Kerin's Kuriosities

  In today’s tale, I want to revisit the extraordinary life of the Catholic Saint, Padre Pio. There are so many incredible supernatural encounters surrounding this humble friar’s life that I couldn’t easily incorporate them into just one video, but decided to make a series. I have already shared with you several occasions when the padre was visited by the spirits of dead believers who found themselves caught in purgatory and sought his prayers. We have also touched on the incredible circumstances of stigmata which Padre Pio bore on his hands for much of his life. Today I wanted to focus on his extraordinary relationship with the angels. In the Gospel of St Matthew there is a passage during which Christ, speaking of young children says, “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father. (Mt.18:10)” That is just one example of the idea that we each have an angel assigned to us fo...

Today’s tale comes from Colin Jamie, small Business Owner from Australia. Only recently, while it was night, he found himself having to deliver something to and address he was not familiar with. Upon getting into his vehicle he entered the address into his GPS and set off on his journey. As he approached his destination he came to a traffic roundabout, which, in countries like Australia and New Zealand, is a raised circular area for cars to drive around in order to navigate busy intersections. The GPS said to turn left at the third exit of the roundabout. However, Colin thinks he may have made a mistake, and exited on the fourth exit instead. Colin continued to drive into the night until eventually there were no longer any more houses. The dark road was a vain that ran through a smothering of thick bush and trees. Suddenly the GPS said, “You have arrived, please walk the rest of the way.” But Colin was in the middle of nowhere, surrounded only by forest and not a pathway in...

Today’s tale is from Quora user, Wayne, who shared with me his brief encounter while visiting a castle in England on June 21st, 2009 at around 11:45 in the morning. Unfortunately, he did not disclose the exact location, but it could have been in any one of the 4000 or so castles scattered throughout England. In any case, Wayne, a computer scientist, found himself in the presence of 2 ladies dressed in medieval clothing. One sat at a small table while the other walked backwards and forwards. The room they were next to was dimly lit by candles and Wayne, who was carrying his son at the time, thought he had stumbled into a re-enactment of some kind, so he said to his boy, “We better get out of the way because they look quite busy.” Wayne then moved downstairs to find his wife and other son waiting for him below. Then the whole family made their way back up the stairs to find that not only were the 2 ladies gone but so were the candles and table, replaced only with darkness. It...

In today’s tale I wanted to share with you this very brief but no less encouraging event that happened to a man named Gary who wrote to me recently. At first it was heart breaking to learn from him that in September his wife had passed away, but two days after his loss Gary was woken from sleep at about 8:30 in the morning, when he heard a noise as if something had fallen on the floor somewhere… Not sure where the sound had come from he walked out of his room and to the kitchen where in the middle of the floor lay a fridge magnet. Gary picked up the magnet to place it back on the fridge where it had been for years, recalling that this particular magnet had never fallen off before and noting that its strength of magnetism made it quite difficult to dislodge both before and since this day.  However, he knew right away that the magnet falling from its place on the fridge was his wife sending him a message that she was ok; for of all the magnets that where on the fridge, the one that f...

Today’s tale comes from  Quora user Mark Mitram . When I announced to Quora that I was looking for true ghost stories that I could share on this channel Mark responded with the following tale, which he claimed would be short and boring, and yet, I would argue that often the short and boring stories are the most believable. Surely if a story wasn’t true it would tend toward hyperbole and indulge in too much excitement. But when someone offers a humble small tale about a random event, it does lend a sense of credibility to the tale. At least, to me it does. Some time ago Mark landed a job at the Promenade hotel, Branson Landing,  as a room attendant. One day he was in a particular bedroom within the hotel with the door closed, changing pillowcases, a somewhat normal event for someone in his position, that is until unexpectedly the door opened completely, and by itself. At that moment Mark didn’t think too much of the occurrence, that is, until the door then closed complete...

Today’s tale is from Quora user, Icon Boys , who responded when I asked the question, “Does anyone have any good ghost stories?” He qualified their account with the assurance that it is not fake and did indeed take place in real life. However, as of writing this, the user did not specify what country or year this occurred , but it appears to have unfolded when Icon was in standard eight and attending a government school. On one particular day as Icon was returning home from school, a journey of about 3 and a half miles, he spotted a house which had been abandoned for over 30 years. He knew this to be true because the house had belonged to his great grandfather, so he was no stranger to this creepy abode and its history. The story of his great grandfather’s death had been told to Icon many times. The ancient relative had passed away in his sleep. As a Quora User, Icon bares the credential of “insert” and true to his title he recounted how in many cultures it is believe that when...

