Thanks to Storm Dennis, it’s been a dark and stormy night all week in Blighty and an anonymous author at Higgypop ruminates upon the connection twixt extreme weather and paranormal activity. There may be a scientific explanation to dismiss the rise of spooky happenings, but perhaps some of those explanations lend themselves to their occurence […]

And not just residents of The Smoke, either. Up in the north country and into Scotland, drivers see these scary “road phantoms” frequently, according to a recent survey by a car leasing company. Perhaps future surveys ought to include a question about belief in The Holy Grail and the Mystery of The Nanteos Cup. The […]

We like to impress our readers with the importance of the Fortean approach to all things strange. That means keeping an open mind while at the same time remaining skeptical. Never outright believing a claim but never outright dismissing a claim either. This post nicely reinforces that philosophy, warning against what it calls the pathologization […]

More like a multiverse of ghosts, based upon David Sivier’s review of Paul Eno’s Dancing Past the Graveyard. And it’s not just ghosts, but you-know-who, bigfoot, and so much more high strangeness. While parallel universes and multiverses are in vogue, David makes several valid arguments against dumping all phenomenon into the multiverse bin along with […]

In case you took the blue pill instead, mainstream science is beginning to humor the idea of glitches in the matrix. Among the most famous, glitchy denizens are forteana like spooks, sasquatch, and space brothers, and Rob Schwarz gives a rundown of Dr. Curry Guinn’s presentation arguing his maverick thesis. And why the hell not? […]

Ardent fans of Missing 411 know lost hikers typically become ghosts, but in Soviet Taiwan the ghosts save you! While Tim Binnall doesn’t mention the “third-man effect“, there’s plenty of high strangeness surrounding this hiker’s ordeal. While the police can be helpful, there are times when they need help such as Brent Swancer’s collection of […]

Myanmar is serious about ghosts. So much so, they moved their capital city from Yangon to Nay Pyi Taw back in 2006 because of warnings about the ghosts of dead Japanese soldiers buried around the place. Worse, ghosts in Myanmar are something to behold with their tusks, long tongues, and… let Will Buckingham explain the […]

Rob Schwartz raises a decent question with this post. Why do we not hear about naked ghosts? (Maybe orbs are naked ghosts?) He suggests that the attire a spirit shows up in is a function of our earthbound minds applying a dressing (pun intended) to the subject in question. That’s a good thing, especially in […]

Judging by the reports Rob Schwartz has compiled, the answer to that question would be “Yes.” Then again, there’s no way of proving that Alexa or Google or Siri have inter-veil connectivity. Sometimes just keeping the Wifi running is iffy. But if comfort is obtained from the belief that spooks speak through our tech, then by […]

It’s Halloween and rather than wasting money on military aid to the Ukraine or the Kurds, your tax dollars are surveying Joe and Jane Sixpack for their paranormal beliefs. Jamie Ballard has the breakdown of the numbers, who believes what, and why. Laughing smugly as a western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic citizen of these […]