The Gazette
The newest original articles, reports, timelines and archive updates.
Hauntings & Apparitions
From 1956, the Hitchings family reported household disturbances attributed to “Donald”. Investigator Harold Chibbett kept a large record, while ordinary access and weak controls left human agency unresolved.
Hoaxes, Misidentifications & Media
Claims made after the Lutz family’s 1975 stay became a bestselling book and film franchise. The murders in the house were real; evidence for the subsequent haunting is not reliable.
Historical Mysteries
A brewery vat rupture released a destructive flood of porter into St Giles on 17 October 1814. Contemporary reports and the inquest document eight deaths and an accidental verdict.
Disappearances & Unresolved Identities
The Carroll A. Deering was found abandoned on Diamond Shoals in January 1921. Missing boats, papers and crew suggested an organised departure, but its cause remains unknown.
Scientific Anomalies & Natural Phenomena
The Wow! signal was a one-time narrow-band radio event near the hydrogen line, recorded on 15 August 1977. Its shape was noteworthy; its source remains unconfirmed.
Hoaxes, Misidentifications & Media
The Black Knight is a composite legend assembled from unrelated radio experiments, Cold War tracking stories and STS-88 photographs of lost thermal insulation.
Historical Mysteries
The crew abandoned Baychimo after it vanished during a 1931 blizzard. The steel steamer survived and was repeatedly sighted or boarded; its final resting place remains unknown.
Disappearances & Unresolved Identities
A Christmas-night fire destroyed the Sodder home in 1945. Five children were missing afterward; uncertain recovery work and disputed clues left death in the fire and removal from the house unresolved.
Occult & Psychical Research
Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain described an uncanny walk at Versailles in 1901. Their early notes and later research document a developing interpretation, not independent proof of a time slip.
Scientific Anomalies & Natural Phenomena
N-rays were reported by respected physicists using faint visual changes near the threshold of perception. Failed replication and uncontrolled tests showed that the proposed radiation was not established.
Scientific Anomalies & Natural Phenomena
The Taos Hum became a public problem in the early 1990s when residents described a distant-engine sound. Researchers documented sincere reports but found no common external source.
Folklore & Legends
After a snowy night in February 1855, residents around the Exe estuary reported small, regular tracks in unlikely places. The reports preserve a genuine local mystery, not proof of a single supernatural traveller.