Haunted Holidays
In one of last year's PRF holiday blog entries, we'd taken a look back at an old and long-forgotten holiday custom from the 19th century...
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Bryan Williams
May 12, 20195 min
Spontaneous Sightings of a Mother's Spectral Figure
In 1922 - a little over three decades after psychical researchers Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers, and Frank Podmore had initially...
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Bryan Williams
Feb 14, 20195 min
Another Touching Moment: A Second Tender Tactile Apparitional Experience
There have been a number of documented instances in which people say that they'd seen the spectral figure of a certain person suddenly...
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Bryan Williams
Dec 31, 20188 min
A Ghostly Encounter on New Year's Eve, 142 Years Ago
One of the earliest surveys conducted to find out how common apparitional experiences are among the general populace was done as far back...
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Bryan Williams
Dec 21, 201810 min
The Ghost (Story) of Christmas Past
Typically in our modern Western culture, Halloween has been considered the haunting time of the year - the time that has been most often...
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Bryan Williams
Oct 31, 20182 min
Ghostly Echoes Aboard "The Grey Ghost?"
There are a number of well-known places across the U.S. (and around the world) which carry a high-profile reputation for being haunted,...
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Bryan Williams
Feb 14, 20184 min
A Touching Moment: Revisiting a Tender Tactile Apparitional Experience
Although they don't seem to be very common, there have been limited occasions in which people reported apparitional experiences where...
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Bryan Williams
Sep 4, 20174 min
The Worker's Spirit: On Apparitional Sightings in the Workplace
While haunted houses may be commonly thought of as the main place for a ghostly encounter, some apparitions of deceased individuals have...
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Bryan Williams
Jul 30, 20172 min
Visions Near the Moment of Death
Among the various kinds of encounters that people report having with apparitions are those in which terminally ill patients report seeing...
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Bryan Williams
May 26, 20176 min
The Memorial Ghost
Traditionally, there has been a lot of ghostly folklore associated with graveyards and cemeteries, mainly due to their close ties with...
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Bryan Williams
Apr 16, 20175 min
A Spectral Encounter at Easter Time
Encounters with apparitions have reportedly taken place within a number of situational contexts. The one which most people tend to...
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Bryan Williams
Dec 31, 20164 min
A Ghostly Visit on New Year's Eve, 90 Years Ago
Often times, haunted houses are readily thought of as the setting for encounters of a ghostly nature. But apparitions are also...
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Bryan Williams
Dec 24, 20165 min
A Christmas Visit from a Lost Love: On the Apparitional Experiences of Widows & Widowers
Many of the encounters that people have with apparitions (or ghosts) of the dead take place over a wide range of time, from days, to...
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Bryan Williams
Oct 31, 20167 min
Looking Back at the Ghostly Case of "The Scratched Cheek"
Although popular depictions in fiction novels, movies, and TV shows might initially lead us to think otherwise, many of the real-life...
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Bryan Williams
Aug 15, 20161 min
Spirit Photography: Some Considerations on its Capture & Interpretation
In the course of investigating an allegedly haunted site, paranormal investigators often employ the use of cameras in an attempt to...
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Bryan Williams
May 21, 20161 min
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): Some Considerations in Recording & Interpretation
Paranormal investigators tend to use a variety of methods and techniques in their attempts to gather evidence for the existence of...
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Bryan Williams
Dec 12, 20151 min
Place Memory & Residual Haunting
Many of the apparitions (or ghosts) that people have reportedly seen nowadays at reputedly haunted locations hardly seem to resemble the...
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Bryan Williams
Sep 1, 20152 min
Arrival Apparitions ("Vardøgr")
Typically in popular culture, apparitions are depicted as representing the spirits of deceased individuals. But there are also a number...
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