Paranormal Study

03/01/2024

I know I don’t post here much anymore, but this is one of those times.

This is simply amazing. - Tim

02/06/2024

Hi all, I’m sorry this page has been quiet for almost a year.

A lot has changed in my life. I suffered a serious traumatic brain injury in December, 2022. Over the last year, I suffered two more brain injuries due to the first one. I was hospitalized each time.

The fallout has left me with a host of physical and mental issues. I had to step away from this page, my podcast, and three websites. I’m hoping to get everything back on track this year as I slowly heal.

In the interim I have been using art as a therapy. I created two coloring books and I am building a Facebook art page that is just my name, Tim Woolworth.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067789597236&mibextid=LQQJ4d

I’d love it if some of you stopped by my art page and gave it a like and follow. I post mainly horror art and inspiration art as well.

I hope to see some of you there because the art is top notch entertainment.

Darkness and lightborn apparel. Uncanny housewares. Designed for the haunted, the bold, and the ones who gave up pretending to be normal. artificialperdition.com

05/25/2023

𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝟏: 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒂

In this bonus content, you will hear about a case that may be the earliest poltergeist case on record in the colonial United States as this case dates back to the 1680s. This manifestation was located on Great Island, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and it afflicted the George Walton family.

This manifestation was blamed on witches and it included some of the hallmarks of poltergeist activity including stone throwing with stones hot to the touch, objects moving, banging, and voices. We know about this case because it was written about by the famed Puritan minister, Increase Mather.

The story goes that George Walton was took the land of the widow Hannah Jones by accusing her of witchcraft. She then cursed him so a stone throwing devil would afflict him. The stone throwing devil has become known as 𝐿𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎 in poltergeist lore, and this is the text where that term was first incorporated.

You can listen to this bonus content, typically reserved for Shadow People who visit our Shadow Realm, on our website or the podcast player of your choice.

https://walkintheshadows.com/noisy-spirits-bonus-audio/

05/25/2023

Blood Sucking Fiends VI - Vampires of Ireland

In a fascinating folk tale, the Dearg-Due is a vengeful vampire that arose out of the grave to commit an orgiastic blood feast on specific people.

Learn about this legend and another involving an undead tyrant who feasted upon the blood of children in this chapter of Blood Sucking Fiends by Rick Hale.

https://www.paranormalstudy.com/blood-sucking-fiends-part-6-vampires-of-ireland/

05/24/2023

Blood Sucking Fiends Part V - The Second Death of Petre Toma

Slavic countries have had a history of digging up graves to check for vampirism, and if the signs are there, the vampire is disposed of in a manner befitting a vampire.

This was believed to be a practice of the past, until some villagers in Romania thought that one of their own had returned as a vampire - less than twenty years ago.

Learn about the fascinating tale of Petre Toma in this article by Rick Hale.

https://www.paranormalstudy.com/blood-sucking-fiends-5-the-second-death-of-petre-toma/

05/23/2023

𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐓 𝟐: 𝑷𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒊𝒔𝒕

In this second exploration of the poltergeist mystery, we touch upon one of the most common things one will find in a poltergeist-like haunting: Lithobolia, which literally means Stone Throwing Devil.

Lithobolia was featured in Episode 1 with the Bingen Demon case. It is also featured in one of the 20th century cases presented in this episode.

The first case is the Battersea Mystery House. This case was fantastic and involved not only stones, but furniture moving and being destroyed, windows being shattered, and apports in front of credible witnesses. We featured this case because it was investigated by the intrepid Harry Price who helped bring the word "poltergeist" into common parlance.

The second case we feature is from Baltimore with Dr. Nandor Fodor. This case was exceptional because Dr. Fodor solved the case using talk therapy with the agent of the poltergeist haunting.

Learn about these critical cases and more in the second episode of our Noisy Spirits series. You can find this episode, or any of our other Noisy Spirits episodes on the podcast player of your choice, or you can listen to it directly on our website.

https://walkintheshadows.com/noisy-spirits-the-poltergeist-phenomenon-pt-2/

05/22/2023

Blood Sucking Fiend PT IV - Vampires of Greece

The Middle East and Slavic countries aren't the only places that have vampiric history. There are several types of vampires that existed in Greece, and some argue, still do to this day.

Learn about the various Grecian vampire types in this article by Rick Hale.

https://www.paranormalstudy.com/blood-sucking-fiends-4-vampires-of-greece/

05/22/2023

𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒏

In our first episode exploring the poltergeist phenomenon, we start with the first case of official historical record, the Bingen Demon case from 858. We know about this case because the correspondence still exists in the Episcopal Annals of Mainz.

We then move forward a millennium to Italy, where the father of criminology, psychologist and medical doctor, Cesare Lombroso, investigated a poltergeist case and inadvertently discovered what poltergeist researchers have accepted since then: that a poltergeist case is the result of a person, not a spirit.

If you are interested in poltergeist phenomena, you have to listen to this episode to learn the basics of how we arrived at our understanding today.

You can find this episode, or any of our other Noisy Spirits episodes on the podcast player of your choice, or you can listen to it directly on our website.

https://walkintheshadows.com/noisy-spirits-the-poltergeist-phenomenon/

05/20/2023

Blood Sucking Fiends PT 3 - The Return of Peter Blagojevich

In this article by Rick Hale, he explores one of the earliest vampire cases from Serbia. Peter fell off a hay wagon and died, but yet, weeks later, more people died mysteriously and it was blamed upon Peter being a vampire.

Find out what happened when they exhumed the co**se in this article!

https://www.paranormalstudy.com/blood-sucking-fiends-part-3-the-return-of-peter-blagojevic/

05/19/2023

Blood Sucking Fiends PT 2 - China's Undead

Learn about the classic tale of when two warriors, Ching and Po, encountered a vampire. Also learn about the Jiangshi, a ghastly entity, that can arise by several methods.

This article by Rick Hale is a great look at Chinese legends that we often don't see in the western world.

https://www.paranormalstudy.com/blood-sucking-fiends-part-2-chinas-undead/

05/18/2023

𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟓: 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈

In the final wrap up of our Psychic Detectives series, we look at what it takes to be a psychic detective mentally and physically.

Then, we lean on the wisdom of psychic detective Dan Baldwin who has put together ten steps that every practicing psychic detective should consider, especially if just starting out.

Finally, we look at an amazing case from the Scrying Dutchman, Gerard Croiset. Croiset was the most prolific, and most authenticated psychic detective that has lived. In this case, the FBI utilized Croiset to help solve a major crime in the 1960s - the famed Mississippi Burning case that was made into a feature film

You can find this episode, or any of our other Psychic Detective episodes on the podcast player of your choice, or you can listen to it directly on our website.

https://walkintheshadows.com/psychic-detectives-pt-5/

05/18/2023

Blood Sucking Fiends PT 1 - The Terror is Born

Learn about the ancient origins of vampires from Sumeria and ancient Hebrew texts in this article by intrepid chronicler of the mysterious, Rick Hale.

https://www.paranormalstudy.com/blood-sucking-fiends-part-1-the-terror-is-born/