The word occult is vague and mysterious and has negative connotations, possibly due to being associated with the word cult. But what does it actually mean?

A burning question: Can science explain the mystery of the fire walk?…All over the world, from Japan to Sri Lanka, Spain to Bora Bora, fire walking has been a high point of intense religious ritual. The mystery has always been how the human bodies can with-stand the high temperature involved, how fire walkers emerge unscathed from the burning pit with no apparent sensation of pain.

The word egregore, or egregor, is used to describe the mysterious, centuries-old, occult idea of a phenomenon now commonly known as the group mind, which has more recently been given some credibility by psychological research.

Worrall and his wife gave the girl shelter for the night, and the questioned the mysterious foreigner about her circumstances. The young woman answered their questions, using signs and gestures. She made it clear that her name was Caraboo, and that she was a princess from the Far East. She had been kidnapped by pirates and sold to the captain of a ship bound for Europe. When the ship reached England she had escaped and was now wandering the countryside begging for food.

“Where the hell are the parachutes?” demanded Miller as he claimed into the airplane. “What’s the matter, Miller,” mocked his companion, Col. Don Baesell. “Do you want to live forever?”..The door slammed shut, and the Norseman taxied down the runway and took off into the fog..These were the last recorded moments of Miller’s life. The Norseman never arrived.

The man in question was the German writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Many years later Goethe was still intrigued by the apparent encounter with his own double. When it happened he had found it comforting, for he had just said a sad farewell to the woman he loved, Fredericka…“However it may be with matters of this kind generally,” he wrote in his autobiography, “this strange illusion in some measure calmed me at the moment of parting.”

That same evening, Bertha Day, the abbey’s catering manager, also heard the singing. “I knew that Mrs. Mears, a local lady, had died,” she said. Later both Sedgwick and Mrs. Day realized that they had heard the monks of Beaulieu Abbey singing a mass – their custom when one of the inhabitants of the nearby village had died. But no monks had lived in Beaulieu Abbey since 1538.

Sometimes Home was made to stand in the middle of the room back with another man for comparison as he shrank or stretched. At other times Home, closely watched by the observers, would walk around, elongating and shortening three or four times, until the trance state ceased and the spirit voice said “Good-night” to let those present knows that the evening had ended.

The very first session produced the solution – in Latin – to one of Glastonbury’s best-known mysteries: the location of the Edgar Chapel, a 15th century addition to the abbey that had disappeared without a trace. The spirit of a monk called Johannes Bryant, who claimed he had been born in 1497 and died in 1533, gave the chapel’s precise site, dimensions, and decor. Johannes also said that there was a door in the east wall of the chapel – a highly unusual feature.

Novelists always say that the science in the world right now is at a low level. I agree, let me give you some evidence. Here is my list of Top five unexplained mysteries in the world, let’s have a look and guess how many years later scientists can give them an answer.