Editorial Standards

Paranormal Daily is published by GreenRobot LLC, which runs the site, the daily broadcast and the podcast, and is responsible for what they say. Write to info+paranormal@greenrobot.com or use the contact page.

No one pays to be covered, ranked or left out. The show runs no sponsored segments, and we do not sell readings, tours or psychic services.

Ghosts and hauntings, cryptids, folklore and legends, and the unexplained, together with the investigations, history and science that test them. Stories about objects in the sky and visitors from space are outside this show’s lane and are left out.

Each day the site gathers stories from publishers’ own feeds, Google News, Hacker News and Reddit, and keeps only those that name the subject. A local language model then acts as editor and picks the day’s stories. It favors first-hand accounts with specifics (a place, a date, what was seen or heard), investigations and what they found, history and folklore with a real source, scientific explanations of strange experiences, and skeptics testing a claim. It takes no more than two stories from one outlet unless the day is too thin to fill the show otherwise.

It is told to leave out event listings and promotions, film, television, music and game reviews, real deaths or crimes framed as hauntings, and duplicates of a story already picked. The rules on people are below.

Every gathered story stays readable on the news page. Search engines are offered only the stories that aired in a broadcast or that several outlets covered; a single outlet’s story that never aired is a summary of someone else’s reporting, and that reporting is the better page to find.

• Summaries. A language model running on our own computer summarizes each story, in its own words, from what the outlet published; for some sources that is only a headline and a line. The story page links the original.
• The script. The same model writes the believer-and-skeptic script from those summaries alone. A checking pass then compares every line with its source summary and sends back any figure, date or quotation the summary does not contain, and any story that was not credited.
• The anchors. Vesper, the believer, and Hollis, the skeptic, are characters drawn as glowing figures. Their voices are synthesized, are not recordings of real people and are not made to imitate anyone.
• The pictures. The broadcast tries to give each story one AI illustration, marked “AI illustration”; if the picture step fails, the show airs without them. The image model is told to show a place, an object or the weather, and never a person, a face, a creature, text or a logo, so that a picture reads as an illustration, not a photograph of what happened. No one checks each picture before it airs, so if one gets that wrong, tell us.

No person reviews each broadcast before it airs: the checks above are automated. That is why every story links its source, and why corrections are taken seriously. How the broadcast is made has the full detail.

• A claim is reported as a claim (“witnesses say”, “according to the report”), and Hollis, the skeptic, says what the evidence is and what else could explain it. The show never says a ghost, a creature or a power is real, and never mocks a witness.
• We do not name or locate private people or their homes, and we leave out anything about minors.
• We leave out posts in which someone may be describing a mental-health or medical crisis rather than a strange event.
• We do not report medical or psychic-healing claims, and we do not mock living religions or traditions.

When a broadcast or a story page is wrong, we correct it and say what changed and when, on the page itself. The corrections policy has the details. Tell us through the contact page; you do not need an account.