In this post I would like my readers thoughts on what they consider is a ghost, many people have different persectives and it will be interesting to here other people's opinions.
To begin with ghosts my thoughts on what ghosts are is that they are spirits of humans after we die or during times that we astral travelling.. I have also theorised that possibly lucid dreaming is also a type of astral projection. Comment below your thoughts on ghosts.. RELATED OCCULT BLOGGER POSTS:
* Can we Prove Immortality? Can we prove Immortality? In a previous posts I theorised on the understanding of ghosts...
* What is Astral Projection (O.B.E.)? Astral projection is one element of the Occult which has been delved into...
* Lucid Dreaming Tips - Looking at your Hands.. Done much lucid dreaming lately..? If you have n't then looking at your hands is...
* Lucid Dreaming - Peoples Testimonies Have you had any lucid dreaming experiences lately..? We all do occasionally (by accident sometimes)...
* Do Animals have Spirits as Well? This was an interesting question I was asked recently about animals. It all comes down...
Keywords: book how monsters hunters seek northern link ufos stories help looking ghost library colonial dress update roger alien hill nasa astronaut carpenter
Before I knew the word "Exorcism" and "Exorcist", I had been using the word "Ghost Buster" all the time to describe my job. (What is Exorcism in Taoism?) It sounded silly but that is really what we do. From my childhood, I already began to deal with spiritual problems for people. Back then, my ability and power is not as strong as today and so it is not easy to deal with just one ghost. From what I can recall, if a person saw a ghost or hear the voice in the head while the ghost haunted them down, it is already a very freaky and scary thing back then. It would be seen as a mega case and we have to do a lot of work to get this case resolved. Today, I am totally different in terms of power in magic and so these could be so easily dealt with by just doing some simple magic and they would be all gone. Now as a Taoist master, looking back at my own past, it is fascinating that I finally got to the stage I am at now!
When I browse through the online forums, I saw people talking about ghost just like when I was about 12-15 years old. They were treating it as a very scary and mysterious thing, making so many rumors about ghost captured in a photo, whatever paranormal occurrences they encounter or found weird. It is a big conversation over all that mystery they found or even made up. Yes I was once like that too and even there is no ghost, you just want to make one up. and talk about it with your friends. It's an exciting thing, or even a trend.
Right now, ghosts and spiritual problems are different for me. They are my profession and my job. I deal with these problems who have ghost and spiritual problems all the time. They come to me for help and my job is to resolve their spiritual problem as quickly as possible to save their life. The job is done quickly and efficiently. The ghost is now only one very small thing out of the many in my profession. There are many more scary things to deal with such as curses, lethal sorceries, and other higher level evils that could be more aggressive and violent.
When I look at those people who are talking about ghost and wanted to see ghosts all the time, I just can't go backward and use that same attitude to respond to their conversation as I had in my 12-15s. I saw what will happen to them later on and I know it is not going to be good. I know because now I am skilled in the field of exorcism, I know what it is all about and I understand that if you are digging into the subject of ghost and ghost hunting, you will end up in troubles that you cannot even realize they are there. The best way to compare to it is smoking. When a kid tries to smoke, they think it is cool and it is making them "mature" looking. For me, I know how smoking can cause you many troubles later on, it will damage your lungs slowly, give you lots of health issues and so on. When I tell the kids not to smoke or just quit it because it will be bad for health, what is the common response I get?
"Shut up, we all are happy smoking here and still having fun, you don't understand! Get lost!"
Yes, that is the response I get most of the time. They wanted to smoke and they will also say they don't care because they don't even have any problems "NOW".
I told one of them that they should just exorcise the ghost out of their life because it is doing a lot of damage to them and their health is going to go down. The person doesn't believe me, she don't even accept my wisdom. She said that she is doing "extremely" fine now and she is totally fine with living in a a ghost house too. Then she started lecturing me about how the ghost is just part of nature and how ghost should be seen as your friends, etc. Okay, on the next post, she rants about how she is having leg surgeries and all that health problem. Yeah, she is having extremely good health there, extremely good luck, and extremely against my advice.
What can me the exorcist master do to sober up these ghost lovers? Their passion and enthusiasm is just unbelievable like myself back in the 12-15s. I can't even think of a way to convince them and their friends because they are all so "together" in rejecting my advice too. What do you suggest? Readers, feel free to speak out!
I took the approach myself to build a website - www.worldbestexorcist.com to welcome those who are looking for solutions to ghost problems to come along and get help. What else do you think I should do?
MAK JO SI ("MASTER MAK") is a cheerful and friendly 100% truly pure Taoism Master who hates evils. He is the owner of Chi in Nature Ltd. Taoism Temple located in Markham, Ontario inside Canada. He is talented in Taoism, Exorcism, Fengshui and Kungfu. Since 1996, Mak Jo Si started his life time career of Taoism which ensure you that he is positive, friendly, trustworthy and skillful! (more info)
"As always, go with ONLY Tin Yat Genuine at Chi in Nature Ltd is the ONLY one!"
Keywords: world popular appear camera slip ghosts petit real houswives ghost jackson caught tape jim picture real houswives capture photo unidentified picture hanover haunting
Colonel Howell, of the king's troops, was a gay fellow, framed to make women false; but when he met the rosy, sweet-natured daughter of farmer Jarrett, near Valley Forge, he attempted no dalliance, for he fell too seriously in love. He might not venture into the old man's presence, for Jarrett had a son with Washington, and he hated a red-coat as he did the devil; but the young officer met the girl in secret, and they plighted troth beneath the garden trees, hidden in gray mist. As Howell bent to take his first kiss that night, a rising wind went past, bringing from afar the roll of a drum, and as they talked the drum kept drawing nearer, until it seemed at hand. The officer peered across the wall, then hurried to his mistress' side, as pale as death. The fields outside were empty of life.
Louder came the rattling drum; it seemed to enter the gate, pass but a yard away, go through the wall, and die in the distance. When it ceased, Howell started as if a spell had been lifted, laxed his grip on the maiden's hand, then drew her to his breast convulsively. Ruth's terror was more vague but no less genuine than his own, and some moments passed before she could summon voice to ask him what this visitation meant. He answered, "Something is about to change my fortunes for good or ill; probably for ill. Important events in my family for the past three generations have been heralded by that drum, and those events were disasters oftener than benefits." Few more words passed, and with another kiss the soldier scaled the wall and galloped away, the triple beat of his charger's hoofs sounding back into the maiden's ears like drum-taps. In a skirmish next day Colonel Howell was shot. He was carried to farmer Jarrett's house and left there, in spite of the old man's protest, for he was willing to give no shelter to his country's enemies. When Ruth saw her lover in this strait she was like to have fallen, but when she learned that it would take but a few days of quiet and care to restore him to health, she was ready to forgive her fellow-countrymen for inflicting an injury that might result in happiness for both of them.
