been a controversial subject from its very inception. Many scientists have expressed doubts that psi – the broad term for paranormal phenomena such as telepathy, precognition, and ...

Loyd Auerbach (Weinberg ’78) became interested in parapsychology, the study of psychic, ghostly and mediumistic experiences, at age 12, when he discovered books about the topic in his hometown library ...

Paranormal activities have always been a part of folklore. Be it books or movies, the thrill of facing an unknown entity has always been a crowd-puller. In academia there are people who are bent on ...

The phone calls would come in, and the voice on the other side would ask, “Do you believe in ghosts?” This wasn’t a prank. It was an investigation of ghostly phenomena. The year was 1968, and UCLA’s ...

Expert says there are elements in the films that don't line up with his study The “Paranormal Activity” series is a testament to Paramount’s ability to predict the success of found-footage horror: Out ...

It is not generally known in the Philippines, but there is a science that deals with the study and investigation of paranormal phenomena. It is called parapsychology in the western countries, but as ...