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By WILLIAM WEIR The Hartford Courant
July 3, 2009
It's hard to stump the staffers at Connecticut's historical landmarks — they're pretty well versed on their buildings' one-time occupants. But there's one common question for which they have no adequate answer: Is this place haunted?
Very old buildings commonly come with lore about spooky happenings, but rarely does anyone really explore these tales. To that end, officials with Connecticut Landmarks have tapped the East Haven-based Connecticut Paranormal Research Investigators (CT-PRI, for short) to get to the bottom of things.
Since May, the group has been schlepping its equipment — infrared cameras, temperature gauges, audio recorders, holy water — to four of the 12 properties maintained by Connecticut Landmarks. They concluded their on-site work last week, at Hartford's oldest building, the Butler-McCook House on Main Street. After reviewing the evidence, they'll put together their findings.
That will be the basis for a series of presentations for the public in September and October titled, appropriately, "Is This Place Haunted?"
The five-member CT-PRI was founded by Christine Kaczynski, who introduces herself as "coming from a family of exorcists in Greece." A design engineer by day (she doesn't charge for ghost-hunting), she's been working in the paranormal field for 35 years and formed the group five years ago. Kaczynski points out that they're not actually looking for hauntings, which are malevolent spirits, but for spiritual presences.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
By Rayma Silvers, Tribune Staff Writer
About 9 p.m. Saturday, members of the Wichita Paranormal Research Society began investigating the Scottish Rite Temple in order to determine whether or not there is paranormal activity occurring at the Temple.
According to Scottish Rite Temple Executive Secretary Terry Claar, when he was contacted by Nancy Wimmer from the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce about allowing a paranormal investigation to be conducted at the Scottish Rite Temple, he was excited to allow the researchers access to the temple.
Wimmer said the paranormal investigators were in Fort Scott in April to investigate the Chamber of Commerce building and a private home. While they were in the area, they expressed an interest in investigating the Scottish Rite Temple. After getting the okay from Claar, the investigators scheduled a day to begin the research.
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 May 12, 2009
HANS HOLZER, who has passed over to the other side, was a celebrated ghost hunter and author of many books about the paranormal, including Murder At Amityville (1979) - the basis for the low-budget sequel film to The Amityville Horror. Holzer described himself as an academic parapsychologist and took his calling seriously.
He dismissed the existence of angels and regarded religions as corporations that make large profits out of scaring the hell out of their followers. He gave up celebrating Christmas after establishing "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that Jesus was born on October 3, 7BC, and stopped attending church when the minister declined his offer to contribute to a seminar on religions.
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03:22 PM MDT on Monday, May 11, 2009
By KATHERINE COOK, kgw.com
Madonna Merced wants to make one thing clear:
"I do believe in the other side," said the full time medium and part-time ghost hunter from Tualatin.
"I am a psychic medium who channels, although I like to take a very scientific approach to all of this."
Merced believes ghosts are as real as anything else that exists today.
As for presumed paranormal activity in Oregon, she'd heard ghosts were in rare form at the Chateau at the Oregon Caves. The rustic, Southern Oregon hotel which, along with its ghostly legends dates back to the 1930's.
"It sounded as though there were several spirits who were available there, our goal was to interact with those spirits," said Merced, referring to her newly formed group, "Believers of Oregon Spirit Society." In April, Merced and about a dozen companions headed south, for a paranormal investigation.
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22 January 2009
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THERE'S
nothing unusual about a pub full of spirits, or even the odd creaking
floorboard in a building believed to date back 500 years, but what
about a ghostly love triangle?
After
months of sleepless nights the landlord at the Buck Inn, Newtown,
called in Newtown Paranormal to try and get answers on what exactly is
going bump in the night.
"There's been some strange goings-on," landlord Anthony Jenkins told the County Times
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By JENNIFER FEEHAN
BLADE STAFF WRITER
TIFFIN — Rumor has it that Seneca County’s shuttered 1884 courthouse harbors bats, mice, and even some sinister mold.
Now, a group that investigates paranormal activity wants to find out if ghosts roam the corridors of Tiffin’s historic landmark.
The Buckeye State Paranormal and Haunting Investigators asked county commissioners Monday if their members could spend some time inside the building.
“They want to investigate any strange things that may be happening at the 1884 courthouse,” Commissioner Dave Sauber said, prompting chuckles from the crowd.
