Paranormal Daily, edition of Sunday, October 11, 2026

SIERRA DE LA VENTANA, ARGENTINA — A multidisciplinary team investigating UFOs and luminous anomalies has begun a new phase of fieldwork around Sierra de la Ventana, in Tornquist, Buenos Aires Province, according to a report by Arnaldo Botto of Radio Reflejos, dated October 9 and relayed by the blog Inexplicata.

The group, the report states, comprises lawyer and researcher Esteban Lingeri; Hugo Daniel López, described as its founder and a pioneer in the field; and anthropologist Patricio Parente, who is to bring a human-sciences view to the interpretation of testimony. Dr. Lingeri told the radio the aim is to see whether the phenomenon can be unravelled, or at least begun to be understood, and said it is predominantly characterized by light.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — A video said to show a helicopter circling a motionless unidentified object above a residential district has been posted to the r/HighStrangeness forum on Reddit, where it is offered to readers as a puzzle in want of a solution.

According to the post, the footage was filmed in Los Angeles, California, on August 8, 2019. The title states that the helicopter circles around the object, which it describes as a UAP, or unidentified anomalous phenomenon, hovering in place over a neighborhood of homes.

EXETER, ENGLAND — A brief item published by the Weird Darkness podcast and website revisits the case of John Lee, a man the title describes as one the authorities "couldn't hang." The item is an excerpt promoting an episode in the series "Botched Executions."

According to the text, Lee was due to be hanged at Exeter in 1885. It states that he told his warders that morning that he had dreamed the scaffold would not work. The item then says the hangman pulled the lever repeatedly, and that the trapdoor beneath Lee never opened.

ENGLAND — A new book by the historian Neil R. Storey turns its attention to the castles of England and to the persons, or presences, said to linger within them. According to a notice published by Spooky Isles, the volume, titled The Haunted Castles of England, reveals that the country's strongholds harbour dangerous apparitions, forgotten spirits and mysterious encounters.

The notice, which is brief, offers no further particulars. It names no individual castle, describes no specific apparition, and does not say what is meant by a ghost being dangerous. Readers hoping for details of the encounters in question are therefore referred, by implication, to the book itself.

GROVE CITY — A library after closing time, according to a podcast listing published October 10, 2026, is not always empty. The listing for the episode "Creeger the Creeper" describes a ten-year-old named Lucy who is locked inside the Grove City Library once the lights are out.

The description states that the doors are locked and the building is dark, and that Lucy "is about to find out she isn't the only one still inside." Beyond that teaser, the source supplies no account of who or what shares the building with her.

THE BRITISH ISLES — A feature published by the website Spooky Isles turns its attention to the trees of Britain, which it describes as sacred, and promises readers a tour of their folklore, magic and place in the pagan calendar.

According to the brief summary accompanying the piece, the survey begins with the mighty oak, a tree it treats with evident respect. The article then moves on to the rowan, which the summary describes as protective.

THE INTERNET — A Halloween divination ritual, a children's bathroom dare and a self-help phenomenon share a single structure, according to an essay published October 11 by the Weird Darkness podcast. Its author argues that all three rest on one idea: say the right words, believe hard enough, and the thing you asked for must appear.

The essay begins with Robert Burns, who printed the rules in a 1786 footnote to his poem "Halloween." A young woman, candle in hand, was to eat an apple before a looking glass and watch for her future husband's face over her shoulder. By the 1870s, the author writes, a cellar-stairs version, walked backward, was common enough for newspapers to joke about it.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A channeled question-and-answer session posted on the website Era of Light on October 11 presents what its author, Blossom Goodchild, describes as the replies of the Federation of Light to a long-time follower's queries about pyramids, "codes" and activation.

Asked whether pyramids around the world are each seeking a code, the channeled message states that "awaiting" is the better word. Codes, it says, change within every living thing at every moment, but activations from pyramids or the sun are described as more profound, shifting the numbers dramatically in one "swoop". They are offered, the message says, as an overall upgrade. The message adds that souls do not need codes to be tracked by Source, for "IT IS YOU"; codes, it explains, merely keep the body active.

