Since ancient times, humanity has been haunted by one fundamental question: Does the afterlife exist? And if it does, can we communicate with those who have passed on?
From ancient séance rituals and Ouija boards to supernatural stories that leave scientists baffled—regardless of what you believe, these mysteries will make you question everything.
1️⃣ SPIRIT CALLING: AN AGE-OLD RITUAL OR A GATEWAY TO ANOTHER REALM?
Across cultures, people have developed their own methods to communicate with the deceased. And the most astonishing part? Some cases are so eerily accurate that they defy coincidence.
🔮 Japan: Itako and Messages from the Dead
At Mount Osorezan, Itako (blind female shamans) perform spirit-calling rituals. They have no prior knowledge of the deceased but can still reveal chillingly accurate details.
👉 Researcher Ian Reader (Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan, 2000) documented a case where an Itako conveyed the exact final wishes of a deceased individual—details even the family had forgotten.
👁️ United Kingdom: Doris Stokes and Her Uncanny Predictions
According to Voices in My Ear (1980), Doris Stokes, one of the most famous psychics of the 20th century, once predicted the exact location of a lost silver ring—hidden in a box that only the deceased mother had ever opened.
Skeptics argue that she relied on Cold Reading (reading body language), but the real question remains: How could she have known something never spoken out loud?
🇻🇳 Vietnam: Shocking Spirit-Calling Cases
✔ Spirit-calling to locate remains in Bac Giang (2009):
According to Tuoi Tre Newspaper (2009), a family searching for the remains of their father, missing since wartime, consulted a spirit medium. The spirit directed them to a specific mound of earth—where they later unearthed skeletal remains that matched the father’s DNA.
✔ Phan Thi Bich Hang & the recovery of war martyrs’ remains:
According to Wikipedia, The Mystery of Psychic Phan Thi Bich Hang, she claimed to have helped locate over 10,000 sets of remains, including war hero Vu Van Hung, whose burial site was previously unknown.
🧩 If spirits don’t exist, how do psychics retrieve such precise information?
2️⃣ OUIJA BOARD – A HARMLESS GAME OR A PORTAL TO DARK FORCES?
The Ouija board emerged in the 19th century, yet it continues to terrify people to this day. Scientists attribute its movements to the Ideomotor Effect (unconscious motion), but some cases are simply too eerie to dismiss.
👻 The Patience Worth Case (USA, 1913)
Pearl Curran, an ordinary woman, suddenly began receiving messages from “Patience Worth”—a spirit claiming to have lived in the 17th century.
The shocking part?
📝 Curran wrote entire novels in archaic English, using period-accurate vocabulary and expressions that she could not have possibly known. (The Case of Patience Worth, Walter Franklin Prince, 1927)
Linguistic experts examined her writings and confirmed: This was not a coincidence.
👀 The Case of Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro (Spain, 1990)
After playing with a Ouija board at school, Estefanía began experiencing terrifying supernatural occurrences:
💀 Dark figures appeared in her home.
💀 Objects moved on their own.
💀 The 18-year-old girl died mysteriously.
📖 Source: The Vallecas Case, El Mundo Newspaper, Spain
Madrid police investigated and officially recorded paranormal activity—one of the rare cases acknowledged by law enforcement.
👉 If the Ouija board is just a game, why do such horrific events follow?
3️⃣ HOW DOES SCIENCE EXPLAIN THIS?
🧐 Scientists have proposed multiple theories, yet none completely debunk supernatural phenomena.
✔ Cold Reading & the Barnum Effect:
Critics claim that psychics simply observe facial expressions and reactions. But this fails to explain cases where information was known before any questions were asked.
✔ Ideomotor Effect & the Ouija Board:
Experiments show that when players are blindfolded, the board ceases to “respond.” However, this doesn’t explain cases like Patience Worth, where complex, historically accurate writings emerged.
✔ Brainwave Studies & Near-Death Experiences:
A 2014 study by the University of Michigan, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), discovered an intense surge in gamma waves just before death. While some researchers view this as a natural brain response, others argue it could be a sign of the soul departing the body.
4️⃣ FAKE SPIRIT CALLING – CASES EXPOSED
🔻 Eusapia Palladino (19th century) – A famous psychic caught using invisible strings and trickery to make objects move.
🔻 Ouija Board Hoax – Studies show that when blindfolded, participants lose the ability to produce accurate messages.
👉 But if some cases are fraudulent, can we use a few fakes to dismiss all spirit-calling experiences?
5️⃣ THE SPIRIT WORLD – BELIEF OR REALITY?
Some spirit-calling cases have been exposed as fraud, yet others remain beyond scientific explanation.
🌀 If everything is just coincidence, why do we have so many coincidences?
Science has yet to reach a final answer. But as long as these mysteries remain unsolved, the spirit world will remain an open door—one that humanity is not yet ready to close.
🚪 Would you dare to open it?
