Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity, news and views from around the world

GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS & POLTERGEISTS:

The book of ghosts: Eerie faces and messages discovered in ancient medieval manuscript of King Arthur and Merlin
Stunned researchers have found one of the UK's most important manuscripts is full of ghosts. Dating from 1250, The Black Book of Carmarthen is the earliest surviving medieval manuscript written solely in Welsh, and contains some of the earliest references to Arthur and Merlin.


Now, researchers have found a series of hidden faces and message in it...

Is Jessica Chastain's new apartment haunted?
Interstellar star Jessica Chastain is reported to have spent $5.1 million on an apartment in New York that features four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, but according to previous residents from the Osborne Apartments in Manhattan, there are several spirits living in the building...

Crew thinks Bob Fosse’s ghost lives in Broadway theater
The Lyceum, oldest continuous Broadway house, seems to have a ghost. It inhabits the upper balcony’s cheap seats. This thing visits during musical numbers of the current show, “The Visit.” Strange sounds from above. Like over the catwalk. Actors smell cigarette smoke. The backstage crew thinks it’s the spirit of Bob Fosse...

13 haunted places around the world that will give you the creeps
Haunted places are nothing new, and there is not always concrete proof that such places are the hunting grounds of ghouls and poltergeists. Welcome to the most haunted places on Earth with histories of violent deaths and stories of souls who roam the realm of the living in search of revenge...

WEIRD CREATURES:

Farmer’s horror as monster mutilates new lambs
A farmer is living in fear of a prowler who has been mutilating his sheep in the dark of night. Almost two decades after the first incident, Gerald McLaughlin wakes every morning in dread of what is to greet him in the fields...

Lake monsters: What they aren't
They see them here, they see them there; they are - lake monsters. It might be an idea to consider some of the proposed explanations. For this, we could start with two propositions...

LIFE AFTER DEATH:

A glimpse of the afterlife through near-death experiences
New science about near-death experiences is eliciting strong responses from believers and the skeptics...

TIME & SPACE:

Google spots UFO ‘disc’ on Mars in NASA image
A new UFO on Mars has been sighted in NASA images compiled by Google — and easily accessible to anyone using the Google Earth app, in its “Google Mars” setting. Whatever this strange disc-shaped structure that appears to be “parked” on the Martian surface turns out to be, one thing is for sure. The object is enormous...

Aliens and UFOs at world's deepest lake
Since ancient times, the vast Lake Baikal has been known as deeply mysterious, but in the closing years of the Soviet era, and since, it has been the location of a number of alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs...

HUMAN MYSTERIES:

Woman hit by yellow taxi now has severe phobia of all things yellow
A 51-year-old woman who was hit by a yellow Hackney taxi and suffered a broken hip also developed a curious fear of all things yellow following the accident. Lorraine Cobourn from Oakwood in the UK, can’t even face a banana since the accident as the yellowness suddenly scares her...

ANGELS & DEMONS:

The mysterious exorcism of Robbie Mannheim
One of the most terrifying “real exorcisms” there is revolves around a young boy, and went on to transcend a mere exorcism, to influence the whole public consciousness of exorcisms in general and serve as a direct inspiration for what has been often exalted as one of the scariest movies ever put to film. This is the real case behind the film The Exorcist...

MEDIA – BOOKS, MOVIES, TV:

I was terrified making new poltergeist drama The Enfield Haunting
The Mr Turner actor says playing the role of a paranormal investigator made him worried he'd have spooky experiences of his own...