Jackolantern with brilliant Buddha carving (thebuddhistblog.blogspot.com)
Buddhists certainly have ghost stories. These restless or "hungry ghosts" (PRETAS) have an entire section of the ancient texts devoted to them called the Petavatthu. These ghost stories (a counterpart to stories of celestial planes called the "Vimanavatthu") tell tales of karma and its result. They will be recognizable to the Western as rewards and punishments for well and ill done deeds.
* Real paranormal activity: laghost.com
* Investigating the paranormal (Patt Morrison)
* "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears"
* Zombies, cyborgs, or a rare disease: science and film
A "peta" is a person who has been reborn on the ghost plane, an unfortunate subhuman destination. Ghosts are not technically "disembodied"; they have subtle bodies varying in transparency and density. While they may be creepy, grieving, and clingy, they are not generally "evil." They are hungry and desperate. This is because when they died, they were very confused as happens when the death is untimely, unfair, sudden, or violent. Furthermore, excessive attachment to relationships or property leads to rebirth on a plane not far removed from this one. They are not adapting to the loss. Most significantly, violating one or more of the Five Precepts is karma (action) that, if it ripens at death, leads to an unfortunate rebirth.
Mara on the "Day of the Dead," LA 2007
Rather than coping with what has been lost, hungry ghosts are clinging to the past. Much like humans who live as hungry ghosts, they find themselves stuck in spite of wishing to move on to a better state. Grasping at and clinging to lost treasure, a lost loved one, or unfinished business keeps them stuck, no longer human but lingering here. The Buddha found the Indian term "peta" (Sanskrit, "preta") appropriate. For although hungry ghosts have departed, they linger and loiter around the perimeter of houses, outside the walls, at thresholds, gates, and doorposts waiting. They are neither fully in the human world nor completely separated from it. Yet, while they lack the karma to participate in it, they can be helped by humans.
Japanese depiction of a wretched "hungry ghost" with a large empty belly, naked, thirsty, voracious, and miserable (mangashare.com).
HOW TO HELP THE DEPARTED
The danger of making contact with ghosts is that they are very needy and clingy, even parasitic. To interact with them is somewhat like feeding a cat and expecting it to go away afterwards. To help, as for example to benefit lost relatives one misses and worries about, an offering may be made in their name. This skillful karma is the doer's alone. However, if the ghost approves and applauds the act, that very act of approval is a mental deed that benefits the doer, that is to say, the ghost.
If the deed is very good -- such as giving to the Sangha or feeding and clothing many people -- the approving, lauding, and praising of it will be very profitable, very karmically beneficial. It is as simple as exclaiming "Well done!" ("Saddhu!") In some cases, such approval will be enough to immediately liberate them from their miserable state. In any case, it will certainly benefit the doer. It even has the potential to profit other unseen beings (such as "devas") who, aware of the wholesome deed, make the mental karma of approving of it. This is why Buddhist ceremonies and group meditations end with the "sharing of merits." It gives other beings the opportunity to share in the good karma. Far from costing those who share merit, it compounds the benefits.
Profitable karma -- specifically, keeping the Five Precepts -- ripens either in the human or lower celestial planes. Unskillful deeds that come to fruition do so in the animal, ghost, titan, and unspeakably woeful destinations. Hungry ghosts do not come from planes we would call "hell" (naraka) nor are they "demons." They can nevertheless be unpleasant, "unclean," upset poltergeists, who are noisy, disruptive, and terrifying. While potentially more active around Halloween, their activity depends on human activity. (Not only ghosts, but inimical earthbound devas -- corresponding to wood nymphs, faeries, elemental spirits, and entities in Western lore -- may not necessarily want humans interrupting their sporting ways, celebrations, and play).
That having been said, for the most part exonerating ghosts, there are malevolent beings:
* Ogres/beasts (yakkhas)
* Reptilians/serpents (nagas)
* Dwarfs/gnomes (kumbandas)
* "Killers"/demons (maras; Scandinavian, Mares)
* Titans (asuras or former "devas", "angels" who were cast out of the Tavatimsa celestial world or "heaven," whose general antagonism is towards the remaining "devas" and their king-of-kings Sakka rather than humans).
Whereas later schools often simplify Buddhist cosmology down to six worlds (depicted in this Tibetan "thangka"), the Buddha in fact detailed 31 Planes of Existence.That all of this echoes Christian themes is in no way an accident or coincidence; these ancient Eastern mythologies may very well be the root of the descriptions found in European lore. Greek culture and mythology, which marks the beginning of "Western" civilization, was strongly influenced by its contact with India ("see" Bactria). And all of the mythological and hybrid creatures mentioned in Buddhist cosmology are pre-Buddhist Indian legends.
In Buddhism the difference (and this is a central yet woefully neglected point that non-meditating scholars fail to appreciate) is that this pantheon of "mythological" creatures is verifiable. The same is true of entities in Buddhist physics and psychology (Abhidharma), such as:
* elementary particles (kalapas)
* consciousnesses or thought-moments (cittas)
* the factors of Dependent Origination
How? With the power of jhana one turns attention toward them and the unseen becomes visible. Because these things are so far removed from normal awareness, however, they are hard to believe in. Therefore many scholars and most Western Buddhists choose to regard all such things as quaint myths and philosophical speculations rather than real and literal things that can be known directly. Pagans and Pegabus observe solstices and other pre-Christian celebrations like All Hallow's Eve (AP).
Anyone who refuses to believe in "ghosts" and hair raising things that go bump in the night might consider visiting a farm house, a haunted house, or weakening one's natural defenses by consuming sugar from artificially colored goop to commercial chocolate to alcohol. If one wishes to be frightened at Halloween, there are unseen beings to frighten one. But sugar, which is visible and ubiquitous, cripples the body, weakens the aura around it, and exposes the subtle bodies and fields, making one susceptible to all manner of harm. While the immune system is knocked out for hours at a time whenever sugar is ingested, it seems Halloween calls for inordinate consumption of candy and spirits.
