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One employee even claims to have been tripped up by a mischievous spectre.
Anne Coleman told the WHT: “We thought we were going mad but we’re not on medication, I promise!”
…
And a month ago the jittery workers witnessed two separate hauntings in a day.
Anne said: “It was about 6.15am and I saw someone walking along the back of the bakery. I said ‘morning’ but there was no reply. I thought ‘how rude’. But then I looked again and there was no one there.
“I could also feel something pull at my feet as I walked around the corner in the warehouse. It’s like someone trying to trip you up.”
Just four hours later John Curry was enjoying a well-earned break when he was told the bakery was flooding.
“We came down and both the taps were on full!” he said.
“Two of the ovens were on full too. No one had been in there. There was no one around.”
…
“We’ve called in the engineers. They thought we were on happy pills or something!
“But then something happened when one of them was here. The temperature suddenly went up inexplicably on one of the ovens. He said ‘my advice is to call a priest!’”
SALEM, Mass. — Three would-be ghost busters appeared in court in Salem Wednesday after trespassing on old hospital grounds that the men believe are haunted.
NewsCenter 5’s Jack Harper reported that Matthew Selecky, Matthew Doherty and Ron Gordon took a video camera to the old Danvers State Hospital.
“Many people have said that it was haunted, and we just wanted to check it out. We got caught for trespassing,” Selecky said.
The three men were arraigned on trespassing charges. Each admits a fascination with ghosts and believes there are spirits at the hospital.
An enterprising Karoo hotelier has decided that his establishment’s ghosts must pay for their other-worldly board and lodging.
There are rumoured to be poltergeists, the ghost of a woman who hanged herself in her lonely hotel room, as well as paintings that change character at various times of the month.
Donald Lamont, manager of the Swartberg Hotel in Prince Albert, a town at the foot of the majestic Swartberg Pass, said he, himself, had not seen any manifestations, but that several staff and guests had sworn they had had ghostly experiences.
However, a receptionist at the hotel, which was built in 1886, has told of seeing a vase flying across a room, leaving behind the flowers it had contained!
There are two huge oil paintings in the hotel restaurant and staff and guests alike have sworn these have changed character - objects depicted in the art works have moved position - at certain times of the lunar month.
Khao Lak - Ghosts of tsunami victims no longer haunt Thailand’s beaches, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday.
Many visitors, especially Asian tourists, have shunned beaches hit by the December 26 tsunami for fear of ghosts, which many Thais have reported hearing or seeing after the deadly waves struck.
But Thaksin, who was in the hardest-hit province of Phang Nga for a special cabinet meeting, said the spirits of the dead had already been reborn in line with Buddhist belief.
“I slept well last night,” said Thaksin.
“My daughter called and asked me to pray before going to bed and I told her that all of the spirits were already reborn. I have no amulets to ward off ghosts,” he said.
Nearly 5 400 people were killed by the tsunami in Thailand, roughly half of them believed to be foreign holidaymakers.
[via News24]
THEY have been the scene of strange sightings, unexplained noises and ghostly goings-on since they were discovered 20 years ago.
Dozens of accounts of spooky events in Edinburgh’s 17th-century underground vaults have led to them being described as one of Britain’s most haunted places.
Now two backpackers believe they have photographic proof ghosts prowl the gloomy corridors.
Dolores Brown and Diana Jacobs of Casa Grande had an invitation to stop by and investigate the three historic buildings that make up the museum on Florence Boulevard. What they say they found was a lot of visitors, many who have stayed beyond their expiration dates.
The two women run the Southwestern version of “Ghostbusters.” The “Ghost Sweepers,” as they call themselves, are a kinder and gentler breed of spirit seekers.
They use their skill and training, combined with guidance from angels, holy water, the 23rd Psalm, prayers, crystals, their love and “expanded hearts” to help the spirits move on to a better place, they said.
(West Haven-AP, Aug. 17, 2005 7:30 AM) _ West Haven police say they arrested more than a dozen people who broke into an old factory looking for ghosts.
Police say the group broke into the old American Buckle Company factory on Campbell Avenue early Monday. The building is apparently on some Web site that describes the factory as one of the city’s most ghost-ridden buildings.
