Ghosts Sightings, Evidence & The Latest Ghostly News

On Halloween night 1992, Michael Parkinson welcomed viewers on BBC One to a show called 'Ghostwatch' with the words "the programme you're about to watch is a unique live investigation of the supernatural." I remember being sat on the sofa watching, I was just 12-years-old, and Parky was right, 'Ghostwatch' was unique.

With Halloween fast approaching, you may be on the hunt for some local ghosts, but where in the UK are you most likely to spot a spook?

Those who believe in life after death and ghosts say that a person’s soul or spirit leaves the body when they die and goes through a transformation into heaven or the spirit world. Although it’s something that cannot be proven, there is much evidence and details given from people having near death experiences to suggest that there is indeed an afterlife.

As a hardcore skeptic and extreme non-believer in the paranormal, you might wonder why I go on ghost hunts. In fact, why does any skeptic go ghost hunting?

My review of a ghost hunt at the very spooky looking Guy's Cliffe House in Warckshire, during the event we tried to contact the spirits of the house with seance, table tipping and ouija boards.

Recently I heard about an odd device called a stone tape projector, so I thought not only would I find out what one is and how it works, but I'd also have a go at building one myself.

If you've ever dreamt of using a proton pack to ensnare a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm before opening your trap and capturing it, then have you ever wondered if it's actually possible to catch a ghost? Well, here's the scientific answer.

When watching the 80s classic, 'Ghostbusters' as a kid the infamous "ghost sex" dream sequence might have gone over your head, you may have even failed to notice how ultra-horny Dana Barrett was when possessed by Zuul. But outside the world of movies, do ghosts get sexually aroused?

Have you ever wonder whether you'll become a ghost when you die, and if so, what type of ghost? Perhaps you'll be a shadow haunting or a full-blown poltergeist. Answer these few simple questions to find out your ghostly destiny.

The official web page for the International Ghost Reporting Agency (IGRA). You can submit your experience with the paranormal or ghosts to our team of experts here.

If we succeed in creating genuine artificially intelligent machines, and then we "delete them" could they come back as a ghost?

Why do ghosts haunt us? Are they trapped in our plain of existence or do they choose to be here? Well, despite centuries of paranormal investigation no one knows.

A series of tweets by a New Yorker, Adam Ellis, have gone viral. The terrifying tweets tell the story of the sinister ghost of a child which Adam claims is haunting his apartment. He's tweeted about several strange paranormal occurrences in the apartment, some of which involve his cats.

I often get asked questions about ghosts and the queries are usually something I can write about, but when I was asked if you can legally marry a ghost my first thoughts were "haha, idiot". But, it turns out that you can actually marry a ghosts, although there are certain caveats.

Using science and math, I've crunched the data from the world's most well known hauntings. I've put together a list of requirements to guarantee you a place in the spirit hall of fame.

Like many other kids growing up in the 1980s, my first exposure to ectoplasm was in 'Ghostbusters' and at the time the gloopy, slimy, ghost residue was quite popular in the paranormal world, but what's happened to ectoplasm? It seems to have dropped off of ghost hunter's radars?

Who you gonna call? Well, in the case of Kingston Cemetery which was haunted by a ghost, it wasn't the ghostbusters who answered the call but Hampshire police and they proved they weren't afraid of no ghost after the spook ended up with a fine.

Whether you believe the Enfield Poltergeist was evidence of a real haunting or not, there's no doubt that the story had an enormous impact at the time. After all, the media relies on public interest to sustain a story. The Enfield Poltergeist was widely covered in newspapers, books, radio and TV at the time and continues to fascinate. So how could this seemingly simple haunting have had such a large impact over such a timespan?

The Enfield Poltergeist case is one of the best documented case of a haunting ever, but while researching the topic ahead of the 40th anniversary of the event I uncovered six interesting facts that aren't widely know about the events that took place in Enfield, North London in 1977.

40 years ago this month, the Hodgson family of Enfield in north London reported strange goings on in their house at 284 Green Street, it became one of the most famous poltergeist cases ever, but 40 years on, how much do you remember about this iconic case?