M.J. Wayland's Blog, page 12
November 6, 2016
The Red Devil in Virginia
Who or what is the little devil that keeps appearing in Virginia? Monkeys? Or Satan himself? The story begins in the small town of Crewe, Virginia in May or June 1968. Bob was only a young child but remembers the incident well. “My mother was giving birth and my dad had sent use to wash […]
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November 5, 2016
A Slip in Time
An author witnesses a scene from over 400 hundred years ago and an off-duty policemen relives 1950’s Liverpool. Do people really slip through time as easy as entering a room? “Ghosts” are a multi-faceted phenomenon that deserves to be classified as a range of different events. Many ghost sightings are readily explained as individuals who […]
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Hunting for Britain’s Haunted Villages
We all know Halloween is a silly season in the media where it is common to read about the ‘top 10 Britain’s most haunted cities’, ‘UK’s most haunted hotels’ etc. Once you dig down into the article, it is easy to see that they are usually PR generated articles by imagination-lacking PR companies who are […]
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October 17, 2016
The Psychology of a Haunted House
After rereading David Taylor’s article, Spaces of Transition (At The Edge Magazine No 10 1998), I began to explore to points highlighted by both articles. David Taylor makes some keen observations on how as investigators we approach the archetypal haunted house. Hopefully the standard approach is to interview the witness and listen to “the claim” […]
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October 15, 2016
Lincolnshire’s Haunted Airfields
A faint throb of a Lancaster returning in the morning mist, a light flickers in a disused control tower and a roar of laughter comes from the derelict pilot’s quarters. The ghosts of Britain’s abandoned airfields have intrigued investigators for years. These ghostly tales are from people who have experienced a close brush with the […]
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October 7, 2016
The statistics behind ghosts
The marvellous “Apparitions” by GNM Tyrrell is a book that has been a constant companion through my life as a ghost hunter/paranormal explorer. I believe it is essential reading, even if just to open your mind to various theories and an insight into the first ventures into physical research. As much as I love this […]
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September 24, 2016
The Phantom Airman
The bleak peat bogs of Northern Lincolnshire not only hold prehistoric finds such as Roman Villas and Prehistoric villages, the bogs still retain the bodies of people killed in the Second World War. In World War 2, Lindholme Prison was used as a RAF base for Wellington Bombers who took part in the first bombing […]
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September 18, 2016
New discovery: Charlottesville UFOs 1927
A (very) short video on my recent discovery of a 1927 UFO sighting during experimental tests of a new 1,000,000,000 candlepower searchlight!
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August 5, 2016
Elliott O’Donnell personal archive sells for £25000
It is interesting to discover that Elliott O’Donnell’s personal archive recently sold for £25,000. Covering the majority of his working life and including a number of personal artefacts such as a lock of hair, would it have been a treasure trove for paranormal researchers and historians? Elliott, a “ghost hunter” and writer who died in […]
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August 2, 2016
Jervaulx Abbey Visit
This week I visited North Yorkshire’s Jervaulx Abbey situated between Masham and Middleham just north of Harrogate. Scant on hauntings, the Abbey’s nearest bridge (with a history dating...
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