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A good port or Madeira. A special Sancerre or a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. For the past 15 years, the customers of Wine Ventures in Tenafly have known to count on its proprietor, Craig McManus, for a friendly chat and some wine expertise. What they may not know is that wine is just McManus' day job. By night, he chases spirits. He communicates with the dead. He looks for ghosts. He conjures up the late relatives of people he's just met. He ignores those who call this ridiculous. Instead, he took a phenomenon that initially "freaked me out" and spun it into a...

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The Ghost Car Of West Chester Pike Newtown Square, Pa. was farm country in the 1950s. Newspaper stories involved dogs killing sheep and dairy cows getting loose, and, of course, traffic accidents. A car carrying a man, wife and teenaged son was struck by a drunk driver one Christmas shortly after midnight on West Chester Pike.

The Ship of Fire On a certain evening every year, at the mouth of the wide Neuse River, a large bright object speeds into view.  It looks like a sailing ship being destroyed by fire, its deck and masts in blazing outline.  The apparition disappears, then reappears, then again disappears for another year.  It burns furiously but is not consumed. It is the ship of the Palatines.  The Palatines were a group of German Protestants who left England in 1710 to settle New Bern.  As the vessel crossed the Atlantic, the prosperous Palatines, pretending to be poor, hid their gold...

Ghost hunters say Deering Estate is ground zero for lost spirits A Coconut Grove paranormal team says it has found evidence of ghosts at the Deering Estate. Neither the hot film Paranormal Activity nor TV's popular Ghost Hunters can compete with Miami-Dade's historic Deering Estate at Cutler. Ghost trackers investigating paranormal activity on the site say they recently found more than 60 disembodied voices coming from the county-owned estate -- once the home of wealthy industrialist Charles Deering, of International Harvester fame. One voice captured on a digital recorder seems to say, ``We're trapped here.'' Don't believe it? The Deering...

Tonight, Bert and Jayme Coates will bring their electronic gear to the Central Saloon and go down to its basement to begin hunting for ghosts.When they pull up in their 1978 Chevy Step Van emblazoned with "Northwest Paranormal Investigation Agency," Bert and Jayme Coates inevitably get friendly greetings from people. And why not? A 2008 Harris Poll said 44 percent of Americans believe in ghosts. That means somebody sitting right near you at the office is a believer, if it's not you. Friendly greetings are what the Gold Bar couple got Friday afternoon, as they parked in front of Central...

Birth: Jul. 26, 1940 Death: Jul. 19, 1969 Teacher and Administrator, she is most remembered for her controversial death in an automobile accident with Senator Edward Kennedy; the resulting political scandal caused Kennedy to reverse his decision to run for the US Presidency. Born in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, she was the only child of insurance salesman Joseph and Gwen Kopechne. After graduating from Caldwell College, New Jersey, she taught at Montgomery Catholic High School in Montgomery, Alabama, and then moved to Washington DC to work as a secretary for Florida Senator George Smathers. Shortly afterwards, she went to work...

Michael Jackson fans are up in arms after a ghostly apparition was caught on camera at the late star's Neverland ranch. The image was captured whilst a camera crew filmed inside Neverland for a special edition of the Larry King Live show. A shadowy figure can be seen crossing one of the corridors and appears to have its head tilted forward causing some to draw comparisons with Jackson's posture. The alleged supernatural sighting is the latest in a string of bizarre Jackson rumours to sweep the internet following his death nearly two weeks ago including speculation that Jackson faked his...

One rather expected consequence of the passing of the 'King of Pop', Michael Jackson is a rash of alleged sightings of Jackson's ghost. From the Philippines to Mexico, From Japan to the United States fans have been claiming to have been visited by Michael's spirit. One such story coming from Manila in the Philippines has captured the imagination of local radio audiences. Angelina Ramos, aged 38, a beautician and Manila native has been a serious Jackson fan 'all her life'. Last year never-married Angelina contracted a rare blood disease. Doctors gave her a ninety percent chance of not surviving for...

People who want to see ghosts usually seek out spooky cemeteries or creepy houses. But what if you aren't lucky (or unlucky) enough to live next to a dark old mansion or a deserted insane asylum? A good place to start is the top five haunted places in America, where people have reported (and in some cases created) ghostly encounters.