It took a great deal of teasing to overcome the scruples of the farmer, but he gruffly consented to receive the young man until his hurt should heal. Ruth attended him faithfully, and the cheerful, manly nature of the officer so won the farmer's heart that he soon forgot the color of Howell's coat. Nor was he surprised when Howell told him that he loved his daughter and asked for her hand; indeed, it had been easy to guess their affection, and the old man declared that but for his allegiance to a tyrant he would gladly own him as a son-in-law. It was a long struggle between love and duty that ensued in Howell's breast, and love was victor. If he might marry Ruth he would leave the army. The old man gave prompt consent, and a secret marriage was arranged. Howell had been ordered to rejoin his regiment; he could not honorably resign on the eve of an impending battle, and, even had he done so, a long delay must have preceded his release. He would marry the girl, go to the country, live there quietly until the British evacuated Philadelphia, when he would return and cast his lot with the Jarrett household.
Howell donned citizen's dress, and the wedding took place in the spacious best room of the mansion, but as he slipped the ring on the finger of his bride the roll of a drum was heard advancing up the steps into the room, then on and away until all was still again. The young colonel was pale; Ruth clung to him in terror; clergymen and guests looked at each other in amazement. Now there were voices at the porch, the door was flung open, armed men entered, and the bridegroom was a prisoner. He was borne to his quarters, and afterward tried for desertion, for a servant in the Jarrett household, hating all English and wishing them to suffer, even at each other's hands, had betrayed the plan of his master's guest. The court-martial found him guilty and condemned him to be shot. When the execution took place, Ruth, praying and sobbing in her chamber, knew that her husband was no more. The distant sound of musketry reverberated like the roll of a drum.
Source: "Myths and Legends of Our Own Land"
Keywords: truth ghostly photos entity appears linda community converted superman died did hunters hunting hospital converted pack chupacabras alarm alien plant valles
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST..? What does it mean to us..? Does it mean we are all going there upon death or is something else.. If we do become ghosts does that mean we are all immortal? Interesting question, leads indicate to yes
GHOSTS AND IMMORTALITY
If you have ever had experience with GHOSTS OR HAUNTINGS, IT INDICATES THAT IMMORTALITY IS POSSIBLE, but first off why do ghosts linger..? I personally think ghosts happen when an attachment exists between this world and the next, ghosts linger in limbo often referred to as nirvana by many religions or cultures Aspects that hold them are greed, guilt and many common sin related emotions..
So does this mean we are immortal, the old search for the elixir of youth may have been there all along, maybe we are all immortal now as our spirits are? Maybe the blinding idea that all amazing aspects of life are physical is what has blinded us all along and in reality the HOLY GRAIL IS ALREADY RIGHT THERE It is our spirit and therefore we are all immortal already
WHAT DO YOU THINK.. DO GHOSTS MEAN WE ARE IMMORTAL?
Keywords: michael tape real presence spirits michael cnn deny digital voice ghost peter had encounter titanic captain haunts circles egypt number ufo sightings
What can we expect in the future of ghost hunting? From s'eances, ouija boards and the parlor tricks of the turn-of-the-century, we moved into the era of voice recording and photography and onward to today's ghost hunter who arms himself with a combination of recording equipment and electrician's tools. In general, the tools of the trade are still extremely crude and mostly ineffective.
So, the future will have to bring with it more controlled studies and fewer free-form wanderings around old buildings. Experiments will need to be held with lots of controls, shielding from man-made radio waves and EMF transmissions. The goal will be to bring the ghosts to them, not go to the ghosts. Testing with different conditions to try to reproduce or attract hauntings will be a large part of the studies.
Recently an experiment was tested in a lab trying to create a haunted room with high levels of EMF to see if people in that part of the room felt it and perhaps experienced some of the sensations. The problem with studies so far are that they address just one aspect of hauntings, such as the sense of being watched in the experiment above. It will take some scientists with funding and open minds and so far the science community hasn't shown an interest in the paranormal, although they're fine with theories of alternate dimensions and universes.
The problem is, ghosts in the traditional sense are tagged onto the concept of paranormal and supernatural which scientists chalk up to belief systems and religious inspiration, therefore not science. The fact is, hauntings show themselves through sounds, sights, sensations and smells, so technically they are using our physical world to manifest and therefore should be dependent on the rules of physics and well within the realm of scientific inquiry. This change in point of view will definitely help to bring more minds onboard into research.
Another area of research will no doubt be testing psychically and through brain MRI imaging, the minds of the people who have experienced multiple ghostly encounters in search of what they might possess in their brain structures that makes them better able to perceive. As well, tests could be set up with observers wearing EEG electrode montages and having their brain frequencies measured as they run into activity in the field. We might consider taking people who have nightly visitations into sleep study labs to see what sorts of nighttime brain stimulation they have that could be attracting activity because they are receptive mentally or perhaps giving them input that they assume is a ghost when it's really hypnogogic phenomenon. As well, caps made to measure electrical activity in people when they encounter phenomenon or psychics when they "communicate" with the dead, might be able to determine how to stimulate the brain to receive this information for longer periods of time, thus making it possible to keep the channel open and talk back and forth for hours at a time.
The immediate future of ghost hunting will more than likely involve it peaking with technology like the Bigfoot industry with field trap cameras and infrared beams to check for motion and drones filming from above. Ghost hunting will involve much more camera and audio coverage. Even with all of those recording devices, there will be people disputing what's captured. When you believe something, you will see it. When you don't want to believe something, you won't see it. It's pretty straightforward in human nature. In the case of ghosts, until you are in a situation in which something paranormal definitely happens and you witness it yourself, no evidence will influence you.
Ultimately, for all the trappings of our present-day ghost hunting, it is still the individual and his five known senses that are the best proof.
Keywords: real houswives visit patterson force meter ghost hunting ufo phone edward john haunts truth ghostly ghost world case against souls
The Hollywood ghost is a product of human imagination, especially of those in the film industry, and is far from accurate. However, many people have this version of ghost in mind when they discuss the subject of ghosts. Ghosts hardly haunt the way they do in movies. In reality, there are 3 basic ways in which ghosts can haunt.
1. RESIDUAL HAUNTING
The first variety strongly resembles a video of a tragic or a historic event. The events unfold before your astonished eyes, and you are a mere spectator, unable to do anything with what is happening before you. None of the players in the scene will ever bother you or attempt to interact with you. On the contrary, they are hardly aware that you are watching them as they enact the incidents of some remote past.
