Tag: #Belief
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You Don’t Even Know You Practice Magick
Athletes wear lucky socks. Investors follow rituals before markets open. People knock on wood after saying something frightening out loud. Some refuse to say certain words on airplanes. Others wear jewelry they believe brings protection, confidence, or luck. Then many of those same people insist magick is nonsense. Most arguments about magick collapse because both…
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Skeptic vs Believer Is the Wrong Debate in Paranormal Cases
The case changes the moment people decide what they believe In 1975, the Lutz family moved into a house in Amityville, New York. Within weeks, they left, claiming a series of disturbing experiences inside the home. Their account included strange odors, physical sensations, and a growing sense that something in the house was not right.…
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The Small Habit You Won’t Admit Matters
Why People Who Don’t Believe in Superstitions Still Follow Them Most people will tell you they don’t believe in superstitions. Academics will explain them as cognitive shortcuts. Scientists will point to pattern recognition, reinforcement, the human need for control when outcomes are uncertain. The explanations are sound. And then, in the right moment, those same…
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When the Jury Asked the Dead
A true case, 1994, a British murder conviction was overturned Originally published on Medium. Harry and Nicola Fuller were found dead in their home in Wadhurst in February 1993. The house wasn’t torn apart. Nothing looked rushed. Nicola was bound and gagged near the phone. Harry was upstairs. Both had been shot. It was close.…
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When Belief Pulled the Trigger
A true 1923 case from Biggs, California. Originally published on Medium. In 1923, a woman told police a Ouija board warned her that her husband would kill her. She shot him first. When the gun went off in Biggs, California, it wasn’t the sound that unsettled the town. A single shot in a farming community…