Americans have long viewed the Kennedy family as a kind of magical royalty associated with occult notions and conspiracies.

Palm reading, also known as palmistry or chiromancy, has fascinated us as a practice and a party trick for centuries.

William Hope claimed to be able to document the visitations of ghosts. The controversial images he produced add to our understanding of the history of photography.

Jack Parsons, one of the “suicide squad” trio of young rocket-boy founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had an improbable extracurricular life.

The Illuminati was a real secret society. But in the hands of British conservatives during the French Revolution, it became a massive conspiracy.