Ng Goon Lau, sixty two, used to work the Hong Kong real estate market to his advantage. He had no financial problems and although his path to riches was a bit off the beaten path, it certainly worked like a charm.

Ng bought and sold real estate in one of the most superstitious cities in China, if not the world. So Ng made use of this fact by dealing in property that he could buy at remarkable discounts.

Because the property’s Ng dealt in were said to be haunted.

Ng Goon Lau started the business of buying, renting and selling haunted property after his own house fell victim to the ‘haunted’ stigma when a worker electrocuted himself in Ng’s home in 1993.

Ng Goon Lau

After he figured out how he could turn this real estate loop hole to his advantage, Ng was on a roll:

“I learned [the business] by myself,

Nobody taught me. It’s not my fate or luckiness, but my boldness.”

Ng took advantage of the fact that Hong Kong banks will not place a value on property that is possibly haunted or unlucky, such as the entire floor of an apartment building where a murder took place in the 1980′s.

This and the money Ng built up in his previous business venture as a shark fin salesmen meant that Ng was soon buying up these unwanted homes at a ‘spooky discount.

Now Ng faces competition who have their eye on the same angle, such as Squarefoot.com, which has a online search engine to find one of these discount ‘hongza’, or haunted homes.

The old salesman is not about to admit defeat however, calling the internet age upstarts “amateurs.”

Ng is confident that he will continue to be able to make a profit from the superstitious Hong Kong populace with his haunted dwellings. Ng himself does not believe in ghosts and says that none of his tenants have ever reported seeing a spirit or of being unhappy with their rented property.

In the end, Ng will probably keep this job no matter what as he says renting haunted houses is “better then the shark fin business.”

(Via Wall Street Journal)

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Graveyards are one of those places that you just might expect to capture a photograph of a ghost or spirit. After all, it is the final resting place of our physical forms and has an obvious connection with death and whatever might lay beyond it.

So it might not come as a shock to anyone that one of the most famous ghost photos in the world came from a cemetery.

Even more impressive, the ghost seemed keen to get a ride to some destination in the physical world as the picture itself shows the spirit sitting in the back of a car!

On March 22nd, 1959, forty-four year old Mabel Chinnery went on a trip to the cemetery in Ipswich, England, where her mother, Mrs. Ellen Hammel was buried. Mrs. Chinnery’s husband came along with her for the trip.

It had been about a week since Ellen Hammel had been buried at the church yard cemetery.

After visiting the grave site and snapping a  couple pictures of her mother’s headstone, Mabel Chinnery decided to take a quick snap shot of her husband, as she needed to use the last exposure on the roll:

“I decided to use up the rest of my film by taking a picture of my husband in the car.”

When she got back her developed pictures,it seemed she got more then she ever expected  in that last shot:

“When I showed the developed pictures to friends, one said: ‘but there’s your mum in the back.’”

Eventually Mabel had to admit that the picture bared an uncanny resemblance to her mother Ellen. The figure’s seating arrangements seemed to confirm that:

“It’s my mother sitting where she usually sat for drives.” Mabel would say.

According to the About.com page on this photo, a photographic expert wagered his reputation on this photo’s authenticity.

Others have pointed out the the scarf of the figure in the backseat seems to bled over the metal of the car in one area, a possible sign of a double exposure, although I am not quite sure I am seeing anything like that in the close up of the figure on this page.

The ‘Back Seat Ghost’ is certainly one of the most famous ghosts photographs ever produced. It is also one that is steeped in mystery and has yet to be completely proven as genuine or debunked.

Is the mysterious figure in the photo the ghost of Ellen Hammel, going for one more car ride with her family, or is the photograph of the ‘Back Seat Ghost’ a fraud?

(Modesto Bee)

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Considering that our last Haunting Tale came from one of the ghost segments of the show Unsolved Mysteries, I was hesitant to use another case that was so popular from the show.

That was before I ran into the video segment online for the Tallman’s Ghost case, which covered the story of Debbie and Allen Tallman, who thought they had found a perfect house for their family on Larrabee Street in Horicon, Wisconsin.

However, just months after moving in, the entire family was chased from the home by what seemed to be a poltergeist type of haunting that some say bordered on the demonic.

Others say that Debbie and Allen Tallman were out of their depth when buying the house, and made the story up to escape a house they could not afford.

So what did reside in the house on Larrabee Street? Was it a cold demonic force, a pesky poltergeist or the results of mistaking the normal for the extra ordinary or even fraud?

The Start of the Madness…

The Tallman family, consisting of Debbie and Allen Tallman as well as their two children, Kenny aged seven and Mary Ann, who was almost one years old, moved into the house on Larrabee Street in Spring of 1986.

In November of that year, the Tallman’s would have their third child, Sarah.

But it was in 1987 that the occurrences of possible paranormal activity began at the house.

Things began normally enough in the ‘classic’ way that can be easily explained away rationally, such as doors closing on their own and footsteps being heard in the house.

However, the incidents would quickly move beyond the rational. Incidents included a radio dial that would work itself, a basement window that was removed one day from the inside and placed on the floor, chairs that would rock and move on their own, a paintbrush that placed itself into a can of paint and a suitcase that slid itself out from under a bed and back again.

Both the children and Debbie began to have terrible nightmares and the children, who were hardly ever ill before, began to get sick all the time.

The nightmares were one aspect of the occurrences in the house that really shook up Debbie Tallman:

“I’d wake up in the night crying, and I’d ask Allen if I was going to have nightmares like this all my life. I would dream that my kids were dying, that Allen was dying, that my father was dying.”

Apparitions were also seen, as both children referred to seeing an old haggard woman or a “witch.”

Kenny was quoted in a newspaper story that came out later about what this vision of an elderly woman looked like:

“I saw an old lady standing in the door of my room. A little old lady, really ugly, with long black hair and a glow about her like fire.”

Debbie Tallman stated on Unsolved Mysteries that her oldest daughter Mary Ann saw this witch as well, saying that it hid ‘behind her door’ and also mentioning how the figure was like ‘fire.’

