45 Chilling Paranormal Tidbits That Feel Right at Home in Your Quivering Spine

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45 Chilling Paranormal Tidbits That Feel Right at Home in Your Quivering Spine

We hope that it’s daytime wherever you are, because finding these terrifying tidbits at noon was honestly pretty frightening. We couldn’t imagine reading them for the first time at night, so if it’s pitch black out, we won’t judge you for waiting till morning. You can bookmark this bad boy and peruse some much lighter, less horrifying lists in the meantime. You’ll be able to get a good night’s sleep and be well-rested for all the horror! 

Sweet dreams.

7th Sons

Argentinians in the early 20th century thought the 7th son born to a family would turn into a werewolf. The belief was so wide- spread that parents would kill or put up for adoption the child. In the 1920s, a law was passed that the 7th son would automatically receive godfathership of the presi- dent of Argentina. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Genetics Hot-Spot Haunted by Three Specters

The Eagle (where Watson and Crick described DNA over a lunchtime beer) houses three ghostly children who died in a fire. They create a powerful feeling of suffocation if a certain upstairs window is ever closed. That's... not science! CRACKED

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45 Chilling Paranormal Tidbits That Feel Right at Home in Your Quivering Spine

The Death-Foretelling Undertaker

CLOVERLAND 100 STEPS CEMETERY CLOSED DUSK TO-DAWN The 19th-century cemetery in Brazil has 100 steps, and counting them as you climb will lead to a ghostly undertaker appearing at the top and showing you a vision of your death. That sounds, of course, appalling. Don't do it. CRACKED

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Death Calls

THE MAN WHO PHONED HIS FAMILY, EVEN THOUGH НЕ WAS ALREADY DEAD. In 2008, a Metrolink train crashed in the northern San Fernando Valley, killing 25 people, including Charles Peck who died instantly. His family, however, started getting calls throughout the night from his phone. The calls kept coming for about 12 hours, and when they answered, there was only silence on the other end. His phone probably went haywire from the crash. Probably. CRACKED.COM

Hairy Hands

CRACKED.COM An unusually high number of accidents in a road crossing Dartmoor, in Devon, England, have been attributed to the Hairy Hands, a pair of disembodied hands that appear out of nowhere and wrench vehicles off the road.

On-Camera Ghosts

In a Queensland family photo with five people, a ghostly sixth person apparently showed up. Although the white shape looks like it might be a splash o

The Ghost of Muriel’s Jackson Square

At Muriel's Jackson Square, there's a table set with bread and wine permanently off-limits to the living. It's reserved for the ghost of the former owner, Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan, who took his own life there in 1814 but remains, occasionally smashing shit. CRACKED

The Cursed PS2

A PlayStation 2 disc was believed to be cursed - and it was (kind of). It was an internet myth for years: Kids who played some PS2 demo disc freaked out when disturbing images appeared on screen. The disc was finally identified in October 2020, containing for some unknown reason a trailer for the Japanese horror film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. PlayStation SELECT START ANALOG CRACKED.COM

The Axe Murder House

A GHOST HUNTER STABBED HIMSELF IN THE AXE MURDER HOUSE. THE Villisca Ax Murder House JUNE 10 1912 The famous Villisca Axe Murder house in lowa is thought to be haunted by the family murdered there in 1912. In 2014, a group of paranormal investigators stayed at the house overnight. One of them, Robert Steven Laursen Jr., was alone in his bedroom when he started calling for help on a two-way radio. The group found him stabbed in the chest, and he was rushed to the hospital. The incident happened around 12:45 AM, the same time as the 1912 murders.

Zombie Prevention

Face-down burials prevented zombie infestations. Rich folks in the Middle Ages were sometimes buried face- down, as an act of humility to God-but in times of plague, face-down burials spiked, even among the poor. In the medieval mind, plague and the undead were related (and apparently revenants were too lazy to turn themselves around). CRACKED.COM

Purgatory

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Yawning

COVERING YOUR MOUTH WHILE YAWNING ffhle Ancient cultures believed yawning left you vulnerable to evil spirits entering through your mouth. CRACKEDCON

The Strange Broadcast

Ya UVB-76, 180 08 BROMAL 74 27 99 14. Boris, Roman, Olga A mysterious, unknown Russian radio station has been broadcasting a strange buzzing, punctuated by intermittent code words, since 1973. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Toyol

CRACKED.COM If your money inexplicably goes missing in Malaysia, you can blame it on a Toyol. Toyols are mischievous child spirits invoked by witch do

Canine Spirit Guides

Aztecs were buried with their dogs, SO the dogs could guide their spirits. The xoloitzcuintle, or xolos (a hairless breed of dog) were thought to be able to guide Aztec spirits to Mictlan, the underworld, after death. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Spirits

Costumes had a greater significance than today - The Celts wore costumes, usually in the form of animals or beasts, to trick and fool any spirits tha

A Human Covering

Harvard has a book bound in human skin. The doctor who had Des destinees de l'ame bound said A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Saint Mary’s Ghost

One of the most famous Marian apparitions happened in Cairo, Egypt in 1968 above the church of the Virgin Mary. At first people reported to the police that there was a woman attempting suicide. Then a crowd gathered in front of the church. What they saw was captured in this picture, which according to the many viewers was a clear apparition of Saint Mary. The apparitions became more frequent CRACKED.COM until they stopped in 1971.

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Ghostly Face

A ghostly face can be seen behind the back row in this 1919 group portrait of a WWI Royal Air Force squadron. The apparition has been identified as Fr

The Haunted Forest

... TELL US NOW. BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina Justin M. explains there's three folklore explanations for mysterious forest lights: ghosts of Cherokee warriors killed in the forest trying to find their way home by torchlight, ghosts of escaped slaves who died trying to flee to the North, and (of course) ALIENS. CRACKED.COM

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The Tanuki

In the American version, they call him a raccoon. But Tom Nook is actually a tanuki. Tanuki are Japanese raccoon dogs. In folklore, they can shapeshif

The Soul Jar

A lich's phylactery, or soul jar, has roots in Russian folklore. In Russian mythology, Koshchei the Immortal was a powerful wizard who attempted etern

The Acheri

Acheri CRACKEDcO W In Native American and Hindu folklore, the Acheri are the spirits of little girls who died horrible deaths. They return and childre

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