Spirituality Articles

Despite a plethora of television programmes offering house makeovers or suggesting we undertake major home improvements, Peter A McCue advises that even modest DIY projects can sometimes unleash ghostly phenomena...

On the 200th anniversary of the death of the 'World's Greatest Showman', Michael J Bielawa offers a ghoulish solution to a mystery that followed PT Barnum into (and nearly out of) his grave.

Gary Lachman is mightily unimpressed by Stephen Hawking's latest pronouncements on the origins of the Universe, and wonders why scientists can't stop flogging a horse they have repeatedly declared quite dead...

Before his recent death, maverick psychologist Stan Gooch sent us one of his final articles, which we're pleased to publish for the first time. Controversially, he suggests that the roots of human conflict can be traced to mankind's dual ancestry and divided brain.

Tales of haunted bridges span the centuries. They are seen as liminal places, with no true identity of their own, and this may be what attracts spirits to them. Among the many spooky sites is a bridge in America where one team of researchers have spent many a fascinating vigil.

Ghosts of living people may be as common as ghosts of those who have passed on. We examine the odd phenomenon of bilocation and that most disturbing of all apparitions-ghosts of the witnesses themselves.