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North Carolina Ghost Stories And Legends, The Brown Mountain Lights

2011-11-19T13:57:00.000-08:00

North Carolina Ghost Stories And Legends, The Brown Mountain Lights

If your looking for strange paranormal information about the Brown Mountain Lights near Morganton North Carolina then you need to check out this great paranormal story about the Brown Mountain Lights.

South Carolina Ghosts, The Hound Of Goshen

2011-10-31T09:52:00.000-07:00

South Carolina Ghosts, The Hound Of Goshen

Have you ever heard this great ghost story about a dog.

Ghosts Or No Ghosts Is The Question

2010-11-26T18:23:00.000-08:00

Do you believe in ghosts or do you not. Well I'll tell you that I do believe in ghosts and paranormal activity and I have all my life. I know for a fact that ghosts do exist as I currently live in a haunted house. Yes indeed I live in a haunted house. CLICK HERE to check out Ghosts or No Ghosts.

A Real Interview With A Vampire

2010-09-02T12:38:00.000-07:00

Here we have for you a real interview with a real vampire

Yes a real interview with a man named Peter who claims to be a real vampire. And what a interview it is. In fact one of the best most thought provoking interviews with a vampire ever. If you thought you knew everything about vampires you need to read this interview.

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The Vampire Beast Of North Carolina

2010-09-02T12:27:00.000-07:00


For Over 75 Years People Have Claimed To See And Hear The Vampire Beast Of North Carolina

Yes indeed for over 75 years now some creature has been seen and heard here in North Carolina. And over the years it has attacked and killed many animals , and fowl in North Carolina. What is the Vampire Beast Of North Carolina? Is the Vampire Beast paranormal or a unknown species that lives in the back woods of North Carolina. Click the below link to read the full and complete story.

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True Ghost Stories Of North Carolina

2010-08-17T20:22:00.000-07:00

North Carolina is truly one of the most haunted states in the United States. If your looking for paranormal activity North Carolina is the place to find it. In fact you probably won't believe all the great ghost stories about North Carolina that we have for you. So if you really want to read all about the True Ghost Stories of North Carolina then CLICK HERE NOW.

Proof That Ghosts Do Exist, Positive Video Proof

2009-12-13T09:45:00.000-08:00

The Greatest Ghost Story Ever, Proof Ghosts Do Exist

Yes indeed here at last is proof positive that ghosts do indeed exist.

Video proof like you have never seen before.

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Robert Pickton Was A Cold Blooded Serial Killer

2009-11-29T18:14:00.000-08:00

Robert Pickton was a cold blooded serial killer from British Colombia. Here we reveal secrets you may not know about him.

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Did you know this about the movie , New Moon

2009-11-29T18:08:00.000-08:00

We have all the New Moon secrets for you. If you have not yet seen the movie you want to check this out. If you have seen the movie please vote in our poll.

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Famous Serial Killers , Elizabeth Bathory

2009-11-29T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Serial Killers , Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Bathory was known as the Blood Countess because she had the habit of bathing in the blood of virgins thinking that it would keep her forever young. Click the link and read all about her now.

See The Ghost Of The Priest In The Photo

2009-06-12T18:56:00.000-07:00

Day after day, millions of Americans who frequent pews see ghosts when they pick up their newspapers or turn on television news.

They read stories that are important to their lives, yet they seem to catch fleeting glimpses of other characters or other plots between the lines. There seem to be other ideas or influences hiding there.

One minute they are there. The next they are gone. There are ghosts in there, hiding in the ink and the pixels. Something is missing in the basic facts or perhaps most of the key facts are there, yet some are twisted. Perhaps there are sins of omission, rather than commission.

A lot of these ghosts are, well, holy ghosts. They are facts and stories and faces linked to the power of religious faith. Now you see them. Now you don’t. In fact, a whole lot of the time you don’t get to see them. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

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2009-06-05T19:08:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-31T19:37:00.001-07:00

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2009-05-31T19:32:00.001-07:00

Check Out These Great Ghost Web Pages

2009-05-31T19:16:00.000-07:00

The Original Chucky Doll

2009-01-01T12:49:00.001-08:00

Robert The Doll, Was The Original Chucky

Robert was the original Chucky Doll. Only get this according to the people of Key West Robert was real and he's still doing wild crazy things today. Today he's kept in a glass case to prevent him from doing his old tricks. Plus you will get to see some great videos.

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Satan, Demons and Demonic Possession

2008-12-09T19:30:00.000-08:00

Paranormal investigator Keith Johnson is a co-founder of New England Anomolies Research and Investigation (N.E.A.R.). Together with co-founder and wife Sandra Johnson, Johnson has over thirty years of experience dealing with paranormal topics and investigations. Johnson also works as a lay demonologist and with his team of paranormal investigators, assists individuals and families with cases of possible malevolent spirits, hauntings and/or possible demonic oppression and possession. N.E.A.R. assists individuals and families in the New England area.

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Johnson and his wife have also appeared on A&E Television Network's Paranormal State to assist members of the Paranormal Research Society with paranormal investigations involving possible malevolent paranormal activity. The couple also co-host the Ghost R Near television show which broadcasts at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Wednesdays in Rhode Island.
Eppig: As a demonologist, do you believe in a literal Devil? What is demonic energy?

Johnson: Yes, I do believe in the personification of the Devil. Demonic energy stems from the Devil, as well as individual spirits, each with their own distinct personality, yet joined together for their united Satanic purpose.
Eppig: How does demonic energy manifest itself in the human world? What do you think attracts demonic energy?

Johnson: Demonic energy manifests itself globally, in wars and pestilence. However, it can also be more subtle, such as individuals oppressed to commit horrendous, destructive acts... both to themselves and others.
Eppig: Do you believe that an increased interest in demonology and Satanism has created more cases of demonic possession? If there are other factors, what do you believe those factors are?

Johnson: A quick Internet search will reveal that interest in both demonology and Satanism has dramatically escalated. However, I would not say that it has significantly increased actual cases of demonic possession. Rather, I would say that people who are suggestible tend to give credence to the possibility that they are demonically possessed, when in fact they may not be.

On the other hand, those who do have legitimate problems with demonic oppression and even possession might be less hesitant to seek out available help. About 15 to 20 years ago, or even as recently as 10 years ago, the majority of people dealing with demonic oppression or possession might fear being ridiculed and labeled delusional at best. Now, because there are so many others out there relating similar experiences, people seem to be more readily seeking help.

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Orbs Captured on Film: What Are They?

