My Ghost Experience

Several experiences

2011-10-31T07:56:00.000-07:00

by: Jessica

First I don't know if I'm posting right but here is goes. My dad had a sudden stroke on May 7, 2011. He was in a rehab facility for almost a month and was doing great until June 1, 2011 and we got a call that he had passed suddenly. Well a couple weeks after his funeral I was home alone about midnight and my dog started going nuts and growling at the wall he stopped for about 30sec and laid back down and then jumped up and looked behind us growling and then I had 3 deep breaths right behind me in my ear. It was a mean evil type of breathing. I jumped up and I promptly left my house. I didn't stay there for about a week. When I returned I left the lights on and went to bed. I awoke out of a semi sleep state to something playing with strands of my hair. Not like something on me but literally picking up strands of my hair and letting them drop. It was about 130am or so but I left asap. And didn't return until I had a friend do a spiritual cleaning on my house. She said for some readon she was drawn to my attic but there is no way to get up there. Well I haven't had anymore at my house but now at my moms, where my dad lived as well, there has been happenings. Things come up missing, coins drop out of no where and I went to his grave and there was two feathers laying on his grave. My little sister was asleep in her bed and my brothers room is right next to hers but their closets are in between their rooms and my brother was gone and she heard his closet light come on twice and back off each time. She got up and asked my mom is she was in there and she hadn't been. And this one made me cry. I don't know what it is called but I was shocked. My brother was moving a trailer on his truck and he was pulling forward and was about to back up. I was in front of his truck about 30 foot and by bro turned around to look behind and when he looked back at me it was my dad. He was in a dark shirt wearing a hat and smoking. He smiled and waved and turned back around and then it was my brother again. I had a look of shock on my face and my brother got out to ask what was wrong but I couldn't talk. My brother was wearing white shit no hat doesn't smoke and is about 150 pounds light then my dad. My dad was a big man. And so was the person I seen. And last but not least a ween ago I was getting ready to go to town and I jumped in my car and started to back up and this stron odor of cigarette smoke came over me it smelled like my dad. I looked all around and no one was around. And I certainly don't smoke so it wasn't me. Well I told my mom and she said be careful it may be a warning. I was like yeah yeah and when I got to town about 20 mins later I started getting a horrible headache. And about 10 mins later it was going into a migraine. I was sick, weak, and dizzy. I managed to get to the drug store and stumbled in and people looked at me crazy and I got some mess and left and stayed in the parking lot about an hour while it passed. Now usually when I get a migraine I pass out and had I of been driving that could have been bad. So maybe it was a warning. What is the name of the experience with my brother in the truck? Does it have a name? Thank you for your help.

And I guess it wouldn't hurt to add my brother and sister do those evps in our old haunted town and they have got several very good recording that are obviously neither of them.

Late 1950's Hatted shadow man

2011-10-31T07:45:00.000-07:00

by: Laurie

I am now 57 years old and at the age of 5 or 6 I too saw this "thing". About 6' tall..black against the blackness of the night, but I could still make out everything he was wearing. Standing in the doorway to my bedroom- just standing there "watching me". He wore an oversized coat(shabby- like it would have been 2 sizes too big on him), a hat very similar to Frosty the Snowman but with wrinkles and folds in it- as did his coat (have wrinkles and folds in it also) so he was at least 2 or 3 dimensional.He was fairly solid- not wispy or anything I could only see him from the waist up because I had a footboard that blocked him from the waist below. His right arm from shoulder to elbow was against his body,(his other arm most likely straight down) and then from elbow to end of hand it was outstretched and forward to me with a small little bag or pouch resting in/on his palm. The only other person I EVER told this to years ago was my sister who is two years younger than me.A relative recently asked me if I had ever seen a ghost.(Actually I had seen a floating orb/laser like light in my bedroom when I was 16 but thats a whole other discussion-no I was not dreaming that one either- I WAS WIDE AWAKE!!!). SO I went on the web.. and come to find out my story is common.Now I NEVER EVER heard of shadow hat man until a day or two ago.. as it came up in a search and I always brushed this thing in the back of my mind but always knew WHAT I saw..I just know what I saw in the late 1950's standing in my bedroom doorway watching me. I mean I could have told my sister I saw a floating tiger or a funny witch with wings or a bucket of balls float in front of me but NO-what I described to HER YEARS ago(50) is exactly what I am reading about today....so WHY do all of us have this same experience?.I probably watched him or looked at him for just a few minutes and after that I was so terrified I just put my head under the covers till I fell back asleep till daylight.I always hated to tell anyone.. but my sister was the only one who ever knew. He was regular height,no facial features, had all the outline though of a "person" and fairly dimensional..couldn't see through him.I hope I NEVER EVER see one again- and have not....scared the heck out of me.Like I said I am now 57 years old, and for me to have this recollection like it happened yesterday tells you something. At the time this happened I dubbed him "The Sandman" only because he was a "man" and I thought he maybe had sand in his little pouch I have been enjoying reading about other people who have had similar experiences. Thanks Laurie (This happened in Wisconsin by the way)

My Shadow Man Experience

2011-05-19T10:11:00.000-07:00

By: Shelly

My name is Shelly from WI. I've had an experience with one of these so called "shadow ghosts" (or whatever they are) when i was 14-15 years old. I'm very sceptical when it comes to ghosts, and these TV shows that are on now like "ghost hunters" make me feel stupid for talking about it because, in my opinion, they are fake. I've only seen this "thing" once but I know what I saw and I cannot explain it in my mind. My cousin spent the night at my parents house so we all camped out in my bedroom. I was laying on the end of my bed, on my stomach, talking to my cousin and my sister who were on sleeping bags on the floor below me. I had not taken any medication nor was I sleep deprived. It was not a dream and I sure as hell did not imagine it. We had all the lights out except for a nightlight in the hallway bathroom that let light into the hallway (so that if we had to get up in the middle of the night we could see to use bathroom). I must have looked up into the hallway at the right time because i saw a three dimentional human form walk out of my bathroom and head down the stairs. This is not something I saw out of the corner of my eye. It was not see through, nor did it look like a mist. This man (I'm assuming it was a man because it was about 7 feet tall) was pitch black. Even from the light I could see no color from clothing, no flesh color to the face/hands. My first thought that it was my dad, but there are a few problems with that theory...1.) Why would my dad use the upstairs bathroom when there is a bathroom downstairs? 2.) Why wouldn't my dad turn the hall light on? 3.) The stairs creek when ANYONE goes down them and the stairs were not creeking when this figure went down them. 4.) there was enough light in the hallway to be able to see skin tone/ color of clothing..so why was this thing all black?? 5.) My dad is not 7 feet tall.
I got up and closed my bedroom door, asked my sister and my cousin if they saw it (they said they had not). At that time, I had no education on shadow people nor did I know of anyone that had seen anything like it either. I asked my dad the next morning if he was upstairs at all last night. He said that he was not and asked why he would even bother going upstairs. I'm really curious to find out what exactly what that was that I saw. I never saw it again after that but It was real, whatever it was. please, if you have any information, email me at shelly1984@charter.net.

is there some one there that can help me??

2011-02-07T08:27:00.000-08:00

By: Marielle Villanueva

can some1 help me???
...
i been experiencing this for 5 days...
'everytime i look at the mirror...,,,i see a difFerenT face,,,,,....

i'm afraid,,,,
and everytime i think of it ,,I keEp on heAring a board..its like scratched by long nails..
i kn0w its hard to believe...
i w0uld like to know if there is also some1 that is happening this too that can help me???
please im beging....
please....,,,,,,

My Experience at Eastern State Penitentiary on 10-11-10

2011-02-07T08:22:00.001-08:00

By: Xiomara Bonitto

Hello,

My name is Xiomara B. and I wanted to share with you an experince me and my husband had this Monday at Eastern State. When we left me and my husband thought "oh this place isnt haunted"

When we scanned the pictures into our laptop this Monday, we turn into true believers of ghosts. The first picture I sent was in Al Capones room.

We did not see anything odd when we took the picture, and was no one was in the room, as it is blocked off so no one can walk in there. When I zoomed in at the red chair I noticed that on the right side of the wooden trim, there looks to be an image of a little girl with a blue dress! I could see her eyes and she looks like she was hiding or playing peek a boo! Could you see that? I showed a lot of people that picture but only 2 were able to see the little girl!

The other picture was taken at the hole also known as "the klondike" we were behind the steel gate and took the picture. We did not notice anything odd when we were down there. We had to go down about 4 stairs to get down there.
Look closely by the yellow/ black striped pipe. I seen a face of a man smiling at us! Also, next to him on the left looks like an image of a red/white painted face with a red nose!! Like a clown or a devil or something!! It also has a red bow tie. My friends said they see an apperation of a body there. Do you see that? I freaked out when I saw that.

Our last stop was the visitation room. Before we enterted there, my husband took a picture of me before we went in the visitation room. There were 2 orbs in the picture, one on my stomach, and one above me by the water pipes..I zoomed in to the one below me and it looks like a face of a deceased person, his eyes were the shape of an x not a circle like normal humans. His forehead had about 4 nails going accross and and he had a white looking smile! Very creepy..I did not send that picture because I am in it and I would not like it published. If you would like to see it I could send it to you But i would not like it published.

After that picture was taken outside of the visiting room, we walked in there, and it was empty just us there, all the sudden I felt like I was going to faint! I also felt like a lot of people were staring at us. THen I started to cry for no reason..I felt sooo sad. I felt like my husband was against me and hated me. He told me he wasnt mad at me. What was that about? My husband never felt that way about me..he loves me to death. When I opened that picture, all my pictures in my picture folder went blank for a second. It was very intersting. Were these ghost or actual demons?

Please help us understand. Were those images just our imagination? I look foward to your response!! Have a nice day!.

Ghosts in my Garden

2011-02-07T08:15:00.000-08:00

By: Nadia

Hello,i like to send u 2 pics that i took a few weeks ago in my garden and i would like to know what u think....
I live here in my house for almost 11years now and from the beginning i felt that am never alone ..Am surrounded by many ghosts...The most activity take place in my livingroom,bedroom and garden.
When i know they are here(than i feel a light cold breeze on my arm or face)..i know it sounds strange,but thts the only way i can feel them or sometimes by a smell(flowers or earthsmell) i take some pictures randomly and most of the time i can catch them..Orbs,faces on a wall or closet..
I have more pictures,i like to send them to u and ask for ur opinion.

Greetings from Belgium

Necklace

2011-02-07T08:08:00.000-08:00

By: Clare Graham

I have a necklace which is very dear to my heart, i never take it off and it has three charms on it brought by my mom and my nan. I woke up this morning and the chain was on the floor across the room and the charms were on the bed. i presumed that i had cuaght it in the night and it would have been a broken chain. to my disbelief my chain was not broken and niether was the clasp on it. it was in such perfect condition it could only have possibly have been taken off me. i had shared the room with two friends so i am sure i did not take it off myself in the night. the clasp is far to hard to open there is no way i could have done it in pitch black.
what does it mean?

Ghost at Murat House ca.1790

2009-10-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

by: Derrick E Elleby Sr

Ghost in corner

My wife knows I watch all the ghost shows on T.V. So for my birthday this year she took me to St. Augustine, FL and scheduled a couple of the ghost tours. Well the times we were not doing a tour we did our own sight seeing of the city. There are a group of house gathered together in St. Augustine know as some of the oldest houses in America.

One of the houses had an famous resident the Murat House ca.1790. This house was occupied by Prince archilles Murat (Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew.) Well the wife and I were looking in the house just taking pictures of a time that passed. It wasn't until later on when I was looking at the pictures I came across this photo. In the corner it there seems to a vision of a man dressed in colonial clothing.

Home Sweet Funeral Home

2009-10-18T18:30:00.000-07:00

by: Mortimer

I live and work in a mortuary in San Antonio, Texas. I have been interested in the funeral business since I was 12 years old. I have always had an "eerie" aura about me. If you would meet me, you would understand why. I was recently given the opportunity to become a resident of the Mortuary I now work for -- and being the weird kinda guy I am, I could not pass a chance such as this.

I moved in on a Thursday afternoon. With my girlfriend's help, I had everything moved in by the time night came. The funeral home was opened that night until 10:00 p.m. I figured I would go ahead and stay the night in my apartment there. My girlfriend always stays with me until about 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. That particular night, my bathroom was out of order so I was using the bathroom in the family room. My girlfriend was in the bathroom by the employee lounge on the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BUILDING.

On my way back to the apartment, I heard her scream.

I ran to the other side of the building to see what was the matter and she said she heard someone whisper her name. I told her it was OK and we headed back to the apartment. I was spooked, as was she, so we both went to her house to stay the night.

What a welcome to my new home, Right?

I returned the next night with the previous night's occurrence in the back of my mind. I stayed in the apartment, watching TV until about 2:30 (a.m.) when I went outside to smoke a cigar. In order to get outside, you must go through the hallway, then through the garage. My car was parked right outside the door to the garage. I was sitting on the hood of my car enjoying the cigar when I heard a loud "WHOOSH" come from inside the garage. This noise is normal when someone opens the door from the hallway into the garage. Mind you this was after 2:00 in the morning and there was not supposed to be anybody (living) inside the funeral home -- except for me.

I was petrified.

I had no place to go.

My keys were in the apartment and I was stuck.

I finally got up the gumption to open the door to the garage. As I opened it, I noticed that the light was off. I never turn off the light. Even if I'm leaving for the night. The only light filtering into the garage was that from the door to the hallway on the other side of the garage. When I opened the door, that door stayed open for a moment, then shut and I heard footsteps going down the hallway.

I'm kinda a big guy so you can imagine I'm about to have a heart attack here. I reach one arm in the garage and turn on the light. At that point, I ran to the hallway door next to the apartment. I thought maybe someone had broken into the funeral home. I had the alarm off because I was walking around in the building so I had no way of telling if anyone had broken in. I ran to my apartment, shut the door, locked it, ran to the phone and dialed 9-1-1. I told the dispatch what happened and she sent 2 units over within 5 minutes. In the mean time I set the alarm so if someone was in the building they couldn't get out without the alarm going off.

The police arrived and searched the building top to bottom and found no evidence of forced entry or anything missing. I knew then what it was. Now, every night, when I go home to the funeral home, I can walk through the hallway and feel the sinister presence of whatever is there. I just explain to it that this is not it's home, it's my home. And ask it to please leave my girlfriend and I alone.

We don't mean any harm to it. It pretty much leaves us alone now, but we can both feel its presence. I just wish the dead would Rest In Peace!

Shadow on the Wall

2009-10-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

by: Withheld

I have told this story to people who were not there to witness the actual event and some look at me as if I am just telling a story to get a good laugh -- but I find nothing funny about it. Everything I am about to relate is true and I guess in some bizarre way I feel that by retelling this story to anyone who is willing to listen it will bring me some comfort.

On July 6, 1990, a high-school friend shot himself in the head with a rifle in a nearby local baseball dugout. The act shocked and saddened everyone, especially his parents, of course, who did not want to believe their only son would take his own life.

The days that followed his death were happening, for me, as if in a dream. Fearing this act would spark some sort of "chain reaction," the school counselors were sent in to help the students grieve and discuss their feelings of loss. Days went by and there seemed to be a cloud of despair and confusion hanging over our entire high school class. If he had lived, my friend would have graduated from high school with the rest of us that same year. When he died, he was two months away from his 18th birthday.

About a week after his suicide, I was visiting my best friend at the time, we'll call her Anne, in her home. We were both still very affected by the death of our friend and we began to talk late into the night about his possible reasons for taking his own life and how crazy and unexpected it was. We had been discussing the whole chain of events and basically trying to make sense of something we could not even imagine, when I suddenly became very uncomfortable talking about our deceased friend.

I was sitting at the time in a desk chair across from Anne who was sitting comfortably on her bed facing me. She was looking directly at me and could see the discomfort on my face. She assumed I was just overreacting and our discussion had gotten to me, so she stood up and moved toward the door of her bedroom and gestured in a sweeping motion with her arm for me to follow her into the kitchen down the hall. There was a single small desk light on behind me when she made this motion with her arm, so that when she moved, her body created a shadow on the wall.

This is going to sound ridiculous, and I am no Physics expert, but when Anne swept her arm up into the air, gesturing me to follow her, her shadow did not follow her arm. Instead, there was a strange kind of delay and I saw her arm move, and about 5-10 seconds later the shadow of an arm moved, mimicking the same gesture she had just made.

I of course, thought my eyes were playing tricks on me and ignored the shadow. And I would have kept it to myself if only Anne had not turned to me and asked, "Did you just see that?" I answered, "Yes!" -- and we fled out of the room and into the kitchen.

Anne's house was large and our frightened voices bounced off the columned walls, but nothing ever occurred after that. My friend Anne and I no longer speak and I am sure that if she knew I was relaying this story to strangers, she would think I was crazy, but I remember the death of our high school friend as if it were yesterday and I can't help wishing that the shadow we saw was indeed a sign from our friend, but I will never be sure. I write this story in his memory and in the hope that he is in a place where his problems have all been taken away.

Made me believe

2009-08-02T22:09:00.000-07:00

by: imfromthe617

Back in 2004 I had moved into a two story house with my parents in Salem , MA. Knowing Salem's ghostly history, I was already teased about moving there. Turns out the house was built back in 1804 and included a "secret staircase" that the slaves would go into to hide from capture. And to top it off , I also found out that that the house also served as a medical center for wounded slaves... Great right ? Best believe I kept myself from snooping around becuase the house creeped me the hell out ! I actually never really believed in ghosts period untill I moved into this house.
Me and my brother's rooms were both upstairs and my parents was downstairs. I spent a lot of time in my room practicing on my drumset. About a month into living their I started to hear a light tapping sound every night. I tried to ignore it but it seemed to get heavier every night.
This is the night ill never forget right here. It was about 11 o clock at night and I was up listening to my ipod until I felt I was ready to fall asleep. I should probably add I was about 13 at the time and had a small night light. My eyes felt heavy so I started to fall asleep. I heard the tapping sound again but I once again tried to ignore it. As soon as I was Right about to fall asleep I heard a deep moaning sound almost like it was coming from a large man. This woke me up beacuse it scared the hell out of me. But that's not the problem... When I opened my eyes I found myself looking at a man looking down at me from the corner of the ceiling. It was wearing dark clothes almost like those of a pilgrim. He appeared to be crawling down at me. This man looked like he had a purpose to harm me. I lost my breath and couldn't even scream. I've never gotten so scared in my life. This thing was literally staring at me. I put my head under the covers withing the moment of seeing it , looked back and it was gone. I never beleived in ghosts up untill that night. Turns out the followng night my mother saw something as well.

We moved a week later.

No wonder the house was so cheap.....

My House

2009-08-02T22:08:00.000-07:00

by: Laura E. Darby

I like to think that there are ghosts but I am not sure until one day a couple of months ago. I will explain: My brother was watching TV in the living room one day and he had the volume on low and he heard like a rustle in the back of the house. He and my brother got up to investigate because they thought someone might have got into the house. They checked all through the house and nothing, not any thing was out of place and they could not figure where the noise came from. A couple of days later my brother heard a man whistling in the house, I heard it the next day. My younger brother was 17 and he was home alone and he said he was watching TV, out of the corner of is eye he saw this figure of a girl standing there and when he turned to look nothing was there. One day last week my mom called me into the living room. I had just waked up and she said come quick and look at the porch swing. It was swinging by itself, and it was swinging big. She said look at the trees and the bushes out side and look down the street, the wind was not blowing it was still as ever. The swing slowed down and just stopped. I tried to shrug it off. I was by myself cleaning and went to put something in my brother’s room and shut their bedroom door. They have a hiding slide door that slides into the wall and it is very heavy and you have to manually open it. I was finishing the dishes and I heard this huge bang so I ran to the back of the house and my brother’s door was standing wide open. I shut it again and was very scared. I was home with my mom last Wednesday and we were cleaning and I went to shut my brother’s door and went to the living room. I went back not 5 minutes later to put some clothes away and the door was open, I said mom did you open the door and she hadn’t been back there. I was hot and turned the fan on and I went in yonder and came back and got mad and said why did you cut the fan off mom I am hot. It cut off by itself.