How does this happen? The event is simply an imprint, recorded and stored by some of the things or materials in the building or in the area. Whenever the conditions are suitable, the incident is replayed. The ghosts enacting the scene are far from earthbound spirits, the word "images" would suit them better. As per a theory to explain this fascinating phenomenon, events comprise energy, and part of this energy is trapped by certain substances in the vicinity. The entire event is then replayed in certain favorable conditions.
This variety of haunting might scare the wits out of you when you witness it for the first time. You must remember that it is just an imprint and cannot harm you in anyway. It is just like a movie; relax and enjoy it.
2. INTERACTIVE HAUNTING
In the second variety of haunting, you are haunted by a real ghost or spirit who wants to capture your attention for some reason. You might even catch sight of a partial-bodied or a full-bodied apparition. Such haunting features voices, footsteps, creaks, bangs, music, footsteps, smells, and so on.
For example, you might smell tobacco smell even when nobody around you is smoking. You might catch sight of mists, light effects, orbs, and so on. The ghostly presence might try to touch you, and you will feel this as a chill, a cold spot, a light touch, or some other type of sensation.
Usually, this is the soul or spirit of a dead person. They might be earthbound and unable to make it to the higher realms because they either have some job to be done or are too attached to the house and the locality or are afraid to move on or are guilty about something. A ghost could also visit you to warn you about something or to give an important message.
You have nothing to fear about such haunting. These ghosts are just like human beings, neither good nor bad. The only difference is that they don't have a body. They might try to attract your attention by moving things around, creating noises, and turning the lights off and on. Some mischievous ghosts might indulge in such activities only for the fun of terrifying you. Alternatively, they might be trying to convey some message to you. Under the misconception that they still own the house, they might want you to exit or refrain from renovating a certain section of the house.
Most of the haunting that takes place is of this category. Usually, the ghosts are harmless; in rare situations, however, they might have some evil or malicious intent.
3. DEMONIAC HAUNTING
This variety of haunting is far from rare; however, demons and other non-human astral entities hardly interact with those who are alive. The Bible has made a mention of them. Only very highly qualified and trained ghost hunters can deal with this variety of haunting. These entities are evil and can do a lot of harm.
Sometimes, these entities disguise themselves as well-meaning human spirits. One of the worst things about using an Ouija board is that you can easily attract such malicious entities, and once you attract them, they can drive you to desperation.
Never ever indulge in games such as black magic, satanic worship, and Ouija boards. If the subject interests you, take the help of experienced, knowledgeable people. Never venture into an unknown world on your own and get into trouble.
Keywords: might indicate apparitions ohio rings peter jackson ghost about paranormal haunted wilderness lodge paranormal experience spielberg grain leir live 1977 island ufos
A retired Gravesend nurse's unbelievably spooky tale about living in a haunted house is now reality TV.
Elaine Mercado, 64, says she spent 22 years living with ghosts who terrorized her and her family in their old Queen Ann-style home on East 9th St.
Mercado's spooky tale was featured on the SyFy network's show "Paranormal Witness" about close encounters with ghosts on Wednesday.
"Things happened that we just couldn't explain," said Mercado, 64, who wrote a book about her ghostly experience called Grave's End
"Sometimes I would cry. [The house] would be charming if it wasn't so creepy," said Mercado.
The retired emergency room nurse from Coney Island Hospital first moved into the house in 1982 with her two young daughters and her first husband - and she immediately felt like she was being watched when there was no one else in the room.
Soon, she had a creepy feeling a ghost was pressing down on her chest and stomach while she would sleep.
After her daughter saw a strange man who was sitting at the top of the stairs disappear, Mercado called paranormal psychologist Hans Holzer and a medium for help.
They told her the home was full of the ghosts, including a bride who mysteriously died in the home's attic and still wore her wedding dress.
After Mercado's mother died, she put the spooky house up for sale so she and her husband Matthew could move in with her elderly father.
Mercado told the new owners the house was haunted and even gave them a copy of her book but said they were not scared.
Years later, the owners of the house say they still have not seen any spooks, specters or apparitions in the home.
"After we moved in I remember hearing a bunch of footsteps upstairs and getting scared. But then I remembered I had four kids in the house," said the current owner who declined to give her name. "We renovated [the house] and that must have took [the ghosts] out."
Mercado sometimes drives to the block and wonders if the ghosts still exist and said she understands if her horror story is too much to believe.
"If someone were telling me these stories without having experienced what I've experienced, I'd probably say the same thing," said Mercado. "It's okay if you don't believe." - nydailynews
NOTE: Marisa Anderson, a psychic consultant and medium from Scarsdale, NY and parapsychologist Hans Holzer cleansed the house in 1995. The presentation on 'Paranormal Witness' doesn't go into much detail on how the case was researched and handled, which is unfortunate. A few years ago, I examined this case and, honestly, it was conducted in a very familiar manner...it paralleled procedures used by Spirit Rescue International in our past and current investigations and clearings...especially the use of coordinate, scientific and psychic remote viewing.
The 'Paranormal Witness' presentation was entertaining but lacked reality in describing the actual events. I suggest that you read the book Grave's Endand make your own judgement.
Elaine Mercado in a 2010 interview: Now, at some point - and this was after I was writing the book - I got a lot more confident as the years went by in that something was in our house. I wasn't crazy; my kids weren't nuts; something was in my house. So I decided to ask my neighbor about it. I had already asked my neighbor on the left, and he just laughed at me so I didn't bother him anymore. But the one on my right... we were closer. I asked him, "Tony, did anything strange that you know of ever happen here?" He said, "What took you so long to ask me?" He said that he used to baby-sit there when he was a teenager, and he heard the footsteps and all the noises. Then he refused to baby-sit there anymore. Not just that, but he said a little lady died upstairs in my daughter's bedroom. You know, this still affects me.
I asked him what he meant, and he said that the old couple's son married a very, very petite woman. She was 18 or 20 at the time, and Tony was a young boy. He remembers how "wonderfully tiny" her waist was. She was standing on our stoop posing for pictures when they got married. Then she moved in upstairs on the third floor, which eventually was Karen's room. So apparently a few years later this woman died. Some people said it was a heart attack; some people said she hit her head on the night table and had an aneurysm. He never really got the story straight.
So, that's three objective corroborations of this lady in the little dress. Then, after hearing the story, how sad was I about it. Oh my God, there was pain here. And sadness. And Tony also said that at some point the son also died. Someone said drowning; someone else said heart attack. So now I zoom back in my head to the old woman who lived here before who was very sad. Well, why shouldn't she be sad? Look at what happened in her life. So she wasn't just a little old lady anymore. She was that sadness that I felt looking at her that day.
