On the Spooky Side.....

Emily's Blog

About Paranormal Phenomena

Chasing the Shadows

Ghost Pictures

Halloween Scream Stream (5 hours of streaming audio)

Haunted Colorado

How Scary Movies Stoke Fear (NPR podcast)

How to Tell a Ghost Story (YouTube video)

Museum of Talking Boards

Prairie Ghosts

Virtual Haunted House

Why We Love Scary Movies

Wikipedia: Ghost

Wikipedia: Paranormal


On the Skeptic Side.....

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
     The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is a non-profit scientific and educational organization whose mission is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial or extraordinary claims. It encourages the critical investigation of these claims from a responsible, scientific point of view, and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community, the media, and the public.

James Randi Educational Foundation
     The James Randi Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996. Its aim is to promote critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas. To raise public awareness of these issues, the Foundation offers a $1,000,000 prize to any person or persons who can demonstrate any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability of any kind under mutually agreed upon scientific conditions.

Snopes Rumor Has It
     An impressively large collection of both modern and classic urban legends, common fallacies, misinformation, wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items. Stories are classified as true, false, multiple truth values, undetermined, and unclassified. Is it true that one of the women in the James Bond Film For Your Eyes Only used to be a man? Go here to find out!

A Collection of Psychology Today Articles:
     Alien Abductions: The Real Deal? by Kaja Perina
          What leads people to believe they've been abducted by aliens?
     Confessions of a Star Psychic by Keith Harary
          The famous, flashy, hot young psychic who began to question his own extraordinary abilities.
     Do the Spirits Move You? by Jill Neimark
          Focuses on the growing enchantment of Americans with all things paranormal.
     Desperately Seeking Spirituality by Eugene Taylor
          Our concept of spirituality is undergoing enormous change, including how religion is penetrating scientific circles.
     Is There a Sixth Sense? by Dean Radin, Colleen Rae, Ray Hyman
           Some experts claim that hunches might actually foretell the future. Others aren't so sure.
     Magical Thinking by Matthew Hutson    
          Even hard-core skeptics can't help but find sympathy in the fabric of the universe- and occasionally try to pull its strings.
     Para Versus Normal by Keith Harary
          A hard look at perception. We have seen the paranormal, and it is us.
     Sacred Places by Winifred Gallagher
          Our actions, thoughts and feelings are shaped not just by our genes and neurochemistry, but also by our surroundings.