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.
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It isn't just the rumors spreading about tyrant ghost hunters, shifty producers, and faking of proof, but the complete barrage of new shows hitting the cable channels that are bringing viewers close to mental exhaustion and even worse...apathy.
When "Ghost Hunters" show premiered, I'd been hunting a few years and was thrilled that someone else was out there not only using similar techniques, but was going to make everyone see what ghost hunting these days is really like compared to the old-fashioned methods of the spiritualist movement.
The first few seasons were admittedly a total thrill. I was seeing locations I hadn't hunted in, seeing similar results to things I'd experienced, and everyone around me was saying, "I don't think I could do that, it's so scary!"
The average person can go a whole lifetime without one paranormal occurrence and for him to turn on the TV and watch a show where he heard and saw explainable and unexplainable things, he is living vicariously and understanding what drives us hunters to sit there all night long while cold, uncomfortable, and then sent home to review hours and hours of footage until even more bleary eyed.
"Psychic Kids: Paranormal Children"
"Ghost Hunters"
"Ghost Hunters International"
"Ghost Hunters Academy"
"Ghost Adventures
"Paranormal State"
"Paranormal Cops" (BTW, showing tonight the first time after "Paranormal State" on A">Not to mention all the shows that died even more quickly and whose names do not stick out in any of our minds for obvious reasons)
Is this gluttony of new shows overwhelming us? Making us doubt the findings? Doubt true hauntings exist? I've heard several people say that the shows are the same thing over and over; people walking around talking to the walls, stopping to listen to sounds of the building, and then desperately trying to eek EVPs out of garbled background sounds with what does not resemble language in the least. With a yawn and sigh, they're turning their channels.
It's not as if they're not trying to draw us in. They've resorted to priests and holy water, gadgets and taunting, experts and psychologists, psychics and reality show competitions. They've attempted attractive young women, bulky steroid-fed males, middle-aged Texans and just about every blue-collar worker.
I think the only thing left is a geriatric paranormal show where the hunters are looking for their recently deceased friends from the nursing home.
I'd like to propose some new fresh alternatives. No, not a show about a family with 10 kids that bakes cakes in the daytime and hunts at night. (I'll leave that to the miserable TLC channel).
Here's my choices:
Bigfoot Hunters: A team of men in cami's, trekking into the woods, setting up a surveillance parameter (think "Predator" movie), lighting a bonfire, sitting there at night listening to the sounds and watching the shadows. Aren't all people a little uncomfortable with the concept of the dark woods and a thin nylon tent between you and who knows what? Afraid of the hoot of owls? The plink of an acorn dropping on the forest floor? These are all the things that made "Blair Witch Project" wildly popular.
Haunted House: This is a reality show take on ghost hunting shows. A haunted location set up with cameras everywhere. People stay in this B regular people doing it instead of professionals and the team changes all the time and they aren't hunting just one night like most shows-but for a period of time where something could actually be found.
UFO Hot Spots: When I was planning up a UFO sighting trip with others, I realized there's a lot of great hot spots around the country and if you watch the UFO news through MUFON and others, you'll see that they crop up in areas for a while and then move on to other locations. What if you assembled a group of perhaps a dozen or more members that head it out to the newest hot spot, sitting in a circle facing outward with cameras, each handling different quadrants of the sky in places where UFOs are frequently sighted?
I'd love to hear your concepts for replacements shows. I know ya'all and I expect some awesome ideas.
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Along with a beautiful, heritage-listed location and a renowned collection of artworks, it seems Grafton Regional Gallery can now boast another drawcard - its very own resident ghost.
Members of the Queensland Paranormal Research and Analysis Group (QPRAG) recently conducted a night time paranormal investigation at the gallery's historic Prentice House in Fitzroy St based on reports from visitors and volunteers of ghostly occurrences there over the years.
After going over hours of data collected on the night from video cameras, digital voice recorders and electromagnetic field (EMF) meters, the results are in and the team believe they have found strong evidence of paranormal activity.
"Our conclusion is the gallery is rated a Category: 2 (Paranormal Activity captured but no visual evidence)," said Chris, one of the investigation team leaders.
This means the data gathered by the group ticked many of the boxes indicating paranormal activity, except for the holy grail of ghost-hunting - capturing an apparition on video or camera.
However, what the team did get were several digital sound recordings containing what they believe is Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), which is unexplained recorded sounds or voices.
The team sent these recordings to The Daily Examiner.
One of the recordings contains a male-sounding voice clearly and commandingly saying "go!", while another contains what also sounds like a male voice saying something unintelligible.
These recordings turned-up on digital sound recorders placed near the gallery's staircase, which became a focal point of the overall investigation.
The team has ruled-out these voices coming from its own members, with the recordings being made either during a lock-out period on the night when the entire team was waiting outside the gallery, or in the case of one recording, during a period where two members were inside, but sitting in complete silence.
