Paraphenomena

 By Aaron Perez Published 3/19/2025 Image Credit: El Paso Museum of History      An oasis in a desert city and sitting in the Manhattan Heights area, Memorial Park feels off due to its green and vibrant colors. This park is among the big recreational areas in the city, not the biggest, but large enough to count. Initially a location of a factory, the land was repurposed into the park that now sits on this hillside. The area was originally named Castle Hillside Park, but in 1920 it was named Memorial Park and it was later renamed on July 4th 1969 as Veterans Memorial Park in order to honor those who served in the first World War.. The park contains a pool, a tennis court, two baseball fields, a public library, a rental area for public and private events, and its main attraction, a rose garden. While having only two baseball fields isn’t that impressive, one has to keep in mind that the park is on a hill area, which complicates what can be built there. It also is right...

By Aaron Perez Published 3/18/2025   Raymond Telles Academy, formerly known as Houston Elementary Image Credit: 93.1 Kiss FM Formerly an elementary school named after Sam Houston, this building closed its doors due to lack of student influx and district wide cuts. I actually attended this school myself, and know a thing or two about its hauntings. When it was Houston Elementary, the entire area consisted of four main buildings, but when it was closed, it lay abandoned for some time until it was repurposed. The former Elementary school became part of the district’s early college and the buildings were then separated into two entirely new learning institutions, one being a disciplinary facility named Raymond Telles Academy and the other an early college and pre-school named CCTA. The school that is now known as Raymond Telles Academy is no stranger to hauntings, as police have responded to break-ins late at night from its Houston days, only to find the premise who went there would re...

By Aaron Perez Published 3/17/2025, Updated 3/18/2025      Cemeteries are usually places of hauntings, but this one takes it to the extreme. The location itself has so many ghosts associated with it that they even walk nearby to the L&J Cafe and Bar. Originally the initial location of Fort Bliss, the cemetery is home to more than 60,000 bodies laid to rest, with a Mexican president even having a grave there. One ghost is that of a white woman who roams certain areas of the cemetery crying and when she is approached, the specter vanishes into thin air. This particular ghost, known locally as the Lady in Black, has been photographed numerous times by paranormal enthusiasts and investigators. Could this be the specter of the lady in black or John Wesley Hardin which are seen roaming around Concordia Cemetery? Copyright: Ghost 915 El Paso del Norte Paranormal Society      Another notable specter is that of infamous gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, who was sla...

By Aaron Perez Published: 3/13/2025 Image Credit: Motive Studios, Electronic Arts Warning: Spoilers  Created by the now defunct Viseral Games, Dead Space is a survival horror videogame franchise that takes place centuries in the future. It spans three major games, a couple of spinoffs, and a remake created by Motive Studios. The first game, and its remake begin on an isolated planet called Aegis 7, which is the setting of an illegal mining operation for a planet cracker class vessel named the Ishimura. The Ishimura loses all communication with the parent company CEC, which dispatches a repair crew on another vessel named the Kellion. After a malfunction, the Kellion crashlands on the Ishimura's hangar bay, and it is revealed that the ship has been infested by monsters named necromorphs. It's sequel, Dead Space 2, follows up years later on Titan Station, which is orbiting Saturn and has an even bigger infestation of necromorphs. Dead Space 3, the weakest of the trilogy, tried to...

By Aaron Perez Published 3/12/2025 Image credit: El Paso Community College         Opened in 1975 as the medical branch of EPCC, the Rio Grande Campus originally had five programs in the field. It later expanded to 12 programs which gave its students an opportunity to enroll into more specialized careers in the medical field. Its original A building belonged to the El Paso Independent School District before it was purchased for its current purpose. It was later expanded with the adjacent B building, which is connected through the first floors. It was later further expanded in the 2000s with Health and Science Laboratory building being completed in 2002 and since then, new buildings have been built or are being rented out by the college. Prior to being part of the Community College, these buildings served various roles throughout the years. Its administrative and enrollment office and little temple buildings originally served as synagogues. One of the other build...

By Aaron Perez Story by Arnulfo Andrade, his original Youtube post can be accessed here . Published 3/11/2025 In a first, I will transcribe and translate an urban legend from Ciudad Juarez, which was originally posted by a youtuber and podcaster named Arnulfo Andrade. His content is filled with urban legends and myths inside Ciudad Juarez and its surrounding areas and I will leave a link to his channel here . The urban legend that Andrade relates to on this road involves a hitchhiker ghost that boards buses at random moments of the night. She then disappears once the car reaches a certain point along its route, right where she met her demise. The legend goes as follows:      Welcome to another story from the bordertown city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. The route of Kilometer 20 is witness to hundreds of stories and paranormal phenomena that surprise wanderers and those who are listening. The following story is as follows: "Hello, my name is Tania and this is the story tha...