Asia has Obon, a tradition of expressing filial piety by remembering the dead. Similarly, Latin America observes a holiday called the Day of the Dead. It is wonderful that North America has at least one night a year to acknowledge death, darkness, and discomfort. So step out of the comfort zone and address what's in the closet. It's not likely to be nearly as scary as it is while it rattles around in there ignored.
On the other hand, (attention Goths) anyone morbidly obsessed with sadness, suffering, loss, or pessimism would do well to avoid wallowing in negativity for a day to dress up as a bright faerie, a loving "bodhisattva", or even a repugnant Teletubby.Halloween has become an all-American celebration expressing our:
* fetishes
* anxieties
* impulses
* shadows
* trickiness (when we don't get treats)
* obsession with celebrity
* fear of disease and death
But Halloween is actually nothing more than the eve before the ancient Day of the Dead ("Dia de los "Muertos, "November 1st). It may be nothing more than a chance to vent and grapple with issues most of us would rather not deal with but which impinge on our consciousness anyway:
* war
* crime
* sex symbols
* social transgressions
* wild revelry
Not coincidentally, these five all-American obsessions correspond to Buddhism's FIVE PRECEPTS we otherwise live by when we refrain from:
* killing (even under the banner of war)
* stealing (defrauding people and institutions)
* sexually misconducting ourselves
* lying/slandering/perjuring or speaking harshly/divisively/idly
* intoxicants that abuse the body and lead to negligence
Halloween has morphed from a childish pastime to a sexy and psychologically significant adult event. So play dress up and pretend. Don a costume of whatever you dream or dread you might become -- and get out there. This is the best soon-to-be-holiday on the calendar next to Vesak, which is still the coolest.
Frightening landscape in of the Great Waste, a euphemism for the many woeful but impermanent planes of existence beneath the human realm.
by Seven Jaini and Ashley Wells
Ghost hunting followed a renewed interest in spiritualism caused by two young girls that claimed to speak with a dead peddler. Forty years later one revealed that the noises heard during his "presence" were fake, but by that time, such a resurgence of interest occurred that no one cared. The first group that devoted it's time to the search for disembodied souls was a society devoted to ghosts at Cambridge University in 1851. London's Ghost Club started 11 years later. These pioneers provided the beginnings for today's avid ghost hunters.
There are really only three forms of ghost hunting:
The first uses psychic methods to make contacts. Sensitive's walk through a home and make communication with the ghost or go into a trance. Others may use Ouija boards or other channelling tools to make contact.
The second type of ghost hunter uses something known as "ghost buster" tools. These can consist of Infrared cameras, tape recorders and energy measurement tools like the electromagnetic field meter. Pictures of orbs, ectoplasm and spirits represent their proof.
The third type of ghost hunting uses the scientific method. They gather all data and evidence of a haunting and search for normal, natural scientific explanations. If they can find none, then these investigators look to the paranormal for answers.
In their introduction to ghost hunting, The American Ghost Society tells the future ghost hunter's that some of the cases that they investigate are frauds and pranks perpetrated to make the ghost hunter look foolish. Other cases without merit are people that, out of fear, mental illness or some other reason, mistakenly believe that their house is haunted. These ghost hunters search for the truth and understand that the scientific community does not accept their work but make it their duty to find evidence of true hauntings.
Most ghost hunters seek the adventure of the unknown or simply want answers to age-old questions. Some, however, are more dubious and their desire is for personal fame. With the fame and claims of ghost hunting come the fat cheques for the books they authored, or ironically, had authored by ghost-writers. Television guest appearances and movie contracts add to the bounty. These types of ghost hunters usually have spectacular stories, later debunked by further investigation. The public seldom learns of the misinformation and prefers the gripping tale told originally.
The unfortunate effect of the professional attention seeker is that true ghost hunters receive not only a bad name, but further dismissal from the scientific community. Most impassioned ghost hunters want substantial proof that what they believe they experience while hunting spectre was real. The stories aren't spectacular but interesting and as any good ghost story, they can send a chill up your spine.
Across the world, people have the opportunity to join the ghost hunters by paying a small fee to joining a ghostly walking tour of haunted areas. Many times ghost hunters lead these tours and give important historical information as well as relaying stories of ghost sightings at the sites that they have visited.
Keith Ward is the Founder and Director of the Circle of Professional Clairvoyants, which offers Psychic Readings with fully qualified Senior UK Clairvoyants and Psychics.
Although skeptics insist ghosts are unreal, there are many ghostly encounters that seem to present startling evidence to the contrary. One such incident is presented in the book "The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales" by Ruth Ann Musick (1965, 28-30). The story is indeed spine-tingling, but is it true as well? I first began to investigate the case for my book "Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings" (1995).
"Help"
Musick's narrative, titled "Help," relates how "Doctor Anderson" was awakened by a knock at the door "just past midnight." He found on his doorstep a girl of twelve or thirteen who was dressed in a blue coat and carrying a white muff. She implored him to hurry to "the old Hostler place," where her mother was desperately ill, and then she darted down the road. Anderson picked up his doctor's bag, quickly saddled his horse, and hurried on his way until "he saw the glow of a lamp in the old Hostler house."
Finding a bedridden woman inside, the physician put wood on the dying fire and set to work to treat her fever. When she had rallied, he told her how fortunate she was that her daughter had fetched him. "But I have no daughter," the woman whispered. "My daughter has been dead for three years." Anderson described to her how the girl had been dressed; the woman admitted that her daughter had had such clothing and indicated where the items were hanging.
Thereupon, relates the narrative's final paragraph, "Doctor Anderson strode over to the closet, opened the door, and took out a blue coat and white muff. His hands trembled when he felt the coat and muff and found them still warm and damp from perspiration."
How do we explain such an event? Well, first we remember to apply an old skeptic's dictum: before attempting to explain something, make sure it really happened.
