**Breaking News** Volcanic 'Geyser' Erupts Close To Rome Airport!

Italian experts have been puzzled by the overnight appearance of a geyser crater spraying clouds of gas 15 feet in the air, yards from the end of the runway at one of Europe’s busiest airports.

Motorists on Saturday were alarmed to notice hot, stinking gas spurting from a newly formed crater in the middle of a roundabout close to the perimeter fence of Rome’s Fiumicino airport -- less than 900 yards from the end of a runway. Spectators gathered around the smoking crater, which measured about six feet wide and three feet deep, before firefighters and volcanologists arrived to seal off the roundabout to prevent inhalation of the gas, suspected to be a cocktail of carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane. Tests are now underway. While initial reports suggested the gas came from rotting organic matter trapped underground, one expert said volcanic activity was more likely. “From Mount Etna in Sicily up to the Alban hills around Rome there is a good deal of underground volcanic activity,” Alberto Basili, a seismologist at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, told the Daily Telegraph. The area covers Mount Vesuvius, which buried the Roman city of Pompeii when it erupted in 79AD, to a number of lakes formed in extinct volcanoes north of Rome. “Gas underground can remain hot for tens of thousands of years after volcanoes erupt, and every now and then it can rise to the surface from miles underground,” said Mr Basili. “We have seen things like this elsewhere around Rome, with farm animals being killed after they breath in the gas,” he said. Despite being a stone’s throw from the end of a main runway at Fiumicino, Europe’s sixth largest airport, which handles 37 million passengers a year, Mr Basili said there was no cause for fear over flight safety. “This is a limited phenomenon – it will not have created alarm at the airport,” he said.

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Man Possessed Caught on CCTV In A Shop

Creepy Occurrences in Antiques Stores Have Owners Wondering About Ghosts

Laura Cheek opened the door to the shop, then immediately froze.

Before locking up the night before, the antiques store co-owner had walked the entire building, cleaning and shutting off lights.

But on this morning, a half-dozen toys stood in a circle in the shop's foyer. An open book lay nearby.

"That's strange," Cheek mumbled to no one or nothing in particular. She hopes.

Cheek didn't know it at the time, but for months, vendors and customers had been quietly whispering about strange happenings at the two Antiques & Uniques stores Cheek and her business partner, Kym Eggers, run in Ozona and Palm Harbor.

Unplugged lamps flickered on. Spooked pets refused to enter. There was unexplained foot shuffling and crashing noises. One customer who was alone when he felt a gentle tap on his shoulder quietly inquired if someone had died there.

Store workers had chalked it up to customers moving merchandise. Or pranks by co-workers. Or overactive imaginations. Pure coincidence.

But then customers who had patronized or worked in the two buildings when they were restaurants started sharing tales of ghostly presences who cleaned and neatly stacked china on the floor overnight. Ripped a pot from a wall hook, breaking a woman's collarbone. Sent salt and pepper shakers whizzing across tables. And caused mail to seemingly grow legs and walk itself inside from the mailbox.

The rumors were an open secret until last month, when customer Cindy Foster approached the staff.

"Excuse me. This may sound weird, but has anyone ever reported any paranormal experiences here?" she asked.

It turns out that Foster, an investigator and location scout with the Southern States Paranormal Research Group, had felt a familiar tingle in her arms when she entered both Antiques & Uniques stores. To her, the tingle was an indication of paranormal activity. Cheek and Eggers have accepted the Lakeland-based group's offer to conduct an investigation in the stores.

"With old buildings and antiques, you're going to get some activity because it has so much history," said Foster, 47, of Tarpon Springs. "When I come in here, I just feel a lot of good energy."

To prepare for the investigation, Antiques & Uniques is asking the public to help provide background information about the buildings.

Workers believe the Palm Harbor store, at 530 Alt. U.S. 19, was built in the early 1930s as a private residence before it was transformed into a tea house, then a salon. Cheek and Eggers affectionately call the ghost there "Bertie" or "Birdie," in honor of a woman they were told was the original owner.

As for the Ozona store at 303 Orange St. N, some think the ghostly presence that seems to occupy the older portion of that building is a fisherman who ran Hart Seafood out of what may have doubled as his home. Over the years, workers believe, the building has housed a bar, a day spa and an Internet eyeglass shipping company.

Leslie Alfred, who operated the Red Roe Restaurant on the Ozona site in the 1990s, said a previous owner called in a Catholic priest to bless the building.

According to Alfred, Red Roe customers more than once told the only waitress on duty that someone else had already taken their order. At one point, a team of investigators said they detected paranormal activity on the property, Alfred said.

A common myth, said Foster of the Southern States Paranormal group, is that investigations stir up more activity.

"It's a very delicate subject. So many people have paranormal experiences but don't talk about it," Foster said, adding that Pinellas County's history of Indian burial mounds and repurposed buildings makes it a hotbed for residual energy. "It takes someone of the same interests to bring it out."

