Origins Obscura

In 1992, BBC1 in Great Britain aired a show that made history, and is still being talked about over 30 years later. Ghostwatch followed a live paranormal investigation, and was later held responsible for numerous cases of PTSD and the death of one young man. Watch Ghostwatch on Archive.org

On a lonely dirt road in Wisconsin, a troop of boy scouts disappeared without a trace, but their spirits still haunt the area.

On June 1, 1987, 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier skipped school and went on a Bigfoot hunt in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. According to the Bigfoot enthusiast who went into the woods with her, she was kidnapped by Bigfoot, carried off into the wilderness, and was never seen again.

During the 1980’s, a cursed portrait of a young boy crying caused a rash of house fires throughout England.

On the outskirts of Seattle Washington, a small town cemetery contains a crypt that leads directly into hell.

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