Mirror, Mirror On the Wall- Strange Tales of Mysterious Haunted and Cursed Mirrors

Mirrors have had legends, lore, superstition and myths tied to them for pretty much as long as they have been around. The ancient Romans believed that they reflected a person’s soul and could bring great strife if they were misused, and indeed many other cultures have various negative, supernatural qualities attached to mirrors, such as they can suck out one’s soul, be portents of death, or offer glimpses into some other dimension. For instance, the Chinese once believed that what we saw in mirrors were other realms of existence. In many cultures, mirrors are used for communication with spirits, and it is thought they serve as portals or doorways to the spirit world, that they are some barrier between the world of the living and that of the dead, through that veil that separates us. Mirrors were even used in divination. For instance “catoptromancy” and “enoptromancy” are practices in which mirrors are used to capture the reflection of the moon for the purpose of seeing the future. It is perhaps this widespread belief that has led to the phenomenon of haunted mirrors, so common around the world that various disparate cultures follow the superstition of covering mirrors at certain times, in particular after a death, in order to prevent whatever is on the other side from peeking in or coming through, or even to stop a soul from becoming trapped within the mysterious mirror world. Mirrors are weird, and this is reflected in plenty of legends, lore, and urban legends, as well as actual alleged cases of haunted mirrors. Let’s take a look.

Our first account begins back in 1817, when Sara Mathilda inherited her father's plantation, called the Myrtles Plantation, on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, in Louisiana, along with her husband Clark Woodruff and their three children. With 20 rooms and its wraparound veranda, it appears almost like a fortress atop a hill, and at the time it was bustling with activity, mostly done by slave labor. One of these slaves was a woman by the name of Chloe, who for many years particularly fell victim to Woodruff’s cruelty, including being routinely beaten, verbally berated, and even having her ears cut off after being caught eavesdropping, the injuries of which she would hide with a green turban. By all accounts, Chloe had a rough time at the plantation, which would push her into the dark realm of thoughts of revenge on her masters. 

When one of the Woodruffs’ daughters had her 9th birthday party, Chloe took her chance at revenge. While making the cake, she laced it with poisonous oleander leaves, depending on who you ask either to outright kill the family or make them sick so that she could nurse them back to health and increase her standing. Whatever the case may be, the dose was lethal enough that it killed Sara and her daughter, and the retribution was fierce. When it was found out that Chloe had been the one to carry out the poisoning, it was strangely the other slaves who would revolt against her for giving them a bad name, tying her up, hanging her, and then tossing her lifeless body into the Mississippi River. However, Chloe doesn’t seem to have ever really left.

Ever since her death the Myrtles Plantation has been absolutely plagued with paranormal activity, most of it said to be caused by Chloe, and one of these is the haunted mirror at the plantation. A large mirror hangs in the main hall of the plantation, and guests have reportedly seen not only Chloe complete with her green turban, but also the ghosts of the murdered Mrs. Woodruff and daughter, as well as the spirits of other people who have supposedly been murdered at the house during its dark history. In addition, there are often reportedly heard voices, weeping, and even screams coming from the mirror, and it has the disturbing habit of distorting the images reflected in it. There are also handprints that routinely appear on the mirror even though no one is allowed to touch it, and another creepy feature is that it is sometimes reported that the wallpaper reflected in the mirror is not the same as what is actually on the walls. What is going on with this mirror? Who knows?

Another early account of a haunted or cursed mirror takes us back to the 20th century and the well-known actor Bela Lugosi. In his time, Lugosi was known for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic Dracula (1931), Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956. Besides being a famous actor in his time, Lugosi was also allegedly heavily into the occult and the world of psychic powers such as ESP and clairvoyance. One of his odder practices was that of gazing at inanimate objects for long periods, a practice known as “scrying,” in particular using a grand mirror he owned, in order to gain messages from spirits from beyond. When Lugosi died, the house was owned by criminal lawyer and part-time producer, director, writer, and actor Frank Saletri, who was mysteriously murdered in the room where the mirror hung, only adding to its ominous reputation. The mirror now hangs at the museum of Ghost Adventures host Zach Bagans, where it shows ghostly images and has even been claimed to cause adverse physical reactions in those who peer into it, to the point that it has even been claimed that 911 has had to be called in the past. Is any of this true, or is it all just a spooky story?

