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Category: Paranormal

  • Mainstream media goes paranormal: CNN on the case of Bigfoot!

    Mainstream media goes paranormal: CNN on the case of Bigfoot!

    The news lately has been literally from another world. Whether it’s UFOs or conspiracy or now Bigfoot stories about Ohio making cnn. That’s right, not sure if Ted Turner would be turning in his fresh grave but the central News Network is reporting on an increase rash of Bigfoot sightings from the Buckeye state.

    Here’s the full article should you wish to peruse it.

    From the story…

    A big uptick in reports – known by Bigfoot aficionados as a “flap” – was catalogued around Portage County, Ohio, just east of Akron, with unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas along the Mahoning River.

    “And it stopped just as quickly as it started,” says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports and has posited a dramatic change in weather conditions from winter to spring may have put a Bigfoot herd on the move.

    The sudden surge of claimed sightings – call it the Ohio Flap of 2026 – reignited a debate that’s been going on in North America for upwards of a century. Does a breed resembling hulking apes – hominoids, if you want to be technical – live among us?

    UFOs and now Bigfoot dominate the real news of our day..

  • The Nighthawk at 25 years

    The Nighthawk at 25 years

    George Noory has been the host of Coast to Coast AM on a somewhat permanent basis since April of 2001..

    That’s an enormous accomplishment.

    It’s to the point where this generation hears the Chase music, they know he will intro the show from the City of Angels or the cave in St. Louis,  The more modern audience is largely not at this point able to remember that the late, famous Art Bell as the first and the original Coast host.


    Bell was different. We’ve covered him and loved him through the years, but he was chaotic. He gave us famous programming. He was cutting edge, and he did something that no one else was doing at that time. Noory, on the other hand, is reliable instead and now chaotic at aĺl..  he works holidays and for a long time worked weekends until other weekend hosts began to fill in. He’s what the networks execs love… a steady accompkished voice who will be there, except for the occasional moment with pizza rolls burning his throat.


    But as time goes on he’s also not what he once was, and even when he was once something different it was not always accepted by the Coast audience.


    You have to think back to a time when Art Bell was the voice of the night. Long before podcasts and YouTube videos created the paranormal genre, Bell was the only one. He was the must-listen for night owls, insomniacs, people on night shifts, or those who just wanted to stay up late to listen to good radio. He quit often and came back again. At one point his wife Ramona passed away, and he moved to the Philippines and got remarried. He was organized chaos… mysterious, and reassuring.


    In April of 2001, after a few stints from different Coast hosts that were not accepted by the audience, the Nighthawk George Noory became a new voice of the night. He did, of course, have to compete with Bell, who would occasionally host weekends from time to time and also filled in here and there as well..  As a matter of fact, for some of us who were never sure if Bell would be back or not, many people would tune in every night just to see who would enter the show. And when it was Noory, many Bell fans would turn it off.


    Bell and Noory would go on to publicly schism a bit in a very public way when Bell left Coast officially after Halloween of 2010. That’s a whole different story that we’ve covered.


    But Noory, on the other hand, has been the stalwart. He’s been there. He has been a constant voice on the airwaves at night. As time has gone on, his voice has become a little shaky, his words slur now. There’s a poignant difference between Noory of 2001 and the reality that currently exists in 2026. We ALL AGE..

    Now as he gets to his 25th anniversary, he tells others, including Barrett Media, there is no reason to leave.


    According to Barrett Media, Noory reflects on his 25-year run as one defined by consistency and longevity, embracing his role as a steady, reliable presence in contrast to Bell’s unpredictability. He points to the evolution of the show into a nationally syndicated staple still heard on hundreds of affiliates, acknowledges the changing media landscape with podcasts and digital platforms now dominating the paranormal space, and makes it clear that he still believes in the format and has no plans to step away anytime soon.


    So as you can see from Noory’s own words, whether he’s phoning it in some or not, he’s still there. And he seemingly has no plans to leave.


    Things are a lot different now than they were before. Open Minds isn’t so open. Cornelius and a handful of people  are the only people who seem to call every night. All the fan sites like Fantastic Forum and places of that nature moved on after Bell’s Midnight in the Desert stopped broadcasting and Bell himself passed away on Friday the 13th in 2018.


    Listening to Noory now is a bit sad if you compare him to.the younger version 25 years ago. There are still remnants of the show, whether it’s the intro music or now and then Noory choosing to play Dancing Queen as one of the bumper songs. And while the thunder still rolls before breaks, those breaks are now filled with advertisements for vitamins, dating sites, and other plugs that Noory has created through the years.