The Scary Encounter

2009-08-02T22:01:00.000-07:00

by: Harihar

This incident took place about few years ago. I was on vacation to "Kumta", a small town in Karnataka; I stayed there at my Aunt's place. My Aunt's house is located near "Gazni" (a series of small lakes where you breed prawns). Since I had visited there for the first time I had the curiosity to explore the place.

Let me tell you unlike me, my aunt is little bit of religious type, so she strictly forbids me to go near lakes. When I asked her the reason why? She told me that the place is not so auspicious and she cut my question there.

During night it was about 9:30 pm after dinner I set out for a walk. I still remember that day, it was full moon day, moon light made a glittery appearance to the lake waters, which Ganzi in turn made a pleasant view and the cool breeze drove me straight to Gazni. There were distant street lights in the Gazni and the view was spectacular.

May be half a kilometer walk into the Gazni I started experiencing something unusual, cold breeze struck to my body gave me a chilling experience. In the silent valley as I was walking I heard the sounds of multiple steps behind me, I felt a group of people approaching me from my behind, I could hear laughs, their talks, but not so clearly. I suddenly turned behind, to my shock I see an old woman may be of 80's standing behind and there was no one else.

I felt as if I am almost fainted as I could clearly feel a group of people behind me, but leaving an old women no one else was there. She had a long white hair which was set loose, a big stick in her hand, she did not have front teeth; she was slightly smiling, and has bluish eyes. After seeing this I don't know how but I just screamed a bit. I felt like electric shocks going through my body. I could not move, my feet started trembling, I was there for about 10-15 seconds and then I started running straight to the highway. When I reached the highway, I looked back to see no one in about a kilometer long Gazni.

When reached home I told my aunt about the incident. She and my cousin scolded me for going to Gazni, pinched my chicks and send me to bed. At night I was awakened by something, and I felt as if I am almost glued to bed, I could not move my head to other side, I could not speech, neither could I open my eyes.

I started crying, hearing this cousin came running to my room and she called my aunt. They made me to sit on the bed and asked me why I was crying, I could not explain but just I was crying. They gave me water and then applied some paste on my fore head, chest and on my feet, of an herb called "Appatisaal". After that I felt better and felt a sleep. The next two days I suffered very high temperatures but recovered quickly.

Please help us

2009-04-25T06:06:00.000-07:00

By: destiny

Back in 2004 my family moved into a 2 story house built back in the mid 1800's. the same night we moved in we started hearing noises. it would sound like children running up and down the stairs, scratching in the hallway downstairs and many other things. we would come home in the evening to find q-tips laid out in triangle patterns from our living room up to the bedrooms upstairs-(my children refused to sleep upstairs because the noises)- we came to find out there were two children that died in our house-but there was also another thing we never figured out what it was but it was EVIL my girls couldn't go to the bathroom alone without feeling threatened. after three years there we finally convinced my husband to leave that was a strange place and i'm never going back there

Paranormal Activity In My Bedroom

2009-04-25T05:59:00.001-07:00

By: Lost_memory

Where to start? I'm an optimistic when it comes to the paranormal, I'd like to believe that there's an afterlife. Nevertheless, my mam, on the other hand, believes that there's something, and my dad believes there's nothing. Often when the family is together we watch paranormal TV with medians and most haunted places just out of curiosity.

Something occurred today that scared me slightly. I'll set the scene. I was in my bedroom (medium size) no mirrors, bunk bed with a sofa underneath, television, laminate flooring. I just had the ceiling light on and was sitting on the bottom of the bunk (that slightly dark when you sit under it). I was browsing the internet on my laptop that I do on a regular basis within my room when suddenly I spotted a 'bright white circle' no bigger than a few centimeters in the corner of my eye, I quickly reacted and looked as natural instincts do. Before I could focus on it, it faded away. It seemed like it drifted a bit and faded out after a second, or two. At this point my ears went high pitched, as if someone got a TV running.

I was nervous and unsure so I banged down to my parents for reassurance. I waited a second and looked around the room anxiously whilst being paranoid. My eyes were drawn to the curtains, I noticed that they were slightly shimmering a bit as if someone had touched it. No draft in the room, window was closed and door was shut tight. At that point, I forced my laptop off and wanted to get out of the room. I looked in the reflection of my LCD TV (that was off) and I could see a reflection of a small glowing white light. I span the gaming chair around (that faces the TV) and there was nothing. I thought it was my mobile at first, that I left on the chair, and that someone had sent me a text and that the screen had lit up. In surprise, when I rotated the seat, there was nothing. I then recalled leaving my mobile downstairs, so obviously it wasn't the light from the mobile phone. At this point I didn't want to move, I just wanted to leave the room. I shouted down again to my parents and my mam came up the stairs promptly. She was concerned and asked me what was wrong, in a quick reply not thinking straight I replied, "Nothing." I didn't really know what to say. I left the room immediately and used the downstairs PC to ask for some advice.

The history of my house? Well, we're the second residents to live there. The original residents went to an old pensioner's home prior to us moving in, so no one has died here. We've lived in the house for thirteen years and haven't experienced anything paranormal. My grandma used to live with us for several years, in the room I experienced the strange light in. However there was an upset and she left us, and soon after she left us she past away with unfinished business and a lot of family upset.

The only past experience I've had within the house is when I've been ill. I remember waking up one night and feeling disorientated. I can remember earring a faint voice repeat itself saying jargon. I can't remember precisely what it said, but it wasn't my voice, neither was it a relative's voice. I remember having something like 'long vision' where everything appeared up close. Really a strange experience, however I've always placed it down to being ill or lack of sleep. This has happened about three times over a period of seven years or more.

I've been stressed lately, so I resort to my room to calm down and isolate myself away from everyone and the University and that's getting on top of me. I'm slightly afraid to stay in the room. I want to go back and see if it will happen again but I need courage. At the moment, I think I'll sleep in the spare room. Advice is much appreciated.

Demon Family Relative

2009-04-25T05:57:00.000-07:00

By: lexcove

I have a dad that lives in south Florida and my mom in north Florida. My dad is going out with a girl named C. And she has two kids, one girl A. And one boy B. So we were home alone because our parents went out on a date and we stayed home. Now my dad has a two story house and it's been in my family for over 100 years cause my great great grand parents built that house so you can guess how old the architecture is. So when my dad inherited it from my grandpa the realtor didn't know that we were family so he gave us a tour of the house like any other realtor. He told us that it was in good shape except that a girl had died there and that she had sexually abusive parents and she jumped off the railing of the second story.

So nobody else but me thought about what he just said. One of MY family members (it's a big family) had died from suicide so this isn't just a ghost it's a ghost related to me.

So once again A. B. And I were home alone and this is about three years after we got the house. My grandma had found an Ouija Board from when she was a little kid in her closet. It was old and falling apart but she gave it to me. So that night we brought it out and did the whole praying thing. We asked questions like "is anybody here?" no body answered. Eventually when we got up, forgetting to put it away the thing that points out the letters rises up slowly and starts banging constantly about six times. So we put our hands on it and asked it "who is this"? It pointed out Esther. So we asked who she was and she said she was my family. Creeped me out so we then asked how she died she and she said that she jumped off the balcony. We asked her why and she said because... And only because... So we asked what else? She said that they found her body in the bathroom which is downstairs.

Now this creeped me out so much cause I thought she had jumped down the balcony and died from the impact so how did she end up in the bathroom? So I wanted to stop but both A and B wanted to keep on going and they said maybe I can contact with her better since I am related to her. So we said if it would come back to life and she said no. We asked why and she said she was going to be with her family that's already dead but the devil said that she was beautiful and so he kept her. Now I wanted to stop cause I was about to pee in my pants!

So then the eye piece started circling constantly and I read online that means that a "portal" is being opened so before I could even put my hand on it. Autumn put her hand on it and if she got processed or some thing she said something very chilling. She said in a mutilated voice "I am your sister don't you love me like him!?!? So I threw the Ouija board and brought it outside and smashed it to pieces and threw it away.

Ever since then the experiences haven't been that bad. One time I was downstairs and I heard a noise as if some one fell... Etc.

So please comment. I will read your stories and reply.

Oh yeah and if you have any suggestions of what I should have done instead then comment and let me know.

My Father's Ghost

2009-02-02T08:14:00.000-08:00

By Janine Barlow:

This is not a wild or frightening experience, but it is a true one. When I was 17 years old, I saw my father's ghost walk across the floor of our living room in our home in Texas. I was eleven when he passed away from an embolism.

I had just exited the hallway about 10:30-11:00 at night and entered the living/dining area, which was indirectly lighted from the kitchen. It was not really dark, as the kitchen light was bright and the opening was large, and you could see all the furniture and everything, but as I focused on the living room, I saw my Dad right in front of me. I wasn't scared, since I knew him, and as I had always wondered if ghosts really existed, I told myself mentally to pay attention and get all the details, as this might never happen to me again.

He was fully dressed in what he used to wear at home when he was alive (this is unusual to me because he died in a hospital in another city, and I assume he was wearing a hospital gown at the time). He was looking straight ahead and even though he passed within three feet of me, he never saw me. He was staring straight ahead. I could make out his features very clearly, and he walked about 3-4 steps, passing right in front of me, and then dissipated. He was almost semi-solid, like a hologram. You could see him clearly, but I was also aware of a sort of transparency to him, as if you could see things on the other side of him if you tried to.

I was pretty shocked, and I went to the kitchen, where my mother was finishing drying the dishes, and choked out that I had just seen Dad walking in the living room. She didn't say anything for a few moments, then she said, "I've seen him, too." -- Which, I have to say, shocked me probably every bit as much as me seeing him. My mother was a practical, strait-forward woman, and she wasn't the type to believe in anything fanciful. It shut me up, and we didn't discuss it after that.

If I had to say what surprised me the most, after reflection on it, it would probably be that he was so clear and detailed, not as much wraith-like. And the fact that he seemed unaware that I was even present.

I wish now I had discussed it with my mother and heard her accounts, but she is deceased now and that is no longer possible. I recently wondered if there is a website where people who have truly experienced these things can go to compare their experiences and see if what they have in common. With people with like experiences, you at least wouldn't be worried that they would have doubts that it could even happen. If you know of such a website, I would appreciate your input. Thank you.

Photo of Weird Image in Haunted Old Church Building

2008-11-20T16:23:00.000-08:00

By: John Anthony Adams

This building is the home of the Rialto Historical Society and I am the historian of the Historical Society. The photographer, Rich McInnis, did not see anything on the stairway when he snapped the photo. He was shocked to see the image after taking the film to a one-hour photo development service. A few days after this photo was taken, I was leading a tour of elementary school students through the church. I had not told them about the image in the photo, but four girls began screaming that they had seen the ghost of a woman with black hair and a white dress standing in the exact same spot where the image on the photo appeared. The entire class panicked and the teacher had a fit after seeing her normally well-behaved class go completely out of control.

I have spent 20 years the intensely haunted old church building that is now occupied by the Rialto Historical Society. I have a Ph.D. in soil science from the University of California at Riverside, did scientific research for years, always ridiculed any suggestions of the supernatural, and I was a life-long atheist until the foundations of my belief system were blasted to pieces by my experiences with ghosts. I never could have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever believe in something that seemed so ridiculous to me as ghosts. The stories began with the discovery of a very appealing little girl ghost whose ashes had been kept in the church. She was sent on her way after three very emotional seances, but other ghosts remain to haunt the church. Two different pairs of Rialto policemen have told me of encountering the ghost of a woman in a Victorian dress on two different occasions after answering a burglar alarm after midnight. Both of these encounters occurred at the base of the same stairway that is shown in the attached photo. Dozens of other people have also convincingly told me of their ghostly experiences in the church.

I have written a book about my experiences in the church that is called "The LIttle Girl in the Window: A True Ghost Story." It was published in June 2008. My ghost book tells of scores of extraordinary ghostly encounters that I experienced along with other witnesses. I have recorded minutely detailed notes of every incident and I have written the book with the greatest care to describe exactly what happened. Some of the incidents are similar to those commonly described in ghost stories, such as the sound of footsteps without a visible person to make them, but other bizarre things have happened that I have never seen mentioned elsewhere. One example is a drinking glass that disappeared from beside my dinner plate only to instantly reappear from thin air several minutes later at the same spot where I had last seen it. I am not crazy because there was another witness to this event. I was also dumbfounded to learn that genuine psychics truly exist. I invited many people to investigate the church, and two of them, a man and a woman, proved to have astounding agreement with what I knew about the ghosts and with each other’s observations. They had certainly never met when I first learned each one’s conclusions about the ghosts and realized that they agreed as closely as if they had both been describing living people rather than unseen spirits. The man, Tom Hagman, is a ghost investigator of more than 30 years experience who had made many visits to investigate the ghosts in the church and to attempt to send them on their way. The very psychic woman, Cathy Mancinci, became a close friend of mine and of Tom and has since helped him many times in his work in the old church and in other haunted buildings. The old church building is a very unusual haunted structure because of the discovery of a ghost portal in the kitchen area. This was reported in precisely the same location on three separate occasions by psychics who came to visit the old church without hearing what others had to say about it. They concluded that this allows ghosts to enter and leave the church and accounts for the large number of ghosts there.

The ghosts in the church have been discussed in large newspaper stories in three different inland Southern California newspapers and the haunted historical society building has become well known in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. This has drawn many people to our museum.

John Anthony Adams, Historian of the Rialto Historical Society.

Waiting love

2008-11-13T11:43:00.000-08:00

by: Jennifer

Once i loved a guy, but suddenly in 20 february he passed away.. before that happened i had a small argument with him, that night he went to a pub near by to release his tension, while on the way to my house he passed away by hitting a tree on his bike,it was about 3 a.m. I was sleeping but i suddenly relised he was sitting in my dressing table chair looking at me, that time my body was freezing, he said to me "i'm sorry jenny, it's my fault, please forgive me...because im going far from you...i want you to know i will always love you". I ask what happened but he said, "please wait for me" and i said i will. Then i heard some one knocking my door..i open the door,my mum was crying. I asked why,she said my boyfriend passed away..i told her i was talking to him,but she didnt belive me,all i could do is still waiting for him,cause i belive we will be together.i love you john

Nightly Paralysis

2008-11-13T11:42:00.000-08:00

By: HatedandLoved

Some of you may think I was dreaming but I know I was not. In 2006 my mother and I would have dreams of a dark shadow walking in front of our bedroom doors we found it strange that we both had similar dreams so we prayed when they stopped we just wrote them off. Well earlier this year in the middle of March something started to happen. One night I was sleeping in my room, nothing new, when I suddenly woke up, many of you have seen "The Grudge" and heard that throaty noise made, well I heard that noise when I woke up. Then I heard paper on my floor crunching as if someone was stepping on them. I began to turn my head slowly to see if someone was in there before I could I felt this presence over me as if someone stood there. I decided on the count of three I would run as fast as possible out of my room. I took a deep breath one,two,three just as soon as I brought myself up I was thrusted back down. I tried so hard to get up but I was paralyzed my eyes were wide open I could hear my radio in the background playing, Evanescence "Haunted". I tried to move anything I could but couldn't, I started to pray in my head as soon as I did I felt my air supply cut off I prayed and prayed and pled the blood of Jesus and rebuked this evil presence. As soon as I did I felt my whole body burn with intense heat and I was released. The next day on the bus on my way home back from school I heard that throaty noise I thought it was all in my head but my friend said to me "what was that noise?" she too had heard the throaty noise. It was as if what was there the night before was following me. So night was upon me and I had to choose my room or living room I chose my room for a week the same things would happen every night even with my light on. Monday of the following week I slept I my room with my bible in my hand I awoke again but this time is was different, I was able to move I looked to the back corner of my room and saw this grayish brownish most unsettling light I jumped from my bed scraping my chin on the way out. Summer break had come and almost gone before I went back in at night. In august I reorganized my room after that I have had no more problems and sleep very well at night. Now that I think about it Helluva way to tell someone to clean their room, don't you think.

My eary experience

2008-10-30T21:55:00.000-07:00

By: matt smith

In 1988 when i was 9 yrs old, I lived in an old rual part of elmira michigan, my father was a police officer for the city.

Yrs ago apparently there was a battle over land in this part of the township. and we bought the land that it happened on.

One night when i was sound asleep i heard the main door open to the house, and i heard logs drop into the stove, I heard the old floor creak and my dog ebnie start to growl.

I thought it was my dad calling to the dog, then i saw my bedroom door open and a dark menancing face looking at me.

The door shut and the creaking floor board told me that it had gone to my mom's room, the "person" had walked in and walked out with a rush from what she had told me, as it walked down the hall and out the door it had moved an old axe in the forier and left red dots on it and was placed by the front door..

**note, my dad was on a call all night long and never left the city, so its a mystery to this day whom and or what had come into the house..

Unsure but true

2008-10-30T21:49:00.000-07:00

by: Smrat (Neil)

Ok, here goes i can sense what i would assume is spiritual pressence not saying i want to or am happy to but i do. I also have been suffering my whole life with precognitions never really of any significance usually just things i do with friends or family things not worth changing not that there is really anyway to know what's going on till it happens either way these things are nothing compared to other factors of my life which make no sense, i know this is a common feeling amoung many people the lack of knowing where or what you should be in life but this is more, much more. I have seen spirits felt aura's even been spoken to but none of these things make sense i see people who are not there and then they are gone as if i was just seeing things, i can tell an emotion of someone from across a room without even seeing their face or knowing them in some cases it has even been as strong as to say i felt their intentions for imediate future, and worse of all on some rare occasions i have even heard what i can only believe to be the voice of a spirit/whatever may be able to comunicate with someone without actually being there but it's not as if i hear them talking english it's like a sound not white noise but similar crackly and intense if i even try to imagine it's sound my eyes fill with tears and i have no understanding why. Before i even think about posting any of these stories in detail i just need someone to tell me they know at least a little about what the hell is going on i'm not here for campfire stories not meaning to be rude but i'm just looking for answers or at the very least leads. Thank you i hope i have not upset anyone and that i can look foward to talking with people who may have similar problems.

The man in my home

2008-10-30T21:47:00.000-07:00

By: laura -ann

It was july 2005 when we first moved in to our new house and we only stayed there one night then had to pack to go straight on holiday so when we came back we made our home fell like home again, my mum had went to america in march to see her friend who lives in florida because she was sick with cancer. My mum stayed in the spare room and she woke up in the middle of the night with a man sitting on her bed, she didnt tell me this when she got back because she knows im easy to get scared so it had came to september the month it was hot in (england) were i lived and i had locked my bedroom door shut and opened my window to bring some air in to my room and had a fan on then i had got a bit cold so i went to put my blanket over me and i heard a voice shout ( NO!!). It was deep male voice i got scared and opened my eyes my door was wide open and my window was shut my blanket had ben thrown on the floor so i ran in to my mum ( it was 3.30 am ) and told what had happend but i was too shook up to get my words out i went back to bed with my light on and nothing had happend so me and my mum had sorted out a camera and placed out side my door and we had saw a male figure walking up and down the corridor.

