I've talked a lot on here about local haunted places and areas that strange monsters have been spotted, but I've never really talked much about what to do if you see something strange (cause I know I'd be dumbfounded if I came across a Chupacabra that wasn't a coyote with mange).
But how does one go about reporting what they saw in a way that the skeptics would have a hard time to debunk? While searching my usual sites for a story I came across this list. While I don't agree with it 100 percent (I think taking a picture with of a ghost with a cellphone camera is pointless), most on here are pretty good. I really wish I had come up with this list, but wanted to share it nonetheless.
These steps should be taken as soon after the experience as possible, while it is all fresh in your mind.
1) Get hard evidence. If at all possible and you have a camera handy, try to get photographs. Even if it's with a cell phone camera, a low-resolution photo is better than none at all. If you can get an image, it will increase the credibility of your story manyfold. If you have a voice recorder, record what you see as it is happening.
2) Physical evidence. If it's a creature, see if you can get photos of footprints or other physical evidence it might have left. Collect hair or stool samples, if possible.
3) Time and place. Write down the exact time and place where you saw the phenomenon. In as much detail as you can, note everything you saw, every action. If you didn't have a camera, make drawings.
4) More details. Make note of its size, shape, color, gender. How far away from you was it? (Measure if you can.) How did it move? Did it speak or make noise? Did it see you and react to you? What did it do?
5) Sensory details. Was there a distinct odor or fragrance? How did it make you feel? Did it affect you physically in any way?
6) Other witnesses. If there were other people with you who witnessed the event, record their names, ages, addresses and occupations.
7) Location. Note the exact geographic location of the sighting. This is especially important if you're out in the wilderness. Otherwise, record the building name, room number, street, city and country.
8) Environment. Note the time of day, lighting, weather conditions - even if you're indoors. Was it sunny, brightly lit, dim lighting, overcast, dark, moon-lit, raining?
9) Sky position. If it was a flying creature, where in the sky was it: north, south east or west? How fast was it moving? Estimate its size in relation to something else in the environment.
10) History. Does the location have a history of ghost sightings, haunting activity or previous sightings of weird creatures?
11) Your story. From your notes, write a narrative of your experience, just as it happened. Tell it like a story, but do not exaggerate, make assumptions or add elements to make the story more interesting. Stick to the facts.
12) Other stories. If there were other witnesses to the event, have them write their own stories. Do not consult with each other during this writing; you want each story from each person's perspective.
13) Make a formal report. Report all this information you have documented to a respected paranormal research group. (Do not give them your original materials; give them copies.) You can also provide the information to an established paranormal website, like this one.
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Are there really such things as ghosts? And who ever said there's no such things as ghosts?
Actually, I'm not even going to entertain the close-minded cynical skeptics. I would rather address those more open-minded. So let's move on to some "real" questions?
What makes a ghost a ghost? Why do we sometimes see them, but most of the time not? And exactly where do they exist?
Here's the basics. First, ghosts were once upon a time us. They are beings who have shed their corporeal mortal coil, as in the physical body, which means they have officially died. They're dead to the earth plane, however the soul is still very much alive. In most cases the being is disoriented and confused and doesn't realize he is dead -- or has left his body which is his anchor to the dense physical world. These ghosts are stuck, or sandwiched between two planes of existence, the earth plane and the denser level of the Other Side. They are earthbound, usually due to previous attachments or unresolved issues that tied them into the earth, yet they lack their earthly body.
If you find them or see them roaming around in a particular house, or even in the house you live, it's probably because they once lived there. Now they have become squatters in their own homes -- or previous homes, since corporeal people now reside there. We may perceive the ghost as the intruder, but from their perspective, anyone in "their" house is the intruder.
If you see a ghost, it's usually because sometimes the veil between our side and the other side is thin at that particular time or place, to where we get a glimpse over there. And often you may have a psychic opening, even if temporarily, so your psychic sight may open for just a bit which allows you to see entities on a higher vibratory level. It's possible that the fact this entity is near you may trigger an opening, or if it is trying to contact you. Two beings near each other, or in the same house although existing in different frequencies, may be able to see each other. Unfortunately, some people are psychically dense. But I believe every human being has psychic abilities -- they're just untapped. Many times I've seen a glimpse of some being in my room, or in my face, and I kind of freak out at first. But this is because the Other Side isn't far away at all. It's right here! It's only a few degrees away dimensionally speaking. We just have to put up with wearing this hunk of fleshy body which more or less hinders our real abilities. Think of the physical body like a clunky deep diving suit; it tends to hamper your normal senses. Pretty soon you want to come up for air and shed that bulky thing, don't you?
