Utah Researchers Unpacking Secrets Of Rare Mushroom That Causes Hallucinations Of Cartoonish Tiny People Marching Around

Utah Researchers Unpacking Secrets Of Rare Mushroom That Causes Hallucinations Of Cartoonish Tiny People Marching Around

food market in China with a variety of mushroom species Researchers from the University of Utah are beginning to unpack the secrets of a mushroom, Lanmaoa asiatica, which is believed to have been causing strange hallucinations for thousands of years. The mushroom species is native to Papua New Guinea and is entirely different from the ‘magic mushrooms‘ that have been known and studied for decades. What makes the phenomenon more bizarre than othe…

Mystifying mushroom causes bizarre visions of tiny humanoid creatures

An extremely mysterious variety of fungi has been making people in different parts of the globe see tiny elf-like beings.

Scientists Warn: Undercooked Fairytale Mushrooms May Summon Tiny Elves Doing Parkour

George Hodan – Public Domain If you’ve ever wanted your dinner to reenact The Borrowers live on your kitchen table, great news: there’s a mushroom for that. In Yunnan, China, a perfectly respectable wild fungus being sold in markets can cause full-blown “lilliputian hallucinations” if undercooked. What kind of hallucinations, you ask? Tiny. Dancing. People. […]