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Click to watch video poem. Once on a dark and gloomy day I thought I heard a knock I snarled at the intruder And quickly turned the lock "Good morning, sir. I've come to ask How much a minute's worth If I could take you back in time To any place on Earth." "Obnoxious kid, you see my door Says no soliciting So please respect my privacy I've more important things." "I promise not to waste your time. Just name an old regret. I'll take you back to set it right. And you'll be glad we met." "Boy, don't make...

Hans Holzer, whose investigations into the paranormal took him to haunted houses all over the world, most notably the Long Island house that inspired “The Amityville Horror,” died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The death was confirmed by his daughter Alexandra Holzer. Mr. Holzer — who wrote more than 140 books on ghosts, the afterlife, witchcraft, extraterrestrial beings and other phenomena associated with the realm he called “the other side” — carried out his most famous investigation with the medium Ethel Johnson-Meyers in 1977. Together they roamed the house in Amityville, in which a young...

Experts have been called in to examine the Google ghoul filmed at a former Victorian docklands which has a dark and sinister past. The woman dressed in long skirt, crisp blouse, bow tie, blue boater hat and scarf appears to be shimmering above the pavement. She was captured by the Google Street View cameras in Tiger Bay, Cardiff - the scene of murders and unsolved mysteries going back 200 years. "But what is really strange is that she doesn't appear as a full figure - you can't see all of her."

AN eerie image of a figure at a Scottish castle has got ghost experts spooked. The scary shot was unearthed during the biggest ever investigation into photographic evidence of ghosts. The picture, taken in May last year, shows a spectral figure in fifteenth century dress peering out of a barred window at Tantallon Castle in Fife. No mannequins or costumed guides are used at the castle and photo experts have confirmed that no digital trickery was used. Even ghost sceptic Professor Richard Wiseman admitted to being puzzled. “It is certainly very curious,” he said. “We ran it by three photographic...

The British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) turns out to have been something of a prophet. He once wrote that “practical men,” as opposed to theoreticians, “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Ironically, the defunct economist who is influencing Barack Obama, his advisers, and his supporters in Washington is Keynes himself. Like a ghostly presence, Keynes’ ideas are hovering over us. The very notion of a government “stimulus” for the economy originated in Keynes’ 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. In it, Keynes spelled out his theory that government could offset the economic ups...

HOSPITAL managers have called in an exorcist after shaken workers complained they are being terrified by a GHOST. Spooked staff at Derby’s new Royal Hospital claimed a black-clad figure wearing a cloak was stalking wards and corridors.Now chiefs at the £334million NHS site are to summon a local priest to see off the “spirit”.

Ghost girl appears in Chilean video Posted by Javier Ortega 16 January 2009 In Chile, a woman named Cecilia Muñoz went on a ghost hunting expedition to a building that is notorious for reports of a ghost of a little girl that is said haunts the basement level of the building. Cecilia and her mother decided to make a visit and do some amateur ghost hunting of their own. Given that there was no real activity captured the first few hours, her mother suggested that she go down to the basement with a group of children. The mother theorized that...

"One of my readers sent me these "ghost" photos and the link to this video. He described himself as an experienced paranormal investigator and said that he thought the evidence was impressive..."

NEVER mind things that go bump in the night - one Strange family reckons it's got a ghost in its sofa. Receptionist Christine Strange, of Bristol, England, says her couch has started making weird noises that are getting louder and louder. "One Sunday morning I sat down on it with a cup of tea and suddenly heard this odd squeaky noise," she said. "I thought I must be going mad but Poppy, my Yorkshire terrier, heard it too. "She started sniffing around but then got scared and ran away.

Ghost-to-Ghost w/George Noory George Noory hosts the 2008 Halloween broadcast of Ghost-to-Ghost, with callers sharing their spookiest stories. First Hour: Researcher Pat Fitzhugh discusses the infamous case of the 'Bell Witch.'

Host to ghosts: Texas capital home to LBJ, others By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer – Sun Oct 26, 10:33 am ET AUSTIN – Politics can be plenty spooky, especially this time of year. But in Texas, some politicians have a way of sticking around way past Election Day. Some say Sam Houston, the Texas hero who famously gave up his job as governor rather than join the Confederacy, still roams his old home, pacing nervously. Others have seen the ghost of Lyndon Johnson watching election night returns in the mezzanine of the storied Driskill Hotel, or Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson,...

Tales of hauntings and strange sights and sounds run rampant during days and nights leading up to Halloween. To verify claims of strange activities at the Wesley Building on Apple Street, two studio photographers came to Connellsville on Tuesday night. According to building owners, there have been reports and witness accounts of strange lights, loud noises and shadowy figures in the building.

FAIRFIELD — City and school district leaders have "condemned" the actions of a Fairfield resident who last week displayed a ghost with Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's name on it — hanging from a tree by a noose. Mike Lunsford said he hung the ghost in his front yard as a Halloween decoration and later wrote "Hussain" in on it. Obama's middle name is Hussein. Lunsford also attached part of a campaign yard sign with Obama's last name to his decoration. Fairfield police received calls from neighbors and passersby, but decided Lunsford had not committed any crime. Fairfield Police...

Spirits spook at Dean College By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff Milford Daily NewsPosted Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:32 AM Last update Oct 13, 2008 @ 02:46 PM FRANKLIN — Even after a century, members of the philanthropic Ray family may still be hanging around their old haunts, according to staff at Dean College. Workers at Ray House, which serves as the school's admissions office, and several staff members, including Vice President of Enrollment Jay Leiendecker, have reported encounters with spirits they believe are Ray family members. The house was their former home, built in the 1800s. Sensing a spirit, or...

NEW YORK (AP) — It is a fitting backdrop for a ghost story: An old mansion on a secluded hilltop sits empty, save for a caretaker who lives upstairs. A no-trespassing sign is staked near the locked metal gates, and the stately grounds are covered in thistles.

Train Victim's Cell Kept Calling Loved Ones After He Died September 17, 2008 SIMI VALLEY -- One local family whose loved one died in the Metrolink collision is still questioning something that happened that night. They got several phone calls from 49-year-old Chuck Peck after the crash. But they now know he died on impact. Peck's fiancee, Andrea Katz, told KTLA that the first call was to his son in Utah. "...and he said my dad just called me and I said, what did he say? Is he okay? Where is he? He didn't say anything, the phone rang and...

Is an area high school haunted? Asheville is abuzz after video was captured by a motion-activated camera at Asheville High school at 2:51 a.m. Friday, August 1. In the video, a dark image –some say looks like the silhouette of a child- appears by an elevator. The image advances forward and is again captured in the hallway. It’s something, so far, the Asheville School District says can’t be explained. Charlie Glazener, Executive Director of Public Relations for the District says, “I’m a logical person, and I wanted to be able to explain to these folks, or anybody, this is what...

President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House. Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. “If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source. Bush arrives in Britain today on the final leg of his eight-day farewell tour of Europe. He will have tea with the Queen...

Chapter One: The Buried Bodies 0500 February 10, 1986 Bethesda, Maryland On my morning run through February’s chilly darkness, my chocolate Lab, Tyler Beauregard, sets the pace. This is our routine together, though we always vary our route now. At agent training, which I just completed, they drilled into us the notion that in our new lives, routines will get us killed. When you join the Dark World, you must become unpredictable. Erratic. We must strip away all the conventions of our old lives and fade into the background. We’ve been trained. We’ve practiced. Today, I begin my life as...

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