This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from Chris French’s book “The Science of Weird Shit.” There is a hidden cause behind a fun little demonstration of ...

Sheep are being separated from goats by the members of the Society for Parapsychology in their newest excursion into the science of unknown psychic powers. The Society is an organization devoted to ...

Chances are you’ve heard of Clever Hans, the horse who could perform arithmetic. But have you heard of early 20th century experiments in dog telepathy? Here’s a snapshot of one such ridiculous ...

In Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as “percipient” seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In Stranger Things, intelligence officers used psychic methods in an attempt to gather ...

Mia is a teenage girl from Mexico who can read her mother’s mind. Akhil is a young man in New Jersey who is seeing things through other people’s eyes. And Lily parleys brain-to-brain with friends who ...