Along with the voices, Chris said several unexplained bangs and scrapes were recorded; irregular EMF activity (which is believed by ghost-hunters to indicate paranormal activity) was noted, and; two video cameras positioned inside the gallery were inexplicably turned off while recording, despite having plenty of battery power left.
The power switch on one of these cameras was actually found to have been physically turned to the "off" position, but no one was anywhere near the camera at the time.
Chris said a combination of these incidents, and others, led the team to the conclusion there was indeed paranormal activity at the gallery.
She also said the gallery investigation had proven to be one of the team's most eventful.
"Now that we've reviewed all the data, I think it's probably one of the best ones; it's the most we've ever picked-up in one night," she said.
"That's the thing - you can be on a site for three hours and not pick-up anything, but with the gallery, we've got at least half-a-dozen things which are questionable - we have no explanation for them."
Chris said the South-East Queensland-based QPRAG team was keen to return to Grafton soon and had its sights set on historic Schaeffer House, which is said to boast a ghostly tale or two of its own.
To celebrate the QPRAG team's findings, youngsters will soon get a chance to do some ghost-hunting of their own at the gallery, with day-time children's ghost tours to be held during the April school holidays.
Source: Daily Examiner
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This is an interesting question, I believe the best answer is ghosts use a lot of energy to appear to us or manefest themselves as another word. On camera sometimes it will pick up colours or lighting where the human eye may not pick up at that time. This is what I refer to as the unbiased view (camera view). This is what I believe is an uncommon occurance as the spirit or ghost needs to use a lot of energy to appear in view. Because of this reason, these spirits I believe are often referred to as very powerful spirits where the energy source they have is so strong they are emitting a light energy strong enough to show on camera..
Like I said a lot of the time it is very rare as the spirit has to use a lot of energy at that time to be in view.. Whether or not this common theory is accurate or not I will leave that up to you to decide however it adds relevance and evidential support to many ghost sightings seen everyday around the world.
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The Palace of Scheffler is the most famous haunted house in Stockholm, Sweden. Built in the 1690's by a merchant named Hans Petter Scheffler, this home is the site of a suicide and murder.
Perhaps the tragedies that have taken place here could explain the paranormal activities that have been reported since the 18th century. An owner of the estate, who was believed to be practicing the occult, mysteriously disappeared in 1796. In 1879, the opera singer Gustaf Sandstrom committed suicide in a room that he was renting. In 1907 a grave was found on the property. The skeleton was dug up and moved to a cemetery and it has been speculated that more graves are at this location. According to some, a young couple was murdered in this home and their bodies bricked-up in the wall of the basement.
"Since the 1920s, the estate is owned by Stockholm University and mostly used for storage of art and to occasionally hold conferences." (Wiki) The reports of strange sounds, ghostly figures and objects mysteriously breaking on their own are still occurring today.
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This one below--"The Mound" is my favorite horror book I've read this year! I hope you follow Cullan's blog, Strange State. He is a multi-talented artist, author and a brilliant researcher in the paranormal world.
"The Mound" by Cullan Hudson and Marilyn A. Hudson
When a group of strangers converge on an old hotel in a sleepy eastern Oklahoma town to investigate its haunted reputation, no one is prepared for the terror they are about to face. Matt Wolf busies himself with the renovation of the abandoned Montford Arms Hotel in the small Eastern Oklahoma settlement of Corvus Mound, unaware of his ancient legacy and strange destiny. Dr. Karen Houston is perplexed by the incongruous find she discovers while excavating the ancient native mounds nearby. She does not yet know that it is inextricably linked to her strange and frightening dreams. Psychic Shade Hoffmeyer will need every reserve of insight and intuition to fathom meaning from the bizarre visions leading her to a terror that will challenge her spirit as much as her mind. These three must understand the forces that have drawn them together in order to fight back the ancient evil awakening within THE MOUND.
Haunted Chattanooga by Jessica Penot
It is the home of one of the most famous railways in American history, the site of a historically vital trade route along the Tennessee River and the gateway to the Deep South. Chattanooga has a storied past--a past that still lives through the spirits that haunt the city. Whether it is the ghost of the Delta Queen still lingering from the days of the river trade, the porter who forever roams the grounds of the historic Terminal Station or the restless souls that haunt from beneath the city in its elaborate underground tunnel system, the specter of Chattanooga's past is everywhere. Join authors Jessica Penot and Amy Petulla as they survey the most historically haunted places in and around the Scenic City.