2008-12-09T19:17:00.000-08:00

Mysterious lights, such as the Brown Mountain Lights, have been reported since the thirteenth century. Orbs are a recent phenomenon. The spheres, also called “spirit orbs,” and “ghost orbs,” are mysterious balls of light found in photos, recorded on videos and simply seen.They can appear in colors, including white, blue, pink, green, red yellow, orange and violet. These balls can move quickly or slowly or just be still. At times, they seem to be attached to people.
Sightings

Orbs are most commonly captured on film in alleged or documented haunted places. They have been seen and recorded above fields with crop circles, at religious services, including baptisms, marriages and funerals and in mundane daily routines. They have been seen near psychics and mediums, sometimes within or emanating from their auras. The spheres have been followed and played with by animals. Cats seem to be particularly adept at seeing orbs.

Faces, both humans and animals, have been found within the orbs. These balls of light have also been photographed having multiple faces, crowds of people and with buildings.
What Skeptics Say

* There is no evidence to suggest that orbs are related to ghosts, while they have often are seen in photos taken at haunted locations; they have been photographed in many other places.
* Orbs can be caused by flash reflection off of reflective surfaces, insects, glass, dust, hair, snow, rain and other moisture. In almost every case, the camera flash reflects on the surface of one of these particles and seems to glow.
* Some of the earlier, low-end digital cameras were made with CMOS chips which could create irregularities in dimly lit photographs that would be mistaken for orbs, so cameras were creating orbs which had no paranormal origin.
* Orbs don’t have to be taken with a camera flash. They can be caused by bright lights in an area where the photo is being taken, by angles of light and by many types of artificial lighting.

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Theories

An indisputable fact is that orbs have shown up in many pictures, so they exist. It is equally true that they can be caused by many normal occurrences, including dust, hair and moisture and have been discounted as such. Obviously, not all of these are perfectly round as orbs are. What about those with paranormal causation? The word, “paranormal” is used in the sense that these have no current scientifically accepted explanation, therefore aren’t within scientific standards.

There is proof that some of these balls of light have electrical charges, so these have this type of energy. Many orbs are pure energy, but no one knows exactly what this type of energy is or even the definition of the words.

The fact that faces of humans and animals, crowds and buildings have been seen in orbs leads some to speculate that this orb may be a type of time warp.

There are those who call the spheres of light spirit or ghost orbs because they have been recorded in haunted places, during religious and spiritual rites and by psychics and mediums. Theories include the lights are spirits of the departed, angels or halos, and are forms of spiritual energy.

It appears there are various types of orbs. Only further research into these phenomena can, perhaps, one day, truly define these luminous balls of light.

Vampire Myths And Legends

2008-11-26T14:48:00.000-08:00

We have for you all the latest Vampire Myths and Legends. So why not come take a look now.

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Strange Things On The Moon

2008-11-26T09:45:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of things that we do know about the moon. Its roughly 1/6 the size of the planet earth. Scientists say that it is 4.6 billion years old and that its approximately 238.000 miles from the planet Earth. It was only recently discovered that their is some water on the moon trapped in ice at the poles. Men from the USA have walked six times on the lunar surface. But you know theres just as much we don't know about it. Where did it come from? Some people speculate it may even be a chunk of the earth that broke off. Many people believe that aliens once had bases on the moon and some believe they still visit it on a regular basis. A lot of people believe there are things still on the moon that our goverment knows about but hides or cover up.

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Aliens , Greys , UFO's Do They Exist Is The Question

2008-11-26T09:40:00.000-08:00

So do they or don't they exist that is. I think we may just have the proof for you that Aliens , Greys and UFO's all exist and not only that but the government is covering it up.

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Paranormal or Not?

2008-11-03T18:16:00.000-08:00

Here's a great story about Ghosts and the Paranormal that your sure to enjoy. Its actually one of the best Paranormal / Ghost stories I have ever read. Check it out and see what you think.

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Ted Bundy's Ghost Haunting Death Row

2008-03-31T11:36:00.001-07:00

Yes there are many reports that Ted Bundy's Ghost is busy haunting Florida's Death Row and it is reported that Ted is not the only one. There are according to reports many ghosts on Florida's Death Row.

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Unsolved Mysteries - Ghost Lights

2008-03-04T20:44:00.000-08:00

Paranormal Activity

2007-11-25T16:23:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to share some things that have been going on my house with people that I knew would appreciate it. Before I start let me give you some background info. My family and I live in a very Historic Town in Central Virginia called Fredericksburg. It's really big on all of the civil war battles that happened in this area. We have lived here for over 10 years, and we've done some research on our property, although it was not a battlefield, soldiers from both sides camped out on our land on several different occasions. I believe that most of what goes on is due to poltergeist activity and not actual hauntings, but we have seen apparitions from time to time. Also, the people who owned the house before us, (the first owners) fought all the time and eventually got divorced, they left a lot of negative energy behind them when they left. Well, I have 10 years worth of experiences, but I'll try to highlight the main ones.

When we first moved in my dog refused to go in the basement, she barks and growls at the basement door at random times. One day when she was doing this, we heard a huge bang down there, it sounded like someone was throwing all of our unpacked boxes around, but when we went to investigate everything was as it should be. My dog won't go down there unless we make her, she terrified of it. The scary part about my dog barking is she's an Australian bark less dog, she never ever barks!

My mom is very musical, and she has a lot of instruments on our first floor. We hear her playing a lot when she isn't home. We've chalked it up to the walls releasing noise that they have absorbed but NEVER does it when she is around. Also the toilet in her bedroom will flush by itself when no one is up there.

Now comes the really creepy stuff... Our first floor is very open with the kitchen dining room and rec room just flowing into one another. One night we were watching TV and 2 lamps that hang on the wall in our breakfast nook flew off the wall. They didn't fall, it as if they were thrown, the cords were even yanked out of the wall. No one was in the kitchen but several people saw it happen.

One night a few months ago we were woken up in the middle of the night by all of our fire alarms going off. There was no fire, and the alarms we had didn't have a Carbon Monoxide tester. The batteries didn't need to be replaced either. After unhooking all of them from the wall and removing the batteries the alarms were still going strong. We had to wrap them in blankets and hide them in a closet in our basement so that we could go back to sleep.

My sister has seen a man in grey coat with only one arm walk through our backyard and then vanish at the property line, and when my nephew was 2, we were all in the back yard and he asked us why there was a man buried back there. When we asked him more questions about it he refused to answer, and started playing again.