Beleive me that freaked me out to this day 2007 i still hear these noises and heard walking on out flooring down stairs and out chairs moving so yet again we set a camera up and u could see my mum leave a lamp on and turn the main one off as she went to bed then all of a sudden it swithes off. 4 hours later it turns on and then my mum walks in and tuns the main on one to get her coat out of the cupboard and came to check the camera and we both saw an arm move in the corner of the camera as if he was waking up from lying on his arms with his head on them leaning on the table but now ive been trying to communicated but does want to i think it likes scaring us im 17 and scared of sleepin in my own room this is my story so far and i will update when something else happends thank you for reading

Thirsty Ghost

2008-10-24T17:28:00.001-07:00

By: Wyvvern

Here’s a good one. Always been able to see or aware of ghosties and all since I was a kid, so when my boyfriend and myself moved into our apartment about 17 years ago, we noticed a lot of activity off and on. He finally got used to things being moved in front off him with no-one attached to them. A few years ago, he had gotten ill and eventually died from the illness(es). Not even 2 weeks after he had died, I had some boxes stacked in the hallway in front of his room, when he appeared in the hallway and indignantly demanded I move the boxes away from his door while he went to the store to get a beer. Then he faded out.. On to session #2—maybe a few days later, he came back again and stood in the hallway with his hands on his hips and told me “ I thought I told you to MOVE those boxes—Im going to the store and get a beer, and they’d BETTER be gone when I get back”. Told him at that point, “Um, you died so you don’t need the room anymore and you don’t need beer either.” He then faded. Think it was 1-2 days later, he came back again, standing in the hallway in the same spot, (this time the cat semi-noticed him) and asked me “ I died? How did I die?”. Told him he’d had instant heart failure after he’d gotten back from the store ( it was summer and really hot), and his reaction was to look at the floor, cover his mouth with his hand, and say (quietly this time) “Oh, I didn’t know that, am I really dead?” Then he faded again. About a week later he came back the last time, but this time he didn’t talk, but just stood and looked at me. The strange part was his face had a yellowish-grey tint to it, and his right eye was swollen shut. This one was the one that freaked the cat out bigtime, to the point of hissing. He then faded and that was the last time he ‘appeared’.

Ghost with car

2008-10-24T17:25:00.000-07:00

By: Zelly

When I was 16years old our house was haunted by a headless ghost. Firt the history: My dad had bought a Hillman Minx(60 years old) when we were 15. The first owner of the car died in the car. In that time the man thought that his wife had an affair, but never lived long enough to discover the total truth. So when my dad brought the car home we started to notice a headless man with a long black jacket on and with very expensive shoes on. He used to follow my mom around in the house and to stand at my dad's desk in his home office. He always had a negative presence around him and freaked out our maid alot! When we finally brought in a psychic to help she discovered the truth behind his presence. He had a bad accident in the car and his head was badly injured. He loved the car and came with it, but was confused with the actual truth. He thought he was still alive and thought that my mom was his wife and that my dad was her affair. When the psychic told him to go to the light she burned a candle to help him go over. When the candle had finally burned out it was in the shape of an angel. He was never seen again after that.

Angry Spirit Guide

2008-10-21T16:13:00.001-07:00

By: Chrizanne

A few nights ago my dad had encountered a very angry spirit. My dad is a very mean, abusive and aggresive man. So, my parents aren't sharing a room anymore. Three nights ago my dad was woken with a spirit sitting on top of him and hitting him all over. After the ghost finished its task, my dad went into my mom's room very upset. He had to go for an job interview the next morning with a swollen eye and a very stiff body. This is the truth and we believe that his spirit guide wanted to give him an wake up call. This is the truth and he is still walking around with that eye...

Thirsty Ghost

2008-10-21T16:12:00.000-07:00

Voice in the basement

2008-10-12T00:47:00.000-07:00

By: Jonathan Marchand

This event happened five years ago in mt old house located in Long Island, New York and I have been haunted by it ever since. At the time this was the only paranormal activity I had experienced in my home although I do believe my parents saw the same apparations but said nothing about it because they did not want to startle me and my siblings. I was in eighth grade at the time. It was early in the morning on a Saturday, around 8:00 a.m., and my mom had told me to bring the dirty laundry down to the basement. So as I was gathering everything from upstairs I heared what sounded like a grown mans voice coming from the basement. "Jonathan, Jonathan." Thinking it was my dad just messing with me I ignored it and went on gathering the dirty clothes. A few minutes later it happened again. "Jonathan, Jonathan." Thinking it was my dad asking for my help I continued down the stairs with the laundry in my hands. As I reached the basement stairs I called out "yea, what you need me for?", and waited for a moment or two when the voice responded with, "Come down here?" That was when I noticed that all the lights were. Why would my dad be calling my name from the basement in complete darkness? In the past he has played some mean pranks on me so I just went along with it. Just as I flipped on the switch to eluminate the room I saw a very large black shadow at the far end of the basement which seemed to gaze right back at me. I dropped everything I had in my hands and tore upstairs into my moms room. At the sight of my erratically shaking body she started to freak out and asked what happened!. I couldn't even explain at the time. I told how I heard dads voice calling my name from the basement and how I was bringing the laundry down and when I turned the lights on a black shadow seemed to appear and was gazing at me from across the room. My mom paused for a moment. Then she told me my dad was been gone for the past 2 hours playing golf. At this point I began feeling very vulnerable and that I was no longer safe in my own home. Within the next 8 months my family and I had moved out of the house, supposidly because of my father's change in careers. It seemed they were hiding something from me. Everytime the discussion about that particular day came up they would always try and change the subject or avoid answering certain questions. I still don't completely understand what happened that day although it still brings a tear to my eye and chills down my spine just for me to think about it.

A Ghost In The Camp

2008-10-08T17:58:00.000-07:00

Karyn captured this ghostly looking ecto, while taking a picture at camp. It seems to be forming into a human form. You can even see shoulders and arms. To us it looks like a woman in a dress. Can you see where her dress even seems to be low cut in the chest area?Great capture, Karyn!

The Entity

2008-10-08T17:51:00.000-07:00

By: SHGHRS

We have no idea what this is. We haven't ever seen anything quite like it. The only thing that comes to mind is "entity", so we just gave it that nickname. If anyone has any idea what this might be, please be sure to let us know.

Attacked by a ghost

2008-10-03T12:41:00.000-07:00

By: Natasha

I was about 18 or 19 years old. I was looking after my friends home while they were away on holiday. The night before they came back, I decided to stay there so i could greet them when they returned in the morning. I slept on the sofa and a friend of mine slept on the armchair opposite me. We were both fast asleep, but i was awaken when i felt something lying directly on top of me, I started to lose breath and tried to get up but i couldn't. i couldn't move any part of my body apart from my head. i could feel something on top of me, holding my legs and arms down, not letting me move, i was trapped. I was scared and tried to call for my friends help but no words came out. all i could manage was a grunt. thankfully, a little while after, the thing left my body. When my friend returned from holiday i told her what had happened to me the night before. She believed me immediately because the exact same thing had happened to her in the room directly above the room it had happened to me. Everything i had experienced that night, she had also experinced. I mentioned this to a few other people, and a bloke that also lived in the same area said it had also happened to him in the same way. I later learned that the estate that i lived on was built over cemetary grounds and people in the area had quite a few unexplainable things happen to them. so are ghosts true? I certainly believe so.

The spirit in the night

2008-09-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

by: chanelle

It all started in the middle of the night at about 12:35am.I awoke to what I thought was a white figure standing at the end of my bed.I quickly hid under my blankets terrifyied of what I just saw and quickly slapped my husband on the arm to wake him up and tell him what I just saw.He then got up and had a look around the bed and told me that nothing was there,so I just went to sleep still terrifyied.The next morning when I was having breakfast my husband read out the newspaper me,I was so shocked about what he was reading to me,saying that one of my best mates got killed with her boyfriend on a motor-cycle accident.I then realised that the white figured ghost I saw that night was my best mate,and was probably seeing me to say goodbye. . .

Demon take over

2008-09-30T18:04:00.000-07:00

by: adam brown

In this state in the back roads of Hollywood SC Charleston their lives a great evil.I never really belivied in supernatural things until I saw it. Some of you people may think it is a lie, but no i tell you the truth.One night i was outside as i recall it was 2:00 am on a Friday, i went down the back road like i always do as i went down this dark road, at that time of day it still be dark out. I saw a human being standing on the side of the road a man,he was tall with black hair,5"11, white and talked with a accent like he was not from the good old US of A.
At that time my mom had just left my father and i was going thru somethings, so he asked me out the blue he said what do you value in life. I kept on walking like i didn't hear him and i tighten my grip on the blade in my pocket. Than he said it again so i said excuse you sir but i didn't catch what you said, he repeated himself. So i give the guy a answer i said making something out of myself. The guy said will i can make that happen for you what is your name i told him, he said I know you and i know what you do. You come on this back road looking for us, which at the time was true because i always thought i was a hunter make believe that is. He told me to grab his hand why when i grabbed his hand i felt a burst of power shoot thru my body. I fell to my knees and i asked him who are you, he said who i am is not important, but what you will become is. I said dude you on some major drugs is something wrong with you? I said,no i have my right mind he said.But you is like us your heart is black as this night side you care about nothing,u feel you have nothing left since your mom left you. My mind went blank i said how do you know about my mother, so he stop and said it is time for you to know my name so you will know who you are dealing with,my name is many. Many as in i am made up of alot of lost souls. Right then i said you is the demon in the bible the one where Jesus casted you in the pigs. I said no you not a demon everybody speak of having a demon in them, he didn't say nothing and out of the blue he disappeared and as he was disappearing he said you grabbed my hand and when i looked at my hand i saw that their was blood stain for the demon cutted me.Ever since my life wasn't the same i begin doing alot of things that i am not proud of.To this day i still wonder about that night.

Demonic entities???

2008-09-19T17:06:00.001-07:00

By: Haruku

This story may sound a bit bizarre and at some points hard to believe, but I am not here to prove whether or not ghosts/demons exist. I am here to share a firsthand account of an event that happened to me and my brother (whose name has been changed for the sake of protecting his identity). Please bear in mind that I was a skeptic up until the following events occurred in my life. Now I am more open to the existence of ghosts/demons/paranormal activities.

Four years ago, I used to live with my parents, two sisters, and older brother in Northern California. That summer (four years ago) my brother, Ken, was forced to marry his girlfriend because he got her pregnant; at the time, he was 19 and she was 17. In August of that same year, I decided to move to Wisconsin. After living in Wisconsin for two years, I received a phone call from my parents. They seemed distraught. I was informed by my parents that my brother's wife had left him, and that in a state of despair he attempted to end his own life by drinking bleach. At the time, I was still in college and classes were still in session. However, seeing as how this was a family emergency, I decided to take a week off. After the phone call, I booked a flight to CA, with my plane leaving the following day.

When I arrived in CA, I was somewhat dazed and drowsy from the long flight. However, I went to the hospital as quickly as possible to visit Ken. At the hospital, I waited in the lobby with my other relatives until we were permitted to see Ken, who was placed in the intensive care unit (ICU). Since only two people were allowed into the ICU at the time, I was one of the last to see my brother. When I was finally given the chance to see Ken, I headed towards his room with my father (this was around 12:30 at night). As soon as we rounded the corner in the hospital's hallway, I noticed a dark figure roughly three to four feet high enter into Ken's room. I thought nothing of it because I was tired, so I shrugged it off. In the ICU, I stared at my brother's almost lifeless body. My father was to my left; he tried hard to keep from crying. I, on the other hand, was too tired to feel anything.

After five days of staying in the hospital, my brother was able to come back home. We were all glad to see him alive and doing relatively well. Once my seven days were up, off I went, back to WI. It wasn't until a little over one year after Ken's attempted suicide that I received another phone call from home. This time it was my younger sister, who told me that my father just had a heart attack. So once more I booked another week-long trip to CA. This time, I decided to bring along a friend of mine, since he has never been to CA and wanted to tag along. Our plane landed in CA at roughly 11:00 PM and my friend was exhausted from the trip, so we decided to go straight to bed instead of visiting my father at the hospital. That night, my friend and I slept on my parents' living room couches. At roughly 3:00 AM, I was awaken by my friend calling out my name: "Haruku, wake up!"

Since I'm a light sleeper, I woke up almost instantly. "What's wrong?" I asked.
He replied, "Didn't you say that your brother, Ken, smokes?"
I answered, "Yes he does. Whenever he needs to smoke, he'd go into the garage and smoke."
My friend paused for a few seconds, then said, "Well, I think I saw him go into the garage to smoke. You see...the thing is...I saw a dark, manly figure walk into the garage. At first I thought it was your brother, but then I never saw him come out."

I thought he was just joshing around, so I asked him, "Ooooookay, are you sure you weren't dreaming?"
In a serious tone, he whispered, "I'm not. I was wide awake when I saw what appeared to be your brother walking from the hallway into the garage. But he never turned on the lights and he never came back!"

I noticed the seriousness in his voice, so I got off the couch and proceeded towards the kitchen, where the garage door was located. After I turned on the kitchen lights, I noticed that the garage door was left open by as much as two inches. That sparked my curiosity since I distinctly recalled my mother having locked and closed the garage door before we all went to bed. I proceeded into the garage, where I felt an icy cold presence, even though it was a humid July night. Out of curiosity I decided to touch the ashtray. Surprisingly, it was still quite warm! I concluded that it was indeed my brother Ken who decided to have a midnight cigarette before going to bed. I then talked my friend into going back to bed.

The following day, I confronted Ken about the events that unfolded the night before. I asked him, "Soooo, did you go for a cigarette last night at around 3-ish???"
He looked at me with an odd expression and said, "No I didn't."
So then I asked, "Did you smoke AT ALL anytime during the night???"
Ken answered, "Yes, I did. I smoked a cigarette at 9 last night before going to bed."

After hearing Ken's response, a cold chill ran down my back. If he last smoked at 9, the ashtray couldn't have stayed warm for 6 hours! We sat on the front porch, speechless for a few minutes. Then Ken said, "Hey, I never told anyone this, but after my wife left me, I just fell apart. I was really depressed and I felt horrible. Then I started to hear some voices in my head...you know...telling me to kill myself. That's why I drank bleach. And the strangest thing happened to me while I was at the hospital. That night at the hospital, I saw you and Dad by my bed. I wanted to comfort Dad because he was going to cry, but I couldn't. There were these little black demons that kept poking and prodding my body. Some of them were ripping off my flesh and boy did I smell bad. I also wanted you to help me out, but I just couldn't speak at all. It felt so horrible! Those five days of staying at the hospital were the worst days of my life. By the way, thanks for coming to see me."

His comments spooked me even more! As I recalled, Ken was unconscious that night, so he couldn't have seen me, nor our father. Yet somehow, if he was dreaming, how could he have dreamed that both I and our father were by his side...and that our father was almost in tears?!?!?! What scared me the most, though, was how I saw that shadowy figure enter the ICU that same night. Ken continued speaking: "I still see them too. I don't know what they are exactly, but every now and then I'd see a shadow darting across the hallway. Sometimes they would move fast, sometimes they'd move slow. They seem to like the darkness, always heading towards dark spots in our house."

It was then that I realized my friend wasn't dreaming, nor was it my brother who went out for a cigarette the previous night. Too scared and unable to fully comprehend what I was hearing, I went back inside and laid down on the couch. Once I soaked in what Ken told me earlier, I came to this revelation: What if some people who committed suicide or homicide did so only because they were truly compelled to by a greater force? I may never know for sure about this statement, but I do know that what I saw, what Ken saw, and what my friend saw were not normal shadows.

My cat sees a ghost?

2008-09-19T17:04:00.000-07:00

By: Unknown

My husband & i & our 13 yr old son have recently moved into an apartment.we have 2 cats, one siamese.ever since we moved here, carlos(the cat) seems to be stuck to my side.walks me down the hallway and even sleeps in bed with us.he stand at my feet while i do dishes, which i thought was odd since he never seemed to even care for me before.the first night i was here i noticed something strange.my husband was at work and my son wasn't home so i was alone unitl about 2 am. Around 11:30 i was walking down the hallway and as i turned into the bathroom, i noticed out of the corner of my eye the light in the hallway went out behind me.the light is controlled with a pull string from the ceiling. I turned it back on and tried to rationalize it.told my husband although he didnt seem to believe me. So a few weeks later he and i are in the living room watching a movie,(in the bathroom i keep a little radio that is always on real low)in the background we can faintly hear our sons favorite song playing on the radio,we even made a comment if he was home we wouldnt be able to hear the tv.a few seconds later the radio went full blast and stayed that way unitl we went in the bathroom and turned it off.ok.a few weeks ago my son and i left to go somewhere. I specifically left two lights on in the front of the house. As we were driving up the street to come home, my son noticed that th ehouse was dark, and said mom, u shut all the lights off?? You never do. I said yes as not to concern him but no i did not. I remember seeing them on as i drove away from the house.and the cat, he is always staring at the wall, for hours, i mean his face directly facing the wall as if he was in time out. Always in that same hallway by the bathroom.he escorts me everywhere literally. I do not leave a room without him coming with me.well the lights are all pull strings. Impossible.i just turn them back on. But this morning concerned me.

I had come home from picking him up from work and we went to bed around 4 am.(keep in mind i live in an upstairs apartment, so i have a door and then stairs and a door to outside.) As im walking down the hall i notice my door is open. My door to go downstairs!!!! I specifically checked the door before i went to bed, i remember this.i dont mean cracked, or something the cat could have done. The door drags on the carpet when you open it. I think i thought i was seeing things and walked right past it, went in to get my son up, came back and sure enough, my door was literally halfway open and the damn cat was downstairs in the hallway. This one i cannot rationalize. This makes no sense what so ever.this really gets me because i specifically checked the door before i went to bed because i remember squinting to see if i could tell if i had locked the deadbolt, only i couldnt tell because it was dark so i pushed on it with my right hand twice to make sure it was shut twice. I got up and it was open.

Childhood hauntings

2008-09-10T17:17:00.000-07:00

By: Charlotte

When my mother was a young child she lived on a farm "Help Ons" (translated from Afrikaans it means "Help Us") in the Free State, South Afica. On that farm they experienced many supernatural phenomena which caused my mother ,as a child, to stammer. The house was a long way from the road and countless times they would see a car or a horse buggy driving down the road towards their house only to disappear once they went outside to meet it. This is one of the milder stories. Every night at about 21:00 a huge ball of red fire would come "flying" from the wind mill, this sounds highly suspicious, I know, but I have heard of similiar sightings across our country. It would would circle the house and return to the mill and disappear. Other "normal" everyday encounters included hearing the sugar being poured out in the kitchen, the next morning nothing odd is found, keys would rattle, footsteps heard in the passages and the windows would rattle and this freaked my mum out to no end and she ended up screaming every night (even today, every now and then we still have to get up to calm her). Nighttime visits included the half-bodied man (his lower half was missing) standing at the foot of the bed leaning over the children watching them until they woke up screaming. My uncle would be waking up with a heavy weight pushing down on his chest and would be paralyzed, the only thing that ever worked to get rid of it was to "pray it away". There was the funny encounter of the time when my mum's sister and her very young son came to visit and he woke everybody with his laughing at the funny "skeleton man" looking at him. But the strangest of all was the following which only happened a couple of times: they would wake up in the morning to see a huge mound of sand somewhere in the field, only to get there and to find a huge hole in the ground where the mound was and the next day nothing odd was there. All of this happened almost 24 years ago, the house no longer exists, it's a barn now. The farm still exists but is no longer held in the family. it would be interesting to know if the new owners experienced the same oddities... Today we are still haunted by various spirits and oddities, might this be a family thing?? We are all aware of the activities, but none of us are as freaked out about it as my mother as she remembers being traumatized as a young girl.

