Ghosts & Hauntings | Mysterious Universe

Attacks of the Incubus

Demonic entities have lurked around Lana of Croatia since she was six years old. Entities would come to her in the night to give her visions or nightmares. The most frightening demons woke her to terrify her out of sleep. “They have many forms,” Lana, now 20,…
Encounters With Black-Eyed Kids

The children approach quietly, yet forcefully. They insist on coming inside your house to use the telephone or to get a drink of water. For some reason these children frighten you, and as your hand reaches up to open the door you see why. Their eyes are…
When Shadow People Attack

The first thought that crossed Steven Paynter’s five-year-old mind was that someone had broken into the house in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. “Around 1986, my mother took me around the local estate to her friend’s house,” Paynter said. “I believed that she had been burgled because her kitchen…
The Evil That Follows

David and Jerra sat cross-legged on her bed, their fingers on a Ouija board’s planchette. This night in the mid-1980s grew long as they asked questions, and the triangular plastic piece skittered under their fingertips, and spelled out answers. “We were about 16, we would play with a…
A Bigfoot Anniversary

Next month, January 2013, will mark the tenth anniversary of the surfacing of a very strange story of definitive “British Bigfoot”-style proportions – a subject on which I have a brand new book out right now. Published by CFZ Press, it’s name is Wildman! The Monstrous and…
Ghosts of the Belvoir Winery

The old brick hospital sits amongst a sprawl of elegant buildings in the rolling green hills of Clay County Missouri. Constructed in 1923, it’s not the oldest structure on the properties of the Belvoir Winery, but it might be the most haunted. Twenty-four-year-old Emily Krickle went on…
The Legendary Lady of the Lake

It’s strange how, sometimes, profound and intriguing mysteries of the supernatural variety can turn up pretty much on your very own doorstep. A perfect, paranormal case in point: the spectral young woman of White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas, where I lived from January 2004 until the summer of…
Unwanted Visitors

Something was wrong in the apartment over the gas station. Becky Deem-Sams Codner lived in this apartment in Ohio in 1985 with her husband, their daughter, two small boys – and something else. “Many times, the kids and I would hear someone open and shut the kitchen…
Monster Diary: When Mysteries Collide

The good folks at Anomalist Books – Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy – have just published my latest book, Monster Diary: On the Road in Search of Strange and Sinister Creatures. It’s a book about which they say: “MONSTER DIARY is the latest saga in Nick Redfern’s…
The Ghosts of Hazel Ridge Cemetery

Hazel Ridge Cemetery sits atop a hill in Chariton County, Missouri, off a rural blacktop highway, and at the end of a tree-shrouded gravel road. Tina and her boyfriend Randy stepped out of their car at the entrance of the cemetery, and into horror. “My boyfriend and…
Poltergeists: Teen Angst & Telekinesis

Is poltergeist activity, those unexplained noisy bangings and rappings on walls and inanimate objects like furniture, toys and stones flying through the air, levitating or materialising from nowhere, the result of troublesome ghosts or evil spirits? Or, does it have more to do with the pent-up psychic…
Musing on a British Monster

On the chilly evening of January 21, 1879, a man was walking home, with his horse-and-cart in tow, along the tree-shrouded lanes that to this day still link the hamlet of Woodcote in Shropshire to the tiny locale of Ranton, Staffordshire, England. All was as it should…