35 Bits of Paranormal Trivia We Think We Saw Out of the Corner of Our Eye

Some of these facts are here, but some are... Right behind you!!!
35 Bits of Paranormal Trivia We Think We Saw Out of the Corner of Our Eye

Want some furry little facts that crawled here from the pet sematary? 

They’re cute-ish, right? And okay, so “furry” was a bit of a sketch, but hey, there’s still some fur left on a few of them! Just try to pet around their rotting flesh and exposed bones! Think of a dead fact’s fur as half-full, not half-empty. Plus, if you’re up for it, they might share their little paranormal tidbits with you.

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Dracula

Bram Stocker's Dracula Dracula's castle is modeled after 1903's The Black Idol, by František Kupka - a Czech painter with a keen interest for the occult. CRACKED.COM
One popular way to see if someone was a witch was actually to weigh them. Witches were so light that they could float on water, the belief went, so suspects would get weighed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd has Tourette's and Asperger's and was born with webbed toes and two different colored eyes. CRACKED.COM His strange obsessions with law enforcement and ghosts later led to the idea for Ghostbusters and his unique line of vodka served in a crystal skull container.
European folklore has a smelly bull cryptid called the Bonnacon. CRACKED.COM This mythological crea- ture is said to have in- ward curling horns that are useless for defense, so it sprays caustic poop from its butt to escape pursuers.
CRACKED.COM Hamlet productions often use real skulls The 2008 production of Hamlet starring David Tennant uses composer André Tchaikowsky's skull, which he willed for that specific purpose. While not every Hamlet skull is a celebrity, stagings of the play have been using real human heads since at least 1755.
CRACKED.COM A Yugoslavian granny was a prolific serial killer. Ana Draxin, also known as Baba Anujka, prepared potions to help women with their marital troubles -which were often of the husband is an abusive asshole variety (and the potions were carefully measured arsenic). She killed between 50 and 150 people before she was caught in 1928.

Mummies

CRACKED.COM Loggers found a mummified dog inside a tree. Back in the 1980s, a group of loggers had the scare of their lives after cutting down a chestnut oak. The nightmare sight they found is believed to be a hunting dog that got stuck while chasing a prey, and was preserved by the tree's tannins.

Gas Lamps

CRACKED.COM Gas lamps might have contributed to Victorian ghosts. DE adidas With gas lighting being a new thing and regulations being not a thing at all, Victorian people weren't unlikely to inhale gas (not to mention the fires and explosions). Hallucinations caused by carbon monoxide poisoning might help explain the uptick in ghostly activity in the mid-1800s.

Haunting Paranormal Encounters

Jimmy Carter filed a report in 1973 for a UFO sighting four years prior. CRACKED.COM Carter, as well as 10 to 12 other people who wit- nessed the same event, described the object as 'very bright chang- ing colors and about the size of the moon.'

The Knocking

China's first astronaut says he heard something knock on his spaceship. Yang Liwei was alone in space when he heard the mysterious knocking, which he

Sailing Stones

CRACKED COM SAILING STONES are a mysterious natural phenomenon found only on dry lakebeds in California and Nevada. Rocks appear to move by themselves

A Mysterious Voice

A mysterious voice is hijacking the intercom on American Airline flights. American.... GRACKED.COM No one knows who is respon- sible, or how they are able to broadcast their groans over the announcement system. The moans were described as somewhere between an orgasm and vomiting.

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GHOST APPLES These phantasmic ghost apples are the result of icy rain that froze around ripening fruit. But since apples have a lower freezing point

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