Articles

The Scientific Method

Original Article: Go Beyond Now

Part 1:  Science vs. Pseudoscience
Part 2 : The Scientific Method

Science vs. Pseudoscience:

This table of comparisons between Science and Pseudoscience was adapted from text by Kendrick Frazier in the Introduction to his book, Paranormal Borderlands of Science (Prometheus Books, 1981) View project

Reevaluating Orbs

Courtesy of Rosemary Ellen Guilley

Mention orbs and most paranormal investigators shudder. Some even consider orbs the bane of ghost hunting, a natural photographic effect mistaken by the over-eager as evidence of a spirit presence. Most orbs – those fuzzy, round, luminous dots floating in digital photographs – are judged to be not spirits. Or are they? Maybe our cameras are capturing some unknown life force after all. Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the orb. View project

Significance of Weather Patterns

By: LIPRI

Many paranormal researchers monitor the weather, moon phases, and the geomagnetic field as they theorize that certain weather patterns, moon phases, and solar activity increases paranormal activity.  As this is ongoing research, this theory definitely plays into the hands of the average researcher…but why? View project

Popper The Poltergeist

Courtesy of Troy Taylor

Original article Prairie Ghost

In 1958, a series of ghostly events that were occurring on Long Island, New York transfixed television viewers and readers all over the country. A house belonging to a family named Herrmann was being beset by strange and inexplicable incidents that were attributed to a ghost who was dubbed “Popper” (for reasons that will soon become obvious). But what was really happening in the house? An unseen force from beyond, or something else? View project

The dangers of the paranormal

By: Thelma Ankney

In the last few years countless number of new paranormal teams have been popping up all over the country.  No thanks to the popular para-shows on television there’s a whole new bunch of uneducated clones running around causing chaos.  A lot of these new groups seem to just be jumping on what’s trending now because they’re doing something they think is “cool”. Unfortunately we have no control over what these people are doing but we all hope that they’re at least being safe. View project

Lights, Camera, Action! - Famous Hollywood Haunts

Courtesy of Mariela D’Amico

When we think of Urban legends we tend to think of scary stories told about our home towns, stories of events that happened years ago. You hear them  from your friends at school, maybe a sleepover, at camp and even from our parents to try to keep us away from scary places. Your friends even go as far as saying it really happened to a friend of a friends cousin and so on. There are urban legends in every town in every country all over the world. There are books written about them and even movies that bring these stories to life. View project