Everything Occult

22/11/2022

02/11/2022

24/10/2022

"This is one of the most incredible poltergeist pieces of evidence that we have ever captured," says host Zak Bagans.

15/09/2022

07/09/2022

Just south of Mexico City, there’s a haunted island that's completely overrun with decomposing dolls. Back in the 1950s, the island’s caretaker hung the first doll after finding the body of a drowned girl in the canal. Before long, he became obsessed with appeasing the girl's spirit and covered nearly everything on the island with dolls. Then, in an eerie twist of fate, his body was discovered in 2000. He had drowned in the same place as the dead girl he'd found decades before.

See more haunting photos from Mexico’s “Island of the Dolls” here: https://bit.ly/34Awn3F

17/08/2022

08/08/2022

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie LaPierre and her eighth-grade civics students.

18/07/2022

During the Victorian era, people honored their relatives by taking exquisite portraits of them — just after they died. While these post-mortem photos may seem creepy today, they were once considered a heartwarming way to remember a lost loved one.

At the time, mortality rates were so high that most people could not expect to live past their 40s. But infants and children were especially vulnerable to disease — and it was common for them to succumb to illnesses at an early age. In many cases, parents didn't have a chance to get a photo of their kids while they were still alive. So they begged photographers to take pictures of their dead children — and a macabre trend was born.

See the most fascinating collection of these morbid Victorian photographs ever assembled — here: https://bit.ly/3Armlfu

11/07/2022

12/06/2022

Ever since the Japanese tsunami of 2011 killed more than 15,000 people, those living in the affected areas have reported countless sightings of "tsunami spirits." Even when there's been no rain, cab drivers have been hailed by soaking wet passengers — believed to be ghosts of victims still drenched from the disaster.

One cab driver in Ishinomaki picked up a woman with soaking wet hair despite the sunny skies who asked to be taken to an area of the city now abandoned due to the tsunami. After a moment of silence, she asked "Have I died?" And when he turned back to look at her, there was no one there.

See the photos, watch a video and go inside the haunting true story of the tsunami ghosts now featured in Netflix's "Unsolved Mysteries" here: https://bit.ly/31vk3gq

02/05/2022

Double-exposed of French illusionist Henri Robin with a ⁣. Photo by Eugène Thiébault, 1863⁣.

15/04/2022

The Codex Gigas is the largest medieval manuscript in the world. However, it's not the size of the book that makes it remarkable.

15/04/2022

It's estimated that between 3,500 and 6,000 women were executed as witches in Scotland between 1560 and 1727. The country is now reckoning with that history.

13/04/2022

Just after a family of six was murdered by their eldest son inside this Amityville, New York home, a new family moved in and claimed to begin experiencing supernatural terror right away. They said that the walls leaked ooze and that they heard voices — much like the ones that murderer Ronald DeFeo said he heard telling him to kill his family.

When infamous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren soon came to visit the Amityville Horror house, Ed claimed he was pushed to the floor by an invisible force and Lorraine said she felt an overwhelming demonic presence. Their team even captured this eerie photo said to depict a ghostly boy peering over the banister. See more photos captured inside the Amityville Horror house and learn the disturbing stories behind them: https://bit.ly/3jtlS4n

07/03/2022

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04/03/2022

100 years ago today, was released!
Watch here: https://youtu.be/FC6jFoYm3xs

04/03/2022

Think The Conjuring is scary? Here's the chilling true story behind the hit film.

25/02/2022

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27/01/2022

Many scary movies have risen to fame not only for their chilling storyline that make you jump from the comfort of your seat, but also because they are based on real life… Example: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Conjuring, Chucky, Leatherface, The Exorcist, and I could go on with this long list, h...

25/01/2022

It's one of the few straight horror movies Ryan Reynolds has ever done, and it was a bit of a nightmare.

24/01/2022

During our childhood, we watched hundreds of cartoons that touched us and one of them undoubtedly had to be The Smurfs, the story of those little blue beings constantly chased by the grumpy Gargamel and his cat Azrael. He would always devise any plan in order to destroy them. Even though, we used to...

15/01/2022



A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces afrightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a Poltergeist. Late onenight, 10-year-old Car...

14/01/2022

03/01/2022

Gravestone of Elijah Jefferson Bond, inventor of the board.
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

27/12/2021

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐳𝐮!

Yesterday 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟰𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘇𝘂𝘇𝘂

Despite his portrayal in the film, was actually invoked as a protective demon against other . Figurines, , and plaques of Pazuzu were placed in houses for protection and worn by pregnant women to ward off the demoness Lamashtu.

Three new movies in the Exorcist universe will be made, the first of the films is expected to debut in movie theaters on Oct. 13, 2023.

Oriental Institute - University of Chicago

25/12/2021

“Did your dad pass recently, Noah?” the medium asked. “I think this is him and he has a message. Do you want to hear it?”