Store officials know some people may think their story is crazy. And they might agree, said vendor Carla Gillis, except for things that happen overnight or when employees are alone — as in Cheek's mysterious toy incident (which, by the way, happened in the same building where a vendor says a Peter Rabbit children's book appears to move itself around the room).

They say that if there are ghosts, the spirits have been nothing but nice to them.

But Ozona resident Kim Silver's service animal seems to think otherwise. A docile mutt named Rainbow, it strained on its leash trying to flee whatever it glimpsed in a dark corner of the store several months ago.

Last week, Rainbow licked two admirers outside the Ozona store, then calmly let Silver lead it to the store. But when the door opened, the dog did an immediate about-face.

"She just acts crazy if I try to pull her in. I've never seen her act like that, ever. She's a service animal, so she goes in everywhere," Silver said, then added: "I don't understand it myself. I guess we'll find out."

Contact Keyonna Summers at (727) 445-4153 or ksummers@tampabay.com.

How to help

The owners of Antiques & Uniques are gearing up for a paranormal investigation by gathering history on both locations, at 530 Alt. U.S. 19 in Palm Harbor and 303 Orange St. N in Ozona. Call (727) 452-5924 to share:

•Names of previous owners or businesses that have operated out of either site

•Historical facts

•Unusual events or personal stories

Man Details Personal Paranormal Experience

According to statistics from the National Science Foundation, a steady growth of individuals believe in paranormal experiences, from extra-sensory perception to ghosts. Author Stephen Nnamdi took to paper to describe his own experiences in a new, thrilling novel “Cursed at Birth.”

What began as a screenplay, Nnamdi’s book turned to a form of therapy to help him understand the frightening things happening to him at work. “I couldn’t have explained these experiences out loud. Writing them down helped,” says Nnamdi.

“Cursed at Birth” has an interesting inspiration behind the first keyboard click. A horror story, the author Stephen Nnamdi found inspiration working as a security officer in a seemingly haunted building. The main character, Michael, faces some scary situations working as a security officer as well in the building he works. Demons hungry for souls fill the factory halls at night, and since Michael is the only one who knows, it’s up to him to save the people and the factory or face death.

“Some of the things that occurred while I worked in the factory really began to freak me out, I had to put it in writing! It could have been my mind playing tricks on me, at least I hope that’s what it was, but it gave me a strong story for “Cursed at Birth,” and I wanted to share it,” says Nnamdi. “When it was time for my next shift I was always prepared to go in full force and let my mind run wild.”

Writing “Cursed at Birth” gave Nnamdi a diversion from the experiences at the factory and he hopes that in turn the book will offer readers the same sort of escape and enjoyment.

Cursed at Birth
By Stephen Nnamdi
ISBN: 978-1-4759-8119-3
Paperback: $10.95
Available at http://www.amazon.com

About the author
Stephen Nnamdi is the founder and CEO of Sunshine Productions. He wrote his first movie script in 2009, and Cursed at Birth is his first novel. He lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with his family. Visit him online athttp://www.sunshineproductions.net.

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New App Can Help You Communicate With The Dead

Spirit Story Box Is The Latest iPhone App For 'Ghosthunters'

Ghost hunters Roger Pingleton and Jill Beitz have created an app that enables to communicate with the after-life.

Technology is often the enemy of superstition, but a new iPhone app aims to convince you otherwise.

Spirit Story Box, a 99-cent iPhone app launched recently by Roger Pingelton and Jill Beitz, of Greenwood, Ind., claims to detect and message nearby ghosts and spirits by tracking "certain environmental elements" around your iPhone and "examining values within the device that a spirit should theoretically be able to manipulate."

The app supposedly measures these fluctuations over time and interprets a message based on the data. After a few minutes, the device uses a word generator to translate the energy of the nearby spirit into short words and phrases. The resulting message -- which could be anything from "fingers" or "secrets" to "strychnine" or "elephantiasis" -- scrolls across your iPhone screen. Think of it as a long-distance text message from the very-long dead.

Spirit Story Box is intended for entertainment purposes only, the developers say.

“Bottom line is we wanted people to have fun with it,” Pingleton told the Indiana Star. He went on to say that he wanted to improve on the current paranormal app pickings, one of which (Ghost Radar for Android) actually helped inspire Spirit Story Box.

The Huffington Post's official test of the app, which was conducted with a healthy dose of skepticism, found messages flowing in after just a few minutes. "Cousin save, resourceful grandfather," read some. "Dining room, garters, shallow, around railroad," others said a few minutes later.

Uh-huh.

Well, in a pinch, Spirit Story Box could always be used to generate slam poetry, right?

Ghost Hunters TAPS Investigate the 1890 House

Syfy Channel Ghost Hunters, TAPS, recently investigated The 1890 House in Cortland, NY unveiling yet another historic site that has long been rumored to be haunted.