    Many who still listen seem to like some of the fill-in hosts, like Richard Syrett or Ryan Wrecker, but they’re not the permanent people. Noory still owns the night at 25 years, Coast to Coast AM  plays on 600+ affiliates.

    Always live. 


    As radio slowly wanes in popularity, undoubtedly Coast has as well. While no one can say how many more years the show will go on, even the aging and weak-voiced Noory has a limit.


    But for 25 years, he has done something very remarkable.
    He’s lasted.


    And in radio… lasting is the biggest victory of all.

  • Fans continue living in a world without Clyde Lewis

    Fans continue living in a world without Clyde Lewis

    An update was recently shared regarding Clyde Lewis, and while there are some encouraging signs, the overall situation remains uncertain. He is still in a nursing facility with no confirmed timeline for release. On the positive side, he’s making progress in physical therapy—losing weight, rebuilding strength, and gradually improving his stamina.


    There are still a number of medical hurdles ahead. He’ll need significant dental work in the coming months, and his kidney function continues to be monitored closely. He is still using a catheter, with doctors and a urologist evaluating when it can safely be removed. Whenever he is cleared to leave, plans are already in place for him to move into a better living situation.

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  • The Bigfoot hoax!?

    The Bigfoot hoax!?

    From People Mag hughlights..

    • The 59-second 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, seen by billions of people over the decades, is often cited by proponents as proof that the giant, hairy creature exists
    • A new documentary — Capturing Bigfoot — uses recently unearthed footage to prove that the 1967 film was an “incredible hoax,” says director Marq Evans 
    • “I think for a lot of people who have so much history and belief tied up in this story, it’s going to be really hard to accept,” says filmmaker Evans

    READ THE FULL PEOPLE ARTICLE ..

  • Mobile magic: Words that never fall from the tip of your tongue

    Mobile magic: Words that never fall from the tip of your tongue

    Let’s talk a bit about Mandela Effects, and specifically one strange Mandela Effect that I didn’t even know existed until tonight. I watched a video about how people say it existed, and once it became an issue in my mind, it started to bother me like it really did exist.


    Let me explain.


    You know those things above baby cribs? You know the word—a mobile. We’ve always called it a mobile. It’s always been known as a mobile. People for generations have said it’s a mobile. As a society we can agree on that, right?


    Until you don’t.


    Here’s the catch: tons of Reddit forums and different threads across the internet talk about how people remember there being a different word than mobile. They remember it to the point where it’s on the tip of their tongue, and they believe the word was something else entirely.
    For me.. and believe me, there are some Mandela Effects I really can’t explain.. this one immediately felt fanciful and a bit silly. The word was always mobile. I don’t remember anything different.


    Until I started thinking about how other people remember the word being different.
    Then I started to wonder if the word potentially was different, and maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. I nearly second-guessed my sanity. I started second-guessing the idea that the word was always mobile to the point where I was calling family members and asking friends what they thought the word was.


    They all convincingly responded: mobile.
    But when you sit with this idea long enough—when you let it dwell and fester—your brain starts to play tricks on you. You begin to wonder if it really was mobile, or if the people remembering a different word they can’t quite recall are actually right.


    I’m a big fan of the movie Pontypool. It’s one of my favorite zombie horror films, about a mild-mannered, somewhat egotistical radio host broadcasting in the middle of the night from a snowy town. I love that theme. But in the film, people in the town begin to get infected by a strange virus that spreads through language. Words stop meaning what they should, and people begin to lose their understanding of them.
    It’s kind of like that old Twilight Zone episode from the 1980s called “Wordplay.” The one where a man slowly goes nuts while the entire world starts using words in ways that make no sense to him.


    There’s something about forgetting words that’s genuinely frightening.


    Maybe it’s because if you’ve seen Alzheimer’s or dementia in your family, there’s a real horror in forgetting words and forgetting things. Forgetting so much that you eventually become a vessel that feels empty.. without the material that used to fill your mind.


    But Pontypool is all about language breaking down. In that movie it’s a zombie virus, of course, you have to make it scary somehow.

    But the idea of words changing their meaning, people losing vocabulary, or even losing language entirely… that really gets under my skin.
    And it probably does for you too.


    It’s strange how something so benign and mundane can somehow still be so terrifying.
    And that’s what makes this Mandela Effect a little eerie.


