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Monday, December 14, 2009

Even Disney World has ghostly legends

By its very nature, the Haunted Mansion at the Disney theme parks has become associated with some weird tales. More than one person who has entered its gates has wondered: Is the Haunted Mansion really haunted?

Interview with Jennifer Newell, Paranormal Experiencer & Sensitive

Everything changed after a near death experience at the age of 13. Things started touching me to the extent of even lying next to me while I slept, things flying across the room, claustrophobia in an empty room and being scratched.

Times & Star | Features | How Michael | Our poltergeists and spectres and some ghostly goings-on

Nowadays people don’t have any hang-ups about talking about ghosts, poltergeists and the like. It’s probably got something to do with watching supernatural films on the TV.

But years ago it was different. People were more coy about their otherworldly concerns.

Got ghosts? Paranormal society will find out

The temperature dropped in the boiler room of the Gadsden Hotel in Douglas. Heel-toe, heel-toe, heel-toe. Footsteps echoed in the hollow concrete basement.

Local group hunts for ghosts

Charity and Roger Hudson think there is a great possibility a ghost is dwelling at their home - but that doesn't bother them too much.

Man caught hunting ghosts at Barwon Park

Ghost hunter Shane Owen thought he was on the brink of a supernatural experience during an overnight sit-out at Barwon Park mansion early this year.

Things went bump in the night at Ardachie

Peter McEwan may have earned an international reputation in academia and the arts world, but his connection to the Loch Ness area is both rather more earthy and otherworldly.

Paranormal investigators celebrate one year of success

A little over a year ago, the Hoosier State Paranormal group began investigating ghost sightings around Putnam County. So far, the group made up of mostly local residents has explored homes and buildings believed to be haunted.

Horror Film Professionals Investigate The Paranormal

There is yet another potential paranormal reality television series in the works.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Scotts Valley couple ready to investigate the paranormal

Something strange in your neighborhood? Now there's a team you can call.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Is the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Haunted?

Deep in the bowels of downtown Brooklyn, an abandoned tunnel forged in blood, steel and stone lies shrouded in mystery.

Mystery surrounds sighting of 'plane in flames' in skies above Brean

Ghost plane?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Starkweather Hall surrounded by haunted history

Halloween is an exciting time for students here at Eastern Michigan University.

Haunted legend lives at old Belmont mill

Eight men and women have been facing their fears this week at The Haunted Mill.

Hauntings and myths in Flagstaff

Since becoming a permanent settlement back in 1876, Flagstaff has evolved into a town rich with history and paranormal activity.

Haunted Apartment in Chico?

Every year around Halloween, tales of hauntings and ghosts seem to pop up all around.

Haunted Las Cruces

New Mexico has a rich history but some characters will not stay in history books, but like to make their presence known by haunting local places.

Ghosts a spooky reality for millions

Sometimes that bump in the night, faint whispering voice or a liquidy shadow moving in the distance is actually a ghost haunting your home.

Something eerie lives here

Children’s voices giggle and adult voices warn visitors to leave. Doors rattle. Coats levitate and chairs fly. Pennies fall from the ceiling.

Those are some of the weird phenomena that Chris and Christina Dawson have noticed since they moved into an 1899 farmhouse on the west edge of Sheridan.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Ghost-busting is in his blood

Ghost-busting is in his blood | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Tales of San Francisco Ghosts and Hauntings

There’s nothing quite as much fun as telling stories of hauntings and ghosts, especially around Halloween. Here are some local legends and tales of San Francisco’s ghosts and hauntings.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ghost stories surround death of Belle Starr

In February 1889, Belle Starr was shot and killed as she rode toward her home at Younger’s Bend on the Canadian River. That same year a story began circulating about folks in the area seeing a ghost in the exact likeness of the Bandit Queen. The ghost reportedly would wander through the hills around Younger’s Bend on moonlit nights.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Make room for a ghost

For more than 120 years, it has stood like a heavenly vision along the white sandy beach just a few miles from downtown San Diego. But for almost as long, both the famous and the not so famous who have stayed there tell tales of a tragedy which continues to haunt this beautiful resort.

Monday, October 12, 2009

‘Ghostlahoma’ authors chronicle state’s accounts of the paranormal

Television is overwrought with shows about ghost hunters whose teams storm haunted structures with thermal cameras, motion detectors, night vision and many more tools.

That’s not how Tonya Hacker and Tammy Wilson do it.

