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Life After Death: My Observations

As readers of my articles here at Mysterious Universe will know, I write a great deal on UFOs, alien encounters, strange creatures (such as Bigfoot, the Chupacabras, and werewolves), and the Men in Black. But two areas of the paranormal I rarely ever get embroiled in are the matters…
Will Mittens the Kitten Get to Experience an Afterlife?

The social status of family pets has gone from being the dirty, hairy thing on the front porch whose primary job was to make table scraps disappear, to being full-blown members of the family who often get better treatment than their human siblings do. Our pets have…
The Haunting of Charleston’s Old City Jail

Built in 1802, the Old City Jail in Charleston, South Carolina housed some of the region’s most infamous criminals, including rebellious slaves, 19th-century pirates, and Lavinia Fisher, America’s first female serial killer. Thousands of inmates died within the structure’s imposing walls and it’s these tormented spirits that…
Capturing EVPs No Simple Matter

Capturing and analyzing electronic voice phenomena (EVP) is more involved than many amateur ghost hunters realize, and this lack of understanding results in shoddy results at best. I have to admit, until I really began researching EVPs I fell into this crowd of amateur ghost hunters armed…
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…