Another supposedly cursed and haunted mirror in the possession of a paranormal museum is “The Dark Mirror,” owned by Greg Newkirk and his Traveling Museum of the Paranormal. One of the most terrifying tales of a supposed haunted mirror in modern times revolves around a type of mirror used for scrying, that is, as already stated, using certain surfaces, usually reflective ones, in order to divine information from the spirit world. One form of scrying involves the use of what is called a “black mirror,” essentially a mirror that has had its surface coated with black paint to make it opaque or a solid dark. If one knows what they are doing, they can supposedly go into a trance and gaze into the black surface, where spirits will appear to them and even communicate with them, similarly to a Ouija board. It is considered by some to be a rather dangerous way to contact the spirit world, as the black mirror is said to act sort of like a portal, and there is very little one can do to control what comes in or out of it. Those who have used black mirrors have told of having migraines or other health issues, seeing demons, having potent nightmares, and experiencing violent paranormal activity, and these objects are generally considered to be not for novices.

It is one of these ominous black mirrors that one day came into the possession of The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and the Occult, and the story of how they acquired it is quite strange. According to Greg Newkirk, owner of the museum, they were approached one day by a woman he calls “Sarah,” whose mother had purchased the mirror at a scrying event at a convention for psychics. According to this woman, her mother had then become obsessed with using the mirror at all hours, constantly in a trance gazing within it, to the point where it became rather worrying. The woman asked to see the mirror, and found that her mother had covered it and locked it away in the closet, calling it “evil.” Not knowing what to do with it, Sarah contacted Newkirk and offered to donate it to the museum in order to get it off of her hands for good. Curious, the Newkirks put it in their collection, and considering it was surrounded by various other haunted or cursed objects they didn’t really think much of it. However, this particular object would prove to be far more than they had bargained for.

Things started to get weird when they put it on public display for the first time at a paranormal event, where a visitor came forward wanting to try it out. According to Newkirk, they typically allow museum guests to touch or try out various objects on display at their own risk, and so they let the woman come and take a look. She allegedly took one look into the mirror and then slammed it down with a terrified expression, claiming that she had seen her own decomposing corpse staring back at her and leaving in a distraught state before she could be questioned any further. This prevented almost anyone else from trying it out, and the object started being called “The Dark Mirror” for the rest of the event and then on. Some were brave enough to try it and had similarly volatile experiences with it, telling of seeing all manner of horrific things within its frame, and so Newkirk decided it was best to stop allowing people to use it for the time being so that he could figure out what was going on. He himself refused to look into it, as he was starting to suspect that this object was potentially very powerful and dangerous, but he would claim that he had the distinct feeling that it was drawing him to it, telling Week in Weird:

“The mirror wasn’t quite the same when we brought it home, or maybe I wasn’t. After we had unpacked our collection and returned the items to their usual places, I began to notice myself staring “off into space”, and when snapped back to awareness, realizing that I’d been staring at the covered mirror the whole time. I’d started to feel a strong urge to gaze into the black glass. Maybe I was just subconsciously weirded out by the disturbing reports of those who’d gazed, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the mirror wanted me to use it. Whether it was own mind playing tricks on me or not, I resisted.”

The Dark Mirror was soon after put back on display and people were once again allowed to gaze into its inscrutable surface, although they were warned against it, and more reports of strange experiences with it began to pour in. Some people saw nothing at all, others saw twisted shapes, black masses, or demonic figures, yet others saw themselves, but deformed, withered, distorted, or dead, and still others saw visions that were so horrifying that they incited panic attacks, the witnesses reeling away from the object as if it was filled with venomous spiders, including people that were at first highly skeptical. Some of these witnesses also described feeling a sort of electrical current flow through them as they held the mirror, headaches, dizziness, and in one case a woman who said that her mouth had filled with the taste of blood. Animals also reportedly would not go near it, with Newkirk’s own cats staying well away from it and often staring at it with a look of confusion, and it seems that every night the mirror would be covered, only to be found with the veil removed every morning. When Newkirk set up a camera to aim at the mirror at night, the memory card was mysteriously erased every time.

