October Oddness is here once again and this time we’ve launched a new website to keep everything in order in one place since they were scattered all over the place. We have begun rolling out podcasts and blog posts and are adding Halloween themed Haiku’s, costume ideas as well as listing fall festivals & haunted houses. Check it out and send in your own contributions.
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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!”
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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.”
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“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.”
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