In 1992, the supernatural fighting game Mortal Kombat took American arcades by storm. By the end of the year, Mortal Kombat was topping...

Throughout the modern era there has been a popular appetite for occult-themed experiences. Think back to those wonderful phantasmagoria...

In 1886 the famed Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson published the gothic novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Since its...

Celebrity spirits have been a part of modern spiritualism since its origin in the late 1840s. As a classic example, there was one evening...

A little while ago, I was strolling through social media posts when I came upon the image of a pair of shoes made in the early 1880s....

Tables have long been important objects in séances. While sitting around these pieces of furniture, séance participants (often guided by...

There is a long-standing discussion in studies of spiritualism centred on the credibility of photographic evidence. Can a photograph be...

The first time many people encounter the phenomenon known as ectoplasm is while watching the 1984 classic Ghostbusters. Early into the...

When one thinks of stage magicians during the early decades of the twentieth century, they usually think of the big names like Harry...

In 1932 the famed psychical researcher Harry Price travelled to the Harz Mountains in Germany to conduct an experiment using...

The famous magician Harry Houdini was a leading spirit and psychic investigator during the 1920s. His most famous published work on the...

With the holiday season fast approaching, I thought I would write a short festive entry about ghosts and Christmas. Are there any better...

When modern spiritualism first arrived on British shores in 1852 with the American medium Maria B. Hayden, it created a sensation. It was...

There is a long history of spiritualists using new kinds of technologies to enhance their abilities to communicate with entities beyond...

Not so long ago I wrote a short Twitter thread about the early twentieth-century Irish medium Kathleen Goligher. There has been a lot of...

Among academics, Ira Erastus (1839-1911) and William Henry Davenport (1841-1877) are two of the most renowned (or infamous) mediums of...

We often think of mediumship as a nineteenth-century phenomena. Usually, spiritualists attribute the origins of their movement to the Fox...

What does this World War 2 Morrison shelter have to do with paranormal investigations? Answer: it marks the beginning of a fascinating...

Although she is relatively unkown today, during the second half of the nineteenth century, Lottie Fowler (née Charlotte Connelly) was one...

SOURCE Spirit photograph of Mrs. Tebb (left), Georgiana Houghton (middle), Agnes Guppy-Volckman (right) circa the early 1870s. Elisabeth...