One ring to rule the all...calls forth a visit

2008-09-10T17:16:00.000-07:00

By: LittleDreamer

"One ring to rule them all...One ring to find them..." This is absolutely true... My twin sister and I have painted the above script from Lord of the Rings around the walls of our room in black paint. We thought, at the time, that it was rather pretty. Little did we know that Sauron's text would call forth a visitor... My mom's friend, Eané Hamm, was a psychic and she came to visit her the one day. They were sitting in the home-office and were chatting when Eané mentioned that something was bothering her in the house. She wanted to investigate and took a walk around the house. As she walked along the passage leading to our room she got some odd feelings and a young dark haired man of about 20 was standing in our room. Apparently he was rather handsome :-) She does not freak out easily so she communicated with him. She asked him who he was and what he was doing there. He never gave his name, but did tell her that he was a drug addict who died because of an over-dose of whatever it was he was on. He told her that "the twins must get rid of the script on the wall," and pointed to the painted ruins, "because it was attracting / drawing dark spirit forces." Also he was watching over us. I have no idea who the young man was or why he was watching over us, but as soon as we got the message we painted the walls and a lot of strange activity ended in our room such as scratches against door and pictures tearing themselves off the wall ... quite odd... Anyway, the young drug-addict's message was clear and after that Eané did not sense him again. Who knows why that young ghost would come to warn us of a line from Lord of the Rings (which obviously was evil coz Sauron wasn't a good guy, hey?) We are still Lord of the Rings fans though :-)

Ectoplasm

2008-09-07T17:22:00.000-07:00

By: Unknown

This photograph was taken with an old-styled Polaroid land camera in 1959 at a location on north Damen Ave. which no longer exists. It shows a real girl standing on the stairs and this strange mist-like substance which seems to be exuding from her stomach region and collecting along the entire stairway. Some parts are translucent while others seem visually opaque. This may be a psychic photograph; in other words ectoplasm being produced by a living person. Externalization of thought.

Additional new information: A recent email from the person in the picture sheds more light on this most unusual picture.

"My parents had bought a real old Mansion that had been turned into a roomy house at that time. The rooming house was located on Damen Ave across the street from Wicker Park in Chicago. There were all kinds of stories about things in that old Mansion. Someone had hung themselves in the basement a long time before we bought the Mansion. The basement had a dirt floor it was so old. The dress I was wearing was found in a old trunk in the basement. It had been left there by a women who did an old vaudeville act. My mother used to let me play with lots of old stuff that I found in that old building. There were secret passages, going from a room to another room. It was a very interesting place to live."

Japanese Graveyard Ghost

2008-09-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

By: Unknown

This picture was taken in Seto-City, Aichi prefecture. It looks like the upper body and face floating directly above a tombstone. This picture was taken by Mr. Mizuno in September of 1985. The new construction site to the left of the picture was once part of the graveyard on the right and perhaps some angry spirit was unhappy about having his earthly remains disturbed. It is now believed to simply be a trick of the eye, as it looks remarkably similar in both color and texture to other nearby tombstones in the area.

Condemed Building

2008-09-07T17:13:00.000-07:00

By: Unknown

When I was 24 I moved into an apartment with my boyfriend. He had signed a lease for this place without me looking at it. It's a place I would have never picked. This building had 16 apartments and only one on the first floor was occupied. The landlord told us that the building had been condemed at one time and that he was fixing up the apartments one by one.

My boyfriend and I fixed up the place, we tore up the carpet and painted all the rooms. It was clean and liveable, but not much more. We'd lived there for a month or two, when my boyfriend had to leave for two weeks to report for duty with the National Guard. I was left alone.

One afternoon I jumped in the shower and my boyfriend had put a can of shaving cream on the side of the tub. While shaving my legs I accidentally knocked the can off onto the old marble floor. I heard the can roll across and hit the wall. I thought nothing of it and went about my business. I shut off the water and grabbed my towel. When I stepped out, I looked down and that can was sitting upright in the middle of the doorway. Funny thing about that is that there is a small raised piece of marble that it would have had to roll up? Didn't make any sense to me. I couldn't figure out how it got there, but I didn't think too much of it.

The next day I was getting ready to go into my apartment and looked down the hall I could see a light on underneath the door of another apartment. I knew no one lived there. It being broad daylight, I wasn't too afraid. I walked down and the door was unlocked. I walked in and the place was disgusting. In the bathroom someone had taken red paint and wiped it all over the walls and mirror, there were old clothes thrown all over the floor and I found a box of old albums.

I started to dig through the box to see if there were any worth keeping. I came across one that had writing all over it. I started to read through it and it said things like, "He's watching me I can feel it." "He's going to kill me, I have to hide from his eyes." Just a lot of strange things most didn't make any sense at all. This was a little too weird for me.

I left to go for a bike ride. I came back and got in the shower, I was sitting there looking at that can thinking, "What if I knocked that off and opened the curtain and it was sitting in that same place." So I knocked it off, heard it roll, finished my shower. When I opened the curtain I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There it sat upright in the same place. Maybe this was all coincidence, but it really freaked me out, the whole place, those other apartments. I put on my clothes and left, no make up, didn't even dry my hair. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I never saw or heard anything else, but I moved out within a month.

The Man Watching My Niece

2008-08-31T00:38:00.000-07:00

By: chinchai

This story happened in Cavite, a few months ago, in my sister's new home.

Strange things started when my sister and her family transferred to their new home. My niece started to get sick and would wake up screaming in the middle of night. Sometimes my sister would see that her daughter seemed to be talking to someone my sister couldn't see, though my sister couldn't understand her words. My niece is still learning to talk (she's one year and four months old when this story happened,) but you would know how toddlers respond when somebody plays or talks to them.

A few months had passed and my niece doesn't seem to get better. They decide to bring her home to our province, hoping that she would get better. And true enough, she recovered and hadn't been sick ever since they arrived. It was only then when my brother in-law told her the reason why he sent them home.

He said he saw a black man beside the bed, staring at my niece one night when she was sick and he couldn't move. He couldn't figure out the face, but he knew that it was a man based on the shape. After the sighting, he left the light on all night long to be sure that he could watch his daughter sleep. He didn't see the black man again, but sometimes, when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he could feel that someone is inside their house. He was alone in the house after my sister and niece went home to the province. He told the story to their neighbors who live across the street, and a neighbor told him that she had seen an old woman by the window several times already. The old woman was the previous owner's mother, who died in the house.

My brother in law still lives in that house but doesn't come home often. Instead, he usually sleeps in the barracks to avoid seeing the man again.

THE ENTITY IS UPSTAIRS!

2008-08-26T18:05:00.000-07:00

By: Samantha

I took this picture from my grandfather's old house after he past away. The house always gave me a creepy feeling so I asked a friend to come with me to take some pictures. We got a lot of odd pictures and pictures that had, what appeared to us, faces in them. There was no electricity in the house so I had brought an oil lantern along with us. We made it upstairs and I had suggested going into the attic room. As soon as I said that, the fire from the lantern went out... which no windows were open so there was no breeze and neither of us simply blew it out. I snapped a picture as soon as I could and this is what showed up in the picture. This face appeared in the hole in the wall. We immediately left after that! Please note: I lightened the area around the hole for better charity but as you can see, there is no denying the presence of an entity in that old house.

Eastern State Penitentiary Ghost

2008-08-21T17:53:00.000-07:00

By: Chelsea

"The picture above is from Eastern State Penitentiary. My older sister went with her friend. This place was having a tour they went to and took pictures. The place isn't used anymore that she knows of and the guide person said no one was down this hallway or in any room. She took a picture and when she got them processed, there was a shadow that wasn't there before. I don't really know about the green square in the picture though. She never said anything about it. And also the 5. I'm not sure if it's a label for the hallway or something else. I don’t' know if that is a light at the top either."

Face on the Oven Tray

2008-08-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

By: Chris and Jean

"I have just been browsing the internet to try and find somewhere I could post some pictures that were taken on Saturday 02 Sep 2006. Please let me explain, my wife and I got a Chinese take away on Saturday afternoon to have later in the evening. We put part of the meal onto an oven tray that has been covered in tin foil. Once we had finished the meal I took off the foil to wash the dish and found the following image on the dish. We have not got any idea who the image is, or how and why it appeared on our dish. Please let us know if anybody has any ideas."

Basement Murder

2008-08-14T16:41:00.000-07:00

By: Kaya

Every one tells their stories of evil mine is of good. One night my friend Kalie and i decided to make a home made ouija board. We sat in the basement of her house for 15-30 minutes and nothing happened...then we said "say hello if you're there" and it moved to hello. As it turned out we had met a 15 year old hispanic girl ghost who didn't speak much english. The sad thing is her death was no accident, she was murdered and dumped in a field where in later years kailes house would be built. She was buried under the very floor we were sitting on but she was kind answered our questions and said she will talk to us again. No evil intention she just wanted some friends she had been lonely.

Haunting Investigation of Sutter's Fort

2008-08-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

By: Paul Dale Roberts

Today is September 16, 2007, Sunday. I have been receiving a few emails from people who read my articles and they have asked why I don't I have HPI investigate Sutter's Fort. Supposingly, there has been EVPs picked up in and around Sutter's Fort, where a man is yelling that he needs his rope. Another EVP picked up the galloping sound of horses. When I read the emails, I knew it was time to do a scouting mission. I called upon HPI Paranormal Investigator-In-Training/Scout/Sensitive/Ghostwriter: Athena Quinn. Yes, Athena is a ghost writer in her own right and has ghost stories of her own experiences published at various ghost websites. Athena says she is my fan and I am her fan too.

The equipment we would be using this day is 'Listen Up' which enhances sound and a digital camera. As we walked around Sutter's Fort, which was prominently active from 1839-1850, Athena feels a fluxation of energy in certain areas of the Fort. We take time to pause, so I can learn when she was aware she was a sensitive. She tells me that when she was 4 or 5 years old, she became aware of spirits around her. She was able to pick up on their energy. She has also lived in a haunted house growing up. She has explained this story in one of her articles. While living in this haunted house, she witnessed objects moving from one area and deliberately placed on a table by an invisible force. She saw the apparation of her baby dog Jellybean. She also has the gift of psychometric. Her brother collected foreign coins and he could place them in her hand and she was able to tell him what country the coin came from.

As I got the basics of her life, we continued to investigate. At one tower of the Fort, she felt a presence and was able to see a dark silhouette. At another corner of the Fort, she felt death and violence in the immediate area. What was interesting, we both were drawn to that particular corner of the Fort. During our investigation at the Fort, I took no unusual photos, nor did I hear any EVPs with my sound enhancement device.

But, things were a bit more interesting at the Pioneer Congregational Church. As I stuck my sound enhancement device through large wooden gates into the church, I picked up a voice of a small boy, I heard footsteps and a cabinet opening. I heard a moan that sounded like a man's voice. When Athena tried the same thing, she heard a double thud noise and a choir singing inside. The church from all practical purposes was empty of people. The reason why we probably couldn't pick up EVPs at the Fort, is that the Fort was closed when we arrived and we couldn't get inside, plus the sound of moving cars and people walking around added a lot of interference. With the Church, I was able to squeeze my sound enhancement device through the crevice of the door, eliminating any outside sound interference.

I would like to look more into Sutter's Fort/Pioneer Congregational Church, but I think it needs to be investigated during late hours, when the traffic dies down and people are asleep.

A last phone call from my Cousin

2008-08-10T17:16:00.000-07:00

By: Marjorie

I have to admit that I don't recount this story very often, and it's basically because I'm afraid that the story is too odd to believe, people will think I'm crazy, but my story is 100% true. My older cousin John was more like a surrogate father to me than a cousin, my Mother and he were of only a couple years difference in age. I visited with him in Ohio one summer, only for a week or so and I could tell his health was heading for a downturn. We kept in touch on the telephone for the next year and a half and during that time he was diagnosed with late stage terminal cancer. One morning around 5am my telephone rang, (it was one of my crazy friends back east who forgot about the time difference between California and Virginia - she thought it was later than it actually was), I could barely move, it felt like someone had been draining the blood from my body, my mind was foggy and I could barely talk, I told her I'd call her when I woke up later, and hung up the phone. I fell immediately back to sleep by closing my eyes, and into my sleep I dreamt that the telephone rang, and on the other end of the line was my cousin John! The conversation went like this, "Hi John, how are you?", "Oh, I'm feeling wonderful, just fantastic." He sounded like he had just hit the lottery, the most cheerful and happy I had ever heard him speak in my entire life, very animated tone of voice, and very clearly speaking - not sluggish or sickly as he had sounded on the phone. I then tried to carry on a little bit of a conversation with him, but he cut off my speech and he said, "Don't worry about me, I'm very happy and I'm doing great", I then said, "Oh that's great John." Then he said he had to go and we said goodbye, love you, and hung up the phone. Around 9:20 a.m. my real telephone rang and woke me from my sleep. It was my mother calling to say that John had died, and I asked her "When? I just talked to him!". She said it happened around 8:37 a.m. (that would have been 5:37 a.m. California time). It was then that I realized he called me in my dream, we spoke for a short moment, and at the same time he was passing away. It made me feel very special to know that he thought so highly of me that he chose me as his last person to speak to. I'm teary eyed as I recount this story for you, this was a very emotional moment for me and it still feels as if it just happened yesterday.

Haunted house on stapleton road

2008-08-10T17:12:00.000-07:00

By: Temple

After moving in to my new house six months ago it has come to my attention that there is something strange going on which has left me and my wife at our wits end and in need of some help. Me and my wife recently moved into our new house on 23rd of June 2007. On the day of the move my brother Rob helped us move are stuff and by 18:00 o'clock that evening we where moved in. Because we were due to fly to Spain that night for a family holiday we simple dumped every thing into the lounge minus our beds and packed our suitcases, before leaving for the airport. As strange as this may seem but the holiday was pre booked and the exchange was completed on this day. Two weeks later when we arrived back home from our trip we discovered that our belongings had been moved around and destroyed. The wardrobe which me and my brother had put into the lounge at the front of the house up against the wall had been knocked over and trashed along with a few boxes of plates which had been placed on the work surface in the kitchen. These seemed to have been thrown onto the kitchen floor. The strange thing was the boxes seem to have claw marks in them. One of the boxes was completely ripped to pieces. To be fair this scared us, I don't know if any of you know where Bexleyheath is but its not far from London and I can assure you there are no bears, wolves or anything with claws running around except maybe the mangy old foxes. Everything seemed fine for a couple of days after that. I went back to work fully charged and keen to get back into the swing of things and my wife who had booked another week off to sort out the house stayed home. I got a phone call from my wife about 11 in the morning saying that while she was in the shower she had heard the bedroom door bang and footsteps along the hallway before hearing a knock on the bathroom door. Thinking it was me home early from work she called out for me to enter. The bathroom door swung open but there was no one there. Her calls where left unanswered. She was pretty shaken up by the incident. That night when I arrived home from work I locked the porch door which was my custom before sitting down to eat dinner. Some time later the door bell started to ring profusely which seemed strange because it was on the front door not the porch which was locked. When I went to look it suddenly stopped. Going back to my dinner it began again until once more I reached the front door when it stopped. This time, quiet freaked out, I decided to take the batteries out of the door bell which should have stopped it. It never and every time I got to the door it stopped. A few nights later when I was laying in bed waiting for my wife, who was in the bathroom, the light on the ceiling began to flicker before going completely out. Once the light came back on the light fitting was swinging in a frenzy. Seconds later my wife began screaming. As I jumped out of bed and rushed to her aid she was hysterical saying she had seen a black shadowy figure in the mirror standing behind her and it had whispered in her ear that she was going to hell. While we were in the bathroom I became angry at these strange goings on and started to confront them only to hear what can only be described as growling followed by laughter. From that night on my wife has refused to even set foot into the house prefering to stay with her mother. I too have now moved out, but on one occasion last week when I went back to make sure the house was tidy for a perspective buyer I saw what looked like an old English Red Coat, the like which faught in the war for independence in America. So far I have been unable to find any information on this whatsoever. dONT USE ANY PART OF THIS STORY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!

Enlargement of the ghostly face behind the grave stones

2008-08-10T16:53:00.000-07:00

By:unknown

It was a cold and lonely night. I don't know why I decided to take a shortcut though the church grave yard late that night. It must have been fate that I happened to have my camera with me. A sudden chill feel upon me as I heard a mysterious noise and shuffling footsteps upon leaves. Seeing the ghostly face behind graves to my left, I snapped off a picture with my camera. When I moved the camera away from my eyes the ghostly face was no where to be seen.

Later I examined the photo to see if my eyes had been playing tricks on me. There it was, the mysterious face behind the graves. When I looked closer I could see that it was semi transparent as though it was vanishing into the night. Perhaps a troubled entity still lingering from the past.

This picture shows just the ghostly face from behind the grave stones, so that you can see it better. You can see that the face is semi-transparent and appears to be looking down in the direction of the graves. The rest of the head is not really visible as if it where under a dark hood of some kind.

Halloween eve haunting

2008-08-05T17:47:00.000-07:00

By: Robert

It was about 11:45 on October 30th 2004 when I decided to go to bed for the evening. Everything was normal, the wife, suffering from a cold, had gone to bed several hours before and was fast asleep. Our two dogs, Australian Shepard, faithfully followed me to our upstairs master bedroom as they have done since they were pups. Both dogs are extremely protective of my wife and me and respond to knocks on the door and uninvited guests with angry barks. The aggression is only for show as they have never bit anyone, but they will run towards someone and stop short to send a warning. This particular evening the dogs were uneasy for several hours before I retired to bed. Several times they had ran to the foot of the stairs and barked as if they had seen someone. Anyone who owns a dog knows that they will bark very differently for different reasons, fun bark, happy bark, stay away bark, etc. This was stay away barking, loud and mean. Each time I investigated all I found was an annoyed wife that had been awakened by the barking. The dogs had behaved this way a few other times over the four years since we moved into our new home, so I did not think too much of it. This evening was also different in that once I was in bed I could not get the dogs to sleep on the floor. I would order them down only to have them jump right back onto the bed within a few minutes. When one of the dogs jumped up causing my wife to kick at her from under the blanket I sat up to scold her and make her get down. What I saw next scared the hell out of me. Standing at the foot of our bed was a grey haired man wearing a dark shirt just looking at us. Because of the dog jumping on the bed my wife had also sat up and saw the man at the same time. She started yelling, “oh my god, oh my god, who is that?”. I turned to my nightstand to switch on the light only to find he was gone when I looked back. My wife at this point was scrambling for the phone to call 911 and I was reaching for my gun. All I was thinking was that we had an intruder and I was going to shoot his ass. I asked my nearly hysterical wife where he went and she responded that he just turned and vanished. I assumed her answer meant he had run out of the room in response to the commotion so I followed with gun in hand. I called our dogs several times to help with the search only to find they were cowering back on our bed with my wife. I scanned the house by myself, gun in one hand flashlight in the other. After searching every room, under every bed and in every closet I concluded that the intruder had somehow gotten away. I wondered how this was possible as all the doors to the outside were securely locked and dead bolted. I searched the house one more time and then made a walk around the front and back yards with the same results, no one was there.

