OK, it's been a while since I posted anything about the paranormal, or general "woo", and let's start with a source I rarely link to - the New York Post.
While it seems that the paper publishes plenty of credulous sounding "Republican politician says there's something to this UFO business" stories, they also have a sceptical wing which explained in this piece in March 2023 that several of the current big names in "the Pentagon knows!" news were tied up with the rather dubious claims made for Skinwalker Ranch. I didn't know that.
I have said before that I don't find Luis Elizondo a very credible sounding character, and any Youtube clips of the guys at Skinwalker Ranch have never impressed me much. (I think Mick West recently ridiculed them for mistaking a fly going across a camera's field of vision as a UFO.)
On the other hand, two different stories I have read about generally "spooky" events illustrate what I think could be called the sometimes odd subtlety of the evidence of paranormal events.
The first: actress Heather Mitchell has been doing media talking about a prediction made by a fortune teller which quickly did (most people would say) seem to be fulfilled. It's a nice story, and you can read about it in the extract from her memoir in The Guardian.
The second story is in this short Youtube video, about someone who had a door in a room in a historic building slam behind him, with no obvious explanation. He seems nonetheless quite un-phased by the question of whether or not it was a ghost doing something ghosts are not generally supposed to be able to do. If it had happened to me, in the way he describes, I'm pretty sure it would have freaked me out for a good few days, at least:
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