Police say it wasn’t getting into the spirit of things that led to the arrests. Some of the ghost hunters apparently got into some spirits, stealing liquor from a closed restaurant next to the factory.
[via WTNH]
MEADVILLE, Pa. - Colette MacLees is looking for more than dust bunnies when she sweeps through a house.
MacLees, 51, of Meadville, a housewife and mother of adult daughters, is a paranormal investigator and wants to start her own chapter of ghost chasers in northwestern Pennsylvania.
“I always felt the house I grew up in was haunted, although there are people who will disagree with that. All my life, strange things have happened to me that I couldn’t explain,” MacLees said.
But she began chasing ghosts in earnest about two years ago after a cousin was killed in a car accident.
“I woke up in the middle of the night and could smell his cologne,” MacLees said. “I got on the Internet and began checking things like that out and learning more.”
Former Bracknell Town Mayor Jennie McCraken was harassed by the ghost for the first year of living at their former Binfield house.
She eventually turned to family friend Terry Walters - an amateur exorcist - to rid them of the spooky serpent.
And the wife of leading Bracknell Forest Borough councillor Iain McCracken added that the experience turned her into a firm believer in the paranormal.
She said: “I was open-minded about it before, having never seen a ghost, but after this experience I am definitely not sceptical any more.
Television programmes such as Most Haunted have spooked potential homebuyers so much that half of them now believe in ghosts and say they would not buy a house if they thought that they were sharing it with a spirit.
A recent poll commissioned by Lloyds TSB also found that a fifth of the 2,000 homebuyers sampled would only contemplate buying a house in which things went bump in the night if an exorcism or “new-age cleansing” took place.
Sightings of what people say are “ghosts” or “spirits” around Casa Grande are abundant. Here various residents recall their contact with the unseen or apparitions.
[see story]
YORK - Amid throngs of tourists exploring local shops and residents of York Street out for an evening stroll, a dark, hooded figure leads a curious group by the light of an old lantern.
The haunting tour guide regales the group with stories of witches, pirates, ghosts and gravestones - a unique background of our small New England town.
[see story]
Want to see haunted places in Lake and Porter counties — like Ghost Road, the haunted hotels and the site of a circus train wreck that killed 86 people?
The Northwest Indiana Chapter of the Indiana Ghost Trackers is inviting the public to come along during the fifth year of spine-chilling Ghost Tours.
[see Northwest Indiana News]
As paranormal investigators, Hall, Sharon Gallant, Michelle Carter, and Brenda Woodman track down spirits in private homes, businesses, and graveyards. The group does not charge for its services, which include the use of digital cameras, electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), pendulums, and dousing rods in an attempt to prove the spirits’ existence.
“We do it because it helps us show other people that when you die you do live on – in another dimension,” Hall said. “But you do live on – on another level of consciousness.”
[see story]
Bev took several pictures of each group at the tables. One shot she took she realised that one lady was missing, so she snapped another photo when she returned to the table.
The following Wednesday Bev had 60 photos printed from her camera. “I was astounded when sorting through the prints to find a white ghostly figure in one of the photos of a group.
[see Wellington Times]
The Society For Paranormal Research, a national group, have also visited Darley Dale station after a number of ghosts were spotted.
The ghostly figure of a soldier is said to haunt Rowsley and a fireman is believed to haunt the sheds at Darley Dale station.
Jack Phillips, vice-president of the paranormal group, which was at Rowsley last weekend, said: “It was absolutely fantastic. Suffice to say there was enough going on. We are going back again. It’s the strangest place I have ever been to in 20 years of paranormal investigation.”
[see Matlock Today]
“In Cumbria we have gone from 60 UFO sightings in 2003 to 40 in 2004 and none at all this year,” he lamented.
“It means that the number of people keeping their eyes on the skies is greatly diminished. There are only a handful of us now.
“We are a dying breed in this part of the country. I put it down to the end of the X-Files, a lack of military exercises in the area that would produce UFO sightings and a lack of strange phenomena.” Mr Parr has tried to keep the extraterrestrial flame alive. He has three camcorders and whips them out whenever he hears of sightings elsewhere in the country in the hope that the flying saucer in question takes a wrong turn up the M6. But it never does. He doesn’t exactly sell his subject, though. About 90 per cent of sightings, he says, are due to nocturnal military activity.
