Paranormal Daily, edition of Monday, October 26, 2026

MARICAO, PUERTO RICO — Amid the great American UFO wave of 1973, Puerto Rico had its own contribution to make, according to a post on Inexplicata, the journal of the Institute of Hispanic Ufology. The account concerns October 26 of that year, in the mountainous interior of the island.

Guillermo Bonet, described as a communications engineer, and Jorge Silvestri, a technician, were reportedly at work on Monte del Estado, a summit in the Cordillera Central. The post says the peak housed radio broadcast transmitters, repeaters and antennae, and lies within the Maricao State Forest.

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY — A video said to show a spearhead-shaped object over Karlsruhe, Germany, at 7 p.m. local time on October 1, 2023, has been put before the readers of r/UFOs, where a poster finds in it an echo of a woodcut printed four and a half centuries earlier.

According to the post, the footage was captured by another Reddit user. The author directs attention to a stretch between 00:12 and 00:16, in which the object is said to hold its position while rotating about its vertical axis.

A NEW SUBDIVISION, U.S. — A self-described non-believer has appealed to the readers of r/Paranormal for help explaining a run of occurrences in a newly built house in a newly built subdivision. The author, a Reddit user, states that they have never credited hauntings and do not see how such a thing would be possible.

According to the post, the incidents are small but persistent. The author describes an entire shelf of folded sweaters tipping to the floor slowly, one at a time. They also report a sensation of someone patting the bed twice with an open hand in the night, always twice, which brought them out of a dead sleep under the belief that one of their children needed them. The children, the author says, were fast asleep.

BOSTON, MASS. — A licensed mental health counselor told a federal jury in Boston on Friday that her patient, Sandra Birchmore, had described a visit from her dead mother in the night, according to a roundup published by Weird Darkness. The counselor, Diala Alkhalil, said the account was given at their last session on January 31st, 2021.

As relayed to jurors, the room had turned cold and Sandra's mother stood at the foot of the bed holding Sandra's unborn baby. Alkhalil testified that she described it as a visit rather than a dream. She said she did not endorse the belief but was respectful of it. Asked by the defense whether she had judged it a hallucination, she said no.

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND — Newcastle Castle, operated by The Heart of the City Partnership, will open its Keep after hours on 29, 30 and 31 October 2026 for Halloween Ghost Tours, according to an interview published by Spooky Isles. Sessions are advertised at 5pm and 6pm, each giving visitors an hour inside.

Becca Whittaker, the Castle's programming and partnerships manager, told the publication that the best-known tale is that of the Poppy Girl, a nameless spectre said to be a young flower-seller who worked the Castle Garth when the Keep served as a prison amid crowded slum housing.

OXFORD, ENGLAND — Behind the honeyed stone of Oxford's colleges, according to a guide interviewed by Spooky Isles, a restless company of the dead still keeps its rounds. Tom McDonnell, who has led walking tours of the city for around 16 years and now guides The Oxford Ghost Tour, says he has seen street lights switch on and off 55 times along Magpie Lane and Merton Road.

Local legend, as Mr. McDonnell relates it, ties the phenomenon to Prudence Burcote, said to be searching for a French lover who vanished during the English Civil War. He describes the lights as an urban legend, but states that he has witnessed the effect himself on those 55 occasions.

APPALACHIA, U.S. — A lifelong resident of Appalachia, aged 22, has described three years of unexplained noises around the family home in a post to r/Paranormal, asking the public for any idea of what the cause might be.

According to the post, the author was raised to observe a handful of local rules concerning the unseen: do not whistle indoors after dark, do not answer a voice calling your name, do not follow unexplained cries or lights, and close the blinds at nightfall. The author writes that they follow these rules heavily, though their parents, who do not believe in the paranormal, never have.

SEGOVIA, SPAIN — A group of friends walking through farmland near Segovia, Spain, reports having watched a pair of strange figures on a distant hilltop near sunset, according to a Reddit user posting to r/Humanoidencounters.