These incidents with the mirror continued and seemed to get more intense as time went on. Paranormal investigators who came to look at it were made believers when they stared into it to see all manner of frightening things that incited everything from exclamatory profanity to visible terror, and it supposedly tends to freak out just about everyone who dares look into it. To make it all worse, Newkirk has claimed that the mere presence of the mirror seems to magnify the properties of the other haunted objects in their possession, and all of this was enough to make them decide to take the mirror odd of display and keep it tightly wrapped and locked away in a chest with a crucifix and rosary. What is going on with the Dark Mirror? Why does it have such intense activity around it? Greg Newkirk has given his own thoughts on the matter, saying:

“After coming into possession of the Dark Mirror and watching hundreds of people have their own terrifying experiences while using it, it’s our belief that the piece isn’t exactly “haunted” per se, but an object that seems to feed on human interaction, even fear. In the beginning, The Dark Mirror was just another object with an intriguing story behind it, but as we began to feed it a steady stream of freaked out experiencers in haunted locations across the country, it became pretty easy to see that the mirror was affected by all the attention. It took Sarah’s mother several weeks of regular, individual scrying sessions for her interactions with the mirror to come to a head, but for three months we’ve been feeding it a veritable all-you-can-eat buffet.

It’s as if the Dark Mirror is acting as a kind of battery. After each event, the phenomena that the mirror exhibits gets a little harder to ignore, leading me to believe that by allowing the brave and the curious gaze into the mirror, not to mention doing so in some of the world’s most haunted places, we’re “charging it”. In turn, it seems like the “juice” gets used not just by the Dark Mirror, but by other objects as well.”

Through this all, Newkirk has refused to look into the mirror himself, and after keeping it locked away for some time it has gone on the road once again for display, kept locked in its chest when not in use. Whether showing it again is a wise move or not remains to be seen, but there seems to be more than enough people willing to risk trying it out. What is going on with the Dark Mirror? How is it able to have so much power? Is it, as Newkirk believes, a sort of “battery” that feeds off of those who use it? Is it haunted or cursed? Or is it, like the stories of other black mirrors go, some sort of portal to another spiritual realm, a gateway for forces beyond our understanding? Or is it all just the mind playing tricks, cued up for strangeness from all of the spooky stories orbiting it? There is only one way to find out, and that is to take a look at it yourself.

There are plenty more stories of haunted or cursed mirrors doing the rounds out there. Moving along we come to a report from Supernatural Magazine, with a witness who claims his experience happened at a haunted bed and breakfast in upstate New York that dates all the way back to 1845. Here within this old building is apparently a mirror that is very active with paranormal phenomena, and the witness says of this mirror:

“The mirror in question here is an old Victorian-style which just happened to come from an old Victorian home just down the street from the hotel. The owners of the mirror had been having strange things happen, odd lights would come in and out of the mirror, and they would see unknown faces gazing back at them. Growing more and more uncomfortable with these unusual sights it was decided to take the mirror down the street and see if the owners of the hotel would like to give it a good home.
 
They were delighted to be asked, and graciously accepted the gift. The antique was donated to the hotel and was hung in a place of honor in what is known to be the most haunted room in the building. The beautiful Victorian antique was placed on the top of an old dresser which was already in the room. It was decided they would just leave the mirror to its own devices and wait to see what, if anything, happened…without mentioning it to their guests. It didn’t take long before the mirror started to show signs of strange activity. Things began to happen, small at first with odd balls of light moving about the edges, until over time the energy began to increase and what appeared to be faces started to appear.”

The witness decided to get some people together and try what he calls “mirror divination,” which seems to entail trying to communicate with whatever spirit is using the mirror as a portal. The hotel apparently has quite a few ghosts roaming about, including that of several children and a mobster. It was thought that at least a few of these ghosts might be using the mirror as a gateway to enter the hotel, so they arranged a ritual to try and contact them through it. The witness says of this:

“During the night’s investigation it was suggested we try a session with the mirror, so a group of about 6 guests then proceeded to the haunted room to try our luck with the art of mirror divination. The first volunteers to step up had some success when the reflections seemed to change as their faces appeared to get older. After a few minutes someone suggested, “Willy, why don’t you give it a try.” I had never tried anything like this before and immediately agreed to take my turn.
 
Only a few minutes had passed before changes began to take place. The first thing to occur was that my hair which was very long at the time, seemed to be getting shorter and my face began to transform into female features. As I stood motionless in front of the mirror with five witnesses seated on the bed to my left the strange transformation proceeded. Over the next few minutes the image of my reflection made the change from a 58-year-old man to that of a young teenage girl. Everyone in the room was fascinated with the strange image in the mirror as the young girl became more and more clear but no one was prepared for what would happen next.
 