Haunted chair

2008-08-05T17:44:00.000-07:00

By: Florida Mom

My daughter spotted a cute wicker chair in perfect condition sitting at our neighborhood dumpster. She brought it home, washed it and put it in the corner of her bedroom. Immediately, she started to feel like someone was in the room with her and she had trouble sleeping. She said she could feel someone standing over her when she was in bed. She finally got too spooked by it and decided to throw it away. I thought that a simple chair couldn't possibly be haunted so I put it in my room for a nice reading chair. I immediately started feeling the same thing - I could sense someone unfamiliar to me in my room. Not threatening but not warm or friendly either. Then one night, I was in the shower and I heard a loud rap on the closed bathroom door - like something hard had been thrown against the door. I turned off the shower and opened the curtain to see who was there - the bathroom door (which had been closed and latched) was standing wide open. I called for my daughter to see if she was looking for me but she didn't answer. I wrapped up in a towel and went out to the living room to see where she was. She was at the computer with her headphones on, just as she was when I went into the shower. There was no one else in the house and all doors and windows were locked from the inside. I got rid of the chair that night and all strange occurences and feelings have stopped.

31 unexplainable project incident

2008-08-01T17:46:00.000-07:00

By: Rudy

Late afternoon, July 17, 2008 I had just finished building the clear plexiglas (acrylic) case for the small project I had been working on over a few days. The project consisted of some plastic and ceramic human and animal figures arranged in a very special way. These figures can stand on their own but easily tip over so they had to be glued on some kind of platform. I had the pattern of the platform in mind and I decided to construct the platform from the plexiglas sheet left over from the plastic case which I had just built. I laid out the plastic and ceramic figures on a piece of paper, placed the plexiglas case over to verify dimensions, then from there I drew the pattern.

Now, it should be noted that plexiglas is not an easy material to work with. It is almost as hard as glass. The specific plexiglas sheet I used was 1/8 inch thick. To cut a piece from this sheet, a scour at least 1/16 inch deep must be made on the sheet and then snap or break off the piece by shearing, i.e., by bending or hammering on the piece while holding the sheet against a flat surface. If the scour is not deep enough, the plastic will break off radomly and an undesired cut will be made.

The pattern I wanted for the platform was something very special. It had six sides so six pieces had to be cut from the plexiglas sheet which meant I had to scour and shear six times. I had no cutting machine for the plexiglas so I used whatever tool was available. Unfortunately, the scours I could make using these impoverished tools would not be deep enough. Nevertheless, I started to cut the first piece. During shearing, the plexiglas broke off randomly about midway along and 8 degrees from the scour. The cut was straight and smooth but 5 mm short of the pattern! Now this cut was off the pattern and not what I desired. I thought of cutting another plexiglas sheet to be perfect but I did not like to repeat and encounter the same difficulties. So I continued scouring and breaking off the rest of the pattern on the plexiglas. Finally the platform was finished but I was disgusted knowing that the platform was not what I wanted. Then the "moment of truth!". I placed the case over the platform. Lo and Behold! The case and the platform were a perfect fit!

What I cannot explain here is that the platform would have been 5 mm too long if the plexiglas had not snapped off randomly. Needless to say that if the plexiglas had broken off according to the scoured pattern, the finished platform would not have fit perfectly under the case. This would have meant more work! And another thing, that particular portion of the platform which was cut when the plexiglas broke off randomly was the straightest and smoothest of all the cuts that were sheared off from the poorly scoured pattern.

Was this incident a mere coincidence? I would have said yes for quick and easy reasoning, but no, I believe NOT if things have to be perfect! Here again there was something paranormal. Could it be that perfection or success achieved inspite of impoverished odds would have been impossible without something paranormal behind it? Examples of these perfection and success will be too numerous to mention but one of them is yourself. Search yourself and in retrospect of some event in your past it is very probable that you would say, "How did I do it? That was impossible!"

666

2008-08-01T17:45:00.001-07:00

By: vaishnavi gupta

Hai i am a student of 10th class belive it or not the story i am saying is surely real. That my aunty has gave got a child from the hospital she loved her a lot because she didnot had children so that girl was born on 06-06-06 and that was a evils number and unluck was everytime with her only when she born only her dad and mom died. so 1 day in 2007 night the girl went to bathroom and coming she saw something like her mother only as she had not seen her but she went near and she was sleeping near her some sounds were coming her mom,dad and me went to room and saw some person was there.At a time she killed the child and and she got disappered and till now we never visited that house and specially that room because now also we get some sounds from that room and we belive that if any person enters the room will never come back again. Thank god her mother is safe after her daughter's death.

The ghost goes bump in the night

2008-07-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

By: nancy

It was a dark desolate night...my aunts and i were deep asleep. When all of a sudden one of my aunts wakes up to go to the bathroom. It was dark, scary, and lonely. As my aunt gets out of the bathroom, she bumps into who she thinks was my other aunt. So she goes back into our room to find that my aunt is in a deep sleep...the next morning she said "sorry for bumping into you last night." Weird huh?! So it happens that my other aunt never woke up....=/!!!

My dead uncle's ghost hovered over my brother

2008-07-28T18:06:00.000-07:00

By: U Don't No Me

When my mum was young, her brother died at the age of 26, he died of a diease called spinadyphia(spine-a-diph-e-a), and the doctors told his parents that he wouldn't live to see his 1st christmas! Anyway, when my brother was born, he was named after my uncle, and when he was young, we took a pic and there was a ghostly image next to him! He would also look into an empty space and suddenly laugh, maybe he was looking at our dead uncle. SPOOKY!

Angry Spirit Guide

2008-07-23T18:09:00.000-07:00

By: Chrizanne

A few nights ago my dad had encountered a very angry spirit. My dad is a very mean, abusive and aggressive man. So, my parents aren't sharing a room anymore. Three nights ago my dad was woken with a spirit sitting on top of him and hitting him all over. After the ghost finished its task, my dad went into my mom's room very upset. He had to go for an job interview the next morning with a swollen eye and a very stiff body. This is the truth and we believe that his spirit guide wanted to give him an wake up call. This is the truth and he is still walking around with that eye...

The Lady In The Chair

2008-07-22T17:11:00.000-07:00

By: KentuckyVelvet

Several years ago, the kids and I lived in a small 3 bedroom house in a place called Jenny's Creek. From the first night there, I knew there was something not right about this place. Even some friends that are entirely NOT sensitive to the paranormal agreed that something wasn't right. I'd see things and hear things at all hours of the day and night. The kids (then 5 and 6) would see and hear things also. This particular story takes place at night, following an extremely "active" day for paranormal activity. This day, I had been getting ready for Christmas as I had a day off work and the kids were in school. From the early morning, things had been thrown off counters and walls, there were thumps and footsteps. I even got pushed once coming down the hall, albeit, not hard enough to hurt me. That night, I got the kids into the bath and then bed and read them a story before turning out the lights. I was rather tired myself and so I turned in a little while later. In the hall was this green chair. It was a kind of regal old chair with old fashioned legs ending in claw feet. The color was emerald, striped with alternating shiny and dull cloth. The chair was in the house when we got there and I thought it was interesting and so I kept it. After turning a small nightlight on in the hall, I checked in on the kids and went to bed with a good book. After only a few minutes I started hearing thumps and so on. As I mentioned, this had been happening all day and really didn't bother me much. After a while, I started hearing actual voices. Now, this was much different than what I was used to and it bothered me a bit. I listened for a bit and could hear laughing, very quietly. I went to my bedroom door and looked down the hall and saw someone sitting in the green chair, just as plain as if it had you you or I. Now, to give you a better picture, the hallway was laid out thus: coming from the living room, on the right, was the chair, facing the opposite wall, then, on the left was my son's room, then the bathroom on the right, my bedroom, again on the right, and then my daughter's room at the very rear of the hall. As I looked out, I looked to my left to see the chair, and the lady sitting in it. At my gasp of surprise, she turned to look at me and had this grin on her face. Jeeze, that grin was almost my undoing. It was so.. evil. She looked at me and grinned and looked directly into my son's room. That chilled my spine. I immediately went to his room, even though I had to go within 2 or 3 feet of that woman, and I lifted my son into my arms and took him into my room and laid him on the bed. I came back out to get my daughter and looked back at the chair and she was still there, still grinning, only bigger this time. I could actually see her teeth, half rotted in her mouth. Hating the thought of turning my back on her, I went into my daughter's room and lifted her into my arms and when I came back with her to my door, that woman was still there, never having taken her eyes off my daughter's bedroom door. I realized that I was crying, actually sobbing, and when I looked back at her, she looked like she was laughing, though I couldn't hear it. I didn't even realize I was going to talk until I actually heard myself saying "You can NOT have my babies!". At this, she stopped grinning but she never took her eyes off me. I stared her down for a few seconds and repeated what I said, and then I went to my room, shut the door and put my daughter in the bed beside my son. Then I dropped to my knees and prayed. All night I could hear the laughing and moving around in the hallway. I wanted to leave there so badly but I'd have had to go past that woman to get out and I was so scared. I didn't close my eyes all night. The next morning the lady was gone and I started looking for another home. It took me about a month to find one and until we moved, we slept in the living room from then on so that if it happened again, I could just get the kids and leave. I did see her again once, but only briefly but I felt her so many times.

Nan's Ghost

2008-07-21T17:43:00.000-07:00

By: Larna

This is a photo of me when I was about five in Riverton, S.A Australia. My great nan had just passed away, and this bears a strange resemblance.

The Ghost of Jim Morrison

2008-07-21T17:39:00.000-07:00

It has been over 4 years since Hollywood resident and Rock and Roll Historian Brett Meisner first noticed a strange image in the background of a photo taken of him at the gravesite of former Doors’ front man Jim Morrison at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. After having the photograph and original negative analyzed by dozens of paranormal and photographic experts, there is still little explanation as to how or why the ghostly image appeared in the photo. Some believe it is a forgery, while others simply think it is just a ray of sunlight playing an odd trick on the human eye. For Brett Meisner, the photo has become a black cloud of bad luck hanging over his head, and he is now looking for a way to get rid of this infamous and very controversial piece of rock and roll history.
The Ghost of Jim Morrison

Brett Meisner barely recalled the 1997 candid graveside photo shoot when an assistant showed him the photo in 2002, pointing out the clearly visible iconic image of Jim Morrison in the background. “I have collected a lot of rock memorabilia over the past few decades so I figured he was playing a joke on me,” explains Meisner. “But once we found the negative and made larger prints, it was quite clear to all of us that we had something odd and unique on our hands.”

Once word of the Morrison ghost photograph spread across the Internet, both skeptics and avid Doors fans came knocking on Meisner’s door. A British film crew from the show “Dead Famous” even flew to Los Angeles, bringing along paranormal expert Chris Fleming who called the photo “one of the best I’ve ever seen.” This publicity led to appearances on the Biography channel and several prominent radio programs, but Meisner began to realize the photo was causing more harm than good.

“I’ve had strangers come to my home at all hours of the night wanting to talk to me saying they had messages from Jim,” explained Meisner. “At first it was sort of interesting to see how many people felt a spiritual bond with Jim and the photo, but now the whole vibe seems negative.”

A failed marriage and the loss of a young friend to a drug overdose were just a few of the tragedies that have befallen Brett Meisner since he rediscovered the photograph. “I’ve lost some high paying clients and nothing but bad luck has plagued me for the past few years.” A spiritual adviser and close friend recently told Meisner that they believe the photograph is part of a curse and that he needs to find a respectful way to part with the image and bring closure to both Brett and the spirit of Morrison.

“Part of me wishes that I would have never stepped foot into the graveyard in the first place,” admits Meisner. “While I also know I’m partly to blame for talking about it in the first place. I should have kept it to myself and not let the media have a field day with something so special and private.

Meisner is currently trying to find a private and reputable organization to donate the photos and negative. So far he has no takers.

Jim Morrison’s gravesite in Pere Lachaise is one of the most popular tourist attractions in a cemetery filled with literary and cultural icons such as Oscar Wilde, Honore de Balzac and Frederic Chopin. Over a thousand people each day visit the gravesite where Morrison was laid to rest in July 1971. Often the crowds are unruly and festive, a fact that is looked down upon by the surviving family members of the nearby graves. In fact, the French government almost moved the body of Morrison in 2001 when the 30 year lease expired, citing his gravesite a nuisance and unwanted attraction. However, pressure from the local artistic community helped keep Jim safe and secure in his final resting place.

The spirit world and ghosts are all around us

2008-07-17T18:25:00.000-07:00

By: CVT6702

Those who want to know the truth about the Spirit World should know that we don't have to look for Spirits and Ghosts in cemeteries and old buildings, they are all around us in our everyday lives, following us and spying on us and sometimes they are spiritual Guides out to do good, and sometimes they are just up to no good and out to prove to themselves what control they have over humans. The things I know about Ghosts and Spirits could shock you and they might cause you to fear the spirit world, but I am thinking more along the lines that better education will cause us to be more aware of our surroundings and just who is controlling our thoughts and actions.

Did you not get the Job because you were not qualified or was it because your much hated mother-in-law in the Spirit World who heard you talking about her again decided to teach you a lesson and this is why you didn't get the Job. And if you were cheating on your wife and someone put a thought in her head who was it that ratted you out? Yes it could have been someone in the Spirit World who has been following you as fatefully as any human gumshoe could do and all they have to do with the information is put a little thought into the mind of someone who needs to know. It could cause you to begin to think your spouse or friends are mind readers when in fact they have these ideas put into their head by a Spirit trying to help them in their everyday lives and the human may not even know where the thought or idea came from.

Keep in mind sometimes teens think their parents have eyes in the backs of their heads or that they can read their minds and know what they are about to do even before they do it and that could be because grandma or grandpa or some other realtives in the Spirit World is shadowing those teens and watching everything they do then they run back and put the idea into the parents heads. Remember if a Realtive or associate was a gossiping busybody on earth always causing trouble they will no doubt be doing the same thing in the Spirit World.

In the Spirit World they don't have to go to bed, or do shopping or go to work and so they have lots of time on their hands and this is how many of them spend that time, helping those back on earth whether they want them to or not. In the Spirit World they can come to your house without calling or knocking, but just walk in anytime they choose day or night and watch you doint anything they choose to and you won't even know it. They can watch you in the bathroom, preening in front of a mirror and put the thought into your head much like this: "Looks like your behind is getting a little big, better lay off that extra slice of pizza"

They can say things to the woman like better do something about that flab and stretchmarks because your husband is dealing with a pretty new girl at the office which he forgot to mention. You can be laying around watching soaps while you think no one knows what you are doing and there you are with a thought nagging you about how lazy and fat your are becoming and that idea can be put into your head by a realitive or guide in the Spirit World who has nothing better to do than follow you around nagging you. The Spirits can have you shaping up or shipping out depending on how they feela bout you and you won't even know what is happening.

If they were drinkers on Earth or into drugs then they could be trying tio put thoughts into your head so they can join you and seek some of these pleasures or even peleasures of the flesh through proxy and by following you about and getting into your thoughts but mostly they just want to see what control they can still have over humans. And think for a moment what happens to the Spirits of the dead who have died in prison after committing violent crimes and or even died in the Death Penalty. I know they are supposed to be burned in Hell but the Reality of the Situation is the souls of Killers and Others are free to roam the earth and do whatever they want to good or bad and this is why on Occassion we have to deal with possessions.

Now we have an added problem now that people are beginning to read books about Walk-In's and things like that and some of these spirits of the Evikl no doubt beleieve they may be free to come back and Commadeer a body and claim it as their own. I don't believe they can Commadeer a human body but I do believe they can give a human a hard time as they try to make them believe they can do this to them. Now who has control over all these Spirits and are some of them lost souls who can't find the Light or have they already seen the Light and now they know they are free to roam the Earth at will and go anywhere they choose and are some misusing that privilege?

And what will Hollywood do with this new found knowledge that I and other Explorers into the World beyond have come across and are now sharing with Planet Earth. And how do you know that I am a Human writing this or whether I am a Spirit who has found a way to operate this computer through thought? And how do you know when you get on your keyboard whether those are your thoughts or whether you are writing thoughts put into your mind through thoughts and mind reading and automatic writing?

Beep Beep...

Famous south african ghost stories

2008-07-17T18:22:00.000-07:00

By: Little Dreamer

Bear with me, this might turn out to be a bit of a long read, but I'm sure it is worth it. I have rarely read any South African ghost stories on the Net and felt that maybe I needed to do something about that. South Africa sports some of the best myths among the "Flying Dutchman" which has been popularized by the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, but the true story is nothing like the film's version.

Captain Hendrik van der Decken, of Holland, wanted to sail past the Cape of Storms (Cape Town) but apparently the weather was horrid and it was Good Friday or something, he cursed and swore at the weather and made an oath to that he will sail past the Cape even is he has to try until the end of days. Well as long as there is an ocean, the "Flying Dutchman" will sail the seas and try to get past the Cape of Storms. It is said that when another ship approaches the Dutchman and accepts the letters it hands over to post they will suffer a major accident. The ship has been sighted and recorded by King George V and his brother Albert. Thus the sighting of the ship promised a future of impending doom.

A local and rather recent story (it stems from the early 1970's) had it's origin in Uniondale, a small town in the Klein Karoo. The story is that of the "Uniondale Ghost" as she is commonly known in South Africa.

The history goes as follows:
The girl and her fiancé was driving on his motorbike on Easter weekend on the road to Uniondale. They made a major accident where she died, the fiancé survived and later married someone else.

If, on a dark night during Easter you drive to Uniondale and see a smallish girl hitchiking and you happen to pick her up, usually the smell of appleblossom would accompany her. She would disappear sometime during the drive and only the smell of the flowers would remain.
Other times if you become aware of the smell of appleblossoms while driving on that road you should know that the Uniondale Ghost had hitched a ride with you and she wishes to go back to her fiancé.
As far as I know her visitations do not bode any evil. A group of ghosthunters claim to have put her to rest, but I'm not so sure...

A last well-known story is that of the "Ghost wagon in the "Spokeveld" (Ghost feld).
The wagon would chase across the fields in the early morning silence with an incredible speed across unseen roads.
Major Ellis recounts the following events in an old book. He was driving in the past coach from Ceres towards Beaufort-West. he was sitting up front with the coach driver when the wheel broke. They had to pull off the road in order to check what happened when they heard a wagon racing towards them. Ellis thought it was on the road heading straight towards them, but Anthony de Beer, the coach driver said No, the sound doesn't come up from the road. Apparently the noise the wagon made was amazing. As the wagon stormed past them Anthony shouted, "Where the devil are you going?"
A loud voice answered, "To hell," and this was followed by a chorus of horrid laughter. As the wagon raced past a gust of icy wind followed them, as can be expected during an encounter with the spirit world. They caught a glimpse of the driver, he had a deadly white face with deadly piercing eyes and a white bandana tied around the lower part of his face. Laughter followed this as well. A few seconds after the wagon passed, the noise disappeared and a scary calm descended over the landscape. Anthony and Ellis ran back towards the coach, but saw two men sitting next to a fire and approached them, the men turned to look at them with deadly white visages and disappeared. The fire which was burning moments earlier was dead and no trace of a recent fire was visible.

Anthony was very depressed, because they knew the story of the ghost wagon.....the legend says that if the wagon races towards you, but no one does anything and it crashes into you, everyone is doomed; but if one person shouts out to the wagon (as Anthony did) he saves everyone's lives at the cost of his own.... Anthony's body was found a week later at the bottom of a cliff with his coach and horses.......

