Eerie figure photographed in family photo!

A woman was taking photos of her family last summer and after she reviewed the images, she noticed something strange in one of them. She sent the photo to the paranormal website Ghost Study to be analyzed this month.

Jessika Worcester recently submitted a photo to Ghost Study that she believes might be evidence of the paranormal. In the photo, an eerie figure is seen lurking in the background near a pet cage.

"Not sure if this is a ghost by the cage but it sure gave us a fright when we saw the photo. The picture was taken last summer on August 2, 2013. The little girl standing on the trampoline is my daughter and the little boy running near the ghostly figure is my son. Could our yard be haunted? Any help you can offer would be much appreciated," Worcester said to Jim Eaton of Ghost Study.

Some people think that it might be visual paredolia or an actual dog. Other folks think that it might actually be a spirit that is visiting the family.

"It looks like a ghostly figure up against a dog kennel in the background, right? And that could very well be the case! But to be professional, we need to consider all aspects of the photo. One observation is that the little boy seems to be running in the general direction of the figure. If that's true, then it could be a living relative and the boy is actually running towards him. And with that in mind, the shadows, the distance away and man's particular clothes could in fact give the illusion of a ghost. At least that's a possibility to consider. To me, if it is a ghost, it looks a bit like a ghost man sitting down and he's holding a child that is standing in front of him," Eaton said in response to the photo.

What do you think the eerie figure is? Is it a real person? Is it a hoax? Could it be a ghost? Post your opinion in the comment section below.

Young couple call in ghostbusters after spooky nightmare in home built on old burial ground!

Danielle Evanson and Brandon Waterton contacted paranormal detectives after taps started turning on by themselves and a KNIFE embedded in a door!

Danielle Evanson and her boyfriend Brandon Waterton should have been as happy as clams in their newly-rented home.

However someone – or something – seemed determined to make their lives hell…

“My boyfriend and I were in love and we’d finally moved in together,” says the 18-year-old from Crewe, Cheshire.
“Snuggling up on the sofa, I gave him a kiss. Our two-bed house was just perfect. What more could we want?”

But the nightmare was soon to begin for her and Brandon, 20.

Danielle continues: “A few weeks later a friend of mine came to stay. While she was in the bedroom upstairs one evening, I decided to make some tea.
“But I was shocked at what I saw. Last time I’d been in the kitchen, the cupboards were closed.
"As a naturally tidy person, I always washed up and put everything away, but a tin of beans lay on the floor and a cupboard was wide open. ‘Strange,’ I thought.”

In bed that night, the couple’s sleep was suddenly disturbed.
“I woke with a start,” recalls Danielle. “A terrible banging was coming from downstairs. Brandon! Did you hear that?’ I shook him.
“Wide awake, he nodded. ‘It’s probably just your friend.’ He crept downstairs to see what it was. Furniture was moved about but the front door was firmly shut. No one was there.”
They began to blame each other.
“We even asked my mate if she was making the noises but she thought it was us. She soon left.”

Over the next few weeks it got worse.

Danielle says: “Taps turned on by themselves, and the bathroom flooded. Handprints appeared on windows and we found a knife embedded in a door.
“And when a bag of doughnuts left on the living room table went up in flames, Brandon had to rush downstairs to put out the fire. Another time I found the words ‘get out’ written on a mirror,” shudders the teenager.
“Then Brandon started taking photos as evidence. In one I was shocked to see a white blur behind me. We didn’t believe in ghosts, but then…
“I even saw a shadow in a mirror that looked like a man, a monk.”

Eventually, action had to be taken.

“We asked the council if they knew anyone who could exorcise our house, but they told us not to be silly. So we found a local paranormal team on Facebook.”
One of the team inspected the site and revealed some dark news to the couple.
“He said our house was built on a burial ground from centuries ago,” says Danielle.
“The family died a terrible death and it seemed the father blamed his wife. She was a Wiccan witch. Now one of them – the father perhaps – wouldn’t move on from the house.
“A few days later we began the DIY exorcism. Brandon walked round wafting sandalwood incense into every nook and cranny and I had to pray in the living room. But when my boyfriend went into our bedroom the door slammed shut.
“My heart raced. He was being dragged down the hallway. Using all his might, he got to me in the dining room.
"Then there was a huge gust and we saw the monk reflected in the mirror. An enormous tall dark shape.

The nightmare was almost over.
She continues: “The spirit will be trapped in the mirror, the team had told us.

“Brandon took the mirror outside and smashed it to pieces – before bringing in one of the shards of glass. The spirit was finally broken.

"Immediately the house felt calmer. We can only hope it stays that way.”

"Die bitch": Ouija board spells out murderous threat to mum from the afterlife!

Angela Jackson quickly came to regret her decision to use the board when she received the threat from the spirit world.

A warning from beyond the grave failed to stop Angela Jackson from dabbling with a Ouija board.

But the mum of two quickly came to regret her decision when she received a murderous threat from the spirit world.

It all started when Angela received a message from her dead father at a spiritualist meeting. She explains: "Cradling a cup of tea, I took my seat at the back of the packed hall.

"A lady stood on stage at the front. She scanned the crowd, then her eyes fixed on me. 'Welcome to my world...' she began to sing, blasting out the Jim Reeves' classic at the top of her voice.

"I squirmed under her intense gaze. But then it clicked - that was my dad, Charlie's favourite song. He'd passed away 20 years ago.

"The singing stopped and the psychic said, 'Your dad has a warning for you. You're thinking about using a Ouija board, but don't. No good will come from it.' My jaw dropped open - she was right, I had been thinking about it."