Salma Hayek is worried about her 16 month old daughter Valentina. She claims that Valentina is able to see ghosts and communicate with the spirit world. She alleges that she once caught her daughter in the middle of a conversation with a spirit. Salma commented on US TV series 'The Rachel Ray Show': 'Last night she saw a ghost. I'm convinced. She woke up and her eyes were open. And she's looking at one specific point and she's going, 'No no no no, au revoir,' which means goodbye in French. And she's looking at someone, but there's no one there....

People who drink too much coffee could start seeing ghosts or hearing strange voices, UK research has suggested. People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one, a study found. A Durham University team questioned 200 students about their caffeine intake, the journal Personality and Individual Differences reported. However, academics say the findings do not prove a "causal link". They also stress that experiencing hallucinations is not a definite sign of mental illness and that about 3% of people regularly hear voices. "This is...

WASHINGTON – The nation's capital is awash with lawmakers, lobbyists and policy wonks. But by night, it's home to a variety of ghosts and demonic spirits, at least according to local folklore. Built on a swamp, Washington has had a long and bloody history, including being a wartime battleground. Many ghosts from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War are said to haunt the city. Some even believe the White House is haunted, with many former residents and staffers saying they've seen the ghosts of President Abraham Lincoln and former first ladies Abigail Adams and Dolley...

The reports coming from the Florida State Prison have gotten strange indeed. It appears that the Ghost of Ted Bundy has showed up and is terrorizing prison guards and inmates at the prison. A guard who has asked not to be identified says that Bundy's Ghost appears in the area where he was executed and in his former cell where he spent his last hours before being put into Florida's Electric Chair. Up until the end Bundy tried to save his life by offering to tell where more bodies were buried but in the end they refused to give him...

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A ghostly apparition of a young girl is being blamed for a series of crashes on a stretch of country road. Paranormal researchers are investigating the sightings of a girl in Victorian dress on a road in the West Midlands, which locals say is an accident blackspot. The late-night visions are occurring along Oldnall Road in the Halesowen area and are believed to have been responsible for a number of crashes and near-misses in the area in recent years. Article continuesadvertisement Investigators looking for a logical explanation for the mystery admit they are baffled. David Taylor, chairman of the Parasearch...

LONDON (Reuters) - From screaming skulls and headless horsemen to murdered brides and phantom farmers, English folklore is full of spine-tingling ghost stories. (Advertisement) Terrified witnesses speak of seeing ghostly armies marching through the fog, spirits searching for hidden treasure and bells ringing from ruined churches. Authors Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson have sifted through centuries of myths, legends and local tales to compile a county-by-county guide to England's ghosts. "Readers may be surprised to see that a tale they had thought belonged to one place is found elsewhere," the authors say in the foreword to the "Penguin Book of...

Visitors stand in the Aldrich Cemetery in Hartland, Vt., Monday, April 21, 2008. A land buyer's proposal to move three graves from the old family cemetery has caused outcry from historians, veterans and neighbors. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) HARTLAND, Vt. - The 130-acre property was exactly what Michel Guite and his family wanted: an old Vermont farm with mountain views, rolling hills and meadows. There was, however, one wrinkle: The property included a small family cemetery — with the grave of a War of 1812 veteran — surrounded by a fence on a scenic knoll. His proposal to move the graveyard...

Romanian cops have closed a vandalism investigation that left local houses in ruins by concluding ghosts were to blame. Families living in Lilieci reported windows broken, bicycles flying through the air, objects moving on tables and candles blown out when there is no wind. When they complained they were being hounded by evil spirits to police they were laughed at. But after officers saw the evidence with their own eyes they filed a report saying that ghosts were to blame. Mircea Hadimbu, 68, who says his house has now been completely wrecked, said: "The windows started to break one by...

LONDON (Reuters) - British officials paid a psychic to exorcise a suspected poltergeist from state housing after the distressed occupants said they would rather become homeless than stay, a council said on Tuesday. Easington Council in County Durham said the family could not be persuaded to stay in the house, and that through paying half the psychic ghosthunter's 120-pound ($234) fee they were saving money as otherwise they would have had to pay for emergency housing. The Fallon family told reporters they heard banging from the loft, saw items fly across rooms and had doors slammed in their faces. They...