Also, time doesn't pass for beings on the Other Side. Ghosts may have been roaming around in the house for many decades, not realizing they died, and they may assume that a mere few minutes have passed. Psychics and clairvoyance agree on this point in most cases.
The well-known psychic, Sylvia Browne, in "The Other Side and Back", states, "Time has no meaning after death, even for those who don't move on to the light to The Other Side, where they belong."
According to psychics and various spiritual traditions, if the ghost gains enough awareness, and learns to let go of the earthly plane and whatever attachments he may have had, he can move into the light and go Beyond, or to what many call the Other Side.
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Imagine purchasing your dream retreat, where you can escape the fast-paced, hustle bustle of everyday life - only to find out that your quite abode is occupied by something or someone from the other side.
A couple who purchased a wilderness lodge in North Hudson, New York, are living this reality and were recently visited by the team from the Paranormal Research Society. The couple as well as visitors have heard footsteps, children giggling, and music throughout the place. The clients' son revealed that a number of people gathered there once for a spirit board session to see what would come through. It was after that night that the activity reportedly got worse.
The researchers were unable to find any significant historical information connecting past events with the current activity taking place on the property. However, while spending the night at the lodge, team leader Brian Buell was woken up during the night with the sensation that a something was in his room. This along with unexplained noises during 'dead time' convinced the team that these they were not alone.
It was strongly believed by all that the spirit board session opened a door allowing spirits to come through. After announcing to the presence that it was no longer welcome, the activity seems to have stopped-for now.
This case was shown on a recent episode of Paranormal State- "Room and Board".
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What is a ghost? Well, it's not something that runs around in a white sheet; no matter what your mom tells you, she's just being cheap with your Halloween costume. A ghost is usually thought of as the visual presence of a deceased spirit that's manifested itself to either help someone they knew when they were living, torture someone they knew while they were living, because they are attached to something in the living plane, or because they haven't yet realized that they died. For years, people have reported seeing ghosts, or contacting the dead, but the question remains: Are they real? Or are these people just really crazy?
Most ghost stories you hear are usually without accompanying evidence. It's usually something like, "Oh man, my grandma told me that when she was a little girl, she used to hear laughing coming from down the hall, and then when she'd go check, there would be no one there. So when I went to my great grandma's house, I stayed up all night, and I heard it too!". Stories like that are pretty hard to take seriously, since they're usually just the individual's mind playing tricks on them, experiencing what it wants to experience, rather than an actual encounter. However, there are those who claim to have real evidence of ghosts, gathered through, and rooted in, science.
Equipment like EMF meters (used to read Electromagnetic Field; a fluctuation in which is believed to indicate ghost activity), ambient temperature thermometers (a device that can be aimed to read the temperature in a specific area; a drop in temperature is believed to indicate activity), dowsing rods (the same "L shaped" rods used to find water back in the daythey probably don't work), audio-recording equipment (sound is recorded then separated by frequencies to check for sounds of paranormal activity), and infrared motion sensors (to separate human and ghost activity).
With equipment like this, groups like TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) and other "Ghost-hunters" have sprung up all over the world to investigate and document encounters with ghosts. Many claim to have come across evidence in the form of recorded voices, photos (of either partial ghosts themselves, or glowing orbs, which are usually thought of as signs of ghosts on film), and personal encounters.
So this brings up to our original questions: Are ghosts real? Our answer to that is a solid: maybe. We've never seen one, but many people say they have. Sometimes sightings turn out to be carbon monoxide induced hallucinations, but other times, perfectly sane people without a single bit of foreign substance in their bodies make the same claims, and who are we to tell them they're wrong? So folks, until we see one for ourselves, ghost will definitely remainan Otherworld Mystery.
