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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...

The Ghost Child of Wintergreen Gorge October 15, 8:47 PM Pittsburgh Paranormal Examiner Pastor Swope Four Mile Creek meanders through the woodlands of Northern Erie County Pennsylvania and empties into Lake Erie. Over the eon's it's slow moving waters has cut a large swath of land, and one of the more spectacular creations of the small creek is a mile long ravine called Wintergreen Gorge. From Prehistoric until Colonial times the Gorge and creeks path provided a clear route to the Lake for both the local Native Americans and European Settlers. Ancient Indian war trails line both sides of the...

President Barack Obama warned American teenagers on Tuesday of the dangers of putting too much personal information on Internet social networking sites, saying it could come back to haunt them in later life. The presidential words of advice follow recent studies that suggest U.S. employers are increasingly turning to sites such Facebook and News Corp's MySpace to conduct background checks on job applicants. Taking part in a question-and-answer session with a group of 14- and 15-year-old school students, Obama was asked by one pupil for some advice on becoming U.S. president. "Well, let me give you some very practical tips....

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...

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Paranormal investigators probe bar Posted by the Ocean County Observer on 11/20/06BY CHRIS LUNDY STAFF WRITERPOINT PLEASANT — "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," Sherlock Holmes said. Holmes is fiction, and so are ghost stories. Aren't they? If so, how do some places become the setting for so many? For instance, Magee's West Side Tavern on Route 88 is the stuff of local legend. General Manager Jeremy Margolias has heard or seen it all. Items disappear off orders. The blinds in an attic window are open every morning, no...

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...

Paranormal Investigators Videotape Apparent Ghost In Graveyard Oct 31, 2006 04:37 PM EST AfterDark Paranormal Investigations contacted WAVE 3 and provided the following account of their investigation, including the video and audio material. (BARDSTOWN, Ky.) -- According to its website, AfterDark Paranormal Investigations is a Louisville-based family operated ghost hunting group that investigates and documents paranormal activity. Their services are free of charge, and it investigates in Louisville, surrounding areas, and Southern Indiana. Recently it claims to have videotaped a ghost in Bardstown. Back on May 20th, 2006, the group did a follow-up investigation at a private home in Bardstown....

Ghost Stories at the Houston Library On a dripping, windless night, darkness swamped a jewel-box ceiling high above the Ideson Library’s top floor. Forty windows, each with eight panes glowing like opal in moonlight, crowned the walls. Downstairs, a dead girl gazed morosely from a framed photograph on the wall. In a portrait in the hall, a librarian gone from this life for 60 years sternly surveyed her domain. One notices such things as a long night’s ghost hunt creeps toward dawn. Halloween brings out the spookiness in everyone. Even the most pinched skeptic secretly yearns for a tap on...

Spooks and thrills: Woman says house is haunted JANETTA ROACH, For The Saratogian 10/30/2006 WATERFORD -- After grieving the passing of her mother, Pauline Bartel, local writer and president of Bartel Communications, based in Waterford, thought she was finally getting on with her life when she purchased a 1930s bungalow in Waterford. 'I named it 'The Maryline' in honor of my mother, Mary, and the last part of my name,' said Bartel. Bartel bought the home in the summer of 2003 and spent the next two years renovating it and restoring the house to its original splendor. 'About a month...

Scranton’s past full of spooky tales 10/29/2006 Spooky legends and ghost stories abound this time of year. Some may be far-fetched, even outlandish, but local history does record some unexplained oddities and some of the darker events of human existence. Before Scranton was founded in the 1700s, the Slocum family settled along the banks of Roaring Brook. According to research conducted by Christine Schaefer, a member of the Lackawanna Historical Society who develops living history programs, a young girl hanged herself at her family’s home near the present-day courthouse. The family no longer wished to stay in their home and...