Keywords: family ghost story apparitions afterlife theories beings bardsley ghost versailles slip stories about explains how ghosts paranormal biz researchers jim not
To test whether it's possible to artificially induce paranormal experiences - or, from a different perspective, to technologically summon a spirit - researchers at London's Goldsmith College and architect Usman Haque designed a scientifically haunted room.
They were inspired by earlier studies in which test subjects reported contact with the phantasmic when exposed to electromagnetic fields and waves of infrasound.
This hasn't just taken place in the laboratory. Odd EMF fields have been recorded at reputedly haunted castles. And geomagnetic flux caused by shifting tectonic plates reportedly produces surges in poltergeist sightings. Meanwhile, infrasound waves below the level of human hearing have been linked to visitation.
Of course, ghosts - which 40 percent of the American public claim to believe in - are only one possible explanation. Perhaps people feel something, and what they call "haunting" is their uniquely sensitive power of perception. Maybe they're just suggestible.
So Christopher French, head of Goldsmith's Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit and editor of the Skeptic magazine, built the haunted room: a white, wood-frame canvas tent 9 feet in diameter, located in the front room of a London row house. It was entirely featureless, but hidden speakers cast infrasound waves like those measured in supposedly-haunted Coventry Cathedral. Other speakers projected sound waves that produced an electromagnetic frequency used in laboratory stimulation of paranormal feeling.
Each field's range was focused in a different part of the room, and some areas were field-free. If haunting indeed had a wavelength, then people would ostensibly report unusual experiences in the target areas.
Seventy-nine students, friends of Haque and other volunteers entered the room, which operated during the Fall of 2006. Their responses were published this May in Cortex - and respond they certainly did. After spending less than an hour in the room, nearly three-quarters reported having more than three unusual feelings. Just 6 percent felt nothing. Among the common sensations were dizziness, tingling, disembodiment, dream-remembrance and "a presence." Several felt sexually aroused.
But there was a catch: The sensations had nothing to do with where they were standing in the room.
When French's team crunched the numbers, the only statistically significant association appeared in subjects who scored highly on a test of psychological predisposition to the sort of transcendental feelings generally experienced by epileptics with unstable temporal lobes.
There are a few different ways of looking at these results, said French. "It might be that certain people are wired up in a particular way, and in the right environment, they actually are seeing something that's objectively there, but others don't have the ability to see," he said.
But while that can't be ruled out, he thinks there's a simpler explanation: People tend to think about what they're told to. Asked to track strange feelings, they started noticing them. And the participants' response rates indeed followed what's predicted by models of suggestible behavior.
"We did manage to build an artificially haunted room, but it wasn't related to the environmental factors, but to suggestibility," said French, who'd hoped for a firmer result. An EMF effect would have been exciting, and opened up new lines of investigation, he said.
Of course, French still acknowledged that out-of-lab paranormal experiences could be real, or that his experimental waveforms may have failed to replicate those found naturally. He hopes to repleat the study using "a very different, very anomalous pattern of EMF activity" he recently recorded in Muncaster Castle, said to be one of the most haunted castles in the United Kingdom.
As for whether he'd felt anything inside the haunted room, French admitted that he hadn't spent much time there.
"I went in and out when we were setting it up, but I didn't even make myself a pilot participant," he said. "Maybe I should have."
Keywords: fresno county central site home haunted ghost hunters world investigate parliament mysteries paranormal things indicate haunted ufo ruins 2012 mayan ages mayan pyramid
"This post will try to, inadequately, capture some of Catherine Crowe's wisdom and evidence for hauntings--it's a tough task and I recommend that people who are really interested in this read the whole Nightside of Nature". It would also be nice if someone published a biography of this significant woman. This probably wouldn't be too hard, as a gentleman [now deceased] named Gfrey Larkin collected a mountain of material on her [probably fell in love with her "long-distance" as I have] in 1980, wrote a draft biography [unpublished], and all this work has been deposited in the archives of the University of Kent at Canterbury. I'd love to read her letters involving [especially] the cases of the supernormal. [Also, one of the last things they received was a framed photograph of a pen-and-ink sketch of who may be Catherine herself--if so, the only known representation, I believe--if someone lives near the archives, please send me a copy :-).]
"Nightside of Nature" contains thumbnail sketches and a few longer stories which number in the hundreds. Who knows how many total tales Catherine had heard, as she doesn't read like a person who is just forcefully cramming everything she knows into the book, without regard to either good sense or art. When she has a tale which she considers to be well known, she does something to check up on it. Such, for example, are the stories of the "Brown Lady" and of "Spinning Jenny". She briefly mentioned the "Brown Lady" and remarked, as expected [by me] that the encounters with her were such that persons had "frequently met her on the stairs" and then inquired of their host as to who she was. The relevance of this is that she was not some diaphanous ["see-through"] anomaly, but rather a normal appearing woman. For this specific, and for the generally-stated, testimony on apparitions, I have a great deal of doubt that the famous picture of the Brown Lady [to the left] is legitimate. [If it IS legitimate, then it is likely not of her, but of some trickster phenomenon].
"Spinning Jenny" was [is?] the ghost at the massive estate of the Lytton family, and "expressed herself" prominently during the period of residence of the famous Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who, among many things, was very interested in spiritual manifestations. Jenny was an entirely different kind of ghost, known by the sounds of her spinning wheel and not by visual appearances. The sounds of Jenny's Wheel were heard not only in the estate house, but would sometimes accompany the servants home to their own houses [but to no one else's]. The Lytton family and staff considered the phenomenon harmless and of no bother. Respected folklorist Jennifer Westwood has written that the story of a maltreated servant, Jenny, was made up by a woman [not our Catherine] at a Lytton party [circa 1800] and from there it entered legend. That may be true, but I doubt the conclusion. Catherine, very close to the time, speaks of an ongoing poltergeist phenomenon, not an "unquiet dead" story, and, with respect to two great ladies, I view the poltergeist phenomenon to be in all probability genuine, and the unquiet spirit story to be a later [shortly] add-on to "explain" the noises. Thus I [gallantly I might add] save the reputations of both our esteemed scholars. Catherine's mentioning of these two famous cases high-lights the dichotomy that exists in the lump of encounter experiences tossed together under the label "Ghosts".
