1. Home
  2. News & Issues
  3. Paranormal Phenomena

Paranormal News

Up-to-the-minute accounts of the paranormal, enigmatic and the unexplained

By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Sep 19 2009
Apparent voice of dead woman heard on audiotape
A strange voice captured on audiotape during an investigation of a home in Sanford, Fla., is believed to be that of an elderly woman who died years ago, according to a Local 6 News report. Local 6 was with the Peace River Ghost Trackers when they set up electromagnetic meters, temperature sensors and a slew of infrared cameras inside a historic house after reports that a woman was haunting the house...

In the event of contact
Brazilian UFO researcher Jan Val Ellam is suggesting that contact could take place between November 16, 2006 and April 30, 2007. He is a well-respected expert in the field in Brazil, which is also has extensive UFO and contact activity, and a very capable local UFO community. He has said that it will initially consist of large scale and undeniable UFO sightings in many world cities, and limited contact with individuals...

NASA airbrushed UFOs, lunar base towers video

Ghoulish goings on at Preston pub
To some people this image may just look like a badly taken photo. But to regulars at the Wellington Inn, this whispy, ghoulish shape is proof that their watering hole is haunted. And they're not the only ones, for years the landlords have been convinced they are not alone. Things go bump in the night, glasses fly off shelves and corkscrews have even been seen shooting across the room...

Why are aliens so shy?
In the realm of extraterrestrial study there are few questions asked as often as the most natural one: "Why don't they reveal themselves?". Many theories have been created as an explanation for why this hasn't happened...

Kuppy or pitten?
Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, the owner of Mimi the cat, claims that Mimi bred with the dog next door. She says Mimi then gave birth to three kittens - all of which died - and three puppies - which survived...

Witches in South Florida
Is there such a thing as a real witch? Witchcraft is actually a religion called Wicca and just how many believers are present in South Florida may surprise many. CBS4's Laurie Stein took an in-depth look into the world of witches and found that many search area cemeteries in search of ghosts. On one particularly cloudy and dark night, Stein followed some of these witches to a cemetery one evening and what she found may be shocking yet intriguing to some...

Ghosts
English writers toss out references to ghosts with remarkable casualness; they seem to take the default position that they will be believed when they talk about hauntings—the opposite, I would argue, of the position Americans and American writers take. Ghosts are around, the body of literature seems to say; sometimes people see them...

Plane crash kills man who skipped Lidle flight
After avoiding fatal trip with Yankee pitcher, Californian meets same fate. A 68-year-old man who almost accompanied Cory Lidle on his fatal flight in New York City last month died in a plane crash in California on Tuesday...
(Also read: "Amazing Coincidences")

New Malaysian Bigfoot track photo
There is a new track photo, on November 17, 2006, to consider and a word of caution about them to share from Sean Ang. The New Straits Times is publishing details that a "Bigfoot researcher" named Mansur Poh presented them with several "unpublished photographs" of "footprints of the creature" found in the "deep jungles of Ulu Sedili in Kota Tinggi”...

Ghosts, demons, golems and their Halachik status
One explicit mention of a ghost appears in the Talmud Ketubot 103a. The Talmud records that every week Rebbi used to return to his house after he died. The Talmud, however, does not record what Rebbi used to do when he came back. The Sefer Hassidim states that Rebbi was different than other dead people in that he was considered almost fully alive. Rebbi, according to the Sefer Hassidim, would make Kiddush for his family...

Company gets its money's worth, even out of ghosts
When a company called Ghost Expeditions was shown a supposedly haunted building in Little Tokyo, did it bust the ghosts? Nope. It rented office space there. Now the team offers three-hour tours of the edifice, the century-old Sperl Building on 1st Street. The price: $75 a head (preferably not the disembodied type)...

9 billion-year-old ‘dark energy’ reported
A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God had turned on an antigravity machine, the expansion of the cosmos speeded up, and galaxies began moving away from one another at an ever faster pace. Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos...

Colonel Steve Wilson
There have been so many people coming forward with claims of inside knowledge about UFOs that it is becoming difficult to separate the truth from the fiction. When we find someone whose claims do not match the documented background, we are told that the person’s records have been changed or erased to invalidate their claims...

Explore Paranormal Phenomena

About.com Special Features

What is a Recession?

Sure, we're all talking about it, but what, exactly, defines a recession? More >

Weird Breaking News

A daily look at some of the oddest (and dumbest) crimes around. More >

  1. Home
  2. News & Issues
  3. Paranormal Phenomena

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.