Noisy neighbors ain’t no fun, but in 1835, a Captain Molesworth’s attempts to locate the offending racket mightily ticked off his landlord, Mr Webster, since he happened to be the accused neighbor. Having gone to unreasonable extremes to locate the Earthly or ethereal source, a lawsuit followed, which modern-day ghost-hunters might do well to keep […]

One of the many things we love about Esoterx, besides his encyclopedic knowledge of single malt Scotch, is how he can wax poetic upon the paranormal then shift gears into dense technobabble on artificial intelligence. His latest thesis isn’t necessarily about the “ghost-in-the-machine”, rather the distillation of computer and paranormal science into a philosophy of […]

There’s a certain comfort in hauntings, if we can silence our chattering teeth and knocking knees long enough to think about it. Typically centered around locations where something dreadful happened, (Esoterx urges us to look at place names for hints eg Leap Castle, which was not a location where children played happily in the surrounding […]

We’re still staring down the barrel of a gun named Pandemic and the past year has provided enough trauma to keep therapists in business well past retirement. This is where religion and beliefs in ghosts, hauntings, and the Afterlife come into play as we try to mitigate the inevitability of our own deaths. Nothing like […]

Here’s a pair of mariner tales as presented by EsoterX, the thinking person’s fortean. Suitably timed too, considering 2021 is evidently the year of the sea shanty. This first story asks the question, “Doppleganger? Or refracted cloud image?” Spoiler Alert: since the ship in question didn’t appear like something out of the 1972 movie Poseiden […]

Considering the ongoing COVID pandemic, if there’s a zombie outbreak then humanity is really screwed. Zombie deniers refusing to wear chainmail, refusing to wash after any encounter, with some running towards a ravening horde while saying it’s all a media conspiracy before being torn to shreds. EsoterX is a bit more learned than this humble […]

We’ve all heard about how much tougher things were in times past. Walking miles uphill to school through three feet of snow, inexplicable hauntings disrupting the lesson plans…Seems a schoolhouse in 1870 New England faced more than its fair share of challenges when a series of inexplicable events lead investigators to conclude that whatever was […]

We all know smoking can kill you. Most of us know that a nicotine addict without his fix might want to kill you. But probably close to none of us know that the water demon in Wisconsin’s Lake Koshkanong will happily drown those who fail to make it an offering of tobacco prior to crossing. […]

Social distancing himself because of the pandemic, also by court order, EsoterX has blown the dust off his keyboard to share the finest historical curiousities this side of the Hudson River. In this case EsoterX recounts someone whos fervent faith ignited more than his spirit, along with a vivid description of a poo. Also burning […]

Albert de Rochas is a pretty weird guy, as Esoterx notes but then again Esoterx is pretty weird himself. Everyone wants to know if they were Cleopatra or Caesar in their past lives, but nobody cares they have the capacity to apprehend the future. It’s not so much Time Loops, but a mix of hypnotism […]