For open minds
Starring Michelle Khare “Whisper” is a film about something we think about all the time… about that thing in the shadows just out of sight.
In this case, we have a pretty young woman in bed and her Alexa, Amazon’s smart speaker, can hear something whispered. This voice isn’t a thing we can hear clearly, and yet we kind of know there’s something there.
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Do you have an Alexa? Has it ever seemed to reply to something which wasn’t there?
The management of this Subway found reason to put up a rather strange sign. It makes you wonder what might have happened here that made printing such a sign necessary in the first place.
Do you agree with the owners? Are they entitled to ban paying customers from using Ouija boards in the building? Or do you think the sign will backfire and if anyone wanted to stir up trouble for them that they will anyway?
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What’s the strangest sign you’ve ever seen posted in public?
Via Reddit uploads.
Snapchat is more than just an app that allows you to send messages that self-destruct after they’ve been read. Today’s version of the app is focused around video messaging and pioneered clever visual filters to spice up those messages.
Want to see what you look like with puppy ears, or as a pirate or with glamour make-up on? Snapchat has a filter for that. One of Snapchat’s most popular filters is the faceswap. Look into the camera with a friend and Snapchat will swap your faces around and you’ll get to send a hilariously weird message to friends.
It’s become common to hold up items with faces for Snapchat’s faceswap filter to use. The effect is funny and allows you to faceswap by yourself.
But what if Snapchat finds a face in the picture that you weren’t expecting? That’s what has appeared here! This picture, uploaded to Reddit shows a young woman trying to faceswap with a Care Bear… except, the computer’s algorithm has seen another face. Snapchat’s camera has looked into the darkness behind the woman and seen the contours of a face!
The result? Both weird and spooky at the same time!
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What do you think might have caused this? A patch of shadow that just happened to look like a face?
Fan of Harry Potter and the spin-off Fantastic Beasts? Many of the monsters from the Potterverse are drawn from mythology, inspired by old folktales and stories.
Sykes Cottages have put together a collection of monster posters to follow on from the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Is the idea you’re supposed to go rent a holiday cottage near a monster area? Their blog has more details and we’ve the pictures below.
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Which is your favourite fantastic beast?
We’ve all summoned this sort of demon. Right?
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This great one panel comic is the work of The Very Near Future. The site takes an open-minded view at what might be happening next; throwing plenty of punches as it does so.
There are concerns that strange spikes of ice forming in your freezer, reaching up from ice cubes and towards the door is a sign of supernatural activity in your kitchen.
You shouldn’t be worried. Ice spikes are perfectly natural and we have the science to explain what’s going on.
Over a million people have watched Veritasium’s video which suggests the ice spike phenomena was of widespread interest.
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Have you ever discovered ice spikes on your ice cubes?
Ask any mathematician about normal distribution and they’ll be able to tell you exactly what it is. In fact, most school kids can draw you a graph of normal distribution.
As it turns out … it’s pretty easy to draw paranormal distribution too!
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Have you tried this prank of any one you know? Let us know in the comments below.
Image credit: Imgur
You can tell a lot about a flying craft from its silhouette. Check out this chart for a handy spotter’s guide.
If you’re paying close attention you’ll notice how hard it is to tell swamp gas from weather balloons. It’s easy to see how mistakes are made.
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How many weather balloons have you seen in your local area?
Image: Imgur
A man browsing Google’s Streetview has found a demonic face appearing out of a window in the Walton area of Liverpool.
He told The Liverpool Echo;
I was looking on Google Street View to find a fish and chip shop in Walton, and I came across The Stuart Hotel.
Something in the top left hand window caught my eye. It looks like a ghostly image of an evil-looking face.
While In Pure Spirit can’t find the original tweet pictures of the ghost-like face are available.
Tom Slemen, a paranormal researcher with experience of Liverpool, confirmed to the paper that The Stuart Hotel is believed to be haunted but wouldn’t vouch for the authenticity of the faces.
According to Slemen one paranormal occurrence in the hotel dates back to 1897 when a scratching noise was heard in the cellar. To begin with the sound was dismissed as being a rat or mice but it became louder and louder. Eventually the neighbours could hear it as well.
Three days later the whole building was shaking to such a degree that the pub windows were left open in case the vibrations shattered the class. After that the noise stopped but a regular drinker knocked three times on the cellar wall and received three knocks back in response. That was enough for the noise to start again. Eventually a priest from St Mary’s Church left a Bible in the cellar and the noise stopped for good.
IPS is unable to confirm whether the Bible is still in The Stuart Hotel.
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Are you from Liverpool? Are there any haunted pubs or hotels that you know about?
This short film looks at what happen if a couple try astral projection in order to spy on a demoness. Why would they take the risk? You’ll have to watch Lilitu to find out!
Astral projection is a form out-of-body experience in which the spirit (or soul, or some other non-corporeal essence) leaves the physical plane to reach the astral one.
Belief in astral projection is fairly widespread across religions; even the Christian Bible is said to hold mention of it. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians includes;
“I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows) such a one caught up to the third heaven…”
On Etsy, stores like Alchemystica sell Ormus, a mixture of salt and distilled water, intended to help with astral projection, while Daemon Offerings sells Oleum made from oil.
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Do you engage in astral projection? What wisdom would you share?
