A haunting in Dumfries
A woman went to the Weems-Botts Museum in Dumfries last summer to inquire about historical photos. She saw a docent dressed in a Victorian-era costume looking out of a second floor window.
She then went up to the front door and peered through a window, seeing the same docent walk down the stairs and into a side room. She knocked on the door. When the docent didn’t answer the door, the woman left and called the museum office to complain...
Chicago’s haunted Red Lion Pub
Ghost hunting is a fun hobby. It is a nice way to socialize with people from different backgrounds who share this common interest. It’s a great excuse to get together, hang out and share ghosts stories and unusual experiences. The best place to for such social ghost hunting is at a haunted pub! Once a small group of us ghost enthusiasts went to visit the famed Red Lion Pub in Chicago. This pub is called the most haunted pub in the city. It is right across from the Biograph Theater where gangster John Dillinger was shot down in an alley...
Why evidence for the paranormal doesn't improve
Benjamin Radford is a writer, investigator, and managing editor for Skeptical Inquirer science magazine. [Bad Science Column Archive] It seems that every month or two some new piece of evidence surfaces that promises to shed light on an unexplained mystery: A miraculous healing story here, a Borneo river monster photo there. Yet like the proverbial carrot before the donkey, final evidence is always in sight but never obtained...
Ghost bars
Our city has had its share of frightening problems. Consider the riots of 1992, the earthquake of 1994 and the ever-present danger of drunk-driving starlets in 2006. Now Los Angeles is facing another terrifying crisis, and this time it’s affecting our nightlife. This town has a serious ghost problem—and it's spookier than ever thanks to the newly opened Crocker Club and the apparitions who supposedly reside here...
Friday the 13th: The most "feared" and haunted day of 2009!
February, March, November of 2009 all have a Friday the 13th, So does this have any haunted or paranormal significance? In Necromancy it is a day dedicated for me to contact real ghosts, Spirits and sometimes demons and get as many predictions of the future I can! Many wiccan covens meet this night. as do those that hold seance's and Bone Conjurers. Many ghost hunting groups, Mediums, Psychics and Paranormal investigators go out knowing this is the day you will be in contact with the dead whether you want to or not...
The Man-Monkey solved?
Nick Redfern: As regular readers of this blog - and of my books, too - will be aware, one particularly strange British-Bigfoot story that has fascinated me for years is that of the so-called "Man-Monkey" of the Shropshire Union Canal. Indeed, so fascinated am I by it, I even wrote a book about the damned critter!..
A brush with the netherworld
Scott Corrales: "See those eyes so red/red like jungle burning bright..." sang David Bowie in his song to the 1982 remake of the classic horror film Cat People, in which humans turned into were-panthers to feast on human flesh. The existence red-eyed, felinoid entities, however, can hardly be relegated to the cinema of yore and has few points of contact with the lycanthropic traditions held by nearly every culture on this planet of ours. Strange felinoid entities have been reported throughout history, and continue to make their presence known right up to our Internet-saturated early 21st century...
The sad truth behind an MIB story
Fortean author Mike Dash has tipped off about an interesting development to one of the most famous MIB cases in the UFO literature; the case of Dr Herbert Hopkins, from Maine. Hopkins had been the consultant hypnotist who had performed the hypnotic regression for the 1975 abduction case in Maine, involving recalled memories of strange, ‘mushroom-headed, entities. Mike Dash continues the story in his indispensable book Borderlands...
Solar calendar secret revealed in Suffolk church
Every year thousands of revellers flock to watch dawn break on the summer and winter solstices at Stonehenge, which Druids believe is a temple to the alignment of the sun. Although no-one knows the reason behind the prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, it is widely accepted its design was such that it would mark the longest and shortest days of the year. Now a mysterious spectacle which appears to honour the two other most significant days in the solar calendar has been discovered in a Suffolk church...
