The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Dispatch April 9, 2026

--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

Hey folks, Maddie Kosloski here from our little paranormal museum in San Benedetto. Another week, another batch of odd stories floating around the internet that make you pause over your morning coffee and wonder what's really going on out there. I pulled together five that caught my eye, from old-school mediumship to ghosts that won't stay quiet. Let's dive in.

1) First up, is modern-day trance mediumship dead? The piece looks back at the heavy hitters from the past, like Gladys Osborne Leonard and her control Feda, or the kind of evidential stuff that had scientists like Sir Oliver Lodge taking notes. Back then, you got deep trances with cross correspondences and rock-solid details that checked out later. These days? The article argues a lot of what gets called deep trance feels more like mental mediumship or folks reaching a relaxed brain state without the real spiritual horsepower behind it. No pyramid of evidence, just subjective vibes. It makes you think about how rare those old-school connections might have been, and whether we're still building the right kind of relationships on this side to make them happen again.

2) Then there's this report on shared-dream experiences that have neurologists scratching their heads. People describing the exact same dream details with folks they weren't even in contact with at the time. It's the sort of thing that doesn't fit neatly into the usual brain-chemistry explanations, and the science folks are left saying they don't quite know how to file it. The lines between one mind and another can get blurry in ways we still can't measure.

3) Staying on the brain side, a neuroscience study looked at how imagination ties into meaning. They scanned folks imagining scenes and found it lights up those higher association networks in the brain, the ones that weave together memories, language, and big-picture ideas rather than just replaying raw sights and sounds. Basically, when you picture something, your mind is busy constructing whole concepts, not just flashing pictures. It lines up with how so many paranormal experiences feel loaded with personal significance, like your brain is turning the weird into something that actually means something to you.

4) Over in England, there's a fresh look at the ghosts of Berry Pomeroy Castle, specifically the White Lady and the Blue Lady. The White one drifts around like she's stuck in her own loop, while the Blue one seems to interact more, sometimes leaving people feeling pushed or uneasy. The write-up floats the idea that maybe they're not two separate spirits but one apparition that shifts color depending on the light in those old towers. It even brings in the Purkinje effect, where your eyes play tricks in dim conditions and things look bluer. Still, the old sightings, like the one tied to an actual death omen, keep the whole place feeling properly haunted.

5) And wrapping it up, a killer told investigators that his victim's ghost hounded him until he confessed. Coast to Coast AM picked it up, and it's one of those cases where the suspect claims the spirit wouldn't leave him alone. Whether you see it as guilt manifesting or something more, it adds another layer to stories where the dead push for justice.

Reading about all these strange happenings around the world, I can't help but think of some of the odder cases right here at the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum. If you're enjoying these weekly dispatches and want more ghostly mysteries with a side of small-town sleuthing, you might like the stories I've lived through myself in the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum cozy mystery series. Swing by the museum in San Benedetto sometime – we've got signed copies on the shelves, and I'd love to chat about your own spooky encounters.

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Until next week, keep an eye out for the unexplained!

Maddie.