Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There

Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There examines claims involving psychics, telepathy, fortune-telling, out-of-body experiences and ghosts. Richard Wiseman approaches these subjects through psychology and experimental investigation, asking how perception, memory and behaviour can produce experiences interpreted as paranormal. The book treats reported phenomena as claims to be tested rather than established fact.

Alongside discussions of parapsychology and supernatural case studies, Wiseman considers why people continue to believe in extraordinary explanations. Interactive activities demonstrate how apparently impossible effects can arise through ordinary psychological processes, making the book both an examination of paranormal claims and an introduction to sceptical thinking about unusual experiences.