Bloody Mary: Why We Think We See Ghosts in Mirrors

One of the surest ways to prove your courage to all the other kids at a slumber party back in the day was to march into a dimly lit room (typically a bathroom), stare at your face in the mirror, and repeat the words “Bloody Mary” a specified number of times (typically three, though some...

Bloody Mary: Why We Think We See Ghosts in Mirrors

One of the surest ways to prove your courage to all the other kids at the slumber party was to march into a dimly lit room (it was almost always a bathroom, for some reason), stare at your face in the mirror, and repeat the words Bloody Mary 13 times. According to legend, a woman...

Mirrors: Portals To The Other Side?

Do portals really exist between our physical world and the world beyond? Do spirits come and go from beyond the grave? This of course has been a subject of much controversy and research for many years. From ancient times to modern parapsychology and science, man has grappled with the question, do spirits actually exist. Ghosts...

Bloody Mary, and Why We Think We See Things in Mirrors

As a child, one of the surest ways to prove your courage to all the other kids at the slumber party was to march into a dimly lit room (it was almost always a bathroom, for some reason), stare at your face in the mirror, and repeat the words Bloody Mary 13 times. According to legend, a...