Category: Busted

Phantasmagoria: The Birth of the Floating Ghost

It is January 1799. Étienne-Gaspard Robert debut’s his ‘Phantasmagoria’ in a ruined abbey in Paris. Little does he know he is about to become the trendsetter of the way ghosts are portrayed…

Scratchy Fanny: The Ghost of Cock Lane

The legend of Scratchy Fanny, the Ghost of Cock Lane, emerged in 18th-century London. The Parsons family claimed their house was haunted by the spirit of Fanny, leading to public hysteria. Investigations unraveled inconsistencies and ultimately accused Richard Parsons of perpetrating a hoax for financial gain. The story endures as a captivating chapter in paranormal history.

The Buckshaw Beast Case.

  The Dawn Chorus in rural Derbyshire can be a wonderful treat to behold. The sound of blackbirds vying for the role of lead vocalist […]

Illusions in the Skies: Unmasking UFO Hoaxes and the Intriguing Role of Pepper’s Ghost Effect.

In the realm of UFO sightings and extraterrestrial encounters, the use of visual effects, including the Pepper’s Ghost technique, has added a layer of complexity […]

Real or fake? Hunter’s trail cam captures bizarre image

It is supposedly an image caught on a trail camera in the woods in Rowan, or maybe Cabarrus County, but it turns out that it […]

Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain’s most notorious criminal 126 years after string of terrible murders

…Or maybe one of them… It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century […]

Eerie ‘Sailing Stones’ Myth-Busted As Urban Legends Reveal a More Olympic Truth : Science & General News : Latinos Health

The group, who set up camp for nearly two years in an abandoned weather station, sought out to find the true cause behind Death Valley’s […]

A Photograph Of A Ghost Girl

Via the Metro website we learn that Thomas Beavis may have taken a photograph of a ghost of a girl in an apparently “notorious haunted […]

‘Shark of Darkness’ out there now, thanks to Shark Week, so now let’s debunk some shark myths!

In response to the controversial Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine, which kicked off the Discovery Channel’s celebrated Shark Week on Sunday night, it’s time […]

Work begins to transform Roseangle murder house

Businessman Nael Hanna, who bought the property for £345,000 in 2012, said he expected the renovation to be complete by the end of the year. […]

Why phone app likely made Laguna ‘alien creature’

An “alien” in photographs? There’s an app for that. Officials in San Roque, Victoria town on Laguna have expressed surprise at an alleged alien creature […]

Just an urban legend? 5 Fridays, Saturdays, Sunday in August won’t happen again for 823 years

True or False. August 2014 will have five Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Such an event won’t happen again for 823 years.The rarity of such an […]

Poltergeist in couple’s home turned out to be woman on meth

A University District couple called police on Wednesday, after they returned to their home to discover what looked like “paranormal activity.” read more Poltergeist in […]

Chilling CCTV shows ‘pub ghost’ appear from nowhere before crawling up wall (Because It’s Actually A Spider.. Doh)!

Customers joke about ‘after hours spirits’ but landlord David Langley-Evans is serious about spooky goings on at his 184-year-old Welsh pub… read more Chilling CCTV […]

1950s Norwegian UFO Mystery Solved

Plenty of Norwegians thought aliens had taken a fancy to their country back in the 1950s thanks to a slew of inexplicable UFO sightings. Inexplicable […]

WA super predator myth debunked

Persistent speculation that a colossal sea predator may have devoured a nine-foot white shark in waters off Western Australia’s south has been debunked.It all started […]

Fact Check: Are These Horror Films Really “Based On Actual Events”?

So many horror movies claim to be “inspired by actual events” or “based on real events.” But how many of them actually are factual? It […]

He’s Not a Ghost Witness… He’s a Very Naughty Boy!

Anyone seen this story in the press yet? “Mitch Glover, 14, was visiting the Neuville-St. Vaast German Cemetery in France on a class trip and […]

The Surprising Truth Behind the Horrifying Banshee

In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper visits a lovely little dinner party to inform the guests that unfortunately they’re dead. After […]

Legend of St. Louis Ghost Train still going strong in Saskatchewan

The legend of the St. Louis Ghost Train is a deliciously enduring mystery that residents of Saskatchewan love to share.After all, what other province can […]

‘Prophet’ flees angry mob after a stage-managed healing event

A BOGUS Pentecostal pastor, fled an angry mob recently at the popular Egodini rank in Bulawayo after his fake miracles were exposed when one of […]

Debris from failed Russian rocket launch causes UFO frenzy in northeastern China

Video clips of bright celestial objects falling from the sky caused sensational excitement and popular befuddlement in Helongjiang province in the northeastern most region of […]

UFO Sighting? No, Just Google’s ‘Rogue’ Balloon

Two years ago, a Google balloon launched to test the feasibility of delivering the Internet to people around the world achieved notoriety when it was […]

Mysterious glow spotted over Hawaii ‘caused by missile launch’

THEY were the lights that left some people a little alarmed and UFO believers very excited.But the strange patterns that appeared over Hawaii on Tuesday […]

Did Google Earth discover an underwater alien base?

I had been ignoring this story since it’s so crazy, but it seems to be popping up more and more so I felt it was […]