Everyone was sitting quietly transfixed on the image, while I stood motionless staring straight into the mirror not moving a muscle. Suddenly the image of the young girl turned and looked straight at the people on the bed and the mouth began to move as if trying to talk to them. It was at this point when some of the group became very uncomfortable and started to leave. The session then came to an end when the face disappeared.”

What was going on here? One of the most common types of experience of haunted mirrors are figures, shadows, apparitions, and entities other than the person in the room appearing in a mirror or sometimes even passing through. There are many reports of this happening, such as the case with one commenter named Destiny Glaubitz on the site Quora, who says she is a spiritual adviser and explains one of her cases:

“One of my cases: A young woman loved mirrors, she would go to yard sales, estate sales for unusual mirrors. One day she found an old, beautiful mirror from ceiling to floor. She had a sensation something was trying to get her attention, until one she said looking at the window “show yourself to me and talk”. This was a bad no no to say the least. Her family started arguing, getting sick as well as the pets. Things started moving or disappearing, at that point she contacted me. When I went in found out through psychometry, a form of a tool/technique to communicate with spirit. We found out that the person who owned it was a very negative, vain person. When this person passed away the mirror was sold to my client, and the negative energy and spirit of this person was attached to the mirror. When my client said what she said to the mirror, she release the energy/spirit into her home. The spirit fed off the negative energy becoming stronger, which allowed it to become a poltergeist. I had to do a cleansing on the whole family, the pets, the home and most of all trap the spirit within the mirror again through a technique. After the cleansing the mirror was thrown away properly so it couldn’t be used ever again. Once that was done the family, the pets, the home was back to normal and healthy again.”

In another account, we allegedly have what seems to be some sort of shadow person or even a demon using a mirror as a portal. The witness was apparently in his bedroom one night, which features a full length mirror, when he saw lurking within it a tall figure in black clothing and a Quaker hat, which supposedly stepped right out into the real world. The harrowing report says:

“The being was wearing a long, black cloak and a Quaker hat. He had glowing red eyes. He floated along the floor, three inches above the ground. No feet could be seen. Yet he was present in a total physical, 3-dimensional form. The man whom I am talking about was fully awake. This was no dream. The being asked the man if he would like to join them. The being was meant to be the man’s spirit guide for life. In return, the man would receive all of the material things that he could ever wish for – fame as a movie star, immense riches, the girl for his wife, everything that he had been programmed to desire. The being was not there to sell the man on the benefits, he was just stating what the deal was. The being with the Quaker hat used the mirror as a portal. A portal is an unseen vortex that connects two places through time and space, and even dimensions or other realities or timelines.”

In yet another report, the witness claims to have suffered extremely vivid, morbidly terrifying nightmares, and this seems to have all come to a head when he realized just what the origin of the nightmares was and from where they were spewing forth. According to him, these nightmares had started when he had moved into a house with plenty of mirrors in the bedroom, and besides glimpsing shadow shapes moving around within them he believed they were unleashing something negative into his life. He says:

“The nightmares started when we moved into a house with mirrors covering the closet in the master bedroom. The mirrors were an open portal to other dimensions! I knew from feng shui that one should not have mirrors in the bedroom, because it causes restless energy. I realize now that mirrors do more than just increase the energy in a room. They let in evil spirits. We were renting, and because the mirrors were on folding doors of the closet, I could not work out how to cover them, and did not realize at the time how important it was that I do so.
 
Then, a year later, when we moved into another house, the one we were in at time of writing, I hoped that the nightmares would stop. They did not. This time while there were no mirrors in the bedroom, the idiots who designed the house did not put a door between the bedroom and the bathroom, just an open arch. Since we were renting, there wasn’t much I thought I could do. Part of the large vanity mirror looked almost directly into the bedroom, and I ignored the part of my mind that told me it was important to do something about it. Once I realized that the bathroom mirror was letting something in that was causing my nightmares, I had two choices – cover up the mirror, or put bible verses on it, similar to the way the mezuzahs protect doorways.”

Another quite frightening account of a haunted mirror comes from Pagans and Witches, from a witness who says that her sister had moved into a house that had had quite a lot of paranormal activity within. Shadowy apparitions, light bulbs exploding for no reason, disembodied footsteps, anomalous odors, all this and more became common occurrences. It got to the point where she could not sleep alone at night, and she finally decided to move out of the accursed place, convinced that it was haunted. It then became apparent why, as there was an old, apparently haunted mirror stored in the attic, of which it is said:

“The time finally came for Sally to move out. She began by moving all her furniture into the family home. A lot of the furniture belonged to both my grandparents and the previous tenants. One of these was a big, beautiful oval mirror with a white frame. It was being stored in our hallway for the time being, along with some other furniture.
 
