Halloween Weekend Digest Links Sleep Demons, Hillside Bones and a Sharp 3,300-Year-Old Sword

THE INTERNET — The Daily Grail, a website devoted to the unexplained, wished its readers a great Halloween weekend on Friday, October 30, 2026, and followed with a roundup of linked stories in keeping with the season.

Chief among the spooky items, according to the digest, is a piece on the science behind sleep paralysis "demons", which it says have taken the shape of aliens, vampires and ghosts across centuries. A companion link asks whether the brain can make a person see ghosts, using the Bloody Mary legend as its example.

Edinburgh supplies a pair of puzzles. One linked article asks who collected hundreds of animal bones and left them on a hillside beside Arthur's Seat, the case of the Crow Hill bones. The digest also points readers to the earlier coffin doll mystery at the same landmark, asking who made the figures and why, and offers the two with a question mark as to whether they are related.

In the realm of archaeology, the roundup says archaeologists fished a 3,300-year-old sword from a volcanic crater lake, and that it remains sharp. Another link lists what it calls the six strangest discoveries experts have made about Stonehenge.

The science desk is busy as well. One headline holds that comets did not seed life on Earth, contrary to what scientists once thought. Others report that crows decide twice as fast as humans and monkeys, that CRISPR prime editing has rewritten DNA in the human body for the first time, and that a psychologist has a new theory on why orcas keep attacking boats.

The digest closes with a look at how Victorian spiritualism turned the wish to transcend death into new moneymaking, a video about an occultist who learned the language of angels, and a quote from Sir Patrick Stewart: what we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.