It seems we have something in common: a need to know. A desire to understand this beautiful, perplexing world we inhabit—and perhaps to peek behind the curtain every now and then.

Because the longer I’ve been here, the more convinced I’ve become that there is more to our world than what we can see, touch, measure, or explain.

For all our remarkable advances in science and technology, mysteries remain. Philosophers have wrestled with them for thousands of years. Physicists, biologists, astronomers, neuroscientists and some of the greatest minds of our time continue to wrestle with them today.

What exactly is reality? And how much of it are we actually capable of perceiving?

Are ghosts real? If they aren't, what have people been seeing—and experiencing—for centuries?

What about the strange creatures reported by otherwise ordinary, credible people around the world? Sasquatch. Mothman. The Chupacabra. We have no definitive proof that these creatures exist. But that leaves an equally intriguing question:

What are people seeing?

Then there are experiences that challenge our understanding of consciousness itself. Premonitions. Psychic phenomena. Out-of-body experiences. Near-death experiences in which people describe places and realities profoundly different from our own.

For most of human history, cultures and religions around the world have suggested that the reality we perceive may be only part of a much larger one. Today, even science gives us reasons to wonder. Venture far enough into quantum mechanics and the reassuringly solid world around us begins to seem considerably less solid.

Maybe there are perfectly reasonable explanations for all of it.

Maybe we simply haven't found them yet.

Or maybe, every once in a while, we catch a glimpse of something we're not supposed to see.

That's what I want to explore.

The mysteries. The legends. The strange encounters. The science. The speculation. And those fascinating places where the boundaries between them become difficult to see.

So come with me.

Keep an open mind—but bring your skepticism along. We're going to need both.

There are things I want to show you.

Welcome to Enter the Fray.