One time when I was about 16, my mom and I were in the foyer fighting, full out screaming at each other, I don't even remember what it was about now. The chandelier above us started swinging back and forth really hard and 2 bulbs burst.

I have felt and seen an oppressive black shadowy figure in my room. I could move and speak when I saw it, but it frightened me so much that I didn't sleep in there until I put up protective measures. One if those measures I read about a while ago: You get glass orbs and paint the inside silver while whispering blessings over it. You then hang the orbs by every entrance to your room or home and they block out evil spirits. This actually worked until about a year ago... I felt the presence again and had to sleep on the couch, the next day when I went into my room the mounting and wires for the orbs were there but all of the orbs were missing. I never found them, they were just gone. I haven't been able to sleep in there much since, I stay at my boyfriend's or I sleep on the couch. The few times that I have stayed in there I have been plagued by horrible nightmares.

The only part that frightens me is the thing in my room. I will be completely awake when I see him. For some reason I keep wanting to call it 'him.' I don't know if most of this is poltergeist activity that my mom, my sisters, and I have created with our own energy but I know some of it we can't possibly be doing.

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Was Jack really Jill the Ripper

2007-11-25T16:08:00.000-08:00

Just maybe one of the greatest mysteries of all time has been solved and that is the mystery of who Jack the Ripper may have really been. Jack may have been Jill all along and that may be the reason that Jack was always able to get away.

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Ghost Caught On Video Tape At Gas Station

2007-11-25T15:47:00.000-08:00

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NYC Perfect Environment For Unrested Souls

2007-10-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

Paranormal Expert Talks About New York's Haunted Spots

A self-proclaimed ghost-hunter says New York City has some of the most haunted places in the world. Kate Davey - who does research for an Internet company - says places where people hang out everyday of the week, have a lot of paranormal activity.

She says Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village was a public hanging square in the 18th century - and a lot of spirits roam among the college students, tourists and New Yorkers who hang out there.

Davey adds that New York City's history dating back to the 1600s makes it a perfect environment for unrested souls. She says dozens of restaurants and other public places have paranormal activity, including one Greenwich Village restaurant - where the maitre D' quit because he was pushed down the stairs by something he couldn't see.

Davey gives out a list of the most haunted places today at 11 a.m. at Saint Marks Church on east 10th Street.

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Ed Gein The Real Hannibal Lector

2007-09-12T08:23:00.000-07:00

Ed Gein was the real life Hannibal Lector , Buffalo Bill and Tooth Fairy rolled into one. He was one of the most horrific serial killers that ever lived.

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Ghosts At Fellowship Baptist Church

2007-09-02T23:17:00.000-07:00

We just shot these videos of the Fellowship Baptist Church in Golden Valley NC and we also have some really great Ghost Stories that go along with the Videos of the church and graveyard.

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The Human Hobit , Is This The Missing Link

2007-08-15T23:22:00.000-07:00

The Human Hobit. Is this the missing link between ape and man. There's some really good videos here.

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The Jersey Devil

2007-08-15T23:09:00.001-07:00

Here's a great web page all about " The Jersey Devil " . Have you ever wondered about " The Jersey Devil " Plus we have some really good videos all about "The Jersey Devil ".

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The Most Haunted Cemetery Ever At Newberry S.C.

2007-08-13T22:26:00.000-07:00

Here is the most Haunted cemetery ever at Newberry S.C. We recently shot videos at the Haunted Newberry Cemetery. These videos are something else. The Newberry Cemetery is one of the most haunted cemeteries in America.

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JFK Assassination , What Really Happened

2007-08-13T21:33:00.000-07:00

Here at last is all the secret information about the Kennedy Assassination. All the secrets are revealed at last in this huge collection of videos. You will find all the secrets of the John Kennedy Assassination.

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A Skunk Ape Robbed A Couple In South Florida

2007-08-12T23:57:00.000-07:00

Here is some more story in fact a podcast that you can listen to. A man and woman in Homestead Florida were recently assaulted and their BBQ Ribs were stolen by A Skunk Ape. Wow what a story. Listen to this wild story now.

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Jill The Ripper , Was Jack Really Jill

2007-08-12T23:16:00.000-07:00

All thru the years the world has hunted for Jack the Ripper. Well what if there never was a Jack. What if instead Jack was Jill all along. Have you ever heard of hide in plain site. Well we have and there is a lot of evidence to suggest that Jack was really Jill and we have all the evidence on one page for you. Make up your mind and see what you think

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The Ghosts Of Ted Bundy And Other Ghosts At Florida State Prison

2007-08-12T23:04:00.001-07:00

Here's a great Web Page all about Ted Bundy the infamous Serial Killer and all about his ghost and what its doing out at Florida State Prison. And Ted is not the only ghost out there. He has lots of company including one Ghost that likes to play the Harmonica.

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All About Stonehenge Videos , Photos and More

2007-08-12T22:57:00.001-07:00

Here's a great Web Page we just did all about Stonehenge including some great videos ,photos and etc. Here you will find some really great videos about Stonehenge and much more. If you've ever wondered about all the secrets of Stonehenge you can find it out here.

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Old Gastonia Hospital N.C. Ghosts

2007-08-12T22:39:00.000-07:00

We recently made some very good and interesting videos at the closed down Gastonia N.C. Orthopedic Hospital. There have been rumors for years that the Hospital is haunted. In the 1920's there was a very gruesome murder at the Hospital. A Nurse who lived and worked on the grounds was murdered and the next morning on the Hospital grounds her partially nude strangled body was found. No one was ever found or charged with the murder. Her ghost has been reported on the grounds ever since as have many other ghosts. On a recent evening we went to the old Hospital and shot some very interesting videos. Watch them and see what you think.

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The Ghost Cat , A True Story

2007-08-11T00:28:00.000-07:00

In 1991 I lived in St Augustine Florida and I worked as a Chef on the second shift at a local Cafe. Over time I became friends with a large Himalayan Cat that would follow me home each night as I walked home. He appeared to be very well fed and he had a collar on that said Mr Jeeves. I know that I fed him every night for many weeks and I began to look forward to him meeting me each night as I walked about a half mile from the Cafe home to my Apartment. Now while none of this seems strange here is the strange part.

One day when I went to pay the rent I mentioned Mr Jeeves to the older couple where I went to pay the rent. When I started telling them about the cat the man I was renting from became agitated and said we just don't talk about the cat.

