https://paullgharris.com/research/Original tests on ancient claims, run on public data.en-gb https://paullgharris.com/research/bible-code-acrostic-scan/https://paullgharris.com/research/bible-code-acrostic-scan/The first letters of 289,515 Hebrew, Greek and Latin verses and lines, checked against 1,000 shuffles to see what chance writes. Only the alphabet poems and one poet's signature stood out. https://paullgharris.com/research/mushroom-rock-art-vs-where-mushrooms-grow/https://paullgharris.com/research/mushroom-rock-art-vs-where-mushrooms-grow/11 places said to show psychoactive mushrooms compared with 51 ordinary sites and points, using public GBIF records. The claimed sites were not special, and two famous ones had too few records to test. https://paullgharris.com/research/what-was-soma/https://paullgharris.com/research/what-was-soma/Seven candidates for the Rig Veda's Soma scored against the hymns' own Sanskrit wording. Cannabis came top on the main scheme, but no candidate survived the checks. The text alone does not decide. https://paullgharris.com/research/tesla-wardenclyffe-mars-and-the-beam/https://paullgharris.com/research/tesla-wardenclyffe-mars-and-the-beam/Three Tesla claims tested with published figures: power from Wardenclyffe, Mars in the 1899 sky, and a particle beam across 200 miles of air. https://paullgharris.com/research/tesla-fame-and-patents/https://paullgharris.com/research/tesla-fame-and-patents/Tesla's name in print, the citations to his 111 US patents and the first appearance of eight famous stories, all counted. The forgotten-genius tale is half right. https://paullgharris.com/research/tesla-quote-audit/https://paullgharris.com/research/tesla-quote-audit/46 widely shared Tesla quotes checked against dated sources. 28 traced to Tesla, 13 had no source found and 3 were someone else's words. https://paullgharris.com/research/dendera-zodiac-dating/https://paullgharris.com/research/dendera-zodiac-dating/1,643,625 days scanned for the planet patterns on the Dendera zodiac. Aubourg's 50 BC match is real but needs his second choice for Mercury, and about 40% of equally loose patterns match in that era anyway. https://paullgharris.com/research/nazca-sun-lines/https://paullgharris.com/research/nazca-sun-lines/How many of 2,308 Nazca lines would point at the Sun by chance? About 234 if the survey's 2 degree rule is literal, 117 to 121 if 1 degree, against 99 found. Awaiting the authors' reply. https://paullgharris.com/research/gobekli-tepe-pillar-43/https://paullgharris.com/research/gobekli-tepe-pillar-43/Does Pillar 43 at Göbekli Tepe carry the date 10,950 BC? The seasonal fit is good if the readings are fixed first, but 51% of random pillars fit as well once readings are free. https://paullgharris.com/research/skinwalker-1-6-ghz-signal/https://paullgharris.com/research/skinwalker-1-6-ghz-signal/Which satellites sit overhead at 1.6 GHz above Skinwalker Ranch? One is always in view, so 'the signal appeared during the experiment' tells us very little on its own. https://paullgharris.com/research/skinwalker-ranch-by-the-numbers/https://paullgharris.com/research/skinwalker-ranch-by-the-numbers/Five short, separate tests of Skinwalker Ranch claims on public data: sighting reports, the 1996 press, the show's experiments, a GPS time warp and a lidar hole. https://paullgharris.com/research/bigfoot-reports-traits-over-time/https://paullgharris.com/research/bigfoot-reports-traits-over-time/4,983 Bigfoot reports read for trends. Wood knocks rose from 1.7% to 16.3% of reports, red eyes sit in about 1 in 40 and behave like torch eye-shine, and stated heights have not grown.