The McGurk Effect: the mind-bending audio illusion taking TikTok by storm shows a lot about how the brain relies on visual clues to make sense of sound.
The '15-minute city' is a way to make daily needs more accessible without a car. Here's how conspiracy theorists made walkable neighborhoods their boogeyman.
Many adults have passed themselves off as children. Their desire to return to a younger age can be heartbreaking, but sometimes the motivations are very dark.
While cattle-caused fatalities are tracked, how often farmyard hogs kill is uncertain, but it definitely does happen, and possibly more than you would think.
The illegal sale of cadavers and organs has become a serious problem in the U.S. and elsewhere. Here are people who got into big trouble for selling body parts.
On May 12, 2000, Rodney Marks died at the Scott-Amundsen research station. Here is the story behind the mysterious death of Rodney Marks in Antarctica.
From undead gods to a building supposedly full of evil spirits, these are some of the Egyptian myths and legends that are bound to keep you up at night.
In the 1980s, paranoia about satanic cults spread like wildfire through the U.S. But it's still alive today. Here's why we haven't been able to leave it behind.
The complicated psychology behind humans' superstitions involved "magical intuitions, which, once activated, serve as a default for judgment and behavior."
No one has found Plato's most-likely fictional Atlantis, but not for lack of trying. Here are the best theories we have about the lost continent of Atlantis.
Basically all of them claim to be home to ghosts, witches, phantom animals, and other manifestations, so here are just a few of Scotland's spookiest castles.
Details about the case of Joshua Maddux, the teen found in a chimney, raise many questions but ultimately they illuminate a sad end to the young man's life.
There are those who have macabre True Crime-related memorabilia collections. One Savannah museum lays claim to the largest collection of these morbid items.
Even some U.S. presidents have turned to psychics, mediums, astrologers, and the general supernatural to lend a helping hand - Jimmy Carter being one of those.