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Paranormal

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I Bought a Witches’ Prison

In 2005, Vanessa Mitchell moved into her dream home, a former medieval jail where England’s witches waited to hang and burn. When paranormal phenomena forced her to flee, she became convinced it was possessed by evil spirits.

Jeff Maysh Medium Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Why Do We See Dead People?

Humans have always sensed the ghosts of loved ones. It’s only in the last century that we convinced ourselves this was a problem.

Patricia Pearson The Walrus Oct 2020 15min Permalink

Arts

How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics

The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to.

Adam Green New Yorker Sep 2019 30min Permalink