Thank you for reading so patiently, I hope that it was at least a bit interesting. This is really the truth.

The case of demonic exorcism: the laim thatmews story

2008-07-16T18:05:00.000-07:00

By: Paul Dale Roberts

Not too many things scare me and that is why I am in the ghosthunting business. There is only one thing that really scares me. It's called the human monster. I recently watched a movie, that is based on a true story, it's called Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door. Fangoria Magazine and Rue Morgue gave this movie rave reviews. The human monster is a woman. When she takes in 2 of her orphaned nieces, she and her 4 sons torture these two young girls in the basement of their home. The torture is hard to watch and I found myself closing my eyes at certain parts. I usually don't do this in horror films, but knowing that this story is based on a true story, made my skin crawl. I could only wonder if a human monster like this can be possessed by a demon? Can someone actually be this evil? Tonight, I was headed for Border's Books to talk with Tashawna Sumner, Manager of ATHOME PRODUCTIONS www.myspace.com/colorsofthought and her musician boyfriend Anthony Savedra about a future Nevada City scouting mission in which they will be the guides. Her boyfriend Anthony, a singer and songwriter was belting out some incredible songs, that had the whole place at Borders placed into an ambiance of fulfilling harmony with lyrics and tunes that warm the soul. Both Tashawna and Anthony are interested in the paranormal and they will have fantastic sights to show the paranormal investigators-in-training.

After, I finished talking with Tashawna and Anthony, I pondered on what could have created human monsters such as the one depicted in The Girl Next Door. Maybe we should go back to the time of Enlil and Enki, the sons of Anu - Supreme Commander of the Anunnaki, from the planet Nibiru. Perhaps I can find my answer there. Enlil planned to exterminate the human race with a flood, while his half-brother Enki helped a few good people by having them build an ark to survive the flood. Sounds like the story of Noah huh? Believe it or not, this is a story that is not only related in the Bible, but it's related in the Babylon tablets, in which it is called the Gilgamesh Epic. The story of the flood also has similar stories with the American Indian, Mayans, Aztecs, Egyptians and of course the Summerians. Enki was a humanist and creative scientist, while his half-brother was a politician and had a strong passion for control. Enki manipulated the DNA of primates to create mankind. The purpose of creating mankind was to use man as a slave to mine gold from this Earth for their dying planet. In a story that parallels the Garden of Eden in the Summerian text, Enki was represented as a snake. In our Bible, the snake in the Garden of Eden is Satan. The stories are so similar you would think that Enlil vs. Enki is the story of God vs. Satan. Except in the Summerian tablets, Enki defies his half-brother to save his creation. His creation is mankind. Enki wanted mankind to have knowledge of the universe. Enlil tried to suppress this from mankind and banished Enki out of this 'Garden of Eden'. Did you ever wonder why ancient man in all civilizations are obsessed with gold? There are so many shiny stones in the world, why weren't we obsessed with quartz? If you look at gold in the 21st century, it's a practical metal, that can be used in many different ways, it is now used in computers and telecommunication devices. Perhaps that is why the Arc of the Covenant was mostly made of gold, it was a communication device to God. But, what could God be communicating to man through this device? Why have so many people died in the name of God? If we have the DNA of God, what makes some of us monsters? Could it be that Enlil, who considered himself a God amongst the Summerians and all of mankind and thought nothing in regard to exterminating us from this planet, put the monster DNA in each of us? If Enlil represents darkness, while his half-brother Enki represents light, then perhaps this is what makes us the type of people we are. People who have the DNA of God, made from his image. An image that consists of a dark soul and a soul of light. When the dark soul dominates the persona of a person, this brings out the human monster that we become familiar with, people with names like the Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown and many others. We are compelled into voyeurism to watch the exposure of the darkside in others, because we all suppress a dark soul and we are fascinated with this darkness as it reveals itself in others. If we do not have souls that harbor a darkside and a side of light, then could it be that evil comes upon us through demonic possession?

Enter Laim Thatmews. The date is January 5, 2008, Saturday. Laim, a Filipino woman that has flowing jet black hair that reaches her waist joins me for a latte at Borders. I have Laim tell me her story of demonic possession. Laim tells me that when she was 15 years old, she had a very strange paranormal experience. She would attend a local church that was being held inside a home's garage. The congregation brought in a strange lady into their religious circle. Laim a sensitive, felt negative energy from this lady. On one night at this church, the lady came in and started playing music with Latin lyrics. The lyrics of the songs that Laim could not understand, sounded evil. People in the garage started chanting and praying. Laim all of a sudden felt a tingling sensation from her feet to her legs. The tingling sensation continued to her neck. The lady started approaching Laim. Laim did not want to be near her. The lady placed her hand on Laim's forehead and Laim went berserk. She was told in her berserk stage, that she was ready to hit people, to assault them in any means possible. She eventually passed out. When she awakened the whole garage was in a shambles, there were chairs turned over and items that broke as they hit the ground. She was told by members of the congregation that before she passed out, her eyes were glazed over and she spoke in a foreign tongue. The members of the congregation said she was demon possessed and she was exorcised one more time, to assure that the demon was out of her body. During the second exorcism the members of the congregation physically held her down and threw holy water on her. Laim said that the holy water burned her skin. When she awoke from the second possession, she was able to see spirits around the garage moving, walking and even dancing about. She tells me that as a sensitive, she always felt like she was being watched or followed by unseen forces. I could only wonder after my interview with Laim, if she was truly possessed or did the darkside of her persona come into focus before the whole congregation? Was the mysterious lady truly evil or did the darkness in Laim's soul project an evil from a lady that may actually harbor benevolent energy? There are so many unanswered questions in the world of demonology and all I am trying to do, is make sense of it all. It was hard to imagine that Laim went through all of this, because her personality radiates with sweetness and kindness. This is now something that she has buried in her past and revealed this story for the first time tonight.

I enjoy interviewing people that have had paranormal experiences and Laim's story has never been told. To place her story into words that anyone can read, it allows us to analyze her experiences and come to our own conclusion to her story. Just recently, I received an email from HPI paranormal investigator-in-training Sparky Parker. Sparky read about my Pollock Pines investigation and she had her own paranormal experience in Pollock Pines, she says:

"I was thinking recently about a quiet afternoon a couple of years ago when I was showing a cabin to a client in the Pollock Pines area. We were standing in the kitchen and I was looking toward the living room and the picture window reflecting the beauty beyond. Next thing I new, I saw a man come from the hall, walk into the living room and he kept going and disappeared through the window. I have grown to believe and feel that when some homes or cabins are empty for a while they seem to find themselves having uninvited and un-approved tenants! Some can feel the differences between vacant (with no paranormal activity) and vacant (with paranormal activity). One could say that well, maybe they were there prior to the dwelling becoming vacant. You decide! Have a wonderful New Year Paul! Sparky Parker."

I will never forget my investigation at Pollock Pines with Gold Rush Ghosts. From the adventure of riding in Gold Rush Ghost's lead investigator's (Robert Reppert) truck called the 'Hearse', because this truck is so big, you can lay a few bodies in the back easily. The road to Pollock Pines can be treacherous and it was an adventure to go to places unknown to investigate the paranormal. Robert Reppert, Nancy Bradley's husband is one of the top ghosthunters in California and he is married to a psychic icon known to the world as Nancy Bradley - Small Medium at Large. Nancy is one of the only two recognized psychics in the State of California and 14 proven in the US. Nancy has impressed so many people with her gift, Shannon McCabe's (President of HPI) Bruce calls Nancy....Nostranancy. For more information about Nancy Bradley go to: www.nancybradley.org For more information on Gold Rush Ghosts go to: www.goldrushghosts.com.

For people reading my article, I will be appearing on Sacramento Access TV, on a local show called UFO Connections, produced by Ron Williams. It will be on the air on February 6, 2008 at 9:30pm on Channel 17. You will be able to find the show at this URL location www.video.google.com, just look for UFO Connections. Catherine Noble was the hostess who interviewed me. I recently had a long telephone conversation with Travis Walton, famous UFO abductee victim. I am trying to work out arrangements with Travis to do a full-blown UFO investigation in either Mount Shasta or Sedonia, Arizona. Fire in the Sky is a movie based on the abduction of Travis Walton. See Travis Walton's website at http://www.travis-walton.com/ Tomorrow, I will be meeting up with Nancy Bradley, Robert Reppert, Catherine Noble, Ron Williams, Ronnie Roberts, Chris Grissom, Shannon 'Ms. Macabre' McCabe for a photo shoot at Nancy Bradley's home. This will be for the upcoming DVD Ghost Girls. The website can be found here http://ghostgirls.net/ghostgirlscast.html.

The Delivery Driver

2008-07-15T17:07:00.000-07:00

By: Roy

Many thanks to Roy for sending us this awesome capture. We spoke with him to try and verify the authenticity of this photo and we believe everything to be as it seems. Roy told us that he is a police officer and an amature photographer. He had been out taking pictures and this just happened to show up in one of his photos.

Swinging doors and strange happenings

2008-07-14T18:30:00.001-07:00

By: Shifty Powers

My story begins when i got home from the local park with a couple of my friends we went upstaires and stated playing with my games console and my other friends were making my train set. We all went down staires to see what was going on my friends followed then we all walked back up and the light was switched off but i knew that i left it on on i knew nobody went up there because we were all talking together then i noticed something strange i had and pretty big tunnel that was not easily moved by one person. Me and my friends took it back to its oringinal place then we went back downstairesthe same thing happened 3 times the 3rd time it was in the one room i dreded most the attic. we went in there when the light turned off we looked around and i was paralysed with fear i felt cold then i had enough strenght to tell my friend to look and we all stared at this dark hooded being it just stood there and stared at us but then it started to move i closed my eyes then opened them it was gone and about 2 years after we moved house.

Radio Ghost

2008-07-14T18:28:00.000-07:00

By: GhostBuster_SALLY

Ok so my friend was at home with his wife. He lives in a kinda ghetto apartment but its nice and cheap. Well one night hes was on his laptop in the living room. His wife was watching TV. They were both in the same room. The there radio/CD player turns on full blast. He asks his wife if she had the remote because the cd player has a remote for it. She said no. They started looking for it and my friends wife stays in the living room looking and my friend looks in his bedroom. My friend (ANdre Davis by the way) finds the remote on his dresser but the funny thing about it is the batteries are missing... ever since that he has been finding things in weird places...

Abandoned House Ghost

2008-07-11T17:42:00.000-07:00

By: James

Here's a picture I really like - it's from James from Greeley, CO, and he relates "on a recent road trip in Pennsylvania there was this cool abandoned and run down house just along the road in the middle of nowhere, so I took a few photos with my $90 Kodak 5.0 MP camera. Anyway, if you ZOOM way in and look on the front porch there are two wooden chairs. Now look at the right chair, if you study the image there seems to be a figure of an older man there... I can see his eyes, coat (civil war type jacket) and the eyes are very noticeable. I might just be overly excited that I might have captured a spirit but I would really appreciate some professional feedback." Editor's note - The chairs are in the left picture window on the bottom and I have blown up that area below for better visualization.

Empty House Ghost - Close Up

2008-07-11T17:36:00.001-07:00

By: FatKatz48

I ran across this photo while house hunting in Virginia. The house is empty, unoccupied... or so it seemed.

There is a baby, possibly a woman behind the child.

Grotto Ghost

2008-07-09T17:56:00.000-07:00

By: Rachael Kornish

We were touring Crichton Castle in Scotland and this was the Bake House. My husband insisted I come see the oven, but as a sensitive person, I said I thought something was strange in there. He took photos, using the flash to see his way, as it was pitch black inside. In this photo, you will see a ghostly image: a woman's profile in the upper middle of the photograph – just an outline of the hairline and the profile – then two wisps for arms in the air, and some more wisps for her breasts or torso. No one was smoking. I felt this presence, and didn't even go near the place. But my husband, the skeptic he is, snapped photos into any dark hole in many castles!

Ghostly Gravesite

2008-07-09T17:54:00.000-07:00

By: Lisa

While I was attending a small college in eastern Ohio a friend and I saw something astonishing. She and I were out walking after dark and came alongside a nearby graveyard. All of a sudden, laying flat out from one grave, there was a shimmering translucent figure, clearly visible to both of us, and it was wailing the name "Morgan" over and over. We were totally freaked out and ran as fast as we could back to her dorm. The next day we ventured back to that grave site and saw that the name on the grave across from where that figure had been was Morgan! There is a postscript to this. At the time I was living in a room upstairs at an old house owned by a very old woman. Another friend had a room next to me there. There was a big walk in closet right beside my bed. During the ensuing 2-3 weeks after the graveyard event all kinds of weird, unexplained happened in my room. Music could be clearly heard coming from the closet. One night, just as I turned out the light to go to sleep, I heard my name screamed from right above my head and nobody was there. Stuff was happening to my friend there too. We both wound up sleeping with the lights on the last two weeks of this experience. After that it all stopped, and nothing like any of this has ever happened to me again.

Dead Ringer

2008-07-07T17:40:00.001-07:00

By: Mike Dieppa

After all my ghost hunting in the past, I have never caught anything on tape or pictures like this. You gotta zoom in on the blurred apparition's head and it seems, which contradicts my ghost hunting experience, that the more you zoom, in the clearer the person/ghost gets. Let me give you some background on who we think this is. About three years ago, my wife's grandfather died. He was the kindest, most loving individual I have ever known. We named our son after him before he died. He took it as a total honor that his family did that with his name and promised our son that he would always look after him. When my sister sent me this pic, I was convinced it was my arm making the blur, but like I said, the more you zoom in, the clearer it gets. The ghost's head is a "dead ringer" for my wife's grandfather. You can see the big '70s-style glasses, a faint mustache, his ears, even the tips of his top front teeth. It's truly amazing. I'm working on scanning a picture of him to compare with, because once you see the two next to each other, it's unmistakeable.

Myrtle's Ghost

2008-07-07T17:37:00.000-07:00

By: Ralph DeStefano
This face in the window is of what we believe to be that of past librarian, Myrtle, captured by the hauntedyoudecide team "H.Y.D.R.S." during a late evening investigation of the Onawa Public Library in Onawa, Iowa where the ghost of Myrtle is believed to be haunting the library. For complete information of our investigation please go to: http://www.gottahavitcatalog.com/OnawaLibrary.html

Graveyard mystery

2008-07-03T18:14:00.000-07:00

By: Anonymous

My friend and i usually do the ouija board and when we do we had always gotten good spirits. We were always feeling spirits and weird things would happen to us whenever we were together. One night we were trying to walk to our friends house to stay the night. We got lost down a street which led to a grave yard. Out of nowhere this massive rottweiler flew out growling and barking at us as we ran down towards the grave yard. Suddenly we looked behind us and there was no dog there. We ran back down the street towards the way the dog chased us because we were really frightened of graveyards. We tried calling our friend to pick us up but we had no service which was odd because we were in the middle of town. We started walking towards what we thought was our friends road. We soon found out that it was a park where swings suddenly started swinging. We were a fair distance away and no one was around. We quickly put on some music on my best friend’s phone so it would drown out the noise. We gave up looking for our friends house and went back to my besties house. We decided to do the ouija board and ask it if it had anything to do with what happened earlier. We got a bad spirit for the first time ever. We were crying when it told us that it tried to get us to go towards the graveyard so it could kill us. And for the only way for it not to find and kill us was for ourselves to commit suicide. We quickly stopped doing the ouija board and never done it again. Since then a little girl had came to me when i was working and asked me to help her but before i could turn around to see her she disappeared. And that’s a bit strange because no one was in the room with me. I am not scared of these spirits talking to me and i know i have a gift but i cant seem to control what happens to me and i wish i could...

The white lady in our front yard

2008-07-03T18:13:00.000-07:00

By: Jheng

One day,in 2:30 in the morning,my auntie is going to get a gallons of water in the well next to our street. At 3:15am when she went back to get some more water,she saw a lady in our front yard facing the wall. She thought that the lady was my mother, because my mother was going get a gallons of water too in that hour. She went near to the lady and said "Hey,are you going to get a gallons of water too?",the lady didn't said something. Another 5 minutes pass. My Auntie saw her again and now she was facing the other wall.My Auntie went nearer to her and said"Are you gonna get a gallons of water or just stand in here and face this walls ?, again the lady did not said any word. My Auntie saw her again and she was facing now are gate.My Auntie went nearer on the lady while she was holding a two heavy gallons water and accidentally drop bought gallons of water on the dress of the lady and the lady's lower part of the dress is wet.My Auntie quickly said to the lady"Sorry!please forgive me!"and kindly my Auntie holds the lady's wet part of her dress and twist so that it will be no longer wet.But,shes thinking that why she cant touch the lady's feet?.When she see that this has no feet,she became extermely scared and runn into her house. In the morning she couldnt talk and when the afternoon comes,i talk to her and said that"she saw a ghost.

Ghostly Sneakers

2008-07-02T18:18:00.000-07:00

By: Kitchen Gena I am not sure if what I am seeing is correct or not, but I am seeing shoes or sneakers on the staircase. I am not sure what the background or history is of this house. All that this house says in the specifications are that the house is "older". Not wanting to contact anyone at the house or at the listing real estate company I thought I would share this with you to see if someone else sees what I am seeing. I have had a few people tell me this is a glare off the mirror... I can see one on the wall and where the sun is coming in on the banister railing but it just seems odd that it would bounce back like that. Also if it was the sun glaring in, would you not clearly see the corner of the stair? Thanks for letting me share this.

Hunter's Ghost

2008-07-01T18:04:00.000-07:00

By: Jim Battista

Look above the deer's right ear. This deer jumped the guard rail and stood there while I rolled down the window, got my camera out and snapped the picture. I went to take another picture with the flash and the batteries were dead. Also, if you look above the left ear you can make out a dog's face. Was this a hunter and his dog from years gone by? Is that why the deer froze there long enough for me to roll the window down and get my camera out of the case?

SAD FACE WITHIN THE TREES!