Challenging Evil:

Eventually Allen Tallman had had enough of this situation. One night he took his frustration out on the unseen guests in his house, challenging them to fight him and leave his family alone, as Allen stated to Unsolved Mysteries:

“I was like a wild man.

I was shouting at the top of my voice. I said: ‘Whatever is in our house, would you please leave my children alone?

If you want to fight, fight me.’”

One night in January 1988 after making these thoughts known to the entity in his house, Allen Tallman returned from working late one morning at around two AM.

On his way from his car in the drive way of the house to the front door, Allen heard a ‘howling wind.’ Then, Allen heard a voice coming out of the wind, calling ‘come here’ to Allen over and over again.

Then Allen saw something he will never forget when he looked over at the garage:

“Then it was glowing inside the garage, an orange red. There were flames coming out of the overhead door. There were two eyes in the windows.”

Running into the house in a panic, the ghost then chose to throw Allen’s lunch box across the living room, wrenching it out of his hands after he picked it up off the floor.

Allen would also report the presence making a threat to him one night while he slept in the girls room to help them sleep as they had been badly shaken by these incidents and would not sleep.

Apparently a fog or mist began to creep up from the floor of the room where Allen slept. It also appeared that it had something to say:

“I started to see this fog…on the floor.

A voice came out of it and it says: “You’re Dead.

These green eyes appeared right out of this thing, and then I saw flames and it was gone.”

The Tallman’s called in Pastor Wayne Dobratz after these events began and the pastor went on record that he thought the spirits were not only evil but down right demonic:

Pastor Wayne Dobratz

“I believe that my initial analysis of the entity being in the spiritual realm, the occult realm, the demonic if you will, was accurate and I still believe it’s accurate.”

Finally, after a relative of the Tallman’s began screaming at a female figure  in the girls bedroom, Debbie had had enough. The Tallman’s fled the house on Larrabee Street, never to return.

Bunk Bed From Hell?

One of the more interesting factors that the Unsolved Mysteries segment honed in on was the fact that by the time the show aired in October of 1988, the Tallman’s seemed to have come to the conclusion that the haunting was due to a second hand bunk bed bought in February of 1987.

The show states that after the bunk bed was moved upstairs from the basement in May of that same year, the paranormal occurrences began. The bunk bed was in the same room as the mischievous radio that moved by itself and was used in the girls bedroom in the three bedroom ranch house, where both Allen and the relative saw apparitions and the girls would see the ‘witch.’

The Aftermath:

Horicon, Wisconsin

As word of the haunting began to spread around the town of Horicon, many locals came by to get a good look at the place and starting telling tales of blood dripping from the ceiling of the house, coffee mugs that floated in the air and a snow blower that turned itself on and took a few turns around the driveway of the house.

As the story gained some press, more and more gawkers came to look at the house, including its fair share of crazies, such as the man who told the local sheriff that he was there to help clean the house of its evil spirits.

The problem got so bad that at one point authorities were forced to barricade the house and it’s street off from regular traffic.

As the press died down so did the trespassers and paranormal tourists. The next family to move in reported no disturbances in the house and neither has anyone else since the Tallman’s fled in early 1988.

The Tallman’s themselves have not experienced any other paranormal events since leaving the ranch house on Larrabee Street, but even the children reportedly still have memories of their time living in a haunted house.

Hoax or Haunting?

It has been suggested that Allen and Debbie Tallman might have made up the haunting story to get out of their mortgage. Such things have been accused of haunting ‘victims’ before, including one case that made it all the way to the People’s Court on television and even more famously, George and Kathy Lutz from  the Amityville Horror haunting.

The Tallman case even has drawn comparisons to the Amityville case, and has some wondering if the comparisons are based on there fact that the Tallman’s used it as a basis for their fraudulent ghost story.

Despite these accusations there are reasons to believe the Tallman’s side of events.

Allen and Debbie turned down a five thousand dollar pay day to tell their story to the National Enquirer and also tuned a down a chance to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

The Tallman family also lost about three thousand dollars after they left the house while giving the house back to the bank.  Hardly the actions of someone trying to make a profit..

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George Edwards, A Scottish boat captain as well as a Loch Ness Monster hunter, recently captured an extraordinary picture while searching for the sunken remains of a steam engine near the infamous Loch.

Edwards, who has hunted the beast for twenty six years says the object seemed to be heading towards Urquhart Castle. Edwards claims to have viewed the creature for around five minutes.

The sixty year old would later claim that he had the photo checked out by “military personal” who told Edwards that the object pictured was indeed  something animate, not a log or a rock.

Despite such claims and validations, many have wondered why Edwards only has the ones shot of the creature if it was visible to him for around five minutes as he claims. Others have pointed to the still calm waters around the object, claiming that this proves that it IS indeed a stationary object like a upturned boat or a tree trunk partially submerged under the water.

Is this new viral photo proof that Nessie exists or another object mistaken to be the mythical creature of legend?

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For most of us, toy stores conjure up childhood images of fun, freedom and imagination.

However, a Toys R Us location in Sunnyvale California has become more well known as a place of terror then pleasure.

It is said that a ghost resides in the shop, a ghost searching for a lost love.

A ghost that during an investigation by well known psychic Sylvia Browne just happened to have his picture taken and became one of the most well known paranormal photographs in the world.

The Legend:

The Murphy Farm

About a hundred years before 130 East Camino Street was the site of a Toys R Us location, it was a large area of farm land owned by a man named either Martin or John with the surname of Murphy.

Murphy had a wheat plantation on his land, as well as livestock and a large orchard. Sometime in the late 1800′s Murphy hired Johnny Johnson, a young Scandinavian immigrant who was also studying to become a minister.

Johnson fell in love with Murphy’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth, but her heart was already won by a lawyer from the East.

Picture with “Johnny” Circled in Red

Another issue that plagued Johnson beyond the broken heart was a case of Encephalitis, or an acute inflammation of the brain. This condition can bring on symptoms such as hallucinations, confusion and memory problems.

