Ghosts & Hauntings | Mysterious Universe

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…
Fireballs and Folklore

Even the most cursory study of worldwide folklore reveals that numerous, if not all, cultures, have stories attached to them of magical balls of floating light, seemingly under intelligent control, or perhaps even supernatural, sentient forms of life in their very own right. They travel the skies…
The Legend of Workman Chapel

The crumbling one-room chapel sits just off a gravel road in the north-west corner of Missouri, surrounded by cornfields, and shadowed by gnarled trees. Pastor John Workman built this chapel in 1901. Sometime in the 1950s, the area farm families that worshipped wed, and mourned in this small…
A Visitor in the Night

During the day the house was oppressive, but when night fell, it grew terrifying. Barbara’s husband left for the early morning shift around 2 a.m., and as she lay on her side in bed, the sound of his vehicle disappearing into the distance, she knew she wasn’t…
The Cold Stare of The Priest

Something dark lurks aboard the train cars of San Francisco, California’s, Bay Area Rapid Transit system. Numerous reports of a dark, ominous figure stalking lone passengers have been reported throughout the past ten years. This is one story. Unusual cold saturated the Bay Area in December 2009,…