Another Version
As it turns out, a book by Billy Graham contains a remarkably similar story (1975, 2-3), wherein the implication is that the little girl in the tale is not a ghost but rather an angel:
Dr. S.W. Mitchell, a celebrated Philadelphia neurologist, had gone to bed after an exceptionally tiring day. Suddenly he was awakened by someone knocking on his door. Opening it he found a little girl, poorly dressed and deeply upset. She told him her mother was very sick and asked him if he would please come with her. It was a bitterly cold, snowy night, but though he was bone tired, Dr. Mitchell dressed and followed the girl....
As "Reader's Digest" reports the story, he found the mother desperately ill with pneumonia. After arranging for medical care, he complimented the sick woman on the intelligence and persistence of her little daughter. The woman looked at him strangely and said, "My daughter died a month ago." She added, "Her shoes and coat are in the clothes closet there." Dr. Mitchell, amazed and perplexed, went to the closet and opened the door. There hung the very coat worn by the little girl who had brought him to tend her mother. It was warm and dry and could not possibly have been out in the wintry night....
Could the doctor have been called in the hour of desperate need by an angel who appeared as this woman's young daughter? Was this the work of God's angels on behalf of the sick woman?
Graham provides no documentation beyond the vague reference to "Reader's Digest", which in any event is hardly a scholarly source. In fact, I soon discovered that the tale is an old one, circulated in various forms with conflicting details. For example, as "The Girl in the Snow," it appears in Margaret Ronan's anthology of "Strange Unsolved Mysteries". While Graham's version is of implied recent vintage, that by Ronan is set on a "December day in 1880." Whereas Graham states that the doctor was "awakened by someone knocking on his door," Ronan tells us "the doorbell downstairs was ringing violently." Absent from the Graham version is the suggestion that the little girl was a ghost, not an angel; for example, Ronan says the child looked "almost wraithlike in the whirling snow," and that "at times she seemed to vanish into the storm...." In Graham's account, the doctor is credited with simply "arranging for medical care," while Ronan insists Mitchell "set about at once to do what he could for her" and "by morning he felt that at last she was out of danger." Although both versions preserve the essential element that the woman's little girl had died a month before, Graham's version quotes the mother as saying, "Her shoes and coat are in the clothes closet there," while Ronan's has her stating, "All I have left to remember her by are those clothes hanging on that peg over there." Indeed the latter account does not describe a coat and shoes but states: "Hanging from the peg was the thin dress he had seen the child wearing, and the ragged shawl" (Ronan 1974, 99-101).
S. Weir Mitchell
Variant Tales
There are many other versions--or "variants" as folklorists say--of the proliferating tale. Of the five others I discovered, all feature the physician S. Weir Mitchell, but only two suggest the time period. Unlike the Graham (1975) and Ronan (1974) versions, which have the garments in a "clothes closet" and hanging from a peg, respectively, four of the other five variant tales say the clothes are in a "cupboard"; one has them in a "shabby chiffonier" (Edwards 1961, 52). There are differences in the clothes: Colby (1959) lists a "little dress" and "tattered shawl"; Edwards (1961) a "heavy dress, hightop shoes," and "gray shawl" with a "blue glass pin"; Hurwood (1967) "all the clothes the child had worn when he saw her earlier"; Tyler (1970) that exact same wording; and "Strange Stories" (1976) "her shoes and [folded] shawl."
No doubt there are still other versions of the story. Variants are a "defining characteristic of folklore," according to distinguished folklorist Jan H. Brunvand (1978, 7), since oral transmission naturally produces differing versions of the same story. In this case, however, Brunvand notes that many of the variants are explained by writers copying others (Tyler from Hurwood, for instance) but adding details and making other changes for literary purposes (Brunvand 2000, 132). In any case, Brunvand (1981, 21) observes that when there is no certain original, the multiple versions of a tale provide "good evidence against credibility." But was there an identifiable original of the Mitchell story?
Brunvand (2000, 123-36) followed up on the tale (with some assistance from me). Eventually he turned up a couple of versions that supposedly came from Mitchell himself. One was published in 1950 by R.W.G. Vail, then-director of the New York Historical Society:
One day in February, 1949, Dr. Philip Cook of Worcester, Mass., while on a visit to New York City, told me this story which he had heard the famous doctor and writer S. Weir Mitchell tell at a medical meeting years ago. (Dr. Mitchell died in 1914).
"I was sitting in my office late one night when I heard a knock and, going to the door, found a little girl crying, who asked me to go at once to her home to visit a very sick patient. I told her that I was practically retired and never made evening calls, but she seemed to be in such great distress that I agreed to make the call and so wrote down the name and address she gave me. So I got my bag, hat, and coat and returned to the door, but the little girl was gone. However, I had the address and so went on and made the call. When I got there, a woman came to the door in tears. I asked if there was a patient needing attention. She said that there had been--her little daughter--but that she had just died. She then invited me in. I saw the patient lying dead in her bed, and it was the little girl who had called at my office."
Brunvand (2000, 123-36) also turned up an interesting letter from the Mitchell papers. Dated November 2, 1909, it had been written to Mitchell by physician Noel Smith of Dover, New Hampshire. It read:
S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.
My dear Doctor:--
Please pardon my intrusion upon your valuable time, but--as I should like the truthfulness, or otherwise, of what follows established, I have taken the liberty of addressing you.
