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A churel is in India, the evil ghost of a woman who died in childbirth or ceremonial impurity. Originally, churels were ghosts of low-caste persons, whose corpses were buried face down to

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) Membership organization based in Buffalo, New York, devoted to debunking claims of the paranormal. CSICOP’s stated objectives are: to establish a

Sir William Crookes (1832–1919) was one of the 19th century’s greatest scientists, an honoured chemist and physicist, and an early investigator of Mediumship. Crookes sat with D.D. Home and Florence Cook, among

A deathwatch beetle is a small insect which makes a ticking or tapping sound as it bores into wood. The beetle is especially heard in woodwork, benches and wainscoting during the summer

Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596) was an English navigator, who, in legend, is reputed to have been a wizard. Sir Francis Drake supposedly remains in eternal slumber, ready to spring once again to

Dzibai (Ghost Midewiwin) The Mide Society (formerly the Midewiwin Society), the medicine society of the Ojibwa (Native Americans), a fraternity of initiates into the mysteries and healing arts, performs a ceremony called

The battle of Edgehill was the first major battle of the English Civil War, and one of the most famous cases of phantom army reenactments, is still witnessed in contemporary times. The intense battle

Societies have a wide variety of ways of disposing of their dead, ranging from exposure of the body on the ground or in the branches of a tree, to burial in boxes,

Ghosts of Angela Webb, The Independent film portraying a bizarre, true, and tragic Haunting of a privately owned house in New Jersey that captures its dead owners as Ghosts. The Ghosts of