Tag: #ghosts
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Arsenic or a Witch?

How Memory Turned a Death into a Legend In 1820, John Bell died near what is now Adams, Tennessee, a small rural town just north of Nashville. The descriptions of his final weeks are unsettling but not, at least on their face, supernatural. Accounts recorded later describe facial paralysis, difficulty swallowing, and episodes of weakness…
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The Hammersmith Ghost Murder: When Fear Killed an Innocent Man

How superstition, panic, and mistaken belief led to one of England’s strangest murder trials On a freezing January night in 1804, a man walking home from work was shot dead in a London lane. His name was Thomas Millwood. He was twenty-nine years old. A bricklayer by trade. He wore white trousers and a white…
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The Paranormal Side of Grief

On grief, perception, and moments that resist explanation First published on Medium Grief does strange things to the way we notice the world. People say it’s emotional, but it’s also very physical too. It changes how sound lands in a room. How silence stretches. How memories will suddenly intrude upon normal activity. After loss, the…
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The Demon Craze: Paranormal Hype or Hidden Truth?

The demon theme has become more and more common in today’s paranormal investigations. And more and more locations and ghost hunts are now thought to be demonic. The perception change is most evident with ghost hunting television programs and YouTube paranormal channels, where investigators are likely to explain unexplained events as demons. But this phenomenon…

