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Abduction phenomenon

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around abductions.

Apparitional experience

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around apparitions.

Archive of Luis Elizondo’s “Deleted” Emails - The Black Vault

Luis Elizondo has become a central figure in the modern discourse surrounding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) due to his alleged involvement with the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). His revelations and subsequent claims have been both…

Ariel Phenomenon

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around ariel school encounter.

Ariel School UFO incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around ariel school encounter.

Artifacts

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around Artifacts.

Atmospheric ghost lights

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around fortean weather.

Avalanche analysis of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around dyatlov pass incident.

BFRO Geographic Database of Bigfoot/Sasquatch Sightings

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization maintains a long-running public database of reports organized by state and region.

BUFORA background

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around warminster thing.

Barney and Betty Hill

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around betty and barney hill abduction.

Betty and Barney Hill incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around betty and barney hill abduction.

Bigfoot

Bigfoot is a large, hairy, humanlike creature said to inhabit wilderness areas of North America and especially the Pacific Northwest.

Bits of Famous, Lost (and Fake) 'Flying Saucer' Turn Up in British Science Museum

Pieces of a 50-year-old English "flying saucer" called the Silpho UFO have turned up in the London Science Museum archive.

Borley Rectory

Brazilian UFO reporting background

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around varginha ufo incident.

CUFOS archive background on Kecksburg

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around kecksburg ufo incident.

Calvin Parker interviews and retrospectives

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around pascagoula abduction.

Ceremonial magic

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around ceremonial magic.

Chemtrails: Still Haven't Blown Away - Skeptoid

The more years go by, the more Americans believe that ordinary airliners are secretly spraying chemicals for some hidden nefarious purpose.

Close encounter

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around contactee physical evidence.

Cryptids

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around Cryptids.

Cursed object

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around cursed objects.

Declassified documents

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around government files.

Devil's Footprints

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around devils footprints.

Divination

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around divination.

Dyatlov Pass Foundation archive

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around dyatlov pass incident.

Dyatlov Pass incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around dyatlov pass incident.

Enfield poltergeist

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around enfield poltergeist.

Exeter incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around exeter ufo incident.

FAA Records Detail Pilot Encounter with Unidentified Object Pacing Aircraft Over Nevada - The Black Vault

A newly released set of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), documents an unusual aerial encounter involving a business jet over Northern Nevada in May 2025. The records include air traffic control (ATC) audio…

Flatwoods monster

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around flatwoods monster incident.

Folk magic

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around witchcraft folk magic.

Folklore

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around folklore wildcards.

Folklore Thursday on the Devil's Footprints

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around devils footprints.

Gef

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around gef the talking mongoose.

Ghost hunting

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around ghost hunters investigations.

Good Ole Barack, Still Making Jokes About Aliens...

Oh look, another interview between Stephen Colbert and former US President Barack Obama, in which the topic of aliens is brought up! Could it possibly include some ground-breaking revelation about the UFO phenomenon, which has gathered so much attention since 2017? …NOPE. After…

Grimoire

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around esoteric texts.

Haunted Houses

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around Haunted Houses.

Haunted Houses and Ghosts Are Probably Not Caused by Infrasound Actually

Last week news headlines from outlets across the globe announced that a mundane explanation had been found for haunted houses: infrasound (ie. sounds of a frequency beneath the typical threshold of conscious human hearing, which roughly spans 20Hz to 20KHz). The titles of these…

Hauntings

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around Hauntings.

High Strangeness

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around High Strangeness.

Incident at Exeter

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around exeter ufo incident.

John E. Mack on children and extraordinary experience

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around ariel school encounter.

Kecksburg UFO incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around kecksburg ufo incident.

Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter

Lake monster

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around lake monsters.

List of cryptids

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around regional creatures.

Loch Ness Monster

Mass Sightings

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around Mass Sightings.

Michigan Dogman

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around dogman werewolf.

Missing 411: The Hunted

Documentary adaptation that helped popularize the Missing 411 framing for a wider paranormal audience.

Moment of Contact documentary site

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around varginha ufo incident.

Mothman

Mothman is a creature in West Virginia folklore said to have been seen in the Point Pleasant area from November 1966 to December 1967.

NASA Documents Show Renewed Internal Planning on How to Announce Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life - The Black Vault

A newly released Freedom of Information Act response from NASA reveals internal discussions focused on how the agency would communicate a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial life. This includes details about a 2025 meeting convened to outline a formal communications…

NASA and Kecksburg records litigation background

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around kecksburg ufo incident.

NICAP era reporting background

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around exeter ufo incident.

Near-death experience

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around afterlife near death.

New Emails Reveal Pentagon Effort to Align Messaging on AATIP and Luis Elizondo - The Black Vault

A newly released series of Pentagon emails from May 2019 reveals an internal contradiction at the center of the Department of Defense’s narrative on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and Luis Elizondo. At the center of the records is a May 7, 2019,…

Newly Released Documents Show UAP “Space Tiger Team” Built Around Space and Transmedium Cases - The Black Vault

A newly released Department of War document obtained through a Freedom of Information Request request (FOIA case #24-F-1205) originally filed with U.S. Space Command (FOIA case #24-R-020), outlines the 2023 formation of a “UAP Space Tiger Team,” a coordinated effort led by the…

Occult

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around Occult.

Pascagoula Abduction

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around pascagoula abduction.

Patterson–Gimlin film

The Patterson–Gimlin film is the most famous motion-picture evidence associated with Bigfoot or Sasquatch.

Poltergeist

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around poltergeist cases.

Project Anchor: Anatomy of a Hoax - Skeptoid

This Internet legend claims the Earth's gravity will shut off for seven seconds in 2026.

Project Blue Book era background

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around flatwoods monster incident.

Psychological operation

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around conspiracies psyops.

Rendlesham Forest incident

Ritual

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around ritual objects.

Roswell incident

SPR background on Gef and talking-animal cases

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around gef the talking mongoose.

Secret society

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around secret societies.

Silver Bridge

The Silver Bridge collapsed on December 15, 1967, becoming inseparable from later Mothman folklore.

Spooky Sites: 7 of the Most Haunted Places in the United States

From a former sanitarium to a well-known lighthouse to a battlefield from the American Civil War, here are the most haunted places in the United States.

The Braxton County Monster

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around flatwoods monster incident.

The Devonshire Mystery

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around devils footprints.

The Haunting of Cashen's Gap

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around gef the talking mongoose.

The Interrupted Journey

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around betty and barney hill abduction.

The Mothman Prophecies

John Keel’s book expanded the Mothman story into a broader high-strangeness and omen narrative.

The UFO Abduction Phenomenon

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around abductions.

This House Is Haunted

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around enfield poltergeist.

Time slip

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around timeslips glitches.

UFO Contact at Pascagoula

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around pascagoula abduction.

UFO conspiracy theory

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around crashes retrievals.

UFOs & UAP

Background source covering the history, common claims, and major arguments around UFOs & UAP.

Varginha UFO incident

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around varginha ufo incident.

Warminster Thing

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around warminster thing.

Warminster and British UFO culture

Background source covering the history, claims, evidence, and skeptical debate around warminster thing.

What's the scientific explanation for 'ghost encounters'?

People all over the world believe they've seen or heard a ghost, but there's no scientific evidence for spirits, hauntings or the paranormal. So what's behind these "encounters"?