“If my team members show up with, like, tool belts, I’m like, ‘You need to go put real clothes on. We’re not superheroes,’” said Hacker.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

The scary man and the old lady

Activity in the house is actually how the Robertses came to be involved in SJPS. Up until a few years ago, they were as skeptical as the next person about the paranormal. But when the couple’s son, Tanner, was born four years ago and they began some remodeling, strange things began to happen, raising many questions. Doors moved by themselves. Untouched toys would all turn on at once. And on one occasion, when Tanner was a baby and Tisha was holding him in the kitchen, a baby bottle flew out of the dish strainer by itself and hit her.

Interview with Shannon 'Ms. Macabre' McCabe

Shannon McCabe is the owner of HPI (Haunted and Paranormal Investigations International) here in Sacramento. She has been a paranormal investigator for 14 years.

Ruthin's ghosts and legends

Storyteller Ruth Moore-Williams uses facts, legends and fiction to give an insight into Ruthin's historic and grisly past.

Ghost hunt at historic Sunrise Theatre

A team of paranormal investigators dimmed the lights at the Sunrise Theatre on Saturday night to see if any lingering spirits refuse to let the curtain fall on their stay at the 86-year-old downtown institution.

The Ghost of Gooch’s Grill

At the risk of sounding cliché, spirits, in more than one sense of the word, are on tap at Gooch’s Grill.

Haunted home offered on eBay

For sale, just in time for Halloween, one haunted house. Inquire within if you dare.

Have you had an encounter with a ghost?

If you've seen a ghost, Irma Slage wants to hear from you.

Cleveland: Haunted home getting national exposure

A production team from Animal Planet is in the home of Tom and Deborah Weaver to chronicle the ongoing paranormal incidents that started three years ago. The Weavers and their dogs, Trouble and Georgia, have been visited by spirits on an almost daily basis.

Exorcising A Ghostly Bartender

The late actor Oliver Reed haunts a pub and refills customers glasses. My kind of ghost!

The Ghostly Legend of El Tejano

Cerro del Gato (aka Cat Mountain) hovers over the desert on Tucson’s far west side. It is said that this southernmost peak of the Tucson Mountains holds surprising ghostly secrets and conceals a hidden treasure.

This spectred isle... the spookiest spots in Britain unearthed

The findings come from the work of paranormal researcher Lionel Fanthorpe, 74, from Cardiff.

He has analysed sightings from across the country over the past 25 years to come up with a list of Britain's spookiest places.

Ghostly goings-on, aliens and dealing with the ‘other side’ among the tales of the unexplained around Wales

Wales' reputation as a hotspot for ghosts, big cat sightings and all things supernatural has been cemented today according to the study of the paranormal in the UK over the past 25 years.

Young woman who leapt to her death over lover's betrayal 'haunts Ludlow Castle'

A young woman who leapt to her death from a tower after she was betrayed by her lover is said to haunt visitors to Ludlow Castle.

Spirits examined in detailed ghost stories

In "The Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories and Legends," Michael Norman rounds up lots of Minnesota ghost stories told as true, many of which will be unfamiliar even to devotees of regional hauntings.

Ghosts seen around Laredo

They’re tales of mysterious and unexplainable events haunting Laredo and now a local museum is putting them on display.

Haunting Alton: One mansion’s history, treasures and tales of the supernatural

Believing in ghosts and haunted houses is perhaps a stretch for some people, but how about an entire haunted town? If you’re a skeptic, perhaps you can suspend your disbelief as you read this story of the supernatural.

Cold Spots: The Allen House

Behind a black iron gate sits a house that seems to be something out of a dream. White pillars, red domed roof, surrounded by trees, the home is an ideal setting for a fairy-tale existence, a happy home where nothing could ever go wrong.

How haunted has Halloween been?

The Celts believed the night before their new year allowed the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead to become undefined. This allowed the ghosts of the dead to return to earth to cause trouble and damage to crops.

Things that go bump in Muskoka

When the topic of Muskoka’s ghosts and ghouls comes up, the same four locations invariably form the focus of the conversation: the Bala Bay Inn, Gravenhurst Opera House, Inn at the Falls and the Severn River Inn.

Irresistible flavour of ‘haunted’ hotel

Ever the sceptic, the chance to stay in reputedly one of the country’s most haunted hotels filled me with great expectation and excitement at the prospect of unravelling the ghostly goings-on at The Mermaid Inn.

Ten Haunted Crime Scenes Across the Country

Oftentimes, these crimes, and the places where they took place, become fodder for local legends and targets for paranormal investigators, suspecting that the victims or criminals may still be tied to the physical locations.

