About Ghostly Activities
Ghostly Activities is a very haunted blog documenting ghost stories, haunted places, dark folklore, ghost hunts, and strange personal encounters.
Since 2013, Ghostly Activities has explored the supernatural through field investigation, folklore research, historical records, interviews, podcasts, and documentary video.
Some stories begin in an archive. Others begin with footsteps in an empty hallway.
Ghostly Activities follows both.
Field Notes from the Spooky Side
Ghostly Activities is made for ghost hunters, paranormal enthusiasts, folklore fans, and anyone who enjoys a spooky tale after dark.
The blog approaches the ghosts and hauntings with curiosity rather than certainty. Ghost stories often sit somewhere between folklore, history, memory, personal experience, and the unexplained.
Rather than simply asking whether a haunting is real, Ghostly Activities looks at the larger story and then visits the place to check out the claims.
Where did the legend come from? What does the historical record say? How has the story changed? What have people experienced there? And what, if anything, remains unexplained?
The goal is to document those stories honestly and give readers enough context to decide what they think.
Folklore, Ghostlore, and Urban Legends
Ghosts rarely arrive without stories attached to them.
Ghostly Activities explores ghostlore, supernatural encounters, haunted legends, strange rituals, cursed places, spectral figures, dangerous games, and urban legends from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Whenever possible, the research traces stories back to their earliest documented versions and follows how they change over time.
Historical fact, folklore, personal testimony, and later additions to a legend are kept separate so readers can see how the story developed.
Sometimes the history explains the legend. Sometimes the folklore becomes more interesting than the history. And sometimes a mystery remains.
How Ghostly Activities Works
Ghostly Activities combines documentary fieldwork, folklore research, historical research, and good ol’ fashioned ghost hunting.
Research often begins before anyone arrives at a supposedly haunted location. That can mean searching old newspapers, books, maps, archives, property records, death certificates, oral histories, witness accounts, folklore collections, and previous ghost hunting reports.
For legends and ghost stories, the research also looks for how a story developed. That includes finding early versions, comparing accounts, identifying recurring motifs, separating documented events from folklore, and watching for details that appeared much later.
On location, the investigation centers on human experience. Cameras, audio recorders, environmental meters, and other devices can support the investigation, but they do not replace observation, documentation, or context.
Ghostly Activities follows a few basic principles:
- History and folklore are not interchangeable. They answer different questions.
- Stories change. Later versions of a legend may contain details that were never part of the original account.
- Personal experiences deserve context. What happened before, during, and after an encounter matters.
- Equipment readings require explanation. A flashing light or changing number is not automatically paranormal evidence.
- Unverified claims remain unverified. Repetition does not turn folklore into historical fact.
- Nothing happening is still a result. Ghostly Activities does not manufacture evidence to make an investigation more exciting.
- Respect comes first. Haunted places were once homes, hospitals, workplaces, gathering places, and scenes of real human lives.
Ghosts, hauntings and urban legends should be fun to explore. It should also be documented honestly.
Meet the Spooky Folklorist
Jacob Rice is the paranormal documentarian and folklorist behind Ghostly Activities.
He documents ghost stories, haunted places, supernatural beliefs, urban legends, and paranormal experiences through writing, audio, video, historical research, and field investigation.
His work often begins with a simple question: What is the story behind the haunting?
That can lead into old newspapers and archives, local folklore, witness accounts, forgotten history, field investigations, interviews, or nights spent wandering through supposedly haunted buildings with cameras and audio recorders.
Jacob is especially interested in the point where history and folklore meet: how real places become haunted places, how ghost stories change as they are retold, and why certain legends refuse to disappear.
He does not claim to have solved the mystery of ghosts. He just thinks the mystery — and the stories surrounding it — are worth documenting.