Reading Time: 9 minutes In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits (sometimes referred to simply as “familiars” or “animal guides”) were believed to be supernatural entities that would assist witches and cunning…
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Reading Time: 1 minute A bluecap is a mythical fairy or ghost in English folklore that inhabits mines and appears as a small blue flame. If miners treat them with respect, the bluecaps lead them to rich deposits of…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass) is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, particularly as interpreted by believers in the paranormal…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The ouija (/ˈwiːdʒə/ WEE-jə), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words “yes”, “no”, “hello” (occasionally), and “goodbye”,…
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are reported to be haunted by ghosts. Typically, a ghost-hunting team will attempt to collect evidence supporting the existence of paranormal activity. Ghost hunters use a…
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Within ghost hunting and parapsychology, electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices that have been either unintentionally recorded or intentionally requested and recorded. Parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive,…
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Reading Time: 8 minutes The Chudail, also spelled as Chuiaels, Cijurreyls, Churreyl, Chudail, Chudel, Chuṛail, Cuḍail or Cuḍel (Hindi: चुडैल, Urdu: چڑیل) is a female demon in South-East Asia, and well known in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. She is…
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Reading Time: 1 minute In Navajo religious belief, a chindi (Navajo: chʼį́įdii) is the ghost left behind after a person dies, believed to leave the body with the deceased’s last breath. It is everything that was bad about the…
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Reading Time: 1 minute An Acheri is the ghost or spirit of a little girl who was either murdered or abused and left to die. She comes down from mountains and hilltops at night to bring sickness to humans,…
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