Tag Archives: paranormal

I’m Owl About Them Owls

After reading Alan Garner’s “The Owl Service” recently I went on to learn about the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd. Then I went on a deep-dive into the folklore surrounding owls…

The Crow King and the Tengu

Whilst I was halfway through writing a book of short stories (still a work in progress) about a particular character, “The Crow King” – a sort of minor bird-god – that I found out about the Tengu, and noticed a bizarre and uncanny resemblance. I thought I’d share my findings and how this serendipity occurred here.

Most Haunted Places in the UK and Its Environs

Some ghostly and historical tidbits about the most haunted locations in the country in which I fester (and places surrounding that).

The Coldness of Ghosts

A sudden drop in temperature is often associated with hauntings. The question is why? We also look at Mary King’s Close.

Ghostly Force Fields

How come ghosts are associated with high EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies)? Do the EMFs provide the “ghosts” or do the ghosts cause higher EMFs? Let’s investigate…

Poems & Writings for the Dark Season

A selection of poems and excerpts for Halloween and the dark Gothic season that falls afterwards along with website and YouTube channel recommendations

Ghosts and Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious

Whilst I was ferreting about in a graveyard testing Ghost-hunting apps on my phone last week, one of the apps mentioned that ghosts may be part of Carl Jung’s “Collective Unconscious”. So… who was Carl Jung, and what had he got to say about ghosts? Read on to find out. Carl Jung This fellow wasContinue reading “Ghosts and Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious”

Testing Ghost-Hunting Apps

Last time I posted, I covered old-fashioned and modern tools that paranormal investigators use when visiting supposedly haunted locations. As I said I would, I have trialled a few iPhone apps that claim to detect presences and enable the layperson to communicate with entities from the “other side.” To start with I used the appsContinue reading “Testing Ghost-Hunting Apps”

Analog and Digital Ghost Hunting

Comparing old-fashioned and modern methods of capturing spirit phenomena. While the Spiritualism movement was at its peak in the 19th century and early 20th, mediums and other folks looking to contact the dead or otherwise prove the existence of ghosts used a few different tools: Spirit boards or Ouija boards Originally sold as a typeContinue reading “Analog and Digital Ghost Hunting”

Adventures in Automatic Writing

otherwise known as Psychography Automatic writing is claimed to be a method of communicating with spirits, or the subconscious, using writing implements and often a trance state. The belief is that spirits take control of the medium’s writing-hand to put words and marks on paper, sometimes in a foreign language or in a strange alphabet.Continue reading “Adventures in Automatic Writing”

Is it Kirlian or Aura Photography?

Back in 1939, Semyon Kirlian, (a Soviet electrical engineer and scientist) and his wife Valentina discovered a bizarre photographic phenomenon. Someone in Krasnodar Hospital was receiving a treatment which involved a high-frequency electrical generator. Semyon and Valentina noticed that whenever the electrodes were near the patient’s skin, there was a glowing light similar to theContinue reading “Is it Kirlian or Aura Photography?”