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Hoax: The Fairies of Cottingley
Season 1 Episode 16
The Cottingley Fairies might not seem like the kind of story you’d expect on Paranormia. In 1917, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright produced photogr…
5 months ago
Cult: Final Fantasy House
Season 1 Episode 15
In the early 2000s, a small group of teens and young adults found each other online through Final Fantasy VII fandom, where they felt understood. But…
5 months, 1 week ago
Missing: The Foundling of Nuremberg
Season 1 Episode 14
In May 1828, a teenage boy named Kaspar Hauser appeared in Nuremberg with letters claiming he’d been raised in total isolation, sparking fascination …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ghosts: The Ghost Who Pulled the Trigger
Season 1 Episode 13
In January 1804, a man was shot dead on a dark lane in West London after residents of Hammersmith became convinced a ghost was haunting their streets…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Cult: The Long Way to Jonestown
Season 1 Episode 12
In November 1978, more than 900 people died in Jonestown, Guyana, an event often reduced to a warning about blind obedience. This episode looks at wh…
6 months ago
Urban Legend: Cropsey, The Boogeyman of Staten Island
Season 1 Episode 11
For years, children on Staten Island were warned about Cropsey, a boogeyman said to haunt the abandoned Willowbrook buildings. It began as a way to k…
6 months, 1 week ago
Haunted: The Cecil Hotel
Season 1 Episode 10
In January 2013, a 21 year old Canadian student named Elisa Lam checked into The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. She was travelling alone, docum…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Unsolved: The Case at Dyatlov Pass
Season 1 Episode 9
In February 1959, nine experienced hikers disappeared in the northern Ural Mountains. When searchers found their tent weeks later, it was cut open fr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Cursed Object: The Dybbuk Box
Season 1 Episode 8
In 2001, a small wooden wine cabinet appeared in an eBay listing from Portland. Its seller claimed it had belonged to a 103 year old Holocaust surviv…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Witches: The San Francisco Killers
Season 1 Episode 7
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Michael and Suzan Carson drifted through the American West, moving between communes, shared apartments, and mariju…
7 months ago