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Movie Review: V/H/S 2 and the Horror Panopticon
We’re in the Golden Age of the found footage genre. In the empire of the panopticon, horror movies thrive off 24/7 street surveillance, surgical cameras, security cameras, microscopic cameras, smartphones, webcams, etc. We live in a hunted, stalked society, consumed and regurgitated like a freshly turned zombie’s black bile. Cameras are everywhere–watching our carefully scripted [...]
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The 40 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made: Part Two
It’s hard to explain why we love zombie movies so much. It’s more than the fear or the gore. It’s more than the camp or the B-movie nostalgia. There’s just something fundamentally exciting, almost poetic, about the idea of the undead chasing down living humans and eating them alive. And more importantly, there’s something both [...]
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Movie Review: The Purge
Guest Post by Billy Russell The premise in The Purge is a pretty original one: For twelve hours in one day of the year, all crime is legal. Because of this, all Americans have the opportunity to purge their sins without legal repercussion and violent crime is at an all-time low. Things are going well [...]
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Confessions of a Paranormal Researcher Pt. 1
– Guest Post by the Banshee Anyone who tells you that he or she is a “paranormal expert” should probably not be trusted. This might be a strange way to start a series of posts on The Ghost Diaries about my own paranormal work and research. Call me way too traditional, but I do not [...]
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Time Travel Vs Space Travel
We humans are fond of asking hypothetical questions. Sometimes these come in the form of torturous, disgusting ultimatums: would you rather make out with a drugged warthog for half an hour or live in a sewer for a week? Or in the form of potential superpowers: would you rather have the ability to fly or [...]
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The 40 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made: Part One
You asked for it and we’re delivering the goods. We’ve watched over 150 zombie movies in order to compile this list. Our minds are lost. And yes, this includes many different types of zombies. Whether they’re infected with a virus, or turned undead by a voodoo curse or radioactive goo, as long as they resemble [...]
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The Changeling (1980): Subtle Horror Masterpiece
A ghost story is a hard one to manage. As far as concocting a scary story for a horror movie, it’s easy for a movie about a haunting to slip into utter ridiculousness as each scare, by formulaic definition, must top the last one until, at the very end of the movie, anything that once [...]
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The Synchronicity of Evil: 8 Coincidences That Will Creep You The Hell Out
We’ve all experienced instances of synchronicity in our lives, moments that seem so incredibly coincidental it’s as if the cosmos themselves are laughing at us. The Ghost Diaries decided to gather the most haunting coincidences ever reported. Prepare yourself for some of the most sinister examples of synchronicity you could possibly imagine…and remember, they actually [...]
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The Creepy Urban Legend of the Black Eyed Kids
For a few years now, a collection of strange stories about black eyed kids has been bouncing around the Internet via paranormal forums and supernatural chat rooms. These stories have a single originating point–a creepy experience reported by journalist Brian Bethel on January 16, 1998. Brian claims he was approached in his car by two [...]
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Top 15 Found Footage Horror Movies Of All Time
Those of us here in the Ghost Diaries’ underground cave are avid fans of the found footage horror genre, so much so that we’ve seen virtually every offering put out there–the good, the bad and the ugly. We decided to put out our own list of the best found footage horror movies ever made. Keep [...]
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The Best Horror Movies Of 2012
As explorers of the paranormal realm, we here at The Ghost Diaries relish few things more than a great horror movie. In fact, the horror movie genre is about as close as we get to transcendence. Fortunately, 2012 turned out to be a beast of a year in this department, as over a dozen quality [...]
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Was Stanley Kubrick Killed By The Illuminati?
One of the more outlandish conspiracy theories holds that Stanley Kubrick was killed by the Illuminati for revealing too much about the secret society in his final film Eyes Wide Shut. While the official cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest (certainly not shocking for a 70 year-old man), some conspiracists point to the [...]
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Attorney Claims Photographic Proof Of Time Travel
“The time-space age has begun.” — Andrew D. Basiago In decades past, the concepts of time travel and timeslips were relegated to pop culture references to Back to the Future and The Terminator. But, according to “chrononaut” and american lawyer Andrew Basiago, time travel not only exists, it is part of a real life Philadelphia [...]
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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 [...]
