Paranormal

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Moral Panics

Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic

Mark Horne -
Drawing on her work as journalist at the time, Rosie Waterhouse's "Satanic Panic - A Modern Myth" details the creation of the notorious moral panic
Archive

From the archives: The ‘Saints and Martyrs’ of Parapsychology

H.B. Gibson -
From the archives in 1988, H.B. Gibson questions the role that fraud plays in parapsychology
Archive

From the archives: A historical Dutch UFO hunt – How one phone call roused all Amsterdam

Marcel Hulspas -
From the archives in 1988, Marcel Huspas of the Dutch skeptics reports on a UFO hunt that caught the attention of all of Amsterdam
Archive

From the archives: Astrology, Gauquelin and the real explanation for the “Mars Effect”

Anthony Garrett -
From the archives in 1988, physicist Anthony Garrett picks apart a study of European sports stars that claimed to prove the validity of astrology.
Psychics

An unconvincing ‘psychic’ night in Hamilton with medium Elaine Claire

Brian Eggo -
Elaine Claire's psychic show in Hamilton felt like a lukewarm performance of cold reading, but that didn't stop an eager and grieving audience from believing
Cryptozoology

The Bat Beast of Kent: mysterious figure spooks four at Sandling Railway Station

David Barr -
In 1963, four teenagers in Kent claimed to witness a shadowy figure, five-feet tall, with bat-like wings - soon to be dubbed the "Bat Beast of Kent"
Archive

From the archives: A dowsing-dedicated day in the country

Denys Parsons -
From the archives in 1988, Denys Parsons attends a rather disappointing display of dowsing, alongside BBC Oxford
UFOs

UFOs: The unidentified flying circus comes to town

Ben Harris -
The public face of ufology is more akin to a circus than any scientific endeavour, argues Australian author, Ben Harris.
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