Ghosts & Hauntings | Mysterious Universe

Oh The Things I’ve Seen

Having researched the paranormal for a number of years, people often ask if I’ve experienced anything otherworldly at places like Highgate Cemetery in London (home of the Highgate Vampire legend), the Jesse James House in Kearney, Missouri (active with the ghosts of Frank and Annie James), and…
Things Children See

Alaina Lathrum didn’t like her bedroom doorway at night. “I have always remembered not feeling comfortable sleeping facing the door,” she said. “I always liked sleeping with my back to my door.” This is because she knew something was there, watching her. When Alaina was six, her…
More After Death Writings of Mark Twain

Mark Twain has been pretty busy since 1910, which is impressive since that’s the year he died. On 3 December, I brought readers of Mysterious Universe the story of Emily Grant Hutchings, a teacher, journalist, and struggling novelist who conjured the author of “The Adventures of Tom…
The After Death Writings of Mark Twain

Although Spiritualism is still around, it had its heyday from the mid-1800s to the early-1900s. The religion, which had nearly eight million members across the United States and Europe during that time, attracted members of the upper and middle classes, and with the use of séances and…
The Chaos Conundrum: Reviewed

Aaron Gulyas’ new book, The Chaos Conundrum, is a thoughtful, and thought-provoking, compilation of papers on a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. Or, as it’s collectively known in circles where the unusual is typically the usual: profoundly weird stuff. A cursory glance at the titles of the…
Study claims EVPs Persist, Even in Controlled Environments

Nearly every paranormal investigation these days makes use of recording devices intended to pick up electronic voice phenomena not detectible by human ears at the time of the investigation, but how reliable is it? Before you read this, I advise you to get a beverage, perhaps a…
The Man in the Mirror

The smell was bad, bad enough to drag five-year-old Caitlen’s mother from sleep. It was the smell of death. This was the first night Caitlen’s family slept in their new Galax, Virginia, home, and they immediately knew something was wrong. “I was asleep on the pull-out couch,”…
The Growling Thing

The growling thing came to Tammy’s house when she was young. It came with a baby. Tammy was about 10 years old; the growling thing may have been ageless. Tammy’s uncle and new aunt brought their newborn to the house to visit. Everything seemed normal enough, though…
The Horror of the Horseman

As it’s right around Halloween, I thought I would share with you one of my favorite, spooky stories of all time, one which tells of a strange and creepy incident that occurred in southern England on a cold winter’s night back in 1924. But, first, and before we get to…
The Case of The Haunted Library, or Dial ‘M’ For Marketing?

Libraries are evolving from the old book warehouses of the past into public portals to the age of digital media. This could be bad news for the world’s many library ghosts who might not be computer literate, or even be able to operate a touch screen due…
Annabelle: The True Story of a Demonic Doll

The smash hit motion picture “The Conjuring” — based on the harrowing story of the Perron family’s encounter with an evil entity and how they were saved by controversial demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren — has earned tens of millions of dollars and spawned as many nightmares…
Ghost Cats

The cat under my feet almost made me stumble. I grabbed the wall so I wouldn’t land face first on the living room floor, the dark figure skittering away out of the corner of my eye. Our cat Smoky had the habit of walking under my feet,…