The author says the figures stood between two trees on the crest of a hill, about 400 metres away, a distance the poster states was measured afterward on Google Earth. From afar they looked humanoid, the post says, but on closer inspection they appeared to have horns, limbs that seemed disconnected from the torso, and holes in the chest and shoulders.

THE WILDERNESS, FOUR MILES UPHILL — A camping trip arranged to impress a girl has taken a turn for the worse, according to an episode of the Weird Darkness program Midnight In The Macabre, broadcast on October 26, 2026 under the title "Werewolves in the Clearing."

The episode's description introduces two friends, Dex and Trey, who persuade a third friend to join a few days in the woods. The site, it says, comes recommended by Dex's cousin and lies four miles uphill from the car. Also attending, the summary notes, is a girl on whom Dex has apparently harbored a crush for nearly a year.

THE NETHERLANDS — A Reddit user posting to r/occult has appealed to the board's members for help in identifying an amulet said to have been discovered in a backyard in the Netherlands in 2016, shortly after new soil was spread across the ground.

According to the post, the object is probably silver. The author bases this on its density and on the way it darkened to a grey tone as it tarnished, though no testing of any kind is reported. The finder offers no description of its markings, shape or size in the text, and the photograph that presumably accompanied the post is not available to this correspondent.

THE INTERNET — The night is coming, according to a new episode of the Weird Darkness radio program, and the porch lights will not help. The show, published under the title "HALLOWEEN: 2,000 Years of Heinous History," invites listeners to look past the decorations of October 31st toward something far older.

The program's promotional text holds that every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume in a store window and every glowing carved pumpkin on a doorstep is an echo of something that began long before any living person was born. That something, it says, is older and more terrifying than most people realize.

SANTA FE, N.M. — A spiral staircase in the Loretto Chapel of Santa Fe continues to puzzle admirers, according to the website Futility Closet, which this week revisited the structure known as the Miracle Stair.

The stair, the site reports, has no newel, the central pole around which most spiral stairs are built. Its treads are instead upheld by stringers, the notched structural supports found in an ordinary staircase. Here the stringers make two complete turns as they climb 20 feet to the choir loft.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 2010 report on warp-drive propulsion has appeared among newly released UFO documents, according to the Daily Star. The paper was produced under the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, known as AAWSAP, and examines whether faster-than-light travel is truly possible.

The Daily Star reports that the study describes the basic idea as an asymmetric bubble of space, contracting ahead of a craft and expanding behind it. The craft would sit still within the bubble while the movement of space itself carried it along. The newspaper's account suggests such a vessel might allow astronauts to roam the Universe in search of extraterrestrial life.

SOUTHERN BORDER, U.S. — A weapon that its makers say stops a person in their tracks with a sensation of intense heat has reportedly been authorized for testing near the southern border of the United States, according to a report by Unexplained Mysteries, which cites The Guardian.

The device is officially known as the Active Denial System, though it is more popularly called the 'heat ray.' According to the article, it is classed as non-lethal and is designed to impede and disorient a target rather than to kill.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board opened a thread this week asserting that the flag of the Soviet Union now carries a star above its hammer and sickle. The author says he is "100% sure" it was not there before, and asks fellow readers whether they, too, hail from the "no star timeline."

The poster holds that anyone who recalls the flag without a star is a transplant from an earlier Earth, shifted into the present arrangement. The thread had drawn 92 replies at last count.

THE INTERNET — A brief and unexplained dimming of the daylight was reported this week by a Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix, who asks of the community: "The sun just blinked?"

According to the post, the author was facing a backyard under a sky without a single cloud. The light and shadows playing across a wooden fence and a metal fence, the writer states, went dark for "just a split second" before returning. The sensation is compared to someone turning a room's light switch off and on again.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board has opened an inquiry into what the author calls the two great houses of the elite: a "serpent bloodline," which the post says plainly descends from reptilians, and an "eagle bloodline," whose origins the author confesses not to know.

The author wonders whether the eagles might be the tall whites, the Pleiadians, or the Atlanteans. The post also asks whether the two factions are at war, and notes that although serpents were apparently involved in founding America, the nation chose the eagle as its emblem. Are they partners, the author asks, and where might one read more?