ghost

Verifying the purported past-life memories of children against the records of people who have died is part of a day’s work for Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson.

20 million men in China will never find a wife! That’s how many more men than women there are and in a few decades that number could be 40 million. It’s gotten so bad that some places have revived the tradition of Ghost Weddings—marrying deceased men and women to other corpses. It’s just one solution to the leftover men problem left behind by the One Child Policy and decades of sex selective abortions.

A research group led by Dr. A.R.G. Owen in Toronto, Canada, in the early 1970s created a “ghost.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has revealed that a remotely operated vehicle spotted a ghost-like octopod during underwater surveying off the Hawaiian islands.

Long after the tsunami that devastated a stretch of Japan’s coast in 2011, a fire station in Tagajo received calls to neighborhoods that had been leveled.

Many people, shortly before they died, reported seeing deceased friends or family members who said they were there to help them pass to the afterlife.

When it comes to the phenomenon of purportedly hearing ghost voices, some studies say it could be supernatural, some say it’s all in the mind.

The occult has its place in American courtrooms—and police stations, and even business strategies.

Beneath the ancient fortified city of Edinburgh, Scotland lie the South Bridge Vaults—notorious underground tunnels and chambers that became the dwelling places of the impoverished and the villainous.

Encounters with the dead are reported by as many as 25 percent of Western Europeans and 30 percent of Americans.

The decrepit house, the dank, abandoned orphanage—the sites that inspire fear and ghost stories could also be hotbeds of toxic mold.

A British housewife earned fame as a composer and pianist with music she said was communicated to her by the spirits of dead, famous composers.

I remember reading as a kid about Benjamin Bathurst, David Lang, and Oliver Larch. All three have strange stories of inexplicable disappearance.