2008-06-30T18:16:00.000-07:00

By: Sandy
"This photo was taken at Reder Road in Griffith Indiana. It was in the daytime, sunny, clear and no rain or mist in the air and about 75 degrees. The history of Reder Road is said to be haunted by ghosts. The most famous known ghost is that of Elizabeth Wilson who died in a speeding car crash in 1955, thrown from the car and drowning face down in the ditch on the side of the road. Numerous sightings of her ghost has spread throughout our Community throughout the years. It is about a 5 mile stretch of a now barred off road that is no longer open to the public use. Grown up with weeds trees and brush and a narrow pathway is all that is left of the old road. My sister (Robyn) captured this photo in Mid August 2004 while we were on a ghost hunt and gave me permission to send it to you. I truly believe that she has captured the ghost of Elizabeth Wilson. I have also posted this photo on your message board with a lot of responses. What do you think?...........I would truly appreciate response on your opinion"

Mysterious footsteps

2008-06-29T23:19:00.000-07:00

By: Audra

Last night around 11 I was in the bathroom. my husband was in the living room sleeping on the couch. I was finishing up in there when I heard my husband walk from the livingroom down the small hallway. he paused outside of the bathroom for a moment before continusing on into the back bedroom. I was puzzled that he didn't say "goodnight" to me,or that he didn't even ask me how long I was going to be up for. I flushed the toilet, washed my hands and came out of the bathroom. glanced into the back bedroom the light was off and I didn't think to go in and bother him while he slept, I was a little annoyed that he didn't turn off the lights in the livingroom, or the TV that was still on, but then again he never does. so I headed into the livingroom to turn everything off and I just stopped dead in my tracks when I saw my husband still asleep and snoring on the couch... my world crashed down around me. the only thing i thought of was "no, not again" I woke my husband up and he could tell that i was visibly upset. I told him i heard footsteps, and then he got up grabbed a knife from the kitchen and checked out the whole house, even went outside. I just stood in the diningroom in disbelief; I knew my husband wouldn't find anyone. he came back and said that there was no one in the house, but I knew that already. about 3 years ago I encountered these phantom footsteps before. it was a weekday, my husband had to be at work by 7, so he liked to leave the house by 6:30 am to get there on time. I was still sleeping in the bedroom when he left. but i woke up a little by this very annoying sound, heavy footsteps in the kitchen just walking back and forth. at first I thought that it was my husband getting a lunch ready for the day. but then I looked at the clock and realized that my husband would have been at work already because it was 7:30. I lifted my head and looked toward the door the bedroom is just off of the kitchen, but the way the room was set i couldn't see out into the kitchen. but I did see my two cats who sleep with us; their heads were lifted and they were looking in the same direction that the footstep sounds were coming from. I was frightened, I thought that someone was in the house, a robber maybe. I just layed there in bed pulling the covers up around me scared to death, and listening intensely for the footsteps that I had heard just a few seconds earlier. after about 10 minutes after the footsteps had stopped; I gathered the courage to climb out of bed an investigate. I looked everwhere the basement, the attic, every nook and cranny. but there was no one and nothing anywhere. I was left shaken and baffled. maybe I didn't hear what I thought I had. and though the memories are still with me I have successfully chalked it up to nothing but a misunderstanding due to coming out of a deep sleep. but now, after last night I don't know what to think. I am a little uneasy about the house. I'm not really scared of the mystery footsteps, creeped out a little though. but mostly I am just upset and irritated that I can't prove what i heard, or explain it away. I want to know, I want the proof, but at the same time I don't want to know, and I don't want proof... you know?

Something behind the curtains

2008-06-27T18:23:00.000-07:00

By: dave/warhero

My name is Dave Smith im 22 years old this story might sound odd but the point is it's real .I had just gotten home from the war in Iraq and to celebrate my wife kandice planned a trip to England where my family is originaly from but I had been born in the u.s when after ww2 ended my my father moved to the u.s. Well anyways we stayed in an old sort of victorian house and the tenants supposedly said that they used to keep children there when the lufftwaffe used to bomb england with bombs during ww2. the first couple of nights everything was really nice and quiet untillmy second week there i started feeling the presence of something watching me in bed at night.I told my wife and she insested that it was the wind but it wasn't because when i was in Iraq i knew how wind felt and that wasn't the wind at all. The next night i set up my camera on night vision switch and surely enough the next morning i reviewed the tape and captured a little boy peeking out of the curtains with an expression on his face meaning to say "help."After I showed the tape to my wife she admitted that this child ghost had saw her shower she was just to scared to mention anything she said that he looked like a 15 year old ghost when we left we left with something or something left with us . The ghost apparently took a liking to us we have tried everything from priests to cleansings nothing works we have moved twice already but it just follows us everywhere he's probably standing next to me right now because it feels a little chill.

Dont mess with the ouija boards!

2008-06-27T18:21:00.000-07:00

By: RIYA

Hi everybody, Today I am here to share my own horrifying xperience and to warn all of you to stay away of "OUIJA BOARDS". I am a 23 year old woman,from india.I am always facinated by paranormal stuffs.so one day me and my friend tannu decided to try out an ouija board.so we got one and decided 2 work on it the same night.she came over to my house at 10.00pm.we had our dinner and started the seance at around 12.15am. I am a bit daring and at the same time careless abt life tooo.so i decided to take the risk of lighting red candles instead of white ones(red is supposed to attract evil spirits)so after sometime at around 12.45 we xperienced a spirit thru the board.this is how our conversation went on.....

us:welcome
entity:thnk u
us:who r u?
entity:i am brown
us:is that ur name?
entity:yes.
us:how old are u?
entity:now 28 when died 23.
us:how did u die?
entity:killed me.
us:who killed u?
entity:not ur business.
AT THIS MOMENT I DID SOMETHING FOOLISH AND ASKED......
us:ARE U AN EVIL SPIRIT?
entity:YES
I WAS HAPPY N AS WELL AS SCARED.MY FRIEND TOLD ME ASK THIS
us:ARE U GOING TO HURT US?
entity:NO NOT AT ALL.
NOW I DID SOMETHING MORE FOOLISH N ASKED HIM TO PROVE HIS PRESENCE.
entity:ok i will now turn the T.v ON which was in my room.
us:OK DO IT.
I REALLY DINT REALISE AT THAT MOMENT THAT I WAS ACTUALLY OPENING A PASSAGE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD 4 THAT SPIRIT.B4 I could say something IT CAME OUT.though the t.v got on i couldn't see the spirit the only thing i saw that freaked me out was THE OUIJA BOARD WHICH SAID " NOW I AM GOING TO HURT YOU".

At this moment without knowing what to do we just went out of the room and sat in front of the GOD"S photo n started praying.meanwhile v started haering sounds frm my room .i saw thru the key hole that my t.v was broken .v also heard strange laughters n screams.At that time i was more happy that i dint faint leaving my frnd alone.v sat at that place till next morning.the next morning v went inside but found nothing so i took the board broke it into 7 pievces n buried it somewhere very far. but it was of no use.the spirit stayed back in my room forever scaring me. My friend who was everything to me had to unfortunately shift their house in an another city.SHE LEFT ME AND I WAS ALL ALONE BY MYSELF.I CONTINUED TO STAY IN MY HOUSE.

Later one night as always sleeping alone, heard somebody screaming .I got up but to my shock i saw a tall figure standing next to my bed with glowing red scary eyes.i saw it n ran out of the room n never slept there again.but IT NEVER STOPPED. something was always next to me n scared me and FINALLY ONE DAY I WAS FORCED BY THAT SPIRIT TO KILL MYSELF.THAT WAS IT.I CHANGED MY HOUSE AND LIVE IN A PLACE WHICH IS VERY VERY FAR FROM MY OLD HOUSE.N ow i am happy to say that i have no freaking incidents going on in my life.

So I now hope that everyone of u have realised that OUIJA BOARDSare not for fun . They are TRUE.DONT THINK OF MESSING WITH IT.

SHADOW MAN IN THE DOORWAY!

2008-06-26T17:35:00.000-07:00

By: Unknown

I was searching for ghost pics on net and I found your site. There are many amazing pics on your site so I decided to submit mine. It is very unusual. It is of my cousin's brothers daughter the pic was taken on her birthday by me as you can see in the pic, that girl is in the main focus but behind her it seems that somebody is standing. It seems like a woman is there but let me tell you, when I clicked this pic with my digital camera there was just me and one of my friends. He was standing by my side and there was no one in the room. I don't know how this third being appeared but it doesn't look human.

Spider Gates Cemetery

2008-06-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

By: The Drifter

This is a true story about a supposedly haunted cemetery named Spider Gates.

Spider Gates is located in western Massachusetts. Also known as the Quaker cemetery, nicknamed Spider gates for the web like steel gates that are on the front of the cemetery. You could also research the cemetery online simply by typing in Spider gates.

I heard the rumors of this cemetery being haunted. Supposedly this is a boy who hung him self quite some time ago. Cults practicing devil worship there at night, and I read online one girl talking about the ghost of the boy who hung himself making himself visible and following them. As they proceeded to check out this small haunted private cemetery, which is supposed to have naturally formed 13 gates the last one leading you to hell. I was informed that a gatekeeper of some sort would be near the first gate warning you off. I was in college at Worcester State. Which is just about a 10-minute drive from the cemetery.

We had received permission from the Quakers who owned the cemetery during the daytime to do research for school. A small group of us set out to look for this place at night. I followed the directions exactly and never found it. We went the following day and there off to the side of this road down a narrow dirt path there it was. Not much to look at in the daytime I suppose but they're a lot of trails leading into trees covered areas. We walked the trail one of them led into this field with nothing around it we joked about the 13 gates saying that it was a bunch of crap. When we were going to turn around to leave a man's voice said what are you kids doing here? As we turned to look it was an old man with his dog. They came out of this field that was in the middle of the woods. We told him that we had permission to be there and he told us no we did not.

We may have permission to visit the cemetery but we weren't in the cemetery anymore. We then told the man ok and we proceeded to leave when I turned around to see where he came from and he was gone. It must have not even been 30 seconds after he was just talking to us. Was he the gatekeeper? A few days later we revisited the cemetery because we were curios as to where he came from or went to so quickly. Ill tell ya check out that place for yourself sometime if you are a thrill seeker. I walked that cemetery that next day and could not find that open field again. No matter how hard I searched.

Man With a Derby

2008-06-23T17:20:00.000-07:00

By: Nick Gore

I stumbled across your website through Google when trying to find answers to a question. I have a ghost photograph taken back in 2004 in my hometown of Massillon, Ohio. I was taking some pictures of a local reservoir after driving by and thinking I could get some cool night pictures. I took six pictures to finish off a roll of Fuji 400 speed 35mm film with my Nikon 6006. I'm about 90% sure the exposure was F11 for 30 seconds. The pictures were developed at Wal-Mart in June of 2004.

After looking thru the pictures, they ended up going into a bin that I keep all my developed rolls of film in. About 2 months later, I was going through my pictures to find some to display in an interactive resume/portfolio I was putting together and I came across this picture. I'd seen it before, but I never noticed the most interesting part about it until then. It immediately sent chills thru my body. I showed it to all of my friends, pro photographers and non-photographers, and no one could come up with anything about it other than it being some kind of ghost or someone walking into the picture midway thru the exposure. I was there alone and no one walked into the picture.

The picture has the outline of what looks like to me someone's head and shoulders wearing an old bowler hat like Charlie Chaplin used to wear. It's located to the lower left of the streetlight in the open space. A second picture taken moments later with a slight shift in position shows absolutely nothing.

A ghost light

2008-06-20T17:04:00.000-07:00

By: Riina

Please people, tell me if you've had similar experiences?? Ok, this all started when I was maybe 14 or something. I would go to bed at night and every night I would wake up at 2:14 am, give or take a few minutes. At this time, there would be a strange light above my bed, not quite on the wall but not quite off it either.. sort of like this fosforic green. If you looked straight at it, you couldn't focus your eyes on it, but out of the corner of your eye you could see it clearly. I naturally freaked out after a while and my mom and brother tried to find an explanation for it, but no. We even took all my trophys and everything out of the room and no light what so ever was let in there, and still, there it was. Some forms of a poltergeist appeared too, noises and such but that stuff escalated when we moved to a different town and a different house. And to be honest, that didnt really scare me that much since I kinda knew what it was (although my stepsister came to sleep with me more than once because of the steps and whispers), but the light.. what the hell was that?? The weirdest thing about the light (which it wasnt because it didnt shine as such..) was that every time my cat walked in that room, she stopped at the door and stared directly to the point where the so called light appeared every night. I never see it anymore, and the poltergeist is gone too, but I still wonder...

Ghost in the attic

2008-06-20T17:02:00.000-07:00

By: Dylan S.

One day I came home from school and noticed that the attic in my closet was open.I was a little freaked out considering no one was home.I told my dad about it and he nailed it shut.I came home from school and once again it was open and the nails had been pried out.I do have 3 sisters but they spent the nite at my grandma`s house and my parents had been gone.Plz any ideas im scared to sleep in my room @ nite ={ Dylan S. (i swear this is real)

GETTYSBURG MUSEUM GHOST!

2008-06-19T17:27:00.000-07:00

By: Mark

"My wife & I had gone to Gettysburg for the day, and around 6:30 I walked in to the cemetery across from the war museum, as my wife sat outside, I took pictures of cannons. then I came to a small building with stained glass crossed, thought it would make a great picture. When I got home I started to view the pictures on the LCD screen of my digital camera, to my surprise I saw a ghostly shadow. That wasn't there when I snapped the photo. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up ,as I lightened and zoomed in on the photo and saw a face and body (photo 2). (photo1 original) cant wait to go back there. the building has some ones name on it, I will definitely find out who it is. I would love to know what you think of my photo. I will wait patiently checking the web sight. I never really believed in ghosts, but now I truly wonder. This is how I came across this sight!"

The weirdest thing just happened!

2008-06-17T17:26:00.000-07:00

By: Caroline

Well, as the title says, the weirdest thing just happened. I mean it just now happened! I don't know whether this is a ghost or not but it freaked me out and I need answers! I was listening to Unfaithful by Rihanna on Youtube, and I was singing along (most likely badly). In the middle of the song I hear a voice. Whatever the voice said, or at least what I heard of it, was only one syllable. My parents aren't home and I thought maybe it was my mom, saying she was home. But I didn't think she'd be home this early. But I went and checked anyway since it sort of sounded like her voice. She and my dad weren't home. I have two cats and a dog, but it didn't sound like a noise they could make. So, if the noise wasn't the song, it wasn't me, it wasn't my parents, and it wasn't my pets... then what was it?!

GHOST PHOTO SOLD ON EBAY!

2008-06-16T17:30:00.001-07:00

By: Tony

"This is a real photo showing a young child playing on the floor. Around her you can see an old stick and ball wicker rocking chair - another fancy chair - a very decorated rug on the floor - and what looks like a GHOST right next to the baby. I suppose some could say it was a "trick" of the camera, but I'm not sure how they would have accomplished that back in the early 1900's?!! The ghostly image looks like another small child - sitting on the floor next to the live child. See for yourself. The "evidence" seems to speak for itself."

Ghost in party car?

2008-06-16T17:26:00.000-07:00

By: Carolina

Ok my name is Carolina but my friends call me Candy but before i met them i had another best friend and her name was Vanessa. Anyways one day she invited me to a party at her cousins house i think. We were playing hide and seek and i went behind a pillar at the entrance and i got the side facing the neighbors house. Out in the parking lot they had two cars and i saw a white face like a young boy's look at me and then turn around to face the steering wheel and then i ran freaked out to call everyone and they all came out of hiding. I told them i had seen something and they told me to show them i took them and the figure was gone and it could not have been anyone because the door was shut and i would have heard it close. I have never doubted about ghosts and im 11 and i know i did not imagine it. I swear that im sure i saw something for real.

Ouija board,..piano mystery

2008-06-13T17:33:00.000-07:00

By: tiffaney

Well me and my friend Sam were home alone (my dad was at a meeting) in this room that i barely go in but when i was little i used to love it because it is a very big room and a great place to play with toys. so me and my friend were about 12 yrs old and were playing with a ouija board next to an electronic piano that plugged in to a wall. we asked the ouija board what it's name was and it slowly replied julia we asked it how old it was and how it died and it replied 7yrs old and KAR ACKSIDENT and we assumed it mean car accident.. and then we asked what its hobby's were. it said "piano." and then the electric keyboard turned on and started playing weird music (one of the tunes it has on there) and me and Sam JUMPED and SCREAMED and ran out of the room into the hallway we asked if Julia did that and she said "yes" then without us questioning it, Julia spelled out UNTILL NEXT TIME. and then me and julia put the ouija board outside in the garbage while we were brushing our teeth about to go to bed we heard the same song playing on the piano we heard before and we rushed into the room and unplugged the piano but it wldnt stop playing then about 5 minutes later after worry it stopped i have never went into that room again and nothing strange has happened since. and never will go in there again. ever.

The ghosts of volcano

2008-06-13T17:29:00.000-07:00

By: Paul Dale Roberts

It's May 31, 2008, Saturday and it's time for another preliminary scouting mission. It's time for me to head over and pick up a lady who met me first through my articles and later became a ghosthunter with HPI. Her name is Carrina Hanson aka Swedish Carrina. Carrina has been to Volcano before and knows every short cut to get to this small town. Believe me, there are many forks on the road and no road signs, it’s easy to get lost. Carrina is a walking, talking GPS system and got us there safely. Let me tell you a bit about Carrina. Carrina is a Wiccan with flowing blonde hair to her waist and sparkling blue eyes. She is ready to do her first preliminary. We arrive at our first stop, the town of Volcano. Volcano started in 1848 by soldiers of Colonel Stevensons' regiment. They named the town Volcano, because the miners told them it had a volcanic appearance, due to low settling fog. Volcano is also know as the town with the first astronomical observatory built in 1860 by miner and astronomer George Madeira. As we entered into the town of Volcano after driving up some winding roads, we immediately saw St. George Hotel, built in 1863. The frame of this hotel was actually began in 1852 by John Meyers. The hotel was originally called the Eureka House, at that time it was a boarding house. It burned down 3 times and rebuilt 3 times and each time it had a new name that went from Empire Hotel, George Hotel and finally the St. George Hotel. The first person I interviewed was lovely bartender named Megan Scott at the Whiskey Flat Saloon that is located inside the hotel. She explains that she was smacked in the arm with a flying quarter. The quarter came at her like a line drive and pelted her good on the arm. That was her first paranormal experience she ever had in the hotel. A guest once told her that they saw an old man sitting on a chair wearing confederate clothes and singing a song that resembled a Civil War ballad. The smell of cigar smoke resonated through the room when the apparition was sitting on the chair. As the guest watched, the apparition dissipated.

Can I take a small break from this article? I can. Thanks. Let’s check out some of the pictures from Volcano at this location.
http://ghosts.meetup.com/231/photos/

Now let’s check out Shannon McCabe’s Exclusive Tour and Scouting Mission to the Winchester Mystery House. Click on the link below:
http://ghosts.meetup.com/231/photos/?photo...photoId=4308657

Okay, let’s resume with my story.

The next person I interviewed was Victoria Wertheimer, she is the head housekeeper. With a big smile, she tells me that on the third floor the lights dimmed out in all the rooms one time. Then on each bed, there was an imprint as if someone had sat on all the beds or laid on them. She had guests tell her that they have seen a little girl apparition and also have felt cold spots in certain areas of the hotel. Some guests believe the little girl is from the Union Hotel which is only a block away. The guests feel she visits both hotels. Victoria tells me that this is not the first time she has experienced the paranormal, while in a boarding school in Redding called the Bar 717 Ranch. She learned that the former owner of this ranch named Grover Gates was buried on the property. Many times as a little girl she remembers the rocking chair moving back and forth on its own accord and the doors opening by themselves. Victoria heads back to do her chores and comes back with one more story, she tells me that in the Jim Town Room of the hotel, she constantly feels like she is being watched. Richard Winters the owner of the hotel confirmed everything that his employees told me.

While Carrina makes a sweep of the hotel to see if she can get any photographic evidence, we reconvene to decide where we will scout out next. While we make our decision, I ask my HPI ghosthunter-in-training if she ever had a paranormal experience. She tells me that when she lived in an apartment on Antelope in Sacramento, she had many experiences. Her two year old daughter once was pointing to the ceiling and yelled..."there is a dead baby on the ceiling". While sleeping on the couch, she saw her deceased grandmother. When she saw her grandmother, she felt like it was an out-of-body experience. Another time a salt shaker fell off the shelf by itself. She saw a man with a blurry face sitting in front of her apartment and in a surreal mode of reality, the entity followed her into the apartment and went into her child's room and then just sat there and watched her. When this occurred, she felt a paralysis come upon her, where she was unable to move. She has seen weird shadows move around in that apartment. She felt so relieved when moving out of this apartment. Now the only thing she has experienced recently is that the store that she works at, is reputed to be haunted. Employees have smelled cologne in the room and some times things fly off the shelves.