A travelling man, a stranger, accosted me a few days since at one of our principal hotels, knowing that I was a physician, asking me if I believe in the supernatural, communications with the spirits of departed friends, etc.--I assured him that I had never experienced any personal observations or manifestations that would lead me to any such belief. He then related to me the following story, vouching for its authenticity.--He was a member of some organization, I think, in N.Y., and they had lectures now and then upon various topics. One evening it was announced that prominent men were present who would in turn relate their most wonderful experiences. You was ["sic"] the first called upon, and you stated that you could tell your most wonderful personal experience in a few words. You went on to say that you were engaged in writing late one evening in your library when somebody knocked three times upon the library door. This was thought to be very strange, as electric bells were in use. Upon opening the door, a little girl, about 12 years of age stood there, having a red cloak for an outer garment. She asked if you were Dr. Mitchell, and wished you to go at once to visit her mother professionally, as she was very ill. You informed her that you had given up general practice, but that Dr. Bennett lived diagonally across the street, and that you would direct her to his door, which you did. In a few moments the raps upon your door were repeated, and you found the girl there a second time. She could not obtain Dr. Bennett's services, and urged you to accompany her home; and you did so. She conducted you to a poor section of the city and up a rickety flight of stairs into a tenement house. She ushered you into a room where her mother lay ill upon a bed. You prescribed for the sick lady, giving her some general directions for future guide, and assured her that it was only at the very urgent and persistent efforts of her daughter that you were prevailed upon to come to her. The woman said that that was strange: that she had no daughter--that her only daughter had just died and her body reposed in a casket in the adjoining room. You then looked into this room & viewed the remains of a girl about 12 years of age, while hanging upon the wall was a red cloak.
I am curious to know, doctor, whether you ever had any such experience, or any approach thereto. Hence these words. Let me say right here that Mrs. Smith anxious believers and disbelievers in the supernatural assail him with letters. He has written some fifty to lay this ghost. How could he predict a day when he would be taken seriously?
So there we have it: Mitchell's oblique confession that he had simply conjured up a ghost tale, filled it with literary verisimilitude (semblance of truth), and sent it forth. Later, as Brunvand (2000, 129) notes, Mitchell was "chagrined to find the public believing that he was presenting the story as the literal truth." Mitchell--like the Fox Sisters whose phony spirit communications spawned the modern spiritualist movement (Nickell 2007, 39)--discovered that the genie could not be put back into the bottle.
References
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Colby, C.B. 1959. "Strangely Enough" (abridged). New York: Scholastic Book Services.
Edwards, Frank. 1961. "Strange People". New York: Signet.
Graham, Billy. 1975. "Angels: God's Secret Agents". Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
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Mitchell, S. Weir. (1891) 1909. "Characteristics". New York: Century.
Musick, Ruth Ann. 1965. "The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales". Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
Nickell, Joe. 1995. "Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings". Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.
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Tyler, Steven. 1970. "ESP and Psychic Power". New York: Tower Publications.
Create a curious to see the form of a ghost in the photo, maybe 15 pictures of this interesting views. It is the photographs and the most popular choice due to have spread everywhere. The photos are said to have been analyzed, and so far not found any element of manipulation or something.
1. "The Brown Lady" of Raynham Hall
This photo diiambil in 1936 at Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England. Portrait of "Women's Chocolates" is very popular and is considered the best ever ghost fotao taken. Growing rumors that the ghost of Lady Dorothy Townshend, wife of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount of Raynham, who lived in Raynham Hall, in the early 1700s.
Rumorsnya, Dorothy, before marrying Charles, was the lover of Lord Wharton. Charles suspected Dorothy infidelity. Although Dorothy was buried according to records in 1726, but there are suspicions that the funeral was a fake, because in fact that Charles had locked his wife in a place hidden in the house, until finally she died several years later. Later, Dorothy's ghost haunts the house frequently.
2.favorites Chair
Known to be very loving Archie Bunker chair. He used to spend much time to sit in her favorite chair it. He did not allow anyone to sit there. He died in 1891. At the time, a photographer took pictures of the library room where the chair Bunker located. While seiisi house was in the feeds of Lord Combermere a distance of four miles from there. When photographers take pictures of the chair, he was surprised to see a man sitting there. Head and arm lakii men it showed. Keisi house, it is believed that the spirits of his master who was sitting in her favorite chair.
3.Comeback Freddy Jackson
This photo could menggerkan British Royal Air Force in World War I. Freddy Jackson, a mechanic first squadron, Royal Air Force who served at HMS Daedalus tenure, died hit by a propeller plane in 1919. Two days later, when members of the squadron took a picture together, the results, Freddy's face emblazoned on the photo. He was smiling next to her friend's ear. All her friends know it is Freedy.
4.Ghost at the National Museum, Greenwich, England
Photos taken in 1966 is now becoming very popular. Rev. Ralph Hardy, a retired clergyman from White Rock, British Columbia, interested in creating images in space ladder Queen House National Museum in Greenwich, England. The result, apparently in the picture there is a man whose body was foggy middle of the stairs holding the railing with both hands.
Photo experts, including those from Kodak, performed an analysis of images and clich'e to say, photogravure is authentic. Ralph says she is not able to explain these figures because when photographing nobody, no man who climbed the stairs.
5.Darn Backseat Drivers!
1959 Mable Chinnery went to the cemetery to visit her mother's grave. He took some pictures of his mother's grave, and then photographing her husband, who was alone behind the wheel.. How shocked she was when she saw the results of these portraits, there is someone wearing glasses sitting in the rear passenger seat. He is convinced, that day no one else, the figure that was in the back seat was her mother.
6.What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?
Occurred in 1996 when Ike Clanton took the portrait of a friend who was wearing a cowboy outfit, with a background cemetery Boothill Graveyard. They believe, at that time no one else around, they just simply exist. However, when negative washings, tanpam a mysterious man appears behind.
Ike Clanton says, if anyone, it was impossible he did not see it when taking a portrait of his friend. But he was not sure if a ghost was coming from the tombstone. But would-he would not have to believe it because it has been demonstrated foato. Actually the story of the ghost haunts site of Clanton is not new to shooting. So many scary stories about ghosts in the city.
7.Hantu who
Of all the photos I've seen a ghost (well, except for that one That I can not show at the present time), this one is hands-down the most Eerie. Probably the most disturbing too. I did not know about this one Until A Few months ago. Almost ten years ago, on November 19th, 1995, Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England was engulfed in Flames and burned to the ground. As firefighters tried to stave off the Inferno a town resident, Tony O'Rahilly, took pictures from Across the street using a telephoto lens on his camera. There, rather clearly in one of the photos, is what looks very much to be a small girl standing in a doorway, with the brightness of the Flames behind her.