22/12/2021

Graf Orlok 1922

22/12/2021

The boy, previously known as Roland Doe, underwent exorcisms in Cottage City, Maryland, and St Louis, Missouri, in 1949

20/12/2021

18/12/2021

On Christmas Eve in Scandinavia, the dead return - food & Yule ale are left, the fire lit, chairs wiped clean. If earth is found on a chair in the morning, it is said an ancestor fresh from the grave, has sat there...

That painting is "The Garden of Death (Finnish: Kuoleman puutarha; 1896)" by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg
https://t.co/Lawyz3NmRo

18/12/2021

The Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible, is famous for three reasons: it is the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world, it is so perfectly and uniformly written that the feat appears inhumane, and it contains a large full-page portrait of the Devil.

Written sometimes between 1204 and 1230, the book is 92 cm tall, 50cm wide, 22 cm thick, and weighs around 79 kg. It initially contained 320 leaves of vellum reputedly made from the skins of 160 donkeys (at two pages per donkey, the skins would have covered an area of 142.6 square meters) though twelve leaves were removed at some unknown date for some unknown reason. Very large illuminated bibles were a typical feature of monastic book production, but even within this group, the page-size of the Codex Gigas is exceptional.
The manuscript is written using the carolingian minuscule, a popular and highly legible medieval script. It contains many detailed illuminations, mostly decorated letters and geometrical or plant-based forms, except for a squirrel perched on top of an initial, a portrait of Josephus, and the infamous caricature-like portrait of the devil. There are also two images representing Heaven and Earth complete with the sun, moon and stars, plus a planet made of sea with no landmasses.

The Codex is bound in one volume, with thick wooden boards covered in white leather decorated with blind stamps, none of which has been seen elsewhere. Both boards have metal fittings – in the four corners and in the center – each one masterfully decorated and containing a raised button on which the book was supposed to rest. There are two more metal fittings on the back, with a hole that may have been used to chain the Codex to a piece of furniture (as if someone could just walk away with it). The binding was damaged in a fire, and in 1819 it was re-bound by an artisan in Stockholm who received 78 riksdaler for materials and labor, with which, for comparison, he could have bought two cows.
Inside it, we can read the entire Latin Bible, Isidore of Seville’s Encyclopaedia Etymologia, Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, Cosmas of Prague’s Chronicle of Bohemia, plus numerous writings describing magic formulae, exorcism rituals, and a calendar.

A National Geographic documentary included interviews with specialists in the areas of writing and forensic analysis, who concluded that it was written by a single scribe, and that the writing alone would have required a minimum of 5 years of full-time, single-minded labor, plus 20 more for the decorations. The scribe would have had to rule each page before forming the letters, after which 100 lines a day would have been a reasonable goal.

What makes the Codex all the more intriguing is the nature of the writing, since there are no signs of age, disease, mood, or a natural evolution in style. In fact, its length, size, detail, and perfection are of such extraordinary magnitude that a legend regarding its origins was recorded in the Middle Ages, stating that it was written by a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive. In order to avoid this harsh penalty he promised to create a book that would include all human knowledge, and that it would be ready in one night. When he realized that he could not complete the task alone, he asked the fallen angel Lucifer to help him finish it, in exchange for the monks’ soul. The devil accepted the deal, and the monk added his portrait in gratitude for his help.

This picture of the devil is interesting in itself, since he is wearing a white loincloth with small comma-shaped red dashes, which have been interpreted as the tails of ermine furs, a common symbol of sovereignty. He also has a forked tongue, an image used in the Bible to denote a dishonest human being. Could the drawing actually be some form of political commentary?

Here is a quick timeline of the manuscript's eventful life:

1204 to1230 the Codex is probably written at the Podlažice Monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia – now part of the Czech Republic

1295-Podlažice pledges it to the nearby monastery of Sedlec, who sells it to the Benedictine Order of Břevno Monastery.

1594-Emperor Rudolf II takes the Codex “on loan”, and puts it in his castle in Prague.

1648-Prague is sacked by the Swedish army, and the manuscript ends up in Queen Christina’s library inside the Castle Tre Kronor.

1697- The castle burns down, and 18,000 books plus 5,700 manuscripts end up in flames. The Devil's Bible survives because someone throws it out the window, injuring a bystander, and the book binding is seriously damaged.

1768- The manuscript is installed into the newly-built Stockholm Palace.

1819 - The book is re-bound.

1878- The Codex is moved by sleight to a new library building in the Humlegården park .

2007 –The manuscript is loaned out to Prague, where it is shown in the national library.

2018 – It becomes a permanent display inside the Treasury Room of the Royal Library in Stockholm. If you can’t go to Stockholm, you can have a look on the Library’s website, where the entire work is viewable in digitized form.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667604

01/12/2021

Aleister Crowley died on this day in 1947.

16/11/2021



Tonight we find ourselves exploring the creepy abandoned Asylum for the Insane in London Ontario with Jake Williams from Bright Sun Films. The psychiatric ce...

03/11/2021

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