1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (419+ words) On August 1, 1973, Johnny Carson welcomed Uri Geller—an illusionist claiming to have both psychic and psychokinetic powers—onto The Tonight Show. Up until that point, Geller’s big claim to fame was demonstrating his so-called “ability” to bend spoons with his…...

3+ week, 17+ min ago   (336+ words) Working on a horror movie can certainly be scary for some people, but it’s especially creepy when unexplained things start happening after you’ve wrapped up production for the day. While in Vancouver shooting 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose, both…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1203+ words) The art critic who died surrounded by pills and a liquor bottle in a Brazilian hotel room was traumatized from her time in a hellish boarding school where she was forced to eat her own vomit during stomach-churning humiliation rituals....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (642+ words) From left: Clarke Peters, Alfre Woodard, Alfred Molina, Denis O’Hare, and Geena Davis in The Boroughs —Netflix Because the default audience for horror is young and male, the genre’s archetypal hero is a blood-soaked babysitter, preferably in some state of undress....

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (455+ words) After Leonard Nimoy’s 1987 comedy Three Men and a Baby was released on VHS (yes, Spock from Star Trek directed that movie), rumors began to circulate about a mysterious figure spotted in the background of one scene. At just over an…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (303+ words) There are unseen forces behind why a house might feel haunted — but no, it’s not ghosts. New research suggests that inaudible infrasound waves emitted by a building’s old boiler, pipes, and plumbing can negatively influence someone’s mood, making them feel…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (646+ words) Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Does plumbing count? It should, at least according to new research suggesting that many “ghostly” experiences in haunted houses may come down to something as mundane as…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (733+ words) Ghosts in the attic or goblins in the basement are not responsible for paranormal activity, claims a new April 2026 study, which blames a home’s old pipes for those things that go bump in the night. It’s just the rickety plumbing…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1876+ words) The blinds were half-drawn, softening the July light to a gray wash. Lavender lotion and disinfectant hung in the air. Around the bed, a small circle of nuns had gathered — women from the Sisters of Charity of New York, an…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (211+ words) I receive variations on this question frequently. Typically, the letter writers tell me — as you have — that they can afford to split the bill, but don’t want to. Suddenly, the issue seems less urgent to me: Surely, the real problem…...