[see Telegraph]
BIRZAI, Lithuania — Security cameras at a Lithuanian grocery store have captured images of an alleged ghost lurking in its warehouse.
[see the video at NBC5]
Modena – The sprawling house John and Joanne McDonough have lived in since the late 1970s used to be a boarding house, and, as far as they’re concerned, it still is.
The house’s occupants don’t pay for their rooms. They take up no space, either. They never speak and, for the most part, they keep to themselves. Joanne McDonough will sometimes catch one of them from the corner of her eye, peeking around a corner of the sprawling, 14-room house.
She’s gotten used to it by now, though it’s taken time. And, after a four-day examination of her home by a team of paranormal investigators, historians and researchers – Joanne McDonough knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that hers is a haunted house.
Come October, you’ll be able to judge for yourself. The McDonoughs will be the subject of a new reality show, tentatively called “Haunted Houses,” on The Learning Channel. The idea is to have houses like theirs investigated by poltergeist professionals.
[see Times Herald-Record]
SHELBY, N.C.
Whether you believe in ghosts or not, keep reading. The ghosts in Shelby want you to know what they have to share.This is a story of days gone by in the City of Pleasant Living. It’s a story of dreams, life, death and hope for a future of pleasant living once again.
The story begins in the Rogers Theatre, a now decaying testament to a time when Shelby residents dreamed big dreams. It was the last of four theaters in uptown when it opened in 1936. With its vaudeville stage that attracted the biggest of stars and its 1,000 seats, the Rogers’ future was bright.
“Lon Chaney Jr. and the Three Stooges played there,” said Mayor Ted Alexander.
[see Winston-Salem Journal]
A former musician himself, Barry agreed with John Priest that the sounds of medieval music coming from inside the church may be a recreation of the funeral music played on the occasion of Edward, the Duke of York’s funeral. The grandson of Edward the Third, he was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and later buried at Fotheringhay.
Many, including a local Fotheringhay police sergeant, have heard the haunting music. “The emotions relating to this event may have been so powerful that they fixed an imprint of the music in the walls of the church, ” Barry said. This might be likened to modern methods of recording imprints of music onto tape or CD.
[see Exzibit]
Ghost hunters are looking for Port Townsend stories prior to the third annual Pacific Northwest Ghost Hunters Conference, Nov. 11-13 at Fort Worden State Park.
About 300 people are expected to register for the conference sponsored by the Amateur Ghost Hunters of Seattle-Tacoma (AGHOST). It’s the first time the conference has been staged outside of Seattle.
“Given the rich history, legend and beautiful Victorian buildings – elements lending themselves to stories of ghosts, haunted locations and unexplained mysteries – it comes as no surprise that the largest and most technologically advanced ghost-hunting group in the Pacific Northwest has chosen Port Townsend as the location for its third annual Ghost Hunting Conference,” said Joe Teeples, organization vice president.
[see Port Townsend Leader]
Seeing, it’s been said, is believing.
Especially when it comes to “spirit energy.”
A.k.a. ghosts.
The soft summertime whirring of cicadias was the only sound as the sun sank over the horizon at the site of the former Massillon Pychiatric Hospital Saturday night. The sky glowed orange, shadows lengthened.
Run DMC rapper Reverend Run claims he was visited by the ghost of late bandmate Jam Master Jay only days after he was murdered.
The hip-hop star, whose real name is Jason Simmons, claims Jay visited him from beyond the grave to demand money shortly after he was shot dead in a New York recording studio in October 2002.
[see Virgin.net]
Warwickshire’s very own ‘ghostbuster’ died suddenly at the weekend.
Vic Tandy, aged 50, was a senior lecturer at Coventry University’s Business School but his real passion was searching out spooks.
Vic, along with his Coventry University colleague Tony Lawrence, worked on pioneering ghost theories, the most famous being ‘infrasound’.
He identified ‘infrasound’ as the low frequency noise just out of the range of human hearing, which causes a reaction in people that some interpret as a supernatural experience.
[see icCoventry]
ASHLAND, MA, United States (UPI) — The town manager of a Boston suburb is not interested in inviting a ghost-buster to the town hall to check out stories of a 19th-century spirit.