Council pays psychic for exorcism A psychic was paid £60 by a council to rid a County Durham home of a "poltergeist" after a family became "distraught" by unexplained events. Easington Council employed the ghostbuster after a Peterlee tenant reported paranormal activity. The mother-of-two had even called police after seeing objects flying across rooms and hearing banging. A council spokesman said it funded half the psychic's fee as it was the most cost effective solution. Andrew Burnip, the council's homelessness and housing advice manager, said the tenant's two young children had been "traumatised" by the strange goings on and wanted...

"THEY SAID this day would never come," Barack Obama declared in Iowa last week, and the ghosts of this nation nodded. With an African-American competing seriously for the presidency of the United States, the last act of a centuries-old drama begins. Obama's blood tie to the story of American slavery, ironically, comes through his white mother's ancestry, which apparently includes both slave owners and those who fought for the Union to end slavery. That Obama's father was a Kenyan links him more directly than anyone could have imagined both to Africa's past as an exploited continent, and to its present,...

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The ghosts that haunt on Halloween are usually put outside with the pumpkins: white sheets with stuffed heads draped across the trees.  But real ghosts haunt Passaic County, some residents say. In a house in Little Falls, a baby giggles from inside the walls. In Wayne, a widow looks out the window over her husband's grave, though both have been dead since the 19th century. In Paterson, a murdered man moved in with a family until it was "his time to go."  A third of Americans believe in ghosts, according to a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll. And 23 percent of...

Art Bell returns to do his annual Halloween Ghost to Ghost special. Lock your doors, turn off the lights and listen if you dare!

Stories tell of haunted places on U.S. bases American military powerless against screams, bumps, spirits in the night Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 It’s not your imagination — maybe that sound in the night really was a moan. Stories of spirits and unexplained phenomena have persisted on U.S. military bases in the Pacific for years. Doors slam, shadows creep and voices shout in the night. Could it be spirits of the dead reaching out? As costumed ghosts and ghouls hit the streets for Halloween, Stars and Stripes has compiled some accounts of allegedly real ghosts and...

Ghouls, Ghosts and Goblins It seems like such harmless fun—children dressed as witches, skeletons or Darth Vader ringing the doorbell, enthusiastically announcing, "Trick or treat!" But is this preoccupation with the dead, witches and demons really harmless? And do you realize that Halloween was originally an important religious holiday—and still is in many parts of the world? by Gary Petty There's the occasional prank that goes awry, or a sadist who puts razor blades in trick-or-treat candy, but for the most part the American celebration of Halloween seems like fun for everyone. Customs surrounding the holiday range from neighborhood haunted...

Want to buy a haunted house? Oh, no, not the attic. Anywhere but the attic. But the visitors insisted on going in. The house's owner reluctantly opened the attic door and stepped aside as her two visitors trod into the gloomy room. "All I know is we walked into the attic with her, and it's cavernous, and we were just looking hard, and, I don't know, this feeling came over me -- this warm feeling," Craig Schaible says. "I looked at my wife and she felt it, too." Craig and Yvonne Schaible were thinking of buying this 111-year-old Victorian house...

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said. "I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked out of their graves and came into my dreams, ordering me to reach school on time," said six-year-old Raqib Ansari. This week, hundreds of children at the school in the eastern state of Bihar, accompanied by their parents, marched to the office of a senior district official, asking for the school to be...

Specters spook campus Tara Croft Issue date: 5/31/07 Thousands of students have walked the grounds of campus since N.C. State was founded in 1889. According to a handful of the people who frequent campus today, some of those thought to be dead and gone might not be so gone after all. At several locations across campus, strange events have led people to conclude that ghosts roam the buildings. Erica Lezan, the assistant director of New Student Orientation, said a "ghost walk" is one of the events available for students during orientation. However, the tour emphasizes the University's history more than...

