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? Categories Paranormal Encounters
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... Categories Paranormal Encounters/Weird History
27 January 2023 My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade at LA’s Haunted Paramour Estate In 1918 oil heiress Daisy Canfield commissioned an estate, known today as The Paramour, in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of LA. A tragic car accident on Mulholland Drive during a foggy night sent her to an early grave in 1933. Eighty years later, rock bands My Chemical Romance and Papa Roach experience distressing paranormal activity while recording in Daisy’s former home. Categories Paranormal Encounters
9 January 2023 Akhenaten’s Purgatory: Dissecting the Legend of the Mad Pharaoh’s Cursed Soul According to legend, the angered priests of Egypt put a curse on Akhenaten upon his death to wander the great expanse of The White Desert of Farafra for all of eternity as punishment for abolishing their jobs, their gods, and the destruction of their temples. Categories Paranormal Encounters/Weird History
23 October 2022 Ancaster Hermitage: Haunted Ruins in the Canadian Woods The beautiful and haunting ruins of The Hermitage in Ancaster, Ontario is a hotspot for paranormal investigators searching for the wandering ghost of William Black who, according to local legend, ended his life after being forbidden from marrying the woman he loved. Categories Paranormal Encounters
8 August 2022 HMS Eurydice: The Ghostly Ship that Haunts the Isle of Wight In 1878, three-year-old Winston Churchill watched alongside his nurse as the HMS Eurydice sank off the coast of England’s Isle of Wight. The tragedy, which took the lives of over 300 men, would become one of the most devastating peacetime naval disasters in British history. According to legend, the phantom ship continues to sail off the coast of Sandown and... Categories Paranormal Encounters
27 July 2022 The Monsters and Killers of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Ghost Ranch, located in Abiquiú, New Mexico, has it’s fair share of interesting stories. The 21,000 acre retreat was once the home and studio of modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe who was infatuated with the barren landscape featured frequently in her art. The area is also an important palaeontology site with an impressively high concentration of dinosaur fossils. And, Ghost Ranch’s... Categories Paranormal Encounters/Weird History
18 July 2022 Himeji Castle, Thoughtography, and the Japanese Ghost Story that Inspired ‘The Ring’ In 2002 the English speaking world was horror-struck by a little girl named Samara who crawled out of a well and murdered her victims when they watched her cursed video tape. The Ring, a Hollywood remake of the hit Japanese film Ringu (1998) would kickstart a popular trend of J-Horror remakes including The Grudge (2004) and One Missed Call (2008),... Categories Paranormal Encounters/Weird History
24 June 2022 Take an Interdimensional Ride with Japan and Korea’s Terrifying Elevator Game We all know at least one urban legend. Bloody Mary, the Jersey Devil, Hookman, Robert Johnson selling his soul to the Devil, Krampus, Mothman, Owlman… and countless other legends of folklore that come from cultures all around the world. With the birth of the internet came an entirely new type of ‘friend of a friend’ storytelling called Creepypastas. Unlike urban... Categories Digital Mythology
25 April 2022 Of Leprosy and Confinement: The Tragic Haunting of Uncle Hỏa’s Mansion, Vietnam A haunted mansion. An ancient disease. A family with a dark secret. The tragic legend of Hứa Bổn Hòa (aka Uncle Hỏa) and his ill fated daughter Lan is well known in Vietnam. But since Hứa Bổn Hòa was a real historic figure, it’s strange that this famous ghost story features a daughter that appears to be entirely fictional. Who exactly was Lan? Was her death as tragic as the legend says? And most importantly, did she ever actually exist? Categories Paranormal Encounters
