The Roff Home.. State Of Possession.. Living Dead Paranormal (Video)

The Brothers travel to Watseka IL to investigate reports of paranormal activity taking place at the Roff Home.. Site of the Watseka Wonder A young girl Mary Roff who was Possessed in the 1800s one of the first documented cases of spiritual possession ever recorded.. Lurancy Vennum another young girl from Watseka IL would become the second girl possessed in the small town of Watseka.. Spending 100 days inside the Roff Home before her family moved..

Mystery at the Manse

The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is not only home to assorted local flora and fauna, but some say the historical site also houses several spectral occupants.

And the public is invited to tag along as the Island Paranormal Society, based out of Long Island, N.Y., investigates the ghostly phenomena in the property’s colonial revival mansion.

The Morris County Park Commission, which is co-sponsoring the event with the society, did not seek out the ghost hunters, said society director Matthew Haas.

“Nobody really advertises, ‘Hey, we’ve got ghosts.’ So (the society) sends out email inquiries to places with a rich history, which tend to have more activity,” Haas explained.

And the Frelinghuysen manse fit the bill.

The arboretum was established on the former site of Whippany Farm, owned by George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1851-1936), son of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, and a New York City patent attorney and president of Ballantine Brewing Company from 1905 until his retirement, and Sara Ballantine (1858-1940) of Newark, the granddaughter of the founder Peter Ballantine of the Ballantine Brewing Company. In 1964 their daughter, Matilda Frelinghuysen (1887-1969) began plans to turn the estate into an arboretum. Today’s Frelinghuysen Arboretum was dedicated in 1971.

After park officials responded to the society’s inquiry, the team began to research the site’s history and made two visits to the mansion, Haas said.

“We walked away with quite a lot of evidence on the second investigation,” said Haas, adding that the team was a little surprised at how much evidence they had been able to record. “Maybe it was because (the spirits) were starting to be a little more familiar with us. It doesn’t happen on demand. The former inhabitants have to get used to you and (the investigators) have to open up to the spirits that are there.”

The team uses a variety of video and audio recording devices to capture evidence of spirit activity.

Originally scheduled for Saturday, May 30, a Paranormal Night at the Historic Frelinghuysen Mansion has been postponed to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, after one of the investigators broke his foot.

The program will begin with an orientation session explaining the methods that the society uses to investigate paranormal activity. The investigators will explain the types of phenomena that the participants may encounter.

Tour participants will then be divided into smaller groups and one of the investigators will lead the groups to locations where paranormal activity had been detected during the society’s preliminary investigations in February and April, Haas said. Most of the investigations will be concentrated on areas on the mansion’s main floor and the third floor, the location of the former servant quarters, he said.

However, Haas stressed that the investigators would not point out occurrences during the actual tour because they do not want to unduly influence participants.

The idea is to teach attendees about what to look and listen for before the tour begins so that they become an active part of the investigation, Haas explained.

“At the end, we’ll all meet again and we will reveal our findings” and audience members will be asked to share their own observations. “We respect what we do and if our participants respect our investigation and approach ... they could have an experience just as much as we did.”

Locally, the team also has investigated paranormal activity at Liberty Hall Museum on the campus of Kean University in Union. They will gladly travel anywhere in the tri-state area to investigate paranormal phenomena, Haas said.

Island Paranormal Society is an all-volunteer organization that deals with the study and research of unexplained phenomenon. Other members include Josie Haas, Brian Bee and Alex Franzini.

“We are a small team of Investigators who are passionate about helping our clients and researching paranormal activity. (Our) goal is to find a resolution based on our findings, whether we determine it is paranormal or not paranormal. We use various methods that include investigating and documenting claims of paranormal activity using instruments entirely safe to the environment and designed to help us collect data during the investigations. Such instruments include video cameras, audio recorders and a surveillance system that helps us monitor the entire investigation,” states the society’s website.

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Charlie Demon - Educatiom Ministry Warns Of "Paranormal Behaviour" Among Students

The Charlie Charlie Challenge, which has gained international attention and condemnation from the Vatican, has been causing disruption in a number of Jamaican schools, prompting the Ministry of Education to impose a ban on the game.