Because of this Johnson was labeled “Crazy Johnny” by some of the Sunnyvale residents of his day.

In the Summer of 1884 Johnny Johnson would die in the Murphy orchards after he had an accident with an axe while chopping wood. Johnson had badly cut his leg with the axe and bled to death on the spot.

The Orchards

Although the Murphy family would continue to live on the land in Sunnyvale until the 1950′s and 60′s, they would soon move on. By 1961 the main mansion was in disrepair and had to be demolished and most of the land once a part of the huge farm and orchards would have be sold off.

One development project that was undertaken on the former farm land was the construction of a Toy R Us toy store right at the corner of El Camino and Saratoga Road in the early seventies.

Ghosts R Us:

The 60,000 square foot Toys R Us ‘Mega-Store’ opened in 1971.

However, it was soon apparent that there was much more to the store then fun and games.

Customers and employees at the Sunnyvale Toys R Us would state that toys would be moved off the shelves during the night or were stacked up on the floor.

Strange odors, temperature drops, ‘fingers’ being ran through female employees hair while in the stock room ,strange sounds and voices calling out employee names were just some of the paranormal activity going on in the toy store.

The Store in 1978

An area within the store where lots of activity was reported was the women’s bathroom. Here, the faucets would mysteriously turn on by themselves and people would feel like they were being watched in the room.

These events were experienced by several people, with some even refusing to go into the bathroom alone.

One amazing account of this activity comes from Cheryl Royce, who at one time was the store manager at the Sunnyvale store:

“I had gone in to use the restroom.

[I] was in one of the restroom stalls…heard the door open, heard the water turn on. I kind of looked under [the stall door] and saw nobody in the rest room.

The water turned off, the door opened and I refused to use the restroom for the rest of the six weeks I was here.”

The activity continues at the location to this day and has been experienced by a large number of individuals since the 1970′s.

However, what makes this case unique is that it spawned one of the most famous ghost pictures ever taken.

The Photo:

By the late seventies the case had gotten the attention of the producers for the television series That’s Incredible and they arranged for a segment to be shot about the haunted toy store to be broadcast in 1978.

Part of this investigation included the involvement of psychic Sylvia Browne, who would hold a seance to get in contact with “Johnny” with some of the store staff also present along with the television crew.

Bill Tidwell

In addition to Browne and the store employees, photographer Bill Tidwell came along, armed with two 35mm cameras. One loaded with black and white infrared film and a high speed film that Tidwell claimed could “take photos in almost complete darkness”.

Sylvia Brown went on with the seance, stating that she had indeed come into contact with Johnny or Johan. While Browne observed that Johnny was standing farther down the aisle from where the seance was being held at, Tidwell was snapping tons of pictures.

If the story is to be believed then Tidwell captured the infamous image of Johnny Johnson at the same time Sylvia Browne was describing the spirit taking similar actions:

“He’s got his hands in his pockets, he is looking down at his shoes.”

It also would seem that the photograph has some proper evidence to prop itself up on as well.

First of all, there is the fact that the high speed 35mm film captured nothing in the exact spot where the figure was captured on the infrared film at almost the same moment in time.

Add this to the fact that there are historical documents and photos to back up the existence of “Johnny” once residing on the Murphy Ranch in Sunnyvale and story gains even more steam.

A Screen-cap of the High Speed 35mm Shot Taken at Almost Exactly the Same Time as the infamous infrared exposure showing ‘Johnny’

Then we have the opinions of photography experts on Tidwell’s picture, which was deemed to not be fake or at least not the result of photographic trickery or photo editing.

But there are kinks in the chains and they start and end with Sylvia Browne and the way her reputation as a genuine psychic has fell like a rock since she was first involved in the Sunnyvale Toys R Us case.

Sylvia Browne: Psychic or Fraud?

Sylvia Browne claims that she first discovered she had psychic ‘gifts’ when she was around five years old. Her grandmother Ada, who Browne claims also was a psychic, explained the nature of her powers to Sylvia.. Browne also claims that one of her great uncles was psychic as well.

Browne started giving psychic readings in 1974 and has also claimed to have worked on numerous police cases for various law enforcement agencies as well as the FBI.

Browne on That’s Incredible

Browne also has written over a dozen books on paranormal and psychic activity, as well as running a website devoted to her work and a church she created called the Society of Novus Spiritus, which she founded in 1986.

It is claimed that Sylvia Browne makes about three million dollars yearly from her business ventures and royalties.

However, making money is not a crime nor a reason n to doubt anyone’s ability in any particular field of study. Rather it is the false and incorrect claims that Browne has been caught up in over the years that make any sensible person doubt any case Browne has ever been connected to.

Browne’s first ex-husband, Gary Dufresne, claims that she had no psychic abilities at all and that at some point she had told Dufresne that people were gullible and therefore deserved to be taken advantage of.

This claim could be chalked up to bitter words from an ex, but there is also the matter of Browne being convicted for investment fraud and grand theft in 1992.

In that case, Browne and her then husband Kenzil lied to investors in a gold mine investment, including about where the money they were investing was going.

In one instance, the money given by an investor was supposed to go onto start up costs for the mine but instead was transferred into the accounts of the Nirvana Foundation for Psychic Research, which Browne owns.

Selling people fraudulent dreams is not too far away from committing paranormal fraud or making up a back story to a prominent haunting to get publicity or a payday is it?

Another telling sign is that many of the murder cases Browne has claimed to have been involved in have been proven to be lies, while the ones she was actually a part of seemed to have not been positively affected by her involvement.

Additionally, Browne has made many false ‘psychic’ claims and predictions, including:

• That Michael Jackson would be found guilty on molestation charges in 2005.
• That Bin Laden was dead years before he was killed in a US military operation.
• That Bill Clinton was not guilty in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which he later admitted to.
• Went on the show Coast To Coast AM and claimed that most of the miners in the Sago Mine Disaster were alive when most were in fact dead.
• Told a mother on the Montel Williams Show who had lost her daughter that she was working as a stripper in California only for her to later be identified as a body found in 1996, six years before Browne claimed she was still alive.
• Similarly, Browne told a grandmother on Montel that her six year old granddaughter had been abducted and taken to “Kukoura”Japan, even though no such town exists in Japan by that name. Later, the child’s remain were found in the US with evidence that she was killed soon after she was abducted.

