Previously: Charlotte’s Web. The ritual game known in English as The Answer Man game — also sometimes known as The Phantom of the Answer or The Answer Phantom — originates in Japan, where Continue Reading > about The Most Dangerous Games: The Answer Man
For Sale: Johnsonville, The Connecticut Ghost Town That Just Can’t Seem To Find A Buyer
Previously: Poveglia. Got a couple million bucks burning a hole in your pocket? If you do (you lucky person, you), and you’ve always wanted to own an entire spooky town, good news: The Connecticut Continue Reading > about For Sale: Johnsonville, The Connecticut Ghost Town That Just Can’t Seem To Find A Buyer
Encyclopaedia of the Impossible: The Burpham Ghost Crash
Previously: The Black-Eyed Children. Type: IM (Imprinted Memory). Period/location of origin: Period is debatable. First appearance of subject, aka the Burpham Ghost Crash, in its current form Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia of the Impossible: The Burpham Ghost Crash
The Wow! Signal May Have Finally Been Solved, And It’s Probably Not Aliens
It’s been one of the great unexplained space mysteries for decades: A sequence of six numbers and letters which, when taken together, represent a radio signal so astonishing that the first word that Continue Reading > about The Wow! Signal May Have Finally Been Solved, And It’s Probably Not Aliens
The Weird Part Of YouTube: ‘Petscop,’ Haunted Video Games, And The Candace Newmaker Theory
This new feature on The Ghost In My Machine draws its name from the title of a creepypasta story. Unlike the pasta, however, TGIMM’s “The Weird Part Of YouTube” isn’t going to focus on gore or videos Continue Reading > about The Weird Part Of YouTube: ‘Petscop,’ Haunted Video Games, And The Candace Newmaker Theory
Creepy Wikipedia: Christine And Lea Papin, The Murderous Maids Of France
The truth often really is stranger than fiction, and the creepy parts of Wikipedia prove it. Weird history, scientific oddities, otherwise unclassifiable Things that you wouldn’t believe actually Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Christine And Lea Papin, The Murderous Maids Of France
The Most Dangerous Games: Charlotte’s Web
Previously: The Red Book Game. The ritual game Charlotte’s Web — not to be confused with the children’s book, although that’s undoubtedly where it got its name — seems to have been born out of the Continue Reading > about The Most Dangerous Games: Charlotte’s Web
‘Mommy Dead And Dearest’: Further Reading On Gypsy Rose Blancharde, Dee Dee Blancharde, And Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
I jettisoned cable a couple of years ago, so sometimes I miss what’s going on in the world of broadcast television. As such, I didn’t realize that HBO was airing a documentary about Gypsy Rose Continue Reading > about ‘Mommy Dead And Dearest’: Further Reading On Gypsy Rose Blancharde, Dee Dee Blancharde, And Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy