Stephen's Paranormal Phenomena Blog

Some interesting links I've found this week:
• Ten Reasons Why Bigfoot's a Bust – The Discovery Channel presents this skeptical view of why Bigfoot might not exist, making some very interesting and challenging points.
• Evidence: Poltergeist Activity – This article contains some interesting videos, one of which features Ed and Lorraine Warren and possibly genuine poltergeist activity. Also information on the famous Borley Rectory haunting.
• Curse of Tippecanoe – Also known as Tecumseh's curse, the presidential curse or zero-year curse, it describes the pattern where from 1840 to 1960 each American President who had won election in a year ending in zero died in office.
• All New Links

The September stories are now online. 27 true tales of phantoms, weird creatures, and psychic phenomena, including: "The Blue Man", "Ghost Wanted a Lift", "Angry Black Cloud", "Dry Pond Creature", "Shapeless Skinwalker", "Star Child" and more.

Top story: Dark figure haunts visitors to Oxford Castle
Plus:
• BVM apparitions, UFOs and deceptions
• The unraveling of the Bigfoot hoax
• Argentina: mutilated dog in Cordoba
• Time and reincarnation
• Black Ops psychic warriors among us
• Lost world beneath Caribbean to be explored
... more Paranormal News

Photo: Keiron Brown

Top story: Ricky Gervais encounters spooks at haunted hotel
Plus:
• Sweden's lake monster caught on video
• Boy claims a ghost ordered him to become a Satanist
• Despite hoax, Bigfoot still attracts believers
• Participants needed for online paranormal study
• "Psychic healer" controversy
• Derby haunted by poltergeists, vampires, and ghosts
... more Paranormal News

Photo: Radio Sweden

Chances are you know someone who has claimed to have seen a ghost, a strange creature or something else unexplained. Perhaps you have. So what should you do when you see something like that? It's not enough just to tell your close friends (or psychiatrist). It's important to document unexplained experiences. Here's how.

Some interesting paranormal talk around the web this week:
• Loren Coleman: Swedish Blobbogey Video
• Jason Offutt: Mom's Ghost is Still Watching
• Ghosts Among Us: Black Eyed Kids: Another Look
• Reviews of the Mysterious Kind: Deceptive Messengers
• Tina Sena: Counter Intelligence
• Richelle Hawks: Real Esoteric Fictions (Part I)
• GhostVillage: An Open Letter to the Paranormal Community
• The Paracast: UFO researcher Robert Hastings
• Coast-to-Coast: Past & Future Lives Recalled
• Whitley Strieber: A Pilot Looks at 911
• Haunted America Tours: The Father of Fortean Science

Some interesting links I've found this week:
• Five Mysterious Skulls: Dare They Be Called, Human? – These anomalies will either give you a great costume idea, inspiration to go on your own Indian Jones-style adventure, or just provide a reason for some really freaky dreams.
• Do You Want to Know When You're Going to Die? – Historical accounts of individuals who apparently prophesied the precise moment of their deaths. YouTube video.
• How To Explain the Paranormal – Anthony North provides his overall ideas on the paranormal -- a bottom line assessment of what he thinks the paranormal is, and how it works.
• All New Links

The variety of strange creatures people report seeing is amazing. Lake monsters, woods creatures, backyard intruders, river dwellers, and red-eyed beasts. Here are some unexplained and terrifying animals people have encountered all over the country.

He was a charismatic stage clairvoyant and mentalist who came to the attention of the Nazi Party during its rise to power in early 1930s Germany. Erik Jan Hanussen might have had genuine psychic gifts, but he used his fame and powers of persuasion to increase his own wealth and his standing in the corridors of political power. He might have even contributed directly to the early success of Nazi Germany. But in the end, one of his most startling prophecies would lead to his death. Read this amazing story.

Top story: Army funds "synthetic telepathy" research
Plus:
• Has NASA embargoed life on Mars?
• Bigfoot hoax head on eBay
• Local expert in war of words over Windigo
• Do dinosaurs still exist?
• Close encounters of the ghost kind
• Hundreds of So. California Bigfoot sightings reported annually
... more Paranormal News

Photo: NASA