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Indiana Cemeteries: Fink Cemetery
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Continue reading →: Indiana Cemeteries: Fink CemeteryIt’s been awhile since I’ve visited a cemetery, and I forgot how much I enjoy quietly moving from memorial to memorial. I visited Fink Cemetery in Lafayette. The weather was perfect and the area was lively with the sounds of a nearby church’s Fall Fest. I saw a tractor pulling…
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Continue reading →: A Repository of Paranormal Knowledge: Types of HauntingsThis series explores the paranormal basics: key terms, categories, theories, and schools of thought. This will prepare you to be an intellectual ghostbuster. The terminology surrounding paranormal activity is complex, vague, and contested. For example, the word spirit means different things from culture to culture. And, it can mean something different to a religious…
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The Yellow Ribbon
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Continue reading →: The Yellow RibbonI was obsessed with Alvin Schwartz’s In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories when I was a child. I checked it out from the school library as often as I could, and I always turned to the short story, “The Green Ribbon.” The stories in this book are inspired by folklore,…
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Continue reading →: A Repository of Paranormal Knowledge: Street Light InterferenceThis series explores the paranormal basics: key terms, classifications, theories, and schools of thought. This will prepare you to be an intellectual ghostbuster. Street Light Interference phenomenon is the claimed ability that individuals can turn off street lamps (or security lights) by walking underneath them. The term was first coined by paranormal author, Hilary Evans.…
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Continue reading →: A Cemetery Stroll with the Wabash Paranormal Research SocietyI am skeptical of the existence of ghosts. Though, I believe in their existence enough so to pursue haunted places for the chance to see one. I believe in them enough so that I feel chills down my spine when I hear a ghost story. There is still so much left…
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The House of Blue Lights
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Continue reading →: The House of Blue LightsMisunderstood people are sometimes feared to the point of folklore legacy. We cling to myth to avoid confronting the other, creating monsters that aren’t really there. So much of my own childhood lore was attached to that neighbor that seemed “off.” For example, “Old Man Bill,” that lived down the street…
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The Haunted Lighthouses of Michigan
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Continue reading →: The Haunted Lighthouses of MichiganThe meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. – Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit Today’s post explores the haunted lighthouses of Michigan, a state…
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Book Notes: Animal Superstitions
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Continue reading →: Book Notes: Animal SuperstitionsToday, I am continuing with my notes on David Pickering’s Cassell Dictionary of Superstitions. Last time, I shared notes on general supernatural superstitions. This time, I’m focusing on animals. As Pickering writes, “Innumerable species of animal are credited with supernatural powers, including the ability to seethe future and kingship with the…
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The 5 Scariest Mausoleums in America
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Continue reading →: The 5 Scariest Mausoleums in AmericaRecently on Twitter, I was talking with a few of you about Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997-2002). For those unfamiliar with this television show: each episode shared supernatural stories, then revealed whether the stories were fact or fiction at the end of the episode. My favorite story from the show, “The Secret…
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Book Notes: Supernatural Superstitions
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Continue reading →: Book Notes: Supernatural SuperstitionsEach week, I walk many blocks to the used bookstore to explore its supernatural and horror section. It’s one of those book stores where shelves are filled and the floor is covered with stacks of books. You can usually find me sitting on the floor, turning the pages of some…
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