Suggested pseudoscience paper topics [only one student per topic, on a first come basis. Those in red are taken]:

  Send an email to larsen@ccsu to claim your topic.

Alien autopsy - Matt Carling

Amityville Horror - Lauren Salvia

Animal mutilations (by aliens or satanic cults)

Area 51 and Hanger 18  - Chris Wilcox

Bible Code - Ryan Knudsen

Champ: Lake Champlain monster

Crop circles - Kate Emmons

Crystal power

Dianetics (L. Ron Hubbard) - Alyssa King

Dogon Tribe and Sirius B

Dowsing - Luke Albertson

Earth Crust Displacement (Rand and Rose Flem-Ath)

Electomagnetic Photo fields

ESP - Katlyn McBergin

Exorcisms - Kendall Sours

Extreme Afrocentrism (Olmec and Maya derived from West Africa)

Faith healing - Jen Sakal

Feng shui - Katherine Bossardet

Ghosts - Ben Zacarelli

Graphology

Heaven’s gate cult and Comet Hale-Bopp - Kate Anderson

Homeopathy

Indigo children - Megan McGorry

“Jupiter Effect” (planetary alignments causing geologic upheaval on earth)

Loch Ness Monster - James Maloney

Lunacy (full moon correlations)

Miraculous images of Jesus or Mary (on bridge abutments, dental x-rays,  tortillas) - Nicole Verderame

Nostradamus - Derrick Karle

Numerology - Caren Barton

Orion’s Belt/Egyptian Pyramids (Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock)

Ouija Boards - Christina Meagher

Palmistry - Jess Hennessy

Psychic pets

Psychic surgery (connection to actor Andy Kaufman) - Christina Carlson

Psychokinesis (Uri Geller et al.)

Pyramid power

Repressed memories - Tyler August

Sasquatch ("Bigfoot") - Meghan Thurrott

Satanic cult human sacrifices -

Speaking to the Dead (Jonathan Edwards, et al.)

Tarot cards - Mary-Jo Callahan

Trance channeling (eg. JZ Knight and Ramtha)

Weeping/bleeding icons 

Yeti - Preston Smith

Other topics as approved by the professors. Students MUST have their topic approved before BEGINNING work on the topic.