It wasn't immediately obvious to Walter Semkiw that he was the reincarnation of John Adams. Adams was a lawyer and rabble-rouser who helped overthrow a government; Semkiw is a doctor who has never so ...

A majority of Americans - 57% - say they believe in psychic phenomena such as ESP (Extra Sensory Perception), telepathy or experiences that can’t be explained by normal means. Just over a third, ...

The film The Men Who Stare at Goats had a long laugh at the United States Army’s 20-year-long attempt to use psychic powers to kill animals. Those experiments grew out of the work of physicist Russell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Intuition is deep within us. But is it supernatural — or simply our brains at work? (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis for Yahoo; ...

Col. John Alexander wasn't the only one in the American military establishment, trying to harness psychic powers to help win the Cold War. A quick trip through the archives of the Defense Technical ...

The phone rings; you see the caller ID, pick it up and say, "Wow! I was just heading to the phone to call you." Or ... you close your eyes and wish as hard as you can as the batter swings, and then he ...

David Helfand is the chairman of the astronomy department at Columbia University and president of Quest University Canada. He is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Updated January 7, ...

Do you believe you can predict the future, read people’s minds or talk to the dead? You're not alone. Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, psychic experiences are surprisingly common, ...