Tag: #paranormal
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The Black Pyramid Beneath Alaska May Actually Be There
What Happens When You Check the Story? There was an underground nuclear test detonated in China in 1992. The resulting seismic waves from that explosion traveled thousands of miles. Then scientists used them to study what may be under the Alaskan surface. That much is not speculation. The nuclear test happened on May 21, 1992,…
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The Two Session Method That Might Let You Talk to the Dead
Standing at the Edge of Something I’m Not Ready to Try I have spent years talking to the dead. Scrying in a dark room, staring into a black mirror until my eyes ached. Tarot spread across a table, reading the cards for anyone who asked, myself included. I still do both, though rarely now. Most…
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Who Is the Grim Reaper?
How a Medieval Image Still Scares Modern Brains Just picture this for a second. You’re sick enough to need the ER, not dying, just sick enough that toughing it out at home stopped feeling smart. You park, you walk toward the doors, half thinking about your symptoms, half thinking about the wait. Then you look…
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What People Get Wrong About the Word Nightmare
Nightmare Isn’t a Bad Dream. It’s a Demon on Your Chest. It’s three in the morning. You wake with a start, and something is sitting on your chest. You try to move and you can’t. If that has ever happened to you, you now know what a real nightmare is. Most people don’t. They think…
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Nyx: The Greek Goddess Even Zeus Wouldn’t Cross
I Wasn’t Looking for Nyx When She Found Me Death and Sleep were brothers, and their mother was Night. There was something about that ancient Greek genealogy that made immediate sense to me, even though I’d barely heard of Nyx before that day. Keep following her family tree and it becomes even more remarkable. Fate…
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Fake News Is Older Than You Think and Devon Proved It in 1855
The Word Is New. The Lie Isn’t On the night of February 8, 1855, something walked across Devon, England, for a hundred miles. It crossed rooftops without breaking stride. Haystacks and stone walls fourteen feet high did nothing to slow it, and the snow on top stayed untouched. Even the River Exe couldn’t stop it,…
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How High Strangeness Became a Catchall for Everything Weird
What Hynek Actually Meant by “High Strangeness” I was halfway through writing the Spottsville Monster episode of 4Ever Paranormal when I caught myself doing something I should have known better than to do. I’d gotten to the part where the neighbor, alone in that abandoned barn, heard something tell him not to be afraid. It…
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The Rocket Scientist Who Tried to Open a Portal Under Pasadena
What Jack Parsons Summoned at Devil’s Gate Dam Jack Parsons co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL is the NASA-affiliated research center that built the technology behind America’s rocket program and, decades later, the Mars rovers. Parsons was one of the men who made that program possible in the first place. He was not a fringe…
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Did a Pope Just Hate Cats?
What One Papal Bull Reveals About Where Our Superstitions Actually Come From You knock on wood without thinking about it. You toss salt over your shoulder if you spill it, or you know someone who does. You’ve watched a friend refuse to walk under a ladder, not because they believe in curses exactly, but because,…
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I’ve Been Questioning Monsters Since I Was a Child
The Black Dog with Red Eyes Coming Down the Hall I don’t remember exactly how old I was. I only remember the dog that night. My bed looked straight down the hall in our house. It was walking from the far end of the hallway towards my bedroom. It was black with red eyes. Smoke…