The Haunted Haunts Of Galveston Ghost Tour Has Proven A Popular Tourist Trade October 28, 2006 - Posted at 3:57 a.m. BY MICHAEL GRACZYK - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GALVESTON - Steve Havlock thought he was alone. He'd shut Luigi's Ristorante Italiano for the night, the other employees had left and he was doing some final cleanup. Then he heard a woman's voice, calling "Steve! Steve!" "It was very clear," Havlock, 50, said. "The voice was in the distance, but very clear. And it was certainly my name." No one was visible. He'd heard the stories about a ghost that inhabits...

Haunted spots -- fact or fiction? By Ann Tatko-Peterson CONTRA COSTA TIMES IN BYRON, the gutted, burned-out shell of a hotel stands blanketed in moonlight. In Antioch, leaves rustle in the trees of a dilapidated cemetery that stands in the shadow of a deserted old mine. With Halloween just around the corner, we asked Times readers to tell us about their favorite East Bay haunted spot or ghostly encounters. Here, we dig into 10 of those rumored hauntings, trying to separate fact from fiction. No. 1: Rose Hill Cemetery and Black Diamond Mines, Antioch The claim: Kathy Ives, 54, of...

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...

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...

Ghostly apparition sets off helicopter search Apr 27 2006 By Stephanie Turner MYSTERIOUS sightings of a "ghostly figure" wandering across the Caterham bypass have left police officers stumped. Several drivers have now reported spotting the young girl as they travel along the A22 in the early hours of the morning. But a full-scale police search - involving a helicopter and the dog unit - has uncovered absolutely nothing. Father-of-two Matthew, who did not want to reveal his surname, was driving along the road at 2.30am on Thursday, April 13 with two of his work colleagues. The 36-year-old from Whyteleafe said:...

Things Go Bump In Seaport Buildings Too By Joe Wojtas Mystic — Mystic Seaport interpreter Juanita Babcock was teaching a hearth cooking class in the Buckingham House on the museum grounds about 15 years ago when she held up a glass of mulled wine and made a toast. “I wonder what Mrs. Buckingham would think about us drinking wine in here,” she said, referring to the matriarch of the Congregationalist family that lived in the house and likely would not have allowed liquor. As soon as Babcock uttered those words, she felt something slap the back of her hand. The...

04/17: Ghosts in Racine? Paranormal sightings reported at Racine B&B BY MICHAEL BURKE Journal Times RACINE — It’s just possible that someday a guest of Hughes House Bed & Breakfast could glimpse something otherworldly or hear inexplicable bumps in the night. Several people say they have seen and/or heard apparitions and other strange phenomena at 1500 S. Main St. Dan Dashner, co-owner of the house with Mike Reynolds, is one of them. “Mike and I both have seen things and heard things,” Dashner said. He realizes that, in some people’s eyes, uttering that makes him crazy or a liar. But...

Haunted happenings Jerry Storey TRIBUNE-REVIEWSunday, February 12, 2006 A hotel-restaraunt in Mt. Pleasant that was built in 1883 is believed by some to have had customers that checked in more than 100 years ago who remain there today. They're ghosts. Sherry Wingrove, owner of the R&R Station, said she began noticing strange things happening soon after she and her husband, Ray, bought the business. "Things would disappear and then reappear later. You heard footsteps when no one was there, and you could hear children bouncing a ball upstairs and pots and pans would fly off the racks," Wingrove said. "For...

An Old City Haunt A Chestnut Street hotel boasts nonliving lodgers-and launches a promotional event. by Steve Volk She felt like she was being watched, saw shadows dart by in her peripheral vision and received strange complaints from some of the hotel's guests: namely, that children were racing down the hallway. That is, ghost children. Giggling. Over the prospect of stealing human souls! Well, we made up that last bit. But according to the management of the Best Western Independence Park Hotel, there have been strange goings on there for years. Now they're ready to talk about it-and maybe profit...

