Haunted Smart Home Devices: When Cameras, and Sensors Feel Paranormal
Your smart speaker said a name. Not a word triggered by its wake word, not a response to anything you asked. Just a name, quietly,…
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Cursed Jewelry Stories: Rings, Lockets, and the Fear of Carried Energy
It was passed down without ceremony, always in a small cloth bag, always with the same instruction: don't put it on. No one in the…
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How to Document a Paranormal Experience Without Jumping to Conclusions
You captured something on your phone during the investigation. A shape in the doorway. It lasted about four seconds and then it was gone. You…
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Haunted Video Game Glitches: Why Players Turn Bugs Into Ghost Stories
The cartridge was secondhand, bought from a garage sale for two dollars. You loaded it to find a single save file already on the game.…
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Yowie Sightings in Australia: Wildman Folklore Beyond Bigfoot
Australia is not supposed to have a Bigfoot. The continent's mammalian fauna developed in isolation after the separation from Gondwana, producing an ecosys...
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Wampus Cat Folklore: Appalachian Creature Stories and Night Woods Mystery
The Wampus Cat has several origin stories and none of them are exactly reassuring. In one version, widespread in Tennessee and the Carolinas, it is…
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How to Bless a Haunted House: Religious and Folk Traditions Explained
You have checked the wiring, ruled out pests, installed a carbon monoxide detector, and had the HVAC inspected. The activity has continued. You are not…
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Are Ghosts Real? Scientific Explanations for Common Experiences
Surveys consistently show that between 40 and 50 percent of adults in the United States report believing in ghosts, and a meaningful percentage report having…
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Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp: South Carolina’s Clawed Cryptid Legend
On the night of June 29, 1988, seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis was changing a flat tire on a rural road near Bishopville, South Carolina, when he…
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Skinwalker vs Cryptid: Why Some Legends Should Not Be Treated the Same
This is an article about a distinction that matters.
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