Castle Specters
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?
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?
Travelers have reported seeing ghostly figures and mysterious lights in this famous Scottish wilderness area, known for its rugged beauty.
What is the Cairngorms?
This phenomenon is often described as the appearance of a deceased person’s spirit.
What is a ghost?
A fear of clowns is one of the most common phobias and is known by this name
What is coulrophobia?
This ruined English stronghold is haunted by the Brown Lady, famously photographed descending a staircase in 1936.
What is Raynham Hall?
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?
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?
This Latin word for “to predict” is the root of a term for foretelling the future through supernatural means
What is divination?
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?
This Czech castle, built over a mysterious pit said to lead to Hell, is home to legends of winged demons.
What is Houska Castle?
This psychological effect explains why people see faces in clouds or hear voices in static.
What is pareidolia?
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?
Objects said to move on their own in haunted houses are sometimes blamed on this type of spirit.
What is a poltergeist?
This eerie phenomenon makes you think you’ve seen or experienced something before, even when you haven’t.
What is déjà vu?
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?
Reports of haunted houses often coincide with exposure to this invisible gas, which can cause hallucinations and fear.
What is carbon monoxide?
Tourists in this Brazilian rainforest reserve have reported encounters with mysterious, glowing orbs and strange whispers in the trees.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This nighttime experience, often mistaken for the supernatural, involves being unable to move while sensing a presence.
What is sleep paralysis?
People who believe a spirit is watching them might really just be feeling the effects of this powerful emotion
What is fear (or anxiety)?
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?
This branch of science studies claims of extrasensory perception, though controlled experiments have failed to provide consistent evidence.
What is parapsychology?
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?
The 19th-century movement where people held séances to contact the dead was called this.
What is Spiritualism?
When someone keeps remembering something that never actually happened, it’s called this spooky memory mix-up.
What is a false memory?