Most haunted places revealed
From screaming skulls and headless horsemen to murdered brides and phantom farmers, English folklore is full of spine-tingling ghost stories. Terrified witnesses speak of seeing ghostly armies marching through the fog, spirits searching for hidden treasure and bells ringing from ruined churches...
Shadow ghost
“I took this photo on April 29, 2007, the day of my engagement, with my cell phone. This black ghost appeared on the background. When I took this picture there was no one on the back, and note how the background looks normal, it’s not dark. The photos are originals which I took with my Nokia 6235 phone”, João Ricardo Ferrer told when he sent us the image...
Haunts for brave hearts
Our harsh history provides a feast of ghostly experiences. The jail cell at Hartley historic village is filled with darkness, so thick it could be treacle. The air is oppressive and cold. Outside, large trucks rumble across the hills leading to the Victoria Pass. But inside it is silent. And black. Very black...
The paranormal and the autistic
"In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris, a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science...
Scots ghosts get busted
Scotland is famous for its whisky, but for the next week interest turns to a different type of spirit as the famous Ghost Fest returns to Edinburgh...
Budd Hopkins: a call to honesty
Be honest with yourself. Are you a UFO skeptic, a true believer, or an enthusiast? Listen to the video and take a look at yourself where do you fit? Budd Hopkins is the researcher’s researcher. He’s not a perfect guy, not arrogant… just real. Hopkins even inspired a Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professor to look at UFO abduction because of the quality of the hard data his research produced...
The mysterious entity that scared investigators
Was it the Lizard Man? My Reality Checking assignment this issue involved covering the fascinating stories of an Apache medicine woman from New Mexico, who grew up in the San Luis Valley region of Colorado, an area well-known in ufology for having lots of UFO activity and paranormal high-strangeness over the years...
Sasquatch Assault
Loren Coleman: Word of another new Bigfoot movie has arrived: Sasquatch Assault. I’m not really interested in writing about it until I see more about the specifics of the cryptid. Anyway, there’s a perfectly good Michael Gingold item that’s already been written about what is known about it at Fangoria...
Psychic in Sandy
Connie Tao's psychic tendencies revealed themselves early. "When I was 2, I always saw spirits, and I talked to my parents about it," she said. Tao grappled with spirit messages her whole life. She recalls being stricken more than a decade ago by the death of the Princess of Wales. Trouble was, it was the day before Diana died in a Paris car crash. Her friends and family called the premonition proof she had psychic powers, that she wasn't crazy for receiving these messages but she would be crazy to ignore them. But it wasn't until five years ago, when "the spirits went nutty in my home," that she determined to fully embrace the psychic clamor...
