'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough

A University of Utah PhD student is closing in on identifying an unknown hallucinogenic compound in a Chinese mushroom that causes people to see thousands of tiny, mischievous people for several days. DNA sequencing confirmed the same species causes identical hallucinations in both China and the Philippines, suggesting a genuinely new psychoactive compound unknown to science.