'Ghost' spotted at Selby Town Hall

"A MYSTERIOUS man dressed in old-fashioned clothes has reportedly been seen stalking the rooms of Selby Town Hall – and for once it is not the mayor.

The ghostly figure was seen by a member of the town council’s staff who was locking up the town hall, a former Methodist chapel, last Tuesday afternoon.

The employee did not wish to be identified, but Selby mayor, Coun Steve Shaw-Wright, told the story on her behalf..."

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More ghosts in the Valley? Why 1 city is getting attention

"TEMPE, AZ -- The unknown is attracting more and more paranormal investigators to one corner of the Valley these days.

Whether you believe in ghosts, spirits, or an alternate universe, what many are reportedly experiencing in Tempe may send goose bumps down your spine.

Some well known businesses in the heart of the city are actually paranormal hot spots..."

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Halesowen ghost-busters searching for 'phantom' in Romsley

"GHOST-BUSTERS from Halesowen are hunting ‘a phantom figure seen along the Bromsgrove Road’.

The local paranormal research group, Parasearch, received reports of the alleged ghost in Romsley last week with the latest sighting occurring on the night of Monday May 2.

Parasearch chairman David Taylor said: “As the witness was driving home down the Bromsgrove Road towards the Manchester Inn, he was startled to see he figure of a young woman standing by the side of the road..."

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Haunted places – The White House, Washington D.C.

As extraordinary as it may sound, the residence of one of the world’s most powerful persons may very well be haunted. 1 600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C is the address for the White House and is the home for the President of the United States.

The White House has a reputation for being one of the most haunted places in the world. Hillary Clinton (wife of former president Bill Clinton) have said: "There is something about the house at night that you just feel like you are summoning up the spirits of all the people who have lived there and worked there and walked through the halls there." On the “Rosie O'Donnell Show,” the former first lady noted: "It's neat. It can be a little creepy. You know, they think there's a ghost there. It is a big old house, and when the lights are out it is dark and quiet and any movement at all catches your attention."

Image left: The White House at night.

HAUNTINGS OF LINCOLN, JACKSON AND HARRISON

William Harrison, president exactly one month between March, 1841 and April, 1841, is said to be heard rummaging around in the attic of the White House. Andrew Jackson (president 1829 to 1847) is thought to haunt his White House bedroom. And the ghost of First Lady Abigail Adams was seen floating through one of the White House hallways, as if carrying something.

The most frequently sighted presidential ghost has been that of Abraham Lincoln. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, has said that she felt the presence of Lincoln while working in the Lincoln bedroom. Also during the Roosevelt administration, a young clerk claimed to have actually seen the ghost of Lincoln sitting on a bed pulling off his boots. Also did Calvin Coolidge's wife report seeing on several occasions the ghost of Lincoln standing with his hands clasped behind his back, at a window in the Oval Office, staring out in deep contemplation toward the bloody battlefields across the Potomac.

Day center staff spooked at night

"COUNCIL staff are refusing to work after dark — because they fear their building is haunted by GHOSTS.

Terrified day centre staff say unplugged printers have started printing, computer keyboards have been suddenly overturned and furniture has been mysteriously moved.

The workers even noticed the smell of BLUEBELLS drifting through rooms as objects fly off walls..."

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Chinese whispers blamed on ghost

"NOT BOTHERED: Baker Maurice Piner has been working alongside what may be the ghost of a Chinese immigrant who hanged himself in 1891 on the site of what is now Phil's Bakery on Gresson St, Greymouth.

The tragic tale of a Chinese thief may explain the ghostly goings-on at a West Coast bakery.

Baker Maurice Piner has been bothered by mysterious voices, creeping shadows and things going bump at Phil's Bakery in Greymouth..."

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Haunted places - Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana

The Myrtles Plantation is regarded as one of the most haunted places in the United States. The plantation was built in 1796 by General David Bradford but wasn't used as a workplace for slaves then. It was when new owners took over the places they began to use it as a plantation with slaves. Now it's used as a Bed and Breakfast, and people who stays there often reports strange happenings during nighttime.

Image left: The Myrtles Plantation from the outside.

