If you’ve ever felt like you left your body during sleep, you’re not alone — you’re just easily impressed by dreams and gravity. According to the believers, astral projection is the ability to separate your soul (or “energy body,” if you’re allergic to theology) from your physical self and float around like a ghost with … Read more
When Navigational Errors Become Paranormal Mysteries Ah, the Bermuda Triangle — that soggy wedge of ocean where, according to enthusiasts of sloppy thinking everywhere, the laws of physics take a coffee break and planes vanish into thin air because “mystery.” The legend is simple: ships and planes disappear inside a roughly triangular region bounded by … Read more
Rocks, Rituals, and the Rise of Ridiculous Theories There are few things on this planet more impressive than Stonehenge. And there are even fewer things more embarrassing than the way people talk about it. A prehistoric ring of gigantic stones? Amazing. A feat of prehistoric engineering? Absolutely. Proof of extraterrestrial intervention, ancient power grids, or … Read more
Remote Viewing: How to Be Wrong from Across the World Remote viewing is what happens when you take the ancient art of guessing and slap a government grant on it. It’s the mystical claim that certain gifted individuals can see distant locations, hidden objects, or secret events simply by concentrating really, really hard. In other … Read more
Connect the Dots There’s a special kind of magic in humanity’s ability to find patterns where none exist. Some people look at a cloud and see a dog. Others look at a map and see divine pathways of mystical energy controlling the fate of mankind. The difference is that one of those people grows out … Read more
Where Geography, Physics, and Sanity Go to Die There’s something uniquely humbling about realizing that in an age where we can send robots to Mars, track hurricanes from space, and map the molecular structure of proteins, there are still people — allegedly literate — who believe Earth is shaped like a cosmic frisbee. Flat Earth … Read more