Welcome to The Strange Report, your weekly roundup of paranormal news and oddities. Paranormal news this week is less about creaking floorboards and more about paperwork, press conferences, and weekend ghost hunts. Between a lawsuit over who gets to control a famous “haunted” farmhouse, politicians talking about alien tech on camera, and college kids treating ghost hunting like a campus activity, it feels like the weird has settled into everyday life.
Conjuring House Lawsuit: Legal Battle Over Famous Haunted Farmhouse
The Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring is back in court, and this time the ghost at the center of the story is a legal document. The owner’s sister has filed a lawsuit to block a potential sale to Ghost Hunters star Jason Hawes and his associate Julia Demay, arguing that the owner, Jacqueline Nuñez, was not mentally competent when she signed over limited power of attorney to handle a sale for around 1.3 million dollars. A judge has temporarily frozen any sale while the case plays out, which means the house is now as much a battleground for lawyers as it is for ghost hunters.
According to the complaint, Nuñez has struggled with serious mental health issues over the past year and has been hospitalized multiple times, and her sister claims she had repeatedly said she would never sell the property to Hawes after previous conflicts and a prior restraining-order drama between them. The suit frames the alleged deal as predatory, accusing Hawes and Demay of trying to acquire a globally famous haunted house for below its true value while knowing the owner’s condition, an accusation Hawes denies in public statements.
The backdrop makes the whole thing stranger. The house’s mortgage was quietly bought earlier this year, an auction was announced and then cancelled, and multiple paranormal personalities and YouTubers have hovered over the property like vultures over a very profitable corpse. What started as a family farmhouse, then became a case file, horror franchise, and overnight attraction is now and object of competing claims: who owns the right to profit from a haunting, and what happens when the person living with the ghosts may not be in a position to negotiate over them.
Marco Rubio UFO Disclosure: Secretary of State Discusses UAP Programs
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been back in the headlines after appearing in the documentary The Age of Disclosure, where he talks about “repeated instances” of something unknown flying over restricted nuclear facilities and suggests that even presidents have been kept on a strict need-to-know basis about some UAP programs. In the film and follow-up coverage, he describes craft in sensitive airspace that are “not ours,” while other officials and experts interviewed claim there have been crash retrievals, attempts to reverse-engineer non-human technology, and decades of secrecy around these efforts.
What makes Rubio’s comments stand out is not that someone is alleging cover-ups, but that a sitting secretary of state is putting his name and face on those claims in a mainstream release. The Age of Disclosure team leans hard into the idea of an 80-year information dam finally starting to crack, screening the film for members of Congress and framing it as proof that the political class is now willing to say out loud what UFO subcultures have been yelling about for generations. For Strange Report purposes, it is less about whether every allegation is true and more about how the official story keeps shifting, as if the government is haunted by the things it put in its own classified flies.
Ghost Hunting Tourism: Universities and Historical Sites Embrace Paranormal Events
If you look at how many universities and historical sites are now running ghost tours, it starts to feel like “going paranormal” is just another campus or city activity. Penn State, Texas Tech, Mount Holyoke, NYU, Wilkes, and the University of Saskatchewan all advertise lantern lit walks through allegedly haunted buildings and quads, complete with student storytellers, archives staff, or historical society guides. The language in their promos leans hard on history and campus lore, but the draw is simple: come walk into the dark with a group, hear the stories that are usually whispered, and maybe catch something you cannot explain.
Outside academia, ghost hunting has folded neatly into travel and event planning. Companies and historical socieites sell structured investigations in castles, catacombs, forts, and “most haunted” houses, from Fort Mifflin on the Delaware to New Castle’s Amstel House and coordinated Ghost Hunting Day packages in Prague and Paris. Articles and roundups now talk about “supernatural tourism” as a nice within heritage travel, where people come for a mix of folklore, night photography, EMF meters, and the chance to say they spent the evening in a place whose ghosts have a fan base.
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