12 holiday gift ideas for paranormal fans

While we haven’t been very active with new content lately, we are always thinking about posting here. 🙂 I happened to come across a list of holiday gift ideas for paranormal enthusiasts which I thought I’d share with our faithful followers.

 

1. Paranormal movies (to name a few)

• The Apparition
• ParaNorman
• Men in Black
• E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial (recently release on Blu-Ray)
• Prometheus

2. TV season compilation DVDs

• Fringe
• Best of Celebrity Ghost Stories
• Walking Dead
• The Vampire Diaries
• Supernatural
• Ghost Hunters
• True Blood

3. Paranormal books

• Unexplained! 3rd edition by Jerome Clark
  
• American Vampires by Dr. Bob Curran
• This Book is from the Future by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman
• A Natural History of Ghosts by Roger Clarke

4. Bleeding Skull Candle

5. Nightmare Before Christmas Operation Game

6. Zombie bird feeder

7. Skeleton hand brooch

8. Vintage zombie pin up t-shirt

9. Ghost hunting equipment

10. Monster Fighter Haunted House Lego set

11. Printed paranormal gifts (most found on Cafe Press)

12. Paranormal wrapping paper

 

I personally could go for the Lego haunted house, but at $299, I can wait. A while. A long while. LOL

 

List courtesy of About.com‘s paranormal section.

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