Paranormal Daily, edition of Sunday, November 1, 2026

THE INTERNET — A post on the r/UFOs forum is circulating a claim attributed to Tim Gallaudet, a former Rear Admiral and former Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, concerning video recorded aboard the USS Omaha.

According to the post's title, Mr. Gallaudet says he knows of several such videos in which an unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAP, is seen entering the ocean without any disturbance to the water. The title renders the detail as "No splash."

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has shared a link under a headline that functions as something of a complete brief in itself: "Weaponized — The Pentagon's UFO Debunker is Lying." The post carries no text body, and the linked material was not available for review.

According to the title, the matter concerns the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, and its former director Sean Kirkpatrick, whose account is set against what the title calls the narrative of Robert Bigelow and James Ryder. The subject, the title says, is an attempted transfer of Lockheed Martin unidentified anomalous phenomena material, said to have been thwarted by Glenn Gaffney and the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — The Halloween of 1828 was the night on which Margaret Docherty became the last known victim of Burke and Hare, according to an article published by the Spooky Isles website on the anniversary of her death.

The brief summary of the piece states that William Burke offered Docherty shelter. That offer of hospitality, the article indicates, ended in her murder, and she is described as the final known death attributed to the notorious pair.

WINDSOR, ENGLAND — Britain's royal residences are said to house a larger company than the Royal Family alone, according to a Halloween-season roundup in The Mirror, which gathers accounts from staff and visitors of ghostly figures, footsteps and gunshots in empty rooms.

At Windsor Castle, described as the oldest occupied castle in the world, apparitions of Henry VIII, George III and Elizabeth I have reportedly been seen. Citing Visit Britain, the article says Elizabeth I's footsteps are heard on the bare floorboards of the library before she appears. Henry VIII is said to hobble through the deanery cloisters, and George III reportedly was seen at a window days after his death in 1820.

ST. JOSEPH, MO. — A hotel room in St. Joseph, Missouri, was the scene in 1876 of an apparition case that paranormal writers are still examining a century and a half later, according to a retrospective published by Paranormal Daily News.

The account concerns a young traveling salesman from Boston, who says he was writing out orders at high noon, cigar in his mouth, when he sensed someone seated at his left. Turning, he writes, he saw his sister, who had died of cholera nine years earlier. He sprang up calling her name, and the figure vanished. The case was gathered by psychical researcher Frederic Myers and later reprinted in Martin Ebon's book True Experiences with Ghosts.

THE INTERNET — The question of why ghosts are so often pictured in bedsheets receives a historical treatment from the website Spooky Isles, which published its inquiry on Halloween, 31 October 2026.

According to the site's brief summary, the answer begins with ancient burial shrouds, the cloth in which the dead were wrapped. From there, the article says, the trail runs through Victorian theatre and arrives at Casper, the cartoon ghost known to generations of children.

ORSK, U.S.S.R. — A Reddit user posting to r/Humanoidencounters has revived a case from April 16, 1990, in which a sixth-grader named Vera Potapenko, then 12, says she was taken aloft in a craft from outside School No. 21 in Orsk. The post cites Oleg Obyedkov's catalog, UFOs over Orsk, as its source.

According to the account, Vera set out for school at about 7:40 a.m. with three classmates. On the fourth floor, minutes before English, she was seized by dizziness, nausea and an urge to leave. Her teacher refused permission to go downstairs. She went anyway, collected her blue jacket and stepped outside, where she reportedly saw a gray, cup-shaped craft with colored lights and two antennae descend silently on four supports.

GROVE CITY, OHIO — On Halloween night in Grove City, Ohio, a young man named Shawn Dyer wakes on the damp grass of Marsh Cemetery, across Home Road from Gantz Park. So says the synopsis of the latest installment of "The Blood Bats of Gantz Park," a story in the MicroTerrors series, published by Weird Darkness.

According to the synopsis, a jack-o'-lantern bursts into flame a few yards from where he lies, and a second follows beside it. In the orange glow stand two furry creatures with pointed ears and beady eyes, which are unfolding leathery wings.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has appealed for comparable accounts of an encounter that, by the author's telling, occurred a few years ago during an hour-long meditation session and has resisted explanation ever since.

