Category: Paranormal

  • Unusual cases of succubus: A cultural phenomenon manifesting as part of psychopathology

    Unusual cases of succubus: A cultural phenomenon manifesting as part of psychopathology

    Abstract Succubus is also known as demon female lover who approaches males in their dreams to have sex. This is the phenomenon which is rarely described in psychiatric literature. It is more identified as a cultural belief in different religions. We report the two cases diagnosed with schizophrenia, who reported…

  • Necromancy

    Necromancy

    occult practice necromancy, communication with the dead, usually in order to obtain insight into the future or to accomplish some otherwise impossible task. Such activity was current in ancient times among the Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans; in medieval Europe it came to be associated with black (i.e., harmful, or antisocial)…

  • USING SCIENCE TO INVESTIGATE THE PARANORMAL

    USING SCIENCE TO INVESTIGATE THE PARANORMAL

    Science has long been used to investigate seemingly supernatural phenomena. Read about some of the most famous examples—and what they tell us about the historical relationship between science and the occult. From Harry Price and his ‘National Laboratory of Psychical Research’ to the infamous case of the Cottingley Fairies, this story looks…

  • UFO sightings in the United Kingdom

    UFO sightings in the United Kingdom

    This is a list of notable alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the United Kingdom. Many more sightings have become known since the gradual release, between 2008 and 2013, of the Ministry of Defence’s UFO sighting reports by the National Archives. In recent years, there have been many sightings of groups of…

  • Unexplained Phenomenon

    Unexplained Phenomenon

    04.20.11 Silas M. Newton Silas Newton (1887-1972) was a wealthy oil producer and con-man who claimed that he had a gadget that could detect minerals and oil. He was cited as an authority in Frank Scully’s book Behind the Flying Saucers, a work that claimed to report on several UFO…

  • The Ghosts of Windsor Castle!

    The Ghosts of Windsor Castle!

    [Article from 2011] Spare a thought for the poor old Queen. She may rule 17 countries, have dozens of castles and palaces and possess the most expensive collection of jewellery in the world, but Her Majesty has also to contend with living alongside countless ghosts and ghouls. And if that wasn’t bad enough,…

  • Do Spirits Influence Great Artists?

    Do Spirits Influence Great Artists?

    “It is not every medium who is able to get into the headlines of the British press without being ridiculed, but this feat has been achieved by Herr Heinrich Nusslein,” psychical researcher Harry Price wrote in the November 1928 issue of Psychic Research, published by The American Society for Psychical Research. …

  • 30 Witnesses Say: “No One Really Dies”

    30 Witnesses Say: “No One Really Dies”

    When an aging friend appeared to be suffering from “existential angst” as he recovered from serious health challenges, I gave him one of my books, No One Really Dies, in the hope that he might see a larger and brighter picture of what’s ahead if he didn’t survive much longer in…

  • Feuds & Regrets in the Afterlife

    Feuds & Regrets in the Afterlife

    The story of the Ross sisters, as communicated through the mediumship of Geraldine Cummins, (below) perhaps the most accomplished automatist of the 20th Century, suggests that family grudges and feuds carry over into the afterlife if not resolved before death. The story also suggests that we can have concerns and…

  • Spirit Photography

    Spirit Photography

    On Spirit Photography The history of Spirit Photography is almost as old as photography itself. It will be William Mumler who will change the way the world felt about the paranormal. He will do what mediums of his day couldn’t do, he provided physical proof of an afterlife through the…