    It’s not the usual example like the Berenstain Bears, or the story about Sinbad supposedly making a genie movie that he now says never existed. Instead, this one is about the most basic words we’ve known since babyhood.


    And babies learn the word mobile, too… right?


    Or was it something different?

  • A real life ‘slender man’ appears on a British highway

    A real life ‘slender man’ appears on a British highway

    The real life Slenderman.. Maybe.. or a really tall pale hitchhiker? Either way you don’t pick them up..

    British media is reporting about a real life ‘slenderman’ that was spotted along a highway.. Of course paranormal socials have picked it up and ran with it with their skinny legs..

    Lauren Amour recorded the strange sighting on her dashcam as it loomed out of the darkness. Her post has now been shared around the world hundreds of thousands of times..

    It happened in the early hours of Saturday on the A69 while Lauren was driving from Barnard Castle, County Durham to Newcastle upon Tyne, as reported by What’s The Jam.

    She said: “I was driving home at 2am when I saw something on the road. “I was so scared. “I have absolutely never seen anything like that before. I can’t explain it.

    @laurenamourmusic

    I AM SO SCARED!! Does anybody know what this could be?! #scary #dashcam #slenderman #scaryvideos

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    It is probably a very explainable … giant figure along the highway..

    NEVER STOP THE CAR AT NIGHT!

  • Sydney Sweeney mocked after telling a ghost story from her childhood

    Sydney Sweeney mocked after telling a ghost story from her childhood

    The HOUSEMAID star is getting the last laugh as her film continues strong at the box office, but the mocked Sweeney was slammed for her good jeans in ’25.. and now being laughed at about sharing a ghost story in ’26..

    She was interviewed in W Magazine about her career journey and upcoming projects.

    Sweeney was asked a light personal question. She was asked whether she believes in ghosts. In response, she shared a memory from her early childhood.

    She explained that when she was in preschool, she had an imaginary friend. The childlike figure would appear on the playground. She often talked about him with her mother. Later, her mother learned that the person matched someone who had died before Sweeney was born. The story, she said, unsettled her family at the time.

    The anecdote was shared casually and without drama. However, sources told Spanish outlet Marca that some studio executives reacted poorly. According to an anonymous insider, the story was mocked in private conversations.

    MORE..

    “I think I’ve seen a ghost,” Sweeney said. “When I was little, I used to have an imaginary friend. He would be on the playground at preschool. I would tell my mom about him. It turns out that he was someone who passed away before I was born. It creeped my mom out.”..

    The result has been headlines such as “SYDNEY SWEENEY befriended a ghost”..

    I think we agree… she probably doesn’t care much about any mockery she is getting … 🙂

  • We really don’t think that the Duffer Brothers based Mr Whatsit about a 1962 incident despite everyone saying they did

    We really don’t think that the Duffer Brothers based Mr Whatsit about a 1962 incident despite everyone saying they did

    So everyone has been talking lately about Stranger Things Season 5 and the idea that Mr. What’s It is based on a true story from 1962, a supposed incident where a group of children all saw and drew the same mysterious man wearing a hat.


    Here’s the scoop. There probably is no true story from 1962.


    What seems to be happening is that the same urban legend keeps getting repeated over and over across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, with no facts to back it up. There is no documented mass sighting of a Hat Man in 1962. There is no verified location. There is no teacher testimony. There are no archived newspaper articles. And there is no evidence anywhere that the Duffer Brothers ever said Henry’s Mr. What’s It character was based on an incident like this.


    In fact, if anything, the character feels closer to something like A Wrinkle in Time than it does to a real world event. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something familiar about him, though. Because while the 1962 story appears to be made up, the Hat Man himself is not new.


    The Hat Man has existed in human stories for a very long time, just under different names. In past cultures, shadow figures wearing cloaks or wide brimmed hats show up in folklore tied to night terrors, death omens, or spiritual visitations. Medieval Europe had depictions of dark watchers who stood at the edge of the bed. Victorian ghost stories often described tall men in hats appearing in doorways or hallways. Even older traditions talk about night spirits or watchers who observe silently rather than interact.


    What’s interesting is how consistent the imagery is across time. A tall figure. A long coat or cloak. A hat. No clear facial features. No speech. Just presence.


    In modern times, most Hat Man encounters are tied to sleep paralysis or intense fever dreams. People who experience it often describe being awake but unable to move, with a crushing sense of dread. And there he is, standing in the corner of the room, in the doorway, or at the foot of the bed… watching.


