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‘Slightly haunted but manageable’: new signs cause confusion – and delight – in Christchurch
Outside an abandoned building in New Zealand’s second-biggest city, a sign reads “slightly haunted but manageable”. In the middle of a busy shopping strip, pedestrians are warned to keep to a 2.83km/h walking speed. In another part of Christchurch, one piece of signage declares simply “don’t”.
Unwrapping the Unseen: A Journey into the Haunted Holidays with Jeff Belanger’s “The Fright Before Christmas”
The twinkling lights are up, the carols are playing, and a sense of festive cheer fills the air. But for those who delight in the eerie and the unexplained, the holiday season holds a deeper, darker magic. Enter Jeff Belanger’s captivating book, “The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Dark Yuletide Traditions.”
WEIRD AFTER DARK: What Happens When You Call These Haunted Phone Numbers?
The Ghost Hosts discuss the Weird Darkness episode, “What Happens When You Call These Haunted Phone Numbers?” Millions worldwide are tormented by an inescapable low-frequency hum that gets louder when the power is cut, while curious souls dial into operational phone numbers that connect them to crying men, binary death codes, and corporate voices promising sinister remodeling. The Ghost Hosts dissect both the scientifically baffling worldwide hum phenomenon and the deliberately creepy phone numbers that blur the line between folklore and interactive horror.
What Happens When You Call These Haunted Phone Numbers?
Discover the eerie messages, cryptic recordings, and spine-chilling voicemails waiting on the other end of the internet’s most notorious phone numbers – some still active, others forever silenced.
Mysterious Bite Marks Appear on Girl in Manila’s Haunted Prison
A teenage prostitute in Manila’s oldest prison claimed invisible demons were attacking her. Then the wounds started appearing in front of witnesses.
THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Castle Gets Shipped to America, Complete With Resident Specter
A Scottish ghost cursed to haunt his castle for 200 years finally gets his chance at redemption when an American grocery tycoon ships the entire structure—and its supernatural resident—across the Atlantic, where romance, mistaken identity, and an ancient blood feud collide in sunny Florida.
SCIENTISTS ARE USING HAUNTED HOUSES AS LABORATORIES: And What They’re Finding About Fear Will Change How You See Scary Movies
Researchers are turning terror into science, and what they’re discovering about fear might surprise you.
BRITAIN’S MOST HAUNTED WITCH PRISON: Paranormal Investigators Restore The Cage
Two paranormal researchers bought a 16th-century prison where accused witches awaited execution – then the renovations began stirring things up.
10 Most Haunted States in America, Ranked by Scare-Level
According to this data, the most haunted states in the country are not where you might expect.
WEIRD AFTER DARK: Grim Reaper Sightings and the Haunted Mermaid Inn
A nurse encounters something impossible during her hospital rounds—a seven-foot figure in black bent over a dying patient. She sees it twice. The patient dies hours later. Then, across the Atlantic at England’s Mermaid Inn, centuries-old spirits are getting up to very different mischief—moving guests’ clothes, soaking them mysteriously, and causing relationship-ending arguments. Join us as we explore two very different hauntings: one clinical and terrifying, the other chaotic and strangely playful. From the Grim Reaper’s hospital visit to poltergeists sabotaging couples, this episode has it all.
A brief history of the haunted house in western cinema and literature
A door creaks shut, unexpectedly; a footstep is heard on the stair; a face seen at the window. The haunted house is a staple of gothic writing, television and film, but what is it about this humble setting that holds such a fascination?
10 Signs Your Home Might Actually Be Haunted
Paranormal experts share 10 clues your house is truly haunted—and that those noises aren’t just squirrels in the attic.
Baseball’s Most Haunted Hotel: The Pfister’s Century of Terror
Professional athletes would rather sleep in an Airbnb than risk another night in baseball’s most infamous haunted hotel.
WEIRD AFTER DARK: Haunted Queen Mary, Spies, Beards, and Ouija Boards
We’re diving into Darren Marlar’s latest episode where 150 spirits haunt the luxury liner Queen Mary—including an 18-year-old crushed by door 13 who still follows visitors through the engine room, and a little girl murdered in room B-474 who cries for her mother in the cargo hold. But the real story that blew our minds? A Massachusetts war veteran was violently attacked with scissors and razors in the 1830s, arrested for defending himself, and spent fifteen months in jail—all because he refused to shave his beard.
THE HAUNTED INTERCOM: What Happened To Sarah In Her Apartment?
A haunted apartment intercom becomes a conduit to the past. A woman begins hearing ghostly voices coming through it — voices apparently from a former tenant who was brutally murdered. CBC’s Deep Night presents “The Intercom!” | #RetroRadio EP0532
Disneyland visitor dies after riding the Haunted Mansion. Expert says theme park deaths are rare
A woman in her 60s suffered a medical episode while riding Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion on Monday and was pronounced dead at a local hospital later that evening.
THE MANSION THAT WON’T LET ITS DEAD REST: Massachusetts’ Most Haunted Home Was Just Sold for a $1M
A Victorian mansion where multiple owners have fled in terror just sold to four brave buyers willing to coexist with its permanent residents – the ones who died there over a century ago
HOW CAN I KNOW IF MY HOUSE IS HAUNTED? Is That a Ghost or My Imagination? What Do I Do About It?
From unexplained footsteps and shadow people lurking in corners to terrifying poltergeist attacks and pets that see what you can’t, discover the telltale signs your house might be haunted… and what to do if it is!