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Some interesting what appears to be real ghost video footage whom some believe to be that of Michael Jacksons ghost caught on tape. Taken by CNN in his Neverland Ranch. Certainly some good footage of some form of shadow crossing the camera line although I have seen many of these before and can be caused by double exposure although that said, you would expect CNN to have some of the best equipment to ensure this does not occur.
CNN have subsequently advised they believe the shadow to be that of one of thier crew walking past a lighting rig - you be the judge, real or not?
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Time travel is supposedly the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, but if the account of two women in the first years of the 20th century is to be believed, then time travel is not only possible, but it can happen spontaneously and without warning.
The year was 1901, and a pair of friends, 55-year-old Anne Moberly and 38-year-old Eleanor Jourdain, were on holiday in France. They were both teachers at St. Hugh's College in Oxford. Moberly was in fact the principal there, and Jourdain would become her successor fourteen years later. The two set out to see the vast Palace of Versailles, the center of political power in France until the French Revolution in 1789. They turned to visit the Petit Trianon, a small chateau on the grounds given by Louis XVI to his 19-year-old wife, Marie Antoinette, as a private retreat for her personal use.
Moberly and Jourdain got a bit lost searching for the chateau, and it was during this interlude that they made history, even if only in some small way. They encountered several people in 1789 period attire, carrying out period activities, and passed a handful of structures that had not existed since 1789. Their unexpected visit to 112 years in the past culminated with an encounter with Marie Antoinette herself, sketching on the grounds of her chateau.
Mrs. Jourdain wrote: "Everything suddenly looked unnatural, therefore unpleasant; even the trees seemed to become flat and lifeless, like wood worked in tapestry. There were no effects of light and shade, and no wind stirred the trees."
They reached the edge of a wood, close to the Temple de l'Amour, and came across a man seated beside a garden kiosk, wearing a cloak and large shady hat. According to Moberly, his appearance was "most repulsive... its expression odious. His complexion was dark and rough."
Jourdain noted "The man slowly turned his face, which was marked by smallpox; his complexion was very dark. The expression was evil and yet unseeing, and though I did not feel that he was looking particularly at us, I felt a repugnance to going past him.
A man later described as "tall... with large dark eyes, and crisp curling black hair under a large sombrero hat" came up to them, and showed them the way to the Petit Trianon.
After crossing a bridge, they reached the gardens in front of the palace, and Moberly noticed a lady sketching on the grass who looked at them. She later described what she saw in great detail: "the lady was wearing a light summer dress, on her head was a shady white hat, and she had lots of fair hair." Moberly thought she was a tourist at first, but the dress appeared to be old-fashioned. Moberly came to believe that the lady was Marie Antoinette. Jourdain however did not see the lady.
After this, they were directed round to the entrance and joined a party of other visitors. The strange feelings and visions of the past had vanished.
It was many months before the women told of their strange encounters. Visiting Versailles sometime later, the women were not able to find the landmarks that they had noticed during the incident. During their research, they thought they recognized the man by the kiosk as the Comte de Vaudreuil, a friend of Marie Antoinette, who herself had been thought to have been seen by Moberly.
Within months they'd published their account in a book called "'An Adventure'" later published as The Ghosts Of Trianon" and as they were both respected academics who did not desire bizarre publicity, they published it under pseudonyms. Their experience became variously known as the Versailles Time Slip", the "Ghosts of Trianon", or the "Moberly-Jourdain Incident"; and it has intrigued researchers, historians, and enthusiasts of the paranormal ever since.
Both women are reported to have had many paranormal experiences before and after their adventure. In one of them Moberly claimed to have seen in the Louvre in 1914 an apparition of the Roman emperor Constantine, a man of unusual height wearing a gold crown and a toga; he was not observed by anybody else. During the First World War Jourdain, the dominant personality of the pair and who had succeeded as Principal of St. Hugh's, became convinced that a German spy was hiding in the college. After developing increasingly autocratic behaviour, she died suddenly in 1924 in the middle of an academic scandal over her leadership of the college, her conduct having provoked mass resignations of academic staff. Moberly died in 1937.
