Regarding the substance that sustains spirits and allows them to manifest themselves on the physical plane, i quote an interesting article by Allan Kardec (1804-1869), father of spiritualism, author of fundamental works on the study of ghosts. , spirits and…
The Fox sisters were three women from New York who somehow revolutionized the study of the paranormal. Kate Fox (1837–1892), Margaret Fox (1833–1893) and Leah Fox (1814–1890) claimed that their house was inhabited by spirits. Over the years they tried…
It is easy to fall into the assumption that Haunted Houses and Cursed Houses, within fiction, refer to the same phenomenon, but in reality we are talking about two completely different things. A Haunted House, by definition, is a house…
At around midnight on Saturday 10th May, the general manager at “The Real Mary King’s Close”, Stephen Spencer activated the infra-red camera to check that the computer system had been switched off for the night. The camera is static and…
The Ghost Club is the oldest organisation in the world associated with psychical research. It was founded in 1862 but has its roots in Cambridge University where, in 1855, fellows at Trinity College began to discuss ghosts and psychic phenomena….
A Diagnosis of Death is a horror story by American author Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), originally written in 1901 and published in the 1909 anthology: Can these things exist? (Can Such Things Be?). After experiencing a seemingly inexplicable supernatural appearance, Hawver…
The Ouija Board, as well as other perhaps more modest versions, such as the cup game, and essentially any method or system of communication with the spirits, can be a dangerous tool if not used properly. Referring to it as…
The Sixth Sense. Right, intriguing, a movie that created a bunch of emotions and has stayed with us for years. I see dead people. That sentence… a very controversial one. Getting up from my chair, threw a bucket of popcorn…
