Paranormal
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A myth born of the British Isles. Hi everyone! Apologies for my absence of late. I was buried up to my neck in research for two new posts on here – one on the Connecticut haunting (with some wonderful footage I’m dying to share with you) and another on mediums, psychics and spiritualists. And psychic…
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You may remember my article on the Fox Sisters at the beginning of my sceptical journey. Just for a quick recap for those who may not have read it (and why haven’t you?), in late March 1848, young girls Maggie and Kate Fox began to communicate with what they believed to be the spirit of…
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I’ve always been a fan of a good bucket list, and one of the items on mine was to go to the annual ‘Blame It On Robert’ party that was held at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida every Halloween. The museum was where the original demon dolly, Robert, was displayed in…
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The seventies and eighties were fabulous for horror movies, especially those that were based on a true story. We had The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, based on the serial killer Ed Gein who liked to make bowls out of human skulls, The Amityville Horror, where Ronald De Feo murdered his family and allegedly started a haunting…
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A near death experience can be a life changing event for someone who has experienced it. It’s usually explained as a surreal experience, with people on the brink of death or even having died momentarily and been brought back to life, saying that they have found themselves floating above their body, or passing through a…
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Is It Possible To Weigh A Person’s Soul? This was the question posed by physician Dr Duncan MacDougall in the early 1900s, and this is the story of how he tried to prove it. Duncan MacDougall was born in Glasgow in Scotland in 1866. He moved to the USA and got a medical degree from…
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This new year I was fortunate enough to visit the famous and ancient Jamaica Inn, sitting high on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I’d visited this Inn once before, many years ago, so when I got the chance to actually go and spend the night at the old smugglers hangout, I couldn’t get there quick enough!…
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Once upon a time, a boy lived in a big old house in the English countryside. The house had stood in the village for longer than most houses that had grown up around it, and was the biggest and oldest house for miles around. The boy loved living there with his mum, dad and younger…
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On 25th May 1937, an advert appeared in the Personal section of The Times newspaper. The article read: ‘Haunted House. Responsible persons of leisure and intelligence, intrepid, critical, and unbiassed, are invited to join rota of observers in a years night and day investigation of alleged haunted house in Home Counties. Printed instructions supplied. Scientific…
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I’m back! My break lasted a little bit longer than I had planned, because I keep forgetting it takes me twice as long to do anything with my disabilities. So packing up my old place, and moving to my new place, then unpacking and finding a home for everything, all took a little while. But…
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I’m going to be taking a little break from research and writing while I move house. I’m going to be moving into a beautiful 500 year old cottage that is just steeped in history and I absolutely can’t wait! If walls could talk I expect they’d have some amazing tales to tell. And I can’t…
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Bonsall Village In Derbyshire In the summer of 2023, fuelled by the release of yet more top secret UFO files, I realised that you don’t really see much of UFO sightings in the news these days. I wasn’t sure whether this was because it wasn’t happening, or it just wasn’t in the newspapers that I…
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These tales come from Carlene from Lancashire who has had two memorable spooky encounters. In the first one, Carlene had moved into a house in Merseyside with her parents and four brothers and sisters. It was 1976 and behind the house was an old derelict gas/petrol station that had been abandoned a long time before.…
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We’ve all had that thing haven’t we? Where you see something out of the corner of your eye and spin around to find that there’s nothing there. Frequently, people attribute this to a ghost or a shadow person – something paranormal at least. But what is it really? Shadow people have been around in the…
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Back in 2008, I was shooting a horror film in this derelict mansion house you see in the photo above. We were shooting mostly nights so we didn’t have to black out all of the windows (I made all of my films on a budget of 50p) and had gone in early so I could…
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This one is a fabulous spooky tale. Jennie from Lancashire said this about her ghostly encounter: Night Job In 1988 I was working as a cleaner at Philips Components in the evenings whilst I was studying graphic design at Southport College. I started smoking at 15 years old so me and my friend met at…
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Two Places At Once This reader wanted to remain anonymous but has a wonderful ghostly encounter to share. The reader was working in a care home in the 2000s looking after elderly residents who needed around the clock attention. She absolutely adored her job and loved the residents she worked with. Checking Out One morning…
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One Of The Most Haunted Houses In England Now, I absolutely adore an old building, and we’re deeply blessed here in the UK to have thousands of them that are open to the public. I love the history, the architecture, and I’m quite partial to a gargoyle – so the more gothic a building is,…
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Even though Sceptic is still in its infancy, I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking me a lot of questions. I really appreciate every email I get – even the shitty ones – so keep them coming because I do try to answer them all. There are two main things that people have been…
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Comment A man murders his family, and a horror legacy is born. This November 2024, will see the 50th anniversary of Ronald De Feo Jr shooting dead his whole family at his house in Amityville, Long Island. That house stood at 112 Ocean Avenue, and this mass murder was the start of a horror legacy…
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I turned 55 on 5th March 2024, so I hit the road and headed North to Edinburgh – a birthday gift from my brother and his partner. It’s a hefty three and a half hours drive from Lancashire where I live, but the scenery was stunning, even from the motorway. I’ve spent the majority of…
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Let me tell you a story. Chances are you’ve come across aspects of this tale at some point in your life, whether it be for fun, out of curiosity, or from a genuine belief that there are people out there that can actually talk to the dead. Whichever way, this is how it all began.…
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