Paranormal

Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.

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
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"
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.
Media

The Wikipedia conspiracy that wasn’t; or, why Wikipedia says Roswell was a balloon

Robert Jones -
UFO believers claim a grand CIA-funded conspiracy is hiding the truth about UFOs on Wikipedia, but editors of the world's largest encylopaedia are just following the site's rules
History

The strange and deeply unlikely tale of Gef the talking mongoose

Sean Slater -
Gef the talking mongoose - supernatural resident of an Isle of Man farmhouse - is legendary in skeptical lore... even if he was merely the invention of a 13 year old girl
Paranormal

The Kentucky Alien Invasion: putting to bed the myths and mysteries

Blake Smith -
While plenty is known about the 1955 Kentucky Alien Invasion, some of the 'facts' most commonly shared by Skeptics are, themselves, more misinformation and rumour
Paranormal

Guns and Goblins: what really happened during the Kentucky Alien Invasion?

Blake Smith -
As one of the most prominent paranormal cases of the 20th century, a lot is known about the Kentucky Goblins case - so, what really happened?
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