Liminal Earth: A Map of the Strange, Wonderful, Unusual and Unexpected

Last year a haunted places and paranormal activity mapping site came to my attention called Liminal Seattle. It’s since evolved to become Liminal Earth.

What is it?

In essence, it’s one big experiment or research project. A collective one open to everyone worldwide to participate in.

Spooky things happen every day all around us! Instead of brushing these peculiar moments and bizarre encounters off as chance, or mere coincidence, what if we talked about them, mapped them, and tried to decode the message?

Here’s Liminal Earth’s origin story from the About page on their site:

Liminal Earth (originally Liminal Seattle) was started by Garrett Kelly, co-founder of Hollow Earth Radio, and Jeremy Puma, local Seattle author and animist. In 2017, we started tracking our weirdnesses — dreams, ‘coincidences’, strange encounters, etc. — on a personal level. One day, we kind of simultaneously had the idea to start putting our experiences on a map, and Garrett suggested we open it up to anyone. We’ve long wanted to do something that acts sort of like ‘Google Trends’ (which tracks sudden spikes on google search queries) for the collective unconscious. This map is an extension of that, because we’re trying to see if there are strange places or experiences that are actually quite common but go unnoticed because everyone is afraid to talk about this weird stuff happening to them.

Ambitious, right?

Type of Sightings

What kind of sightings will you find mapped on Liminal Earth? Ones like these:

• High Weirdness: Fortean Phenomena, Floating Toblerone, Things That Just Don’t Make Sense
• Straight Up Ghosts: Creepy vibes, Poltergeists, EVPs, Stone Tape Theories, Class III Apparitions
• Strange Animals: Bearing Gifts, Unusual Encounters, Fecal Divination, etc.
• Thin Places: Ley Lines, Magic Fountains, Plant Sigils, Portals, etc.
• Dark Forces: Lanyard Zombies, Drones, Corporate Death Zones, Cupcake Shops, Etc.
• Time Distortions: Travelers, Timehunters, “Deja Vu”, “Losing Time,” Etc.
• Mythologies: Pre-Shamanic Deer Cults, Radical Gnostic Animism, etc.
• Cryptoids: Bigfoot, Lycanthrops, Trolls, Ogres, Etc.
• Classic UFO: Close Encounters, Sightings, etc.
• Visions: Dreams, Visions, Mystical Experiences, etc.

You can read about encounters or even submit your own. To read about them, just click the icons on the map. Or, if you’re visiting via a computer, check the Recent Encounters list in the sidebar.

Another fun thing to do on the site is take the Liminal Census. You can find that in the Other Fun tab on the menu.

To check it all out, visit Liminal Earth’s website at http://www.liminalseattle.com/.

Are there any experiences on their map near where you live?

Courtney Mroch

Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.

Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.