Picking up where I left off in my last post , I want to respond to chapter 6 in Rey Hernandez, et al., edd., Beyond UFOs (United States: The...

Because Christians have been so negligent about paranormal issues for so long, they're poorly prepared to address a large number and var...

In a post last week , I mentioned the possibility that an apparition of the dead involves a place memory or an appearance of a deceased huma...

Greg Koukl addressed the issue of interacting with the dead on a recent podcast. Start listening at 50:16 here . He was responding to a Chri...

A few years ago, after I'd finished listening to the Enfield tapes, I wrote at length about my view of the voice allegedly produced by ...

I've often discussed apparent differences between the entity behind the poltergeist and the individuals sometimes alleged to have faked ...

Here are some comments I posted in a YouTube discussion about prayers to the dead. This was written in response to somebody's citation o...

Earlier this year, Billy Hallowell published a book on demons, ghosts, and other paranormal topics . He was recently interviewed by Sean McD...

1. The dead What, if anything, do the dead know about the living? Catholicism has an elaborate mythology, as do various pagan faiths. ...

The Enfield case arguably began with an apparition, and apparitions were still being reported around thirty years later. Margaret Hodgson r...

Paranormal cases often involve knocking of some sort. But it's unusual to have as much evidence for the paranormality of the knocking as...

Steve linked to a video by Jon Topping about paranormal issues . I've addressed these subjects many times before. You can find an overvi...

I have a few quibbles with some of what Jon Topping says, but this is a generally helpful presentation: https://www.facebook.com/p2c.stude...

If a poltergeist talks, there's potential to get more information from it. But the value of the information you get is going to depend, ...

The hardest Enfield tapes to listen to are the ones that feature the Hodgson children in altered states of consciousness, primarily in Nove...

Patrick Chan and I have updated the bibliography for this post: https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/02/bell-book-candle.html In additio...

Exorcists are associated with expelling demons from the possessed. A related, but neglected category, is ghost-layers. Unlike an e...

Concerns regarding sleep disorders in Hmong immigrants in the US emerged when an astonishingly high mortality rate of Sudden Unexplained No...

In the year of his death, Richard Baxter, a preeminent Puritan, published  The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits . As he explains: Wh...

This seems to be the Japanese equivalent of Old Hag syndrome: https://randalrauser.com/2011/02/awake-in-japan-a-first-person-account-of-de...