Tag: #paranormal
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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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Why Old Photographs Feel Like They’re Hiding Something
Spirit photography, pareidolia, and the psychology behind that quiet sense of presence Old photographs frequently outlive their subjects. The faces remain. The bodies do not. Something about that imbalance unsettles us more than we admit. The photographs themselves are usually ordinary. Family portraits. Street scenes. Soldiers standing rigid beside artillery. Children sit stiffly in heavy…
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The Strange History of Everyday Objects: Windows
Why windows were once feared as openings without boundaries First published on Meduim Windows were never trusted. They look harmless now. Fixed panes of glass meant to admit light and keep weather out. We treat them as passive features, architectural conveniences that simply exist to be looked through. But for most of human history, windows…
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The Strange History of Everyday Objects
Thresholds First published on Medium Every home has one, and almost no one notices it. The threshold is crossed dozens of times a day. Shoes scrape over it. Groceries pass over it. Children step across it without thinking. It marks the shift from outside to inside so cleanly that it feels purely practical, almost invisible.…
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Friday the 13th: Why the Fear Refuses to Die
First published on Medium Friday the 13th doesn’t survive because it’s rare or mysterious. It survives because people expect something to go wrong when it arrives. That expectation has been reinforced for centuries through religion, myth, history, and repetition. Long before horror movies or internet memes, the number and the day were already carrying weight.…
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The Contamination Problem – Now Available
The Contamination Problem examines how hoaxes, hype, and institutional messaging distort the unexplained. Looking at crop circles, UFO reports, and Bigfoot encounters side by side, the book explores what happens when contamination becomes cumulative and reflex replaces evaluation. Available now as a free download. https://brendlewave.gumroad.com/l/fgtgir
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Science Explains a Lot. So Why Does the Paranormal Persist?
Most people have felt watched in an empty room at least once, even if they’ve never admitted it out loud. We’ve all caught movements out of the corner of your eye only for it to be gone when we look. Experiences such as these help remind us that our curiosity survives well past what we…
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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…
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Happy World UFO Day!
What is World UFO Day? Observed annually on July 2, World UFO Day is a celebration that honors the infamous 1947 Roswell incident, where an alleged UFO crashed in New Mexico. This day was officially declared by the World UFO Day Organization in 2001 with the aim of sparking curiosity about unidentified flying objects (UFOs)…