The Seth Material is a collection of writing dictated by Jane Roberts to her husband from late 1963 until her death in 1984. Roberts claimed the words were spoken by a discarnate entity named Seth.The material is regarded as one of the cornerstones of New Age philosophy, and the most influential channelled text of the post–World War II "New Age" movement, after the Edgar Cayce books and A Course in Miracles . Jon Klimo writes that the Seth books were instrumental in bringing

Reporting about this incident helped to popularize the term “little green men”

In the South Carolina Lowcountry, whispers of haints—restless spirits trapped between the living world and the afterlife—float on the humid air, adding an eerie mystique to this historic region. The cultural tapestry of the Lowcountry is rich with tales of these spectral beings, woven from a blend of African, Caribbean, and European folklore brought over during the tumultuous centuries of colonization and slavery. The term “haint” is derived from the Gullah Geechee culture, a

Science fiction writer Philip K Dick believed that he had precognitive experiences and used the idea in some of his novels, especially as a central plot element in his 1956 science fiction short story "The Minority Report"