The 1890 House Museum was once the residence of the 19th century industrialist Chester Franklin Wickwire. Constructed to mimic an impressive mansion that he saw on a trip to New York City. They began construction in 1888 and in 1890 the house was finished. It served as his home until his death in 1915 where it then sat vacant for the next 7 years. It continued to change hands and in 1975, Cortland County bought the house and opened it as The 1890 House Museum and Center for Victorian Arts.

The staff report that many visitors have reported seeing floating orbs and captured ghostly images in photos and even captured ghostly voices in one audio recording. The staff of the 1890 House also claim to have encounters with the ghostly former residents of the house.

The 1890 House Museum is yet another local site here in CNY that has opened itself up to Para~Tourism.

Haunted Historic Fort Ticonderoga ~ CNY Paranormal

In 1776, the Revolutionary War ravaged through upstate New York. Because of our proximity to Canada, which at the time was a British/French territory, Utica and the area surrounding it became the last defense of the soon to be United States. Vicious and bloody battles were fought in the area, staining the area with imprints of that violence.

U.S. Government Finally Acknowledges Area 51 Through Declassified Files

Fox News reported today that the government has finally acknowledged that there is actually an Area 51. The existence was acknowledged in declassified documents from the CIA. The documents were obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive through request and they released it yesterday. The documents are open to the public, "The Secret History of the U-2."

July 25, 1955 was when the first planes were delivered to Area 51 and the first test flight took place, Aug. 4, 1955. The CIA in 1957 had left Area 51 and the Air Force took it over. The documents made some detailed evidence about Area 51 and about the U-2 spy plane program.

Before declassified files would leave out much about the secretive place and government officials weren't really open about talking about what was going on there and some even pretended that it didn't existed. Many people believe that aliens are involved and think that is why the government is so quiet about the situation.

National Security Archive Senior, Jeffrey Richelson commented about the event:

“It marks an end of official secrecy about the facts of Area 51,” Richelson told the Las Vegas Sun. “It opens up the possibility that future accounts of this and other aerial projects will be less redacted, more fully explained in terms of their presence in Area 51.” (Fox News)

The news about the CIA could spark a new beginning where government officials are more open about the situation and maybe they will finally give answers to the many conspiracy theories that plague Area 51.

Conspiracy theories are characterized by unfalsifiable explanations for confusing or stressful events. Who is most likely to believe them? And why do our brains gravitate toward these theories?

http://www.examiner.com/article/us-government-finally-acknowledges-area-51-through-declassified-files

Zak, Nick & Aaron Are Back For More Ghost Adventures in Season 8!

It is time to send America’s favourite ghost hunting trio, Zak, Nick, and Arron back out into the realms of the paranormal world as the Season 8 Premiere of Ghost Adventures gets under way on Friday, August 16, 2013.

The boys travel deep into the Nevada desert where they find the ghostly structures of the former mining town of Goodsprings. There they will investigate one of the oldest saloons in the West—the Pioneer Saloon. They also hope to uncover the mysteries surrounding the 1942 death of a well-known celebrity who perished in a nearby plane crash.

Tune in and hear the chilling tales of the Pioneer Saloon told by the current owner. What has he seen after hours when the doors are locked? Who is sobbing in the saloon late at night?

Las Vegas ghost hunter, Robert George Allen, operates a popular 4.5 hour ghost tour to Goodsprings four nights a week. Listen while he chats with the Ghost Adventures team and pinpoints who he believes the crying woman heard in the saloon might be.

Travel off road to an airplane crash site and down to an abandoned mine where voices and sounds still echo in the mountains. Does the residual energy of ghostly miners still dig for precious ores deep underground?

They say, “what happens in the desert, stays in the desert”….or does it?

Watch previews for the Season 8 Premiere of Ghost Adventures right here! http://www.ghostadventurescrew.com/web/the-pioneer-saloon-previews/

Is This A Ghost in Gloucester City Museum?

MORE spooky evidence of ghostly goings-on could show that a historic Gloucester site is haunted.

When members of Gloucestershire Supernatural Seekers joined Gloucestershire Paranormal Society for an investigation around the city's Roman walls and former Tudor horse-pool, they detected sights and sounds which they can't easily explain.

The super-naturalists are still scrutinising the video and sound footage they recorded but Alan Wellington, who made the recordings, pointed to the strongest evidence of something appearing to follow him after he walks across the shot.

It was taken in the city museum, which is on the line of the old Roman wall.

"There is a video clip from the room with weird creatures and a strange apparition that seems to follow me," he said.

"The footage is of a strange light shadow figure which goes from the right to the left directly after I walk past the camera.

"The video clip may or may not be paranormal but is most definitely odd or strange to say the least.

"There is the background scream footage taken from the Roman ruins outside Boots where, even with everyone talking, you hear a scream in the background which no one heard at the time but was caught on my camera only."

He said there was also a noise heard by all present on the stairway in the museum that had not been made by anyone present.

Hayley Smith of Gloucestershire Paranormal Society called the evidence "potentially very significant" after it was gathered from 8pm until 1am on Thursday, August 1.