SACRAMENTO - For the first time since then-private citizen Arnold Schwarzenegger persuaded voters to pass Proposition 49 in 2002, the state will start spending more than $500 million on after-school programs next year. Under Schwarzenegger's proposed 2006-07 budget, the state will spend an additional $428 million on after-school programs under Proposition 49, bringing the total funding for those programs to $550 million. That is new spending required for the first time under Proposition 49 as triggered by an increase in state revenue, although it is not supported by new taxes or other revenue sources. But some critics say the measure...

The Gipper’s Ghost by JEFFREY VALLANCE Since the death of Ronald Reagan, various ghostly phenomena have been reported up at the Reagan Ranch in the hills above Santa Barbara. Rancho del Cielo (cielo means “heaven” in Spanish) was Reagan’s favorite place in the world. The hacienda-style estate, neighboring Michael Jackson’s blighted Neverland, is preserved in the exact condition it was in when the Reagans lived there, as if they just stepped out and will return at any moment. Even Reagan’s favorite jellybean jar is still there, complete with a few uneaten beans. Reagan kept several horses at the ranch stable....

Okay, it's Halloween month. Time to post your true Ghost Stories...

Witnesses say historic theater is haunted Author: Carly Farrell Publication Date: 2005-10-07 AMERICUS — According to encyclopedia.com, the definition of a ghost is, “...a spiritualistic manifestation of a person or object in which a form not actually present is seen with such intensity that belief in its reality is created.” The Rylander Theatre in Americus has such a spirit according to at least two residents of Americus and Kathleen Walls’ book, “Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways.” “We don’t know who the ghost is,” said vice-chairman of the Rylander Authority, Kent Sole. “My theory is that (he) was a former manager. (It) doesn’t...

Angry Ghost Caught On TV? Televisions crews, psychics and paranormal investigators have been flocking to a store in Gloucester, England, that seems to have video proof of the existence of ghosts. After finding the store a mess one morning staff at Poundstretcher on Eastgate Street examined CCTV footage of the night before. What shocked them was the sight of a ghostly figure of a Victorian woman pushing a whole pallet of goods to the ground. A bit of research shows that the shop stands on the site of an old Theatre - The Theatre Royal, later known as The Palace....

Scream Baffles Ohio Town POSTED: 6:27 pm EDT August 19, 2005 UPDATED: 10:25 am EDT August 20, 2005 LIBERTY, Ohio -- An unusual and noisy mystery has people in a small town north of Middletown on edge, worried and asking questions, News 5’s Brain Hamrick reported. Liberty, Ohio, is a quiet little community, except for one thing -- the scream. Jamie Young told Hamrick she heard it while she and her husband were walking one evening. “It scared me. I didn’t want to finish my walk,” Young said. But instead of running into her house, she said she recorded the...

The Ghost Of The Old Baraboo Inn Many Years Ago The Restaurant Was A Brothel, And Recent Guests Have Reported Seeing Apparitions Of A Woman Dressed As A Saloon Dancer. Wisconsin State Journal :: FRONT :: A1 Tuesday, July 5, 2005 Doug Erickson Wisconsin State Journal BARABOO B.C. Farr has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars turning a 141-year-old saloon into a restaurant, so he's understandably reluctant to jeopardize his investment by sounding like a crackpot. That's why he says he kept quiet for years about the odd things he's seen -- dishware flying off a rack, a broom floating...

Whispers in the dark BY ADAM WALLWORTH Northwest Arkansas Times Posted on Sunday, July 3, 2005 Just because you don’t see dead people doesn’t mean they don’t see you, especially if you’re in the Historic Washington County Courthouse. Whether there will ever be enough evidence to definitively prove the historic Washington County Courthouse is haunted is anybody’s guess, but Tulsa Ghost Investigators didn’t leave empty handed after their June 4 stay in the century-old building. "This courthouse does indeed contain some rather interesting, if not creepy, activity which is as yet unexplained," wrote Vicky Glidewell in her report of the...