ABYDOS, EGYPT — A reassessment of skulls taken from burials beside the First Dynasty royal tombs at Abydos indicates that members of the royal household may have been deliberately killed after the deaths of their kings, according to a report published on Ancient Pages. The study appears in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.

The question is nearly a century old. Flinders Petrie, who excavated the graves in the 1920s, doubted that so many people buried around a single tomb could have died naturally at the same time. He found, however, no evidence of fatal wounds, and his theory of retainer sacrifice remained unproven.

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Neanderthals, long remembered chiefly for their stone tools, may have been accomplished woodworkers as well, according to a study published in Science Advances on October 7, 2026. The report, as summarized by The Debrief, concerns the Abric Romaní rock shelter near Barcelona.

Over four decades of excavation, the article states, archaeologists recovered 597 wooden remains and impressions from 16 archaeological levels dating to roughly 62,000 to 40,000 years ago. Researchers from IPHES-CERCA and Universitat Rovira i Virgili analyzed the collection. Their analysis suggests wood was not merely burned as fuel but was routinely made into tools and other objects.

MARIUS HILLS, THE MOON — A hole in the surface of the Moon, first found by Japan's Kaguya (SELENE) orbiter in 2009, is to receive renewed scientific attention, according to a report by T.K. Randall of Unexplained Mysteries, which cites Mail Online.

The feature, known as the Marius Hills Pit, can be seen from orbit some of the way down, the report states. This glimpse suggests it may be the entrance to a large underground cave, or even a whole subterranean network, though the report is careful to note that this remains conditional on a cave actually being present.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has assembled a short list of reading and viewing for those who suspect that the ocean floor harbors more than fish. The post, titled "Looking at Grusch comments on Deep Sea Bases," offers topics rather than conclusions, and leaves the reader to draw the lines between them.

According to the post, the survey begins with what the author calls Tim Burchett's "endless mentions of underwater activity." It then turns to the film The Abyss, which the post says is of interest because Mr. Grusch mentions it. The post does not say in what context he did so.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Scientists at the University of Vienna have put forward a new account of how the octopus came by its remarkable mind, pointing to an ancient rearrangement in the way its genetic material is folded inside the cell. The study, according to The Debrief, appeared in Nature Communications on October 9, 2026.

The researchers examined the genomes of coleoid cephalopods, a group that takes in octopuses, squid and cuttlefish. These animals, the report notes, possess large and elaborate nervous systems with highly distributed neural networks, and octopuses in particular have shown notable problem-solving ability and a talent for rapid camouflage.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board claimed on October 10 that an entity which speaks to them has announced that comedian Bert Kreischer is "about to die," probably that same day. The post carries no evidence beyond the author's word.

The author writes that they had never heard of Mr. Kreischer and thought only "Who?" when told. On looking him up, they say, his health appeared to be in decline. The entity, the poster states, usually gives its notices minutes or hours before a death, or at the exact second of it.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described what the author calls the time they were "pulled into a different time period," an episode said to have occurred between 2005 and 2009, when the writer was between six and nine years old.

According to the post, the author and a cousin were playing on an enclosed, window-lined porch at the cousin's house on a bright summer afternoon. The author describes blue skies, a gentle wind and a calm street. The house, the writer adds, was the scene of "a lot" of strange encounters, and the author now believes it to have been a portal.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on the paranormal board of 4chan has asked the assembled public for help with a puzzle that, by the poster's account, arrived unannounced during an episode of sleep paralysis: a demon inquired whether the poster was "bright," and said nothing further.

The author provided little additional detail. In a follow-up reply, the poster stated that they had twice asked the entity whether it was "with Jesus," received no answer on either occasion, and that it departed after the second asking. One respondent suggested this was akin to asking a frog its opinion of fast-food restaurants.

WASHINGTON, U.S. — A man who describes himself as a professional funeral crasher says he is paid to carry out the last wishes of the dying, however strange or "uncomfortable" they may be, according to a report in the Daily Star.

Joshua Weaver, 43, of Washington, told the newspaper that his commissions include confessions of love, hate and secrets, recovery of sensitive assets, final messages, dark humour and pranks. Some, he said, involve revealing that the deceased was unfaithful. He said there is a good deal of grief and secrecy in his work, since people lead lives their loved ones may not know about.