Britain’s Air Secretariat 2A1 has closed for business – which means the Ministry of Defence (MoD) won't be investigating any more UFO sightings. But they've left their records behind: 11,000 of them, representing 50 years of UFO reports. Last Thursday, the British National Archi… Read full post »

Peter’s timing couldn’t have been better - he rang just as I decided to kill my boyfriend. As a pathologist, I was sure Peter could get his hands on an undetectable poison that would keep me from prison. As it happened, he had a much better idea.

“That’s guy’s not worth g… Read full post »

The interviewer struck me as solid and reassuring. It could have been his business-like blue blazer, distinguished grey hair and kindly smile that did it. Or it could have his crisp, no-nonsense introduction.

“My name is Keith,” he said, shaking my hand. “My spirit guide’s nam… Read full post »

At 10.23am on Saturday, alternative medicine and science went to war. Their weapon? A pill. For one side, the pill was a potent remedy. For the other side, the pill was just sugar wrapped in superstition. To prove it, nearly 400 sceptics gathered across the world and took a mass overdose… Read full post »

In the days when I was a fortune teller, a woman came in asking me for some celestial romantic advice for her daughter. As this had recently been a major topic in my share house, I told her about my flatmate’s experience with feng shui and suggested she might like to… Read full post »

It doesn’t matter how profound the tragedy, there will always be a rich silver lining for somebody. In the case of the Haitian earthquake tragedy, the winner is televangelist Pat Robertson, who has once again attracted attention for himself, by claiming the earthquake was visited upon Ha… Read full post »

If you’ve ever visited a Chinese cemetery, you might have noticed how many gravestones are on a slope, often overlooking a pond. The Chinese clearly put a lot of thought into how graves are placed. I asked a feng shui grand master to explain it to me. 

“Feng shui is about t… Read full post »