Mr. Sauber said he’d been contacted by a former classmate who belongs to the group and then received an e-mail from Gene Lafferty, founder of the Bellefontaine-based organization, formally requesting permission to investigate the building that commissioners for years have alternately considered demolishing or remodeling.
“While the Grand Old Lady is still sitting there, I thought we might want to see if anyone’s floating around inside,” Mr. Sauber said.
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Belfast Telegraph
Saturday, 10 January 2009
On a dark and gloomy January night, down a lonely road in rural Tyrone, the
freezing winter weather wasn’t the only chill in the air.
It was shortly after 9pm on a gloomy Thursday evening. Most people were tucked
up by the fireside — but this intrepid reporter had gone ghost-hunting.
Nightly sightings of a mysterious white lady have brought hundreds of visitors
to an isolated country road a few miles outside Coalisland.
Residents claim the ghost has been haunting the area for the last six weeks,
although interest has soared in the past few days since the story appeared
in a local newspaper.
Every night they come, some from as far as Belfast and Enniskillen, hoping to
catch a glimpse of the ghoul along the twisting, winding Mullaghmoyle Road.
By last night the story was making headlines across the water with three
national newspapers dispatching reporters from London to investigate the
ghostly goings-on.
Some people say the ghost has been haunting the area for years.
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BY STACEY ALTHERR
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7:20 PM EST, December 31, 2008
Calling all ghosts.
Producers for "Paranormal State," the popular A & E cable
television series, are looking to recreate the success they had with
their spirited investigation at Katie's Bar in Smithtown two years ago,
and want to find more ghosts haunting Long Island.
"The show was very successful," said executive producer Betsy Schechter. "That's why we're coming back."
"Paranormal State," now filming its second season, investigates
hauntings and other paranormal activity, such as alien sightings. The
series follows a team of paranormal scientists from Pennsylvania State
University to different sites around the country. Last year, they
filmed in private homes, a prison and other public places.
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By Charles J. Adams III
Reading Eagle
12/27/2008 1:41:00 PM
Berks County, PA - In
the early days of my 36 years of searching for paranormal events and
locales in Berks County, I was apprised of the sighting of a ghostly
figure along Belleman’s Church Road near its namesake church.
There are those reading this now who may remember the hours spent
walking along that road or camped out in cars seeking the senses others
had felt there. Several of us spent a fair amount of time waiting for
the ghosts that were said to stroll that roadway.
In articles written in a now-defunct weekly newspaper, I had
established myself as a ghost hunter and received many leads as to
where haunted houses — and roads — may be found. Dozens, and then
hundreds, of correspondents shared their experiences with me, and I
would often venture out to the sites of their sightings.
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Joy Tipping
The Dallas Morning News
December 28, 2008
NEW ORLEANS
This city on the Mississippi River already has more than its share of nicknames: the Big Easy, the Crescent City, even post-Katrina "K-Ville." But it could really use one more: Specter Central.
Throw a rock here, especially in the historic areas such as the French Quarter, and you might not actually hit a ghost, but your rock will probably whiz right through one.
Dr. Larry Montz, a parapsychologist who has spent years investigating New Orleans and other cities worldwide, calls it "the most haunted city in America, per square inch, no doubt. . . . It's had so many fires, wars, diseases, it's really not all that surprising."
I spent a week doing my own digging, concentrating on hotels and restaurants. And although I started off a bit skeptical, I found that almost everywhere I went, something happened. They were little things that could be attributed to chance or coincidence: a broken camera, pens that suddenly wouldn't work or gushed ink onto my hands, a toilet that started spewing water onto my feet, an inexplicable flickering light. But added up, they gave me pause.
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Published Date:
25 December 2008
Wigan
is braced for a flurry of frightening activity as the clock ticks
towards the most haunted night of the year – Christmas Eve.
According
to some legends, it is not at Halloween but on the cusp of Christmas
when ghosts and ghouls are at their most mischievous.
Now Wiganers are being warned to watch out for Christmas spirits of a
different kind as they indulge in a little festive cheer this holiday
season.
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By JESS KROUT
Evening Sun Features Editor
Posted: 12/23/2008 11:33:48 AM EST
New Oxford resident Steve McNaughton realized his house was haunted, and that's partly how it all started.
He's washed away fingerprints on his stainless steel
refrigerator, he's been poked in the back and he's had his shirttail
tugged.
Those experiences, and a few others, made him wonder, are there really ghosts?
McNaughton writes that he's more and more a believer in ghosts
and less and less a skeptic since he started to search for answers.
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