it’s not just orbs that haunt the halls of the museum either. Apart from the usual eerie feeling that the decor provides – gold-trimmed rooms, countless mirrors, and oversized furniture can make anyone feel a bit small and nervous

‘When I woke up in the morning, I found the bed was wet. It had been raining overnight and I thought water had dripped in. But it was my blood. It was such a shock.

Showman Frank Hansen exhibits the “Iceman”—a Bigfoot-like creature encased in ice—at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. This “relic of the ice age,” he claims, was found in the waters off Siberia. The news soon reaches Ivan T. Sanderson of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained.

A sentient haunting involves an intelligent, conscious entity—such as a ghost, spirit, or even a living, aware house—that interacts directly with the environment and its inhabitants in real-time. Unlike residual hauntings that replay on a loop, sentient hauntings are driven by motivation, allowing the entity to communicate, react, and purposely cause disturbances like moving objects, noises, or manipulating technology.