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Where do our paranormal beliefs lie in 2024?
At the beginning of 2019, I collected a survey of results where I asked people where their beliefs within the paranormal field lay. I am collecting your responses again and would love a couple of minutes of your time to complete a quick anonymous survey.
Ghosts Of The Past: The East Oakleigh Poltergeist
In this series, I take a look at some historical accounts of ghostly encounters published in newspapers. In this edition, I look at one of the most famous cases stemming from the little suburb of East Oakleigh in Melbourne Australia.
The funhouse effect & claustrophobia
Certain surroundings can make us feel claustrophobic or like we are in a funhouse. Your brain can have trouble processing this and it can cause a person to feel sick, dizzy, like they have vertigo and even induce a feeling like you are being watched. How does the funhouse effect and claustrophobia apply to the paranormal? Could this explain certain experiences?
3 Classic B Grade Horrors for Halloween
I LOVE old movies, so here are some suggestions for so bad they are good old B Grade horror movies
Chiromancy
Otherwise known as palmistry, this is the practice of predicting a person's future simply by reading the lines of their hand
I (don't) want to believe
Are people so attached to an experience that they don't want to believe it is anything other than what they think it is?
Using sound to unlock ESP
People use things such as sensory deprivation or meditation as a means to potentially unlock or enhance their ESP. Let's look into the role that soundwaves such as binaural beats and isochronic tones could possibly play in unlocking a person's ESP. There is even a test at the end to see if it works!
The voice from the attic
Was the voice from the attic a real disembodied voice or an act of deception in a quest for validation? This is my account of an experience that has sat with me for years and something I cannot seem to accept either way.
5 Famous Aussie Spiritualists
When you read the paranormal history books, people will often be able to tell you about famous figures within spiritualism from England and even the US, but they don't know much about the work that was done here in the land of Oz. It is time to change that, so let's meet 5 famous Spiritualists from Down Under!
Superstitions
Walking under ladders, black cats crossing your path and broken mirrors. These are just some of the common superstitions that have seemed to become a part of our normal life. Where did they really come from and what is their significance? I look at some popular superstitions and their origins.