COURTHOUSE HAS HISTORY OF THINGS GOING BUMP IN THE NIGHT BY ADAM WALLWORTH Northwest Arkansas Times Posted on Sunday, May 8, 2005 Maybe it’s the history of the place, or maybe it’s the lack of sleep, but there’s something about the Historic Washington County Courthouse. Whether that something was once human can be argued, but walking the halls of the building in the wee hours, it becomes apparent why so many people throughout the years have told of experiences with the unexplainable. Strange noises and doors that move of their own accord are common themes in the stories of those...

Officer investigates possibility of ghosts in his own home By Ilona Carson ABC13 Eyewitness News (5/05/05 - CYPRESS, TX) — Houston's police officers usually hunt down criminals, but one lieutenant has been spending his time hunting ghosts -- in his own home. It has all the makings of a movie, but this isn't fiction - it's a home right here in Texas. In fact, it's just up Highway 249 in Cypress. The home has been drawing ghost-hunters, sight-seers and the curious. It is quite a story. The couple moved in about two years ago. He is a Houston police officer....

A ghost of a chance An Indiana group with cameras and other gear hunts spirits in a shadowy county courthouse By E.A. Torriero Tribune staff reporter Published May 1, 2005 VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Maintenance workers have sworn for years that the Porter County Courthouse is haunted. Sometimes they have heard voices yelling their names. Chairs inexplicably moved in dark courtrooms at night. The elevator operates unprompted some evenings. And some swear they have seen a shadowy, ghoulish figure wearing a black top hat. So Friday night, at the urging of the county attorney and with permission of the County Commission,...

Haunted Harrington: Is there a ghost at City Hall?; Witnesses share their stories By Cathianne Werner-Porterfield, The JournalHARRINGTON — You're all alone in an old house at night. Considering yourself a sane person, you have no reason to be afraid. You're safe. Nothing is going to lurch out of the dark shadows and jump into your path. But you a hear a noise … a strange creaking sound … on the floor above you and sanity and reason go out the window and are taken over instantly by fear and apprehension. You collect yourself and speak reassuring words out loud....

Is this a ghost in the spire? A GHOSTLY mystery has come to light at Halifax's Square Church spire, baffling council chiefs and workers. Last week, the Evening Courier reported how a pair of lovebirds could halt restoration of the historic landmark. But when steeplejacks zoomed in to get a photograph of the birds’ nest, they ended up with an unexpected snapshot. Foreman Barry Done says the digital snap shows a ghostly figure hovering in the steeple – and the find has worried council bosses so much it was the hot topic at their Monday morning meeting. “I was gobsmacked...

True ghost tales By Emily Quirk equirk@seacoastonline.com RAYMOND - Tim Louis never believed in ghosts before he bought the old Bean Tavern on Fremont Road more than 20 years ago. Now he says he’s a believer. In 1982, after his father-in-law died, Louis and his wife, Peg, were searching for his father-in-law’s will. Louis had just come home from work the day after Christmas with The Boston Globe and placed the newspaper on the kitchen table. He went upstairs looking for Peg and she was frantically looking for her father’s will, which Louis said must have been filed away in...

Raymond investigators take ghost of a chance By TOBY HENRY Sunday News Correspondent RAYMOND — local paranormal investigators believe unexplained noises and strange phenomena that has been reported around town is the work of spectres, and are hoping to doucment their findings on film. Longtime residents and friends Barb Edgar and Kathleen Chamberlain say that despite its relatively small size, the town is fertile ground for the study of paranormal activity. The two are in the process of compiling what they call “true ghost stories” for a Channel 22 documentary expected to air on Halloween. “We’ve heard some rumors in...

Family wishes ghostly noises would just go away Occupants believe their West Inverness house is spooked by Joseph M. Giordano When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up. But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal. "His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him." Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might...

Former shipyard has become a ghost town Dec 20 2004 By Kirsti Adair, Daily Post Staff A FEW too many things have been going bump in the night at a Merseyside shipyard. Staff at the former Cammell Laird's site called in ghostbusters after suspicions they were not alone. For the past six months, parascientists have been spending nights in the site buildings looking for evidence of the paranormal. Mike Ryder, of Reddington Finance, which now owns the site, said: "I have had a number of strange experiences usually later on in the afternoon. The air in my office gets very...

