“Once you get past the cornfields, there are layers of history here, quiet, overlooked, and sometimes a little eerie if you know where to look.”
Learn the story. Question the narrative. Stay curious.
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We’re going to a field in Mills County, a quiet stretch of land at the south end of a medical campus that, until June 30th, 2024, had been continuously occupied for nearly 150 years. On that land is a forgotten cemetery with about 1,300 people buried in generic, poorly marked…
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Architecture as Medicine: The Story of the Kirkbride Plan
These places were designed to heal people. (Hint: they didn’t. Let’s unpack that.) Grab a coffee. We’re about to emotionally process an abandoned asylum. I…
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Harry Houdini: Magician, Myth-Buster, and the Original Paranormal Skeptic
Before ghost-hunting TV shows and viral psychic TikToks, there was Harry Houdini, a Hungarian-American escape artist best known for surviving impossible stunts and wriggling out…
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America’s Only Legally Haunted House
Did you know there’s only one house in America that’s legally recognized as haunted? The infamous Ackley House in Nyack, New York gained paranormal-legal status…
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American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR)
Founded in 1885 in New York, the ASPR was created to investigate paranormal phenomena scientifically. At the time, psychology was still in its early stages,…
● About Me
My name is Joanna.
I’ve always been drawn to stories that don’t quite make sense. The ones that leave questions behind. The ones that feel unfinished.
That curiosity eventually led me into the strange, messy, and fascinating world of paranormal investigation.
“Paranormal” is really just a catch-all term for things we don’t fully understand yet. The unexplained, the mystical, the spiritual, and all the arcana in between. It’s less about proving something is real and more about asking better questions.
Do I believe in ghosts? Maybe.
Do I think aliens are among us? Also maybe. (Have you seen those military UFO videos?)
What I do know is this: sometimes history itself is unsettling enough.
by Joanna Arcana 