Supernatural
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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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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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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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Hell Hound Paul from Milton Keynes was living in a squat in London in the 90s. It was a big old townhouse in Ladbroke Grove with 10 occupied bedrooms and a huge communal space on the ground floor. They frequently had parties there, inviting friends from all over the capital to come and drink for…
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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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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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