Paranormal Daily, edition of Thursday, October 22, 2026

THE INTERNET — A digest posted by The Anomalist, drawing on reports from Coast to Coast AM, gathers a run of recent aerial sightings from several countries. The first, in Tennessee, was described by writer Tim Binnall as "particularly fortuitous", since the witness and videographer is himself the host of a local paranormal radio program.

According to the digest, the host noticed a baffling illumination low on the horizon and went on to film a variety of orbs in the sky. The source does not say what the orbs were, and offers no explanation for them.

THE NIGHT SKY — Earth will pass through a stream of ancient comet debris overnight on Oct. 21-22, according to a report from Unknown Country, as the Orionid meteor shower reaches its yearly peak. The material, the article says, was shed by Halley's Comet, which last visited the inner solar system in 1986.

Citing NASA and the American Meteor Society, the report states that observers under ideal dark-sky conditions might see 10 to 20 meteors per hour. NASA is said to put the speed of the particles entering the atmosphere at about 41 miles per second, or roughly 148,000 mph. At such speeds, the article notes, even tiny grains can produce brilliant streaks, and some Orionids flare into fireballs or leave glowing trails.

WEST CROWLEY, LA. — The latest episode of the Weird Darkness podcast, hosted by Darren Marlar, opens in West Crowley, Louisiana, in January 1911, where according to the show notes the Byers family was found axed to death in their beds. Similar family killings, the episode says, followed along the railroad to Lafayette, Lake Charles and San Antonio, Texas.

Clementine Barnabet, a Black teenager from Lafayette, testified that her father, Raymond, killed the Andrus family, the notes state. The murders continued while he sat in jail. After a verse signed 'Human Five' appeared on a wall in Lake Charles, newspapers recast the case as a racially charged tale of Voodoo and a so-called Church of Sacrifice. Clementine confessed to 35 murders in 1912 and was sentenced to life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

OXFORD, ENGLAND — A fourteenth-century manuscript in Oxford shows two jinn working below the public baths at Tiberias, according to an essay published by Exhibo Art Platform and noted by The Anomalist. The drawing, on folio 35v of the Book of Surprises, is a cutaway: bathers above, and below them a furnace tended by two jinn who appear to be deep in conversation. There is no bargain and no punishment, the essay observes.

The manuscript, catalogued at the Bodleian Library as MS. Bodl. Or. 133, was compiled in Jalayirid Baghdad at the end of the fourteenth century. The essay credits it with what may be the most remarkable surviving sequence of jinn paintings. The Anomalist's summary, initialed CM, relays the author Alena Belova's argument that Disney's Aladdin of 1992 invented the three-wishes contract, while the flying carpet came from a Syrian storyteller living in Paris.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A message attributed to a self-described 12th-dimensional collective of non-physical beings called The Creators was published on October 21 by Era of Light. It was channeled, according to the site, by Daniel Scranton, and its theme is self-empowerment.

The collective states that many people are easily drawn to the notion that others, such as the heads of corporations, media outlets and large countries, hold more power than they do. It adds that this choice is made largely at a subconscious level, and it asks readers to make the choice consciously instead.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — Readers troubled by a feeling that everything has grown strange and sluggish may soon have an explanation. Christopher Knowles, author of the newsletter The Secret Sun, has announced a livestream devoted to what he calls a mad parade of retrogrades among the planetary archons.

According to the post, Knowles will be joined by Noah Campbell, whom he describes as his man from Facing North Astrology. The two are set to reconvene on Wednesday, October 21st, at 8 PM Eastern Time. The word "reconvening" suggests that the pair have discussed such matters before.

MOUNT ARARAT, TURKEY — A robot originally designed to explore wombat burrows has been put to work at the Durupınar formation near Turkey's Mount Ararat, a boat-shaped mound that some believers hold to be the resting place of Noah's Ark, according to a report in the Daily Star.

The machine, called Gopher, was built by Dr Robert Ross of La Trobe University. The report says he has worked for nine months with the group Noah's Ark Discovery, after learning it was seeking a robot for the site. It carries waterproof wide-angle cameras front and rear, along with environmental sensors, and is said to be able to gather data 25 metres underground. It reportedly left Australia in late July.

