There are very few places in the world quite as haunted as Scotland’s Edinburgh Vaults. Also known as the South Bridge Vaults, the series of...
Built two-and-a-half centuries ago, the Oliver House in Middleboro, Massachusetts has stood through the Revolutionary War, played host to presidents, and has seen plenty of death...
The 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters made headlines for its gender-swapped cast of spectral researchers, but nearly two decades ago the first all-female paranormal investigation team...
For many ghost geeks, their love of paranormal investigation stems directly from an affinity for history. One of the coolest and often easily forgotten aspects about...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
In a recent lecture at Cheltenham Science Festival, the cantankerous curmudgeon Richard Dawkins pushed past his usual one-man crusade against all religion and voiced his...
One of the most perplexing events of the 20th Century did not involve flying saucers, conspiracy theories, a criminal act, or even strange creature sightings....
On March 10, 1970, the impossible happened. Tucked away in a lab in Leningrad, a frog’s heart floated in a solution beating quite normally. The...
It seems as if werewolves were an epidemic in Europe during the Middle Ages. So may horrible murders were committed by people accused of shapeshifting...
The ancient world was far more cosmopolitan than imagined. Over at the Redoubt Fortress is the Eastbourne Ancestors exhibit, featuring the lives, and remains, of...
Before Greenwald met with Edward Snowden in May of 2013, everyone would laugh about the US government’s alleged domestic spying program. A few days later,...
Overshadowed and forgotten by the more disastrous Johnstown Flood of 1889, the Austin Dam Flood—dubbed the “Austin Horror” in newspapers—was a great tragedy which cost...
Whether you’re a passionate admirer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or a fan of BBC’s hit series Sherlock, it’s difficult not to let your mind...
In 1883, future president Theodore Roosevelt went on a buffalo hunting expedition to the Badlands of Montana. After his wife Alice passed away, he returned...
It’s been nearly five years now since I wrote my last book, Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts. And to be honest,...
In August of 2012 we visited this fortress to investigate the claims made by others. But 1st a little back history on the property: In...
Back in 1877, a publication known as the Religio-Philosophical Journal kept an eye on all things Spiritualism. With around 10,000 subscribers, the weekly periodical was...
Oregon is famous for few things—namely rain and being north of California. It hasn’t really caught the eye of the world at large, perhaps...
By now, it’s a well-accepted fact that the Vikings beat Columbus to the New World (i.e. North America) by a couple hundred years. Settlements have...
What do Gandalf and Moses have in common? A lot more than you might think. A real life wizard offers up his insights into the...