The spook, known as George, is said to be the ghost of a man who hanged himself in a lockup that once existed in the Ashland building’s basement, back when the 150-year-old building was relatively new, the Boston Herald reported Thursday.
[see monstersandcritics.com]
The story begins in the Rogers Theatre, a now decaying testament to a time when Shelby residents dreamed big dreams. It was the last of four theaters in uptown when it opened in 1936. With its vaudeville stage that attracted the biggest of stars and its 1,000 seats, the Rogers’ future was bright.
[see The Shelby Star]
“Some people [come] expecting to see ghosts,” says storyteller Ed Okonowicz. “Others are hopeful. Others are dragged along, but end up enjoying themselves.
“My only desire is to get more people to come [to the fort], to see its historical value,” Okonowicz says.
George Contant, the fort’s historical manager, agrees. “We’re using ghost tours to illustrate the history of the fort. It’s another way to reach people who might not otherwise come to the fort.”
[see Delaware Online]
Many things come with cities founded long ago — assorted history, renovations and long family lineages to name a few. One thing that might not be as clear to the naked eye, is the haunted past behind the facades. You decide: are these stories a part of the Quad-City past or simply stories made up to scare?
[see QCTimes]
Stars of Ghost Hunters look into stories of hauntings
[see story on RelishNow]
Ghost hunters are hoping to corner the Osceola Inn apparition Sunday, capturing it with paranormal recording devices and giving it a name.
Paranormal investigative teams are arriving to wire the building for sound and temperature fluctuations, accompanied by noted ghost hunter Timothy Harte, who is intrigued by reports that the inn is haunted.
[see Cadillac News]
The sale of a house claimed to be haunted has been abandoned after protests by anxious neighbours, it was revealed today.
[see u.tv]
An 18-year-old male nursing student in Bacolod City can’t sleep anymore after he personally encountered an alleged “paranormal” scene in their school involving three “ghosts” on July 13 and 14.
In an interview over Super Radyo, the student also presented the picture of the alleged ghosts captured by his Nokia 7650 cellular phone.
The first picture was of a headless “white lady” seated in a wheelchair being pushed by another white lady drenched in blood.
The second picture was of an alleged male ghost dressed in blue and it was if he was floating on air.
Based on his personal account, the student narrated that on July 13 at about 8 p.m. he and seven of his classmates were left chatting inside their classroom at the 4th floor of the Nursing building.
Later, three of them went out of the corridor and sat down on the hospital beds.
Just seconds after, he said he was shocked when he saw a wounded white lady pushing a wheel chair-bound headless white lady.
[see Sun.Star]
Manager Robert Tahi says the cave has a “presence”, but puts it down to the rivers and waterfalls that run through it.
“You can hear them from the different chambers, your imagination takes over and you can imagine people talking or people walking towards you.”
He dismisses claims the cave is haunted despite local stories, including an alleged incident where a black water rafting guide, who did not want to be named, said he felt like he had been asphyxiated while in the cave earlier this year.
John Ash, a geologist who has been advising Tourism Holdings on the cave’s reopening, said he was aware “quite a few people have had interesting experiences in it”.
“People talk about a cave being alive or dead. This cave is very much alive.”
[see The New Zealand Hearld]
Nairobi - Ghosts in the shape of cats and dogs come out at night to terrorise pupils at a girl’s school near Nairobi, a Kenyan newspaper reported on Tuesday.
More than 300 girls fled their dormitories at the Mua Girls’ secondary school in the Machaos district in the early hours of Monday morning, The Standard reported.
The children believe their school principal, Stephania Koki, is responsible for conjuring up the ghosts.
The girls claimed the ghosts waited until they were in bed, before attacking them. The children fled to the nearby Machakos village, just outside Nairobi.
[see News24]
Two men dressed entirely in black leaned over a large, antique spirit board. Their hands moved in unison as the plastic pointer moved swiftly over letters and numbers on the board. They were trying to communicate with the dead.
[see North Adams Transcript]
Jason Gowin, Nick Foust, Bill Angov, Greg Newkirk and Milton Clark are a team that often works the graveyard shift - a team of ghost hunters that is. All five paranormal investigators are from the Troy area and they call themselves Ghost Hunters Inc. They have been involved in paranormal investigation for the last seven years.
