Research-driven paranormal documentaries on hauntings, folklore and anomalous history
The Paranormal Scholar, created by Laura and Erik Rowton, produces research-driven video essays and short documentaries about hauntings, folklore, dark history, anomalous experiences, cryptids and UFOs. Paranormal Unknown treats this work as documentary and research source material rather than presenting it as field-investigation footage.
At Routton’s Museum, a World War II doll in the séance parlour has become a magnet for attention, reported movement, and repeated naming. A months-long experiment with visitor submissions ended with two clear standouts: Emily and Anaise.
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A donated dog bust at a museum in Wales comes with a story that is already halfway formed before any investigation begins: barking dogs, a troubled home, strange incidents in a separate room, and a delivery that seemed to avoid the building altogether.
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The Paranormal Scholar’s museum tour is not just about old paranormal gadgets. It is about how Spiritualist tools were built to answer grief, curiosity, and the need to feel contact with someone beyond the room.
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The Paranormal Scholar’s haunted museum story is less about one dramatic incident than a place that keeps producing them.
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The direct answer to this video is straightforward: it follows Andrew Hopkins’s account of a childhood haunting in Coalville, England, where an old mining cottage seemed to produce footsteps, moving objects, shadow figures, and later physical incidents that he believed were tied.
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The Black Monk of Pontefract story is usually told as a single haunting with a single explanation. The video takes a different route: it starts with the Pritchard family’s reported disturbances at 30 East Drive, then asks where later retellings sharpen the legend beyond what.
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The direct answer is that the Union screaming house case is Stephen LaChance’s account of a Missouri rental where his family says they encountered apparitions, electrical disturbances, foul odors, and walls that screamed.
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Candleston Castle is presented as more than an abandoned manor ruin. In The Paranormal Scholar’s investigation, it becomes a place where local folklore, reported voices, a possible apparition, and a cleansing ritual all sit alongside a deeper historical memory of loss.
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