Spooky Lighthouses, From Oregon to Florida

No such thing as ghosts, right? But a lonely lighthouse can look a little spooky on a foggy coastline above the pounding waves. The October issue of Coastal Living magazine describes six lighthouses with haunted legends.

See also: Haunted lighthouse in Maryland?

Phantom Folklore: Gaither's Plantation

The original inhabitants of Gaither’s Plantation may be long in their graves, but if dozens of visitors are to be believed, the dead still walk the halls of this 159-year-old plantation home.

The Indian graveyard ghost mystery

Is the countryside on Burlington's undeveloped far south side haunted by the ghosts of long-dead Native Americans?

Are you sitting uncomfortably, in an old house, by candlelight? Then I'll begin...

A review of Ghoul Britannia: Notes from a Haunted Isle by Andrew Martin.

America's Most Haunted Cities, A Closer Look

If you're one of those Halloween enthusiasts that takes it to the hilt, perhaps you're planning a trip of a haunted nature to support your ghosts-and-ghouls obsession.

Is spook house really haunted?

Some strange things have been happening at an old house in downtown Kinde, and all of the Thumb is invited to tour the hair-raising home.

Investigating the unexplained

Chad Lewis has traveled far and wide in search of the unexplained. He's hunted vampires in Transylvania, foraged the jungles of Costa Rica for El Chupacabra, chased UFOs in New Mexico and investigated strange occurrences throughout Illinois.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Paranormal Group Stakes Out Alleged Red Rocks 'Ghosts'

One of Denver's best-known landmarks has a well-earned reputation for great concerts. But Red Rocks may also soon be known as a haven for ghosts.

Man Seeks Ghost

“Everybody’s got a ghost story,” Rockcliffe Montez assures me, smiling.

'Caught on film' – image of airfield ghost

With pic of...something.

Old west ghosts in Tombstone Cemetery

The Tombstone Cemetery has been the resting place of former residents of the “town too tough to die” since 1884.

The tools of the trade: A ghost hunter's checklist

Must haves for the haunt hunter.

Supernaturally Southern Kentucky Ghost Hunter Calls Lakewood Home

In the tradition of American ghost hunting an apparent tie exists between the civil war and the nation’s most notorious hauntings.

Ghost legends lure visitors to park

Beaver Creek State Park was filled with more than the usual patrons Wednesday as the curious onlookers tried to catch any unusual sights and sounds on the anniversary of Gretchen Gill's death.

Downtown spirits aren't alive, but they are well

Haunted Albany.

A SPOOKY NIGHT AT STEVENSTON BEACH

Charlene Wieringa is the latest Three Towns resident to have one of her pictures occupied by a 'ghostly' figure.

See also: A SPOOKY REACTION

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Famous Haunted Lighthouses of Michigan

What is it about lighthouses and ghosts?

Sunday, June 21, 2009

High Line Curse Plays Out

Does a ghost haunt New York's High Line?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Dovercourt: Family to stay in 'ghost house' (From Harwich and Manningtree Standard)

A Dovercourt family have vowed not to move out of their house despite ghostly goings-on.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Infamous house site of ghost tours

“When I heard the footsteps in the room above my bedroom, I knew something was not right. We kept the door to that room locked and there was no way that someone would have been in that room. When I heard the footsteps coming down the stairs, I grabbed my daughter, my Bible and my keys and we left the house.”

Hospital ghosts

The golden aura of the spectral boy and dog shone through the wall, and suddenly the two paranormal performers emerged from that wall.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Fentress County's barefoot ghost boy

Legend has it that one Fentress County family lost a husband and father during the Civil War Siege of Petersburg, and the family was notified that the soldier's body would be returned to Tennessee via train.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Stones River is Murfreesboro's haunted battlefield

The site of a bloody Civil War battle from December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863, the 350-acre Stones River National Battlefield park was established in 1927.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Ghost hunters say LaFayette’s Marsh House is haunted

Ghost hunters returned to the Marsh House in LaFayette last week to reveal information on the latest investigation on the historic residence, and have concluded the house is indeed haunted.

Ghosts of the Santa Rita Hotel

Is demolition stirring up Tucson's old haunts?

Belcourt Castle: Newport's most haunted mansion

The eccentries go on and on, but what really captivated me were the ghost stories.

Tracking Down Frank Sinatra's Ghost at the Cal-Neva

It was eleven years ago the former owner of the Cal-Neva died. During a séance last year, organizers said all heck broke loose with banging doors and rising tables.