[see Sayre Evening Times]
Having lived right next to Vatuwaqa cemetery for more than 25 years, Sobran Lekh Ram knows all about the superstitions that people have of ghosts.
But while many in her neighbourhood have never seen or experienced such supernatural incidents, the 59-year-old grandmother has about seen it all.
And its not just ghosts she sees, its drinking parties, stealing and even people practising witchcraft.
A lot of things happen here at night. You have dogs barking and howling all night. Sometimes we see ghosts, then there is the stealing and the drunkenness.
[see Fiji Times]
With York reportedly boasting as many ghosts as it does pubs, Sarah Freeman joins a group of psychic investigators for a night in Clifford’s Tower.
[see Yorkshire Post]
For the first time, tourists might not be so upset if an unexpected guest shows up on their vacation.
True believers, skeptics and some people just looking for a good time inhabited the Carolina Inn on Saturday, searching for evidence of an afterlife.
[see DTH Online]
Kate Hudson inherited more than her sunny good looks from Goldie Hawn.
Hudson, 26, says she also acquired an ability to see the dead.
“I’ve seen ghosts and experienced mystical things,” Hudson said, according to MSNBC.
The actress … often swaps paranormal tales with her talented mother and once saw a gorgeous gal in her bedroom, who vanished when she woke her then-boyfriend to view the apparition.
As a youngster, Hudson recalled taking up residence in a London home that was “so crazy-haunted” that Hawn, 59, packed up the pair’s belongings and hightailed it home.
[via The Courier-Journal]
AMATEUR ghost-busters have been warned by police not to illegally go in search of spirits.
The warning comes after a group of would-be ghost-busters allegedly broke into an abandoned hospital believed to be inhabited by the souls of former patients.
About 12 people allegedly broke into the former Queen Victoria Hospital in Wentworth Falls after finding references to the hospital being haunted on the internet.
Acting Inspector Russell Lloyd yesterday told The Daily Telegraph it was not uncommon for people to trespass on the abandoned hospital.
Advertisement:“You get the local rumours about ghosts being seen out there but, whether people are ghost-hunting or not, they’re still trespassing and there is no excuse,” he said.
“The bottom line is if you go into a place without permission to enter, then police will take the necessary action.”
[via News Limited]
NEW YORK Gallup reports today that its latest poll found that one in three Americans “believe in ghosts.” The numbers: 32% of all adults say they believe that “ghosts/spirits of dead people can come back,” while 48% do not, and 19% are unsure.
An even larger number of Americans believe that houses can be haunted, with 37% holding that position, 46% saying no, and 16% not sure.
[via E&P]
See Bella Online
Topeka, Kan. - infoZine - Haunted History, a new special exhibit opening September 9, 2005 at the Kansas Museum of History, highlights fun and frightening displays and explores the significance of the popular Halloween holiday. The exhibit runs through October 31. A special Haunted History event for families and adults will be held Sunday, October 30. Tricks & Treats at the Boo-seum for youngsters will be held Monday, October 31.
…
A special section includes scary objects from the museum’s collection.
The scarier items include embalming equipment used 1950-1980 at funeral homes in Olathe, Hugoton, and Argonia; bloodletting tools used by a surgeon in the Civil War; a straightjacket from the Osawatomie State Hospital; a 1902 Ouija Board used in Wichita; a plaster mask of Boris Karloff made before his death; a letter penned by Braum Stoker, author of Dracula, while he worked for Sir Henry Irving in 1898; a Tiffany reproduction “Bat” lamp; a classic Dracula movie poster featuring Bela Lugosi; and a collection of Day of the Dead figurines from Salina resident.
[via infoZine]
GHOSTBUSTERS star DAN AYKROYD gets into trouble with his wife when he recalls stories about the couple’s haunted Los Angeles home - because she fears they’ll never be able to sell up.
The movie funnyman insists two 1960s ghosts haunt his home - the spirit of pop icon MAMA CASS and a man who died in his bedroom.
And the actor has had many encounters with his silent housemates, including one when his male ghost spent the night sleeping next to him.
[via contactmusic.com]
PITTSBURGH - A woman is auctioning off a picture that she says shows the ghost of a Confederate soldier that appeared when she toured the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield last year.
