June 12th, 2009 by CVPI

Source: http://www.mydailysentinel.com/

Some people take up fishing as a hobby, some play Xbox 360, but for three former Meigs High School students, their hobby is ghost hunting.

Dustin Lyons of Syracuse, Brenden Black and Raven Johnson both of New Haven, W.Va., have taken their fascination with paranormal phenomena and turned it into a full-time hobby of documenting (or debunking) hauntings. Armed with a digital camera, flashlights and a willingness to walk in a cemetery at night, the three have had some strange encounters with “the unexplained” in Meigs County.

After having spent time in cemeteries across Meigs County, from Pageville to Rutland to Middleport to Pomeroy, the three have arrived at the conclusion that Pomeroy’s Beech Grove Cemetery has the most paranormal activity. Oddly enough, the three say one of the older parts of the cemetery (directly to the right) from the entrance is one of the “quietest” in terms of activity.

While documenting paranormal phenomena at Beech Grove Cemetery, the three have come up with photographs showing odd mists floating above graves, one of which seems to form a face, another forms what appears to be a dove. There are several other photographs capturing white orbs at the cemetery after dark. White orbs are believed by many ghost hunters to be spirits or lingering energy from deceased entities. Orbs can appear in many different colors with white being the most common. The three have also seen red orbs at Beech Grove Cemetery which are believed by some ghost hunters to be angry and/or demonic.

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June 11th, 2009 by CVPI

Source: http://blogs.townonline.com/

There might be something strange in our neighborhood — but we’ll have to wait until September to find out for sure.

Around 4 p.m. last Tuesday, Rhode Island Roto-Rooter plumbers turned reality stars Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, known for their popular Sci-Fi Channel Ghost Hunters television show, pulled their large black SUVS alongside the USS Salem in Quincy to investigate reports of paranormal activity aboard the ship.

Tom Ventosi of Quincy-based Mass Paranormal has been conducting investigations aboard the ship for over a year, and was on hand during the four-day filming to answer any questions the TV team had about the ship.

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June 11th, 2009 by CVPI

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/

Last week I conducted the first scientific study to be carried out using the instant-messaging service Twitter, continuing a long tradition of using new communications technology to conduct mass-participation experiments.

The experiment examined remote viewing – the alleged psychic ability to “see” distant locations. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the US government spent millions of dollars researching this phenomenon, and some have claimed that the results supported its existence. I am deeply skeptical about paranormal abilities, but Twitter provided a great opportunity to conduct a large-scale public remote-viewing study.

I sent out a message on Twitter announcing the study. Over 7000 people signed up.

The first trial was an informal affair, and involved me traveling to a secret location and then sending out a “tweet” asking participants to tweet back their thoughts, feelings, impressions and images concerning my location.

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June 11th, 2009 by CVPI

“The paranormal world is about to be turned upside down. Scifi’s Ghost Hunters will be challenged by three sisters who will set out on a cross country tour investigating America’s most haunted places. The sister’s begin the trip in their home town of Ann Arbor Michigan. After their first haunted investigation and once they have had their nails done, the trio set out on an insane pseudo reality adventure everyone is going to want to watch. This series is not just another ghost hunting reality show, you will have to see it to believe it! Ah yeah we do have a twist

G.A.G.

(Ghost Adventure Girls)

Hot Girls for Cold Spots

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June 9th, 2009 by CVPI

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Okay, TV’s time jumping trend is officially Out. Of. Control.

A Ghost Whisperer insider confirms that producers of the CBS drama are toying with the idea of kicking the new season off five years into the future. The move would allow the show to introduce Jim and Melinda’s son as a pre-schooler instead of as a newborn.

As you’ll recall, the season ended with Melinda learning that her offspring would possess psychic powers even greater than her own. Probably a tough story to do with a burping, teething toddler.

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June 5th, 2009 by CVPI

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/

BRITISH media outlets were excited on Friday by supposed footage of a small ‘ghost’ captured on a CCTV camera.

What has been described by The Sun newspaper as ‘the ghost of a small child darting across a busy shopping centre’ has set social network website YouTube alight.

The shadowy spirit glides in between oblivious shoppers in the eerily clear video, The Sun reported.

A possible floating phantom figure appears in the bottom right of the screen after a male shopper exits a room to the top left, described news.com.au.

According to news.com.au, the 36-second tape was taken in a shopping mall in Chile, South America, and surfaced on the internet on Friday.

Chilean media claim that the phenomenon is the ghost of a small local boy.

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June 5th, 2009 by CVPI

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Maureen Hancock says she’s a pretty typical mom. She gets her two sons off to school each morning, plays kickball in the afternoons and puts dinner on the table at night.

Oh, and she also gets messages from dead people.