    That idea was explored directly in the 2015 documentary The Nightmare, which focuses entirely on sleep paralysis experiences. The film features multiple people who had never met each other, all describing nearly identical encounters. In that documentary, the Hat Man is essentially the final boss of sleep paralysis. He doesn’t scream. He doesn’t chase. He just looms, silent and terrifying, while the person trapped in that half awake state cannot escape.


    So while it may not be true that the creators of Stranger Things based Mr. What’s It on a specific mass sighting from 1962, it is very possible that the Hat Man mythology itself influenced what they created. The idea of a shadow figure that exists between worlds, between sleep and wakefulness, between childhood fear and cosmic horror, fits perfectly into that universe.


    But here’s where we have to pump the brakes.


    There is no real story that connects a 1962 Hat Man incident to the show. The posts making these claims all recycle the same language. They use AI generated images. They never give an exact location. They never cite a real source. And they never link to an actual quote from the Duffer Brothers.


    If anyone out there can find a legitimate source, a real interview, a verified quote, or documented evidence that such an incident occurred and that it inspired the character, send it our way. We will research it. We will correct ourselves. We will say we were wrong.


    But until then, this is an urban legend built on top of another urban legend.


    We’ve been studying paranormal history for decades. We know about mass UFO sightings. We know about documented cases of mass hysteria in schools in Africa. But when it comes to the Hat Man and California in 1962, there is nothing. Not a single credible mention.


    So for now, we’re sticking with this. The Duffer Brothers did not base Mr. What’s It on a 1962 incident because there is no evidence that incident ever happened.


    And if the Duffer Brothers ever want to reach out and say otherwise, we’d absolutely love to talk.

  • KRAMPUS: THE REAL REAL THING?

    KRAMPUS: THE REAL REAL THING?

    Today isn’t just St. Nicholas Day, it’s also Krampus Day. And while most people grew up with the warm and fuzzy version of the season, the Alpine regions of Europe made sure kids understood that December wasn’t just cookies and love. There was always a dark and frightening shadow walking beside the saint.

    Ole Kramps has long been one of our favorites..


    The figure of Krampus goes back centuries.. older, in many ways, than St. Nicholas himself.

    While St. Nicholas became part of Christian tradition around the 3rd–4th century, Krampus’ roots run deeper into old pagan winter folklore. These Alpine communities lived through long, brutal winters with darkness stretching hours longer than daylight. They told stories of horned, goat-like creatures roaming the solstice nights.. Imagine living in this darkness …Krampus became sort of a living symbol of winter’s terror.


    When Christianity took hold, instead of eliminating those beliefs, it absorbed them. The gentle bishop St. Nicholas became the rewarder of good children, and Krampus became the punisher of the bad ones. A yin and yang. A cosmic seasonal checks-and-balances system.

    Some historians even argue the Krampus figure predates St. Nicholas entirely and that he comes from a time when people feared the dark more than anything and needed a creature to explain the shadows that stretched across snow-covered villages. In other words, Krampus wasn’t invented to balance St. Nicholas… St. Nicholas was assigned to balance him.


    Growing up in Catholic school, I always loved this day. I thought the old tradition was fun, and honestly, a little weird in the best way. December 5th was when we’d leave our shoes in a hallway, wondering whether St. Nicholas left candy… or if we’d get coal. Bells would ring. Of course we didn’t realize it was school staff. But we got candy. Phew. Crisis averted another year..

    Never once did a nun warn us about Krampus dragging us away in a basket, but knowing the folklore now, I appreciate just how bizarre and brilliant these old traditions really were. Kids today think Elf on the Shelf is stressful. Imagine a horned goat-man showing up if you talk back to your parents.

    Coke vs. Pepsi… but Make It Krampus

    And here’s the fun part: if Santa Claus became the wholesome mascot for Coca-Cola, then Krampus absolutely deserves his own Pepsi campaign.
    Just imagine it: “Pepsi Krampus: The Choice of a New Generation… of Naughty Kids.”


    He’s on a billboard, horns shining, holding a Pepsi can. He’s not leaving the North Pole; he’s leaving bite marks in your gingerbread men. Santa gets the cookies.. Krampus gets the coal-powered energy drink. Fair is fair after all..

    We need that balance.. 🙂



    People think Halloween is where the spooky season ends.