The story of the Brown Lady is a representative of the classic type of the unquiet spirit with the need to "make right" some disharmony in order to be able to, as we would say, "cross over". [yes, I've been occasionally watching Jennifer Love Hewitt in Ghost Whisperer--a guilty pleasure]. Another such apparently well-documented tale came from Catherine's readings in the German literature. This story was recounted by a minor German royal named Duke Christian of Saxe-Eisenburg. He was a somewhat distant descendant of similar royals, in this case Duke John Casimir [pictured on right] and Duchess Anna [princess of Saxony], ruling in Saxe-Coburg. Casimir was apparently quite an ass, and badly mistreated Anna, who, unaccountably, never fell completely out of love with him. For a welcome change, this is not a story where the ego-maniac thug violently kills the lady, and, though she tried mightily for some reconciliation, they ended separating and ultimately died unmarried and apart. Our reporter, Duke Christian, many years after these goings-on, stated that one day in his study there came an unsolicited and unannounced knock on his door. [Parlor guards should have prevented this]. He did say "come in" and in walked a lady in old-style clothes. She informed him who she was [Princess Anna] and that she was no evil spirit, but needed his help in righting a wrongful situation. Her plea was that although she was happy in the other life, Duke Casimir was not. [and she still loved him, and wanted him to be able to get peace]. Casimir was "wandering in cold and darkness between time and eternity". The way to free him was to review their disputes and have a relative serve as a judge as to whom the guilt was due--and then have everyone admit to it. She was asking Christian to be this judge.
She then left, with apparently no one else having seen her. Christian consulted his clergyman as well as family history, and despite mildly questioning his own sanity, decided that if Anna were to return with Casimir, he would do what he could. Eight days later, though guards still watched the outer door, the deceased royals reappeared in their princely attire. Christian heard the cases and judged for the lady. Casimir humbly agreed. Christian then took each of their hands [Anna's was felt warm; Casimir's was ice-cold] and laid them on one anothers and said a blessing for them. The apparently life-like and substantial apparitions then simply disappeared. Catherine believes this story to be valid, I think, because it had nothing to do with any practical gain that Christian had by telling it--ex. there was no matter of legitimacy of his position or such matter.
I want to tell one more of these "make things right" tales, despite me extending this blog too much by not cutting this down. This was an incident which apparently had relevance to a court case in Germany. A man had died and with good reputation as a charitable individual. His son took over the family estate including keeping on the servants. One of these servants had, one evening, an apparitional "guest" in her bedroom which scared her mightily, who appeared old and haggard and illuminated by a type of inner light. These visitations repeated several times. The master of the house, having heard of the goings-on, requested that the servant ask the ghost what he wanted. This she got courage to do, as well as to follow the apparition when it beckoned her to do so.
It showed her a locked closet, sequestered away, which it indicated that she should open. She replied that she had no key, whereupon it described where she could find the key. She did so, found a parcel within, and was told to give it to the institution for the poor that the deceased had supported in life. The spirit said that this was the only way that he could achieve peace in the other life. She took the parcel and the story to the new master and he said that she should do as the spirit had asked whereupon she did. At the institution, the opened parcel revealed a promissory note ordering the son to pay a very large amount of money to the cause. This amount it said was the sum that the older man had defrauded the institution and must be repaid. The son had a fit of anger at this, said it was all impossible, fired the servant and had her arrested. [altruist-of-the-year]. In the courtroom, the son, while accusing the servant was assaulted by a blow to his arm which silenced him, as the girl cried "See! There he stands now!" but no one else could see him.
Then several people heard a discarnate voice telling his son to do what was right and pay the sum...whereupon he relented. Despite this act of "charity", the son was so boggled by all this that he went into a funk that took a long while to reorient from and regain his mental balance. A bit of justice there too. This story was checked by Dr. Kerner [whose work Catherine translated] by speaking with people directly involved within the same year of the events [it had taken place in 1816].
A story worth repeating on the poltergeist side involved a Victorian actress named Mary Anne Hunn, who was later to remarry and became the mother of one of Britain's most famous politicians, George Canning. Mrs. Hunn was visiting Plymouth and needed a lodging. A friend procured one cheaply, saying that the reason was that it had a reputation for being haunted. Mrs. Hunn believed that she had already experienced ghosts haunting theatres and that this would not bother her. The lodgings were over a carpentry shop and when the workers left for the evening and the children and maids retired to bed, she sat up expectantly to read and see if there would be any happenings. Inevitably there came the sound of sawing wood. Then other noises of the shop, until there were a virtual cacophony of wood-working sounds.
She took off her shoes so as to sneak up on the noise-makers, but on arriving at a point that she could see, the noise all abruptly stopped and there was nothing there. She inspected the whole shop including all the securely locked doors, and retired...only to have the whole show begin again a half hour later. This act repeated itself the next night, whereupon she told the [relatively-new] owner of the house, who refused to believe it, but said that he'd watch overnight with her. The work noises began on cue, and the owner, instead of going down to the shop to investigate, ran out in horror. Our brave lady was more amused than scared and later said that the noises persisted for weeks and would have only scared her if they had NOT occurred, as she then would have worried that their agents were perhaps coming upstairs instead.
Catherine tells many other poltergeist sound experiences, the most common being the "tread of foot on the stairs". One that apparently tickled her was of the boss of a work gang that was repairing, extensively, the insides of a haunted house which, because of the phenomena, the workers refused to work on into the evenings. One day the boss, post quitting time, went back in to inspect the work, and as he climbed the stairs, heard the fall of a heavy foot behind him. He whirled about to find, of course, no one there. Continuing on, he began to hear the footfalls again further behind. Stopping at a landing, he looked for and waited for...nothing. He entered a large room where a fire had been set to warm it, and, getting his machismo up, dramatically grabbed a chair slammed it down facing the door [and the offending sounds] and challengingly sat in it. To his horror, a second [invisible] chair was identically drawn up, slammed down, and sat upon by an invisible "guest". Testosterone now left aside, our worthy builder ran from the premises. [doubtless to the great amusement of the local leprechauns ].
The haunted house at Willington Mill is a remarkable story in a whole variety of ways. The first and perhaps most important is the character of the owners of the place. These people [Joseph Proctor and family] were good practicing Friends [Quakers] and had no desire to be the hosts of anomalous spirit entities, and even less to lie about them. The number of incidents involving the ghosts were so many that they became public to a whole variety of reporters and pamphlet writers. One reader of these claims absolutely could not believe any of it, but was nevertheless so curious that he asked if he could visit the Proctors and experience whatever-it-was for himself. This man, Edward Drury, has left us a detailed account of his experiences along with letters documenting parts of them. The phenomena Drury witnessed were the following: the pattering of many feet, knocking sounds some of which were right near him in the same room, a hollow cough [from a small, easily seeable empty room], and rustling sounds as of garments brushing against the walls ascending the stairs.