She said sounds of footsteps could be linked to Roman remains found on the corner of Brunswick Road and Eastgate Street

But Hugh Worsnip of Gloucester Civic Trust said although there was much evidence of Roman activity and from later periods in that area, he was "very sceptical" of paranormal activity.

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http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/VIDEO-ghost-Gloucester-city-museum/story-19656768-detail/story.html

Officials Hope ‘ghosts’ Will Bring Tourists

MIDDLEBORO —

As part of their drive to increase tourism in Middleboro, select men may be looking to the supernatural to attract sightseers after learning that a ghost tour company is interested in coming to town.

Town Manager Charles J. Cristello told selectmen this week that he has been contacted by a ghost tour company “that has been running tours in Boston and Plymouth for close to 30 years and they have expressed an interest to do something similar in Middleboro.”

“It sounds like an interesting idea and I think it goes in line with our desire to bring people in town for tourism and cultural events,” said Cristello, who declined to name the company.

“I think we will be seeing a proposal in the not too distant future to do something along these lines,” Cristello told selectmen during their meeting Monday...

“I think it’s a great idea,” said the vice chairman of selectmen, Allin Frawley, who noted that he had paid to go on a ghost tour in Plymouth.

Middleboro’s town hall, long rumored to be haunted, has drawn attention from numerous paranormal groups over the last several years and they have reported evidence of paranormal activity through their heat sensitive equipment, recordings, photos and observations.

Selectmen voted during the meeting to have the town manager handle all requests from ghost hunters seeking to conduct investigations. Cristello said he receives “intermittent” requests to do investigations and prefer they go through his office.

The Woman Who Lived Through ‘The Conjuring’.

Andrea Perron decided it was time to tell the world about what happened to her family in their home in Rhode Island. Forty years after it happened, the story she tells in her book, “House of Darkness, House of light” has become the most buzzed about “horror” film in quite a while. Andrea talked to Anthony Agate and Luci Leibfried of Paranormal Review Radio about her book and the new Warner Brothers film “The Conjuring” and what it was like to live through the events chronicled in the movie. The movie had an impressive $41.9 million opening weekend, breaking records for the largest opening for and original horror film and was Warner Brothers largest 3 day opening for a horror film. The reviews of the film have been very positive.

The movie tells about the events that happened to the Perron Family after they purchased and moved into the farmhouse located in Harrisburg, Rhode Island. World renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called in to help the family and the movie focuses on the couple and what they did to help the Perron Family. The movie claims that the Warrens state this was the most terrifying case of their lives.

But what about the story from the families point of view? Andrea is the first person in her family to speak publicly about the events that occurred. In her book “House of Darkness, House of Light” we find that the activity started the very first day that the family moved in. Andrea speaks of a man who appeared in the home that both she and her sister saw, but neither ever mentioned it to anyone else. The family really never spoke about what they individually saw until Andrea wrote the book. The book is divided into three volumes and Andrea goes into detail about the effects of the interaction that the family had with what was in the home. The story begins in Rhode Island, but continues to Georgia, where she says that her mother came to the realization that attachments do occur. “We moved into that house as a family and left as a paranormal family”.

Andrea watched film for the first time with her family and with Lorraine Warren in March of 2013. “The film is literally breathtaking, in that it will rob you of your ability to breathe for moments and it will impale images in your mind that you will remember for the rest of your life.” Andrea described watching the film with Lorraine. “I don’t think of it as a horror film at all.” “My sister and I sat there and cried right through the whole thing, because it was fulfilment of a promise that she made to her husband before he died to have this story told, to find a way to tell this story.” She had wondered if anyone was going to even be interested in the story before she wrote the book. The director wove the fabric of the family’s experience and the Warren’s to create the film.

When the project was first proposed to Andrea, she says she took a leap of faith by signing on to allow the story to be told. Andrea hoped by telling the story it will bring peace and the ability to others to accept their own mortality. “There is a shift happening, people’s eyes, the third eyes are opening.” “There is something that exists beyond our mortal existence. There is a fourth dimension. We have to see the world for what it really is. Great revelations are coming.”

Speaking with Andrea it is very apparent how this experience has affected her. She has a calm exterior which underneath is a wonderful awareness of the world that she expresses in a very poetic way. The movie the Conjuring is full of chills and moments that will make one jump, but when you talk to this amazing woman, you see that this was an awakening of a storyteller who has a message that she was meant to share. If you have seen the movie, you owe it to yourself to read her book “House of Darkness, House of Light”. The book is available on Amazon and the film."The Conjuring" is currently in theaters. 

Paranormal Investigator Steals Money From Pennsylvania Preservation Society!

A Pennsylvania paranormal investigator allegedly stole nearly $2500 from a preservation society that he volunteered for. The organization plans to press criminal charges against the man, the Norristown Patch reported yesterday.

Steven Foersch, case manager of the Pennsylvania Underground Paranormal Society allegedly stole $2472 from the Norristown Preservation Society this year. The money was from deposits for overnight ghost hunts to the Selma Mansion.