Well I paid my rent and left wondering what was so strange about the cat. About a month later I got my answer. A older lady who lived in the same building I did said to me one day. So you feed Mr Jeeves to. I said yes I do and asked her what do you know about the cat.

The lady told me a story that made the hair raise up on the back of my neck and it was one of the most amazing stories I ever heard. It seems that 17 years before the couple I rented from had had a daughter named Helen who was 11 and that she had a cat a large male Himalayan named Mr Jeeves and one day the little girl ran out into the path of a truck and she and the cat were killed.

Both were buried in the same casket. The lady told me that a few weeks later Mr Jeeves was back hitting people up for a hand out. She asked me if Mr Jeeves had ever came in my apartment. I said no and she told me she didn't think he could.

After that on several occasions I tried to get the cat to come in the apartment and he never would. He also made it plain you were not going to pick him up. I lived on there for a few months and fed Mr Jeeves almost every night but he never would let me pick him up and he never came into the apartment. I also would only see him at night and one day I bought a disposable camera with flash to take his photo. Some how the cat knew. Anytime I had the camera the cat would never come into the lighted part of the yard. Only later he would show up looking in at the air conditioner window at me. Once I was sure I got his photo but when I took it in to the drug store to get it developed there was no cat in the photo. So that is my true story of Mr Jeeves the Ghost Cat of St Augustine.

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A SPOOKY ANOMALY CAPTURED TWICE IN HAUNTED HOUSE

2007-08-10T01:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a second video of paranormal activity in my house as investigated by members of Haunted Earth. This time audio is included!!

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Ghost In Old Funeral Home

2007-08-09T00:06:00.000-07:00

Watch this video of a Ghost in a old house that used to be a Funeral Home. Watch the right hand side of the screen. Also watch the cat on the bed.

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Seeing Is Believing

2007-08-08T23:23:00.000-07:00

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital image manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these photographs are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly create ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be untouched, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

The Brown Lady
This portrait of "The Brown Lady" ghost is arguably the most famous and well-regarded ghost photograph ever taken. The ghost is thought to be that of Lady Dorothy Townshend, wife of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount of Raynham, residents of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England in the early 1700s. The Raynham Hall mansion was the home of the Townshend family for over 300 years. Dorothy was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, Charles' one-time partner with whom he had a falling-out. It was also rumored that Dorothy, before her marriage to Charles, had been the mistress of Lord Wharton, "whose character was so infamous, and his lady's complaisant subserviency so notorious, that no young woman could be four and twenty hours under their roof with safety to her reputation." Charles suspected Dorothy of infidelity. And although according to legal records she died and was buried in 1726, it was suspected that the funeral was a sham and that Charles had locked his wife away in a remote corner of the house until her death many years later.

Dorothy's ghost is said to haunt the oak staircase and other areas of Raynham Hall. In the early 1800s, King George IV, while staying at Raynham, saw the figure of a woman in a brown dress standing beside his bed, noting that her face was pale and hair disheveled. She was seen again standing in the hall in 1835 by Colonel Loftus, who was visiting for the Christmas holidays. He saw her again a week later and described her as wearing a brown satin dress, her skin glowing with a pale luminescence. It also seemed to him that her eyes had been gouged out. A few years later, Captain Frederick Marryat and two friends saw "the brown lady" gliding along an upstairs hallway, carrying a lantern. As she passed, Marryat said, she grinned at the men in a "diabolical manner." Marryat fired a pistol at the apparition, but the bullet simply passed through.

The famous photo above was taken in September, 1936 by Captain Provand and Indre Shira, two photographers who were assigned to photograph Raynham Hall for Country Life magazine. This is what happened, according to Shira:

"Captain Provand took one photograph while I flashed the light. He was focusing for another exposure; I was standing by his side just behind the camera with the flashlight pistol in my hand, looking directly up the staircase. All at once I detected an ethereal veiled form coming slowly down the stairs. Rather excitedly, I called out sharply: 'Quick, quick, there's something.' I pressed the trigger of the flashlight pistol. After the flash and on closing the shutter, Captain Provand removed the focusing cloth from his head and turning to me said: 'What's all the excitement about?'"

Upon developing the film, the image of The Brown Lady ghost was seen for the first time. It was published in the December 16, 1936 issue of Country Life. The ghost has been seen occasionally since.

Interesting side note: Charles Townshend is the ancestor of Thomas Townsend Brown, an American physicist who experimented with anti-gravity and flying saucers in the 1930s, and whose name has been connected to The Philadelphia Experiment.

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Ghost stories haunt Pike Place Market

2007-08-07T22:56:00.000-07:00

You are never alone at Pike Place Market. Even when you are by yourself.

Karen McAleese swears to it. On All Saints' Day a couple of years ago, she is certain she saw someone — something? — amble out of the kitchen at Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, her family's place. "He was a tall man who looked like he was part black, with a suit jacket on," McAleese says in her thick Irish accent. "He had very thin hands. He walked to the end of the bar and just kind of faded."

It scared the bejeebers out of her.

Nina Menon doubts no more. The co-owner of Bead Zone in the Market's DownUnder was in her shop having a rather agitated phone conversation when strands of red beads hanging on a wall hook came crashing to the floor.

"I was a healthy skeptic, but seeing was believing," Menon says. "There was no way these beads could have just slid off."

When people say Pike Place Market is full of spirit, they have no earthly idea how true that may be. We mere mortals may not be the only ones lurking in the Market's nooks and crannies.

Take Frank, a tall and elderly ghost who supposedly introduces himself by name outside the bathrooms at Alibi Room, a club off Post Alley.

Or that time an overwhelming scent of old-lady perfume filled the back office of the Market Theatre, sending an employee — alone inside — fleeing out the front door.

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PHANTOMS OF THE MORTUARY

Edgar R. Butterworth, a collector of buffalo bones, first tended to the dead while owning a small furniture store in Centralia. During a diphtheria epidemic, he added a line of ready-made coffins.

The former Centralia mayor and state legislator moved to Seattle in 1892 and bought out a downtown undertaking business.

As Seattle grew, so did his business. In need of a bigger facility, he commissioned the building of a three-story brick structure at 1921 First Ave.

Beautifully appointed in stained mahogany, art glass, ornamental plaster and specially designed brass and bronze hardware, the building opened in 1903 — four years before Pike Place Market started two blocks away.

E.R. Butterworth and Sons was a center of mourning in Seattle. Bodies of the rich and poor, entrepreneurs and laborers, old and young passed through the long, narrow building. In 1923, Butterworth moved his mortuary business to Capitol Hill, having outgrown the First Avenue space.