Paranormal team's called in by the Mayor of Newtown

Mayor Sue Lawson called in Newtown Paranormal after sensing an other-wordly presence.

Paranormal investigators look for ghosts at Heritage Farm

Inside a dimly lit, second-story bedroom in the old Heritage Farmhouse and museum on Laurel Road, Debbie Andres places an audio recording device on the table in front of her and clears her throat.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Ghost hunters inspect 180-year-old NM hotel site

The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there.

Monday, May 4, 2009

OMG! Could the American Idol Mansion Be Haunted?

It seems that American Idol contestant, Allison Iraheta, has come into close contact with the spirit of a prior tenant of the LA mansion.

Close encounters

Dr Ciaran O’Keefe is a rarity – a parapsychologist who goes ghost-hunting on TV. He tells Steve Pratt about his haunting experiences and reveals some of the tricks of the spirit world

Rams Head a favorite haunt for ghost group

Rams Head Tavern has procedures for hustling people out the door who try to linger past the 2 a.m. closing time. It's the ones who seem to want to hang around for centuries that make some on the staff come unglued.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Website ordered to pay $125,000 over ‘haunted’ mill claim

Staley Mill’s owner, who claimed false tales about the historic property being haunted turned her life into a nightmare, has received a judgment for more than $125,000 against a Columbus website operator.

Via Museum of Hoaxes.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

‘Nun’s ghost tells owner how to renovate house’

Ghost busters have failed to drive out the souls who drift in and out of an 1820s Settler house in Bathurst. The house was bought on a whim by Johannesburg businesswoman Marilyn Michau in December 2005 – she had not even set foot inside the boarded up St John’s Church rectory at the time she decided to purchase the building.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Spooky prospects in Narre Warren

Twenty years ago this week, residents in Prospect Hill Road, Narre Warren, reported “weird incidents” in their new homes.

Life in one of Britain's most haunted houses

"We heard a voice booming out on the landing, saying ’I am with you’. We couldn’t take it any more — we had to evacuate the house."

The lost boy of the old Bisbee cemetery

The old cemetery was closed in 1912 and the removal of the residents was completed in 1914. The city was sure all of the burials were moved—but because of incomplete records and decaying tombstones, one can only speculate a few gravesites were left behind.

Photo spooks experts in hunt for ghost of Tantallon Castle

New evidence which appears to back up claims that a ghost is stalking a Lothians castle has been uncovered.

With pics.

Ghost hunters intrigued by the paranormal in Salisbury

Rodney Whittaker couldn't wait to develop the film on his disposable camera.

Spooked out at a Shropshire castle

At Whittington Castle, near Oswestry, it’s approaching midnight: Time to talk to dead people.

Cold Spots: Glensheen Mansion

The newspaper headlines read like a tale from a dime-store detective novel. An heiress murdered, a fortune to blame, and all set in an enormous mansion overlooking a lake.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Orangeville Town Hall a spooky place?

"The place is definitely active," concluded researcher Carrie Pierce. "I would say this has been one of my best investigations. I felt there were a couple of people who walked out of it who were a lot less skeptical than they were when they walked in."

Group wants ghost house saved

Florida ghost hunters are rallying to save the Seven Sisters Inn, the historic - and reportedly haunted - bed and breakfast that faces foreclosure if it is not sold by April 7.

The haunted church of Skull Point

Legend has it that long ago, a slave called James Knight from the Lyndhurst estate in the parish, became a Christian and started preaching to fellow slaves. This angered his owner who ordered Knight beheaded. The slave's killers carried out the order and then stuck Knight's skull on a pole and placed it in the community as a warning to all other slaves.

Ormskirk is home to the world’s most haunted house - says Derek Acorah

He may have carried out paranormal investigations across the globe, but spirit medium Derek Acorah says the world’s most haunted house is right here in Ormskirk.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Group tries to explain the unexplained

Unexplained ringing of bells, apparitional shadow people, mysterious puddles of water and a ghostly slap or two in the head have Sandy Nyeste convinced her Portage home is haunted.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Majestic ghost tales inspire investigation

The Majestic Theatre is a breeding ground of ghost stories, making it a popular stop each October for the League of Women Voters ghost walk. Those stories and urban legends attracted Parks Paranormal Research and Investigation to make its rounds late Saturday night.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Adventures Of A Ghosthunter

By day Randy Liebeck works in the law enforcement business. It is a career that has developed his skills in electronic surveillance, investigative and interviewing techniques. These skills carry over to Liebeck's other or night job, being a ghost hunter or seeker.