The Charlie Charlie Challenge is a game played using two pencils and a paper. It is a simplified version of the Ouija board. Players cross the two pencils on the paper and invoke a fabled Mexican demon by calling out: "Charlie Charlie can we play? Charlie Charlie are you there?"

There are many videos posted online, from different countries, supposedly showing the pencils moving on their own in response to the players' chants.

In a release to the media yesterday, the Ministry of Education indicated that several schools have observed disruptive behaviour by a number of students who have played the game and as such has moved to ban the game.

"The ministry issued the ban following reports from several schools across the island of very disruptive behaviour by students who engaged in the game. Some reports intimated that students displayed demon-possessed or paranormal behaviour while playing the game," the release stated.

The release did not expound upon "demon-possessed or paranormal behaviour".

According to the release, a bulletin was sent out to schools instructing administrators to monitor students to ensure that they do not play the game.

Monitor The Children

The bulletin advised school administrators to immediately contact the regional offices if they need help and further support to address the situation.

"The education ministry is also calling on parents and guardians to monitor their children carefully outside of school as based on the reviews of the Charlie Charlie Challenge, there can be serious psychological effects on children. Parents and guardians should note that the playing of this game can also result in serious physical harm to our children," the release added.

President of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) Everton Hannam has added his own voice to the call for parents to monitor their children.

"News of the Charlie Charlie Challenge in a number of our schools has been met with concern by the NPTAJ. If the allegations are correct, there seems to be some intent to introduce games which are not of the kind that we would want to welcome in our schools," he said.

"The ministry has asked parents to be vigilant of these kinds of introduction of these games and we would want to endorse that call and expand it to ask all parents to monitor our children carefully," he said.

Hannam called on the education ministry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the use of the game.

"The ministry should move swiftly to investigate the veracity of these games and the extent to which they are going to affect our children. The study should also include our psychologists and guidance counsellors so as to assess the impact," he added.

Schools across the region have also been facing challenges with students who have played the game.

Reports from Antigua and Barbuda suggest that students were rushed to the hospital after playing the game as they were fainting and having seizures.

Strong warnings against playing the game have been issued in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia.

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Paranormal Activity New Paris...Two Different Houses.. One Family... Living Dead Paranormal

The Living Dead Paranormal Crew travels to New Paris, Ohio to investigate reports of unexplained activity taking place at two different houses. The homeowners moved out of the old house only to find the activity followed them to their new house.. Can the paranormal crew link the two haunting during their investigations at both houses.

Real Ghost Story: The Ouija Board, The Portal and The Psychic

Me and my mother had just moved into a new semi-detached rented house with our dog. It was a good looking house and for the first three days we were up till early hours organising, assembling and unpacking. Those first three nights my mother had clothes hanging over her door, which meant she had been unable to close it when we both went to sleep, as a younger child I didn’t like closing my door and always kept it open ajar.

On the fourth night after moving in we had assembled my mother wardrobe and were able to put all her clothes away, we headed to bed at about 12.45am, exhausted from the week. I got into bed and heard my mothers door close and her bed creak as she got in to retire. I was just on the verge of sleep when something yelled ‘Woooo!’ down my ear, I felt the air from the noise against neck and ear and was frozen with terror and now wide awake.

I finally managed to make myself move and ran from the room straight to my mums with tears in my eyes. At 12 I was quite a calm, happy child, who very rarely had bad dreams and for me to cry over a noise was very unusual. I told my mum about the noise and could see from her reaction that she had also heard something, she tried to give me the parent speech on how ‘It was probably the pipes, and it’s a new house you’re just not used to.’ all whilst trying to urge me to go back into the room.

I made it very clear I was not going back into the room, which was also strange for me as 9 times out of 10 I did what I was told as a kid, she gave in too tired to argue and said I could sleep in her room.

