Vampire obsession… Vanessa had always liked vampires. Not the ones from the legends, by the way; those deformed, rotten beings, capable of making their way from their coffins by swallowing earth, capable of gnawing unburied bones, devouring rats, chewing their…
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…
Posthumous marriage/ Necrogamy: Marrying a dead person Is it possible to marry a dead person? The answer, surprising as it may seem, is yes. In fact, there is a fairly high number of certified posthumous marriages. The difference between a…
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 clear that the word “vampire” today evokes fantasy monsters. Regarding its origin and evolution, works on the subject such as the classic one by Summers (1928) and the most recent one by Beresford (2008), erroneously consider as “vampires”…
The Old Nurse’s Story (sometimes published as: The Old Maid’s Tale) is a ghost story by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), originally published in the Christmas edition of 1852 from Household Words, and later republished in the 1862 anthology Curious,…
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….
Even though we could translate the English adjective “creepy” as “chilling” (or “horrifying”, to name two common examples) we would be incurring a gross distortion. It is impossible to define why something is “creepy”, however, we could all identify it…
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…
