The world is a noisy place these days. Is it thunder, fireworks, earthquake sounds? Could it be HAARP, the magnetic poles shifting, the earth moaning cause, you know, it’s old and stuff…? Obviously, it may be horns from heaven, heralding the coming Apocalypse… Or alien spacecraft. Or Bigfoot. Or, maybe it’s just the normal noises around here..

Hairless animals are weird looking. Hairless dead animals freak people the hell out. Hairless monkeys? Sad. Hairless humanoids (no matter how lame) make people panic. Hairless coyotes, foxes, dogs, raccoons, yada, yada, yada? They are now called chupacabras…

Ryan Buell wants to believe. Paranormal State was not a “reality documentary” show that he says it is, but a paean to his will to believe and the producers’ efforts to convince the viewer to believe too. I want to believe in cool, spooky stuff too but I guess I have higher standards for evidence [...]

Now that ghost hunting has gone mainstream, there’s no doubt that many folks around the country, including you, have friends and relatives who fancy themselves paranormal investigators, and it’s a fair bet that they’d like some cool new equipment for Christmas. But before you rush out and get them that shiny new EMF meter, you should ask yourself, “am I wasting my money?” This week, David Francis, an independent paranormal investigator, brings us a guest piece on what you shouldn’t buy your ghost hunter, and why.

A few weeks ago, the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society submitted a piece to WF on the urban legend status of Thomas Edison’s so-called “telephone-to-the-dead” plans. It was met with a lot of arguments about Thomas Edison’s belief’s and how “even if he never built or planned a phone to the dead, he believed in communicating with the deceased, so it must be possible since he’s a genious, right?” This week, the RMPRS gives us part two of that discussion with “How did Edison Really Feel About Talking to the Dead?”

Last week we asked Alison Smith, founder of Skeptical Analysis of Paranormal Society (SAPS), to write us an article with the vague direction of “something about how skeptics view believers.” Not missing a beat, Alison sent over an article that very uniquely (and hilariously) explains the path that at least one skeptic takes to come to the conclusion of, well, having no conclusion. That article is “Gnome Hunters: Skeptics and ‘You’ People.”

Have you ever wondered where urban legends come from? Have you wondered how is it that they can manage evolve into ageless tales that we whisper to so many others so they, in turn, can whisper it in the ears of even more people still? Elvis Podvorac of Toronto’s ‘Shadows Project’ has wondered the same thing…

Lately there have been a few people (most notably the relatively unknown Chistopher Moon) using a few devices that supposedly open two-way communication with the deceased. While this is not a new claim in the paranormal by any means, they do claim one unique thing : that the device was invented by Thomas Edison.

So was Edison really working on a telephone to the dead before his death? The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society does a little digging for the truth.