All of these were mutually witnessed by himself and a friend that he brought with him. His friend dosed off, and Drury watched as a closet door opened by itself and a woman dressed in gray emerged, hands held as if to indicate something, and walked towards the dozing friend. Drury rushed at her, passing right through the apparition and landing unconscious upon his friend.
He was taken downstairs in this state of confusion and terror [of which he remembered little--the testimony is by his friend and Mr. Proctor], and didn't recover for three hours. Many other occurrences occurred at the Mill at Willington but this will suffice. Joseph Proctor himself became miffed at the glib opinions of the educated elite and said: "The unbelief of the educated classes, in apparitions of the deceased, and kindred phenomena, is not grounded on a fair philosophic examination of the facts which have induced the popular belief of all ages and countries; and...it will be found, by succeeding ages, to have been nothing better than unreasoning and unreasonable prejudice".
To that Catherine and I say "Amen", but I am still waiting for the "succeeding age" wherein we all wake up. Note, friends, that Proctor's quote is applicable to nearly all our favorite anomalies. Proctor is not "Out Proctor" at all.
What are Catherine and Joseph Proctor teaching us? I think that I'm learning that "haunts" are two different things. They are true apparitions, which/who look just like the person involved should look. And they are knocks and bangs and footsteps and "invisible goings-on" which don't "communicate" in a very ordinary way at all. What they seem NOT to be are Hollywood ghosts with see-through personalities and diaphanous gowns--like the creations at the left.
All these things have their pattern-violators but on the rare occasions [in the older days anyway] where there might be a pattern violation, I think that it probably the work not of the true apparitionalists but of the tricksters. {example, in Drury's Ghostly Woman experience, which comes after a "normal" set of poltergeist effects, I attribute "her" to the tricksters and not as a true apparition but what the heck do I know?}
My foggy crystal ball tells me that there are "unquiet" former residents of our benighted world, who, upon passing, have left behind something undone or violating of the right-nature of things and so they haunt in hope of making it right. And that there are other non-human spirit entities, probably the Olde Irish "neutral angels", that continue to meddle about in their morally-flawed, but usually simply mischievous way...and bang about noisily to their amusement. Some researchers would like to attribute these things to ourselves--by employing unconscious psychokinesis and other psi gifts--I just don't see it. The phenomena are richer than what seems to be able to be accounted for by that, without really great stretches of the "powers". I believe that those theories are desperation attempts to try to minimize the weirdness level of one's ideas. Now's not the time to try to please the academics with some phony conservatism. It's time for All-The-Way-Fool, baby.
"But in the end I must admit that as usual I don't really know what all this is the guy in the picture above knows but he's not telling me. One thing seemed to stand out to both Catherine and me. In cases of apparitions involving a "message" to make something right, that message was delivered in a way so as to preserve the free choice of the party who had to make the real choice. Like the son who had to pony up for his father's debt. The powerful apparitional experience came to someone else" who then informed the one who had to make the moral choice.
That happened many times in Catherine's book, so much that she remarked on it. I believe that in this we have glimpsed a "law" of the spirit world--actions from there may not violate our ability to make our own moral choices. If this is true, it makes perfect sense to me and I believe that it did to Catherine as well.
There is much more in her book. I'll try to do at least one more someday. We need more Catherine Crowes, for intellect, intuition, and commitment to something important.
Keywords: jim fake ghostly ghost researchers ghost not sallie house hunt researchers ghost not photo brown researchers morrison not researchers morrison fake researchers jim morrison
The owner of a pizza shop in Bloomfield believes the security camera outside his store picked up the image of an angel.
Bob Usner, from Adrian's Pizza on Pearl Street, was checking video from overnight when he found the shot of the parking lot taken around 6 a.m. Friday. In the upper part of the screen is a white image with a distinctive shape.
"You can see a face up at the very top and you can see the hands and you can see the wings," said Usner.
Usner believes it's a sign from his dad. Anthony Usner was a 30-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Police who died two years ago.
His dad helped him get the pizza shop. But business has been tough lately, and he's been thinking about closing.
"Maybe my dad coming down to help me," said Usner.
Both he and his sister, Carol Goerk, view the image as a sign of encouragement from their dad.
Word is spreading about the angelic surveillance video. A group of nuns from a nearby convent stopped over to view the image Friday night.
When asked if there could another explanation for the image, maybe a spider web or a lens flare, Usner said the camera has never captured anything like this.
Keywords: upcoming episode guide says downton seemed community hospital senior how sighting haunted linda vista matt douglas haunted paranormal worked solve crop designs crop 2007
THE SCARIEST UK GHOST STORY EVER REPORTED
On September 11th 1987, a well-respected police officer, PC Dick Ellis and a former Special Constable, John Beet were two of a number of witnesses to see probably the scariest and noticeably witnessed ghostly apparition ever to be reported in the UK.The location - A616 bypass (under construction at the time by the McAlpine building company), Stocksbridge, near Sheffield. Situated in the north of England.This ghost story is very vivid in my mind as I come from Sheffield and have driven over the bypass on several occasions, but more importantly - my sister used to work as a police officer in the same 'Deepcar Police Station' as PC Ellis.
Although she never knew him, the story has always remained consistent....Tuesday night, September 8th 1987 - two security guards employed by McAlpine to patrol the bypass site and guard building materials telephoned their boss, Peter Owens in a frantic state.
Owens arrived at the site to find the two large men in a state of hysteria.
Owens then questioned the two men, who told him strange things had started around 12.30pm the night before.They had been driving along Pearoyd Lane, near Stocksbridge steelworks and were very surprised to see children playing near the half constructed bypass at the side of a pylon and far away from the nearest houses.
They told Owens they had decided to investigate, therefore they parked their car and watched the children skipping about, but they were both puzzled by the children's unusual and outdated clothing.
In an attempt to discover why the children were out so late, they got out of their land rover and proceeded in the children's direction, only to find the children were now nowhere to be seen.
When they arrived at the spot where they had seen the children playing, they were puzzled to discover...there were absolutely no footprints in the mud.They described to Owens how the following morning they were still more baffled than frightened as they relayed their story to the McAlpine builders and how this was heightened when they were then told by some of the men...they had heard children's voices in the night as they rested in their caravans.
Owens was told how their bafflement turned into fear just before they phoned him. They went on to describe how they were driving as usual up Pearoyd Lane towards the site. Upon reaching it, they saw a large, dark figure of a monk on the partly constructed bridge. They then explained, as they drove towards the figure, when the headlights reached the apparition, it disappeared.
