Ghost Videos: A Scientific Analysis

July 10, 2022 by Ronan Wills in Mysteries, Spooky or Not

Lately, I haven’t been watching, reading or playing a whole lot of blog-friendly media while I grapple with coming off medication for my chronic migraines. You might have noticed, due to the lack of blog. But in the Age Of Content anything can be spun into a blog post, so here I present some absolutely substance-free commentary on the substance-free Youtube videos I’ve been binge-watching while my lidocaine-addled brain calms down.

It’s time to talk about ghosts.

Who Killed Missy Bevers?

October 25, 2019 by Ronan Wills in Spooky or Not

Here's a case that's popular with online sleuths, but has somehow not become more well known in mainstream circles, which is frankly astonishing since it includes some of the creepiest video footage I've ever seen. We're talking about a murder mystery where we have extensive footage of the perpetrator at the scene of the crime, and yet the case remains unsolved more than three years later. If police have any leads, they have yet to inform the public.

Spooky or Not: The Dissapearance of Asha Degree

October 20, 2019 by Ronan Wills in Spooky or Not

Among weirdos who spend a lot of time online theorizing over unsolved mysteries, most have a “pet case” that we they come back to again and again. One such case that some people keep coming back to is the disappearance of nine year old Asha Degree in 2000. It is, in my opinion, easily among the most baffling in the annals of American missing persons cases and deserves far more attention than it gets.

Spooky or Not: The Yuba County Five

October 09, 2019 by Ronan Wills in Spooky or Not

You’ll frequently find this story referred to as the “American Dyatlov Pass”, named after the infamous Dyatlov Pass incident where a bunch of people in Russia were killed in an avalanche and then the story got embellished into something unnecessarily sinister. Unlike Dyatlov Pass, the tale of the Yuba County Five is actually mysterious and has a lot of genuinely eerie details.

Spooky or Not: Kenny Veach's Mystery Cave

October 04, 2019 by Ronan Wills in Spooky or Not

I swear this story is better than the title makes it sound.

Introducing: Spooky or Not

September 30, 2019 by Ronan Wills in Spooky or Not

As humans who exist in the universe, we all face a constant problem: identifying whether situations are spooky or not spooky.

What’s that strange rattling sound in the woods? Was that a person walking past the window? What’s up with that small figure you keep seeing way off in the distance, always watching but never approaching? How worried should you be? Is this stuff spooky, or not? Man, you don’t know! You’ve got other things to think about!

Don’t worry, friends. I’m here to help.

Over the course of October, I’ll be presenting you with a number of strange and mysterious true stories. Together, we’ll take them apart, examine them in detail and render a verdict: is today’s mystery…

Or…

What does it mean to be Certified Spooky?

Here, we’re delving into a great mystery. All of us can instinctively identify spookiness due to a sixth sense that evolved in the time of our ancestors, when we fought vampires and trolls or whatever. We know it when we see it. But how do we define it?

For the purpose of this blog series, spookiness is any part of a mystery that’s unusually strange, doesn’t seem to fit with the accepted explanation, has no explanation at all, seems to legitimately lead to a supernatural conclusion, or just generally makes you sit back in your seat and go “damn, that’s spooky.” It’s all very scientific.

In the comments, you can weigh in on whether you agree with my expert analysis. If you want, you can even present your own stories and mysteries, whether they happened to you personally or not. Just don’t make anything up. I’m watching you. Yes, all of you, simultaneously.

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