Researchers who studied more than two million people over 40 years found a rise in deaths from heart attacks, strokes, falls and suicides. ...

By: Sandra Carrington-Smith Someone once asked me how I can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. What if—this person asked—wha...

The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly...

TAIPEI - Taiwanese psychiatrists have been kept busy treating cases of so-called "election syndrome", with anxiety attacks and oth...

Source: Phantom and Monsters Blog A phobia is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, or people...

An intriguing article has just been published in the journal Perception about a never-before-described visual illusion where your own reflec...

By Jon Lackman When I was 6, my 2-year-old brother started speaking, but in a language of his own devising. I was eager to enlist him in gam...

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Much time has been spent, over the past century, on working out exactly what it is about the sound of fingernails ...

A 44-year-old woman who doesn't experience fear has led to the discovery of where that fright factor lives in the human brain. Researche...

by Robert T. Gonzalez If we're to believe some of the latest scientific research on sleep (or even just viral YouTube videos), the effec...

by Amanda Mitchison There's Judy the teenage bulimic, devout Catholic Salamoe, gay Ken and over 100 more. Artist Kim Noble talks about l...

Amok, or running amok, is derived from the Malay word mengamok, which means to make a furious and desperate charge. Captain Cook is credited...

By Stephen Wagner, About.com Guide Here are some of the scariest games for your paranormal parties. Some are so frightening, they shouldn...

If you light a candle in a dark room, look in the mirror, and say “Bloody Mary” five times (if you dare), Bloody Mary will appear. And if sh...

Isn't it strange that we have an actual sensation or feeling equated to being watched? For centuries people have reported an eerie feel...

by Micah Hanks Have you ever seen someone you thought you knew, maybe from a short distance, and you thought for certain that you were se...

Desperate, Sick Indonesians Use Railroad 'Therapy' Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) said it has encountered trespassers lying...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustl...

Dr. Duncan "Om" MacDougall was an early 20th century physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts who sought to measure the mass purporte...

Defined by Jenny Randles in her 1983 book, UFO Reality, as "the sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world into a ...