Other businesses have moved in since then, including Kells, the Irish pub that for the past quarter-century has operated successfully in the basement, its entrance reached from Post Alley, not First.

Patrick McAleese, 36, the 6-foot-6 Irishman who owns Kells, says the business occupies the former embalming room and crematorium (which may explain the bone-thin ghost that sister Karen reports seeing at the bar).

When Patrick was a teenager and his parents owned Kells, a wall mirror in the back bar — which was closed at the time — fell to the floor and shattered into pieces. ("But in a neat little pile," Karen McAleese adds.)

When the family ran back to see what happened, a single candle on the bar was inexplicably burning.

"You think someone must be pulling your leg," Patrick says. "But then you don't see anyone."

The "haunted booth"

The corpse count continued at 1921 First Ave. long after the mortuary moved out.

The First Avenue-level space (the old chapel and mortuary office) has seen its share of short-lived business ventures.

Inside the space today are the ruins of the last, Starlite Lounge — booth benches upholstered in black with white starburst patterns; a giant painting of Sammy, Dino and Frank behind the bar; three bottles of dry sherry left behind for ... who exactly?

This would be a better ghost story if hauntings were responsible for the demise of those businesses. But that would be a major stretch.

"They didn't have an effect on our business except we had Halloween parties every year," says Arnie Millan, owner of Avenue One, a restaurant that lasted from 1997 to 2002.

But Avenue One also had spooky events that were not planned — and not easily explained, Millan says:

Two wine bottles flying off the rack, narrowly missing a manager's head. A long-missing vase inexplicably placed on a window table that had just been set; a diner who fled after he was sure he saw an old woman hugging a shawl disappear into a wall.

Scott and Sue Craig owned Café Sophie, a restaurant and club at 1921 First Ave. until 1997. Scott says the couple never witnessed a fully formed ghost, "but I have no doubt our place had some sort of spiritual vibration."

After loyal customers insisted they "felt something" whenever they ate at a specific table, the Craigs branded it the "haunted booth." One night, diners in the booth taunted the ghosts to show themselves.

A huge chunk of ceiling plaster fell to the floor about five feet from their table. "It turns out there was a problem with the ceiling," Scott Craig says.

But that doesn't explain Sue Craig's story of once seeing a pair of shoes in a bathroom stall vanish into thin air.

A shaman once counted 19 fully formed ghosts inside the old mortuary, says Mercedes Yaeger, who leads ghost tours of the Market. Some ghosts that have been seen appear emaciated, and Yaeger has a theory:

A Seattle doctor treated patients by trying to starve illness out of them with tomato broth and three enemas a day. It didn't work, and those gaunt bodies eventually passed through the mortuary.

Yaeger says mortuary ghosts have been various races. The building sits on an old Suquamish Indian burial ground, she says. And she believes other ghosts are former laborers, including Chinese and African Americans, upset at never receiving credit for their contributions in helping build Seattle.

"There are some pissed-off ghosts in there," Yaeger says. "There is no closure for them."

A selling point?

The McAleese family has run a successful business in the former embalming area and crematorium below 1921 First Ave., so why not try to make a go of it upstairs where the funerals actually took place?

Undeterred by ghosts, Patrick McAleese and his mother, Ethna, bought 1921 First Ave. in September 2005 and plan to open a non-Irish-themed restaurant there.

Patrick is restoring the interior of the old chapel to its former, uh, glory.

"I'd never ignore the past of this place," says Patrick, who will ask a priest friend, Father Tony, to bless the place before he opens later this summer.

"It will be dead space until then," sister Karen jokes.

As part of the restoration, Patrick has opened up a walled-off balcony that he plans to turn into a private dining area for bigger parties. Yaeger believes the balcony was where mourning families sat during funerals.

The chapel also has a second balcony where Yaeger believes the minister presided. Beneath that balcony, she says, the embalmed corpse, dressed well, would have been seated in a chair instead of lying in a casket. That chair would have been located in what is now a corridor separating the kitchen from the bathrooms — the very place, Yaeger says, where most ghosts have been seen.

Yaeger is skeptical that any business can truly thrive inside 1921 First Ave. but says there may be a way.

"These ghosts want to be heard, so [the McAleeses] should make the hauntings a selling point," she says. "People need to know the history. They need to promote the crazy activity that has happened there. The hokier, the better."

Her suggestion: Turn it into a goth nightclub and call it "The Mortuary."

Mwahahaha! That's a scary thought.

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Thai monk exorcises ghostly tank-top cellmate

2007-08-07T22:45:00.000-07:00

Bangkok - Thai prison authorities called in a Buddhist monk to exorcise a jail cell allegedly haunted by a ghost wearing a red tank-top shirt, media reports said Saturday.

The exorcism took place Friday at Bangkok's crime suppression division jail, after at least two cellmates complained of being spooked by an apparition partial to wearing a red tank top and attacking them in their dreams, said The Nation newspaper.

According to police records, a man accused of raping his niece had hanged himself in the cell on July 1. The records, however, did not indicate that the suicide had a fashion fondness for red tank tops.

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Stonehenge And Everything About It

2007-08-07T22:30:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wondered about Stonehenge and wanted to know all its secrets. Well we have all the information about it including some really good videos on a page we just built for you.

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America's Most Famous Haunted Places

2007-08-07T22:24:00.000-07:00

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In rural China, a revival of `ghost marriages'

2007-08-07T00:39:00.000-07:00

A member of the Chao clan of Gelao village in Shaanxi province was paying her respects recently to a newly buried female relative. She noticed a wheat stalk stuck in the mound of earth with a ribbon tied to it. Alarmed, she alerted her relatives. At 11 that night, they ambushed two grave robbers who were starting to dig up the body.

A member of the Chao family told a friend from the Wang clan in a nearby village, who had just buried one of its womenfolk. Clan members found nothing suspicious at the grave but the next day came across a large plastic bag in a ditch. Sure enough, it contained the body of their relative, exhumed and waiting for collection.

Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages." Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a "wedding," and bury the couple together.

The practice is most common in the northern provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong, China's coal-mining heartland, where pit accidents kill many men too young to marry.

A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers – usually respectable folk who find brides for village men – account for most of the middlemen.

In March, a local newspaper, Huashang Bao, reported that demand for corpse brides had led to sustained inflation.

A top-quality piece of "wet" (recently deceased) merchandise that the newspaper said would have sold for a few thousand yuan four years ago now goes for 30,000-40,000 yuan $4,200—$5,600).

