The Case of Elisa Lam: Grisly Murder or Paranormal Possession
On February 21st 2013, a maintenance worker responding to complaints by guests of the Cecil Hotel in East Los Angeles, discovered a decomposing body at the bottom of the hotel’s water tank. For 19 days hotel guests had bathed, brushed their teeth and drank of the water despite its “funny, sweet, disgusting taste.” The body [...]
The Dark Side Of Disneyland: Is The Happiest Place on Earth Haunted?
One could fill an encyclopedia with all of Disneyland’s hidden worlds and histories. Since 1955 over 600 million people have walked through Disneyland’s magical gates. But legend has it that some of them never left. You see, Disneyland is said to be one of the most haunted areas in California. Guests and cast members alike [...]
Ancient Hauntings: So Easy A Caveman Ghost Can Do It
This post is about cavemen ghosts and dinosaur ghosts. Yes. If you’re smirking let us humbly point out that half the world’s religions believe in deities arising from the dead. Are prehistoric ghosts really that much more absurd? People interested in paranormal activity often speak of ancient Indian burial grounds haunted by tribal spirits. But [...]
The Mysterious History of the Ouija Board
The origins of the Ouija board are shrouded in mystery, but there is evidence to suggest they may have arisen from ancient civilizations. According to occult historians, the first historical mention of something resembling a Ouija board was found in China around 1200 B.C. The Chinese would guide a stick around a tray filled with [...]
Hollywood’s Most Haunted and Cursed Movie Sets
Every now and then a horror movie comes along that is so plagued by deaths and disaster that one can’t help but wonder if the film production itself might be haunted or cursed. What many of us may not realize is that some horror movies were just as terrifying to create as they are to [...]
The Most Convincing Ghosts on Video Ever
The web is saturated with sites featuring amateur ghost videos. After all, capturing a ghost on video is the holy grail of a paranormal investigation. On YouTube, most of the ghost videos are fabricated. Unfortunately these hoaxes are mixed in with a gold mine of video that homeowners have shot featuring authentic paranormal phenomena. Remember: [...]
Are Shapeshifters Among Us?
Let’s be clear: your average eye witness account of a shapeshifter has probably not been verified, just as the phenomenon of shapeshifting hasn’t been proven in any capacity. But most paranormal activity will never be accepted as legitimate by the mainstream, if only because the scientific community as a whole refuses to study it or [...]
Does the Ghost of Lincoln Haunt The White House?
It’s been made no secret that Michelle Obama is part of a long legacy of White House residents to have sensed paranormal happenings and ghost sightings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For as much guff as Rosalynn Carter got over her New Age beliefs, no less than half a dozen other First Ladies have reported far [...]
Grandpa Ghost
Although hauntings are fairly common, the photograph of a ghost is rarely claimed. When a ghost photograph is discovered that defies explanation, they are almost always photographed by accident. The photograph above was taken by Denise Russell of her grandmother on August 17, 1997. It wasn’t until three years later that she noticed a mysterious [...]
The Ghost on the Stairs
We here at Ghost Diaries think about ghosts frequently. Well, we think about a lot of paranormal things. But ghosts, for whatever reason, have a particular resonance. Perhaps this is because proof of ghosts, or of some kind of continuum between life and death, would offer a counter-argument to the far more horrifying vacuousness of [...]