Foersch collected the money for the Norristown Preservation Society for nine overnight stays from January to July but never turned in the money to the organization. In addition, the preservation society also paid Foersch $150 to remove a tree from the property but the work was never completed and the money was never reimbursed.

Authorities say that Foersch sent his ex-girlfriend a text message admitting to taking the funds. He claims that he was only borrowing the money and plans to return it.

Foersch isn't the only one to be accused of stealing from people involved in the paranormal hobby this summer. Former SYFY television personality Brian Harnois was recently outed by fans for allegedly pocketing money for events and products that were promised but were never fulfilled.

Thrilling year for Paranormal Science Lab!

   

While embracing local history, a group that investigates the local unknown is having a thrilling year.

While embracing local history, a group that investigates the local unknown is having a thrilling year.
More Tours
The Paranormal Science Lab (PSL), which operates Haunted History Tours at the Kendrick House year-round, has added other local sites for investigating things that go bump in the night. On the tours, PSL leaders share a deep appreciation for the history-rich sites as well. One of the newest sites is McBride's Antiques on the Carthage Square – formally and historically known as The Opera House. Owner and operator of the local business, Keith McBride, said he loves the idea of bringing positive attention to the Square.
"I'm into the history," McBride said. "That's why I got into this business."
National Television
On Monday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. (Central Time) the Bio Channel will air an episode on the Kendrick House for "My Haunted Story Caught on Camera."
Also, the Ghost Lab with the Discovery Channel filmed a documentary in June on the Bordello in Galena, Kan. The project is hoped to become a DVD series in September.
On top of that: McBride and PSL leader Lisa Martin joined forces to co-write a storyline for "Haunted Flea Market" and have had three companies express interest for television: MPPT Productions, Ping Pong Productions and Smoking Careers.
"It takes people through the whole Square in a positive atmosphere, showing people the architecture and history of the Carthage Square and the Kendrick House," McBride said. "It's not just about McBride's Antiques, it's about Carthage. I've been here for four years, and I wouldn't have made it without the local support. This is about gaining some national attention for Carthage. Why not? We have the perfect Square."
For historical facts, McBride and Martin had the help of the Powers Museum, Carthage Public Library, The Carthage Press (one dating 1879) and Sue Vandergriff, who McBride said was instrumental in gaining the knowledge.
"This was a community effort in getting information," McBride said.
More Books
Martin has been writing – a lot.
In June 2011, Martin published "Civil War Ghost Stories of Southwest Missouri." In September 2011, "Haunted Joplin," in April 2013 "Missouri's Wicked Route 66," and this coming September another book will be published with a focus on Carthage.
"And more are to come," Martin said with a smile.
Much like the Haunted History Tours, the books take readers on ghostly stories fused with local history. Martin says she hopes her work with PSL will bring excited audiences to local scenes to help preserve history.
"PSL works to restore Kendrick House, pay expenses and we're also investigating the unknown," Martin said, "and through the course of this maybe we can find some compelling evidence."


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Did Mothman visit the UK in 1963?

Okay, I might be just a little bit premature in announcing this, but what the heck. A few months isn’t that long to wait, at all. Plus, by revealing the data now, and splashing the story on Mysterious Universe, I figured it might possibly generate new leads – and perhaps even prompt old eyewitnesses to come forward. You may very well ask: eyewitnesses to what? Nothing less than the 50th anniversary of a Mothman-style encounter that occurred in Kent, England.

But here’s the very interesting thing: the encounter occurred several years before the eerie, shining-eyed beast of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was on anyone’s radar. More intriguing is the fact that the description of the beast was eerily Mothman-like. The very same winged beast, but in a completely different part of the planet? Who knows? What I do know, however, is that in November of this year, the case in question will be celebrating its half a century. And, as far I’m concerned, it should not pass without comment or celebration!

For those reasons, I wanted to bring it to your attention right now, in the specific event that doing so may very possibly open new doors, and even re-open older ones, to what really went down on the night that a bunch of friends encountered something terrifying and monstrous. Neil Arnold, a well-known Kent-based cryptozoologist, researcher and author of many acclaimed books on mystery animals, has dug into the now-renowned event, which took place at Sandling Park, Hythe, Kent on November 16, 1963.

Neil’s book, The Mystery Animals of the British Isles: Kent, includes the story of the Hythe Mothman, and it’s an excellent book that I most definitely recommend to anyone and everyone with an interest in not just cryptozoology in general, but unknown winged things in particular. But what about the night in question? What was the story? Let’s take a look at what we know.

The area, known as Sandling Park, was certainly shrouded in overwhelming darkness at the time of the beastly event. But it was hardly the sort of place where one would expect to encounter nothing less than a fully fledged monster. Amazingly, however, that’s what apparently happened.

John Flaxton, aged 17 on the night that all hell broke loose, was accompanied by three friends, including 18-year old Mervyn Hutchinson. As they walked along a lane running by the park – after returning from a local Friday night dance – the group of friends became aware of a bright object moving overhead, which they at first took to be nothing stranger than a star. How wrong they were.