According to the post, the author had been meditating regularly by following the breath and letting thoughts pass. The writer reached a state privately called the "black room," an enormous, dark and possibly infinite space in which awareness of the physical body remained. One session then brought what the author describes as a vortex or portal in the mind's eye.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A Reddit user posting to r/starseeds has shared the results of an automatic writing session said to describe the character of November, offering the message in the hope that it will resonate with some readers.

According to the post, the month begins with a bang. The channeled text states that a flow of energy has been building because of external events likely to occur within a short span, and that matters long held back are now beginning to burst from the seams. The author adds a personal observation: October was unusually warm where they live, and the trees had not yet lost their leaves, which the message reads as a reflection of a slow start to the season.

PAROS, GREECE — The relations between King Aegeus of Athens and King Minos of Crete were marked by hostility, war and a tragic agreement, according to Ancient Pages, which this week published a preview of an article by A. Sutherland on the subject. The agreement, the site writes, ultimately placed Athens under Cretan rule.

The account begins with Androgeos, son of Minos, who traveled to Athens to take part in the Panathenaic Games. He was reportedly so skilled that he defeated every Athenian opponent. The preview states that he subsequently died, though the excerpt does not describe how.

ALULA, SAUDI ARABIA — Two new LaserSETI stations are now operating at the AlUla Manara ASM Site in northwest Saudi Arabia, according to a report in The Debrief. The installations are described as the first of their kind in Asia, and are the product of a partnership between the SETI Institute and the Royal Commission for AlUla.

The devices were installed on August 19, 2026, the report states, and are now operational. They join existing LaserSETI locations in California, Hawai'i, Arizona and Puerto Rico, extending a network designed to watch the heavens continuously for unusual astronomical events, among them possible signals from extraterrestrial laser technology.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — A previously unrecognized theoretical phenomenon, tucked inside the equations of Albert Einstein, may one day help scientists predict how space-time behaves, according to a report by The Debrief. The work comes from Columbia University and Chile's Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and was published in Physical Review D.

The researchers began from a familiar solar puzzle. In magnetic reconnection, the report explains, magnetic field lines in the plasma change their configuration and release energy, a process behind powerful solar flares. The team asked whether gravity might do something similar, and they call their proposed answer "gravitational reconnection." The report stresses that it remains entirely theoretical.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board has announced a private experiment: lighting a match by the power of the mind alone. According to the post, the feat seems "doable enough" and would constitute stronger evidence of paranormal phenomena than psi-wheels or gesturing at empty soda cans. The author closed by asking whether anyone else had ever managed true telekinetic phenomena.

The thread, which had gathered 32 replies at last count, quickly split into factions. One respondent argued that striking a match requires only a few millijoules of energy, and that failure to produce so small a quantity suggests little capacity for anything else. Another agreed, calling the test an objective measurement that cuts through unfalsifiable claims.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has drawn attention to what is described as a Halloween video from the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The post, published on October 31, 2026, consists solely of a link or image and carries no text of its own.

According to the title of the post, the video shows an eye associated with the Blackbird, the celebrated high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, before the screen goes dark. The title attributes to the clip the message "You Can't See What's Coming."

THE INTERNET — A 22-year-old Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix reports that his closest friend, a boy he knew from school, appears to have been removed from the world as completely as a name struck from a ledger. The post, published on Halloween, describes the friend as Genzou, called Gen, who the author says grew up in Hokkaido and moved to the author's country at age ten.

According to the post, the two met at a new school around 2013 or 2014 and grew close in Year 7. The author describes Gen as the first person he came out to, a comfort after the death of his grandmother, and his first kiss. A group of five friends, he writes, spent nearly every weekend between 2015 and 2017 at one house or another, or gaming together online.

FRANKLIN, PA. — On a quiet back street in Franklin, Pennsylvania, a town once known for the boom of its oil trade, there stands a church whose modest exterior is said to conceal a considerable treasure. According to a listing on Atlas Obscura, the real marvels of St. John's Episcopal Church are found only after one passes through its large wood-and-iron doors.

The listing states that every window in the building was made by the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany. It adds that St. John's is one of only seven remaining churches to possess a complete collection of such windows.