December 22, 2010Ballybane, Galway, IrelandMichael Faherty (76) dies in his home; his death is officially ruled spontaneous combustion Faherty was found in his sitting room, laying on his back with his head near an open fireplace, though the fireplace was determined not to have been the source of the fire. His body was “totally burnt,”…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s spiritual photography and ectoplasm studies criticized
From The Washington Times (Washington DC; top) and The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama; bottom) Both published May 20, 1922 Famed author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the subject of journalistic ire with his claims of spiritual photography and paranormal studies of ectoplasm.
Happy Paranormal Day!
May 3rd is Paranormal Day! This photograph is of the Brown Lady taken in 1936 at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. Allegedly, Country Life magazine had already taken photographs of the staircase when a photographer’s assistant, Indre Shira, saw “a vapoury form gradually assuming the appearance of a woman” and a photograph was quickly taken.…
“Hitler’s Jewish Psychic” found dead
April 7, 1933 Berlin, Germany Clairvoyant, occultist, hypnotist, and illusionist Erik Jan Hanussen, sometimes referred to as "Hitler's Jewish Psychic," is found dead Hanussen rose to fame as a clairvoyant after predicting the Reichstag fire in February of 1933, an arson attack in the Reichstag building housing German parliament. However, this prediction was possibly less…