The teenagers were amazed, and more than a bit scared, by the object’s presence, as they watched it hover and then drop out of sight behind a group of trees. The boys decided to leave the area with haste, but the light soon loomed into view again. It hovered around ten feet from the ground, and at an approximate distance of two hundred feet, then once again went out of sight.

“It was a bright and gold oval”, one of the boys reported. “And when we moved, it moved. When we stopped, it stopped.” That was not necessarily a good sign!

Suddenly, the boys heard the snapping of twigs from a nearby thicket, and out from the wooded area shuffled a creature of horrendous appearance. “It was the size of a human,” reported Mervyn Hutchinson. “But it didn’t seem to have any head. There were wings on its back, like bat wings.” The group fled, perhaps understandably not wanting to hang around and see what developed next.

Matters didn’t end there, however. Five night later, one Keith Croucher saw an unusual object float across a nearby football field. Forty-eight-hours after that, a John McGoldrick, accompanied by a friend, checked out the location and stumbled upon unusual impressions in the ground, which gave every indication that something solid and significant had landed there.

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Neil Arnold has this to say about the matter: “Local UFO experts believed that the case was nothing more than a misinterpretation of natural phenomena, but Flaxton recalled: ‘I felt cold all over.’”

Sounds familiar? Mothman fans may very well be nodding their heads in agreement by now!

And, as Neil Arnold also notes: “Three giant footprints were also found in the vicinity which were said to have measured two-feet long and nine inches across. On 11 December, various newspaper reporters accompanied McGoldrick to the area and found that the woods were illuminated by an eerie, glowing light. No-one investigated any further and the case faded as mysteriously as it had emerged.”

To this date, the saga of the Mothman of Hythe, Kent remains precisely that: a mystery. Unless, that is, you’re one of the original witnesses, reading these words, and still recalling those events of 50 years ago. If you are, then get in touch! Some of us would very much like to know what happened in Sandling Park, Hythe, Kent on the night of November 16, 1963. If any further details are available,  and additional light can be shed on the matter, the build up to the 50th anniversary would be an ideal time for the truth to finally come tumbling out.

Feature Artwork by CageyShick05

GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS, POLTERGEISTS:

SquatchIt Bigfoot call device inventors respond to 10 million dollar Bigfoot bounty by upcoming Spike TV reality show with Sasquatch luring device offer to contestants. The inventors of SquatchIt are inviting contestants to use their Bigfoot luring device to bolster their chances of capturing proof of the existence of Sasquatch.

SquatchIt Bigfoot Call Maker Responds to 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty Offered By Reality TV Show!

James Villepigue, co-inventor of SquatchIt, says, “We couldn’t be more excited about Spike TV's 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty reality show. This unprecedented $10,000,000.00 cash prize is the largest cash prize in television history. What’s so exciting about this news for us, is that we believe that our Bigfoot luring device, SquatchIt, can be the very tool that ultimately helps one of the shows contestants collect the necessary evidence needed to stake their claim to the 10 million dollar cash prize!”

The $10,000,000 bounty is being offered through a partnership with International insurance market, Lloyd's of London. According to Spike TV's senior vice president, Tim Duffy, having such significant backing signified to them that there was an opportunity to attract the best scientists, zoologists, trackers and Bigfoot hunters in the world in an attempt to prove or disprove its existence: "This large cash prize means that the show will attract the BEST scientists."

SquatchIt is not only the world's first novelty Bigfoot call aka a “predator call” product, it’s also a new lifestyle brand phrase that allows people to shrug off situations that really aren’t worth getting upset over i.e. when you’re in a jam, just SquatchIt! For more information about SquatchIt visit their website at squatchit.com or email contact(at)squatchit.com.

GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS, POLTERGEISTS:

Paranormal Investigators Document Activity In South Texas

One Texas State alumnus spends his days documenting mysterious disembodied voices, ghostly shadows and other paranormal phenomena in south Texas.

The investigator heads out to areas of alleged paranormal activity with camcorders, audio recorders and an open mind. Many cases are debunked, but a marginal number of them have no known scientific explanation. Roger Escobar, founder of Shadow Light Paranormal and a 2008 Texas State graduate, said he has been investigating alleged paranormal cases for two years.

Escobar said he has documented about eight potentially paranormal events. He said paranormal means something out of the ordinary, not necessarily anything to do with ghosts, hauntings or spirits.  

One notable and recurring phenomena was documented at the Gonzales County Jail, where Escobar said disembodied voices were recorded. He said his girlfriend heard a voice, and he did not hear it until he reviewed the audio recording.

“When I went to her voice recorder, right next to her, clear as day, in a very loud whisper you can hear ‘here they come,’” Escobar said.

Escobar said this occurrence happened outside of the jail at 10 p.m. when the courthouse bells tolled across from the jail.

