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Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
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Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar shows the shameless reality of Belle Gibson’s fraud
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Humans long to cheat death, but is there any validity to life extension technology?
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21st March 2025
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Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
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Paging Dr Superstitious: Why Singaporean medics believe steamed buns are bad luck
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5th March 2025
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The Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn’t happen
Mike Hall
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26th February 2025
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A brief history of The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit
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19th March 2025
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From the archive: Roswell Revisited in 1991 – the final crash of the UFOs?
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11th March 2025
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14th March 2025
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A brief history of The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit
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From the archive: The Blondlot Bombshell – the rise and fall of N-rays
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26th March 2025
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The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
Deborah Hyde
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24th May 2021
The Battersea Poltergeist demonstrates how supposedly supernatural phenomena need attention and validation to thrive
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Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?
Deborah Hyde
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13th January 2021
Familiarity and caution may have killed off the story of the phantom hitchhiker, but our draw towards creepy tales will always find an outlet.
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Ghosts, curses and werewolves: archaeologists see human belief up close
Paul Duncan McGarrity
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30th October 2020
Dealing with human remains teaches us we don't have to share somebody's belief to respect them - as long as those beliefs aren't causing harm
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in ghostly encounters?
Chris French
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15th October 2020
With pandemic-related anxiety and stress causing an increase in experience of sleep paralysis, we may well see an uptick in paranormal belief.
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Electrician sheds light on viral Birmingham ghost mystery
Hayley Stevens
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3rd September 2020
Hayley Stevens explains how the recent ghost captured on a Birmingham CCTV camera may have a far more mundane explanation.
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Do ghosts exist? If not, why do we see them?
Deborah Hyde
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4th February 2018
This is the deceptively simple question I ask at the beginning of every episode of the Haunted podcast. The show features ghost stories that...
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From the archives: Galileo’s Doughnuts – The day I saw a ghost
Mark Duwe
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20th April 2012
From the archives in 2012, Mark Duwe recounts the day he felt sure he saw a ghost... and what he may have actually seen
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The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists – Part II: An Advanced Model
James Houran
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Rense Lange
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4th October 2002
From the archives, Rense Lange and James Houran propose a more advanced model of the psychological processes underlying hauntings and poltergeists.
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