Category: Paranormal
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How To Do A Séance? And The History Behind them.
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“We’re here to lay out the basic rules for communicating responsibly with the other side.” In a softly lit room, people gather around a table, hands joined, hoping to hear from the other side. The word ‘séance’ brings to mind old-time parlours, gentle candlelight, and mysterious voices from beyond. But…
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Parallel Universe Theory: What Are the Chances of Another You?
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Our universe is immense. Earth is one of eight planets that revolve around our sun, which is a star, and there are billions or maybe even trillions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. With existing technology, we can see well beyond our own galaxy into the observable universe, which has a…
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Shapeshifting
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In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, sorcery, or having inherited the ability. The idea of shapeshifting is in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest extant literature and epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad. The concept remains a common trope…
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History’s Most Infamous UFO Sightings of the Modern Era
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Still-unexplained phenomena, from Roswell to the ‘Belgium Wave.’ David Zaitz/Getty Images UFOs aren’t new. Indeed, humans have been describing unidentified flying objects for millennia, with depictions of disk-like objects and unusual atmospheric objects found in the art and literature of ancient civilizations from the Sumerians and the Egyptians to the Greeks…
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Haunted Dolls 101: An Introduction
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If you’ve been reading our blog, you already know that ghosts aren’t always see-through people or floating sheets. They can be poltergeists, people-possessors, as well as shadow beings. They also don’t necessarily haunt specific locations. Some haunt people, while others hold a very close connection to specific objects. One of…
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Quantum Physics Suggests That Death Doesn’t Exist And It Is Probably Just An Illusion
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Man has been curious in what occurs after death since the dawn of time. Of course, there are many conventional responses to this query, but researchers may have just added an endless number of additional hypotheses, just to mix things up. Death is simply a portal to an infinite number…
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Project Blue Book: The US Air Force’s Investigation of UFOs
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In fear of threat to national security, the United States Air Force conducted investigations on thousands of UFO sightings that took place over the course of two decades. Photograph of UFOs in “V” formation in Salem, Massachusetts by Shell R. Alpert, 1952, via Library of Congress, Washington DC The United…
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Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were Brought to Earth Hundreds of Thousands of Years Ago
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A still from the movie, Prometheus. Picture courtesy: Twitter/kennicosmith Introduction In a thought-provoking theory that challenges conventional understanding of human origins, an expert has proposed that humans are not native to Earth but were brought here by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago. This controversial idea,…
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History of Dybbuk Boxes
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From Jewish folklore to an eBay purchase that left a man in a ‘tidal wave of bad luck,’ dybbuk boxes are wine cabinets claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a malicious demon said to hold the power to invade and possess a living person. Authentic dybbuk boxes will usually…
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Ouija Board: Topics in Chronicling America
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In 1890, the Ouija board was created for supernatural communication. It was also the focus of several lawsuits. This guide provides access to materials related to the “Ouija Board” in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers. Ouija is a talking board first manufactured in the United States in…