Escobar and other investigators came back to the jail on a different night. This time, all of their recording equipment malfunctioned when the courthouse bells tolled at 10 p.m.

Jay Villarreal, a freelance paranormal investigator, will sometimes team with Escobar to document different phenomena.

 Villarreal does not have a definite answer for what happened on the night he and a team of investigators visited a 100-year-old house in Hondo, Texas six years ago.

Villarreal said he and the investigative team were sitting in the attic of the old house, waiting, until they heard scratching on the floor.

The team ran downstairs with their audio recorders.

“We heard it right under the stairs and we looked up and it sounded like  huge-ass claws, like lion claws, coming down the stairs,” Villarreal said. “All we felt was cold air go through us. When I heard that huge growl coming through us, my heart was in my throat.”

Alejandro Dominguez, a freelance filmmaker, said he has traveled across the country for about two years investigating paranormal events for his online YouTube series “Dead Explorer.” From the numerous cases he has investigated with Villarreal and Escobar in south Texas, Dominguez said at least six are potentially paranormal.

Dominguez said he has recorded unexplained disembodied voices and video recorded Villarreal being scratched slowly by something unseen.

“I try to figure out what has caused a scratch to form slowly,” Dominguez said. “Does it prove there’s ghosts? Not 100 percent.”

These investigators said they are not looking for ghosts, poltergeists or demons, but seek to document potentially paranormal activity. Escobar said most cases he investigates could be explained scientifically. He said most people who report a haunting are actually stressed, depressed or dealing with drama in their life.

Each investigator said they have their own theory what potential paranormal activity could be caused by.

Escobar said disembodied voices could be imprinted energy from intense past emotions. Dominguez said he wonders if it has to do with the afterlife.

Dominguez said investigating should be handled with skepticism to ensure credibility, keep a thorough observation process and not alarm or cause additional emotional harm to people dealing with the phenomena.

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Encounters of an unexplained kind

This world and our lives are full of events that defy logic and baffle people. Men of science and psychology pore over these happenings in a bid to find an explanation, but unable to do so, stash them in the category of the paranormal.Edgar Alan Poe, the famous writer of classic horror and mystery stories, once wrote about three shipwrecked people adrift in the sea, who in a bid to survive, cast lots and then cannibalised one of the group, named Parker. While this story was pure fiction, a newspaper report appearing many years later reported a court trial involving three shipmates, who were accused of first killing and then devouring their fourth companion – a cabin boy named Parker. The accused claimed that they had been shipwrecked and had done the deed in order to survive. Was this sheer coincidence or was Mr Poe seeing into the future.Our own part of the world, particularly the subcontinent, has a history of unexplained events and mysterious happenings. Take, for example, the oft told story concerning the spectral, blood spattered figure of a dishevelled young woman, who appeared in front of motorists on a busy main road in Karachi during specific nights, only to disappear when approached. It was even said that trying to converse with this entity was an ill omen.While the story from Pakistan’s largest city may be a figment of imagination, there are some things that happen to everyday people, who refuse to talk about them for fear of being ridiculed. I am acquainted with men and women, who are known in their family circles for precognitive abilities. Precognition is the gift to see or feel an event before it actually occurs. One such person is a young woman (distantly related to me), who migrated to the West, a few years ago. She was for all purpose like any other teenager, except for the fact that at times she said things in passing - things that actually came to pass in the future. Telekinesis is the ability to move things without physically touching them. There are many cases where people have bent metal objects by sheer mind power or levitated objects including themselves. My mother, who along with her family spent the summer months at Dharamsala (a hill station in the Kangra Hills) in the years before 1947, often told us about an old Sadhu, who sat near the Hindu fire temple and who had the ability to defy gravity, while sitting cross legged. She claimed that she had seen this happening once, as she took some visitors from Lahore around various spots of interest, one of which was the volcanic flame that appeared out of a cleft in the rock within the temple.During my tenure of posting in Bahawalpur area, I was confronted by one of my employees, who appeared to be in a state of panic. He requested that the department’s quarter allotted to him should be withdrawn and he be given leave to return the family to his village near Sahiwal. I was surprised at the request, as this very individual had moved heaven and earth to get the accommodation, so he could live with his wife and children. Questioning revealed that since the day he had moved in, his home had been incessantly pelted with bottles and stones that appeared from nowhere. Matters had so aggravated that clothes lying in closets were catching fire - needless to say that I allowed the distraught man to proceed on immediate leave. An interesting twist in the story occurred a few days later, when the old occupant of the house submitted an application asking that the house be re-allotted to him. I called the individual and asked him as to why was he risking his life and limb by occupying a ‘haunted’ house. His response convinced me that, perhaps, the unseen ‘entity’ plaguing the quarter was none other than this very person.It is an established fact that during our lifetime, we use only a tiny portion of our brain, while geniuses perhaps use a relatively larger segment of the grey matter. It is, however, people with paranormal powers, who are gifted with the ability to use a much bigger part of what is inside our skull as compared to normal human beings and this is what gives them attributes beyond our understanding. I can only imagine the capabilities of a race of humans, which could master the use of what the entire brain has to offer - they would then indeed not be humans, but super humans.
The writer belongs to a very old and established family of the Walled City. His forte is the study of History.