In contrast, "dry goods" (long buried) fetch just 300-500 yuan ($42-$69) down the Shanxi coal mines.

Chupacabra caught in South Texas

2007-08-07T00:25:00.000-07:00

A rancher from the South Texas town of Cuero is telling a chupacabra tale and she say she has the evidence in her freezer.

Phylis Canion says the animal had been lurking around her ranch for years.

She said it first snatched cats, then chickens right through a wire cage. “(It) opened it reached in pulled the chicken head out, sucked all the blood out, left the chicken in the cage.”

Canion says two dozen chickens were sucked dry.

The meat, she says, was left on the bone.

Neighbors speculate the blue-colored animal that was doing all that damage was a chupacabra.

The name is translated from Spanish and means goat-sucker because the creature sucks the blood of livestock.

Canion says not one, but three chupacabras were spotted outside the town in recent days.

All of them, she says, were blue-skinned, had no hair and had strange teeth.

Although Canion and her neighbors feel she captured a chupacabra, others like State Mammalogist John Young says she captured a grey fox. “When mange goes untreated it causes this type of reaction. they start to itch, lose all their hair, blue grey coloration. and the animal usually dies from it.”

But it wasn’t mange, but a car that killed the creature that Canion captured. “There have been so many stories for so long. The chupacabra is a mythical thing and maybe it is, but this is something…a cross between something. What? I don’t know, I’d love to find out.”

So, KENS-TV took samples of the creature and sent it off for DNA testing.

Those results are due.

Meanwhile, the creature’s head, which is in Canion’s freezer, will go on her home’s wall. “This one hands down will draw the most attention. Because they’re gonna say you got zebras, you got this, you got that, what is this thing here? That’s what we call the South Texas taz devil

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Whispering Estates

2007-08-06T23:29:00.000-07:00

Five graves reportedly fill the backyard while eerie voices and mysterious happenings greet visitors.

It’s all a part of the charm of Whispering Estates, a bed and breakfast located in the heart of one of Mitchell’s most desirable neighborhoods. And it’s part of what has ghost hunters and others coming back, time and time again.

For Jarret Marshall, who moved to Mitchell three years ago from Bloomington after purchasing the century-old home, the voices, ghosts and haunted happenings just add to the charm of the eloquently decorated place near some of Mitchell’s most historic homes on Warren Street.

“People who don’t believe in anything, rethink everything after staying here,” Marshall said.

The haunted activity started after Marshall, who is trained in historic home renovations, started breathing new life into the home once occupied by Dr. John and Jessie Gibbons, who lived there until their deaths in 1944 and 1934, respectively. The physician used two rooms as his office for at least three decades.

He didn’t know the home was haunted when he bought it to restore.

It was something he learned firsthand.

“I could tell the wall that separated the parlor from the front hallway was not original,” Marshall said. “I found pillars in the basement that fit that space perfectly, so I tore down the false wall and opened up the parlor. That’s when I found the original pocket doors hidden behind molding.”

That’s when soot and damage from a previous fire landed in his lap. And it’s the first time he experienced something he couldn’t explain.

“The door started shaking like someone wanted in, so I went to answer it thinking it was someone in my family. But when I opened the door, no one was there,” Marshall said. “It just continued from that point. I never really believed in this stuff before, and I didn’t tell anyone about it for the longest time. Now, it’s normal. The more I am here, the more it happens and the more I get used to it. It’s like having a family here — you almost begin to feel the connection.”

Several apparitions have been felt in the home by different people, but the strongest is the little girl whom Marshall believes is named Rachel.

“It’s one of the only places I’ve gone or that I’ve done that you can ask a question (to the ghosts) and get an audible answer back,” said Keith Age, who is using the house for a documentary he is filming for the SciFi channel titled “Children from the Grave.”

“It takes a lot for me to believe that there’s some activity somewhere, but when you get an audible answer back in different tones ... it’s not hard to believe.”

Age, representing the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society, and several other ghost hunters from different organizations have descended upon the home frequently to get a peek at the eerie activities that include voices, knocking, moving objects and shadow people.

“I’ve had to question myself on more than one occasion,” Marshall said. “We’re out in the middle of nowhere in this little town. Why would this house be active and not the next? It’s kind of interesting to me because I think the house is doing it. I think this house feels that it was here to help people.

“I think that what started off as this great life for this couple ended up being quite traumatic with a baby dying and the children dying. I think Rachel was a very strong little girl, and that’s why she is a very strong apparition here now.”

Do the haunted happenings ever scare Marshall?

“I’ve been freaked out a couple of times, and that’s only when I am caught off-guard,” he said. “The mind’s a powerful thing, it really is. But when I walked in here, it felt like I was home. It felt like the house was sad, like it needed me. It’s almost as if the house is waking up again. It’s recreating itself.”

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Some things Jarret Marshall, the owner of Whispering Estates, or his guests have experienced:

#1 “Once I was sleeping in the room that used to be Dr. Gibbons’ operating room when I woke up to see someone or something leaning over top of me just inches from my face,” Marshall said. “I don’t usually scream, but this time I did scream out.”

#2 “We were sitting on the stairs to the attic one night when the ghost of an old woman — we guessed because she sounded like an old woman — came screaming down the stairs yelling at us,” Marshall said. “We all ran out of there screaming.”

#3One guest brought a doll to Rachel. It disappeared, only to reappear several weeks later when another guest brought her a new doll. The old doll appeared “from nowhere,” Marshall said, burnt up.

#4 Often, when Marshall takes the greyhounds he fosters outside, he’ll return to the back door only to find it locked. “When they start that early, I know we’re in for an active night,” he said.

#5 Strange smells, like men’s cologne and antiseptics, have been reported in the rooms.

#6 Whispering is often heard through the house; hence, the name “Whispering Estates.” Marshall has heard his name and other conversations.

#7 Water faucets turn on by themselves, lights flicker and Marshall had to turn off his land phone because it kept dialing 9-1-1, causing police to investigate his home more than once. Once, the tub in the upstairs bathroom flipped over, breaking the pipes.

Tree Eats A Kids Old Bike

2007-08-06T18:51:00.000-07:00

On Vashon Island (near Seattle, Washington), a tree grows carrying a rather unusual passenger - an old bike. Apparently some kid chained a bike to the tree decades ago and never picked it up, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.

The Ghosts Of Andersonville Prison

2007-08-06T18:42:00.000-07:00

Here you can read all about Andersonville Prison and watch a great video about the Ghosts of Andersonville Prison plus much much more. Plus other Civil War Ghosts.