The plantation was scene of many murders and mischief’s, some researchers say as many as ten murders have been committed there, but it has only been possible to confirm one of these murders.

Many ghosts is said to roam the place, according to some up twelve ghosts is staying at Myrtles. The most famous of them is probably Cleo, a former slave who was hanged on premises for killing two little girls. But with the lack of historical records for the event, were not able to confirm this legend.

DIED ON THE STAIRS
Other stories include the ghosts of two murdered girl that are playing on the veranda. Another ghosts is said to be William Drew Winter. Winter was an attorney living at the plantation between the years of 1860 to 1871. On day, he was shot on the side porch by a stranger. With blood pouring from his body, he stumbled into the house and began to climb the stairs to the second floor. But, he didn't make it up, and collapsed and died on the 17th step. It is said that his last footsteps in life still can be heard today. The murder of Winter is the only one who have been verified.

Other ghost stories includes slaves that shows up for their daily chores and a grand piano that is said to play by itself, repeating one chord.

The location is a popular place for paranormal investigations. Both Ghost Hunters and Ghost Lab have investigated the place.

Hotel Chequamegon - house of haunts?

"ASHLAND - There's a Northland hotel where the staff suspects there are guests who've never checked in and never check out.

Recently, FOX 21 spent the night at the Hotel Chequameon with a ghost–hunting team and caught some strange things on camera during a hotel haunt..."

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Ghost sightings highest in 25 years

"There have been nearly 1,000 reports of demonic activity in the past quarter of a century, with Yorkshire the nation's most ghostly county.

Encounters with devils, demons and evil spirits are as widespread today as they were in medieval times, researchers claim.

The research was led by the UKs leading authority on the unexplained Lionel Fanthorpe who studied various archives and websites as well as his own reports to identify all sightings and recordings of supernatural beings with satanic qualities."

Top 10 ghostly sightings by area:
1. Yorkshire, 74
2. Devonshire, 57
3. Somerset, 51
4. Wiltshire, 46
5. Inverness, 39
6. Dorset, 37
7. = Norfolk, 32
7. = Lancashire, 32
8. = Sussex, 30
8. = Derbyshire, 30
9. = Essex, 29
9. = Suffolk, 29
10. Lincolnshire, 24

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Spooky orb baffles landlord

"PUBLICAN Paul Cliff was amazed to discover this mysterious orb of light when he checked CCTV footage at his pub.

Paul, landlord of The New Inn at Midland Road, Rotherham, couldn’t believe his eyes as it flashed across the bar area at the pub.

He said: “I’ve never seen anything like it. I just can’t explain it. The whole episode is just extraordinary..."

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My personal opinion is that it is just some dust or a bug, nothing paranormal at all.

Haunted places - Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky

Right in the heartland of the United States, in Louisville, Kentucky, lays the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. It originally opened in 1910 as two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients, but the building we see today was built in 1926 and has always been dedicated to the treatment of tuberculosis patients, a fairly common disease back in the early 20th Century.

Many people lost their lives at the sanatorium. It is estimated that as many as 63,000 could have died inside the walls of this concrete building, but that’s only a legend. Some researchers say the true number of deaths is about 8,000, pretty far from the alleged 63,000.

Image left: The Waverly Hills Sanatorium from the outside.

Many of those deaths can be linked to various forms of severe mistreatments of patients and experimental research on them as well. That may well be the fuel for the reported paranormal activities, which includes unexplained voices and screams, isolated cold spots and shadows moving in the hallways.

THE “DEATH TUNNEL”

One of the more popular legends from the sanatorium is about the “Body Chute”, also known as the “Death Tunnel”, a tunnel where dead patients were tossed. When tuberculosis reached its peak, about one body per day was thrown in there. The doctors thought that this would prevent the disease from spreading any further.

The location has been a popular place for paranormal investigators. SyFy’s Ghost Hunters has investigated the place twice, including one live investigation and the place has also been investigated once by the Most Haunted crew.

Video from one of Ghost Hunters investigations:

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:

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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Documentary - Ghosts

Description from Wikipedia:
"Investigation into the existence of ghosts, studying activity at the Lizzie Borden axe-murder house in Fall River, Massachusetts, a Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, and strange gas station camera footage in Parma, Ohio."

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.