Is the Legend of Spring Heeled Jack Worth a Second Look?

Spring-heeled Jack is an entity that first appeared during the Victorian era. Is the legend of Spring=heeled Jack worth a second look?

Beginning in the Spring of 1888, a series of grizzly murders would shake the city of London so badly that, even today, they remain among the most famous crimes ever committed. Attempts at bringing the killer to justice have led to numerous theories about the identity of the man who became known to history as Jack the Ripper. Today, despite a number credible leads that have been presented since Jack’s reign of terror, along with new evidence that employs modern science to try and crack the case, a conclusive case for The Ripper’s identity has remained elusive.

The infamous killer of Whitechapel was by no means the first eerie figure to terrorize Londoners by night. Five decades before Jack the Ripper first scrawled his name in red ink on a letter sent to London’s Central News Agency, a less murderous–though far more strange–series of incidents would arouse similar terror among the people of London, and under a similar name that remains one of the most odd and evocative in the annals of Forteana. Read more

CNN Reporter Attacked by Evil Spirit During Live Segment

A CNN reporter was attacked by an evil spirit during a live segment.

A CNN news reporter claims that an evil spirit attacked her and one of her crew members while she was doing a live segment about a haunted house in Pennsylvania. According to a report from Movie Pilot on Wednesday, the reporter said that she and her crew members were scratched and pushed down the stairs. Read more

10_Year-Old Boy Remembers Past Life as 1930s Hollywood Actor

A ten-year-old boy remembers a past life as a 1930s Hollywood actor.

“Mom, I have something I need to tell you. I used to be somebody else.”

Those were the words that five-year-old Ryan Hammons told his mother as he was being tucked into bed five years ago, according to NBC News’s Today.

Ryan reportedly began having vivid nightmares at age four. The next year, Ryan told his mother he wanted to “go home” to Hollywood, and related stories about meeting actress Rita Hayworth, taking trips to Paris, and dancing on Broadway. The boy said he had once lived on a street with the word “rock” in it. Read more

Does New Theory Pinpoint Location of Atlantis?

An author's quest leads to a location for the lost city of Atlantis off the coast of Morocco.

Type the word “Atlantis” into Google and 120 million results pop up. Like El Dorado or Shangri-la, the legendary sunken city of Atlantis hovers on the horizon of our imagination, tantalizing, mysterious, unreachable. Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City pulls together the tangled web of conjecture—and sticks a new locator pin in the map. Read more

Magical Seals: How to Use Them as Talismans

Magical seals are symbols that act as material links to spiritual powers. They can be found in The Greater Key of Solomon, The Goetia, and other grimoires. Ceremonial magicians and witches typically use the seals to summon the spiritual power associated with them. Folk magic practitioners, on the other hand, usually don't perform spirit evocations with them. Instead, they use the seals as talismans.The method below is typical of how magical seals are used in folk magic traditions, such as hoodoo and New Orleans voodoo.

Former NYPD Cop Claims 9/11 Debris Haunted by Female Ghost

Former NYPD lieutenant Frank Marra says the 9/11 debris is haunted by a female ghost.

She was there to protect and serve.

A number of workers at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island who were sifting the rubble from the 9/11 attacks reported seeing a female ghost holding a tray of sandwiches, a new book ­reveals. Read more

Ghosts and Aliens: Is There a Connection?

Bestselling author and paranormal investigator Joni Mayhan explores the connection between ghosts and aliens.

When I began researching this topic, I must admit that I was firmly in the skeptic’s corner. I am open minded to many things paranormal, but this took my belief system to a level I couldn’t immediately facilitate.

In my experience, there are Ghost Camps and there are Alien Camps. People who belong to one seldom venture into the other. We might appreciate the findings and the stories that are passed around in the other camp, but we do little more than nod and smile. Read more

How to Use Magical Seals

There are many types of magical seals from different traditions. This video explains what magical seals are and how to use them

Ghostly Voice Calling for Help from Overturned Car Save's Baby's Life

A ghostly voice calling for help from an overturned car in a river saved a baby's life.

Police officers encountered something strange when they responded to a car accident in Utah on Sunday. The officers heard an eerie female voice calling for help and when they followed the voice, they found a baby girl, NBC News reported yesterday. Read more

Pictures Found in Attic May Shed Light on Roswell Incident

Will photos found in an attic confirm or debunk details of the Roswell Incident?

Pictures found in an attic may shed some light on the UFO incident in 1947. Slides that were kept secret for 25 years will now be revealed in Mexico. Read more

Edison Worked on a Device to Record the Voices of the Dead

A long-lost chapter from Thomas Edison's memoir reveals that he was so interested in communicating with the dead that he worked on a spirit phone.

A long-lost chapter of the memoir of Thomas Edison has been found and published in France and it contains details of the great inventor’s plans to build a device to record the voices of the newly departed.

Edison’s original memoir is called “Diary And Sundry Observations” and was published in 1948, 16 years after his death. The first edition of the book contained a last chapter called “Spiritualism,” a collection of essays in which Edison talks about his beliefs in an afterlife and a way to communicate with the dead. Read more

Teleportation, ESP, and Time Travel: 10 Tales of Superpowers

LiveScience takes a look at human superpowers throughout history - and at which ones scientists are working to make a reality.

The idea of people with superpowers is one that has long captivated audiences. Modern-day movies, graphic novels, TV shows and video games are full of fictional stories involving people who have acquired extraordinary and seemingly impossible abilities. The real world has plenty of fantastic claims as well spurring on debate and study.

One person who made fantastic claims was Pedro Ruiz Calderón, a Catholic priest who was brought to trial in Mexico City in 1540. Calderón claimed that he could teleport between continents, make himself invisible, predict the future, make women fall in love with him, find buried treasure, summon and exorcise demons among other abilities. Research by John Chuchiak IV, a professor at Missouri State University, sheds light on his trial.

LiveScience takes a look at superpowers throughout history. Some of them appear impossible while scientists are working on others to make them a reality. Read more

10 Scientific Explanations for Ghostly Phenomena

So-called paranormal skeptics simply call paranormal witnesses liars, hoaxers, and frauds, but there are ten possible scientific explanations for ghost sightings.

According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 37 percent of Americans believe in haunted houses, and according to a 2013 HuffPost/YouGov poll, 45 percent believe in ghosts. These are surprising numbers, but the next time you hear a spooky sound, don’t call the Ghostbusters—get a scientist instead. Behind every shadow, poltergeist, and disembodied voice, there’s a perfectly rational explanation. Read more