My mother always says you should be more afraid of the living than the dead, so I tend to take tales of hauntings with a pinch of salt. Yet, standing on the top floor of Loftus Hall — which is purported to be Ireland’s most haunted house — even this cynic felt a shiver down her spine when the...
The Ten Bells is a favourite, erm, haunt for the club
The Ghost Club is the world's oldest society dedicated to researching paranormal activity. It has an international membership of 326 made up, I'm assured, of believers and sceptics. "There isn't a party line that you have to follow," says Alan Murdie, barrister and genial club chairman, who wears a...
The Haunting of Hill House is an American anthology based, supernatural horror web television show directed by Mike Flanagan originally produced for Netflix and produced by Amblin Television and Paramount. Season 1 of this horror-based drama is based on the novel written by Shirley Jackson, the novel itself was called the “Haunting of The Hill house.”
The story revolves around...
Haunting At Spook Light Inn, by Alicia Dean
Camille left Miami for Devil’s Promenade. Her visit to this small town in rural Oklahoma is a quest. She searches for a legendary light, one with haunting effects sparkling in the sky without explanation, or predictability. This phenomenon appears only to some, and over the span of time the story has grown....
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GhostsBBC One, 8.30pmThe paranormal caper from the Horrible Histories team returns in an earlier time slot clearly designed to entice more young viewers. Fortunately, it’s lost none of its occasionally risqué moments alongside the larky, juvenile silliness, though there are scary visuals that may occasionally prompt some...
On its website, the Atlantic Paranormal Society says it has received an increase in reports of haunts – 35% - since lockdowns began in March.
Jason Hawes, a paranormal investigator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Ghost Nation” said he thinks some reports are the real deal, and others just have a simple explanation.
"People are spending more time in their home...
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Oujia boards were banned from the Charlesgate hotel in 1990 because of the "psychological effect they had on students."
By Karissa SchaeferSeptember 24, 2020
While working a lighting call on “Follies” in the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Greg Crafts ‘03 remembers being pushed to the edge of the top balcony by a ghost.
“I literally felt a hand in...
Just two months after buying the real-life haunted house that inspired the scary hit movie “The Conjuring,” its new owners say they’re witnessing unexplained paranormal activity.
Cory and Jennifer Heinzen, who bought the historic farmhouse in Harrisville, RI, in June, told a local news station that weird occurrences have already cropped up.
“Footsteps, knocks, we’ve had lights flashing in rooms,” Cory said....
Naz Fulton ain’t afraid of no ghost — which is why she started Muskoka Hauntings for the community to share spooky stories.
Fulton, who lives in Bracebridge and teaches at Muskoka Beechgrove Public School, created the Facebook group in July. It had 740 members at press time.
“I have been in love with ghost stories since I was little,” said Fulton....
Reading horror books or watching horror movies are one of the few guilty pleasures that all of us indulge in. Horror, as a literary genre, is one which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust and create an eerie frightening atmosphere. It frequently relies on the supernatural to evoke the emotion of fear in readers.
One of the best known...
