Category: Paranormal Encounters

27 June 2025

‘Man Proposes, God Disposes’: A Haunted Painting at the University of London

In 1845 Captain John Franklin led the doomed expedition of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to navigate the Northwest Passage of the Canadian Arctic. In September of 1846, over a year into their voyage, Erebus and Terror became trapped in the ice near King William Island. Surving off dwindling provisions, the crew of 129 waited two years for rescue...

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1 October 2024

The World’s Oldest Ghosts: Hauntings in Ancient Rome and Babylon

While we often associate ghost stories with the 18th and 19th centuries, humans have been telling tales of hauntings for far, far longer. So where can we find evidence of the world’s oldest known ghost stories and hauntings? The Oldest Recorded Haunting The oldest ghost story currently known was recorded by Roman politician and writer, Pliny the Younger in the...

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25 May 2024

The Myth and Mystique of Biblical Nephilim: Fallen Angels or Ancient Aliens?

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God would sleep with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men. Genesis 6:4, NET The Bible is a powerful book. For many it inspires hope, alleviates pain, and provides comfort...

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13 May 2024

Our Peculiar Relationship with ‘666’, an Ancient Evil in the Modern World

In the iconic 1976 horror film The Omen, an American ambassador and his wife unknowingly adopt the baby Antichrist following the death of their newborn son. As the movie progresses, young Dameon’s parents realise something is incredibly wrong with their toddler who throws a passionate fit outside of a cathedral, inspires monkeys at the zoo into a frenzy, watches as...

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9 May 2024

John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Obsession and Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Heavenly Knowledge

Dr John Dee is among the most fascinating figures of the Elizabethan period with a life akin to the plot of a historical fantasy novel. Born in London on 13 July 1527, Dee attended St John’s College at Cambridge University at the young age of 15 and graduated after intense study with a Bachelor of Arts in 1545. He then...

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19 March 2024

The SS Bannockburn or, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ of Lake Superior

The Great Lakes of North America, covering nearly 95,000 square miles, make up the largest freshwater system on our planet. While water vessels of all sizes have used the lakes for transport, freight, and pleasure, not everyone and every ship makes it safely back home. To date there have been over 6,000 shipwrecks throughout the five Great Lakes that have...

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6 January 2024

The Kraken: How the Myth of a Legendary Sea Monster Became Reality

Originally based in Scandinavian folklore, the Kraken is a large mythological creature said to haunt open water. The first known account of the Kraken was written by King Sverre of Norway in 1180 during a time when the oceans were relatively uncharted. The Kraken was said to be a hunter of ships, the bigger the better, making it a predator...

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31 March 2023

What does Bigfoot Sound Like?

Throughout the years you’ve likely seen tons of physical ‘evidence’ that Bigfoot exists – photos, footprints, fur samples – but what about sound? What does Bigfoot sound like?

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20 March 2023

Émilie Sagée and the Curse of Unintentional Bilocation

Born in Dijon, France on 3 January 1813, Mademoiselle Émilie Sagée was a thirty-two-year-old French teacher who worked at a Latvian boarding school between 1845 and 1846. She was described as blonde and blue-eyed with a mild temper and a quiet but anxious disposition. The boarding school Pensionnat of Neuwelcke had a total of forty-two students, all young girls from...

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10 February 2023

‘Something Wicked this Way Comes’: Witchcraft in Scotland and the Curse of Macbeth

The theatre world is filled with superstitions: always turn the ghost light on before leaving an empty theatre, never whistle backstage, tell an actor to ‘break a leg’ instead of ‘good luck’, keep peacock feathers off the stage, and never — under any circumstance — utter the name ‘Macbeth’ inside a theatre.

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