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Author’s note: A June 2009 “From The Shadows” installment told the tale of “Tammy” whose family was terrorized by an evil, little gnome-like man on their property near the Tule River in Porterville, Calif. Her case is not as isolated as we may hope. Dan Bortko’s family moved from Wyandotte County, Kan., to Liberty, Mo., in 1948 when he was about nine months old. His family didn’t know it, but something already lived in the house on High Street. The house, a stucco bungalow built atop a hill in the 1920s, wasn’t the only structure on that site. “There was...

4/7/2010 - MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) -- Maj. Deborah Lehker's job isn't an easy one to leave behind. For the past six months she has been a member of a three-person team of medical professionals caring for critically wounded servicemembers during medical evacuations in Afghanistan. When she arrived at March Air Reserve Base March 10 for outprocessing, she was ecstatic to be back in the United States and just hours away from the short flight that would take her the rest of the way home to her family in Phoenix. "It's going to be awesome," she said with...

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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...

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”.

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.

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.

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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...

(Fairfield-AP) _ The federal government is seeking a buyer for the Penfield Lighthouse off the coast of Fairfield, which comes with panoramic views of Long Island Sound and tales of hauntings by the ghost of a former property keeper. Local legend has it that Frederick Jordan's apparition appeared at the lighthouse several times after he drowned when his boat capsized near the structure in 1916. The US General Services Administration wants to sell it for one dollar to a local, state or federal government agency or a nonprofit organization. The town of Fairfield says it's very interested in the property...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

Anyone interested in the Bell Witch of Tennessee, might be interested in seeing this film. It opens May 5th. Not sure how accurate it is, it is after all a Hollywierd production. There was a team of locals in Nashville that did a home made version of the story, they did an excellent job of presenting the story of the Bell Witch. Let's hope this one turns out to be as good.

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...

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....

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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...