The list goes on and on, but it would appear that despite Sylvia Brownes prominence as one of the first ever “TV Psychics”, her powers may be more criminal then paranormal in origin.

So Is “Johnny” Real?

Although Sylvia Browne’s credibility comes into question heavily with her run ins with the law as well as her false predictions and claims, the numerous eyewitness accounts of paranormal activity at the Sunnyvale Toys R Us were happening before and after Browne’s involvement with the case.

We also know that Johnny  ‘Crazy’ Johnson did indeed exist in some form or another in Sunnyvale’s past. His tale of lost love, mental illness and tragic death fit into the classic ghost story mold.

Perhaps they fit too well?

The Store Today

My own little theory, and it is nothing I can prove of course, is that Browne heard about the haunting in the toy store, saw an opportunity to gain some publicity on national television and dug up some interesting history about the property prior to taping.

If she did do this, did she possibly use this information to concoct a story that fit the ghostly activity?

As for the photos Bill Tidwell took, I can see no reason to doubt the photo itself, although it does seem a little too perfectly scripted to Brownes dialogue at the seance.

I definitely do not think this figure is “Johnny Johnson”, who I think is just a minor player in California history Sylvia Browne attached to the spirit in the Toys R Us haunting. No one would remember “Crazy Johnny” if Sylvia Browne had not dug him up.

Is the photo a fake?

Does Tidwell know its a fake if it is?

If it is genuine then it must be of the real Toys R Us ghost.

Who is he?

It is a shame that a case so recent and so highly documented was tainted by involvement with a “paranormal expert” who has a history of fraud. It mires the pond and makes it hard to guess what exactly is going on in Sunnyvale.

Reports continue to this day that the place is haunted, but as some as these claims are random comments on the internet who can tell for sure. I think this is a case that should be looked into more closely in a  professional manner.

Also, if you want to have a laugh at some dated re-enactments, click here and then here.

Very funny,

The second video also features eyewitness accounts of the haunting at about the five minute mark.

There is something going on in that toy store, or at least forty plus years of  employees think that there is…

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I started this site for many reasons….to inform, to educate and because I get news items in my feeds about a ghost that seems intent on stealing some buds of quality marijuana.

See what I mean, where else can you get to write sentences like that one without being high yourself?

Yet that is what one grower of the infamous green leafed plant claims happened recently in his greenhouse.

Don’t give in to Peer Pressure when a ghost offers You a marijuana cigarette

An individual going by the name of Flightschool posted on the 14th of February in the Rollitup forums that he suspected a ghostly presence had removed a piece of one of his plants:

“I think I have bud ghosts….

went into my Flowering room tonight and there was a 6″ branch laying on the floor that broke off of one of my [plants].

It fell the Fudge off…

Nothing was even remotely close to touching [the plant].

[The] light didn’t fall, fan didn’t fall, she wasn’t subjected to hurricane force winds, She wasn’t LST’d or super cropped or broken stem prior or any other logical explanation.

There were no other damages or anything.”

I am willing to bet that despite the report above of a ghost looking for a way to lift their spirits by getting high (I had to), it may be that Flightschool has smoked a bit too much of his own product.

He even posted an image of the branch the ghost tried to get away with.

Of course, in the stoner world, it all has a happy ending, as Flightschool is happy to report:

“On the bright side,

I made some cookies with the hash I made off of her and it is kicking my butt. There will be good sleep tonight! “

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Skeleton Key figures will release a set of five figurines over the next few months of 2013, representing five ghosts of Japanese legend.

The series of figures is called Shuonan, or “asylum for vindictive spirits to pay back their contempt and bitterness.” Each figurine is limited to a run of two hundred and fifty.

The first ghostly legend, to be released March 18th and seen in the pic at right, will be Oiwa, a ghost of a women killed by her lover and left to reside in dark waters  for the rest of time.

In April, Skeleton Key will release Bunya onto the populace, the blind traveler who was killed by the roadside and left to die without a proper burial.

May will see the ‘Matron of the Well’ or Okiku arise from the mold. Okiku is the spirit of a women who was sentenced to a watery grave in a well after misplacing an expensive dinner plate. They say she can be heard counting in the night, still trying to account for the lost dish.

Next up is something for the flesh eater in all of us with the release of the Gaki figurine in July.

Gaki is a disgusting creature that eats flesh and leaves gore in its wake…a ‘Phantom of the Gluttonous’.

Finally, August of 2013 completes the collection when Yuki Onna arrives, the ‘Empress of the Cold’. She is a spirit that will lure you into the ice and snow and leave you to freeze to death after you feel her breath upon your flesh…

As you can see, the figures have release dates strewn across the next few months of this year but they are available for pre-order now. More information can be found at the Skeleton Key website here.

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Frozen Terror!

It may be February as I’m writing this and a week after Hallmark is done counting it’s blessings that Valentine’s Day comes once a year like clockwork, but as I was looking through my You Tube Halloween playlist I thought I’d share a few misc Halloween videos to warm up your Winter…

I also updated the first Halloween Videos post with a few new Halloween Prank Videos.

We start off our collection of oddball Halloween videos with Jerry Seinfield, who besides being a master of his own domain made some pretty funny observations about our favorite Fall holiday:

I have always loved the Swedish Chef from The Muppets for some strange reason, and this particular Halloween video involving pumpkin pie and bazookas never fails to make me smile:

Have you ever seen a pumpkin carve itself?

Well, in this excellent video, which is an example of apex stop animation, you can…

This next one you have to take as it is meant to be taken, as a joke, but I find it hilarious:

Being a guitar player, I just had to put this one in here as well:

Another thing I am obsessed with is cats.

