Category: Ghosts
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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall- Strange Tales of Mysterious Haunted and Cursed Mirrors
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Mirrors have had legends, lore, superstition and myths tied to them for pretty much as long as they have been around. The ancient Romans believed that they reflected a person’s soul and could bring great strife if they were misused, and indeed many other cultures have various negative, supernatural qualities…
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Locals Believe a Pub in the English Countryside Is Haunted. We Tagged Along With Ghost Hunters to Uncover the Truth.
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A ghost in scorched rags. Mysterious whispers. Appliances switching on by themselves. Strange sightings at the Sparkford Inn are the stuff of local legend—can ghost hunters prove the place is haunted? Flickers of light dance within the fireplace of the Sparkford Inn’s dining room, the warmth overshadowed by rumours of ghosts…
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What’s the scientific explanation for ‘ghost encounters’?
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People all over the world believe they’ve seen or heard a ghost, but there’s no scientific evidence for spirits, hauntings or the paranormal. So what’s behind these “encounters”? Chances are, you know someone with a killer ghost story. You might even believe you’ve encountered a ghost yourself. However, considering there’s no…
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Ghosts may ‘die’ after lifespan of 100 years, researcher claims
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Can a ghost die ? Image Credit: Pixabay / darksouls1 Brian Sterling-Vete maintains that intelligent paranormal entities may actually have a limited lifespan. Do ghosts live forever ? While it seems strange to suggest that something thought of as the disembodied spirit of a dead person can itself ‘die’ after a…
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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 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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10 Haunted Irish Battlefields Echoing with Ghosts
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10 Haunted Irish Battlefields This small Emerald Isle has been coveted by so many, from Demigods and Vikings to the English. But the Irish were not going to let go without a fight! Throughout the island of Ireland, violent battles and tragic bloodshed have seeped into the very earth and…
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30 East Drive – Pontefract
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History Jean, Joe, Phillip (15) and Diane (12) Pritchard moved into Number 30 East Drive, Pontefract in August 1966. Almost immediately, during the hot summer Bank Holiday, Phillip and his Grandmother first witnessed a baffling phenomenon – a fine layer of chalk like dust falling not from the ceiling, but…