Carrina and I, explored the town of Volcano and discovered some of the history. The Unionist Volcano Blues fought against the Confederate Knights of the Golden Circle at an area of the town of Volcano. The Adolph Meyers Cigar Emporium was established in Volcano in 1855. They sold retail cigars for $10.00 and $125.00 for a thousand cigars. Post Civil War it became the Lavezzo Wine Shop. One of the most interesting places in Volcano are the historic cemeteries. There is the Catholic Volcano Pioneer Cemetery that is across the way from the Methodist Volcano Pioneer Cemetery. The earliest internment in these cemeteries was on 11/11/1850.

After our cemetery visit, we headed over to the Volcano Union Inn. We talked with Laurie Lockhart - Owner/Proprietress. Check out www.volcanounioninn.net She tells me that things move around and disappear all the time. Sarah the little ghost girl will make her appearance known to patrons and staff. Once she felt she got poked by Sarah. She tells me that the first murder of Amador County happened at this hotel. They took the murderer into the town of Jackson and hung him on the town's hanging tree. The hotel sometimes has strange giggling, sneezing and laughter coming out from the rooms or hallway. She has heard her name called by a man and sometimes by a woman. She has heard pool balls breaking and there is no one in the lobby of the hotel. Chris Chastain, the head chef has heard conversations and has heard ghostly footsteps in the hallway. Chris actually lives in the hotel. Once a man fell off the balcony to his death, he was a cigar smoker. Sometimes guests smell his cigar from the balcony he fell off. Laurie has experienced the paranormal at this hotel, but the one experience she will never forget is when in 1988 she saw a full body apparition of a cowboy in Room 1 of the Imperial Hotel in Amador City. Now that she told us about the Imperial Hotel, Carrina looks at me and says..."when we head back home, let's stop at this hotel". Finally Laurie told us that her daughter has seen the ghosts of the hotel and has pointed at an entity that only she could see. Laurie shows us an old Civil War shirt she found inside the hotel war, it was tattered and torn and smelled moldy. This hotel has a lot of history.

As we headed back home, we made our stop at the Imperial Hotel in Amador City. The address is: 14202 State Highway 49. We talked with the owner Mary Ann McCamant. When she came to this establishment there was this moving odor that would go from one room to another. The odor is now gone, because she leaves out a shot of whiskey for the entity. Genevieve Allen, an employee of the hotel has smelled the same 'funk' and claims it has left the hotel, because of the shots of whiskey that is left out for the smelly entity. A woman with a long white dress has been seen by guests of the hotel. She has been seen mostly in the cellar. If they don't see the lady in the long white dress, they see a white mist. Another employee said that they saw a crouched down apparition on top of the cabinet. For more information on the Imperial Hotel, check out www.imperialamador.com or email them at info@imperialamador.com

For more information of places that HPI has investigated, check out these websites:
www.ionehotel.com
www.volcanounioninn.net
www.imperialamador.com
www.stgeorgehotel.com

MUMMY DOG FOUND IN HOLLOW TREE!

2008-06-12T16:50:00.000-07:00

Many animals have been mummified, but few have a mummy tale as unique as the hound dog of Waycross, Georgia. He (or she--now there's no way to tell) was a four-year-old hunting dog in the 1960s. Accompanying its master on a hunt, it ran off to chase a squirrel or a raccoon. The critter must have scrambled into a hollow chestnut oak tree, because the dog did the same. Only the hound dog could not get out. It was wedged in the tree so tightly that it couldn't move. It died. Rather than decaying, the dog became a natural mummy due to the conditions of its "coffin." First, all scent of the dead dog went up the inside of the tree like a chimney. Predators and insects never got wind of the hound dog. Second, the dog's body was well protected (and well-ventilated) in the hollow trunk. Finally, resins from the core of the tree may have helped in the dog's preservation. Sometime in the 1980s, loggers were cutting trees in the forest. Without knowing it, they cut down the dog's tree and placed it on a logging truck. Then they looked inside and saw the mummified dog. Rather than send him to the sawmill, the loggers donated the dog and its tree coffin to the Southern Forest World Museum in Waycross.

GHOST PICS FROM RICHIE!

2008-06-11T16:24:00.000-07:00

By: Richie

"You need genuine photos, well I took these and have not used any tricks. (Digital camera I'm afraid so either trust me or not) (Richie1.jpg) picture1 Taken some distance away so reason for quality due to zoom. Many things seem to appear in this picture, the best is on my wife's Right Shoulder (our left) as it looks like a baby and my wife was pregnant. Above some kind of streak but around top seems like a ghostly face also something seems to be in front of her and also near her feet. (Richie2.jpg) picture 2 Taken many weeks later from first (taken to see if I caught anything which most of the time are orbs) The frosted glass shows what looks like a boy looking out of the doors window, there is only shape no color. When I pointed camera net curtain was not pulled across either. No not after any reward just want opinions and hopefully have them viewed.

GHOST HAND?

2008-06-10T17:58:00.000-07:00

By: Arlene

"This is a picture taken with a digital camera of my niece. she was around 5 months old in this pic. she was just getting over being sick when this picture was taken... when she was 3 1/2 years old she lived in a home in Desoto Missouri with her parents she would wake up in her room screaming saying there was a little girl sitting at the end of her bed and would also wakeup seeing fire in her room. her parents decided to remodel the home and when they took the wood work off the door frame to her room there was charred wood there from a fire... in the pic there is a hand on her shoulder...please let me know what you think."

Ghost of a Past Resident

2008-06-08T18:56:00.000-07:00

By: emt91125

This is my first time posting however I love to ready everyone else's stories. I have lived in the same town on the same block my whole 25 years of life. I lived with my parents for 19 years and then purchased a home directly across the street from my parents so my son would be around his grandparents and great grandparents.

When we purchased the house it had sat vacant for almost five years. Needless to say it was in need of some major renovations. I was working 3rd shift and trying to do renovations to the residence at the same time so it took about five months to get everything finished but when we did it looked brand new and it was very nice.

Well I still lived with my parents while doing the renovations. One night I was walking over to the house from my parents to do some work. It was on a saturday night, I remember this because I had weekends off. As I was walking across the street I noticed that there was a light on, which wasn't uncommon because my father would leave the light on for security reasons. I got to the front step of the house and as I walked up it to get the front door I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. When I turned to look there was a man standing in my living room. The only description I have was the subject was approximately 6 foot tall. Just as fast as I saw it, it disappeared. I immediately grabbed the front door, unlocked it, and went inside to find out who was in my house that wasn't supposed to be there.

I looked all over my house but couldn't find anything. The back door was dead bolted from the inside and all the windows were shut and locked from the inside. I couldn't really make out a good description because it happened so suddenly, but I do believe I know who he is. Approximately six to seven years prior, a family had lived there. A mother a father and a set of twins, brother and sister. The father who was a tall man had a heart attack in the front room and died right there in the front room due to the heart attack and head trauma.

I remember all this because my dad and I were standing outside doing yard work one day when the daughter came running to us and said that her dad had fallen in the front room and was bleeding from hitting the coffee table. He passed away right there in front of my dad and I while we did CPR waiting for the medics to get there. The family had went down hill after that day and had to move out due to foreclosure several years later. That was the ghost that I saw.

I never really believed in ghosts and even after that sighting, I didn't believe until I had a few friends come over that claimed to be mediums. I hadn't told them anything about my house except that I wanted them to come over and see if they could figure anything out. I was still a skeptic at that time. They came in and within minutes had told me almost verbatim what had happened ten years or so prior. My jaw dropped in disbelief. I am now a believer. Ever since that reading five years ago I started noticing things that most others around me hadn't. I now believe that I have certain abilities that, prior to about three years ago I just pushed off as coincidence.

Shortly after moving in, my son's mother, who has moved out and left my son and I, were sitting in the living room one day watching television and we heard a very strange sound coming from the attic. It sounded like someone had rolled something from the living room, which is in the front of the house, all the way back to the back bedroom. That distance is approximately 45 feet in a straight line if you are in the attic. My father and I had been up there several months earlier doing the renovations that I talked about and I remember taking EVERYTHING out of there. I know we had taken everything out of there because we had been all over that attic running new wiring due to the house only having like five outlets in the entire house. I know that there wasn't anything up there. I forgot to mention that the entire attic is covered in about six inches of blown in insulation to keep the house warm in the winter due to us having some very cold winters. That is the other odd thing, with all the insulation covering the entire attic how did anything make a noise up there.

Well the day that we heard the sound my ex wanted me to get up there and check it out but at the time I was too scared to. A few months later my father and I had to get up there again to run some more wiring and I had forgot about the whole incident and we were working on the master bedroom, the back bedroom, and as we were crawling back there, I shined my light back there to see where the electric drop was and there was a coffee can. I know that there wasn't anything in there so how did it get there and more importantly how did it make all that noise when there is six inches of insulation all over the attic. Just so you know, when we heard the sound it was a clear winter day, and we heard it roll from the front room to the back bedroom.

There are more stories but I will post them in another story. Believe me, ever since realizing what I can see and hear that most can't, a lot of weird things have happened to me. Weird things have happened to me my entire life, but I never paid attention until now.

Ghost pic sold at auction!

2008-06-05T17:50:00.000-07:00

They write, "This is for an authentic un-tampered picture taken on 35mm camera with 400 speed film. We (me, my wife, and my sister) started doing some amateur ghost hunting as a hobby. We have taken 1000's of photos with digital camera's and film cameras and have never had anything turn up like this photo. The only reason we are selling it is because it is to rare of a find to hold on to and do nothing with. The Photo was taken around 5:00p.m. on 10-28-04. The location is a really old decrepit graveyard in Greenup, Kentucky. If Someone Purchases this, please keep us up to date on anything you might further find out about the picture. We are not experts and do not claim to be."

Strange Paranormal Activity In Old Condemned School

2008-06-03T18:33:00.000-07:00

By: William R. Stout

I was on routine patrol one evening many years ago when I arrived at an old condemned school that was used by the County as a storage site for obsolete equipment. The windows had been boarded up and all of the doors nailed shut with the exception of two doors. The main reason that I was there was to check the old cafeteria which was pressed into service as a training center for the Division of Fire.

As I rounded the rear of the building, I stopped my cruiser and exited my vehicle in order to perform hand checks on the doors. As I looked toward the main building, I observed the second floor door standing open. I drew my service sidearm and proceeded up the fire escape to investigate.

The fire escape was heavily rusted and made quite a bit of noise despite my best attempt at stealth and I stopped at midpoint on my ascent. As I looked more closely at the open door, I noticed that the door had actually been shattered and that approximately one fifth of the door remained nailed to the door frame. I backed down the fire escape and took up a defensive position on the ground and called for back up.

My back up arrived approximately 11 minutes after assignment and we proceeded up the fire escape and entered the building. All of the classroom doors were open and we heard nothing. Further, we noticed nothing out of place or unusual except for the pungent, musty odor. As the basement was normally flooded year round, I don't believe that the smell was unusual.

We searched the rear and side classrooms and then began to walk forward toward the front classroom when that door suddenly slammed shut with such force that I expected it to go through to the other side. My partner and I both froze as we heard a shambling on the other side of the door retreating from the entrance to the classroom.

We looked at each other and my partner mouthed "Let's get the F### out of here." I agreed and we withdrew to out cruisers and called for K-9 for a live subject extraction, while we set up a perimeter on the building.

K-9 arrived and we briefed the officer on the nights events and he and his dog went up the fire escape. As the K-9 officer reached the open door he called in to the building and announced his presence and instructed anyone inside to come out or he would send the dog in for them. After he repeated his warning three times, he released his dog and entered the building. When the K-9 officer and the dog exited the building some minutes later he said that there was nobody inside.

My backup and I could not believe it. The classroom door had been slammed in our face, we had heard the shambling footsteps retreating from the door and we had set up the perimeter. There was no way in hell that building was empty.

When I went inside to check the front classroom that had given us the trouble, only the dogs paw prints and the footprints of the officer was visible in the dust on the floor.

That was the first incident at that facility, as the year progressed there would be many more. Such as the steel door, padlocked in its frame laying six feet from the cinderblock wall where it was once installed and not a mark on the door save where it was scratched from sliding across the asphalt and the fasteners torn through the material and pressed into the block. The force used was always extraordinary and the damage was always from inside, heading outside.

The school was in the process of being transformed into a cultural arts center for the County and a series of strange incidents occurred on site. The final incident occurred over a year later when the construction was nearly complete. I was training a new officer when, as I was driving alongside the school I noticed a silhouette in a first floor window. I hit my alley light and illuminated the window, but the silhouette remained black. The building materials stacked behind it was lit as was the ladder in the background, but the figure remained dark.

I accelerated to the rear of the building and exited the cruiser and entered the school with my trainee in tow. We both had seen the figure and we both had seen that it was not illuminated when everything else in the room had been, but our search turned up nothing.

Several officers involved in these incidents were reluctant to return to the building and some even flat out refused to ever return. Since the completion of construction and the new usage of the building, there have been no further incidents. To this day I don't really know what was in that building or if it will ever return, but every time I think of those incidents I get an uneasy feeling.

Ghosts at the White House!

2008-06-02T18:14:00.000-07:00

By Rick:

"I was at the White House in 2002 to meet President Bush and as I was leaving I started to take some pictures of the White House and I took this one from the Garden on the East side of the White House. And when I had them developed, that's when I saw it! Notice the figure on the second floor balcony, when I took the Photo , I saw nothing on that balcony, so I did some checking and was told there is no statue on that side of The house on that floor, as I thought it may be at first. So I leave the option up to you, It looks like a ghost to me! I still have the original if proof is needed and for {Copyright protection} and I have had it registered with my attorney and a copyright office for a copyright license. Thanks for you time."

Resolving Ghosts' Unfinished Business

2008-05-31T19:21:00.000-07:00

By: Ghost_Whisperer

For as long as I can remember, I've dreamt mainly of people I don't even know. Some children, some adults, etc. They always came to just me (night or day) and would never leave me alone. At first I didn't know what to make of it all - maybe I was over imaginative or there was something wrong with me? I kept seeing death, war and blood in my dreams - they really bothered me. I became almost afraid to go to sleep and couldn't get my "imaginary friends" out of my mind as a child.

I didn't realize back then that they weren't so "imaginary" because neither of my parents were the slightest bit open minded to spirituality (and still aren't) and no one took what I saw seriously. My mom thought there was something mentally wrong with me and my dad was just furious I was always up late and talking to "myself". But they just kept coming back.

My mom once (when I was about two) told me she saw me fine one minute, the next falling down a flight of stairs as though tripped by some invisible force. (I often have nightmares about falling now) I can't remember, but she says I cracked my skull and had to go to hospital... but strangely, didn't feel any pain. Not everyone I saw was meaning to cause harm. One ghost in particular, Danny, kept visiting me over and over again. I really enjoyed his company.

When I was about seven my little sister was born. That was the time I dreamt of seeing two little blond girls I had never met. After a few years, my sister told me she had a lot of imaginary friends of her own, one of which was named Chloe. Chloe visited her the most often. I, meanwhile, couldn't help but wonder if I was really seeing spirits/ghosts or if I was just crazy. One day at school (when I was either twelve or thirteen) the lights started flickering throughout the entire school - and no one but me to this day knows why. I could have sworn I saw some figures phase out of the room from the corner of my eye right before it happened. Objects in my room were never where I left them and my lights at home kept flickering - even after I changed the bulb. I didn't think they were imaginary, but wanted to make sure.

I soon told my sister how weird it was to see all the lights at school flicker. She smiled and told me: "Oh, that was just Chloe and her friends, Ellie and Grace." When she went to describe Chloe's friends, I found those were the girls from my recent dreams! My sister also mentioned Chloe had a brother named Danny. I was stunned to hear her describe him exactly as I had seen him - red hair, hazel eyes, sixteen, etc. My little sister and I talk a lot about spirits and ghosts now. I've found a lot of protection spells and kept talking to Tiffany, my guardian angel. She constantly guides, heals and helps me and was the reason I felt no pain when I fell down the stairs.

Since then, I've been crossing ghosts over, but have found that once they're crossed over, they aren't always reincarnated. Some come back as spirits. I crossed Danny over, but he still comes to visit me. My abilities keep getting stronger through practice and I often set aside time just to meditate, visit the graveyard, etc. Whatever it takes. When I visited the Akashic Records I read that I had always been meant to resolve ghosts' unfinished business. I'm so grateful for this gift and the chance to make a difference!

Sweet Ghost Dog

2008-05-31T19:20:00.000-07:00

By: FoxyPheonix

I'm not quite sure if this took place in Alaska or not, actually, but this is a story that my Grampa told me. (And no, it's not fake. He said it actually happened to him.) One day, quite early in the morning, my Grampa woke to the sound of a dog barking. When he opened his eyes, and looked around, he saw a ghostly looking lab (I believe he said it was) sitting by his bed, still barking at him.

He told the dog to go home, and he went to bed, the dog disappearing. He obviously wasn't affected with the fact it was a ghost but... Eh.

A week went by, and the dog kept appearing, barking at him. Every now and then, Grampa would wake up to the dog gone, but it was still barking.

After a while, he decided to go to my Grammy, and asked her what he should do. I guess my Grammy is (or was) someone who could see, and talk to ghosts and such on a regular basis. Well, after he asked her, she told him next time he saw the doggy, to ask it what was the matter.

And so, the next morning, my Grampa woke to the dog barking again. He followed my Grammy's advice, sitting up and looking at the dog. He then asked it "What's the matter little fella?" The dog then responded - like, actually talked - telling his story of why he was there.

The little guy was looking for help. When he was alive he had a master and best friend who was a young girl. He loved to play with her, and one of the games he played was to hide her toys. He had recently hidden one of her favorite toy dolls in some woods near by, and saw that the little girl was upset because she couldn't find it anywhere.

He was going to go back and get it, when he was run over by a truck, and killed. So, he asked if my Grampa could go and get the doll, and return it for him. My Grampa accepted, and the dog said that he had hid it under a maple tree.

That day, my Grampa went into those woods, and just as the ghost hound said, right under a maple tree - the only one in miles in those woods - was a little toy doll. Grampa picked it up, and went back to return it to the girl.

After he had done so, the next day, Grampa woke up to the ghost dog again, only he wasn't barking this time. Grampa told the dog that he had done what was asked, and returned the doll to the little girl.

The dog thanked him, and disappeared, and was never seen again after that day.

I think the story is very sweet, and so is that nice dog. I've told many of my friends it, and seeing as my Grampa is disabled and can't tell it himself, I'd share it all with you on here.

It just goes to show that not all ghosts are bad. Sometimes you just need to ask them what's up, so you can help them move on.

VIRGIN MARY IMAGE SHATTERED

2008-05-29T18:00:00.000-07:00

By: Unknown

Windows that thousands of visitors believed bore the image of the Virgin Mary were discovered broken recently. The three top panes that showed what appeared to be the Virgin Mary’s veiled head were destroyed, with just shards of glass remaining in the window frames. The damage was discovered when a ministry worker arrived the next morning. The image first appeared a week before Christmas in 1996. Hundreds of thousands of people have since visited the church to worship and take pictures. The image stretched 60 feet high and twenty feet across on nine bronze colored glass panels. The image was evocative of a stained glass portrait of Mary. Shades of purple, blue, yellow, and green washed across the mirrored surface and swirled into a robe-draped figure with downcast head. Unfortunately however, the upper panels of the glass image were destroyed by an 18 year old kid for no particular reason other than to be mean. The vandal received a jail sentence of 10 days and ordered to pay the ministry $1200 for the damage. “He took something that was irreplaceable to the community,” prosecutor Doug Ellis told the kid. The jail stay will be followed by two years of probation.