Cryptids are the imaginary friends of the adult world — creatures that allegedly exist but somehow manage to avoid every camera, drone, microscope, satellite, and scientific investigation ever launched. Bigfoot. The Chupacabra. Mothman. The Jersey Devil. You name it. If it sounds like something that would’ve been cut from an early draft of Pokémon, there’s … Read more
Picture it: A lost temple hidden deep in the jungle. Moss-covered stones. Torches flickering against ancient walls. A lone adventurer — rugged, whip in hand, fedora at a rakish angle — uncovers a crystal skull resting on a pedestal, its surface gleaming with otherworldly light, humming with forgotten power. That’s the movie version. Now picture … Read more
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 Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Therefore, … Read more
Bigfoot is the participation trophy of the paranormal world. You can’t prove he’s there, you can’t prove he’s not, and somehow that’s enough for a certain breed of sweaty enthusiast to slap a sticker on their pickup truck and call it a lifestyle. Every few months some blurry photo crawls out of the forest like … Read more
Few cryptids have captured the popular imagination — or lowered the bar for eyewitness credibility — quite like the Chupacabra, the legendary “goat sucker” of Latin American folklore. Decades after is should have slunk off into obscurity, the Chupacabra somehow manages to keep sucking in the gullible. For those of you who have mercifully escaped … Read more
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 of it by … Read more
If you’ve ever sat across from a psychic, a palm reader, a tarot card enthusiast, or anyone calling themselves a “spiritual intuitive” and thought, “Wow, they really understand me!” — congratulations. You’ve fallen for one of the oldest psychological parlor tricks in the book: the Barnum Effect. Named after the great showman and legendary huckster … Read more
Ghost photography — the noble art of aiming a poorly calibrated camera at thin air, misinterpreting every smudge, blur, and random dust mote as proof of life after death, and charging ten bucks a pop for the privilege. Clearly, nothing captures the triumphant mediocrity of human ambition quite like the notion that eternal souls — … Read more
The world, in its infinite descent into half-baked wishful thinking, has embraced energy healing like a drunk clings to the last stool at a bar at closing time. Somewhere along the line, we collectively decided that physics, biology, and chemistry—disciplines built painstakingly on centuries of blood, sweat, and Nobel prizes—were simply too stressful, and it … Read more
Once upon a time, you could call a 1-900 number, fork over five bucks a minute, and some stranger wearing pajama pants and fuzzy slippers would tell you that “great changes are coming” to your love life. Ah, the good old days, when hope was expensive and delivered in fifteen-minute increments by people who failed … Read more