Psychology
The Psychology of Haunted Houses: Why Old Rooms Feel Watched
Creaking floors, cold drafts and infrasound: how the brain builds a presence out of ambiguity, and why some people feel it more than others.
Articles
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Parapsychology
Ganzfeld Experiments: Fifty Years of Testing Telepathy
A look at the most debated protocol in parapsychology, the meta-analyses that keep it alive, and the methodological critiques that refuse to go away.
Psychology
Sleep Paralysis and the Night Visitor
Across cultures, people wake unable to move and sense a figure in the room. Neuroscience explains much of it, but not why the visitor looks so similar everywhere.
Consciousness
Near-Death Experiences: What the Dying Brain Reports
Tunnels, light and life reviews. We examine the AWARE studies, cardiac-arrest research, and what NDEs might tell us about consciousness.
Psychology
Pareidolia: Faces in the Static
Why we see faces in clouds, voices in white noise, and figures in grainy photographs, and how this shapes paranormal evidence.
Paranormal
The Enfield Poltergeist Revisited
One of Britain's most famous cases, re-read through the lens of witness psychology, media pressure and the investigators themselves.
Parapsychology
Precognition and the Feeling of the Future
Daryl Bem's controversial experiments sparked a replication crisis. What did they actually show, and what did psychology learn from them?
Psychology
Liminal Spaces and the Uncanny
Empty hallways, abandoned malls, a school at night. Why transitional places trigger unease, and what Freud meant by the uncanny.
Parapsychology
Mediums, Cold Reading and the Barnum Effect
How general statements feel deeply personal, and what that tells us about the way we search for meaning in the words of others.