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Paranormal Journeys

TV and Hollywood have spawned an interest in ghosts, vampires and zombies. Horror is in. Take the journey with Ken Roberts.

The Paranormal: Guess what is the hottest trend going

The interest in ghosts, walking dead, the macabre and everything else that goes bump in the night continues to grow in popularity with no signs of letting up. It seems that everyday there is a new show on TV related to these hot topics. Getting kids today to read an actual book has been an ongoing challenge except when it comes to a particular subject matter.

The number one reading material for kids centers on ghosts, vampires, zombies and the supernatural. Make no mistake about it the reading material is no Mr. Roger’s version. After severing the head: the headless body hangs upside down allowing the blood to drain out, etc.

One of the hottest trends for 2013 involves Victorians

This year is the 150^th year anniversary of the London Underground subway train and to celebrate, events related to Victorians, dark Victorian secrets, ghostly superstitions, Jack the Ripper, Gothic horror and the like are hot. Who does not like to dress up in Victorian inspired outfits, talk ghosts and other macabre stuff to help us relax?

The Victorians believed that a ghost could not see those dressed in black. The “veil” designed to shield a woman’s eyes at a wake from the ghost of the recently deceased. It was believed that if the ghost were to look you straight in the eye that it could beckon you to go with them. The veil was a form of spirit protection for woman.

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5 things to know about the Warrens, paranormal investigators featured in 'The Conjuring'

In supernatural circles, the names Ed and Lorraine Warren are well known. Ed died in 2006 but Lorraine continues their mission, conducting high-profile investigations into paranormal activity, including the infamous Amityville house.

The work of the Warrens is back in the spotlight this month as one of their investigations from 30 years ago is chronicled in the film “The Conjuring,” starring Vera Farmiga as Lorraine andPatrick Wilson as Ed.

The film, based on the experiences of the Perron family in a Rhode Island farmhouse, is being hyped as one of the scariest in decades. Variety called it “A sensationally entertaining old-school freakout” and “one of the smartest thrillers … in recent memory.”

Read an account of the haunting by Andrea Perron, author of “House of Darkness, House of Light” here.

Read a Q&A with Huntsville paranormal investigator Kevin Thompson here.

Here are 5 things to know about the Warrens:

1. Ed Warren grew up in a haunted house. From the time Ed was ages 5 to 12, he lived in a Connecticut house in which he experienced supernatural events. 

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga portray Ed and Lorraine Warren in “The Conjuring,” in theaters July 19. (Contributed by vera-farmiga.com)

“My father, who was a police officer at the time would often say, ‘Ed, there's a logical reason for everything that happens in this house.’ But he never came up with that logical reason," Ed said in an interview on the Warrens’ website.

The family heard pounding, rapping and footsteps, he said.

“My family would all go to bed and just around 2 to 3 o'clock in the morning, many times I would hear the closet door beginning to open up. At first I'd look into that closet and see only shapeless darkness, then slowly I'd start to see a light beginning to form and it would morph into like a ball shape, sort of like a basketball and then I'd begin to see a face in that ball.” Ed said it was the face of an old woman.

2. The Center for Psychic Research. The Warrens founded the New England Center for Psychic Research in Connecticut in 1952 with the goal of investigating hauntings. Around 1965, the Warrens went into a home where the spirit of a little girl named Cynthia who, speaking through a medium, said she was looking for her mother. The Warrens expanded the mission of their center to help earth-bound spirits move on. The Warrens say the center’s work is based in religion but also uses science.

3. Religion and ghost busting. The Warrens are Catholic and have said that background is what allows them to fight demons and to continue supernatural investigations. Ed describes himself as a demonologist, while Lorraine is a trance medium. The website contends they are not occultists and “not strange.”

“They are essentially ordinary people who happen to do highly extraordinary work.”

4. In the beginning. Ed, an accomplished artist, would hear of a home whose owners claimed it was haunted and would take Lorraine to check it out. 

Movie poster for "€œThe Conjuring"

“We were just kids nobody was just going to let us in, we were curiosity seekers," Ed said on the website. So he would begin to sketch the house. 

“I would do a really nice sketch of the house with ghosts coming out of it, and I'd give it to Lorraine, she'd go knock on the door and with her Irish personality she'd say, ‘Oh, my husband loves to sketch and paint haunted houses and he made this.’” 

Then they would ask the home owners for their story.

5. The Warrens’ Occult Museum. This museum founded by the couple claims to be the oldest and only museum of its kind. The museum houses an array of haunted artifacts and items used in occult activities and diabolical practices around the world, including a conjuring mirror used for summoning spirits, a coffin used by a modern vampire, an organ that plays by itself and a Raggedy Ann doll said to be responsible for a death of a young man.