       Today’s tale comes from  Quora User Marcia Mason , a former Mechanical Engineer who ran a small hobby machine shop, the location of which was not disclosed.     For a time Marcia had an employee called Terry, who, though a former veteran with a disability was a good machinist who worked the machines until he suddenly died one day of an apparent heart attack.     In life Terry had resided on sight in a small efficiency apartment above the shop and Marcia was left with the task of settling his estate before reorganizing the shop for the next possible employee.     It was during this time, as Marcia was taking inventory, that they discovered a special tool was missing and after searching in vain for some time Marcia shouted in frustration, “Where is it???”     Marcia was not expecting a reply. But shockingly a disembodied voice simply replied, “Secon d drawer on the left.”    ...

     Today's tale was brought to my attention by YouTuber Capn Krome  who suggested I look into the mystery of what has become known as the Enfield Monster of Enfield Illinois in the United Sates.       In April 1973 a man by the name of Henry McDaniel was confronted with the sound of something scratching at his door. When he looked outside he saw something that he thought might be a bear, so taking a gun and a flashlight he went out into the night to face the creature.      H owever the creature he would encounter was not a bear! Instead standing between two rose bushes was something incredibly unexpected. Standing about four and a half feet tall was a grayish-coloured being that stood on three legs, with large pink eyes the size of flashlights, and brandishing two small arms, almost human-like in shape were it not for the extra leg and strange eyes.      M cDaniel fired four shots at the strange beast, successfully ...

    In today’s tale we’ll be visiting the strange occurrences of a supernatural nature that have occurred in the 110-year-old St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.     I like sharing the tales of ghosts that are common to my own country because we are a young nation in the greater scheme of Western civilization. So often it is a given that we associate hauntings with centuries old castles and other ancient buildings; the edifices of whatever society left them to be occupied by generations of human interaction, whilst here in New Zealand the oldest European building is  The Mission House at Keriker i, built only in 1822. Even New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori, made these lands their home as early as the 1250s, a time when England’s Windsor Castle was already close to 300 years old! And yet my country maintains its own rich traditions of hauntings and happenings of the bizarre, proving that the age of a thing is not necessarily a pre...

     Today's story comes from Quora user "Old Man Harker", a self-proclaimed skeptic of the supernatural until one day while living in Los Angeles a co-worker asked him if he would like to be her roommate due to her current roommate relocating to New York.       Harker recounted that his co-worker and her friends were more than mildly attractive, and, being a red-blooded American male he immediately accepted the invitation. However the new living situation came with a disturbing twist; something supernatural was stalking the outgoing roommate...         Her move to New York had been postponed, so when the day came for Harker to move in he was given the option of sleeping on a very uncomfortable couch. But being the sort of man he was, he sucked it up and stoically took to the new sleeping arrangement. But as if the lack of a bed wasn't enough the roommate informed him that weird things would sometimes happen in the ap...

     Today's tale is another of a more personal nature and involves a curious experience I had when I was in my early twenties involving an uncanny premonition.      I  was living in Brisbane Australia, sharing a house with two other people. For the purpose of this retelling we shall refer to them as Jack and Louise, as their real identities aren't necessary for the story.       Both Jack and Louise owned dogs. Louise owned a beautiful female German Shepherd with strong protective maternal instincts, while Jack's dog was a slow elderly golden retriever who seldom reacted to much of anything. The German Shepherd would bark at the mention of a possible intruder whereas the golden retriever wouldn't budge for much of anything; o ne time I had to pick him up and get him out of the way when an angry poisonous snake crossed his path! He either didn't notice it or just didn't care!     O ne day around 2002 I had planned...

     Today's story comes from an anonymous Quora user from India who described a curious event that happened to his neighbor Mishra, a railway guard, whose job consisted of traveling all around India on both freight and passenger trains.      One night while riding on a freight train somewhere near Siliguri the unnerving event took place. The train he worked on was somewhere between 500 to 600 meters in length with only six or seven men on duty, with the guard cabin located at the back of the train      It was approximately 2 am when a signal issue caused the train to stop in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by the night sky above and the dark forest held back by the lonely train tracks. Mishra was discussing the situation with the locomotive pilot on his two-way when suddenly a woman appeared on the tracks, her clothes shining white, she seemed to be in her mid-30s or perhaps older.       Approaching Mishra the strange w...

       To quote Shakespeare, “There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” If you were to put a dot on the biggest piece of paper you could find, everything inside that dot represents your knowledge and experience, while the rest of the paper, is only a fraction of everything that you don’t know and have not yet perceived.       Welcome to Kerin's Kuriosities, where you will hear the stories of those people who have encountered the invisible, perceived the imperceivable and now believe the unbelievable.       In today’s tale I will share with you my own personal encounter with the unseen. I grew up in a small beach town called Maraetai, in the eastern suburbs of Auckland New Zealand, having moved there when my mother remarried, at the age of four, and thence having what passed as a normal childhood. That is until I was 12 years old. As my family expanded with the arrival of my two sisters, ...