Paranormal Dispatch from the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum! 29 May, 2026

--By Maddie Kosloski of The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Photo by Geoffrey Guillaume on Unsplash

Welcome to another wild week of paranormal news! Our magic of fairies exhibit is coming to an end, but just wait to see what the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum has in store for June! Can't make it to the museum? Stop by our online shop!

And now, here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the week!

1) A police department in West Virginia put out a special patch featuring three local cryptids—Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster, and the Grafton Monster. They sold out in under a day. People really connected with it. I love when a town leans into its weird history. It turns something spooky into a point of pride.

2) It looks like "normal" art museums are getting into the paranormal act. An art museum in Basel, Switzerland, that put together an exhibit with actual ghost-related objects. Not just paintings of ghosts, but real artifacts tied to those kinds of stories. It sounds like they stepped right into the gray area between history and the unexplained, which always gets my attention.

3) On the cryptozoology front, someone tried to create a Wikipedia page for “Cryptid Town” to cover all the festivals towns are throwing around their local monster legends. It got taken down pretty quickly. Wikipedia moderators can be mind-dullingly strict about what counts as "official". Still, it is cool to see more places turning their creature stories into community events.

4) A piece breaking down three things that make someone more likely to have a paranormal experience: weird stuff in the environment like electromagnetic fields, how your brain acts during sleep paralysis, and certain personality traits that leave you more open to those moments. She kept it grounded but did not dismiss the experiences people have. I appreciated that balance.

5) And finally, the Annabelle doll is getting a temporary home this fall in Salem, Massachusetts, as part of a pop-up museum with artifacts from the Warrens’ collection. Salem feels like the right spot for something like that. Those kinds of famous haunted objects always stir up a lot of talk.