Brazenhead pub owner Tony Lehmann and his son Brando believe they have a resident ghost. PICTURE: DUNCAN BROWN Pub's ghost in high spirits? 02.06.2007 REBECCA STEVENSON Creaking floors and doors, an apparition flashing past staff and peering over shoulders, a mop bucket rolling up and down the floor but there's no one around - it is a classic ghost tale set in a Napier pub. Brazenhead Irish Ale & Coffee House owner Tony Lehmann says he's an open-minded non-believer - somewhat of a sceptic - but ever since he took over at the Irish pub about two months ago strange...

Malaysian state closes ghost museum after clerics complain it is un-Islamic April 14, 2007 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian state has closed down a museum exhibition on ghosts, ghouls and supernatural beings after Islamic clerics claimed it was detrimental to Muslims' faith, newspapers reported Saturday. The exhibition at the state museum in southern Negeri Sembilan has drawn some 25,000 visitors since it opened March 10. But it has also attracted criticism from religious scholars who charged the show was un-Islamic and based in fantasy, the New Straits Times reported. Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Rais Yatim also disapproved...

Ghost hunters rely on common sense As Grant S. Wilson and Jason Hawes crept up the spiral staircase of the old lighthouse, they saw a figure grab the railing and look down at them. They quickened their steps, ran after him and found ... nothing. A dead end. Two padlocked doors. No one at all. Just another day in the life of "Ghost Hunters," the TV show on the Sci-Fi Channel that follows the real-life exploits of a team of unusual investigators. Now the public is invited to meet the stars of "Ghost Hunters" in person, Saturday, 1 to 5...

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Scott & Harrill Residence Halls-haunted?? Russell ConoverIssue Date: 11/10/06 Scott and Harrill Residence Halls may seem like just two more dorms on the campus of Western Carolina University. However, each building has a reputation for being haunted because of some mysterious events that occurred in the past. Current and prospective students of WCU should keep these stories in mind when they select a dorm in which to live. The early 1990s was the time that Scott Hall began its conversion to "the dark side." During this time, it is said that a female student hung herself in the East Wing...

The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it. In the 1970s, I personally confirmed some of the more mundane parts of her story....

Horror stories may be the place for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they are not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou. Obviously, you might say. But Efthimiou, a professor at the University of Central Florida, points to surveys that show American gullibility for the supernatural. Using science and math, Efthimiou explains why it is that ghosts cannot walk among us while also gliding through walls, like Patrick Swayze in the movie "Ghost." That violates Newton's law of action and reaction. If ghosts walk, their feet apply force to the floor, but if they go through walls they are without substance,...

'FRIENDLY' GHOSTS HAUNT HOTEL October 28, 2006 -- THE trendy Maritime Hotel might want to start teaching its old ghosts new tricks, because living among the dead is no treat for their guests. In a very scary tale of hotel room hauntings, sources tell Page Six the 10th floor of the West 16th Street hot spot is housing more than an occasional celebrity or socialite - lost souls and spirits from the past are said to be taking up shelter there, too. One incident sent a woman guest running to the lobby - dripping wet and wearing nothing but a...

It was July 3, 1978. He was up late, working on an archaeological dig at Mission San Antonio de Padua in Central California. Around midnight, he left the lab to grab a frozen chicken out of an ice box in the kitchen. On his way there, he noticed a monk shuffling around the courtyard, dressed in a robe and carrying a lit candle. He thought this a bit odd, considering most modern-day monks wear jeans and sweatshirts, but other than that, there didn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary about the guy. When Senate approached to say hello,...

Here is the annual haunted thread. Post your true ghost stories here... This has been somewhat popular ovedr the last three years given the feedback I've received. We just need to keep bumping the thread and keep it active.

Like ghosts themselves, the best ghost stories never seem to go away. But there's no better time than Halloween to share tales of fright and things that go bump in the night. Mischievous spirits haunt at least two north-metro establishments, according to employees: Billy's Bar and Grill in Anoka and the Pizza Hut in Columbia Heights. As Maria King, who works for the Anoka County Historical Society and directs walking ghost tours in Anoka, says to her customers: "I know not what the truth may be. I tell the tale as told to me."