Crystal Palace pub's strange basement 'haunted by girl'

From street level the White Hart pub doesn’t look out of the ordinary. But below lies a mystery basement; an underground world said to be home to the ghost of a young girl.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Spirit of Daisy Mae's Steakhouse

The Daisy Mae’s Stronghold building is one of the oldest buildings of Cochise County in Southern Arizona.

A haunting in Dumfries

“She immediately went to Annie’s picture and said, ‘That’s her. That’s who I saw, as sure as I see you standing here,’” Cardinale said.
“I said, ‘That’s interesting since she died in 1952.’”

Slippery Rock ghost hunters report contact

Paranormal investigators descended on Slippery Rock University over the weekend to hunt for the ghost of Emma, a woman some students and faculty say has been roaming the campus for years.

See also: Circumstantial Evidence Found In University Ghost Test

Friday, February 20, 2009

Denbighshire's most haunted

Denbigh Castle is not the only haunted hotspot in Denbighshire.

Death in the Armouries

If one believes in ghosts and paranormal forces, one should look no further than the Pembroke Armouries.

Ghosts of Princeton's past

Today, some believe that Edwards’ spirit haunts Princeton Cemetery, located at the intersection of Witherspoon and Wiggins streets.

Cold Spots: The Banta Inn

The owner may have died years ago, but someone must’ve forgotten to tell him, because he still thinks the bar is his.

Monday, February 16, 2009

The Spirit Attacks

Something uninvited resides in the house in Independence.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Haunted by a Community Divided, Maybe, But Haunted by Ghosts?

When all is said and done, the Main Building at St. Paul's may forever be haunted by a community divided, but ghosts? Could it be haunted by ghosts?

The ghosts that haunt Wilmington

Just beyond the tangled, Spanish moss, inside a historic brick Wilmington home walks a ghost named George.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ahwatukee ghosthunter remains skeptical about spirits

Sharon Clauss of Ahwatukee Foothills has every reason to believe in ghosts.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Opera house 'definitely' haunted

That was the verdict from Clinton Lawson after he led a paranormal investigation at the Hawke's Bay Opera House on Saturday night.

Surgical spirit - spooked managers call in exorcist to Derby’s new Royal Hospital

Spooked staff at Derby’s new Royal Hospital claimed a black-clad figure wearing a cloak was stalking wards and corridors.

Hunting for ghosts at Chickamauga Battlefield

“Chickamauga” is a Cherokee word meaning “river of death,” and considering that it got its name before the Civil War took place, it occurred to me that this particular National Park possessed more history than most were privy to.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Ghost hunters record 'voice of girl' in spirit search

Ghost hunters say they have made exciting finds in Islington after being called to a flat to investigate unusual occurrences.

'Ghost' photographed at the Angel

With pic.

A ghostly night at Stones River Battlefield

"A lot of it has to do with the gravitational pull of the moon," Ryan says. "It takes a lot of energy to pull the oceans' tides. That is energy that spirits can use to manifest themselves."

Team tracks Adams County's ghosts

New Oxford resident Steve McNaughton realized his house was haunted, and that's partly how it all started.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Spirits felt at historic Florida inn

People have enjoyed staying in the rooms of the Clewiston Inn for the last 82 years, but sometimes, they get some company.

Tombstone ghost shows up on photo taken by tourist

With pic.

Milford home ghosts 'harmless'

The 150-year-old Milford house where the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency resides looks haunted — and is — according to Christine Cohen and Vaughn Hansen, the agents who have worked there for 10 and 20 years, respectively.

Tour guides relish ghoulish encounters

Ever seen an apparition meandering down Quivira Road? Know of a building off Johnson Drive where there are a few too many unexplained bumps in the night?

Have any Eastern Kansas ghost stories?

Thursday, January 1, 2009

'Friendly ghost' has brought Flintshire woman good luck

Dawn Thompson, owner of Sun Dawn Interiors on the Coast Road in Greenfield, has called the ghostly spirit in her shop "a guardian angel" after a gamble to take over the business paid off.

Images of Jackie and Sarah, Queen Mary ghosts captured in Nightvision IR video

With video.

Obama's 'haunted' house

Across from the White House is a purported haunted house, which President-elect Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha will temporarily call home.

Memorable ghost hunting moments in 2008

Some people assume that paranormal investigators have a lot of scary and unusual experiences, but that’s not usually true. In fact, ghost hunting is actually closer to the way a fellow private pilot friend of my husband’s once described flying: “hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.”

 

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