Paranormal Parenting
I woke up with a start the other night because I swore I heard someone knocking. All that I could think was that one of my friends was intoxicated and knocking on my door wondering if I had any more...
View ArticleThe old Team Gets Back Together for one More Mission in ‘Ghosts’
The old Titans team gets together again in ‘Ghosts’ Last time on Titans, this new team has started training together. Dick wanted them to be at their best, but Jason wasn’t a big fan of it. When they...
View ArticleHome by Margaret Salmon
Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses the physical material of film, and expressive bodies, to interpret emotional and imaginative relationships between daily tasks, gendered histories and restorative...
View ArticleThe Residents of Alexandria are on Edge in ‘Ghosts’
It seems like a familiar foe may have come back in ‘Ghosts’ Last time on The Walking Dead, we saw how Alpha and Beta first met. It was a rocky relationship at first, but they found a way to build it...
View ArticleMy Ex is Stalking Me
I can’t go a day without being bothered by him. His face leers at me when I’m in the bathroom or washing dishes, disrupting my ho-hum calm. I’m walking out of my house and his car passes by — 20...
View ArticleThe Legend of the Whip-poor-will
The year was 1981, and I was 15 years old. My dad and I had spent the day working on our Christmas tree farm at the base of Booger Mountain (in Taylorsville, N.C.) with two other hired hands — Randy...
View ArticleHalloween Tropes Explained: Final Girl & Death by Sex
We look at how the Final Girl & Death by Sex became staples of the horror genre. . . Transcript provided by Youtube: 00:01 name the killer Halloween no come on 00:05 it’s your favorite scary...
View ArticleOctober Surprise: The Scary Truth
The Season of Dark Everyone who celebrates Halloween follows a similar tradition each year: the bringing out of boxes of decorations. As the crypt creaks open, the little witches and goblins and ghosts...
View ArticleThe Real Value of Dreams
I used to take comfort in meeting old friends and family who had gone on to their greater reward. During the night, when I was younger, they would visit. So real, solid, right there in the room, I...
View ArticleVisitors From the Past
I believe in ghosts. Sometimes, in the night, I see them. People who had passed away. So real, solid, right there in the room, I can feel them. I always wonder if they came to tell me something, pass...
View ArticleHere for the Magic
Lost in the Moment There’s a picture of me as a young boy, standing in a baseball field at dusk. I was about 11-years-old, wearing gray sweatpants and a blue-collared shirt. I had a clean haircut,...
View ArticleA Ghostly Encounter
When he spoke, the hairs on my neck stood on end. Clichéd, sure, but it happened. My blood ran cold, my heart stopped, I jumped out of my skin. Ok, those things didn’t happen, but I tell you, I was...
View ArticleGhosts, the Kindest of the Undead
Everlasting life does have some appeal. A terrible attraction formed in the earliest days of mankind, a desire that spawned legends of the undead, specters rising from their shallow graves hanging onto...
View ArticleGhost Story
I’m sensitive. No, really, I am. I’m a grown man scared of ghosts. My son Eli’s horror movie phase only lasted about a year. As a young teenager, he blew through an extensive list of well-known titles....
View ArticleThe Lever and Fulcrum
Wewere visited recently by a couple of friends from Tarboro, North Carolina, our previous home in the U.S, and while their short visit was filled mostly with wine, food, and sightseeing, it did...
View ArticleSecurity Measures, but, Don’t Get Any Ideas
Here, at the top secret Life Explained (#lifeexplained) headquarters, we are keenly aware of security. Conducting research into matters vital to national security, world peace, the eradication of...
View ArticleMedium Matt Fraser Reveals What Comes After Death
Top psychic medium Matt Fraser has been receiving communication from spirit since early childhood. Some of his earliest memories are of seeing, hearing and sensing messages from the Other Side the way...
View Article(True Story) This Spirit Will Never Rest Until She Gets Justice
“ …we should pass over all biographies of ‘the good and the great,’ while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows. ~Edgar Allan Poe...
View Article10 Creepy, Haunted Historical Experiences in Florida
By Gabrielle Reeder It’s not all sunshine in the Sunshine State. Florida’s hot, humid southern state offers some of the spookiest haunts in the South. From possessed dolls to theatres with live-in...
View ArticleAre Ghosts Real? A Social Psychologist Examines the Evidence
Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is...
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