The Tricky Topic of Halloween By Kenneth Richard Samples In terms of holiday commercial sales, Halloween ranks second only to Christmas. But is this extremely popular tradition (especially in the U.S.) the devil’s night, a literal satanic and occult extravaganza? Or is Halloween a harmless celebration? Many Christians raise questions and express concerns about holidays that have some historical connection, at least in terms of dates, to ancient pagan beliefs and practices. Some refuse to allow their children to participate in Halloween celebrations. Others would like to abolish the event. Addressing common questions about this scary holiday may alleviate some...

Halloween is the most dangerous day of the year -- when satanists and witches snatch children off the streets and sacrifice them in Satan's name!Halloween is nothing but a secular time of fun and games -- an excuse for the kids to dress up and overload on sugar!These are only two of the comments Christians hear during October. There are many things about celebrating Halloween with which Christians are uncomfortable, such as images of ghosts, devils, and witches; and rumors of satanic rituals involving criminal and anti-Christian activities. However, most adults also have fond memories of childhood trick-or-treating and dressing...

On ship, a ghost of a chance Researchers spend night aboard after visitors see mysterious man By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff | June 26, 2006 MYSTIC, Conn. -- Rain drummed on the deck of the 19th-century whaling ship Charles W. Morgan late Saturday night, as below deck, in the cramped and stuffy captain's quarters, a group of men and women armed with flashlights and digital cameras took their positions. They were ghost hunters, members of the Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group, who had come to Mystic Seaport, the museum that houses the Morgan, to investigate reports of strange happenings on...

If there's anybody who looks like he can introduce you to a ghost, it's Michael Henry. He wears a black button-down shirt, black pants and a silver, skull-shaped ring on his finger. He trims his gray beard to a devilish point, and his bushy eyebrows swoop up and out and give him that "you are getting very sleepy" look.

Giving up the ghost Eerie goings-on at Queen's Park Two haunting tales of the supernatural are setting spines a-tingling in the history-steeped offices of the province's lieutenant governor. Two independent ghost sightings by staff members in the office of Lt.-Gov. James Bartleman have them wondering who they're gonna call. At around 1 p.m. on Jan. 9, Anthony Hylton, a planning co-ordinator in Bartleman's Queen's Park office, saw a man in a dark suit leave the vice-regal washroom, walk past a reception desk and into the historic Music Room. Hylton at first thought he had seen a colleague who is with...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Tuesday marked the beginning of the annual ghost festival in Taiwan, and performing pop stars will try to appease the spirits so their concerts won't be spooked, the local news media reported. Tradition says the month-long festival kicks off when the gates of the netherworld are opened for ghosts to make their annual visit to Earth. It is also observed in other Chinese communities in Asia. Taiwanese from all walks of life believe that feeding and entertaining ghosts during the festival leads to a year of peace and prosperity. The Liberty Times newspaper said the American...

Valentown - Is it Haunted? Western New York Paranormal was asked to conduct a paranormal investigation at the historic ghost town of Valentown in Victo, New York. There had been local legends of ghosts inhabiting the building and the property surrounding it for decades. Workers and volunteers have reported unexplained noises, touches, and moving shadows. It's not unlike any other investigation, or so we thought. The week the team was scheduled to go in, an episode appeared on Sci Fi's Ghost Hunters where their team did an investigation of Valentown. And so it was discovered that another team had investigated...

Haunting caught on photograph May 28, 2006 By The Sunday Sun This scary shadow may not look like much to the untrained eye, but ghost hunters believe it could prove that spooks exist. And it was taken right here in the North. The apparent apparition was snapped during a charity investigation at Newcastle Keep, where paranormal teams from all over the UK gathered to spend a night searching for spirits. Mark Winter, of Blyth, Northumberland, was one of four members of the North East Ghost In-Spectres research team who were holding a vigil in the Galleries section of the 12th-Century...

Terrifying Haunting or Clever Hoax? Was Mompesson's ghost a genuine spirit? In 1662 English landowner John Mompesson began telling the world that his household was haunted by an evil and mischievous spirit. In a letter to William Creed, Regius professor of Divinity at Oxford and a relation by marriage, he said that he had initially thought that the disturbances were the work of burglars, before being forced to conclude that they could only be supernatural. He blamed the visitations on the witchcraft of William Drury, a drummer he had caused to be arrested in March for claiming money under false...