Hancock hears voices and sees things from spirits and passes it to loved ones here on Earth. It’s specific stuff, she says, with names and dates.

“It’s not just, ‘Does anyone know of someone who died in a traffic wreck?’ ” she said.

The self-described “Medium Mom” hosts shows to bring the living and departed together using her psychic powers. Called Postcards from Heaven, the next one is set for June 13 at the Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa.

During the shows, Hancock, 41, scans the audience listening for voices trying to send a message to a particular person. “I’ll hear something like, ‘I’m her mother. I’m her mother. Ask her about Betty,”’ Hancock said.

The messages are comforting, uplifting and never bad. (Only God is privy to that information, she says.) When the mood gets too tense, as it often does, Hancock, a former stand-up comic, throws in some humor.

Hancock hopes people leave with a better understanding of death and a new outlook about living life to the fullest. A practicing Catholic, she wants the living to know death is not the end.

“I have a lot of faith,” she said recently from her home in Massachusetts. “I’m coming from a different place than a lot of psychics. I don’t even like to associate myself with psychics. I’m very upbeat. I help plant the seed of hope that there is something else.”

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June 5th, 2009 by CVPI

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The iconic tourist attraction will be the setting of a horror movie of the same name.

The movie will be produced by Saratoga native Andrew Trapani, best known for the hit “The Haunting in Connecticut.”

Most of the 160 room Victorian mansion was built by eccentric rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester. It was under construction for 32 years, starting in the late 1800s, and it is considered by some to be haunted.

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June 5th, 2009 by CVPI

Source: http://www.nvdaily.com/

They arrived at the restaurant at dusk, carefully unloading equipment from half a dozen black satchels.

Night-vision and infrared video cameras came out. A beat-up laptop was switched on. Voice recorders and electromagnetic field readers got batteries.

“I don’t want to work here anymore if anything else happens,” said Brittany Whetstone, 18, a new hostess, as part of the crew prepared to go into the basement. “I’m not going down there.”

She thought for a minute.

“I’m allowed out if I want to leave, right?”

John Allen, 38, leader of the Virginia Investigators of Paranormal Studies, looked up from the laptop. The monitor’s light masked his glasses, hiding his eyes.

“You’ll be all right,” he said.

Allen and five of his colleagues were at the Cork Street Tavern in Winchester for the second time to investigate otherworldly activity at the fabled city pub. Allen was eager to get started.

The first time the group provoked spirits here, he said, he was physically grabbed on the shoulder by an apparition. And of all the places he’s brought his team to, “nothing holds a candle to Cork Street.”

There’s no shortage of legends explaining how lost souls got trapped during the building’s hardscrabble past. Many tales trip over the plots of others or involve the same characters.

The tavern, at 8 W. Cork St., was built in the 1830s and took fire during the Civil War. Equally agreed upon is that it once was a brothel, or at least a speakeasy. Waitresses, cooks and barflies have heard rumors that bodies are buried in the basement.

Some of the stories “almost were a part of employee training,” said Joel Smith, a longtime co-owner who left the restaurant in 2008. Extinguished candles would frequently relight. An enormous crash in a vacant kitchen would reveal nothing out of place. Lights inexplicably would turn on. Others, too, have said they’ve been touched.

They say only the “old side” of the restaurant, which opened in 1932, is haunted. An adjoining building built about 1960 became part of the eatery in 1995.

Sightings come and go.

“If something happened to me, it might make me not so skeptical,” said Tara Rutherford, 23, a waitress. “I feel like I haven’t personally seen something, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”

Allen, of Millwood, is just the most recent ghost hunter to poke around. Cork Street allowed him and his team to explore the restaurant after he approached them. A tool and die maker by trade, he is friendly and quick with words.

His method is simple: Cut off the lights. Ask the spirits questions, and expect answers. But most importantly, record everything. Most EVPs — electronic voice phenomena — only can be seen or heard on the recordings, he said.

“You get a lot of good responses to questions. You do get answers,” he said. “Everybody says, ‘No, I don’t believe any of that.’ But you get them one on one, everybody’s got a story to tell.”

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May 26th, 2009 by CVPI

Source: http://www.slipperybrick.com/

Sweden-based development studio A Different Game has apparently been watching too many Ghost Hunters episodes. I thought everyone knew that show was fake by now. They pull the same scams every week. Anyway, looks like the company is preparing Ghostwire, which is a game that uses your Nintendo DSi to hunt down spirits in real life.

No, I’m serious. You too can be a ghostbuster using the Nintendo DSi’s camera, microphone, and touch-screen. The idea is that players will locate ghosts in real-world places and figure out what those ghosts need to be at peace.

Which is most likely just you leaving them alone. We don’t have a price or release date yet. Probably comes with a preloaded EVP that sounds a lot like, “You are a sucker”.

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