Yes, I would and still could be a crazy cat person, or crazy cat man, or whatever the term might be.

So here are two videos concerning my favorite animal and my favorite holiday.

One big…

And one Small:

I also like British TV and if you have not seen the series Psychoville or it’s Halloween special, you are missing out:

If you have a favorite Halloween video, let us know about it in the comments below!

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The Selective Attention and Awareness Laboratory (SAAL) at the Department of Psychology of the University of Birmingham is initiating research into out of body experiences. According to the university, these phenomena affect approximately 20% of the population, are widely reported and yet have no scientific explanation. Head of the laboratory, Dr. Jason Braithwaite, has this to say about his research:

“We are beginning to understand how it is that the brain produces the everyday ‘in-the-body’ experience by looking at instances when these processes go wrong.  For some people, and under certain circumstances, these brain processes become dysfunctional and can result in quite strange and bizarre situations like the out-of-body experience.  We are exploring the neuroscience that may predispose some people to have these striking experiences and make them more vulnerable to such occurrences.”

In order to conduct the research, SAAL needs volunteers who have had an out of body experience to take part in a number of laboratory experiments. The results of these experiments should provide an insight into the neuro-cognitive differences between those who have had such experiences and those who have not. So, if you have had an out of body experience, are able to travel to the UK and are willing to take part in a series of tests to uncover more about the phenomenon then you should contact Dr. Braithwaite on j.j.braithwaite@bham.ac.uk to ask for more details.

Those of you who are unable to help out, what are your opinions on this research? Do you think there is a neuro-cognitive explanation? Have you ever had an out of body experience?

D.A Lascelles is graduate of the University of Birmingham. His novella, Transitions, is even set there and involves ghostly goings on.

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Beer has always gone hand in hand with some of our most beloved pastimes and indulgences, such as billiards and darts, baseball, a nice relaxing trip to the bar or pub after a busy day or pizza.

However, if the makers of Olympia Beer are correct, there maybe another thing that goes along perfectly with beer.

Bigfoot.

Or more precisely, catching Bigfoot and walking off with a cool one million dollar prize…

Such is the claim of the Olympia Beer company, who have joined forces with the Falcon Project to let the average beer drinker join in the hunt for Sasquatch while drinking beer and possibly becoming rich.

According to the Olympia Beer Website “Capture Bigfoot” page:

“Olympia Beer and Bigfoot have been leaving footprints together in the Pacific Northwest since 1896.

We have been sharing the same backyard for over a century and we believe it’s time to do what has never been done, and that is to offer a one million dollar reward to anyone who can ensure the safe capture of Bigfoot. When we say safe capture that means Bigfoot has to be alive and breathing folks, with no wounds. That’s right you can’t use any act of violence, no guns/knives/boxing gloves/nets/etc, only sugar or sweets to lure him in.

You must register to participate in the search. To report your discovery of irrefutable evidence of the existence of Bigfoot, click on the “Submit Capture Report” link on the left and follow the instructions to report your evidence. You participation in the search is subject to the complete Official Rules.

To aid us in this adventure, Olympia Beer is partnering with The Falcon Project

The Falcon Project has been identified as “the most penetrative search for Bigfoot ever conducted in the United States.” They will conduct an aerial search for Sasquatch employing an unmanned airship with high definition thermal imaging camera equipment.”

If you think the Beer company might be kidding about the prize, the official rules state that the winner must provide proof of the existence of Bigfoot between January 1, 1989 through March 31, 2014. The winner’s submission would be judged by a panel of experts, whose judgement would be the final say in the matter.

The money would be payed out over forty years with the winner receiving twenty five thousand dollars each year of that period.

Although we would all like to be rich and the Falcon Project seems legit as it can be, we are wondering if Olympia Beer’s catch phrase of: “It’s The Water” may serve their current promotion better if it stated: “What was in Our Water?”

- Thomas Spychalski

(Via Doubtful News)

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While staying in a Soho hotel during a 2009 tour, singer and actress Miley Cyrus claims that she also had a meeting with the supernatural as well, including seeing the ghost of a little boy and doing a little investigative work on the property, a former bakery.

Cyrus recently spoke of the ghostly encounter during an interview published in the UK version of fashion magazine Elle.

Most of the activity seemed to center around the bathroom whenever Miley or her sister were in the shower (you can’t make this stuff up folks):

“It was seriously so terrifying. One night, my little sister… was standing in the shower and all of a sudden, I hear her scream. I run in there and the water had somehow flipped to hot… It wasn’t like the water had just changed, the knob had turned but she hadn’t turned it and it was burning her. She was really red.

I [also] thought I had seen a little boy sitting on the sink watching me take a shower, so I felt really freaked out. I was sitting there the next night and maybe I’m crazy, but I could have sworn I could see this little boy sitting there on the sink, kicking his feet.”

Despite the Soho ghost boy getting an eyeful of Miley and her sis in the shower, Miley and Co. were determined to play Scooby Doo and get to the bottom of the mystery:

“We found out that there was this older man that owned it and his son lived with him there, and I guess the wife died or something, she had gotten sick… and then the dad died and the son took over the bakery, and I thought I was seeing the son. I’m not even kidding.”

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We last reported on Sylvia Browne when we wrote about her involvement in the Toys R Us Ghost case. In that article, we showed how Bowne has never been the model Psychic.

Now, after the amazing events in Cleavland, Ohio, where kidnapping victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were recovered alive after being held captive for years in the home of Ariel Castro, another false prediction comes to light.

Sylvia Browne claimed Amanda Berry was dead on the Montel Williams show in 2004.

Browne told Berry’s mother, Louwana Miller,  that Amanda was “not alive” and that the only way Miller would ever see her daughter again was “in Heaven on the other side.”

Sadly this is another instance of a fraudulent psychic trying to take advantage of a person’s sorrow and loss.

Hopefully somehow Sylvia Browne will pay for the things she has done and the lives she has so negatively affected with her lies designed to fill her bank account.

For more on Sylvia Browne’s fraudulent ways, click here.

