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Everyone has heard of Christmas Carolers, but a group of people have hit the streets to do some Halloween Scare-o-ling. The group, which is singing for charity and helping in the fight against cancer, has altered traditional Christmas Carols and made them more Halloween-friendly.

We like to be creeped out, don’t we? To kick off this Halloween season, we have chosen 10 homes in the U.S. notorious for their haunted history and spirits who like to visit. Some are privately owned homes, some are now bed-and-breakfasts, some have historic designations, and one is even the seat of our government. Take a deep breath and let’s visit some of the most notable haunted homes in the U.S.: 1. The Winchester House (San Jose, CA) This amazing Victorian mansion has secret panels, hidden rooms and staircases leading to nowhere - all to keep the spirits at...

Soulsearchers 'see ghosts' during Carlisle restaurant investigation Last updated at 13:18, Thursday, 14 October 2010 It’s a cold, October night in Carlisle. Fog rolls in over the cathedral, lit up against the black sky and stoops to kiss the cobblestones outside the restaurant. Inside, the customers are gone. The tables, still laid as if for a ghostly banquet, are occupied by seven men and women, awkwardly observing a reverent hush. Two burly Scotsmen are flitting about with bits of machinery, recording the readings on digital screens. Only two people seem relaxed. They sit at separate tables, scribbling their thoughts into...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Knicks were afraid, very afraid. And it had nothing to do with the Oklahoma City Thunder. For two days, several players had trouble sleeping because they were convinced that their downtown hotel is haunted. "I definitely believe it," Jared Jeffries said. "The place is haunted. It's scary."

BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore city police officer was charged with assault after he pulled a gun on a haunted house character over the weekend. Baltimore County police said Sgt. Eric Janik, 36, pulled his gun on a haunted house employee dressed up as the killer from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" at the House of Screams show in Essex on Sunday. Police said the employee approached Janik after the haunted house tour was over in a bid to get "one last scream." Instead, Janik, who was off-duty, pulled his service weapon and pointed it at Michael Morrison's chest, authorities said. "I...

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...

Here is a video report from Milwaukee where many Major League Baseball players are claiming Milwaukee's "The Pfister" Hotel is -- well, haunted. "The Pfister Hotel" is used to house visiting team players in town to play the Brewers. Several have had very strange experiences while staying in the hotel, like hearing voices, feeling a presence in the room, and locked doors opening on their own during the night. The video talks with the Brewers Mike Cameron, who is convinced the 116 year-old hotel is haunted. . . . . (Watch Video)

Pfister Hotel Has Some Strange Happenings MILWAUKEE, WI (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - When the Cardinals travel north to tangle with the Milwaukee Brewers, they stay at a downtown Milwaukee landmark known for being ornate, historic and perhaps haunted. Professional baseball players have plenty of eerie tales about the Pfister Hotel, and, from Brendan Ryan to Manager Tony LaRussa, the Cardinals are no exception.

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.

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...

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.

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,...

Legendz Colonial Lanes is haunted. That's the conclusion of an investigation by the Michigan branch of Haunted Paranormal Investigations... "The focus seems to be in the back room of the bowling alley, where many of the women staff report being touched on the neck in the liquor room, or someone shutting the lights off while someone is working in that back room," she said..."

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...

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...

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...

DREAD AND BREAKFAST Record reporter spends a spooky night in the most haunted hotel in Scotland By Barry Gordon HOTEL rooms are not very scary, or at least that's what I thought. That was before watching the new John Cusak film, 1408, where his character Mike Enslin decides to check into the notorious Hotel Dolphin to investigate its supernatural reputation. A crooked door that goes straight again, an operator that doesn't sound human and, finally, a room engulfed in flames are enough to convince him maybe ghosts do stay in hotels. I decided to check this out for myself at...

