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Discovery+ has announced the latest addition to its paranormal lineup, ‘Spooked Ireland’. Following the success of ‘Spooked Scotland’, which aired in 2022, the new series is set to premiere in September 2023. ‘Spooked Ireland’ will air on the Really channel, as well as stream on Discovery+. The 10 new episodes feature Chris Fleming, a renowned US medium, who returns to investigate supernatural sightings, and terrifying hauntings – this time in Ireland. Chris will be joined…
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Subscribe to get Spooky Isles’ free newsletter in your inbox every Friday! Reading Time: 3 minutes Dover Castle’s chilling past lures visitors to Kent to explore the haunted medieval fortress. We take a look at the Key to England’s many ghosts! Dover Castle is an iconic medieval castle in Kent, famous for its key defensive position as the “Key to England”. Built as we know it today in the 1180s by King Henry II, the…
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Lance and Patricia Rasmussen from Auckland, New Zealand, have been seeing UFO’s hovering above their home for the past year, so they set up security cameras to film the UFO’s and released it for everyone to see. The couple have no idea what the objects could be but they don’t believe them to be a drones or planes. The footage they recorded shows an orb type UFO which darts quickly in different directions for a…
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One of the scariest science fiction creations of all time comes from the fertile mind of Frank Herbert, who gave us the “Dune” series of novels and the gigantic snale-like creatures of the desert planet Arrakis known as the sandworms. Their arrival spelled terror and a potentially gruesome death for melange (“the spice”) hunters who knew that the sandworm was protecting the valuable drug produced by its own larvae. While we have only encountered sandworms…
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Excerpted with permission from Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions, written by Sabine Hossenfelder and published by Viking. The fact that the passage of time isn’t universal is pretty mind-bending already, but there’s more. Because the speed of light is very fast but finite, it takes time for light to reach us, so, strictly speaking, we always see things as they looked a little bit earlier. Again, though, we don’t normally notice…