The next day my uncle came to visit and we told him what had happened. My uncle was a skeptic at the time and brushed it off as us being both very tired from the move and said to prove nothing was going on he would sleep in the room that night. We followed the same pattern that we had done the night before, all shuffling upstairs to bed at 12.45. Me and Mum said goodnight to my uncle closed her bedroom door and we got into bed.

My uncle is a guitarist and we could hear him gently doodling on the guitar next door, he had the light on and had left the door open slightly as I had done the night prior. My mother had just flicked the light off in her room when we heard what I can only describe as a howling choking sound, very loudly on the stair case that sounded three times. Even now remembering the noise brings tears to my eyes.

Because the noise was so audible my mother was certain it was uncle and was angry that he would try and scare me. We waited a moment before hearing my uncle next door very slowly creep across the landing to my mothers room, he knocked the door and we said to come in.

He had tears in his eyes and was very pale, he said in an accusing and scared voice ‘Was that one of you? That wasn’t funny if it was one of you.’ I watched my mothers face pale as she said ‘I thought it was you.’

My uncle dragged my mattress out of my room that night and we all slept in my mothers room.

The following morning we knew something supernatural was going on, my mother had seen a psychic earlier that year and called her for help. She came that day with her friend to investigate the house. I should mention now that ever since we’d moved in we’d kept our dog in the kitchen, every night he would howl and scratch the door wanting to come upstairs. I had also felt sensations of being watched, from time to time.

We had also noticed that our neighbours had a son, who at first we thought dressed like a typical goth, however when unpacking some boxes from the van on the second day I had noticed that he wore a pendulum on his neck. With myself and my mother being interested in Wicca and Spiritualism I had no negative connotations to go with that symbol, however his character and family gave me a sense of unease, they never seemed rested when we saw them and moved out quickly after we moved in.

The psychic confirmed that there were spiritual presences in the house, she asked me if I had noticed a little girl as she was drawn to me and meant no harm, I said I’d felt being watched but that whoever yelled down my ear definitely wasn’t trying to welcome me into the house. She said there was another presence, who was a very angered spirit and that we would need to conduct a circle in order for him to move on.

The four of us gathered in my room, the psychic poured sea salt all across the room apart from a circle left in the centre, she then began to burn sage. She ordered us to different positions and told us to hold hands, she said we were not to let go without being told so and that we may hear or see things whilst we try to get the presence to cross over.

I was feeling slightly skeptical at this point, even with interests in Wicca I was unsure how salt and holding hands was going to persuade a spirit to leave the house. She began calling on Archangel Michael and other angels the rooms temperature dropped noticeably and there was a sense of electricity in the air. The most unusual of all was that it felt like cold snakes were winding around our ankles. She told me I needed to let go of her friends hand who was on my left and assist the little girl to cross over, I did so and felt a coldness on my hand there was a rising sensation and I knew the girl had crossed over.

There was trouble in getting the angered spirit to cross over and twice he pretended to ‘cross over’ only to try and hide in another area of the room. The psychic told me and my mother to wait downstairs while her and her friend dealt with him. Whilst downstairs we heard them speaking and stamping on the ceiling. Eventually they managed to get him to cross over.

After it was finished they told us that the man who had been haunting us had been a drug addict, his friend had locked him in a room to go ‘cold turkey’ and he had choked on his own vomit and died.

She explained that he was taking his anger out on us because he thought we were the ones who had locked him in the room. She said that the incident hadn’t happened inside this house, but someone had been playing with portals, she eyed both me and my mother wearily but both of us looked completely blank.

She closed her eyes for a moment and then said, there was a boy next door, I believe he used some sort of Ouija board and created a portal in the wall leading to your bedroom by accident, this meant that any spirit could walk through the portal which acts as a door between the spirit plane and ours.

Me and my mother were completely lost for words, but everything she had said rung true and it matched with the haunting we had experienced. To this day I believe there is something more particularly because of this experience, since then I have never experienced something so strong or real and hope I never have to unless it is of a kind and true nature.