You see a dark shadow in your bedroom, hear a voice whispering in your ear, get a sudden chill with goosebumps and wonder, was that a ghost? As she does on her popular blog, "Ghost Hunting Theories," Sharon Day will take you through quizzes, descriptions and real-life examples to help you understand your experience. She will introduce you to her technique; the "Trinity of Relevance" to learn if you had a haunting encounter or not. When you are done with Was That a Ghost?, you will not only know if you have encountered the world of the paranormal, but you will also have skills and knowledge you can apply to future events. It is the goal of this book to give the reader life skills that enhance understanding of the paranormal. Hers is a very unique perspective and your mind will forever be opened to the possibilities after reading this book.
"Was That a Ghost?" by Sharon Day
"Haunted Cemeteries Across the USA" by Gregory Branson-Trent
"Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter" by Josh Gates
Truth is stranger than legend... and your journey into both begins here.
World adventurer and international monster hunter Josh Gates has careened through nearly 100 countries, investigating frightening myths, chilling cryptozoological legends, and terrifying paranormal phenomena. Now, he invites fans to get a behind-the-scenes look at these breathtaking expeditions. Follow Gates from the inception of the groundbreaking hit show (at the summit of Kilimanjaro) to his hair-raising encounters with dangerous creatures in the most treacherous locations on earth. Among his many adventures, he unearths the flesh-crawling reality of the Mongolian Death Worm, challenges an ancient curse by spending the night in King Tut's tomb, descends into a centuries-old mine to search for an alien entity in subterranean darkness, pursues ghosts in the radioactive shadow of Chernobyl, and explores sightings of Bigfoot from the leech-infested rain forests of Malaysia to the dizzying heights of the Himalayas.
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First step in any new hobby or job is to learn the theory. And one of first steps in learning theory regarding paranormal investigations is the need to learn about the types of phenomena we might encounter during our investigations. I would like to focus on ghosts - there are different types of phenomenon we're usually calling "ghosts" - each person interested in paranormal should know these types no matter if he or she is investigating paranormal activities, or just focusing on theory as pure hobby.
RECORDS (RESIDUAL ENERGIES)
Sometimes you might encounter Records - a phenomena when you will experience an event from the past, appearing like a recorded 3D movie. Witnesses have encounter a wide range of such Records, starting from single shadow moving across the room, ending on whole armies on the battlefield. If we would like to explain this phenomenon, we could think about psionic signatures - they have custom to left on different objects or in different places such as house or chair...
Intelligent Haunting
This is a spirit of a person that died yet stick in our physical world. These ghosts might hang around flats or houses, or even big castles and streets and they are trapped in our world. Paranormal investigator's job is to identify the problem and help the spirit "move into the light", as psychics use to say.
Stick Ghosts
Stick to what, you will ask - stick to objects, such as urns or favourite chairs etc. Such ghosts appear to move from one location to another along with the object they're stick to (of course object is moved by those who still lives, not on its own).
Bi-locations
Two persons in the same place - its a well know phenomena between people studding lives of saints. Sometimes person don't know he or she is present in two different places in the same time, sometimes bi-location might be caused unintentionally as a result of stress or fear, sometimes intentionally (Remote Presence, a psychic skill).
Ghosts of pass
When a person is passing from our world to the "other side", sometimes a spirit of this person is paying a visit to its relatives or friends - at least some people believes this is happening.
Poltergeist
I belong to a group of people who strongly believe that 98% of poltergeist activity is not ghosts, but uncontrolled psychokinesis and it's caused by living people. Even so, there is still this 2% of activities that we can't explain by psychokinesis, so we have to assume there are some spirit stuff included. Poltergeist is nothing more than objects moving on their own - flying, falling etc. If you can't find natural explanation of such phenomena, then it might be caused by person causing psychokinesis effects, or by a ghost manifestation.
Orbs
Some people says Orbs are first steps of ghost manifestation - but mostly probably orbs will be nothing more than a specks of dust or drops of different kind - so if you were able to take a picture of orb, treat it as natural phenomena, not as proof of paranormal activity. But if you're seeing orbs on real, and they're glowing and flying around, then it's definitely not a speck or drop.
Pseudo-Fakes
I'm using this term to describe situations in which people are faking stuff in order to please investigator, but there is something paranormal going on indeed. Sometimes activity might stop when investigator arrives on site, and witnesses don't want to look like fools so they're trying to fake activity - that's why even when you're suspecting a fake, you should keep your mind open as maybe something is happening on real.
Fakes
World isn't perfect - people are faking stuff. Mostly probably 98% of all your investigations will be faked and you can't do anything about it. If you think that each and every paranormal site you'll visit will be real, you're simple wrong - paranormal investigator job in most cases is not to prove paranormal activity to be real, but to prove someone is faking. Sound strange? No one told this is going to be normal...
Now you know some basic theory and you can learn more about paranormal investigations. But that's subject for another article.
Nathaniel is a psychic, energy worker and paranormal investigator, grab his ebook and learn how to develop psychic abilities.