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What Really Happened At Roswell

2007-08-06T01:49:00.001-07:00

Do you want to know what really happened at Roswell. Do you believe in UFO's? Well you just may after you check out our really great page and videos we have for you on the incident at Roswell.

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Was Jack The Ripper Really Jill The Ripper

2007-08-05T22:59:00.000-07:00

Was the reason Jack the Ripper was never found was that he was in fact never Jack at all but was really Jack. Here you will get to explore the story and facts that offer almost conclusive proof that Jack the Ripper was really Jill the Ripper

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The Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau

2007-08-05T22:47:00.000-07:00

Although there is plenty of information about Marie Laveau and her daughter and namesake in the legends and lore of Old New Orleans, known as Marie II, separating the fact from the myth has always been a challenge for those seeking a true history of this famous New Orleans icon. Nearly everything that is known about them originates in the secretive oral tradition of the practitioners of Voodoo and that information has been embellished with hearsay and drama, making an already larger than life persona absolutely formidable in the tales that survive.

Among the sites associated with New Orleans voodoo is the tomb of its greatest figure, Marie Laveau. For several decades this "voodoo queen" held New Orleans spellbound-figuratively, of course, but some would say literally, as legends of her occult powers continue to captivate. She staged ceremonies in which participants became possessed by loas (voodoo spirits) and danced naked around bonfires; she dispensed charms and potions called gris-gris, even saving several condemned men from the gallows; and she told fortunes, healed the sick, and herself remained perpetually youthful while living for more than a century-or so it is said

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Podcasts That Prove That Swamp Ape and Big Foot Exist

2007-08-05T20:38:00.000-07:00

Here's a great story about a recent sighting of the elusive swamp ape known as Skunk Ape. This one went as far as to raid the BBQ grill of a man and woman who were in their back yard cooking BBQ ribs

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2007-08-05T18:57:00.001-07:00

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John Wayne Gacy

2007-08-05T18:25:00.001-07:00

Here you will find all kinds of great information and videos about John Wayne Gacy. John Wayne Gacy was one of the most infamous Serial Killers of all time and here you will find out all about him.

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Proof That Ghosts Do Exist In These Videos

2007-08-05T18:18:00.000-07:00

Here you will find the proof that Ghosts do exist. Real visual proof at last that ghosts do exist. Just watch the videos to prove to yourself that ghosts do exist.

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Newberry S.C. Haunted Graveyard

2007-08-05T18:10:00.000-07:00

Here you will find and discover the most haunted graveyard and town in the USA. It is the old Graveyard located on Boundary Street in Newberry S.C. For those of you who want to know it is in the 1400 block of Boundary Street and its going to blow your mind to see and read the stories and watch the videos on this page. It is truly something else indeed.

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St Augustine Ghost Videos

2007-08-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a great page we did on the ghosts of St Augustine that will tell and show you all about the ghosts of St Augustine. You will find ton's of great information and a large collection of videos. One of the best collections of information and videos about St Augustine ever.

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Feds Trying To Sell Haunted Lighthouse

2007-07-11T19:21:00.000-07:00

FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- For sale: $1 property surrounded by Long Island Sound off the coast of Fairfield. Must be able to cope with possible haunting.

The U.S. General Services Administration is seeking a buyer for the Penfield Lighthouse, which was built in 1874 about 1.1 miles from Fairfield Beach and is said to be the site of strange occurrences following the drowning of lighthouse keeper Frederick Jordan in 1916.

The agency is offering the lighthouse for $1 in "as is" condition to local, state or federal government agencies or nonprofit organizations. Those interested will have to submit an application identifying their proposed uses of the lighthouse, besides that of a navigational beacon, and how they will pay for that use and maintenance.

Fairfield First Selectman Kenneth Flatto said the town is very interested in acquiring the property, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"Obviously, the first choice would have been for the federal government to continue to take care of the lighthouse," he said. "But since they want to dispose of it, the town feels obligated that we want to save it."

The town is looking into how much it would cost to fix and maintain the property, and how it could pay for it. It has also talked with the Fairfield Historical Society and Fairfield Beach Residents Association about their helping with maintenance.

The 51-foot-tall lighthouse sits on a concrete foundation surrounded by rocks. It is attached to a two-story keeper's residence made with granite and timber frames.

According to a 2004 report by the town of Fairfield, the foundation, structure and roofs were in good condition, but the wood framing that supports a balcony around the light tower needs major repairs.

There is also asbestos tiles on the floor, lead paint on the walls, mold on all levels and decaying brick and mortar in the basement, the report said.

The last repairs were done in 2003, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

There is also the reported haunting to deal with. According to legend, Jordan drowned in December 1916 when his boat capsized near the lighthouse and appeared as a ghost two weeks later to his assistant, Rudolph Iten, the Connecticut Post reported Sunday.

Iten took over for Jordan after his death. In his log, Iten wrote that Jordan's apparition glided down the tower's stairs and disappeared into darkness. Iten then found the keeper's log opened to the page that documented Jordan's death, the Post reported.

Iten also reported that the lighthouse's light began "behaving strangely" when Jordan's apparition appeared.

In the strangest folk tale, two boys who were rescued after their boat capsized near the lighthouse in 1942 identified Jordan as their rescuer after seeing his photograph.

Jeremy D'Entremont, who wrote "The Lighthouses in Connecticut," said many lighthouses have ghost stories, but the Penfield Lighthouse's tales are more believable because they are based on a well-documented death.

D'Entremont said other lighthouse keepers reported seeing Jordan's ghost over the years, and Iten had them sign affidavits about what they witnessed.

He said it may be difficult for the new owners to raise money for repairs and maintenance because the lighthouse is offshore.

"You have to be creative. You kind of have to bring the lighthouse to the community," D'Entremont said. "I really wish the (federal) government could set up a fund that would help with the maintenance of these lighthouses."

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Ghost Hunters In Savanna Georiga

2007-07-10T11:11:00.000-07:00

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We hope you enjoy the Ghost Hunters In Savanna Georgia Videos.

Savanna Georgia is claimed by many to be one of America's most haunted cities. There are quite a few famous haunted places in Savanna. From the Haunted Bonaventure Cemetery made famous in the Movie Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil to Fort Pulaski near Savanna.

