Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

legends

Dogon

pseudoscience and

Legionnaires’ disease

Leidenfrost effect

Leonard, George

Leoni, Edgar

Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph

lexical decision tasks

lie detectors. See polygraphy

Lieber, Arnold

life after death. See also ghosts

literature, symbolic interpretation of

localizationism

Loch Ness monster

Loftus, Elizabeth

Lorenzen, Coral

Lorenzen, James

lost object finding

lotteries

Lourdes shrine

Lowell, Percival

lunar effect

Lutz family hoax

M

Mack, John

Mackay, John

Mackenzie House haunting

Maddox, John

magnetic therapy

Maimonides Medical Center

Majestic

Mallardi, Vincent

manic-depressive psychosis

manifest content, of dreams

Marine Sulphur Queen disappearance

Mars

canals

face on

Maslow, Abraham

mass hysteria

breast implants

defined

environmental. See environmental agents

media’s role in

Seattle (1958)

See also temporary mass hypochondria

mastabas

McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research

McMartin Preschool case

McMinnville, Oregon, UFO photos from

media

alien abductions in

mass hysteria spread by

paranormal topics in

Satanic Panic and

therapeutic touch in

UFO “cover-ups” in

medicine, alternative. See alternative medicine

medicine, empirical study in

mediums

Doris Stokes

fraud pervasive among

Helene Smith

See also psychics; spiritualism

memory

constructive nature of

fallibility

infant amnesia and

recovered. See recovered memories

selective for coincidences

See also perception

Men in Black

Menger, Howard

menstrual cycles, biorhythms and

mental disorders

Mesmer, Franz Anton

meteorites

meteors

Tunguska event and

UFO sightings and

microwaves

migraine headaches

Miller, William

Millikan experiment

mind reading, Geller’s

miracle cures. See faith healers

MJ-12 documents

monsters. See cryptozoology

Montgomery, Ruth

moon madness

Moore, William L.

Mullens, Rent

multiple out

defined