Ummm, What?

As I've said many times I'm a skeptic. I don't believe things unless I see them in front of my own eyes.  Well today something happened out of nowhere.  We were sitting at the dinner table in the kitchen when we heard the mirror in the entry way rattle.  My girlfriend and I both thought this was because of the cat. He often sits on the bench in front of it and bumps into it when he moves.

However when we glanced at the mirror there was no cat. Looking at the mirror I said, "That's weird." and it happened again.  It happened right in front of me!  The mirror rattled and moved as if something has bumped into it.  I was staring right at it, not out of the corner of my eye, not something I heard but didn't see.  The mirror moved right before my eyes.

No cat, no wind, no furnace running, no tremors or Canadian earthquakes.  I really have no explanation for this.  I'm a bit baffled.

The mirror is pictured in this post.  As you can see it's just hanging on the wall.  Nothing really touches it.  I don't know if I'd say it was paranormal, but it sure was strange.

New October Podcast & References

The October podcast is out!  This month I share the events leading up to my DEATH! We also talk to my guest Julia as she shares some of her spooky experiences in Ukraine.  Then I quiz her on some Russian folklore and get to the bottom of this Baba Yaga made popular by the John Wick movies.  Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Listen to the podcast here: SoundCloud

As promised below are the pictures for reference.

The Naomi Event

Below is the drawing from Naomi as well as part of the company website.  The flash intro to the site showed exactly what her drawing portrayed.  A graveyard, a dead tree with symbols and ravens in the tree.  As you can see in the web site sample the symbols are the same.

Creatures of Russian Folklore

Here are reference to the creatures we spoke about in Russian folklore.  In order left to right we have Vodyanoi, Leshiy, Domovoi, & Baba Yaga's strange house in the woods.

Pictures and reference material from Russia Beyond.

Posted Podcast from October 2005 Over on Sound Cloud

Going WAY back to 2005 I've posted the October edition of the Nocturne Society podcast.  In this one I mainly covered the history of Halloween but also a couple true ghost stories.

Nocturne Audio Archive October 2005

Also a brand NEW podcast will be coming for October so keep an ear out for that.

REPOST: Interview with Author Annie Wilder

A while back I listened to an interview on the Darkness on the Edge of Town radio show. It was with the author of the book House of Spirits and Whispers, Annie Wilder. The true story was about her experiences in a 100 year old house she bought which was haunted. In the interview she was so down to earth and the story was so compelling that I went out and bought the book. I just finished reading it and enjoyed it so much I contacted her and asked if she’d do an interview about herself and the book. She agreed. I’ll keep it brief since I’m sure she isn’t looking to write another book for me.

Podcasts!

Our first podcast is here!  I'm pretty new to the podcast thing so I really hope you all enjoy our September edition.

Currently we plan to do a program once a month, each on a certain topic.  This month I give a little history on the Nocturne Society, what is was, what it is, and where it came from.  I also give tips on having an incredible Halloween party, and talk about the true ghost story that started it all.

I'd also like to encourage listeners to send me their stories that I can share and discuss with our various guests. The email is thenocturnesociety @ gmail.com

So you can find the podcast over on Soundcloud.  Just follow the link.  Please like, share, and follow as you see fit.

Nocturne Society Sept 2019

Abandoned Mine Sounds: Update

Awhile back I posted a great video from the YouTube channel  Exploring Abandoned Mines and Unusual Places. It was of him testing a sponsored flashlight when he came across strange noises.  It was super intriguing because he obviously wasn't creating the video to make something scary.


I recently revisited this video and saw a very interesting comment from someone that claims to have been a coal miner in the Appalachian mountains.  It was as follows....

Robbie Smith:
Folks, I've worked in and out of the coal mines in southern Appalachia quite a bit over the years, and as a former coal miner watching this, there's some things you need to know about working below the Drip Mouth of a mine:
1. It is quite normal, very normal actually, to hear things back in a mine shaft. Normally you don't hear the noises until it's dinner time when they shut off the machines and everyone sits down at the 'dinner hole' back in the mine, but we all know (as coal miners) that there's more activity going on in the mine besides our activity, and we often choose to ignore it.

2. It is a common thing to hear things, see lights that aren't supposed to be there, hear voices that aren't supposed to be there, and even see an Orb from time to time. Most of the men who work in the mine accept it and just go about their job, though I admit, it gets creepy back in the shaft when you're very far down in to the mountain sometimes. I never feared it because other miners were always right there with me, and there's safety in numbers - most of the time.

3. Tommyknockers: We had an unfortunate accident in one of our mines years ago, and a miner lost his life when the shaft he was working in collapsed in on him. We called in rescue and tried to get him out, but he was so far back into the shaft with his equipment, we couldn't get to him. He died back there, and it was a tragic horrible accident. The mine company (Eastern) decided to just brick up that part of the shaft and leave him in there, and to this day he is in the shaft, though passed on, and entombed in the mine.

4. Our dinner hole was close to the entrance of that shaft, though it was bricked over, and I admit.. There were times.. yes, you could almost 'hear' that man back in that shaft hitting the wall with a chisel of some kind, or a hammer. I was far from the only one to hear that, and the grown men, family men, who I had my dinner with at 3am back in the mine would get a little frightened at times. We moved our dinner hole after a while because it was too unsettling to eat there for most of us. 

5. We would often see Orbs just fly by out of nowhere down the mine shaft, and there was never a shift that I wasn't glad to see the dawn of the morning and I'd get out of the mine. It's scary enough down there, not knowing if each shift will be your last, and I was never 'really afraid,' but there were times, I confess, it was just eerie down in the mountain, and none of us miners ever felt alone down there.

6. The mine I am referring to is now completely closed and shut down, and has been for well over a decade, but I often think of that man who is still buried back under the mountain, and I wonder if he is still Tommyknocking on the walls back there.
- from southern West Virginia.




I REALLY love these kind of stories.  If you have not seen the video in I was referencing I've posted it below.  It's really worth a look.

The Skinwalker Ranch

The Skinwalker Ranch. Not many things frighten me but when I read The Hunt for the Skinwalker years ago it truly shook me. This isn't a ghost story, it's something chillingly disturbing. Recently Top 5 did a video highlighting some of the events that happened there. 

Also they show the trailer for an upcoming documentary on the ranch and it's history.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/huntfortheskinwalker

More information at http://www.hunttheskinwalker.com