Exploring the Paranormal - where the unusual is the normal

Youtube is a wonderful place to entertain yourself. It is also a good source or paranormal videos. While the great majority are faked for fun of course there are a few really worth watching and wondering about. The video I found that you have to watch twice is the one below. While it looks li...

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Ghosts don't take a winter break from making their presence known, in fact it is around Christmas time and other well known family gatherings that they seem to enjoy showing up. There are personal reports all over the internet of Christmas lights that light up when not plugged in, a sighting ...

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There are at least 5 major "ghost hunting" TV shows on TV and cable at any single time of the day nowadays. Of those shows, not one has come up with any real evidence. Sure there are a few shadows that could be something or something was seen moving but who is to say that they weren't the result...

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Located south of the capital of Oregon, Albany has a few haunted tales to tell. I had no idea that the place had its fair share of hauntings in public places. There were two of them that I found interesting. Both of them interested me since I have visited both places. First up is the site of ...

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The 10th anniversary of the collapse of the Twin Towers in NYC is on Sept 11, 2011. That brings up an interesting thought. With such a huge loss of human life, is ground zero haunted New York City is always on the go that maybe ghosts in the area would not be noticed, or would appear to look...

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I have always wondered why the major news agencies in the USA turn a blind eye to events that are being reported in other countries. For example, in Mexico and south America in the past 5 years there have been major sightings of UFO's over major cities. These UFO's were seen by thousands of peop...

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Warm summer nights mean sleeping later in the evening and leaving the windows wide open to let the cool night air in. It is during those warm still nights that people often hear things that they don't normally hear. I was visiting some family members in Pennsylvania almost 20 years ago at th...

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Each culture has their own ideas about the hereafter. Religion plays a major role in developing those ideas. Even within some religions there are variations of what heaven is thought to be. Heaven in Christianity and the Jewish faith is the ideal of the place where "good" people go after they di...

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Heather O'Rourke was the young actress that played the girl, Carol Ann, in all 3 of the Poltergeist movies. She died tragically at the age of 12 from a blocked small intestine that went misdiagnosed. During her short lifetime she appeared in numerous TV shows, commercials and other movies. ...

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There are many TV shows that have ruined the credibility of scientific research into the paranormal. The main one that comes to mind is "Most Haunted" a British based TV show that is suppose to "investigate" haunted locations. The show was canceled last year (2010) after 8 years on the air. The ...

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Humans are an odd bunch, they love scary stories and pay money to be scared out of their wits. Amusement parks cash in with scary rides and many touring companies have popped up in big cities to provide "haunted tours." So why do we love to be scared and why do ghost stories affect us the most G...

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I had something happen to me just a few days ago. I was shopping at a local feedhardware store and had a ghostly encounter. The store is modern well lit building about the size of a supermarket. The aisles are laid out like a Walmart with plenty of room to maneuver a shopping cart. The feed stor...

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I have worked at several companies that have had histories of haunted goings on. Some were older buildings and some were new buildings, so age of the buildings were not a factor. What was a factor was that each company had an employee that was devoted to that company and had died suddenly. The em...

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You can find almost anything online nowadays. Ebay has got to be a treasure trove of the weirdest stuff and when it comes to ghosts, haunted travels and just plain odd, it can't be beat. Ebay even has a paranormal section. ...

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Yep they have an app for that.......ghost hunting that is. The best part is that most of them are free. Here is a page that offers several ghost apps for your iPod and iPhone Another one that is also free is a locator for finding haunted hotels to stay at. It is called Haunted Hotels Edited ...

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