Every now and then, I have a gut feeling something is going to happen — and then it does. Of course, there's only one logical response: I must be psychic. (Right?) But because I don't like to jump the ...

Earlier this week we did a post on survivorship bias, and how it could trick people into believing in psychic ability. It turns out that the most famous test of ...

Have you ever wondered if you possess some psychic abilities or intuitive powers? A spirit communication guide named August Gonçalves shared a guide for simple tests that are designed to unravel an ...

America’s top psychic medium Matt Fraser puts his extraordinary gifts to the test, uncovering the stunning truth behind ...

The second sight, the sixth sense, intuition — there are many words for it, but they all mean the same thing. Some people, whether science believes their claims or not, have the ability to see into ...

The big problem with mental powers is you can never prove they exist. They never seem to be repeatable under experimental conditions, like other sorts of phenomena. Until recently — when a researcher ...

Sometimes, Jeremy Rabe and Maddie Conklin are really in sync! Other days… not so much! Let’s see if they can read each other’s minds in this week’s Psychic Test!

A paper from 1943 unearthed recently in the Canadian national archives reveals that a quack scientist tested children at the Brandon Indian Residential School in Manitoba for psychic abilities. The ...

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