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What's happening in the next realm? Lists about fictional depictions and real experiences real people have really had with the paranormal.

Paranormal Activity

Exploring those otherworldly, metaphysical phenomena inexplicable by the laws of nature.

Soul and Spirit

Supernatural & Paranormal

Despite the skepticism that surrounds&nbsp;those who claim to have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actual-psychic-predictions/amandasedlakhevener" target="_blank">psychic powers</a>, a large number of law enforcement officials admit to using&nbsp;psychics and their purported&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/clairvoyance-and-telekinesis-stories/jacobybancroft" target="_blank">clairvoyant</a> abilities as investigative&nbsp;tools. In going public with these stories, law enforcement personnel also put&nbsp;their professional integrity on the line. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/us/09psychic.html" target="_blank">According to a survey</a> by&nbsp;The New York Times, 35% of the 50 largest US&nbsp;police stations admit to tapping psychics for their&nbsp;alleged gifts.

While it&#39;s true that some&nbsp;<a href="http://www.livescience.com/7425-bad-journalism-encourages-psychic-detectives.html" target="_blank">psychic claims</a> are false and may even hinder investigations, the&nbsp;testimony of detectives and police officers who have worked successfully with psychics is difficult to completely dismiss. In the following&nbsp;police investigations, psychics were credited by law enforcement as providing helpful information in solving the case.

10 Police Investigations Aided By Psychics

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10 Times Cops Were Aided By Psychics, And How They Helped

Caroline H. Cooney

Japan

It seems unlikely that a Kleenex ad could spawn a batch of urban legends that are still in circulation decades later,&nbsp;but that&rsquo;s exactly what happened after a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r7yKaDxGvc" target="_blank">Japanese Kleenex commercial</a> was yanked off the air in 1986. Some of these legends&nbsp;revolve around the cast and crew (allegedly) suffering mysterious deaths, much like stories surrounding&nbsp;the Exorcist, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/victims-of-the-poltergeist-curse/melissa-brinks" target="_blank">Poltergeist</a>, and other supposedly <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-most-infamous-cursed-movies-of-all-time/randolph" target="_blank">cursed movies</a>. In fact, the commercial&#39;s tales harken back to Japanese legends in which vengeful spirits terrorize the living.

So how did a seemingly innocent tissue commercial create such unease?&nbsp;Since the so-called &quot;cursed&quot; Kleenex commercial <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r7yKaDxGvc" target="_blank">resurfaced</a> on YouTube in 2006, some claim that those who watch it become cursed themselves. What is it about a&nbsp;simple jingle, a&nbsp;woman in white, and a baby dressed as an ogre&nbsp;that brings shivers to so many?

According To The Internet, There's Something Strange About This Japanese Kleenex Commercial

The Truth About The Creepy Cursed Kleenex Commercial From Japan

Lists of spooky places around the world where you might see, here, or feel a real ghost.

Local Haunts

Graveyard Shift

Creepy stories about catacombs abound because these subterranean, often bone-ridden crypts are the epitome of macabre. Yet the scariest part&nbsp;of a catacomb is not the skeletons resting in its hidden lairs&nbsp;but the trapped spirits who call it home. These ghosts are often&nbsp;victims of evil exploitation&nbsp;or unlucky visitors who got lost and never saw sunlight again. Others were dead before they even got there.

Earth-bound souls of the departed are said to grow enraged when their corpses are disturbed. Imagine how they feel when their remains are ripped from their resting place and tossed underground, their bones embedded into stone corridors, and their skulls arranged as crude art for tourists to gawk at. And why must they suffer this eternal disrespect? Because they were poor. At least, that&rsquo;s the case in the haunted Catacombs of Paris, where visitors report attacks by the angry ghosts of the displaced deceased.

Thrill-seekers&nbsp;known at &quot;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3165070/The-secret-swimming-pools-Paris-catacombs-Intrepid-explorers-risk-arrest-provide-rare-glimpse-French-capital-s-underworld.html" target="_blank">cataphiles</a>&quot; enter the dark recesses of catacombs from around the world, but not all of them come back out. What happens to these explorers is often a tragic mystery, as in the&nbsp;case of Masha, a Ukrainian teenager abandoned by her friends in the Odessa Catacombs.

There are&nbsp;underground tunnels and chambers which weren&rsquo;t meant to be cemeteries but&nbsp;ended up as final resting places all the same. Let&rsquo;s take a tour of these dank receptacles for the departed, pry up the cold&nbsp;stones, and explore scary ghost stories about catacombs.

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