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Monroe-area home in book about paranormal

Toledo Blade: Joe Nickell explains footsteps on the stairs

Ghostly claims echo in theater, saloon

KRQE Albuquerque: Ben Radford explores two "haunted" locations for TV news

See ghosts? There may be a medical reason

MSNBC: Joe Nickell describes some bodily causes of disembodied sightings

Paranormal Investigators Probe the Unexplained

ABC News: Ben Radford weighs in on how ghost hunters borrow from science

Notes from the Harmonious Society: Dissident Science in China, Part II

by Austin Dacey

Circumnavigations

October 26, 2009

Two classical Confucian philosophers once had a famous disagreement over the morality of music. Mozi mounted a utilitarian...

Got ghosts? Interest in the supernatural has never been higher

The Buffalo News: Joe Nickell gets the last word on ghost hunting

With the desire for fame, millions of Americans seek out the spotlight

Chicago Tribune: "Some people want to be known as the person who outsmarted the masses," said Benjamin Radford...

New Age Spiritualism: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

by Karen Stollznow

The Naked Skeptic

October 12, 2009

A friend who owns a bookstore once told me, "Customers drawn to the New Age section seem to buy every book but never find...

Notes from the Harmonious Society: Dissident Science in China, Part I

by Austin Dacey

Circumnavigations

September 30, 2009

Their vessel was the Xue Long, Snow Dragon, and it was bound for the South Pole...

Youth and Witchcraft Violence in Africa

by George Ongere

September 29, 2009

The new millennium was accompanied by great expectations in Africa, but the reality is that superstition still reigns supreme.