Almost all the photographs I have seen ghosts (though not all I can show you now), but this one picture I think the most scary, too disturbing. I do not know the existence of this picture, until about a few months ago. Story like this, almost 10 years ago, 19 November 1995, the great fire at Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England.
As firefighters worked to extinguish the fire, one resident, Tony O'Rahilly, photographing the fire. He is photographed from across the street with a telephoto on cameranya wear. The result, on one photo, near the door, looking a little girl background flame burning building.
No one remembers when there was a little girl. To be sure, the photo and negative film images submitted on experts to do analysis and research. Concluded that negative image is also 100 percent original, no manipulation.
The question, what are the little girl ghost in flames? Apparently, the year 1677 in the Wem area, the fire that never happened meludeskan many houses made of wood. It is said that the fire was caused if a girl Jane Churm, 14 years, the careless use of candles.
Churm include victims who died in the fire, and apparently his ghost still haunts the vicinity.
But whether the figure of a little girl in the photograph is a ghost or not, difficult to ascertain. Or just fire smoke sekumpulkan shaped like a girl who happened at that site in the past has also been on fire and casualties. It's weird, but things far more bizarre than this much going du world, right?
8. Ghost in the Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago
This photo was taken at Bachelor Grove cemetery near Chicago by the Ghost Research Society (GRS). On August 10, 1991, several members of the cemetery side of GRS Rubio Woods Forest Preserve, a suburb of the city of Midlothian, Illinois. This cemetery was long considered the most haunted in the U.S., GRS karenanyatim comes to researching about it. So far there are about 100 reports about ghost sightings around there, including the case sounds strange, glowing ball, etc.. Teams in i then did some shooting. The results are truly bizarre, in the photo looks a girl who looks lonely. He was wearing white clothes sitting on the tombstone. Her body was like a see-through model and also an old-fashioned clothes.
9. "And the Sea Gave up the Dead Which Were in it.
I first saw this photo over twenty years ago. It was the first-"ghost photo" I ever Came Across and it still wigs me out to look at it. In 1924 James Courtney and Michael Meehan, two crewmen of the tanker SS Watertown, Were accidentally killed by gas fumes while cleaning a cargo tank. The crew of the Watertown - on its way to the Panama Canal from New York City - Buried the two sailors at sea off the Mexican coast. That was on December 4th.
On December 5th the first mate reported That the faces of Courtney and Meehan Were appearing in the water off the port side of the ship. Over the next days Trust Every member of the crew witnessed the faces Appear and Disappear, including the ship's captain. When he reported this to his supervisors after docking in New Orleans That it was suggested he try to photographs the faces. Captain Keith Tracy Bought a camera and the ship was soon underway again.
Sure Enough, the faces appeared, and Tracy took six pictures, then secured the camera in the ship's vault. The camera was not removed Until it was taken to a commercial developer after docking in New York City. Five of the photos showed nothing unusual, but the sixth clearly showed what was said to be the faces of the two dead crewmen. No evidence of forgery or tampering of the film was ever discovered. The faces stopped appearing after a new crew was brought aboard the Watertown.
10.Ghost in Church
Reverend K.F. Lord take a picture of the altar at his church in North Yorkshire, England. But the result turns out, there is a high figure of great standing there. Photos and cliches have been examined by experts with seksasma photos, but they did not find any evidence that the photograph had been manipulated, or because of certain securities. The figure was very high, about 9 feet, its form as a rabbi in the past. However no one knows that there is a rabbi like that at Newby Church. Is this because of the effects of light or something else.
11.Ghost
Mrs. Andrews said a woman visiting the grave of her daughter Joyce, who died aged 17.Menurut Mrs Andrews, he did not see strange things when you take a picture her son's grave. But the result is staggering, because the picture was a small child who looked happy to play at her son's grave. Looks like a ghost child that knows the presence of Mrs Andrews, the proof, when ny Andrews photographed the ghost boy exposes his face to the camera.
Did it happen because of double exposure? Mrs. Andrews said there were no small children when she took the photo the tomb, he also did not know who the boy. He said, do not believe that the ghost is her daughter.
12.London's St. Botolph's Church Ghost
In 1982, photographer Chris Brackley photographing the inside of the Church of St. Botolph London. The result, in the church attic, looking vaguely disguised as a woman. According to Brackley, his knowledge, when the photo was made only three people in the church, tapitak single one of them was in the attic.
13.Church Ghost
According to Brad Steiger's Real Ghosts, restless spirits and haunted Places, Nowhere this photo was found, there was only one other photographer in the church Beside the person WHO took this picture. Neither of Them recalled seeing ghost or any flesh-and-blood person standing there Could WHO account for this image. Because the figure is all in black, it has been theorized That Could be the apparition of the churuch That minister.
14.Grandfather Ghost Standing Behind Grandmother
"The lady in the color photo is my granny," she says. "She lived on her own Until age 94, Pls her mind started to weaken and Had to be MOVED to an assisted living home for her own safety. At the end of the first week, there was a picnic for the residents and on their Families. My mother and sister attended. My sister took two pictures that day, and this is one of Them.
It was taken on Sunday, 08/17/1997, and We think the man behind her is my Grandpa passed away on Sunday WHO, 8/14/84. We did not notice the man in the picture Until Christmas Day, 2000 (granny Had since passed away), while browsing through Some loose family photos at my parents' house.
My sister thought it was Standard and Poor a nice picture of granny That She even made a copy for mom, but still, nobody noticed the man behind her for over three years! When I arrived at my parents' house That Christmas day, my sister Handed me the picture and said, "Who do you think this man behind granny looks like?" It took A Few seconds for it to sink in to. I was absolutely speechless. The "black and white photos show That it really looks like him". "
I do not need what Might Be a ghost's photographs to attest to this truth: when you're in love with that special one Someone, Will nothing stop you from being with that person. But it's still pretty nice to get a tangible confirmation of That Every once in awhile..