Bonaventure Cemetery

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Bonaventure Cemetery, in Savannah, Georgia, is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne, whose daughter Mary married Josias Tatnall, Sr. The wife of Tatnall's son, Harriet Fenwick Tattnall, was buried on the plantation in 1802. The plantation was converted to a cemetery in 1868, and was originally called Evergreen Cemetery; its name was changed to Bonaventure Cemetery in 1907.

The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on it. The book's cover photograph, taken by Jack Leigh, featured an evocative sculpture of a young girl that had been in the cemetery—essentially unnoticed for over 50 years—and which has come to be known as the "Bird Girl". The original sculpture had been placed on the family plot of Lucy Boyd Trosdal. After the publication of the book, it was donated to Savannah's Telfair Museum of Art to avoid the disturbances that tourists wanting to see it at the cemetery were causing.

Fort Pulaski National Monument is located between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, notable as the place where, during the American Civil War, in 1862, the Union Army successfully tested a rifled cannon. The success of the test rendered brick fortifications obsolete. The fort was also used as a prisoner-of-war camp. The National Monument includes most of Cockspur Island (containing the fort) and all of adjacent McQueens Island.

Following the War of 1812, President James Madison ordered a new system of coastal fortifications to protect the United States against foreign invasion. Construction of a fort to protect the port of Savannah began in 1829 under the direction of Major Gen. Babcock, and later Second Lieutenant Robert E. Lee, a recent graduate of West Point. The new fort would be located on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River. In 1833, the new fort was named Fort Pulaski in honor of Kazimierz Pulaski, a Polish soldier and military commander who fought in the American Revolution under the command of George Washington. Pulaski was a noted cavalryman and played a large role in training Revolutionary troops. He took part in the sieges of Charleston and of Savannah. Wooden pilings sunk up to 70ft into mud support an estimated 25,000,000 bricks. Fort Pulaski was finally completed in 1847 following 18 years of construction and nearly $1,000,000 in construction costs.

Civil War

Though completed in 1847, Fort Pulaski was under the control of only two caretakers until 1860 when South Carolina seceded from the United States and set in motion the Civil War. It was at this time that Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown ordered Fort Pulaski to be taken by the state of Georgia. A steamship carrying 110 men from Savannah traveled downriver and the fort was signed over and now belonged to the state of Georgia. Following the secession of Georgia in February 1861, the state joined the Confederate States of America. Confederate troops then moved into the fort.

By December 1861 Tybee Island was thought to be too isolated and unprepared for conflict and was abandoned by Confederate forces. This allowed Union troops to gain a foothold across the Savannah River from Fort Pulaski. Union forces began construction of batteries along the beaches of Tybee.

On the morning of April 10, 1862 Union forces asked for the surrender of the Fort to prevent needless loss of life. Colonel Charles H. Olmstead, commander of the Confederate garrison, rejected the offer.

Siege and reduction of Fort Pulaski

Fort Pulaski was prepared for a possible infantry attack. However, Fort Pulaski never endured a direct land assault. With 36 guns, including the new James Rifled Cannon, Union troops began a long sustained bombardment of Fort Pulaski. The new rifled cannon fired a rifled projectile that could go farther than the larger and heavier smoothbore cannonball. Within 30 hours, the use of the new rifled cannon had breached one of the fort's corner walls. Shells now passed through the fort dangerously close to the Fort's main powder magazine. Reluctantly, Col. Charles Olmstead surrendered the fort.

Within six weeks of the surrender, Union forces repaired the Fort and all shipping in and out of Savannah ceased. The loss of Savannah as a viable Confederate port crippled the Southern war effort. With the Fort securely in Union control, General David Hunter,commander of the Union garrison issued Gen. Order Number Seven, which stated that all slaves in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina were now free. President Abraham Lincoln quickly rescinded the order, but later issued his own Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. At this time, Fort Pulaski was made a final destination on the Underground Railroad as slaves throughout the area were freed upon arrival on Cockspur Island.

The garrison of Union soldiers reached 600 during the initial occupation, but as the War dragged on it became obvious the Southern forces would not be able to retake the Fort. The garrison was later reduced to around 250. Late in the War the Fort would be made into a prison for a group of captured Confederate officers known as "The Immortal Six Hundred." Thirteen of these men would die at the Fort of enforced ill treatment. After the War ended Fort Pulaski continued as a military and political prison for a short while. It would house a Confederate Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War as well as three state governors, a senator and the man who had commanded the Fort after it had been taken by the South.

Post war

Between 1869 and 1872 the demilune to the rear of the Fort was covered with powder magazines and the few gun positions left were enlarged for heavier guns.

By the turn of the 20th century, the fort began to fall into disrepair. In an effort to save the old fort, the War Department finally declared Fort Pulaski a National Monument on October 15, 1924 by presidential proclamation of Calvin Coolidge. The monument was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. At that time repairs were started, when members of the CCC arrived on Cockspur Island and began rehabilitation of the fort.

Fort Pulaski was opened to the public only for a short time before the beginning of World War II. This war would see further use of Cockspur Island as a section base for the U.S. Navy. Following WWII, Fort Pulaski reverted to the Park Service's control, and it was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Fort Pulaski remains open to the public.

Ghost Video, Ghostly Shadow In Dudley Town Woods

2007-07-10T10:14:00.000-07:00

This video was captured on Chase Avenue in Dudley Town Connecticut. After numerous sightings of a ghastly shadow figure in the woods behind the property, the owners had a camcorder ready and loaded with a tape in the event it was seen again, sure enough on June 17th 2006 the evil looking apparition re emerged and was captured as it shimmered through the thick brush. No one in the town seems to know what it could be, but there were numerous murders committed in those woods over the centuries. The tape was submitted to the Institute of Forensic Parapsychology and after under going rigorous expert examination was deemed unexplainable. Many people since have seen these shadow like forms around the woods in that area, the mystery to this day remains unsolved. What you want to do is watch along the tree line as this video plays and you will see a ghostly shadow play there along the tree line as it appears and vanishes only to appear again.

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Haunted Places In The USA

2007-07-10T10:02:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wanted to know where all the haunted places in the USA are located. Well we have one of the best collections of Haunted Places all across the USA for you and I think when you see this collection you will agree it is truly one of the best collections of Haunted Places anywhere on the net.

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Best Collection Of Ghost Videos Ever

2007-07-10T09:51:00.000-07:00

Here you will find one of the best collections of Ghost Videos anywhere. Don't believe in Ghosts right now well if you watch these videos we have for you here you may just find yourself believing in a hurry. There is truly one of the best collections of ghost videos ever put together waiting for you here.

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