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5 Creepiest Ghost Sightings Caught On Tape (Video)

‘Ghost’ in photo sparks supernatural mystery

A spooky photo caught on a phone has plunged a Welwyn Garden City woman into a supernatural mystery.

Vicky Mills, 62, of Verulam Close, was lying on her sofa when her grandson took a picture of her on his phone last Friday.

It was only when then looked at it that they noticed the figure.

Standing in the doorway to the front room is the figure of what appears to be a woman.

Vicky said: “It’s so clear, down to the hand on the arm of the sofa.

“I know you can get apps to create these effects but the phone had nothing like that on it.”

The picture on it’s own would be enough to peak a person’s interest.

However there is more to the tale.

Vicky’s grandson, Lewis McGlynn, died in 2011, aged eight and the night prior to the picture being taken, Vicky had what she describes as a dream.

She said: “I felt someone standing over me when I heard someone say ‘Hello Nan’. I thought I’d imagined it.

“But as I opened my eyes I saw something. When I opened them fully, it was gone.

“The figure [in the photo] is identical to what I saw.

“I don’t believe in ghosts but I’ve been to his grave to tell him to stop bothering me.”

Vicky is now looking to find someone who can confirm the picture has not been tampered with and to provide a scientific explanation.

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The politics of ghost hunting.

Ghosts in the mirror, or just a product of wishful thinking? It would seem that those involved in the paranormal (even armchair enthusiasts) can have their gullible moments.

There has been a rash of ghostly spectacles on the internet posted from impressionable fans that have tie-ins with ghost apps for the phone. What is most amazing…the buy-in—this is conclusive proof for the existence of ghostly shenanigans. Are we that stupid? Do we so desperately seek entertainment and consequently shut off our brains?

Friend Kenny Biddle believes in the possibility of the paranormal, yet at the same time recognizes ‘junk’ for what it is. There is a definite lack of advancement in the pursuit of paranormal realities. We are doing the same things over and over…and making the same mistakes. Groups have become mired in the mud.

   “Groups are stuck in a rut…and have been for several DECADES. Hell, over a   century. There is no “advancement” going on. The recent rut consists of the following:

• Get permission (or not, as recent news reports) to a “haunted” location.
• Set up a lot of gadgets that are believed, without any evidence, to work to capture and record something to do with ghosts (which again, no evidence to back up such an idea).
• Turn all the lights out. Sit in the dark. Talk to the dark.
• Review all recordings at a later time and assume everything you cannot explain absolutely must be that ghost of a little girl you read about.
• Post it all, wait for praise. Delete and block questions, rational explanations, logic, reason, professional knowledge…evidence that refutes your claim, etc.”

Paranormal groups and/or individuals can do more harm than good. Clients—many without any religious affiliation or familiarity with what is suddenly happening to them— reach out for help, answers, validation…and instead receive the “official” wisdom and verdict of some noodle head who has received their ghost hunting diploma from the internet or television. They can be wrong, and don’t realize the long lasting ramifications of their words or actions. They leave and move on to other adventures while their befuddled clients are left behind in the same situation, with often inaccurate information to help them move forward. It’s a sad and scary state of affairs knowing this continues, and groups and individuals out there are more interested in making a name for themselves than actually working towards a reasonable explanation for what they do.

It is all a part of the politics of ghost hunting.

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Ghost Caught On Video.. New Oxford PA.. Living Dead Paranormal

The Living Dead Paranormal Crew travels to New Oxford PA to investigate the Historic Golden Lane Antique Gallery. While Josh is alone in the basement a dark shadow moves past the camera.

Seymour neighbors attempt to explain paranormal activities with help of high-tech tools

Two neighbors who didn’t know each other took a shared skepticism about the paranormal and turned it into a mission.

Pharmacist Kenny Hayes and teacher Mark LaBello of Seymour are co-founders of the North American Paranormal Research Team. Their goal is “to try and explain activity that is considered paranormal and answer questions that will bring our clients peace of mind.”

They are aided by a crew of eight to 10 fellow investigators as well as a spiritual intuitive.