(Via Huffington Post)

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When thinking of ghost pictures, we may think of the classics we have known since most of us were kids, like Lord Combermere’s Ghost or The Newby Church Monk.

However, there have also been some interesting pictures taken in the twentieth and twenty-first century as well, like the Brown Lady, the Amityville Ghost Boy or the ghost captured on film at Boot Hill Cemetery in Arizona.

One of the more remarkable examples of ghost photography from more modern times has been the case of the photograph taken by one Denise Russell.

Denise innocently took a photo of her grandmother at a picnic and eventually discovered that the picture also showed a figure that looked like her grandmother’s husband, who had passed away almost exactly twelve years ago from the day the photo at the picnic was taken.

Here Denise recounts the day the photo was taken:

“[My grandmother] lived on her own until age 94, when her mind started to weaken and had to be moved to an assisted living home for her own safety. At the end of the first week, there was a picnic for the residents and their families. My mother and sister attended. My sister took two pictures that day, and this is one of them.”

The photo has become one of the world’s best known ghost photographs, especially when compared to shots of the Denise’s grandfather while he was still alive. The resemblance between the two men is quite uncanny.

Many ghost photographs are taken by people who intend to capture a ghost or other paranormal phenomenon on film and the photos are discovered when the evidence of the investigation or ghost hunt is reviewed.

In the case of the ghostly grandfather, the photo was not noticed for about three and a half years after it was taken. Even Denise’s grandmother owned a copy of the photo.

The family finally noticed it’s paranormal connection on Christmas Day of 2000, the very same year Denise’s grandmother had passed away.

When Denise arrived at her sister’s house for holiday festivities, she was presented with the picture, as quoted on About.com:

“When I arrived at my parents’ house that Christmas day, my sister handed me the picture and said, “Who do you think this man behind Granny looks like?” It took a few seconds (it seemed longer) for it to sink in. I was absolutely speechless.”

Also of interest is Mrs. Russell pointing out that if indeed the figure behind her grandmother is real, it must be at least eight feet tall. She also noted the figure’s lack of a left leg in the photograph.

Denise also provided the two black and white photos of her grandfather while he was still living, leading  to some assuming that this photo is one of the best evidence that ghost exist ever.

Or is it?

To this point, I can only find the same information about this photo repeated over and over again, which sadly is true for a few of the best known ghost photos.

If the story is real, it might make sense that there is so little information. The photo was released right at the dawn of the internet age, and the family may have wanted to keep their privacy. This is echoed possibly by the fat that besides the name of Denise and her husband Jim Russell, no other names, even first names are mentioned in connection with anyone else in this case.

The tallness of the figure could be caused by the angle the shot was taken from and the left leg could just be hidden behind grandma’s head. The sun also seems to be shining right above the apparently bald figure, making the image seem to ‘white out.’

Equally, this could also point to the story being a bit less reliable as well, but ultimately this is up for speculation till new information arises for either case.

As far as the story goes, I love the fact that it was taken as a quick portrait shot with no intention of capturing the paranormal but the public setting also means lots of people milling about including people who might look like someone else.

The timing is equally debatable, the fact that the ‘grandfather’ in the picture was not noticed until the Christmas after the grandmother’s death.

Add this to the fact that the picture was apparently taken almost twelve years to the day of the grandfather’s death, on the same day of the week, is another point that either adds to it’s reputation or diminishes it’s believability.

Is this an amazing Christmas ghost story of love extending beyond death or a hoax that found it’s way onto the non stop wild wild West that is the internet?

Another spooky image was found in the picture by friends and realatives of Denise. As you see below, Denise was feaked out by this further paranormal discovery in her family photo collection.

This leads to the conclusion that Denise at least has imagination as I would imagine this paranormal image is just an example of matrixing:

“A cousin who had heard about the picture, asked me to email it to his office so he and his co-workers could look at it. As they were looking at it, they called me and said, “Did you see the face in the bushes?” I said, “No.” They said, “Look above the red van. There is a face with kind of a shroud around it, looking at the man.” Then I saw it, threw the snapshot down on the table and hurried away from it, ’cause now I was really freaked.”

Before anyone thinks I am knocking Denise, her family or her story I am not, I am just looking at all possible angles.  If anyone reading here has more information please leave a message in the comments below.

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An amazing photograph taken in Kirtland, Ohio appears to show a ghostly figure behind a small girl battling leukemia at the time the photo was taken.

However, Erin Potter’s mother, Jen, thinks the figure is not that of a spirit from beyond the grave, but rather a vision of the Virgin Mary and for Jen and her family one of the reasons Erin is now cancer free.

Jen Potter

Before we get to the photo, let me make clear I have no desire to step on anyone’s faith the pic is clearly an example of:

“I reminded [Erin] tonight of her picture with Mary, the Blessed Mother.  I told her that They are with her – all those in Heaven who hear our prayers and are watching over her.  I constantly remind myself of that too.  They do hear us.  They are listening.  They are watching over her.  I know it.  “

The Photo:

Jen Potter says the picture was taken with a digital camera and that no one ws standing around near Erin at the time of the snapshot. She also states that the picture was not taken through a piece of glass.

The picture is first mentioned in Erin’s blog in an entry dated Saturday, June, 2nd, 2012. Jen claims that the photo was taken the night before as Erin played outside:

“Look at the picture.  Last night Erin was playing with Annie and her favorite neighbors outside. This picture was taken with no one around our girl, but you can obviously see that there is a beautiful woman watching over her.  We will tell you that she is the Blessed Mother…Mary.”

While the picture is a wonderful site and may indeed be a picture of something out of the ordinary, I am inclined to think that there is a much more logical explanation.

What do you guys think about this one? Any ideas about how to examine such a photo without access to the original file?

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A grisly discovery was made earlier this week in the Midwood area of Brooklyn where a body was found in a basement after the foul odor of decomposition alerted the neighbors.

On Monday, June 3rd at around ten PM, the remains of a fifty-seven year old woman were removed from the two family home.

