Curiouser and curiouser
I remain boggled by the vast wealth of weirdness that exists or has existed in every culture throughout the world.
This issue I have been introduced to the extraordinary ‘draugr’ of medieval Norse belief. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised… Continue reading
“I’m gonna haunt forever!”
This month we launch our issue with accounts of ghosts of the stars; actors and actresses long dead but whose celebrated images are still to be seen in places other than the silver screen.
Why are there so many ghosts… Continue reading
Ride a black swan
by Mark Greener
In 1636, the Dutch sailor Antonie Caen probably became the first European to see an Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus). Biologists in Europe dismissed his claims: everyone ‘knew’ swans were white. But 61 years later another Dutch… Continue reading
Is the world ready for Spookology?
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed when researching ghost-lore is the way in which ghost stories of the past differ to what we might call ‘the modern ghost experience’.
Once upon a time, particularly in the Celtic fringes of… Continue reading
This lack of support is truly monstrous
by John Downes
The cryptozoological community, as well as attracting some of the finest people I have ever known, also – sadly – attracts some of the most inane, superficial and irritating.
Let me tell you the story of Jordan… Continue reading
Why toddle when you can fly?
Last month I owned up to the peculiar extraterrestrial fantasies of my childhood. A new article has now stirred up another half-forgotten early memory.
New writer to Paranormal, Mark Salmon, got in touch with several ideas for features, one… Continue reading
Something to think about
Are ghosts, UFOs, sea serpents, fairies etcetera etcetera all created by the human mind?
Well, of course they are, say the sceptics. They’re hallucinations, products of over-fertile imaginations. They are – they say – all in the mind.
There is,… Continue reading
Believe what you really see
by John Stoker
In 1975 I was working for a radio station in the North-East which decided to broadcast a live Hallowe’en show. Jim, a local psychic investigator, was recommended to me so I rang him up and asked him… Continue reading
Healings Of Atlantis
Voodoo Visions
Over the years I have been asked repeatedly about what prompted me to get involved with a subject like the paranormal and also why did I start writing books about it; fortunately the answer is reasonably straightforward. It ties into a lifetime’s fascination with all things paranormal and supernatural, and from my perspective the words are entirely synonymous.
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