MONROE, LA. — A post on the r/HighStrangeness forum has drawn fresh attention to a set of ancient earthworks in northern Louisiana, which it says are older than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

According to the post, eleven earthworks stand at Watson Brake, near Monroe. The author states that they were built by Native American hunter-gatherers around 3500 BC, a span the post puts at nearly 1,000 years before the pyramid was raised.

THE INTERNET — A small copper ornament, thin as paper, is said by the website Ancient Pages to be rewriting the history of early metallurgy in the Americas. The claim appears in a preview written by Conny Waters, with the full article reserved for paying members.

According to the preview, historians have long held that the nomadic tribes of the far south lived wholly in the Stone Age and lacked the sophistication to work metal. The article states that scientists placed the ornament under an advanced laboratory scanner and that the results overturned this belief.

LONDON, ENGLAND — A Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Westminster Abbey more than two centuries ago may at last have given up the identity of its occupant, according to a report published by The Debrief on a new study in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association.

Workmen turned up the coffin in 1820 and smashed its lid into six pieces. It was "rediscovered" in 1869, the damage was mended, and an inscription was read naming Valerius Amandinus, a wealthy Briton said to have lived between 300 and 400 AD. A Latin phrase carved on the lid in the 10th or 11th century, however, led the researchers to suggest the coffin may belong to someone who died many centuries later.

THE INTERNET — The Daily Grail, in its news briefs for October 21, 2026, offers readers a broad sweep of the curious, beginning with the vexed matter of Havana Syndrome. The site's authors say they have recorded a video chat for its Patreon page examining what they regard as the most likely explanations.

In archaeology, the roundup notes that Malta's mysterious stone 'railways' were long thought to be prehistoric, but that new evidence suggests a different story. Elsewhere, researchers are reported to say that possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane is likely to be nothing more than trees.

THE INTERNET — A short post on the r/HighStrangeness forum has drawn attention to a curious entry in the annals of unexplained encounters. The author, a Reddit user, says the account made them laugh and credits it to Jacques Vallee's book "Passport to Magonia - From Folklore to Flying saucers."

According to the post, the encounter befell a person engaged in the most ordinary of duties, the herding of cows. The author asks readers to imagine such a day interrupted by a group of dwarves, who, as the post describes it, slapped the witness in the face and then simply left.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has set down what the author calls a "relationship with NHI," a sequence of events said to stretch from a November evening in 2017 to the summer of 2026.

According to the post, the author was walking home from a grandmother's house at about 8:30 p.m. when a feeling of being watched came over them. Looking up, they say, they saw a silent craft roughly 40 feet up, drifting west at around 35 miles per hour. As the author crossed the street toward the driveway, the craft allegedly dropped to about 20 feet and veered over the house, which the writer takes as a sign of intelligence.

A BACKYARD — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described an afternoon in the garden that left a married couple, in the writer's words, wondering. The author admits to feeling a little silly in setting it down, but says the details are recalled as precisely as memory allows.

According to the post, the couple were seated in facing chairs when the husband fell into a sneezing fit. Behind him, the household's older cat, adopted some years ago, was dozing in the grass. The author writes that the animal lifted his head, gave the husband a small squint of the eyes, and nodded.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix has asked the board's readers whether their life is "just a video on repeat," describing a run of déjà vu experiences that the author says has grown more frequent and more vivid.

According to the post, the feeling is no mere sense of a place seeming familiar. The author writes that it is as though the same day were lived twice, with foreknowledge of what a friend will say or which subject will come up. The author adds that these predictions, in their experience, tend to come true.

A RESIDENTIAL STREET — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described a three-day acquaintance that, months afterward, struck him as peculiar. The author reports that the woman at the center of the account paid no attention whatever to the animal at his side.

According to the post, the author walks his husky daily. The dog, he says, was a very energetic pup of about one year at the time and was not well trained to resist greeting passersby. Strangers, he writes, habitually remarked upon the animal.

NIKUMARORO, KIRIBATI — An expedition to the remote Pacific island of Nikumaroro has concluded that a much-discussed anomaly in a lagoon, thought by some to be the remains of Amelia Earhart's aircraft, is nothing more than a collection of large trees, according to a report by T.K. Randall of Unexplained Mysteries, citing Mail Online.

Efforts to scour the island began in earnest this week, the report says, following months of delays and setbacks. The principal target was the 'Taraia Object,' a shape spotted beneath the surface of the lagoon in satellite imagery. An analysis of that image had suggested it resembled the wreckage of a plane, possibly the one in which Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished in 1937.