    No. Halloween is merely the kickoff. Ancient folks believed the veil thinned as winter approached, not just on October 31st. November and December were long, dark, terrifying months with barely any light and no modern comforts. Every shadow in the corner of a one-room cabin was a threat. Every gust of wind sounded like something just outside the door.

    Krampus isn’t out of place this time of year, he’s exactly what these months used to feel like.

    And then comes December 25th it is the “rebirth of the sun.” Or son. The literal lengthening of the days. The symbolic birth of hope in both pagan and Christian traditions. Two belief systems pointing toward the same reality: The darkness finally stops winning.

    Krampus ends his reign, St. Nicholas reigns supreme, Jesus is born, and the sun finally begins its slow return.

  • The Philip Experiment revisited

    The Philip Experiment revisited

    Imagine one day you go to the mailbox and there’s an envelope in there with no return address. Just your name. No explanation. Inside is an old VHS tape. No label. No handwriting. Nothing. Just a blank tape. So you dig out that old VCR from the closet or the basement, because of course you kept it, right? You pop the tape in, press play, and what comes on the screen is a dimly lit room with a group of people sitting around a table. Regular people. Nobody looks dramatic or haunted. They’re just… there. Talking to someone who isn’t visible. And then the table begins to move.

    That idea sticks with me. Because the thing we’re talking about here is the Philip Experiment, and most of us only ever see fragments of it. Little clips that show up on YouTube or TikTok every so often. Grainy, eerie, just long enough to make you wonder if you’re seeing something you’re not supposed to see. The full uncut video isn’t floating around. It’s not archived publicly. Parts of it exist — but never the whole. Which adds to the legend, if you ask me.

    Back in the early 1970s in Toronto, a group of people got together to see if they could create a ghost purely through imagination. They didn’t believe Philip was real historically. He wasn’t. They made him up. They gave him a life story, motivations, a tragic arc. They shaped him the way writers shape a character — except instead of writing a book, they sat around a table and tried to call him into existence.

    This is where belief becomes interesting. Because these people weren’t actors, they weren’t psychics, and they weren’t trying to deceive anyone — including themselves. They knew Philip was fictional, and yet they set out to see whether their collective attention could make something happen.

    And eventually, something did.

    Knocking sounds. Rhythmic responses. The table moving. Slight at first, then more confidently. If you’ve ever sat around a Ouija board and felt that moment when the room shifts from joking to dead silent — you’ll understand the sensation. It’s not just about the movement. It’s the way the air changes. The moment your body reacts before your brain does.

    I imagine that’s what happened in that Toronto room. Everyone knew Philip wasn’t real — until they felt something that made them question that certainty. And once one person believes, the belief becomes contagious. Group energy is real. Human minds sync. A spark in the room becomes a fire in the room, and suddenly everyone feels like something is there, whether they can define it or not.

    Now, depending on what you believe, there are two paths this story can take.

    Some say this was purely psychological. The human brain moving the table subconsciously. The ideomotor effect. A shared feedback loop of expectation and excitement.

    Others say that when you call out to the void — something answers. But not always the thing you think you’re calling. And that it might have worn Philip’s face for the fun of it.

    Either version is unsettling in its own way.

    What stands out to me personally are those video clips. Watching the table move with no visible hands lifting it. Not proof — because the paranormal never seems to allow itself proof — but enough to make you sit still for a second. Enough to make you inhale differently. Enough to make you wonder if reality is a thinner membrane than we pretend it is.

    Some of the people involved in the experiment did speak about it years later. None of them claimed it was hoaxed. None of them said they summoned an actual spirit either. What most of them said was something closer to this:

    “We knew Philip wasn’t real. But the things that happened felt real.”

    And that is the part that lingers.

    Not the ghost.
    Not the séance.
    Not the story they invented.

    But the moment where imagination and experience touch.
    Where the room feels different.
    Where the mind opens a door it didn’t know it could open.

    And once a door is opened — even for a moment — who’s to say it ever really closes?

    So here’s my question.

    If you tried to recreate the Philip Experiment today — would you be daring enough to go through with it? And if you did, what would you name the entity you were trying to call into existence? Would you choose a new name? Or would you try Philip again?

    And what if — just what if — when they created Philip all those years ago, they didn’t create something pretend… but they connected to something that has been drifting ever since. Not gone. Not dead. Just waiting in the quiet spaces between worlds to be acknowledged again.

    Ready, even now, for someone to call his name.

    Philip.

    Are you still there?