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An edible mushroom causes visions of tiny people. Nobody knows why

By: Popkin
20 August 2026 at 19:46
tiny people hallucinations β€” Lanmaoa asiatica. Photo by Ruanxian Dai et al. / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Remember that Chinese mushroom that can cause you to hallucinate tiny people? The best guess for this bizarre effect is that the mushrooms contain some kind of psychoactive substance unknown to science, rather than cultural conditioning, because the effect is limited to a single species of mushroom.Β  β€” Read the rest

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