But the curious part is the note that was left near the body suggested that the woman was killed for performing witchcraft.

The note contained an odd message: “I killed my wife, she was casting spells on me.”

As scary and disturbing as this message is, it was more likely left by a killer who was deeply psychologically disturbed, not the victim of a witch.

According to reports the victim was stabbed multiple times and had suffered some sort of head trauma as well.

The victim’s husband, who was heard arguing inside the house with his wife at various times by neighbors, has not been seen recently.

Both the victim and her husband were described as ‘devout Jews.’

A sixty-two year old man who lived with the victim was being questioned about the matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-om0of9HII

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A recent  news item published on The Jamaica Online Star website claims that a house was burnt to the ground by a naughty spirit in Junction, Jamaica.

The fire, which was also confirmed by the Junction Police Department, seems to have been blamed on a poltergeist like entity that has been haunting the family in that home for weeks, according to local residents.

Sources in the area claimed that the family had been suffering from ‘mysterious assaults’ from a unknown paranormal source. The family had asked for help with this matter to some of their neighbors.

A note was also claimed to have been found at the scene, which contained the message: “A man that string with gold and don’t pay his dues shall go up in flames”.

It was also reported that  firefighters fighting the fire were pelted with rocks as they worked, something Junction Fire Station District Officer John Swaby denies.

Additionally it was reported that several other items had caught fire in the home prior to the blaze that reduced the structure to its concrete frame.

Although it is  likely that this is the work of a Human arsonist or a rapidly growing urban legend with the locals, there is not enough information to completely discount this report of ghostly activity.

-Thomas Spychalski

(Via Jamaica Star)

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Over the years, the story of what happened to the Lutz family over twenty-eight days in 1975/1976 has taken on a life all its own.

Countless films, books, websites and television programs have been devoted to either getting to the bottom of the haunting and the infamous DeFeo murders that preceded it, or using inspiration from the case to inspire fiction.

Numerous debates and conspiracy theories have surfaced about the case on everything from how all six murder victims were found shot, most of them face down in their beds, to the credibility of the infamous Amityville ‘ghost boy’ photo.

One thing that has never been fully explored is the experiences of the three children who were there for those twenty-eight days inside the dutch colonial house at 108 Ocean Ave.

Danny, who was ten years old at the time of the haunting, Christopher who was seven, and Missy who was then five years old were all reported to have had multiple paranormal experiences in the residence, with Missy even making friends with a shape shifting entity known only as ‘Jodie’.

The silence by the three children has finally ended as Danny has allowed himself to be interviewed for the recently released documentary film My Amityville Horror.

The film was made with a lot of input from producer Eric Walter, who was already well known in Amity circles due to his invaluable Amityville Horror resource website The Amityville Files.

Danny Lutz Today

My Amityville Horror focuses on Danny Lutz and his difficulty in dealing with both the events that he witnessed in the ‘Horror House’ in his childhood as well as his problems with his stepfather George Lutz.

The film does an excellent job of making sure all the angles are covered, something I really admire in any paranormal non-fiction, be it on paper or on the big screen.

For example, after Danny tells us about how George seemingly had mastered the art of levitation, a psychologist appears to explain that it is possible that Danny has become confused about events that took place almost forty years ago and even if this is not exactly what occurred he may not know the difference between fact and fiction.

It is a refreshing change from most paranormal documentaries, as they usually go for shock value and editing the video to make it more creepy and atmospheric.

This is miles above the two other most recent Amityville related non-fiction derived programs, namely 2010 ‘s Amityville: The Final Testament, which was a horrible exploitation documentary using DeFeo as a victim instead of a murderer which he most certainly is. In that show, claims are made that a certain segment is filmed in the horror house on Ocean Ave itself when this is not the case.

Recently released as well were the first two parts of the Shattered Hopes trilogy, which went through many delays and strange events during its years in production. This included the possible discovery of a gun in the water just behind the house and the documentary maker’s obsession with including anyone remotely involved with the Amityville Truth Board in lawsuits, including this author when the film maker thought  was ghost writing a book with one of his online enemies.

Various claims have also been made about certain aspects of those films as well, stating that the film maker is making extraordinary claims about the way the DeFeo murders were carried out, including suggesting a second shooter at the house that fateful night.

My Amityville Horror seems to buck this trend and lend itself to the truth at the heart of the matters discussed onscreen, even at the risk of the truth being more boring then the legend.

As for Danny’s claims themselves, they further the idea that something went on in that house of a paranormal origin, although perhaps not what we saw in the Amity films.

Danny’s main claim in the film, that George had been interested in the paranormal both during the haunting and before it even occurred is a claim also echoed in recent times by his brother Christopher.

George Lutz claimed not to have any interest in the occult during and before the haunting besides his and Kathy’s practice of transcendental meditation.

George Lutz even made this claim during a live chat on the ABC News website in 2002 when asked if they were skeptics before moving to Amityville:

“I don’t think we would have bought the house if we weren’t.”

What is very clear from the film is Danny’s feelings about his stepfather George, who he paints as a violent, abusive control freak.

Although there is no way to tell (Danny’s reaction to Eric Walter’s query about Danny taking a lie detector test to prove his claims shows that that kind of proof will not be coming anytime soon) how truthful Danny might be, he seems very effected by the events that took place in Amityville.

However, like many accounts related to the Amityville Horror, it is hard to tell what is the truth and what has been confused by telling stories over and over again that are now close to being four decades in the past.

The documentary also contains appearances by a small group of people who were present for two of the only proper investigations of the house’s interior.

Laura Didio and Danny Lutz

Names such as Laura Didio and Lorraine Warren may be familiar to some readers here and if they are if was definitely Amityville that helped make them so well known.

These investigations are big moments in Amityville lore so the inclusion of others who knew Danny and his parents back when this was actually going on is a welcome and invaluable addition to the film.

In short, regardless of whether you believe in the Lutz’s claims that the Amityville house was haunted or not, My Amityville Horror is a great film anyone interested in the case should watch.