[via Philly.com]
Faced with a poor response to efforts to lure visitors back to Thailand after December’s tsunami, tourism authorities will launch a campaign aimed at helping Asians overcome a fear of ghosts.
Under the plan, private companies will be given grants totaling 500 million baht (HK$93.5 million) for marketing and advertising focused on luring back Japanese, Chinese and Korean tourists, whose numbers have declined sharply. ”Asian tourists are scared of ghosts and what not, and these are factors that have made our tourist arrivals drop short of our goal,” said Tourism Minister Somsak Thepsuthin.
Many Asians worry that the ghosts of the disaster victims may be haunting beaches and bungalows. A popular superstition in Chinese societies holds that if bodies are not recovered and properly buried, the spirits restlessly wander the world. Some believe the lost souls try to drag living beings into their spiritual limbo land.
[via The Standard]
They’re inviting anyone with $99 and seven hours to spare Saturday to take part in a paranormal investigation.
Using devices that some believe detect ghosts, the group says it likely will encounter Jacocks, a physician who lived in the inn for 17 years preceding his death in 1965. Said to have been a prankster in his mortal life, Jacocks is believed by some inn workers to lock guests out of room 252, his former residence.
[via The News & Observer]
BARABOO - B.C. Farr has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars turning a 141-year- old saloon into a restaurant, so he’s understandably reluctant to jeopardize his investment by sounding like a crackpot.
That’s why he says he kept quiet for years about the odd things he’s seen - dishware flying off a rack, a broom floating across the kitchen, doors opening and closing by themselves. Then there’s the walk-in cooler in the basement.
“If (the ghost) doesn’t like you, it will shut the door on you and turn the light off,” he said.
[via Wisconsin State Journal]
There are employees who swear they’ve heard things.
“They hear voices. Some have said they’ve seen ghostly faces in the basement. Or heard a book fall, and then there’s nothing there. Other times, things do fall and there’s no reason for it,” said Aylward, although she has not experienced such phenomenon.
[via Peoria Journal Star]
Just because you don’t see dead people doesn’t mean they don’t see you, especially if you’re in the Historic Washington County Courthouse. Whether there will ever be enough evidence to definitively prove the historic Washington County Courthouse is haunted is anybody’s guess, but Tulsa Ghost Investigators didn’t leave empty handed after their June 4 stay in the century-old building.
[via Northwest Arkansas Times]
I often wonder what ghosts will do in the future when there won’t be any more old houses to haunt. According to the evidence in my own city of Derry, it seems that every building over 100 years old is being demolished by developers while elected officials stand impotently by. We’ll soon have to place armed guards round the city’s walls. They’re too old and get in the way of traffic, you see.
Ghosts will have nowhere to go. Can you imagine telling your son in future years that your local KFC or Pizza Hut is haunted? It doesn’t work.
[via Belfast Telegraph]
The spooky Brockville Ghost Walks are back for the ninth consecutive season, starting Friday evening, July 8.
These popular walking tours begin at Fulford Place Museum, a National Historic Site on King Street East owned and operated by the Ontario Heritage Trust.
The three-storey Edwardian mansion, completed in 1900, was home to Senator George T. Fulford, who made his fortune marketing Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People.
Costumed volunteers of the Friends of Fulford Place Association lead visitors through Brockville, stopping at various haunted spots to recount spooky tales of the old city.
A GHOST trail is the latest marketing ploy to bring tourists into South Wales.
It is hoped the ghouls of Gower and Swansea can boost the area’s important tourist trade.
Tourism Swansea, the association representing hotels, campsites, B&Bs and attractions in the city, believes Swansea’s lively ghost scene is a huge untapped resource.
[via icWales]
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio - Hollywood has taken interest in a suburban Cleveland woman paid to talk to the dead. Mary Ann Winkowski’s paranormal experiences as a ghostbuster for hire have inspired CBS to create “Ghost Whisperer,” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, which is part of the network’s fall lineup.
Winkowski, a paid consultant to the show, doesn’t have a listing in the phone book, but is booked four months in advance chasing unwanted ghosts from people’s homes.
[via Tahlequah Daily Press]
It’s not that I believe in ghosts. I’m just afraid of them.
