The States Where the Most People Believe in the Supernatural

From the wildly weird to the positively paranormal, the people in these top ten states are absolutely absorbed by the supernatural.

Have you ever wondered if there are aliens? If bigfoot is real? Have you ever thought maybe you were psychic or that your house could be haunted by its previous tenants? You aren’t alone. A huge portion of the U.S. population—75 percent, by some estimates—believes in, or at least is fascinated by, these supernatural subjects, in some areas more than others. But in which areas exactly?

That’s the mystery that the Movoto Real Estate Blog set out to unravel. So we put on our tinfoil hats, got our research materials, and set about discovering which states have the highest population of folks interested in the supernatural side of our world.

The best states for those “believers” were: Read more

Dowsers in Demand in California as Wells Run Dry

Water downers are in demand as well run dry in California.

The calls started in October, when the rain was supposed to come. Rob Thompson's phone kept ringing - a farmer in Fresno, a winemaker in Napa Valley, a rancher in Yreka.

All were looking for water. And they had heard Thompson could find it using an ancient method most call unorthodox, if not ridiculous. Thompson is a dowser, a person who believes they have the ability to locate water or precious metals deep underground using rods, sticks or a pendulum to guide them. Read more

The 10 Most Terrifying Places in the Midwest

Michael Kleen reveals the ten most terrifying places in the Midwest.

There are a few places where men fear to tread, places so scary locals have labeled them with names like “Hotel Hell,” “Hell Bridge,” and “Satan’s Tunnel.” Witches, demons, and shadowy entities are said to lurk there. Some are even believed to contain portals to Hell itself. We at Mysterious Heartland have braved damnation to bring you this list. Which will prove to be the most terrifying place of them all? Read more

New Research Suggests Autistic Savants May Have Enhanced Telepathic Abilities

Are the amazing abilities of savants due to enhanced telepathic abilities? New research suggests that may be the case.

The amazing abilities of autistic savants – prodigious feats of memory and calculation, as well as musical and artistic talents, despite the presence of mental disabilities (see the bottom of this post for examples) - remains one of the most fascinating topics in brain science. But these abilities may only be the tip of the iceberg, with new research suggesting that autistic savants may also have an enhanced capacity for extrasensory perception. Read more

Psychic Surgeons: Miracle Workers or Frauds?

Medical doctors consider psychic surgeons frauds, but patients credit them for miraculous recoveries

Two ago, Cynthia Knapp was virtually immobilised by rheumatoid arthritis. The auto-immune disease, which causes joints to swell, had left the 67-year-old in such agonising neck and back pain, she was often unable to hobble the few feet from bedroom to bathroom.

Today, however, the pain is gone, and the retired graphic designer from Worthing, West Sussex, is more active than she could ever have hoped to be. Once housebound, now her days are filled with trips to the park with her grandchildren — Sofia, seven, and Lucas, 18 months. Read more

A Spell to Return a Curse

Although it's not uncommon for people to think they have had a curse placed on them, most of the time they're wrong. They may be depressed, physically or mentally ill, or in financial difficulty and have mistakenly decided that an enemy is the cause of their suffering. Sometimes, people just want someone to blame for their troubles. However, magical curses do exist, and if you have an enemy who practices magic, it's possible that you may be a victim.

Mysterious Deaths of College Students Blamed on Yeti

Investigators are now blaming the mysterious deaths of Russian college students decades ago on the Yeti. Is this just a lame attempt to justify their inability to solve the case, or is there something to it?

Investigators baffled by the unexplained and gruesome deaths of Russian college students decades ago have come up with a new suspect, albeit an unlikely one: the Yeti.

On February 2, 1959, nine college students climbed the icy slopes of Dyatlov Pass in the Ural Mountains of Russia. They never made it out alive. The students bodies were found with broken ribs and fractured skulls. In one grotesque case, a woman's eyes had been gouged out and her tongue was missing. Read more

Does Quantum Physics Imply that We Are Immortal?

Greg Taylor explores whether quantum physics implies that we will live forever.

Is Schrödinger's Cat immortal? And by extension, does that mean that both you and I will live forever as well?

In the famed thought experiment devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects the radioactivity from a single atom decaying, the poison is released into the sealed box, killing the cat. But in the weird world of quantum mechanics - or more specifically in this case, the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics - the cat would supposedly remain in a state of 'superposition', both alive and dead, until an observation or measurement is made by an external observer opening the box, collapsing the wavefunction - and finding the cat either alive or dead. Schrödinger did not see this as a serious possibility - instead, his thought experiment was meant to show a problem with the Copenhagen interpretation. Read more

The Vanishing Hitchhiker

This scary urban legend has been around for years. It tells the tale of a mysterious lost girl who takes rides from strangers late at night.

The Women Who Claim They Can Control Their Dreams

Meet the women who have trained themselves to overcome real problems - while they sleep,

When Caroline Coronel set eyes on her father Henry, she was overwhelmed with joy.

After they embraced, they sat down for a long-awaited catch-up. ‘As always, he asked me how I was, about the rest of the family and if I had enough money,’ says Caroline.

‘I took his hand, squeezed it and told that him I loved him. It was incredibly cathartic.’

However, this was no ordinary reunion. Caroline’s beloved father, a former antiques dealer, had died three months earlier, in December 2011, and their conversation was taking place in Caroline’s dream. Read more

Interview with a Reptilian

Lon Strickler posted a transcript of an interview with a female reptilian at Phantoms and Monsters.

This is a transcript of a supposed interview (translated and shortened) with a female Reptilian named 'Lacerta' by a Swedish researcher named Ole K. The interview was part of a series of documents known as The Lacerta Files. The interviewer prefaced the transcript with the following statement: Read more