Did Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain actually walk through a hole in time and experience 16th century France? Skeptics have brought up the possibility that the two women might have experienced a shared delusion or perhaps even wandered into a costume party or the rehearsal for an outdoor play. In so many cases of strange and inexplicable phenomena being reported, we hear that the witness or witnesses were people of great character or scientific credibility, and so it's often considered implausible that they could be mistaken or making the story up. "The Versailles Time Slip" is clearly one such case.
Writer Nell Rose observed in Time Travel - Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain - The Ghost of Versailles:
They were not liars, and both ladies had nothing to gain by making up this story. In fact it could go a long way to ruining their reputation.
Frequently I'll hear something along the lines of "My Uncle Bob was a very trustworthy and honest man who would never make something up, therefore you should accept his ghost experience as a fact." Moberly and Jourdain's position as college teachers also gilds them with a cloak of authority, similar to that given to pilots or astronauts who see UFOs. Certainly a pilot's perception of a UFO cannot be mistaken, and certainly college teachers' perception of going back in time must have therefore happened as they thought. Well, not so much. It's not necessary to suggest that Reliable Uncle Bob must have been a liar for either his own perception to have been mistaken, or for the version of the story that finally made it down to you to have been altered. Neither is it necessary to cast doubt on Moberly and Jourdain's academic status to suggest that the story we have in the annals of urban legend does not reflect a literal time-travel event that must have happened exactly as reported. Human brains are fallible - including Uncle Bob, including pilots, and including academics.
Two basic explanations have been put forth by previous researchers, which by now have been watered down and popularized into the following: First, that they accidentally wandered into a historical reenactment; and second, that they had a sort of shared delusion. But to put these two explanations into proper perspective, we need to go back to see who originally proposed them and why, and what hidden details of the story prompted them. And this is the point at which the Versailles Time Slip goes from an interesting anecdote to an all-out strange-fest.
St. Hugh's College was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as an all-women's college at Oxford, and the consensus among researchers suggests that Moberly and Jourdain's relationship was romantic as well as professional. They were at least roommates. One of the earliest and most popular critiques of An Adventure came in 1957 from their former student Lucille Iremonger in her prodigiously-entitled book Ghosts of Versailles Iremonger insinuated that both women even had frequent affairs with students of the college. She spent much time delving into the nature of their lesbian relationship, and basically concluded that their adventure was a folie a deux, a madness of two. They had, she suggested, been so distracted by their relationship that they had merely misinterpreted ordinary people and objects for things from 1789, and became so obsessed with proving their story that they'd even convinced themselves of the reality of what had happened. Iremonger's charge gradually became softened over the years into a "shared delusion".
A fourth edition of "An Adventure" was printed in 1955, this time with a preface written by art historian Joan Evans, who was Jourdain's literary executor, and like Iremonger, a former student. But unlike the hostile Iremonger, Evans tended to defend Moberly and Jourdain's account of what happened as a literal event. She felt compelled to deflect popular conjecture that they'd had some sort of strange lesbian romance-induced delusion. So Evans, in a 1976 article for "Encounter" magazine, put forth the suggestion that the two women had simply walked unknowingly into an historical recreation, in which actors were lounging about in period attire. Evans went so far as to research such recreations, but did not find such an event that would have coincided with the 1901 visit.
Evans turned to the 1965 biography of the French artist Robert de Montesquiou. Biographer Philippe Jullian noted that de Montesquiou had lived in a house at Versailles and was noted for his Tableaux Vivant performances, in which gay Parisian men performed the roles of both men and women; thus, the Marie Antoinette seen by Moberly and Jourdain was a transvestite. Though no evidence survives that indicates de Montesquiou may have actually thrown such an event in 1901, Jullian's suggestion was good enough for Evans; and ever since her article, the transvestite historical recreation has been reported and re-reported as one of the most likely explanations for the Versailles Time Slip. They say truth is stranger than fiction, but the rationales for fringe claims can often be even stranger.