15.Railroad Crossing Ghost in San Antonio, Texas
A Strange legends surrounds a railroad crossing of San Antonio, Texas. The intersection of Roadway and railraod the track, so the story goes, was the site of a Tragic Accidents in Which Trust school-children aged Were killed - but on their ghosts linger at the spot and will from idled cars Push Across the tracks, even though the Is Uphill path. Andy and Debi Chesney's daughter and Some of her friends Had recently been to the the crossing to test the legend, and She took Some Photographs. Inexplicably, a strange, transparent figure turned up in one of the photos.
Lo railroad crossing of San Antonio, Texas, is already known to be haunted. It is said that once terrifying incident happened around there, where several school children were killed. It is said that their ghosts wandering around and often show themselves to people who pass there.
Apparently there is also simply refuse to believe that story without proof. Andy and Kate, the daughter of Chesney and some of his friends, curious and want to 'test' ceritahantu it. They also make some photos. But the result is remarkable, strange transparent shadow is found in one photo.
The following is a list of ghost hunting definitions and tools you should use on a ghost hunt. It is important that you familiarize yourself with these terms as they are used quite frequently during a paranormal investigation. And as for the tools you don't need to rush out and buy this gear. A basic camera, video camera is the minimum otherwise there is no point in going on a ghost hunt if you can't show others what you may have captured
Amulets - Amulet Jewelry
Some ghost hunters wear jewelry called amulets because they believe the amulet jewelry provides protection; because it is enchanted and charmed with powerful spells - which some believe make it an effective weapon against harmful spirits - ghosts. An example of a common amulet might be a crucifix - a cross. I believe jewelry is only powerful to the mind that believes in it. An amulet is the same as a charm or talisman jewelry.
Anomaly
Something found on a picture, photograph, video or voice recording that has no explainable source.
Apparition
These are the holy grail of ghost hunting. A spirit that is in human form and usually visible to the naked eye; or may appear in a photo undetected originally by the naked eye. Often this anomaly is dressed in period clothing. Very hard to capture on film but many have reported seeing this type of ghost. This is the "Hollywood Type" ghost featured in many movies.
Cameras
Cameras are an invaluable tool and a must for investigating a haunting. They provide visual documentation of the investigation and the phenomena occurring. Since, cameras are neither for or against the paranormal, they allow what we do not see with our closed minds to be photographed. Digital cameras provide more results and are best for ghost hunting because they can show you what's in your picture right after you took the photo.
Digital photos are available to upload to your computer immediately after the ghost hunt, while the events are still fresh in your mind.
Psychic photography is simply just following what you feel or sense, and taking pictures using intention and intuition. When attempting psychic photography you should load the film into the camera on arrival of the investigation site. Many say this will show the intention you have and draw spirits to you to photograph. When taking pictures it is also wise to notify others in the area you are taking a photo, so they are prepared for the flash. Psychic photography is usually best achieved during the hours between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.; but the best time for you will be when you have the feeling something is near you or watching you - you should go with that instinct.
While photographing at the investigation site, you should try to avoid mirrors, glass, lights, poles or any other obstruction that will interfere with evaluation or determination of the photograph and it's elements; otherwise you may want to note the possibility of a false result with those photos taken. Also, make sure your camera strap is removed and fingers are not in front of the lens, as they can appear as convincing paranormal evidence. It is good to catalog your photos with the corresponding negative for archival storage. If using a digital camera, simply save the ghost photos and corresponding notes to a cd disk.
Dowsing Rods
Traditionally, a forked branch or stick that is believed to indicate subterranean water or minerals by bending downward when held over a source. Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who discover water or metals under ground.
Dowsing or divining rods can also be made of metal, and bent in an "L" shape - one for each hand. In ghost hunting, when the rods cross while being held out in front of the "dowser" they indicate spirit presence at the spot the dowser is at.
What is ectoplasm? It is the name given to a form of dense energy liberated by living things which is believed to make possible the materialization of ghosts. In short, it appears in photographs like a fog or mist, and is spirit. We prefer to see orb vapor trails (such as in the above ghost picture), to determine conclusively that it is indeed ectoplasm. Vapor trail cannot be re-created through fog, breath or smoke. Many ectoplasm pictures are created by mistake, when the ghost hunter has not been careful. Moisture, fog, cigarette smoke and human breath in cold weather can produce some believable ectoplasm ghost pictures. Be sure to hold your breath before taking ghost pictures, and do not smoke during your investigations for positive results.
EMF Meters
The Electromagnetic Field Detector, also known as an EMF meter, is the ghost hunters tracking device. Using this instrument, it is possible to locate and track energy sources. Before using the EMF meter as a ghost hunting tool on an investigation, be sure to walk around the area taking readings around energy sources such as light poles and electrical outlets to be sure of the readings you will receive while scanning the area during the investigation. Some EMF meters come with a manual describing common household appliances and their corresponding electromagnetic reading. When using this device be sure not to leave it on for the full length of the ghost investigation, as this will prevent the instrument from burning out.
When a positive EMF meter reading occurs, take as many photos as possible. Be sure and point the camera in the same direction as you are pointing the EMF meter. This is also a good time to take a temperature reading. Be sure to always report the times of positive EMF readings, temperature drops, and the times and numbers of each photo. This provides collaborating evidence of the paranormal occurrence. At the end of your ghost hunt, you may find that positive EMF and temperature readings occurred at the exact time you took the photograph which shows an anomaly.
Energy Lights
These show up on photos as colored lights during some manifestations of hauntings. They usually are not visible to the naked eye and can appear in different colors such as red, orange or green.
EVP
Electronic Voice Phenomenon is the recording of audio tapes at a suspected haunted site; and although no voices were heard at the time of the recording, unexplained voices may be discovered during playback of the audio tape. Both digital recorder and traditional tape recorders may be used with an external microphone.