Is Randolph College haunted? While it may have a new name, some say there are a few old spirits still lurking around the former Randolph-Macon Woman's College campus. A bevy of ghost hunters paid a visit over the weekend, and they seemed to encounter some strange circumstances. Their quest began in the basement of the library. Ghost hunter John James turned out the lights and set up his video camera. They returned 45 minutes later to find his two-hour tape completely used up. James was also nearly hit by a flying object. "I know it hit the metal. I heard...

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...

Ghost hunting in Houghton Mansion: The mystery continues By Jennifer Huberdeau, North Adams TranscriptArticle Launched: 03/31/2007 03:44:53 AM EDT Saturday, March 31The basement was cold and dark. An eerie blue light pierced the darkness just a few feet from me. Was this some sort of sign from the beyond? Well, I wouldn't go that far. It was Grant Wilson, from SciFi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" series, illuminating an electro-magnetic field reader as he checked the copper pipes on the ceiling. "Do you feel kind of spooked out down here?" he asked. I'd been in the basement of the Houghton Mansion, more...

British spies haunted by blunders By George Jones, Political Editor Last Updated: 2:13am GMT 20/02/2007 The James Bond image of Britain's spies took a knock yesterday when an official report disclosed they were making an "unacceptably high" level of blunders. Mistakes included tapping the wrong telephone numbers and continuing to collect post from an address after its target had moved on. The most common mistake was wrongly entering a telephone number on a tapping warrant - usually a simple transposition of numbers. Sir Swinton Thomas, the outgoing Interception of Communications Commissioner, disclosed that dozens of similar errors were reported to...

LOVE HEWITT CONJURES UP REAL GHOST ON SPOOKY SHOW Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)2007-01-14 15:48:59 JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT and the crew of her spooky TV drama GHOST WHISPERER got the chills during a recent late-night shoot when a real spectre showed up on the set. The actress, who plays an antiques dealer that helps troubled spirits cross over, was filming a tense scene earlier this week (beg08JAN07), when crew members noticed movement in the shadows behind her. Love Hewitt and her pals crowded around the monitor to watch the scene played back and were...

City office haunted? Odd occurrences can’t be explained, employees say December 31,2006 Sara Perkins Monitor Staff Writer RIO GRANDE CITY — Haunted houses are nothing new in Starr County. At the historic La Borde House, which is home to county offices, a restaurant and a hotel, the locals say things go bump in the night — and during the day. At the county courthouse, lawyers and clerks tell stories of whispering ghosts in the halls. But knowing about these haunted buildings didn’t lessen the surprise of the county’s compliance and collection department when pictures started falling off the walls of...

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House has a past, maybe even a spirit The home of Brooksville's redevelopment coordinator is old and full of character. And it doesn't hurt that the house might be haunted. By MICHAEL KRUSE Published December 5, 2006 BROOKSVILLE - Brian Brijbag took a job this past summer as this city's redevelopment coordinator. He got an office and a badge and got going as an upbeat leader of the continued revitalization efforts. But the most meaningful thing he's done so far might be a real estate transaction: He moved into the big Victorian house on a corner of W Fort Dade...

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...

'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...

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...

The haunts in the house By ROBYN STUBBS, 24 HOURS Even after everyone else has left for the evening, Marisa Ferrari senses she's not alone in Burnaby's historic Ceperley House. Now the site of the Burnaby Art Gallery, the ghostly spirits of the house's former residents, including a monk, a caretaker and a little blonde girl, have all been said to roam the gallery halls. But the strongest spirit arguably belongs to the original 19th century owner, Mrs. Grace Ceperley. Whatever - or whoever - it is, there are some very strange things going on, says Ferrari - items are...

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."

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...

In a city haunted by Katrina, the question is: Will it happen again? By Francis Harris in New Orleans (Filed: 13/05/2006) Hurricane season is approaching New Orleans like a recurring nightmare. Very soon, the great storms which brew in the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters will once again race landwards and attack the city's protective levees. Meteorologists are predicting an "active" six month season. It is a frightening prospect for a city still punch-drunk from last year's flooding. The authorities are making a huge effort to shore up the system. Across the semi-deserted metropolis, engineers are working day and night...

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:...