One day, I was sitting in my living room when I heard a loud crash. Sally (who had already moved in) and I went out into the hall, where my father was standing at the end. "What happened?" I asked. "The mirror broke," he said. "It just collapsed."
 
The mirror had fallen on its own whilst he was in another room, he said. He took it outside and placed it in the trash. Then he came back in and asked Sally if she wanted to keep the frame. "I found this too," he said, "Behind the glass." He handed her a piece of paper. It was a news article, from 1985, about some football match. The whole article, however, was written in ITALIAN. That's when Sally remembered "Scopata"... I asked where the mirror had come from. Did it belong to our grandparents? A previous tenant? Or did she buy it herself?
 
"I found it in their attic," she said, "I took it down and painted it and hung it in my room.” My father told us it belonged to the mother of the last tenant, let's call her Maria. Maria loved to go traveling the world, and had accumulated a lot of stuff from different places. She had asked her son (the previous tenant) if she could store some of her stuff in their attic. But she forgot to take some of it back. The mirror was one of these things.”

In a report from Reddit user “chaos_bolt,” the witness claims to have had paranormal experiences while staying in the master bedroom of a relative’s house, including disembodied whispers, shadow figures lurking about, and waking up with mysterious bruises on the body. The witness says:

“I am not sure if it was shadow people, a ghost or a poltergeist more specifically that I was dealing with but whatever it was, it was very hostile. I lived there for about a year and ended up moving into a new apartment right before the pandemic started. Things were pretty normal here up until the last two weeks. I could feel things getting tenser in the air around here but didn't think much of it. Then I was startled awake by a grown man standing next to my bed that I had never seen before who I believed wanted to harm me. It took me 3 hours to calm down after that because it was SO realistic. He was standing between me and my mirror. I blinked a few times and he vanished. But that scared the hell out of me. So I started researching online and it turns out that mirrors next to your bed are a BIG NO NO because they can act as a portal to the other side. I also had that same mirror next to my bed in the old house where this activity started occurring the first time.

I had seen many shadow people before since I was a kid but this is the first time I had seen someone that was so realistic. I actually checked my apartment over after to make sure there wasn't an intruder. As a precaution, I am going to throw away the mirror. I have also placed black tourmaline and many other protective crystals around my apartment and put some salt down in my room... but even moving the mirror to another location has seemed to lighten the energy in the bedroom tremendously. Hoping to completely clear out the apartment of whatever it was in the next few weeks & I will never place a mirror next to my bed ever again.”

This harkens back to a custom in the Victorian era, when mirrors, especially ones in the bedroom, were routinely covered when not in use to prevent entities from stepping through them into our world. Another Reddit account comes from user “Shaniquadontlivehur,” who says her experiences happened shortly after moving into a furnished rental apartment with her roommate. The apartment featured a mirror on the wall opposite the fireplace with a mirror above the mantle. The witness explains:

“The mirror opposite the fireplace came from the basement and was hung up by the girl that lived there before I moved in. So I take the mirror off the wall as we are putting our tv in that spot and prop it up against the wall perpendicular to the wall it was hung until we can figure out where to put it. This is when we started to notice the weird things happening and hadn’t quite realized the mirror could be the issue.

There is a cot in the basement that was set up apparently by the owner of the house if he ever came to town (weird in my opinion, but whatever) well the lights above the cot randomly stopped working and that corner of the basement just started having an eerie vibe. I tell my roommate this and we go down to investigate. What we found scared the shit out of us. Bare footprints on the cot seemingly pacing back and forth side to side. No one in their right mind would walk barefoot down there as it’s dirty and there’s been rats. We measured our feet next to the prints and while roughly the same length they were way to wide to be either of ours. A couple days later I am down in the basement doing laundry, I make my dog come down there with me because it’s so creepy. He wouldn’t stop staring at the corner containing the cot and I felt I was being watched. A moment later the lights above the washer and dryer started flickering so I got the hell out of there.

