Ghosts

Over the last six weeks taps have mysteriously turned on, ovens have switched themselves on and off and a spectral figure in brown was spotted at Sainsbury’s in WGC. 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.” [...]

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(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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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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]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [see The Independent]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The sale of a house claimed to be haunted has been abandoned after protests by anxious neighbours, it was revealed today. [see u.tv]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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 [...]

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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]

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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]

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Recycled story from a few days ago, but they changed a few things [via The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter]

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The Aussie cricket team finally wins. [via Reuters] Related… Times Online

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Another Aussie cricket ghost article [via The Telegraph]

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Ghosts haunt the Aussie cricket team [via The BBC]

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Ghosts in Green Bay? Promoting the 2005 Green Bay Unexplained Conference. [Via The Green Bay Press-Gazette]

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“Meat-eating giants – Grandfather Sae and Grandmother Sae”. [via MCOT]

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Looking for ghosts in Wisconsin [via The La Crosse Tribune]

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Haunted Railroad Track [via Star of Mysore]

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Ghost hunting in Texas. [via KTAL-TV, Channel 6]

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