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Category Archives: Paranormal
H.H. Holmes Is an Angry Ghost
America was an innocent place in the 1890s. A few years earlier in London’s Whitechapel district, an unknown killer called Jack the Ripper had become “the world’s first serial killer.” Jack the Ripper didn’t earn this moniker because he was / read more…
Posted in Paranormal
Tagged in H.H. Holmes / Jack the Ripper
Is Dulce Base the New Area 51?
With a population of under 3,000, the New Mexico border town of Dulce is remarkably unremarkable. Populated almost entirely by Native Americans, it has a Bureau of Indian Affairs office, a couple of churches and a very small airport. But / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Paranormal
Tagged in aliens / area 51 / dulce base / dulce base does not exist / greys / new world order / reptoids / ufo
I Predict the Mother of All Comebacks
The Republic of Ireland is facing deep financial crisis, as these robots will explain:
Posted in Paranormal / Uncategorized / Urban Legends
Tagged in abortion / austerity / Ballinspittle / financial crisis / Ireland / Marian apparitions / Savita Halappanavar / Virgin Mary
Miniature Skeleton: Not an alien
I saw this report last week. The buzz was up about Ata, a tiny (12cm) skeleton found about 10 years ago in the Atacama desert in Chile. The story of Ata has come to light with a recent UFO documentary, / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Paranormal / Science
The harm in psychics
When we go to bat against people who prey on fear, uncertainty, grief, and ignorance, such as many psychics, we often hear “What’s the harm? If it makes people feel better, let them find their comfort” or something to that / read more…
Posted in Events / New Age / Paranormal
Alexandria’s Genesis
My daughter asked me the other day if there was such a condition as “Alexandria’s Genesis.” Apparently stories of this rare, genetic mutation were going around at school and on her social media sites. The claims for this mutation are / read more…
Posted in New Age / Paranormal / Pseudoscience / Urban Legends
IMO: UFOs and Alien Visitation
In this installment of IMO (in my opinion), let’s talk a bit about UFOs and alien visitation. UFOs, in this context, doesn’t exactly mean “Unidentified Flying Objects” but rather “Alien Spacecraft” (or possibly government experimental craft, time travelers, inter-dimensional travelers, I’m going to stick / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Paranormal / Science / Space / Urban Legends
The Spawn of Satan: A Brief History of Monstrous Birth in Literature and Film
Let’s face facts. Children, especially the evil ones, are scary. With their violent crayon drawings and sinister grins, evil children are the darlings of the horror genre. Evil babies and fetuses have inspired far fewer nightmarish vignettes. A child is / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Paranormal / TV & Media
Tagged in aliens / Anne Hutchinson / disability / history / medicine / monsters / monstrous birth
Skeptics “proven wrong” in films and television
I was recently thinking about the cases in movies and television shows where the skeptic/unbeliever is shown to be wrong and that there really is some supernatural events/miracles/aliens/paranormal powers at work in the world of the show. Whether or not / read more…
Posted in Paranormal / TV & Media
Tagged in film / psychics / sylvia browne
The Black Eyed Children
The internet is rife with paranormal reports, theories, or stories. We are all familiar with the common ones; UFOs, bigfoot, psychics, ghosts. The Black Eyed Children, or Black Eyed Kids (BEK) is one such story that recently came to my / read more…
Posted in Paranormal / Urban Legends


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