As usual, the best way to get a handle on what probably actually happened is to brush aside all ex post facto conjecture - the lesbian madness and transvestite follies - and go back to the original sources. One thing I like to do, since I've never visited Versailles, is to pull it up on Google Earth and look at all the pictures of it I can find. The first thing one finds is that the grounds of Versailles are immense, about 3.5 kilometers from end to end. To get to the Petit Trianon, you have to cross whole square kilometers of gardens, lakes, little hamlets and chateaus. Part of Moberly and Jourdain's proof is that upon returning a few years later, they couldn't find some of the objects they'd witnessed, most notably a kiosk and a footbridge. When they sent their story to England's Society for Psychical Research, a sometimes-skeptical, sometimes-credulous association of enthusiasts of the paranormal, the Society was unimpressed. Part of what the Society noted was that Moberly and Jourdain had themselves stated that they'd been lost; and as footbridges and kiosks of various descriptions abound on the vast grounds of Versailles, there was almost nothing to go on and nothing surprising about their report.
In their published 1950 report of what they'd determined many years before, the Society noted a few other points that authors like Iremonger tore into like fresh meat. One was that when they reviewed the several editions of An Adventure, they found it had expanded notably each time. Moreover, it was three months after the incident before the women had even sat down to compare notes on what they'd witnessed; whereas at the time of their visit, neither woman had suspected anything unusual even took place! In the second edition of An Adventure, the women explained that a full three months after their visit to Versailles, Moberly happened to mention the sketching woman they saw. Jourdain didn't remember any such thing. As they talked, it turned out that Moberly didn't remember hardly anything that Jourdain did either. These were all minor details like a woman shaking out a cloth out a window, two green-jacketed gardeners at work, and a sinister-looking man sitting under a garden kiosk. It was only after much discussion, note-sharing, and historical research that Moberly and Jourdain came up with the time period as 1789 and assigned identities to a few of the characters they saw, including Marie Antoinette herself as the lady sketching on the lawn.
Upon reviewing the case as told in the women's own words, the Society for Psychical Research concluded that the evidence of anything unusual having actually happened was insufficient to justify further study. Their report's author, W.H. Salter, pointed out that the embellished versions of the tale published in later editions were written much later than the women had initially claimed, perhaps as long as five years later; and only after the women had made several return trips to Versailles to study the landmarks further.
The principal authors who have written about this story seem to agree that there was probably no conscious effort at deception by Moberly and Jourdain, only a firm belief in the reality of their perception and a desire to present their story in as convincing a way as possible. They even went so far as to include a chapter they called "A R^everie", an imaginary account of Marie Antoinette's own meditations, in which she observed two strangers walk past while she was sitting there sketching, amidst all the other people and things they reported. This chapter jumps out as particularly bizarre, and moves An Adventure from the realm of reporting into that of fantasy fiction.
Sources:
Coleman, Michael H (1988), The Ghosts of the Trianon, The Complete An Adventure
skeptoid.com
slightlywarped.com
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Mysteries and Secrets of Time
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I've never really sat down to explain the dichotomy inside of me. Oh, no, I'm not talking about the lover of all things horror who is also bubbly and friendly, but the two warring sides of the ghost hunter within.
I use the term "ghost" like people use "UFO." When a person says "UFO" they could mean alien spacecraft or simply unidentified flying object. When I say "ghost" I don't necessarily mean "the soul of the deceased," I simply mean paranormal activity. What causes it, like the UFO, is still just conjecture.
I always said when I started out in the field officially in the early 2000s that, given what day of the week you ask me, I either believe in ghosts as souls or not. That much hasn't changed so much after almost 8 years of hunting.
Let me begin with some impressive paranormal activity I have experienced that I refer to as "ghosts:"
*Being touched; having my clothing pulled at, hair stroked and pulled, hand held, rubbed up against, pinched, toe tugged.
*Seeing shadow forms and entire full-body apparitions.
*Hearing hushed conversations in an entirely empty house.
*Carrying on an impressive 15-minute KII session in which I was unable to trick it into showing it was purely electrical interference, i.e. putting long pauses in the questioning, rewording questions, rapid fire questioning and waiting for a half hour after contact ended--when others entered the room--and getting nothing at all, not even a blip.
*The repeated sounds of footfalls with heavy boots in the house I grew up in.
*A man whispering in Latin in a Catholic Cemetery that was completely empty.
*Two incidents of levitation I witnessed; one the launching of a cigarette from an ash tray 6 feet in the air as if flicked and a broom standing upright and moving a few feet on its bristles before it fell over.
*Physical tingles, hair raising and the sense of something cold and electrical running through one side of my body and out the other with the hairs on my head standing out as if rubbed by a balloon.