Angela had been obsessed with the afterlife since she was a child and sometimes had dreams that came true.

"One night I'd dreamt my dad wouldn't be around to see the following Christmas," she says.

"A few months later he was diagnosed with cancer. He passed away soon after."

She soon developed a fascination with Ouija boards and began to read up about them.

"It was risky because there was no knowing who you may connect with. Demons and evil spirits could get through too.

"I decided that was probably what Dad was worried about. But despite his warning, I couldn't get the idea out of my head."

One night Angela's neighbours invited her over for drinks and it wasn't long before they got on to her favourite subject - the afterlife - and they decided to try using a Ouija board.

Angela says: "They'd obviously done it before because they pulled out a stack of homemade cards with letters of the alphabet and numbers written on them.

"In the flickering glow of the candlelight the three of us got cushions and sat cross-legged around the make-shift board.

"My heart thudded with excitement as we all placed our index fingers lightly on the bottom of an upturned whisky glass they'd placed on the table.

"It began to pull in every direction. 'Who is it you want to speak too?' Robert, my neighbour, asked. "The glass started moving towards the letters, spelling out... A-N-G-E-L-A.

"The spirit wanted to speak to me. But then it spelt out, 'Die bitch'. 'That's not funny,' I said. But Robert said, 'Angela, we didn't do anything.' He snatched his finger back from the glass and we all shrieked as the living room door slammed shut on its own.

"My voice quivering, I asked, 'Who are you?' With only my finger on the glass it moved faster. 'I was murdered,' it scrawled. 'Just like you're going to be.'" Nightmare Angela asked again: "Who are you?" and the glass quickly spelt out S-A-T-A-N. She then screamed: "I'm not scared - to hell with you!"

And with that the tumbler flew off the table and smashed into the wall.

She says: "Leaping up, my neighbour slammed on the lights and blew out the candles. 'We should never do this again,' he said.

But they weren't the ones who'd been told they were going to be murdered. I needed to know more." Over the next few months Angela convinced her neighbours to try to contact the spirit again, but it never came back.

"Then one night I woke screaming and sweating from a terrible nightmare. I'd dreamt I was being attacked by a man carrying a hammer.

"That's when I knew things had gone too far. I was scaring myself to death. I'm not doing the Ouija board any more, I vowed."

The neighbours moved away and Angela tried to put the experience behind her, but the murderous message hung over her like a dark cloud.

She says: "I was scared to go out and when I did could feel someone's eyes on me." Soon afterwards she was heading out to visit her son, Darren, 28, who lived nearby.

Angela, from Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, says: "I locked the front door of my flat, then started walking down the concrete steps in the stairwell.

"From behind me I heard a voice. 'Die bitch,' it growled. I froze at the sound of those words. "Shaking with fear, I turned to see a man in a white T-shirt, emerging from the shadows wielding a claw hammer.

"I screamed as he brought the weapon down on my head with a sickening thud. He hit me again and warm blood began trickling down my face.

"I couldn't see where my attacker was I just wanted to get away. "Drenched in blood, I made it to the front door and then collapsed. "Waking in hospital I felt confused and groggy. 'You were attacked,' a doctor explained. 'You've suffered a fractured skull.'"

She told police everything she could remember, but they could not find Angela's attacker.

Angela says: "I lived in fear that whoever it was would return and finish the job, just as the spirit had warned through the Ouija board.

"It's been six years now since the attack. No one has ever been caught and I'm still scared the spirit's prediction will one day come true.

"If I'd listened to Dad's warnings through the psychic maybe none of this would've happened. "But now I'm warning all of you - never mess with Ouija boards. You don't know what evil lurks in the afterlife."

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Graveyard Ghost? Does This Photo Capture A Spooky Spirit In St Mary’s Church In Hull

It’s an image that has haunted Jamie Penn for days.

At the stroke of midnight on a Halloween ghost tour in Hull city centre the ghostly shape of a man in a top hat loomed from the shadows behind a tomb.

Mr Penn, a carer from Hull, snapped a photo of the dark graveyard scene in St Mary's Church and was shocked when he saw the picture on his phone.

Mr Penn said: “We all went down there as a group to have a bit of fun on Halloween, but I never thought we would see anything.

“I was a bit skeptical about the whole thing but I was taking photos all through the tour, just in case anything popped out, and then I saw the man in the hat.

“The gentleman is just standing behind the tomb and you can see him staring directly at the camera - it really freaked me out.

“I’ve never been on a ghost tour before and never seen anything like it so it’s got me thinking about what other ghosts might be lurking out there.”

The tour’s organizer and leading Hull historian Mike Covell says ghost sightings are on the rise in the city centre.

The writer and Jack The Ripper expert, who set up his company Amazing Hull Tours several years ago, said there has been a big jump in the number of customers who have seen ghostly figures.

Mike Covell said: “I’ve been running ghost walks in the city centre for about a year now, but over the past few weeks there has been a big rise in the number of people who say they have seen ghosts.

Mr Covell took walkers to St Mary's Church in Lowgate, where a number of people saw a man in a large top hat standing behind one of the tombs.

It was the second time in only two weeks that Mike says one of his walkers had spotted a ghost at St Mary’s Church.

“The other day one of the women on my tour said she saw the figure of a woman in white walking through the graveyard.

“What I hadn’t told her at the time is that this is a sighting that has been mentioned in history books going back 100 years, but the story has never been published in any of the papers, so I’m not sure how she could have known about it.”

SOURCE: Hull Daily Mail