Claims, Hoaxes & Investigations

How unusual claims begin, spread, are tested, supported, or refuted.

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How Extraordinary Claims Survive

Explore how extraordinary claims spread and persist while separating belief, memory, media attention, evidence quality and falsifiability without reducing people or unresolved questions to simple labels.

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Psi Research & Anomalous Cognition

The most interesting question in psi research is not whether one side can produce a dramatic quote. It is whether an anomalous result survives controls, independent replication, transparent analysis and a clear distinction between statistical significance and explanation.

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UFO Folklore & Modern Mythmaking

UFO mythology did not emerge as one coherent system. It accumulated. Witness reports, publishers, contactee religions, conspiracy narratives, films, folklore and social memory repeatedly supplied new motifs that later communities reorganized into a seemingly unified hidden world.

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