*Poltergeist activity that defied any laws of physics I know of.
*Doors opening and closing on their own from a securely closed position.
*Odorless and heat-less smoke arising and dissipating.
*Dancing blue balls of light in a cemetery.
*The visitation of my father at the time of his death.
*The movement of objects from one location to another that are fully accounted for.
THE CASE FOR GHOSTS BEING THE SOULS OF THE DECEASED:
*Haunted sites appear to be locations associated with death.
*Apparitions are often dressed in garb from their era and match the description of people who passed on there.
*Many people witness loved ones after their death. I have had this happen to me when I was 16 and my father died. I didn't know he died in the hospital. I thought he was doing well and stronger when I left visiting him and came home to go to bed. I went to bed knowing he'd be okay. I woke up to see his dark outline at the foot of my bed, pulling at my big toe. He used to do that before he left on a business trip or came home from one since my mother wouldn't let me stay up. The phone rang soon after and the hospital announced he had passed on.
*People experience near-death experiences. My father described when he died for 4 minutes in our kitchen that he was at a fiord (he was from Norway) and his family was there and there were flowers that don't exist and colors that don't exist. Others describe seeing the scene from outside their bodies.
*I personally witnessed things where I grew up that I cannot explain and my friends in the suburbs did not experience such things, but I grew up in a Civil War Hospital building. It seems a rather natural conclusion that the deaths there created something.
*When my father died, the people who had bought our home called us in Arizona to tell us that they were having a party and saw my father outside. He was dressed in a pale gray suit and a gray and pink striped tie. They went to ask him in to the party but he was gone. My mother had to tell her that he passed on a few days prior.
**Although I am psychic, I will not take reads I make or Ouija, Seance, automatic writing, Mediums to be reliable sources of speaking to the dead as there is no way to differentiate if they are simply picking up universal knowledge of history that has passed or active souls. I also will not include EVP findings as I'm not impressed with their validity or content as being interactions with the dead, as these are receiving devices that can pick up other signals. I myself have had my answering machine pick up a cell phone call someone was making as she drove down the street.**
THE CASE AGAINST GHOSTS BEING SOULS OF THE DECEASED...
*There is consciousness and a mind, but when put under anesthesia for surgery, no soul is alert and hovering about and if it is not self-aware during surgery then it is mortally vulnerable to anesthesia and not spiritual in content.
*Given these supposedly anguished spirits malinger, why aren't they working harder to get their point across and why aren't dead parents haunting their children with worry and concern for the rest of their days? Why isn't our mortal world filled with the spirits of the dead unable to let go of life?
*Nearly all ghostly activity can be explained by residual or the replaying of past events or scenes in the environment under, as of yet, unknown conditions.
*Why aren't we haunted by cavemen and medieval knights and the billions who have passed on? Why do some get to linger? Why do some get to show themslves?
There is no freaking book of ghosties that can confirm that ghostly activity is the presence of the souls of the deceased. It's also likely we're dealing with only residual events replaying, a life form we cannot see, an energy that can affect things, another dimension, a crossover of time periods, a psychological projection and any other fantastic possibilities. It doesn't make me popular in the ghost hunting world to say I'm open-minded. Unfortunately, ghost hunting has become another form of religion for most and you must believe in the doctrines to be part of the club. No questioning allowed.
You either believe or you don't believe.
The only problem is, yes, I believe in ghosts, but I do not believe necessarily in the definition of what a ghost is, i.e. a trapped soul. I am open to that concept but I will not take it on "faith" from other hunters that they know what the hell a ghost is and how it operates.
I, for one, would love to put the "ghosts are souls" concept in the "yes" column for good and know without a doubt that's what we're dealing with, but so far my interactions, numerous as they are, have left me still baffled about what we're dealing with. As a psychic, I cannot tell the difference between reading a past event and past people in a location from something that could be considered a spirit. And how could I? Any psychic in a location can read the history of the place. If you don't know how to interpret your readings, you may think you're talking to a real ghost. Hell, that was the very moment I started in the biz. I was at a party and read a house perfectly dead on, only problem was that all the people I read were alive on the other side of town. The house was being haunted, but by memories of events that occurred there, not the dead.