After listening to the security guard's story, Owens was convinced they were being truthful, and called Deepcar Police Station. As you can imagine the police officer who took the call, PC Ellis laughed and suggested they call a priest instead as this was hardly a police matter. However, Ellis got a surprise later that day, when a priest called, Stuart Brindley phoned him at the station and asked if they could send someone to help him with two security guards at his church.
The priest went on to describe how the guards were demanding an exorcism of the Stocksbridge bypass site, but his main concern was for the men's state of distress, which he had no control over.
The police station had no alternative but to investigate the guard's story. Therefore, PC Ellis and Special Constable John Beet were commissioned to the job.
As Ellis and Beet drove towards the site on the 11th September 1987 both of them were very sceptical about the story's authenticity and believed that the security guards were being hysterical and attributed the saga as being one of the most hilarious they had ever heard.
The evening was quite warm, so Ellis and Beet sat in their car facing the bridge with the windows down. It wasn't too long before they noticed 'something' moving on the bridge. Ellis climbed out of the car and ran to the bridge, where he found a piece of loose tarpaulin flapping around in the wind. Ellis went back to the car and they decided to wait a little longer before calling it a night.
PC Ellis commented to Beet how he had just had the oddest sensation as though someone had just walked over his grave. He asked Beet if he had felt anything. Then suddenly, Ellis felt a presence at his side. He turned his head sharply to find a dark,clothed torso pushed right up to his door. Ellis noticed the dark clothing had white 'v' shaped material running down the chest.
Suddenly the apparition vanished and appeared at Beet's side in an instant. Then it vanished again as Ellis stepped out of the car. He walked all around the car and looked underneath...nothing was there.
Ellis got back into the car and turned the ignition, but nothing happened... he tried again but still nothing. On the third attempt the car started.
Ellis decided to drive to the construction area, where he pulled up and radioed the station to give their whereabouts. Suddenly, there was a loud bang on the back of the car, which Ellis later described as sounding like it had been hit with a baseball bat or pick axe handle.
Beet sat rigid in the car as Ellis hesitantly climbed out. Again, there was nothing around - not a sound or sight of anything. Ellis rushed back and jumped in the car, just as the car was struck again. A booming noise reverberated as the car rocked up and down. Ellis frantically started the car, but again it was hit.
Ellis put his foot down and raced back to Deepcar station.They reported their findings to shocked colleagues, who wrote statements of their accounts. Both Ellis and Beet stated, their fear was so intense, they described it as; 'it was not that which one has when you are about to encounter danger - but worse, it was the kind where you have absolutely no control over...a feeling of 'dread'.
Keywords: paranormal help time petit trianon shop owner security did hunters world ghosts walk ghostly taken end october count calendar solstice experts mayan guatemala
Is this a picture of a message from beyond? That's the question from terrified Rotherham woman Angela Casswell, who fears she is being haunted by a poltergeist.
Angela, of Doncaster Road, East Dene, and her mum, Dot, who lives opposite, both say they have seen all kinds of spooky phenomena in Angela's house.
They ghostly messages written on frosted up window glass.
One said "You dead soon" and that was followed by the message in the picture, which says "2 weeks left."
Other activity includes ghostly sightings and footsteps, loud banging noises and lights flashing on and off.
Now desperate Angela (43) has called Swinton-based "psychical investigator" Iain Lawrence, who runs a company called Hauntastic Events, to try to get to the bottom of the spooky goings-on.
Keywords: difference between how ghost time slip tasmanian asylum reputation damon douglas set fresno library facchini ufo charles poltergeist studies spiral jun
A historic - and some say haunted - Los Angeles hospital that has been closed for two decades is set to be converted into apartments for low-income seniors in a 40-million makeover.
Linda Vista Community Hospital is an imposing relic from the days when railroads took care of their sick and injured employees in company facilities. Originally known as Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, it was built for employees of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar neighborhood east of the city's rail yards and home to many railroad workers.
The original hospital opened in 1905. It was razed and rebuilt on the same site in the mid-1920s, and additions were made through 1939.
Although the hospital closed in 1991, the six-story complex survives with its dignity mostly intact - with peeling paint and roosting pigeons adding to tales of sudden chilly drafts and paranormal activity inside.
Hallways are wide with coved ceilings intended to evoke the inside of a railroad caboose. Former staff dining halls and patient rooms are outfitted in colorful Santa Fe tile. The white concrete edifice commands a sloping four-acre site on St. Louis Street overlooking Hollenbeck Park and the downtown Los Angeles skyline.
"It has such a presence sitting on that big lawn," said Wade Killefer, the architect overseeing the hospital's conversion.
Renovation is set to begin next month in an adjacent structure. The challenge, he said, "is the same as it is with every great historic building: how not to screw it up."
The steward of Linda Vista's comeback is Amcal Multi-Housing Inc., an affordable housing developer in Agoura Hills. It expects to succeed where previous efforts to convert Linda Vista to residential use fell short, including a pre-housing-crash plan to turn it into condominiums. One big hurdle is the need to remove hazardous lead and asbestos at a cost of about 4 million.
"A lot of things came together" for Amcal, Chief Executive Percival Vaz said. Among them was a grant of 9 million in federal funds intended to stabilize neighborhoods through the revitalization of abandoned properties.
And Linda Vista is a lulu of an abandoned property.
Visitors come across stray medical equipment such as dusty baby incubators and gleaming stainless steel autopsy tables. A corner of the basement holds what appears to be a cluster of jail cells.
The rooms are unnerving, but the atmosphere is intentional.
That's because Linda Vista is one of L.A.'s most popular filming locations. It was daunting enough to stand in for a squalid mental asylum in a Duran Duran music video, and it has been the subject of televised paranormal investigations.
Caretaker Francis Kortekaas brought in medical equipment and made the mock jail to enhance its appeal to directors. Sometimes filmmakers leave props behind, like the wooden throne from the upcoming Rob Zombie movie "The Lords of Salem" that commands one room.
It can be hard to tell what's real and what's Hollywood flimflam. The former main dining room looks like a chapel because it was redecorated for the 2005 remake of the movie "The Longest Yard," starring Adam Sandler.
Faded bed curtains in a jumbled pile on the floor of a patient room? Real artifacts. Dangerously drooping electrical conduit in the former laundry room? Recent props from an episode of "True Blood," where the hospital portrayed a mental asylum.
Makers of the HBO series about vampires also filmed live wolves running through Linda Vista's lobby, Kortekaas said. Filming takes place in Linda Vista as much as 130 days a year, he said, which helps pay for maintenance.
