Castle Specters
Science or Supernatural?
Paranormal Encounters in Nature Reserves
Supernatural
Creepy Psychology
100

This Scottish fortress is home to the Green Lady, said to wander its halls in a dress the color of sea-glass.

What is Crathes Castle?

100

This natural phenomenon once thought to be ghostly lights in the sky is now explained by charged particles colliding with Earth’s atmosphere

What are the auroras?

100

Travelers have reported seeing ghostly figures and mysterious lights in this famous Scottish wilderness area, known for its rugged beauty.

What is the Cairngorms?

100

This phenomenon is often described as the appearance of a deceased person’s spirit.

What is a ghost?

100

A fear of clowns is one of the most common phobias and is known by this name

What is coulrophobia?

200

This ruined English stronghold is haunted by the Brown Lady, famously photographed descending a staircase in 1936.

What is Raynham Hall?

200

Sleep paralysis, often described as being pinned down by spirits, is explained by this stage of sleep when the body is immobilized.

What is REM sleep?

200

In this U.S. national park, visitors have claimed to see apparitions of pioneer settlers and strange, unexplained sounds at night.

What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

200

This Latin word for “to predict” is the root of a term for foretelling the future through supernatural means

What is divination?

200

When you hear a creepy story and start to believe you feel or see something too, you’re experiencing this “contagious” group reaction

What is mass hysteria?

300

This Czech castle, built over a mysterious pit said to lead to Hell, is home to legends of winged demons.

What is Houska Castle?

300

This psychological effect explains why people see faces in clouds or hear voices in static.

What is pareidolia?

300

The legend of the “White Lady” ghost has been reported in this historic forest reserve in Ireland, often seen near old ruins.

What is the Killarney National Park?

300

Objects said to move on their own in haunted houses are sometimes blamed on this type of spirit.

What is a poltergeist?

300

This eerie phenomenon makes you think you’ve seen or experienced something before, even when you haven’t.

What is déjà vu?

400

This Irish castle claims the ghost of a murdered son known as the “Blue Boy,” whose cries were reportedly heard at midnight.

What is Charleville Castle?

400

Reports of haunted houses often coincide with exposure to this invisible gas, which can cause hallucinations and fear.

What is carbon monoxide?

400

Tourists in this Brazilian rainforest reserve have reported encounters with mysterious, glowing orbs and strange whispers in the trees.

What is the Amazon Rainforest?

400

This nighttime experience, often mistaken for the supernatural, involves being unable to move while sensing a presence.

What is sleep paralysis?

400

People who believe a spirit is watching them might really just be feeling the effects of this powerful emotion

What is fear (or anxiety)?

500

This French fortress, once a royal residence, is reportedly haunted by the headless ghost of Anne Boleyn during certain stormy nights.

What is the Château de Blois?

500

This branch of science studies claims of extrasensory perception, though controlled experiments have failed to provide consistent evidence.

What is parapsychology?

500

Some visitors have claimed to see shadowy figures and hear disembodied voices in this ancient woodland in England, associated with local legends.

What is Sherwood Forest?

500

The 19th-century movement where people held séances to contact the dead was called this.

What is Spiritualism?

500

When someone keeps remembering something that never actually happened, it’s called this spooky memory mix-up.

What is a false memory?

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