Exploring paranormal beliefs in subjects with a history of trauma, abuse, and/or neglect. If you grew up like I did, moving from place to place, even country to country, you know what instability feels like. If you grew up ignored, abused, or traumatized by dysfunctional parents, you know what fear feels like: fear of intimacy,Continue reading “What if Your Paranormal Experiences are Connected to Childhood Emotional Abuse?”
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Swinger Road: The Demonic Proves its Power
A terrifying demonic presence proves its power to the brothers of “Paranormal Nightmare”.
If You Are Haunted
We tend to think that ghosts are either souls “out there” that have drifted into our homes and sacred spaces, or that something about us, our emotions, have disturbed the physical world. We divide our reality into neat categories: us and them. Spirit and matter. Light and dark. Our energy versus their energy. When itContinue reading “If You Are Haunted”
Is the Paranormal a New Religion? Peter Laws and the Spiritual Quest Culture
I rarely ask anyone to watch a video, but if you are interested in the paranormal, if you consider yourself to be on a spiritual quest, if you are neither religious nor atheistic but consider yourself spiritually inclined or fascinated by the supernatural, then please, watch the video below. In it, Peter Laws talks aboutContinue reading “Is the Paranormal a New Religion? Peter Laws and the Spiritual Quest Culture”
Time, Ghosts, and the Haunting of Corriganville
Corriganville Ranch/Park is hidden in the east hills around Simi Valley, in a gulley between mountain ranges. It was a movie ranch, a theme park, and finally a regional park. The opening of Disneyland in 1955 killed off the theme park, and fires, distance from Los Angeles, and complicated land negotiation deals prevented any furtherContinue reading “Time, Ghosts, and the Haunting of Corriganville”
La Casa de las Caras: Believe it or Not, Something Weird is Happening Here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lmez_Faces In 1971, María Gómez Cámara saw a clear face form in her cement floor, seemingly overnight. The Pereira family home at Calle Real 5, Bélmez de la Moraleda, Jaén, Spain, became famous shortly thereafter, with Spanish newspapers coming down on one side or the other regarding the authenticity of the faces. What followed were decades of facesContinue reading “La Casa de las Caras: Believe it or Not, Something Weird is Happening Here”
Jack Osbourne’s “Night of Terror”, The Block Universe, and Quantum Weirdness in the Ghost Shows
Well, it has happened: physics (or intimations of it) now needs to be introduced into the paranormal shows in order to sort through the mishmash of theories that are popping up to explain hauntings. Recently, it’s not just about the spirits of dead people engaging in the classic haunt, but “crossing timelines”, “overlapping dimensions,” andContinue reading “Jack Osbourne’s “Night of Terror”, The Block Universe, and Quantum Weirdness in the Ghost Shows”
Ghost Shows and the Terrifying Truths of the Paranormal
Winter 2024–the new year has started with a wicked case of Seasonal Affective Disorder and a sense of dread. This is not how I had hoped to begin a new year and certainly not how I wish to start off a blog post; however, sometimes one’s mood is relevant to the subject at hand–the unexplained,Continue reading “Ghost Shows and the Terrifying Truths of the Paranormal”
Nobody Cares About Your Ghost Story, Or, Why We Need a Theory of the Paranormal
When I started on the grand adventure of paranormal investigations, I believed that I could change the world with my data, my evidence, for the existence of “ghosts”, spirits, or beings that weren’t supposed to be here, because they were dead. It was so simple then; show the world (and by the world, I meantContinue reading “Nobody Cares About Your Ghost Story, Or, Why We Need a Theory of the Paranormal”
International Society for Paranormal Research 