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A comprehensive survey of Poltergeist cases by Alan Gauld & Tony Cornell
with its findings of special relevance to the Dalby Spook case by Christopher Josiffe arapsychologists Alan Gauld and Tony Cornell undertook a scientific study of 460 poltergeist cases from around the world, and they published the results in their 1979 book Poltergeists. They found that in 61% of cases, the poltergeist phenomena were associated with a
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The Story of the Bell Witch
“America’s Greatest Ghost Story” The Bell family homestead, the alleged “ground zero” of the Bell Witch haunting. Strange Occurrences Commence One day in 1817, John Bell was inspecting his corn field when he encountered a strange-looking animal sitting in the middle of a corn row. Shocked by the appearance of this animal, which had the body
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Whitewater Witches – Local Folklore and Legends
Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay Whitewater Wisconsin has a full list of creepy legends and folklore. The one that you hear first is about the Witches of Whitewater, but there was also a man named Morris Pratt who made an institute all about spiritualism and psychic subjects that may have started off the talk
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History student tells the story of the Mothman
In mid-November, 1966, in the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, two young couples fled the local woods, claiming they’d seen a terrifying creature. They recounted their story to the sheriff and reported that the entity looked human in most respects – except for its 10-foot wings and glowing red eyes. The local paper
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The Mothman Revisited
Who — or what — is the Mothman, and what does it want with the citizens of Chicago? CASE DETAILS In 1967, locals from all over the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported bizarre sightings of a terrifying, black, winged humanoid creature with red, glowing eyes. This creature comes to be known in