Some of the projects are upbeat, such as the pilot episode of "ER" and hospital scenes from the 2001 movie "Pearl Harbor." Often, though, Linda Vista serves as the backdrop for slasher tales and other dark fare, such as the 1995 murder-thriller, "Se7en."
Television shows that follow ghost hunters also have spent nights at Linda Vista, and the makers of a documentary-style show called "From Beyond" said the hospital was "home to the team's most haunting night ever," with crew members hearing voices and being grabbed and scratched.
"People tell me it's the most haunted place in L.A.," said Maurice Ramirez, executive vice president of Amcal. "Because it's been empty for maybe 25 years or so, it becomes the subject of a little urban folklore about ghosts and things."
Kortekaas, who has spent more time in the hospital than anyone else over the last several years, acknowledged a couple of incidents he can't explain.
In the dimly lighted underground level housing the operating rooms, Kortekaas said he once saw the water turn on when he approached a sink where doctors scrubbed before surgery. Then the water, which is controlled by a leg-operated lever, turned off.
On another occasion, he sensed a small child putting a hand in his - but no one was there. "It felt like my daughter's hand," he said.
Next month, Amcal plans to start converting Linda Vista's nurses' residences into 23 senior apartments. The separate three-story building has a cozy living room with a fireplace and is connected to the hospital by a short tunnel.
"We're just remodeling it a little" to add bathrooms and small kitchens, Ramirez said. "The historic character will be maintained."
Starting early next year, the upper five floors of the hospital building will be converted to 74 apartments, most of them one-bedroom units for people ages 55 or older whose annual incomes are 16,000 to 25,000, the criteria for subsidized housing eligibility in Los Angeles. Construction is expected to take 14 months.
Improvements will include new landscaping and the addition of reflecting pools to soften the hospital's institutional appearance in front.
"It's going to look like an upscale hotel," Ramirez said. "People in the neighborhood will really see a transformation."
Linda Vista is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a city historical monument, said Linda Dishman, executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy.
"It was the precursor of medical services connected to employment," she said.
Applications for units at Linda Vista will be accepted this summer, Amcal said.
Keywords: ghosts air ghost hunting shows kind ghost too real should ghost belief master encounter russian photos area ufo sighting argentina
"After a close encounter with the front end of a school bus, Alona Dare goes from Homecoming Queen to Queen of the Dead. Now she's stuck here in spirit form with no sign of the big, bright light coming to take her away. To make matters worse, the only person who might be able to help her is Will Killian, a total loser/outcast type who hates the social elite. He alone can see and hear her, but he wants nothing to do with the former mean girl of Groundsboro High. "
"Can they get over their mutual distrust-and this weird attraction between them-to work together before Alona vanishes for good and Will is locked up for seeing things that don't exist?"
I don't think I've ever smiled so broadly after reading a book than I did with Stacey Kade's The Ghost and the Goth. Vibrant and full of life, this book just downright loveable. Yep, you totally should get this, and devour it right away.
Alona Dare - three-time homecoming queen, varsity cheerleader co-captain, technically perfect - is such classic Queen Bee (warning: can be bitchy). I love her voice - undeniably feminine, saturated with unyielding confidence and with an admirable tenacity. What endears me most to Alona is not the fact that she has hidden issues or that she is afterall imperfect, but more because she's not infuriatingly arrogant. She may be ruthless, but this only stems from one trait: frankness. Unlike the conventional miss perfect, she's not being mean for the sake of it. It's simply just her defense mechanism, the one way she knows how to survive the big world with.
Similarly, Will Killian is a charming character with many faults and vulnerabilities. Although commonly labelled the school freak, hidden behind the drone of music and the colour black is really just a boy longing to live his life in peace. In the world's unlikeliest partnership (that's not even considering the fact that she's dead and he's not), Alona and Will will find answers, help and drive each other mad. And tell you what, I love every single bit of Alona-Will moments!
It's hard to find fault in either of these wonderful pair. It's one of those rare books with characters so magnetic you immediately connect with them - that's what it was like to me. They are charming by themselves alone and so hilariously uplifting together. Alona's and Will's narrative occur alternatively in this book, interwoven to ensure a continuous flow of all the positive vibes I could ever get in a book. But no, I'm not implying the book is everything fun and happy. It has depth and morals too. The plot spends time in highlighting the transition of Alona and Will's relationship with each other from aversion to acquaintance to friendship and beyond, and in doing so emphasises their acceptance of each other by seeing more than just the superficial. As they begin to trust each other, their smallest acts become significant and carry with them a major 'aww' factor. So very cute!
As the plot progresses, the focus shifts more towards seeking answers both Alona and Will are looking for and generally turns to its darker side. Sub plots also become more prominent in the second half of the book, as do the secondary characters. Unconnected links are finally drawn together and a very fresh, very inventive take on the afterlife is conjured in the Ghost and the Goth. It's slightly vague at parts, but there should be some more answers in the sequel, and there was nothing significantly amiss. Of course, Alona and Will learn to accept, if not understand each other too. In doing so, their respective characters really develop and mature. Together, these two seems to have an endless supply of surprises that had me giggling and grinning and being extremely happy!
The Ghost and the Goth is one of the most endearing books I have ever read. Uplifting, funny and loveable beyond compare, it's also one of my utter favourites! Loving the cover as much as I do is not harm either, right? What am I to do whilst waiting for Queen of the Dead?
Keywords: detect ghosts spirits reveal reports caught tape deny can too afraid hunters seek northern catherine crowe ghosts about paranormal about ghost ships
Matt Damon and Michael Douglas are said to be convinced that their new movie set is haunted.
The two stars have been shooting for 'Behind the Candelabra', which is about the life of famed pianist Liberace.
The duo is convinced that there is some supernatural activity going on around them and a male spirit has been watching them work.
"The movie centres around Liberace's last years with his young bodyguard/live-in lover, Scott Thorson, and several times during filming, Damon and Douglas turned to each other after a scene and said, 'Did you feel that?," News.com.au quoted a source as telling National Enquirer.
"They swear they've felt cold damp air swish by, reeking of a potent men's cologne.
Douglas portrays Liberace in the release, while Damon plays the role of Scott.
Douglas has spent a lot of time behind the piano while shooting scenes for the TV movie and it is then when he felt the presence at its most intense.
"He actually felt someone caress his shoulder," the insider said.
"He whipped around - but no one was there! Not only that, but on several occasions prop lights flickered uncontrollably," the source added.
Keywords: police phone entity appears tales part ghost ufo fairy mysteries between paranormal superman reeves haunts mysteries ghosts exorcist encounter ghost