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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: [...]
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UFOs and Aliens in Ancient Art
The earliest depictions of ancient aliens and UFOs are those carved on a mountain in Hunan, China. They are said to be dated 47,000 years old, which puts them in the time span of the Neanderthal man, predating Homo-sapiens. These paintings seem to suggest early encounters with unknown beings and, perhaps, visitations from extraterrestrials. The [...]
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UFO Flies into a Volcano in Mexico
The Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico has become a UFO hot spot in the last decade. Dozens of UFO sightings have been captured on video around this Volcano. Some of them obvious hoaxes and others are still unexplained. On Oct. 25th 2012 a television station in Mexico broadcast a cylindrical shaped UFO landing in the Popocatepetl [...]
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The Universe Is A Simulation, say German Physicists
The Ghost Diaries focuses on the unexplained – paranormal happenings that fall outside our standard categories for what constitutes reality. Usually this entails an analysis of a ghost sighting, a UFO, or a juicy conspiracy theory. But sometimes we come across something so bizarre, so utterly mind-boggling, that although it doesn’t meet our usual definition [...]
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Was A 5,000 Year Old Vimana Unearthed in Afghanistan?
*Featured image by Gustvoc The idea of ancient aliens, ancient UFOs, and ancient astronauts have often skirted around depictions of Vimanas, elaborate dirigibles from India that supposedly predated modern technology. In the Sanskrit texts “Vimanas” refer to religious temples. Interpretations of what these temples actually were run the gamut from interstellar spaceships to early prototypes [...]
Top 10 Scenes From The Walking Dead Part 2
****SPOILERS BELOW**** It’s been a couple weeks now and the withdrawal is starting to kick in. After consuming 2 and 1/2 nail-biting seasons of The Walking Dead, The Ghost Diaries now finds itself jonesing for new episodes, much as a walker might fiend for human flesh. If you were able to check out our Top [...]
Creepiest Santa Clauses From Christmas Past
“He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake”. While most of us enjoy drinking egg nog and being merry at Christmas time, for some kids the idea of Santa Claus can be an absolutely terrifying prospect. A fat man who lives in a glacier and has telepathic control over a pack of [...]
Dark Matter and Aliens–Is There A Connection?
If you’re like us, you’ve probably laid in bed at night wondering, “Where are all the aliens?” Radio astronomer Frank Drake once estimated that there are 10,000 advanced civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy alone. This calculation is known as the Drake equation. Carl Sagan upped the number to a million. And these figures are [...]
The Best Horror Movies Of 2012
As explorers of the paranormal realm, we here at The Ghost Diaries relish few things more than a great horror movie. In fact, the horror movie genre is about as close as we get to transcendence. Fortunately, 2012 turned out to be a beast of a year in this department, as over a dozen quality [...]
Was Stanley Kubrick Killed By The Illuminati?
One of the more outlandish conspiracy theories holds that Stanley Kubrick was killed by the Illuminati for revealing too much about the secret society in his final film Eyes Wide Shut. While the official cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest (certainly not shocking for a 70 year-old man), some conspiracists point to the [...]
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 [...]
Top 10 Scenes From The Walking Dead Pt. 1
***SPOILERS BELOW*** As avid fans of the zombie genre, The Ghost Diaries unabashedly declares AMC’s The Walking Dead the ‘gift that keeps on giving.’ It’s a creepy-as-hell, never-ending zombie saga featuring richly drawn characters that we actually care about, and incredibly violent carnage to boot. Now that the show’s intense third season is on hiatus [...]
Real Vampire Hunter Kits From The 1800s
One of the most intriguing mysteries of the 18th century involves the manufacturing and selling of vampire killing kits. Several vampire hunter kits have turned up in recent years, and some have sold for exorbitant amounts of money. The true origin of these vampire kits is shrouded in mystery. Although it can’t be 100 percent [...]
Attorney Claims Photographic Proof Of Time Travel
“The time-space age has begun.” — Andrew D. Basiago In decades past, the concepts of time travel and timeslips were relegated to pop culture references to Back to the Future and The Terminator. But, according to “chrononaut” and american lawyer Andrew Basiago, time travel not only exists, it is part of a real life Philadelphia [...]