Kinetic Energy
Description for the movement of objects by a ghost. A physical manifestation of an unseen force which may move, throw or even destroy objects. These ghosts are known as "Poltergeists" (German for "noisy ghost").
Orbs
Not all orb ghost pictures are ghosts. In fact, most orbs are caused by moisture, dust, flash reflection, solar flare, and insect. Many have videotaped orbs flying around rooms - some are dust with light reflecting off of it; others are balls of energy that many ghost hunters are not sure just what they represent. We do not claim to have the answers, but we seek to present the evidence we receive and allow our viewers to research and decide on their own.
It is hard to determine exactly the source of an orb for sure. But one test is pretty cool. Take a picture while stirring up some dust and watch how many "orbs" appear in the picture. This is a good test to learn about orbs caused by dust.
Motion Sensors and Detectors
Motion sensors and detectors are another investigation tool that many ghost hunters use. Simply put, motion sensors or motion detectors are used to let the ghost investigator know if something is moving in another room, while the investigator is elsewhere. Motion sensors work well when left in a room during the time when no investigator is present. Motion sensors have alarms that sound when movement is detected in the room in which they are placed. Typically, they will sound in rooms where no previous activity had been reported; and upon further investigation, one may find much evidence of paranormal activity in the room where the motion detector or sensor sounded its alarm. The motion sensors used by ghost hunters project an infrared beam. When the beam is disrupted by movement of any kind (natural or spirit!), an alarm will sound that the investigator can hear while in another room: a clue that spirits may be present in that area where the motion detector resides. Usually motion sensors have an alarm mode and chime mode. The chime mode will only announce the visitor or movement, but will not blare as a siren for a long time. Most ghost hunters prefer the chime mode setting on their motion detector, as it is less offensive and won't scare the dickens out of you!
Plasma/Plasmoid
Moving orbs caught during the time of camera exposure. Orbs have also been filmed moving, on video. In photos, they appear as streaking light or as an orb with a tail showing the path of motion. These are also known as "supercharged orbs" in motion.
Poltergeist Hauntings
Poltergeists or poltergeist hauntings may be the most misunderstood type of haunting, as some believe that poltergeist hauntings are not even a haunting at all. The German word, "poltergeist," means "noisy ghost." The best defining mark of a poltergeist is if there is any manipulation of the physical environment such as the movement of objects, physical attack, spontaneous combustions, etc, then this is a poltergeist-type of haunting.
A common thread between different poltergeist hauntings has strongly indicated that they are caused by psychokinesis (the ability to move things by power of the mind alone). The question becomes whether the psychokinesis is from the people who live within (or visit) the place where the activity takes place, or if it is actually occurring from an unseen troubled spirit, called a ghost. The reason for this is because typically poltergeist hauntings center around an adolescent girl (although young males and even adults have exhibited the same phenomena) in the household. Typically, this central person is usually emotionally disturbed in some fashion, and is somehow the root cause of objects moving, knocking sounds (and other noises), the turning on and off of lights and electrical appliances, etc. What is interesting is that the person whom the activity centers around, is unaware that they are the one who is bringing about the disturbance. But in true poltergeist hauntings, none of the activity will continue after the person is removed from the environment, as they are not there to create it or influence an unseen entity. However, it has been reported that activity can return later if the "right" person visits or lives in a notably poltergeist-haunted place. This would lend one to believe that it requires a combined psychic energy to manifest such terrible hauntings.
Author Brad Steiger contends that the central figure in a poltergeist haunting actually brings additional energy which the troubled ghost then uses to manifest with physical attacks or manipulation. This can be especially true if one is somewhat psychic and/or full of fear. The ghostly entity seems to feed off of low energies such as fear. This is when more harmful attacks can occur. Sometimes the effects of a poltergeist are more playful than harmful, but have been known to be downright nasty. Reports of scratches, bites, harmful objects being put in one's way (such as glass shards on a pillow or tacks under a bed sheet) have been noted, as well as ghost possession. Perhaps Brad Steiger's best phrase is, "Ghosts haunt houses; poltergeists haunt people." Perhaps many times, the troubled spirit wants only to communicate a message to those who still are in bodies.
Residual Haunting
When a spirit is seen doing the same thing over and over, many believe this to be simply an energy imprint or residual haunting. In other words, a strong, traumatic event that occurred in some other time, repeating itself over and over. Usually these spirits do not interact with those who see them. My opinion, is that this could simply be a state of mind I call "hell;" being trapped by one's own mind in darkness or lack of understanding. Sort of reliving of an event perhaps through fear, guilt or condemnation until that spirit finds truth and freedom.
Think of a residual haunting as a movie being re-run on TV day after day. It is believed by ghost hunters that some events, due to perhaps strong emotional energy attached to it, imprint themselves somehow on the environment where the event took place. Sort of "trapped in time," the event is recorded in the atmosphere of a place. If one were to see a ghost doing the same activity over and over, and with no response to the present environment, it is most likely a residual haunting. Residual hauntings are past events playing in the present, but with no interaction with today. It is a common ghost hunters theory that most residual hauntings occur in places built over top of limestone, quartz stone and/or water. These seem to act as a transmitter, perhaps creating the perfect environment to allow the residual haunting energy to manifest.
How can residual hauntings occur? Energy is spirit and spirit is life. All of us are spirit, with or without the physical body, and we live and exist within spirit. Spirit is the life-force of all, whether plant, animal or human being, and is everywhere. Everything that is, exists within spirit. Spirit or energy is everywhere. Thus, is it possible for an event or person to imprint its energy upon a place? Most ghost hunters believe so...
Dark Shadows/Shadow People
Dark shadows in ghost pictures usually appear as a black smudge or fog over an image. Some certainly could be caused by a finger or something else over the camera lens, but many are not. There have been many interesting observations of shadow ghosts (dark shadows or shadow people). They are usually seen out of the corner of one's eye, hence this is why some call them shadow people - they often observe others. Also, dark shadows have actually been recorded playing with one another. This has led some ghost investigators to believe they can be children, as well as adults. Some have seen shadow ghosts 6 feet tall with broad shoulders, for example. Shadow ghosts can see and react with people. We have theorized that perhaps their darkness may be just an indicator of their lack of progression into the light and unto their life review...call it "in darkness," or "lack of understanding of truth" - unaware of where they are, having unfinished business, or afraid to move on.