I keep an open mind and that is what this blog is about; constantly questioning things so we can go a little bit further and a little bit further. So long as everyone is imitating Grant and Jason, we won't get anywhere. We need some oddballs and some rebels.
I never did what the crowd does and I won't do it in this field that means so much to me. I don't only have over 2 dozen loved ones on "the other side," but I have childhood experiences I need to find answers for that fit. I'm hardly gullible and I'm sure if my mother was alive today, she'd say that "Sherry could never be spoonfed."
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The Ragged School in Scotland is believed to be haunted by restless spirits from its past. Located next to Edinburgh Castle this school, which once housed Scotland's most destitute children, has been investigated by Ghost Hunters International and other groups dedicated to the paranormal.
It was Thomas Guthrie who envisioned the Ragged School. His idea was to bring in youths from the street who were impoverished and thus resorted to begging as a means of life. The school, established in 1847, provided children with free shelter, food, clothing and an education. Its concept quickly spread and other Ragged schools opened throughout the UK.
The owner of the building claims that something eerie is definitely going on and has himself heard the sound of children giggling on unoccupied floors. Ghost Finders Scotland did an investigation at this location had a number of paranormal incidents occur.
I am looking forward to seeing what Ghost Hunters International has found, if anything.
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The most haunted house in Savannah, Georgia is the Hampton Lillibridge residence. It is the scene of several tragic deaths and the source of true scary stories about real ghosts. Exorcism has failed to cleanse the house.
THE HAMPTON LILLIBRIDGE HOUSE TOO CREEPY FOR OCCUPANCY
The most haunted house in Savannah, according to old-timers, is the Hampton Lillibridge House at 507 East Saint Julian Street on Washington Square. The home was originally built by Rhode Islander, Hampton Lillibridge in 1796.
When Hampton Lillibridge died, his widow remarried and disposed of the property. The home passed from owner to owner, and eventually became a boarding house. A sailor hung himself in one of the third story guest rooms during that period.
A FATEFUL MOVE
No one would live in the house for a number of years after that until it was finally purchased by intrepid antique dealer Jim Williams in 1963. The house was rapidly deteriorating. Williams also purchased the house next door, with the intent to restore both. However, a laborer was crushed to death during the move of the second house, another victim of the curse attached to the structure.
Workers involved in the 1963 relocation, conceivably stumbled on the source of the paranormal activity associated with Savannah's most haunted house. To their horror, workmen uncovered an ancient crypt as they were preparing the foundation to move.
Judging from the crypt's tabby construction, it dated back to early colonial times. Workers reported that the crypt was empty and so they had simply sealed it up and reburied it. Williams now suspects this to be the source of the haunting and regrets not having investigated more thoroughly at the time.
THE OTHERS
There is an abundance of macabre events associated with the Hampton Lillibridge house. Tools and equipment of men working on the restoration mysteriously disappeared or were relocated. Mocking laughter and footsteps were reported on several occasions.
Jim Williams himself reported numerous abnormalities during his tenure in the house. For example, he once followed a shadowy figure to the end of an upper story hall where it mysteriously disappeared through a door. Williams tried to open the door himself, but it was locked tight.
On December 7, 1963 the distraught Williams at last conducted an exorcism of the haunted house under the auspices of an Episcopal bishop. Unfortunately, the cleansing was ineffective as the paranormal activity resumed within a week.
There are no willing buyers because of the many true scary stories associated with the most haunted house in Savannah. Neighbors report shadowy figures in the windows and eerie music and laughter as if some paranormal party is underway at one of Savannah's most haunted places.
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Paranormal investigators say they have successfully exorcised a haunted Wigan flat after a terrifying all-night vigil.
The Dead Connections team offered their services to Pemberton young mum Holly Taylor after reading in the Wigan Evening Post about how she has been plagued by ghostly goings-on at her new home in Woodford Street, Pemberton.
She and toddler daughter Willow were refusing to spend the night there, having endured inexplicable happenings such as:
Plates flying off the kitchen work surface;
Ornaments and other objects being moved or knocked over while they were out;
Footsteps and knockings;
The smoke detector sounding without reason;
Lights coming on.