Ghostly encounter at the Confederate Memorial Building I'm not one who has ever really believed in ghosts. I've always thought there was a logical explanation for everything. I have a couple of good friends in Greenwood who have always claimed they have a ghost in their house. Since I have never had a firsthand experience with a ghost, I always shake my head, laugh and think, "Yeah, right." But after last Saturday night, I'm beginning to rethink my views on ghosts. It's more than a week later, and I'm still a little spooked by what I saw. As I was...

My night of terror in a haunted house Nov 20 2004 Nov 2004 By Duncan Gibbons "A night of terror" is how a man described the time he spent in what is said to be one of Warwickshire's most haunted houses. Michael Chapman was one of 10 people who spent the night at Shrieves House Barn, in Sheep Street, Stratford. The 500-year-old building, now home to Falstaffs Experience museum, is said to be a hotbed of paranormal activity. Mr Chapman, 48, a fine art expert from a village near Stratford, said the ancient building soon revealed its dark secrets. Volunteers...

I've had MANY requests to have a thread where people share their own ghost stories. Well... here it is. Have at it!

The Haunted City By Jeff Danna & Alicia Dorr City Beat Editors Nearly three million people live in Chicago, and that’s with emphasis on the word “live.” To some, Chicago is not just another city saturated with people—the spirits of the deceased also inhabit it. Or, simply put, Chicago is haunted. “Chicago is definitely one of the most haunted cities, if not in the world, in the country,” said C.T. Thieme, researcher of the paranormal and guide for the Chicago Hauntings ghost tour. From wandering apparitions to aggravating poltergeists, Chicago is believed to be home to an assortment of otherworldly...

A look at some old 'haunts' in western Pennsylvania Brian Corcoran Guy Wathen/Tribune-Review Sunday, October 24, 2004 Brian Corcoran sits behind a desk in the library of his wonderfully spooky and beloved 200-year-old house and talks wistfully about the days he spent traveling abroad with his parents. And with Sheba. Sheba's been part of the Scottdale-area family for decades. Wherever the Corcorans would wander, she rattled along, too. The fact that Sheba is the skeleton of an unknown London lass found floating in the Thames River, and was a sentimental favorite of his mother's, seems to put into perspective Corcoran's...

Ghostly guestsBy Carolyn Kessel Stewart / News Staff Writer Saturday, October 23, 2004 HUDSON -- A headless man in a fine blue officer's uniform floats above the Fort Meadow Reservoir day and night, but his ghost is seen only by women. "The Blue Man," as he is known, is so crisp that the weave of his coat and the gold on his buttons are clearly visible, said ghost hunter and story teller Nancy McMillan. Another ghost, who some recognize as a former Marlborough mayor, peers up at those on the Fort Meadow Reservoir docks. "It looks like he's peering up...

Haunted History, Urban Legends and Tall Tales JONELLE TOMBSON October 20, 2004 Tall tales of the macabre are always fun, but when they are centered around local places, events or people, they are even more exciting. Compiled from old folk lore and books, here is a collection of Fayetteville legends that are sure to make your hair stand on end. Heart-pounding, spine-tingling, bone-chilling ghost stories and scary urban legends that have been passed down from generation to generation are as much a part of Halloween as candy, black cats and costume parties. Tall tales of the macabre are always fun,...

Is Town Hall Haunted? By Emily Young TOWNSEND -- It was around midnight when Tim Casey heard a cough coming from the small tower at the top of Town Hall. Casey, the head custodian who cleans the Town Hall between 9 p.m. and midnight, was wiping down a table in a third-floor room when he heard a distinct sound from above roughly six months ago. "When I heard the cough, the hair just stood straight up on my head," Casey recalled Wednesday. Casey decided to investigate the noise, and after climbing a short ladder to the small tower floor, he...