-Thomas Spychalski

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This infamous ghost image took the internet by storm in 2003. It was originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 21st of that year and was said to be a still of CCTV footage from the Hampton Court Palace, located on the Thames river in London, England.

Although the Hampton Court is ripe with tales of ghostly apparitions and strange occurrences, the picture of the robed figure was immediately a topic for debate for both believers and skeptics alike.

Was it an excellent ghost photograph or a clever hoax?

In the released footage, which is less then two minutes in length, shows what appears to be a figure in period dress, closing a set of fire doors that had burst open a moment before the figure glides up to the doorway to close them.

The figure was discovered on the recording by Hampton Palace security guards, who checked the footage after the doors had also been opened at about the same time the day before.

Security guard James Faukes told the BBC how unnerving the footage was at the time it was discovered:

“It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn’t look human,”

Faukes also went on to say that he did not think the footage was a hoax or prank:

“I thought someone was having a laugh but our costumed guides don’t own a costume like that. It is actually quite unnerving,”

Indeed, the images with the robed figure are  the kind of thing you would want to watch on a cold dark night near Halloween, but in reality the ghost may be more Human then initially thought.

Paranormal Eye Candy:

The old saying goes that if it looks too good to be true it probably is, and this is especially true when it comes to things that have a paranormal or unexplainable background, like UFOs or ghosts.

The Hampton Court Ghost footage falls into this category for a few reasons, which I will list here. I cannot completely explain away the images, but I can make a solid argument that they could very well be a hoax or a case of mistaken identity:

• The ghost appears to have very tangible features. As the screen caps here illustrate, the ghost seems to have solid hands and fingers and is seen ‘gripping’ the door in a real manner.
• White objects can also be seen in the captures below which would be in perfect position to be a pair of shoes. White trainers or gym shoes anyone?
• The face does seem to be odd and creepy, but it looks more like the solid white that might come from wearing a white mask, such as a ghost or skeleton mask (In some circles the ghost has been known as Skeletor, due to his more then passing resemblance to the villain in the eighties children’s television show He-Man), not an apparition of the dead.
• For a ghost, the spirit sure knows how to operate a modern fire door, closing one end first then shutting the other door in the proper manner. Not sure they had those in Henry the Eighths time.
• The CCTV footage, although released in December was filmed in October. Although Halloween is not as big of a holiday in the UK as it is in the States, October surely would be the right time for anyone to attempt such a paranormal related prank.

At the end of the day, the Hampton Court ghost footage is one of those cases where we all know in out heart of hearts that it is probably a fake, but want to believe in it so badly as it is just too good of a ghost image.

Again, remember that old phrase form the beginning of this article?

The security guards quoted on the footage at the time seemed sure that it was not a hoax and stated that no members of palace staff wore that kind of period costumes, however if the footage is indeed a hoax or prank they are not about to inform Hampton Court Security are they?

The interior of the fire door opened in the video.

Security also reported that the alarm went off at around the same time both the day before the footage was taken and the day after. On those dates, there was no robed figure or any other anomalies in the recorded material.

One guess is that the hoaxers wanted to give their story a little extra ‘oomph’ so thye made the ghost a daily thing for a couple days.

As for the Australian tourist who reported in a Hampton Court guestbook that she had seen a ghost in that area at the time the footage was recorded, it could have been set up by the hoaxers themselves again with the same purpose as the fire alarm, to give the story more credence or weight.

To be fair, Hampton Court also has a rich paranormal history and the Australian tourist’s ghost sighting was not the first at that location and most likely not the last either.

What do you guys think of this infamous paranormal footage? Hoax, prank or a ghost who loves to hear the fire alarms going off?

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Cathy Richards

The Plough Pub in the Village of Prestbury in Cheltenham, England has become a place where the spirits are not just in the wine and lager.

Pub owner Cathy Richards claims that she has multiple ghosts haunting The Plough and she called in a psychic medium to find out just who was staying at her establishment past closing time.

When she arrived the medium took a group to the third floor, whee she claimed to have made contact with three distinct spirits.

The first was a male named Jack who had died in 1934 at aged 38. Jack was said not to like the presence of women in the room.

Cathy said that the medium even described Jack’s appearance:

“[The medium] said he was a painter and decorator and she described what he looked like.

She said he was wearing one of those knitted tank tops and then started speaking (out loud) and said that the spirit didn’t like women in the room.”

There were also two women spirits on the third floor who made a ‘knocking’ sound to announce their presence.

Cathy said that the ghostly goings on have even been known to interrupt a customers drinking session:

“A couple of years ago, something happened in the top room,

One of our customers came in and she said somebody was sat next to her. When she took a double take, she said he disappeared.”

Maybe the ghost was just hoping to life the person’s spirits?

Either way, The Plough seems like a place for both a boo and a beer…

(Via Gloucestershire Echo)

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The Vampire Diaries is a very popular show, running on the CW network since 2009. In the series, actress Nina Dobrev plays Elena Gilbert and her Vampric look alike Katherine Pierce who both live in the very paranormal town of Mystic Falls.

It is said however that truth can be stranger then fiction, and according to Dobrev the unbelievable events have moved from the action in front of the cameras to the rooms behind the scenes.

Dobrev claims that while the television series was filming at the Gaither Plantation in Covington, Ga, a few unexplained events occurred.

One incident involved a ghostly piano player who interrupted a shoot:

“The ADs started screaming, ‘Stop! Whoever that is, stop the music. We’re rolling!’”

However, when they went into the room the piano was in, the music had stopped playing and there was no one inside.

Dobrev also claims that she had another incident happen to her in one of the bathrooms at the location:

“The lights were just spontaneously coming on and off.”

She also reported that she and a few other cast and crew members had an odd feeling as filming went on in the plantation.

This is not the first time the Gaither Plantation has been said to have paranormal activity.

One of the phenomena reported in the past has been of haunting piano music floating through the plantation.

Although the incidents can easily be a prank or faulty wiring, there is no doubt that something seems to be happening at Gaither plantation.

(Via E! News)

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