Hayes and LaBello, who met on a paranormal investigation of Old South Pittsburg Hospital in Old South Pittsburg, Tenn., were drawn to the field after watching television shows such as “Ghost Hunters” on Syfy. Hayes estimates he’s been investigating 10 years now, LaBello about seven.

Hayes was working night shift at a local hospital when he first dabbled in paranormal investigation. A technician came to him “freaking out” about something he thought he had seen on a closed floor of the hospital, but security staff said there was nothing up there.

“I said, ‘I’ve got an audio recorder and a video recorder; let’s see what we catch,’” Hayes remembers.

It was in one room, oddly cold despite having no air conditioner on that floor, that Hayes heard a voice cursing him. The next time he caught a female voice.

“When I catch something that cannot be explained, I will present it to you and let you make the decision of whether it is paranormal or not,” Hayes says.

LaBello started investigating as a self-proclaimed skeptic.

“I was trying to disprove everything they found,” LaBello remembers.

It was during his second investigation, however, that he felt something tug on his hair. Later that evening he thought he saw something six or seven feet tall in a corner. His wife and mother-in-law, watching on a live stream at home, later confirmed they had seen the same thing on camera.

“I couldn’t disprove it,” LaBello admits. “I’m still a skeptic to some point. You always have to be. I don’t believe in forcing anyone to believe in anything.”

Hayes agrees.

“There are a lot of weirdos in this field,” he says. “We debunk a lot of things that aren’t true, and we gain a lot of credibility that way. It develops our clients’ trust.”

The North American Paranormal Research Team does not charge for investigations, and Hayes and LaBello caution clients to be skeptical of those who do because taking someone’s money could increase pressure on investigators to find something that is not there.

Supporting Wheatlands

Their exception to the no-charge rule is investigations of the Wheatlands Plantation in Sevier County, established in 1791. Wheatlands, built on the site of a Revolutionary War battle, has a storied history including fatal fires, falls and family disputes, and its grounds include both a Cherokee burial mound and a graveyard for the plantation’s slaves.

“We hold ghost hunts here to raise money to try to take care of the place,” LaBello explains of the “tagalongs” that the team sets up about once a month at the plantation off Boyd’s Creek Highway in Sevierville.

Not only will the North American Paranormal Research Team set up the equipment and teach folks how to use it on these tagalongs, which typically last about four hours, the team will live-stream the investigations so that family and friends watching from home can chat back and forth with those on site.

The North American Paranormal Research Team also offers private investigations of Wheatlands for groups that are visiting the area, but they warn that “you can’t turn paranormal on and off like a light switch,” Hayes notes. “Nothing could happen for hours and hours and hours.”

A lot has happened for the team, however, at Wheatlands, which is located just five miles from Hayes’ and LaBello’s Seymour neighborhood.

“We’ve caught a lot of voices here,” LaBello says, including one that sounds like an elderly lady saying, “blood on the floor” in the room known as the Blood Parlor because its floor still is stained with the blood of “Big” Tim Chandler, bludgeoned to death by his son “Little” Tim Chandler in 1942.

Another recording caught a man’s voice saying, “It’s time to go.” On a separate occasion, LaBello heard a door handle jiggle while he was alone in the Blood Parlor, and the audio recording picked that up as well.

“I also thought I saw a small shadow on the staircase, like an arm on the railing,” LaBello remembers. “There are things you can’t explain. That’s how we got started in it, and now we can’t stop.”

Talking with the dead

There are many pieces of equipment the North American Paranormal Research Team uses in its investigations. One of the most successful for communicating with spirits is a simple Maglite flashlight that Hayes and LaBello believe spirits turn on and off using their energy in response to yes or no questions the investigators ask.

Hayes and LaBello say they’ve communicated at Wheatlands with one of the former owners named Adele, a slave named Paul, a Civil War soldier named Jim, a Cherokee Indian and the children who died when the original house burned to the ground around 1818. (The house there now was built on the same site and completed in 1825.)