Thermometer / Thermal Scanner
Thermometers are an instrument that are also very useful. There are two types used regularly: digital thermometers and infrared non-contact thermometers. When used on an investigation this will aid as a detection system for spirit presence. Rapid temperature drops of 10 degrees or more could indicate spirit activity. I recommend using the infrared non-contact thermometers because they react in less than a second to temperature drops and can scan a large area quickly.
As mentioned, good thermometer can detect changes in room temperature quickly. But some still use the old-fashioned mercury-filled, red-line, thermometers. Electronic thermometers should be used, but in high paranormal, haunting activity where electromagnetic forces have been reported they may fail right when you need them. So bring an old mercury thermometer with you as back up, and you should be o.k. during your ghost investigation.
Vortex
A long streak across a photo that may be caused by a very high-speeding "orb;" some believe vortices are a gateway between both realms (physical and spirit realms). They are usually white in color and may appear as a funnel-shape. Camera straps, human hair, a tree branch, etc., right in front of the camera lens during exposure have been notoriously mistaken for a vortex. It is important to make sure anything that may interfere with your photo is removed from within the front of the camera.
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Father Sacrifices Newborn Daughter to Satisfy Deity
dnaindia - In a shocking incident, a father scarified his newborn girl child to keep his promise to his family deity Kitotarmata. The man, Narottam Mana Devipujak, threw his child in a drain near his house in Sundarpuri, a busy slum area of Gandhidham.
"We have arrested the accused for this heinous crime," said MK Jadeja, police inspector of A-division police station, on Monday. "Narottam Devipujak was produced before the magistrate in Gandhidham court today."
According to the details of the case, the incident took place on Janmashtami night. Narottam, who sells vegetables from a kiosk, had vowed that he would offer a male goat to the goddess if a son was born to him. But if a girl child was born, he had sworn that he would straightway offer the child to the deity.
When his wife gave birth to a baby girl a day before Janmashtami, he decided to give her as an offering to the goddess. When everyone was glued to the TV watching the birth of Lord Krishna, he slipped away with the baby and threw her in a gutter close to the temple of the deity. Then he returned home, pretending as if nothing had happened.
Later, however, he did tell about what he had done to his wife and his in-laws. His neighbours sensed something amiss when they did not see the newborn baby for three consecutive days. On finding out what had happened, they reported the matter to the police. After a thorough search, the police recovered the body of the baby from the drain.
Recently there have been suggestions that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light, which takes us almost into science fiction.
But supposing this is true, it then opens up the possibilities that much else we take to be fact, may actually be incorrect. It might mean, for example, that bizarre UFO sightings, like those of Carol and Steve from Gateshead UK, could be true. Even though main stream logic says they are fiction.
Carol and Steve aren't a publicity seeking couple but they have witnessed many weird UFO sightings, which are completely different from the norm.
Steve was working the night shift and Carol was home alone with her three year old daughter. She was restless and couldn't sleep and about 2 a.m she made herself a cup of tea to drink in bed.
While sipping her drink she could see a red light through the curtains. She looked out and saw what she describes as a "cymbal shaped object over the roof tops opposite." The UFO then displayed various coloured lights and sped away into the sky.
Okay, nothing different there to many normal UFO sightings, but more was to follow. As she returned to her bed she heard a sort of rumbling noise and saw the same object - but this time in a miniaturised form, and it was flying inside her room!
The small UFO gave off a trail of glittering specks which made her body tingle. The specks returned to the UFO, which was about 18 inches in diameter, and the craft then left though the door.
The mini UFO returned 13 days later. This time she was in her daughter's bedroom. Again the tingling sensation returned and she screamed out to her husband, Steve. All he saw was a flash of light heading for the window. The craft, or whatever it was, flew through the window and away without causing any damage.
A further four nights later Steve was again on the night shift. Carol and her young daughter went to stay with her mother as she didn't want to be alone.
At about 4 a.m she heard a buzzing noise and her tingling body felt paralysed. The UFO had returned. But something even stranger - and some will say impossible - happened. Twelve weird creatures, but similar to humans, were also in the room. They were about two-and-a-half feet tall and were wearing white suits. Their faces appeared pale, delicate and almost feminine.
Some of the creatures approached Carol, conversing by clicking noises, and looked into her eyes.
This UFO haunting continued for over two months and all of Carol's family felt the tingling sensation. Their dog went into a frenzy whenever the buzzing noise of the vehicle was heard.
Then suddenly the mysterious visitations ceased completely and were never heard again.
At first the story sounds impossible: mini UFOs travelling through solid windows and doors; twelve 2ft 6ins creatures travelling in an 18 inch diameter craft and so on.
For fun, let's make it all the more puzzling and throw in something we would probably class as paranormal.
A well-off businessman from Manchester, UK was staying the night with his girlfriend. He was lying in bed asleep when he felt as if he was being invaded by some strange tingling sensation. It was like the air was filled with electro-magnetism. As he looked about in the darkness he saw that it was 3 a.m. Then he noticed something else.
A figure appeared in front of the window. He saw it was a woman and she looked to be quite solid and real. He noticed her features and clothing in detail and then for some reason he cried out. As he did so the woman faded away.
He woke his girlfriend and told her what he had seen. She immediately knew who the woman was from his description. It perfectly matched her dead mother.
It's interesting how this ghost story has certain similarities to that mini UFO: the tingling, the buzzing noise etc. If we look at ghost and UFO stories they can almost, at times, seem to interlink
It's easy to write off such things as nonsense but, if it turns out we can travel faster than light, we should perhaps open our minds to other possibilities. But I'll leave readers to draw their own conclusions!
