If you’re from Cleveland and love local ghost stories, it would be surprising if you weren’t familiar with the eerie stone house known locally as...
Aside from hurling a few stones, you might not think ghosts have much power when it comes to effectively changing the world of the living...
The big sprawling nation of Australia is home to bigger than life people and places. But beyond the majestic views of Uluru (once known as...
In the early morning hours of July 8, 1921, engineer and businessman William Francis Bohlman was at the throttle of Southern Pacific’s Engine No. 745...
Almost anywhere you go, there are towns, streets, and locations with unusual names telling long-forgotten stories. That’s certainly the case with a rural road, hollow,...
In June of 1973, gays and lesbians across the United States were celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. Gay...
During an April 7, 2001 lecture at the 13th Annual Bigfoot Conference / Bigfoot EXPO 2001 in Newcomerstown, Ohio, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman lightheartedly remarked that...
Something stinks in Florida. It’s not the bad drivers and stale tofu, or even the mosquitoes the size of horse flies. It’s big and hairy,...
Some call it evil. Others say it’s a portal to unspeakable horrors. But we all know it as the Ouija Board. Demonized by some, scoffed...
Artists have always sought to turn trauma into expression. For painter David Huggins, it’s not your typical emotional baggage. That’s because since 1951, David has lived with...
Let’s be honest; most of us dream of striking it rich so we’ll never have to work for some jerk CEO ever again. No historical...
Imagine yourself home on the night of a full moon. You’re eating popcorn and watching American Horror Story. You don’t notice your bedroom door creaking...
John Zaffis, the Haunted Collector himself, is on the move. After searching long and hard for a suitable new home for his Museum of the...
Northeastern Ohio teenagers have been creeped out for generations by the story of Gore Orphanage. A ruined stone foundation in Lorain County bears the marks...
If you ever find yourself in Aberdeen, Washington, craving a bite to eat, you can find some great pub grub at Billy’s on the corner...
In the remote hills of New York State, there may have been an unreported Close Encounter of the Third Kind (CEIII).* This may seem unremarkable...
James Randi has been called many things: magician, illusionist, skeptic, cynic, jerk, grumpy old man. To some, he is an idol in his own rite...
When a one day old kitten with a rare birth defect arrived at Tuft’s University in 1999 to be euthanized, no one could have anticipated...
“I don’t care of you believe me or not” was the serious, straightforward introduction I was given to a possible wolfman sighting in the autumn...
What exactly crashed in the open terrain of the US Southwest back in 1947? Was it a weather balloon? Aliens from a far-off galaxy? Or...
The Cold War saw great competitions arise between the Soviet Union and the United States. If the USSR did it, the US wanted to equal...
We think we know so much about ghosts and the birth of what we consider modern paranormal investigation. Yet so much of what we believe...
You can almost hear an audible groan when a new paranormal series starts. We’ve come to expect creepy music, cheap special effects, and people you’ve...
In the 19th Century, railroad travel could be a traumatic experience. Traveling on combustible wooden coaches heated by stoves and lit by oil lamps at...
For centuries, one location in the United States has captivated the collective creepy imagination. Its mere mention is enough to mentally transport us to a...
Is Mother Nature the real root of all evil? Are natural disasters the origins of some alleged curses? Can witchcraft be caused by weather? Occasionally,...
It’s true that sticks and stone might break your bones, but once in a while, the real question to be asking is who is throwing...