Neighbours had suffered from unexplained noises too and the flats' predecessor - Pemberton Police Station - also had a reputation for being haunted.
An officer who used to serve there told the Evening Post that the footsteps and bangings that staff used to here were put down to the ghost of a former inspector, who had hanged himself in a cell many years ago.
But the investigators say that they believe the ghost was that of a woman, who had died in a fire.
Dead Connections team members Emma and Adam Butler, Robyn Davies and John Strickland spent the night in the flat with a variety of technological instruments including an electromagnetic field meter (which at times almost went off the scale despite being nowhere near electrical appliances), and a voice recorder.
Emma said they had spent many nights in allegedly haunted buildings, but this one had proved one of the most frightening and eventful.
The team, who were joined by Holly, Willow and Holly's boyfriend Jordan O'Neill, heard breathing and clicking noises and also a series of tappings by which they attempted to communicate.
The taps appeared to be coming from Willow's bedroom which was empty (the youngster was sleeping in another room).
And as the questions they asked about who was there were answered, the meter would leap from green to red.
They also used what is known as a Frank's Box, which picks up radio station white noise and occasional words.
And through these two forms of communications, Emma and her team concluded that they were talking to a woman who had died in a fire and needed help to "cross over" - although, perplexingly, the name Simon kept coming through too.
Photographs taken during the night also showed grey orbs, about the size of tennis balls, floating in the air which no one had seen at the time.
Emma said: "We always go into situations like this trying to explain things normally first, but really there was a heck of a lot happening that we could not account for.
"There were all kinds of noises. A cupboard in Willow's bedroom, which doesn't have a weak catch on it, popped open at one point and the smoke detector kept bleeping even though there was no fire and there were new batteries in it.
"At one point, there was a very loud bang which took us all by surprise and it was tempting to run away.
"There has also been something weird happening with memory lapses.
"Robyn and I went to look round the flat a few days before we spent the night there, and then went back home and apparently had a long conversation with Adam and John about a cat.
"But when the lads reminded us of it the next day, neither of us had any recollection of the conversation.
"We mentioned this to Holly and she said that it was always happening to her too.
"Twenty-minute passages would just vanish from her memory."
At the end of the night, the team carried out an hour-long blessing ceremony, which involved the use of sage - a herb associated with exorcism - and calling on the spirit to leave the family and the flat and move to the other side.
And it seems to have done the trick.
Emma said: "Holly says nothing has happened since.
"Her daughter has just spent her first uninterrupted sleep in the flat, the smoke alarm doesn't bleep any more and even the clock which stopped after it fell off the wall has started working again."
Holly said: "All the noises have stopped. It's amazing and I'm very grateful to them."
Source: Wigan Today
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Title: Chinese Ghost Stories Curious Tales of the SupernaturalAuthor: Lafcadio HearnPublisher: Tuttle PublishingRRP: 12.99ISBN: 9780804841375Release Date: July 2011Pages:
Description:"Chinese Ghost Stories "is a personal selection of the most entertaining traditional Chinese tales of the strange and fantastic. Set in richly atmospheric locales, these tales speak of heroic sacrifice, chilling horror, eerie beauty and otherworldly intervention.
Review:
If you like J-Horror movies, like The Grudge and The Ring, then this short collection of Chinese Ghost stories will probably appeal to you as well. I know J-Horror is mainly horror films set in Japan, but the oriental feel of Chinese Ghost Stories resonates closely with the style of these flicks. The story title, The Tradition of the Tea Plant is also about a Japanese legend of a Buddhist priest who went to China in 519 A.D. and the tragedy that surrounded this event.
There are six chilling tales in this collection; The Soul of the Great Bell, The Story of Ming Yi, The Legend of Zhi Nu, The Return of Yan Zhenjing, The Tradition of the Tea Plant and The Tale of the Porcelain God.
As with remakes of foreign films, there may be some loss of the original feeling in the author's interpretation of these tales into English, but unless you can read the original language and text, then you won't know what you are missing and will enjoy the retelling of these horrific fables.
Included in this book is a Glossary to help with the understanding of Chinese terms and beliefs. I found all of the six stories and information in the Glossary to be quite interesting, especially when you get an insight into the beliefs and fables of other cultures, such as China.
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