Hacker News with Generative AI: Paranormal

Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919) (publicdomainreview.org)
Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. “For every five people who read this book“, wrote one reviewer, “four will go insane”.
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets (theconversation.com)
When you think of a ghost, what comes to mind? A ghastly, mouldy winding-sheet? A malevolent pile of supernatural armour? Or a sinister gentleman in a stiff Victorian suit?
Are psi researchers more like lay believers or skeptics? (medicalxpress.com)
A study shows that academics who work with psi differ from lay psi individuals, but not from skeptics, in actively open-minded thinking. Despite their firm belief in psi phenomena, psi researchers demonstrate a commitment to sound reasoning about evidence that is no different from that of skeptics.
The Phantoms Haunting History (noemamag.com)