So before I prepared for sleep at the Skagway Inn Bed and Breakfast, I took precautions. That white guest robe dangling
from the clothes stand had to go—it looked too much like a wraith. Filmy drapes? Must draw tightly to hide any glowing red eyes peering through the window. The bathroom door—better shut it, given the shenanigans with plumbing I’d heard about.
[via Alaska Magazine]
Each week, the Ghost Hunt team will use a combination of technological gadgets and old fashioned bravado in their pursuit of paranormal activity. They will explore a number of spooky locations, including an abandoned psychiatric hospital, the Waitomo Caves hotel, Riccarton House in Christchurch, Vulcan Hotel in St Bathans, St James Theatre in Wellington and Kinder House in Parnell.
[via TVNZ]
Sounds like an interesting series. Hopefully it will make it to the States or someone in New Zealand is kind enough to pass some recordings my way. 
Probably one of the most famous haunted towns in the World, Sleepy Hollow village 25 miles outside New York seems to live up to its ghostly reputation. The village dates back to the 1640s, though no one is certain of exactly when Europeans first settled in the area. The towns name was derived from the name given to it by Dutch settlers: Slapershaven (”Sleepers Haven”). For most of its existence, the town was actually part of North Tarrytown and was not actually renamed Sleepy Hollow until 1996.
[via Pressbox.co.uk]
Many will stake out the corner of William and Murray Sts. late into the night tonight in hopes of catching a glimpse of the legendary Griffintown prostitute, said to return every seven years to where she was murdered on June 27, 1879.
“I don’t expect to see Mary Gallagher, but there are people who claim to have seen her,” said Rev. Thomas McEntee, 81, who marks the spectre’s septennial visits with a commemorative mass near the site. “Seven years ago, when I left the scene at 10 o’clock at night, people stayed there waiting for her to appear.”
[via canada.com]
Davis has written a book called “Stanley Ghost Stories,” due out in July. She collected about 50 stories from people who have seen, heard or felt something inexplicable — including the mysterious visitor and the tumbling books.
Anxiety deepened when the players came across the hotel newsletter. Tracing the tragic tale of Redworth’s 18th century landowner Lord Surtees and his mentally ill child, it claimed that: “The laughter and crying of children is often heard in the great hall area.”
[via The Telegraph]
Hong Kong
Worries about another deadly tsunami are keeping many tourists from Phuket, the premier resort island of southern Thailand. But hordes of Asian vacationers are staying away for another reason: Fear that the ghosts of thousands of victims may be haunting the beaches and bungalows.
A widely held superstition in Chinese societies holds that if bodies are not recovered and properly buried, the spirits restlessly wander the world. Some believe the lost souls try to drag living beings into their spiritual limbo land.
[via The Guardian & Times Daily]
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Even before he moved into his 1895 chateau-like mansion, Domine learned he might not be the only person residing there. Despite some frightening encounters with unusual phenomena, Domine, a university professor, remains a skeptic, but that’s an asset. He doesn’t just relate stories told him by others; he’s done hundreds of hours of research in local archives to determine if there’s any corroborative evidence to support their stories. His conclusion? There usually is.
[via The Courier-Journal]
The Ministry of Public Health today expressed concern over the widespread belief in the Thai-Myanmar border area that malaria was caused by ghosts, noting that patients were being put at risk by attempts to treat the disease using spirit worship.
[via MCOT]
The Masonic Temple and the New England Ghost Project are hosting the first-ever Berkshire Paranormal Conference in July.
Ghost movies were popular among Myanmar people, who are generally superstitious, before the genre was banned in the late 1960s by the late socialist dictator Gen. Ne Win.
[via Hindustan Times]
Recycled story from a few days ago, but they changed a few things
Another Aussie cricket ghost article
[via The Telegraph]
Ghosts haunt the Aussie cricket team
[via The BBC]
Ghosts in Green Bay?
Promoting the 2005 Green Bay Unexplained Conference.
“Meat-eating giants - Grandfather Sae and Grandmother Sae”.
[via MCOT]
Looking for ghosts in Wisconsin
[via The La Crosse Tribune]
Haunted Railroad Track
[via Star of Mysore]
Ghost hunting in Texas.
[via KTAL-TV, Channel 6]
