-Guest post by the Banshee The greatest skill I bring to my work with the spirit world is the fact that I have paid attention to the “wages of sin” or the consequences of generations of psychological and physical abuse in my family. So when I am called into a spiritual situation, no matter how [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
– 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
There is much that we do not understand about human existence. The puzzle pieces lie all around us, but perhaps our minds are not evolved enough to see them. Near death experiences(NDE) seem to lie at the heart of humankind’s greatest questions: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? [...]
The modern worldview does not make it easy to believe in the afterlife. Science leaves little room for a conception of life after death. It’s much simpler, more logical, to view human consciousness as an immaterial interface that arises from neurochemical processes in the brain. Meaning there is no soul, no life after death. The [...]
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 [...]
Project Blue Beam is a highly controversial conspiracy theory. Originally proposed by Canadian journalist Serge Monast in 1994, it holds that the New World Order will use advanced holographic technology in order to create a false flag alien invasion and/or a worldwide religious ‘awakening’ in order to achieve servitude by the masses and acceptance of [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Area 51 is simultaneously one of the most cliched and most enigmatic subjects in American popular culture and has been since the Roswell incidents in the late forties. It begs the question: how could so little be known about something that is talked about so much? And the even more haunting question: if our government [...]
“WHEN THERE’S NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH.” That was the tagline from Giorgio Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. It speaks of a battered and bleak vision of humanity. The quote is derived from a Haitian voodoo religion called Santeria. Practitioners of Voodoo have long believed that sorcerers are responsible [...]
Astronomers have discovered a new orphan planet, this one just outside our solar system, and some are claiming that it is none other than the legendary Planet X, or Nibiru. This newest “rogue” alien planet, officially labelled CFBDSIR2149, is a gas giant four times larger than Jupiter. It is only 100 light years away from [...]