Author: Roger
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Real Poltergeist Stories – 4 Scary Real Life Poltergeist Cases
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Poltergeists are some of the most disruptive spirits you’ll ever come across. In fact, a poltergeist is the German term for “noisy ghost”, which is quite an apt translation. There are numerous poltergeist stories in folklore and film and they’re well known as being some of the noisiest, most violent…
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Poltergeists: 3 Most Famous Cases
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Furniture move about by themselves. Walls shake from noisy, unexplained banging. Water drips from a ceiling. Hairbrushes vanish for days, only to reappear in their place on the dresser. These are some of the standard signs and symptoms of a poltergeist haunting. From the German for “noisy ghost,” a poltergeist…
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A comprehensive survey of Poltergeist cases by Alan Gauld & Tony Cornell
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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…
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The Story of the Bell Witch
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“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…
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Whitewater Witches – Local Folklore and Legends
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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…
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History student tells the story of the Mothman
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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…
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The Mothman Revisited
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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…
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The Physician Who Watched Himself Die by Michael E. Tymn
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In his 1903 book, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (published two years after his death in 1901), Frederic W. H. Myers, the pioneering psychical researcher, set forth a story about what is now known as a near-death experience, which took place in 1889. It was told to him by…
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A Paradox of Life: “Nothing” is “Everything”
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Thirty-five or more years ago, when I was doing a lot of sports writing, I began noting many paradoxes in various sports and started keeping a file on them. I collected several dozen paradoxes, but more or less lost interest in the subject after a few years. In more recent…
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Experiencing a Pre-Death Life Review
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A number of people have reported a “life review” during a near-death experience (NDE) – seeing every second of their lives flash before them in what might be called a timeless moment. A man named Tom Sawyer had an NDE in 1978, one in which he recalled living every thought…