The same day later in the afternoon I’m standing in the living room on the phone with my brother talking about work with my back to the mirror propped against the floor. My dog starts growling and aggressive barking. My initial thought was both mine and my roommates dog were behind me fighting over a toy so I snapped at them to stopped and when I turned around it was just my dog staring into the mirror, but not looking at his reflection (he’s 5yrs old and has seen his reflection 1000’s of times it doesn’t concern him.) so that freaked me out and is when I started connecting dots. I had a Beta fish in a tank on one side of the mirror and my roommate had a cool palm tree like plant on the other side. My fish died suddenly and the plant wasn’t doing well no matter her efforts. I have to note I had been telling my roommate that the mirror seemed warped because I felt I looked horrible and fat when I saw myself in it walking into the room. She apparently had also noticed this.

So I bring up my mirror theory to her and she immediately grabs the mirror and puts it in our detached garage on the back yard. We both felt better about this until the next day. I went out back to smoke and it was raining to I opened the garage door for some shelter. A fluorescent bulb was on the floor in the middle of the garage as though it had fallen.. but it was not on a place it would’ve seeming landed and completely unbroken. It’s like someone laid it there. I look up see the mirror facing me and gtfo. I explain this to my roommate and we immediately grab the mirror to walk it across the street to goodwill, super convenient in this moment.. she’s holding it by the wire it hung on for years and the moment we reach the edge of the property the wire snaps and the mirror fell to the ground without breaking (this thing did not want to leave.) we get it across the street and leave it. The next day the the lights in the basement started working and we had no other weird experiences.”

This brings up the question of what does one do if they have a haunted mirror. Do they throw it away, destroy it, have it exorcized, or what? This was also a conundrum faced by Reddit user “KatyRagan,” who succinctly titles her post on the matter “Haunted mirror: Do I get rid of it, or do I have to put whatever was inside, back in?” She explains of what happened:

“About a year ago, my significant other and I found an old mirror in our attic. It was part of a vanity set; it’s an oval mirror, about 5 feet tall, with a flat base to sit on its table. We needed a mirror for our room, so we brought it to our basement bedroom. A few weeks after the mirror was brought in, I started having night terrors, or waking up absolutely terrified feeling as though something was watching me sleep. A few times, I felt the bed move. I’ve always been a scaredy cat, so I disregarded this for months thinking I was imagining it.

Then, about 4 months in, I woke with the overwhelming feeling of being watched again. I had moved my head to the foot of the bed, trying to find a comfortable position to fall asleep again, when I saw something moving in the mirror. Nothing was moving in the room. I immediately covered the mirror with a sheet, and all was well for a few months. Once in a while you’d find that the sheet had been knocked off, but I attributed that to my significant other knocking it off as he left for work; or simple gravity. Regardless, I always knew. I’d wake with terror and look around, and sure enough, the sheet would be off of the mirror again.

At one point, I came in to find my SO had taken the sheet off of the mirror and simply faced it towards the wall; or so I had thought. It turns out he had thought that I had moved the mirror, and neither of us asked questions. One day I opened the door to find the mirror on the ground, face up. It’s about a 30+ pound mirror, and it seems it would have broken on impact; it was almost as if it had been gently placed on the ground. That day, we fully wrapped it in the sheet and moved it outside of our room in a small cubby between a large toolbox and the wall.

I haven’t felt anything bad in our room since, but there is still a feeling of being watched in the rest of the basement at times. This morning, for the first time ever, the door to my bedroom opened and closed again as I watched. The mirror is only about 3ft away from the door. I can only imagine this has something to do with the mirror again. Do I get rid of the mirror and call it a day, or do I have to put whatever WAS in the mirror back again before I do so. I don’t know what to do. Please help us.”

What do you think? This is all spooky, indeed, and there is the prevalent belief among paranormal enthusiasts that it is always best to get rid of any mirrors left behind by previous tenants precisely to keep this sort of thing from happening. Such spooky tales and accounts are numerous, and there are so many bizarre paranormal phenomena blamed on mirrors that many paranormal investigators actually go about covering them or making sure they are spiritually cleansed before proceeding. Considering the plenitude of stories and the various pieces of myth and lore surrounding mirrors, it seems worth considering just why this might be. Is this because spirits are truly drawn to such objects and they are truly doorways to other places? Could they perhaps provide passage from other dimensions into ours, as many ancient peoples once believed? Or is it merely tricks or the imagination and perception within these reflective surfaces? Why should there be so much lore and mystery surrounding mirrors? No matter what the answer may be, mirrors have and will probably always continue to conjure up stories of the weird and the paranormal, and it gives one something to think about the next time you are looking into one. You never know what might be looking right back.