Paranormal Files

At 3406 Brownsville Road in Brentwood, Pennsylvania, Bob Cranmer says his family endured years of frightening disturbances after moving into the house in 1988. Their reports included strange sounds, shadow-like figures, marks on family members, damaged or displaced religious objects, red material on upper-floor walls, and scratches said to have appeared on investigator Adam Blai during a 2005 paranormal visit.

Cranmer eventually con...

In 1974, Doris Bither, a mother of four living in Culver City, California, reported terrifying disturbances in her home, including alleged attacks by unseen beings. Her reports brought Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor, researchers associated with UCLA’s parapsychology laboratory, into a case that would later inspire Frank De Felitta’s novel The Entity and the 1982 film adaptation.

Taff and Gaynor later said they spent roughly...

Haunted Hill House in Mineral Wells, Texas, is marketed by its owners as an overnight paranormal-investigation venue. The property’s public story includes reports of apparitions, voices, moving objects, unusual instrument readings, scratches, and bites.

The clearest dated case-specific account comes from Daze of Fear Paranormal, which published a report about a February 5, 2016 investigation. The group described sounds, K2 met...

Helltown is the nickname attached to parts of Boston Township, Boston Mills, and the Cuyahoga Valley in northeast Ohio. Stories of haunted roads, cemetery apparitions, cult activity, murdered children, and creatures linked to chemical waste have made the area one of Ohio’s most repeated paranormal legends.

The documented history is more complicated. Federal preservation plans in the 1970s brought land acquisition, resident org...

Northern Virginia’s Bunny Man legend is usually told beneath a railroad overpass near Clifton, Virginia: an escaped patient, a killer in rabbit skins, hanging bodies, and a Halloween apparition waiting in the tunnel. But the surviving record points somewhere else.

In October 1970, two disturbing incidents unfolded along Guinea Road in Burke, several miles from the bridge. Air Force Academy cadet Robert Bennett and his fiancée ...

At Tudor Hall in Leonardtown, Maryland, an approximately 875-pound fieldstone sits beneath a protective cover. Visitors know it as Moll Dyer Rock. Its irregular depression is said to preserve the mark of a dying woman’s hand—a woman whom legend says was driven from her burning home during the winter of 1697–1698.

The story is often promoted through comparisons to fictional Maryland witch mythology, but the historic...

In 1692, reports of invisible attacks in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay, became the basis for one of the deadliest legal crises in colonial American history. Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam Jr., Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis, and others described fits, pains, choking, spectral apparitions, strange animals, and unseen assaults. Their claims helped send neighbors, servants, church members, and former minis...

In 1986, Allen and Carmen Snedeker moved their family into a rented duplex at 208 Meriden Avenue in Southington, Connecticut, seeking to reduce the burden of their son Philip’s treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. The house had once been the Hallahan Funeral Home, and mortuary-related equipment reportedly remained in its basement.

The family later described apparitions, strange sounds, physical attacks, disturbing changes in Philip...

In 1976, twenty-three-year-old Anneliese Michel died in her parents’ home in Klingenberg am Main, Bavaria, after nearly ten months of Catholic exorcisms authorized by Bishop Josef Stangl of Würzburg. By the time of her death, she weighed approximately sixty-eight pounds. Medical findings identified malnutrition and dehydration as the immediate physical causes.

Michel’s case became one of the best-known exorcism cases of ...

Ed and Lorraine Warren became the most recognizable paranormal investigators in modern American culture. From their Connecticut-based New England Society for Psychic Research, the couple investigated reported hauntings, alleged possessions, strange objects, and families who believed they were under attack by forces outside ordinary explanation.

Their cases inspired Annabelle, The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, The Haunting in Con...

In January 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron moved with their five daughters into a historic farmhouse in Harrisville, a village within Burrillville, Rhode Island. The property later became known worldwide as the inspiration for The Conjuring. But the story told by the Perron family differs sharply from the film.

According to the family, the disturbances began soon after they arrived: missing brooms, doors that opened and closed, unexp...

In twenty twelve, the Ammons family haunting in Gary, Indiana, moved from private terror into official records. Latoya Ammons, her mother Rosa Campbell, and three children reported flies in winter, basement footsteps, shadow figures, foul odors, violent episodes, altered voices, and alleged possession inside a rented house on Carolina Street. The case became famous because doctors, hospital personnel, Indiana Department of Child Se...

The Myrtles Plantation near St. Francisville, Louisiana, is promoted as one of America’s most haunted houses. Its reputation rests on reported apparitions, children seen in windows, footsteps on a staircase, a famous photograph identified as Chloe, and an antique mirror said to show handprints and faces. But the best-known legend is also the most historically disputed. The story of Chloe, an enslaved woman accused of poisonin...

The RMS Queen Mary is permanently docked in Long Beach, California, but its most famous ghost stories begin at sea. In nineteen sixty-six, eighteen-year-old crewman John Pedder was killed at Watertight Door 13 in the engine-room area. Decades later, visitors, employees, guides, and paranormal investigators have reported a workman’s figure, footsteps, whistles, and metallic sounds near the same passageways. Other parts of the ...

The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted to four chan in May two thousand nineteen: yellow walls, stained carpet, empty rooms, and fluorescent light. An anonymous reply added the idea of accidentally no-clipping out of reality into an endless human-made space. Since then, online communities have built a vast mythology around levels, entities, exits, and survival rules, while filmmaker Kane Parsons reshaped the imag...

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Delve into the chilling narrative of the Smurl family, whose seemingly idyllic home in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, turned into the epicenter of unexplainable disturbances. The Smurl haunting remains one of the most perplexing cases of reported paranormal activity, filled with terrifying accounts that escalate from unsettling whispers to full-blown physical altercations. According to witnesses, including the ...

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Eastern State Penitentiary stands as one of the most notorious sites for paranormal activity, where shadows of the past intertwine with chilling present-day reports. In this episode, we unravel the spine-tingling experiences reported by visitors and staff, painting a vivid picture of mysterious voices echoing through deserted cellblocks and ghostly apparitions that seem to defy the laws of nature. Join us on...

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Immerse yourself in the chilling and mystifying world of the Enfield Poltergeist, as we unravel one of the most documented and debated supernatural incidents in history. Journey back to the late 1970s, when a quiet family home in North London became the epicenter of a paranormal storm. Our story dives deep into eyewitness accounts and investigator reports, detailing the eerily captivating events that claimed ...

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Step into the chilling world of the Perron family as we unravel the mystery of their infamous residence in Rhode Island, known to many as The Conjuring House. In this episode of Paranormal Files, we delve into the alleged and reported supernatural occurrences that plagued the Perron family during their harrowing stay. Join us as we investigate the historical context of this eerie home, examining the blend of ...