Showing posts with label Apparitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apparitions. Show all posts

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Haunted places - Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania

One of the most haunted places in the world is the Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) in Pennsylvania. It was originally opened in 1829 and is considered to be the world’s first true penitentiary. But the prison, designed to hold just about 300 prisoners, soon became overpopulated (about 1700 were jammed into the cells) and in 1913, Eastern State officially abandoned the solitary system and operated as a congregate prison until it closed in 1970.

Image left: The Eastern State Penitentiary from the outside.

The inmates at EST had no easy life. Torture and harassments by the guards was a part of their daily living and maybe this is one of the reasons why the prison is reported to be one of the most haunted places in America. One of the most famous paranormal stories from there is about a locksmith who had an eerily encounter.

OPENED A GATE TO HELL
One day, a locksmith was doing some restoration work in Cell Block #4. According to the story, he was working to remove a 140-year-old lock from the cell door when a massive force overcame him so powerfully he was unable to move. Some believed he opened a gateway to the horrific past and the trapped spirits could now escape. All hell was now broken lose. On the cell wall, anguished faces appeared and hundreds of distorted forms swirled around the cellblock and one dominating form seemed to beckon the locksmith to him.

Image right: One of many cell blocks at Eastern State Penitentiary.

Today the penitentiary is open for the public and daily tours of the place is made. Every there are more than a two dozen paranormal groups investigating the place and in almost every case, they find evidence of paranormal activity. Probably the most famous evidence was captured by the Ghost Hunters team while doing an investigation there. A stationary camera captured a human-like figure running towards the camera, then stops and takes off in the other way.

Video of the incident:

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

More ghost photographs

This photograph was taken on January 22, 1985 when the Freeman organization was having a dinner event at St. Mary's Guildhall in Coventry, UK. At the moment when this photograph was taken, everyone had her or his head bowed in prayer, including a towering, mysterious figure standing top left. One person that was present at dinner were Lord Mayor Walter Brandish and he later stated that there were know one dressed like that during the dinner and he wasn’t able to explain how it made its way into the photograph.

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When James Courtney and Michael Meehan, two crew members S.S. Watertown, were cleaning a cargo tank of the oil tanker as it sailed toward the Panama Canal from New York City in December of 1924, one freak accident happened and they engulfed in gas flames and perished. They men were buried at sea off the Mexican coast on December 4.

But this wasn’t the last they saw of the men. The next day, one of the crew members reported seeing the faces of the two men in the waves close to the ship. They remained there for several seconds before fading out. And for several days thereafter, phantom like faces was seen by the crew. There has never been any explanation for their sightings.

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This photograph was taken in 1919, but wasn’t published until 1975. The photograph shows squadron which served World War I at the HMS Daedalus training facility. Upon further inspection, a face can clearly been seen behind the fourth men from the left.

Members of the squadron have reported it to be the face of Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been accidentally killed by an airplane propeller two days earlier. The same day as this photograph was taken, Jackson’s burial had taken place. Some think he was unaware of his death and decided to show up on the group photo.

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Report sent to paranormal.about

"I was at the Stanley on a ghost tour," says George. "I came back with four orb pictures (which I can send you if you wish), and upon further investigation I have this one. I didn't notice it until I was on the plane home and zoomed in on all my Stanley pictures. I was shocked at first and have been showing it to people the past few weeks and been getting similar reactions of amazement to people saying it looked like a Cabbage Patch doll. Just thought you might have some ideas.

At first I thought it was a dog, then after zooming closer, it certainly looks like an apparition of a little boy. If you look at the people on the ground they are so clear, when you look at the window it looks like a vision. You'll also notice there is no curtain or glass to distort the view; the window is open."

"I contacted the hotel to find out about the room," George says, "and this is what they said:"
OK, the room number is 1211. Last Friday, there was a single man checked in that room who was part of a business conference. That doesn't mean he DIDN'T have a child with him, but it is unlikely that he did. -- Stanley Hotel

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Top 10 Ghost Images - #1


The photo above is probably one of the most famous photographs ever taken of what is said to be a ghost. It was taken in September of 1936 at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England by two photographers, Captain Provand and Indre Shira, assigned by Country Life magazine. Shira recalled the event as following:

"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?"

The ghost, called “The Brown Lady”, was first seen upon developing the picture and it was published in the December 16 of that year’s issue of Country Life.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Top 10 Ghost Images - #2


This photograph was taken in Tombstone, Arizona at Boothill Graveyard. It was taken by Terry Ike Clanton, a descendent to the Clanton Gang, on a friend of him. The photo was taken in black and white because he wanted Old West-looking pictures of himself dressed in Clanton's 1880-period clothes. Upon developing the photograph, they were able to see a thin man with a black hat just to the right of his friend. According to them, no one except was at the scene for the photograph.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Top 10 Ghost Images - #3


This photograph was taken in 1966 in the Queen's House section of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. The photographer, Reverend Ralph Hardy, didn’t see anything when he took the now very famous photograph. When the photograph was developed, the photo revealed a shrouded figure climbing the stairs, seeming to hold the railing with both hands. Experts that have studied the photo say that it’s real and has not been tampered in any way.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Top 10 Ghost Images - #4


This photograph was taken on November 19, 1995 at Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England, when it was engulfed in flames and later destroyed. A local resident, Tony O'Rahilly, took several photographs of the fire from the street. One of his photos shows what look to be partially transparent girl standing in the doorway. Neither O’Rahilly nor any of the other onlookers or firefighters couldn’t recall seeing any girl there.

Two videos on the photograph:


Wednesday, March 3, 2010

New season of Ghost Hunters begins tonight

Tonight, Ghost Hunters starts the new season with a two-hour special investigation at Alcatraz, hosted by Joshua Gates of Destination Truth.

Till then, here's a great video evidence from last season.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Ghost apparition on RMS Queen Mary caught on tape

This footage was captured by the American Paranormal Research Association, APRA, in the winter of 2008 while doing an investigation on RMS Queen Mary.