Other equipment includes the Ovilus III, which picks up words the team cannot hear; the K2 EMF, which measures electronic magnetic fields; the REM-POD, which goes off when something unseen comes near it; full-spectrum cameras, which can take pictures in the dark; a vibration detector; a shadow detector; and a digital voice recorder called a Zoom, which could probably pick up a pin drop, LaBello says.

“This is your best friend,” he notes. “We catch EVPs — electric voice phenomenon — all the time, and usually we don’t know it until we download it onto the computer. Nine times out of 10 we don’t hear it.”

Some of the EVPs the team have caught include babies crying in hospitals that have been closed for more than 20 years and a female scream in an elevator shaft in a sanatorium in Kentucky.

“Some say, and I agree, that it’s like they’re trying to yell through water at you,” Hayes says.

Hayes and LaBello chose to name their group the North American Paranormal Research Team because they are willing to travel to investigate supposedly haunted places. Hayes has been as far as Pennsylvania while LaBello has been to Indiana, and the team will spend two nights this June in the Sedamsville Rectory in Cincinnati.

“We love it,” says Hayes, noting they pour their own money into purchasing equipment for the team. “It’s our passion, like people who work on old cars.”

Helping the living

Hayes and LaBello see their paranormal investigations as a way of helping people, they say. One couple contacted the North American Paranormal Research Team because their 3-year-old daughter said she was seeing another girl in the house. The child was calling the other girl “Mona.”

An investigation picked up what sounds like a child’s voice saying, “Mommy, Mommy,” in a high-pitched, sing-song voice, Hayes said. The team took their findings to the mother, who listened and said, “That’s not my daughter’s voice.”

“I don’t think we’ve ever felt a threatening presence,” LaBello notes, adding they do not use Ouija boards or anything else that invites evil. “But here’s the sad thing: When we give evidence to the owners, they often say, ‘Can you get rid of this for us?’ We can’t do that. That’s not our field.”

Their paranormal investigations have not dissuaded them of their religious beliefs.

“I believe they are able to make contact with us, and that helps me prove that there is an afterlife,” says Hayes, who was raised Southern Baptist. “I like to call it research. I don’t judge. It is best to keep an open mind.”

For information on the North American Paranormal Research Team, including dates of their upcoming investigations at Wheatlands, visit www.naprt.com or find them on Facebook.

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OUIJA BOARD GONE WRONG: VIOLENT DEMON POSSESSION (Video)

A creepy ouija board experiment gone horrifically wrong at the haunted welles house, Day 9 Ep 19. During this Ouija Board session Tim gets violently attacked and scratched by a demon called Beelzebub. Please join the livescifi.tv family today and SUBSCRIBE!

The home was investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren in the 1970's however was never had chance to be cleansed of its negative energy. Is it still there today? The Team will use a variety of paranormal equipment such as thermal camera's, custom built dvr systems, ghost boxes, EVP, ouija boards, etc, in its attempt to captured, communicate, and document paranormal activity LIVE!

Paranormal Investigator Damon Simms explores Staffordshire's spookiest places

Paranormal Investigator Damon Simms explored the dingiest corners of some of Staffordshire's spookiest places. Here he recounts the tale of a young teen in Meir, who found that a Ouija board should not have been used as a toy.

THE first record of a Ouija board can be dated back to 1100BC in China, but when we think of films like The Exorcist, we imagine that their origins are nothing more than parlour tricks for people to scare themselves with. Jane thought just that, she was wrong.

In the school holidays of 1991, Leo and Jane were both 16 years old and enjoying the warm weather together along with their friends.

Parents are at work and the fun loving teens are making the most of being home alone.

One of Leo's friends suggested they try something new, a Ouija board. He would make the board using an old piece of hardboard and a thick permanent marker.

All the friends seemed excited by the mixture of fun and fear the prospect of 'playing' with the witch board could bring them.

A short while later, the friend had made the board and all five teens sat in a circle on the floor of the girl's bedroom, fingers touching the upturned glass.

At first nothing happened, and then a slight movement, almost unnoticeable. Then the glass shifted across from its starting position and stopped at 'hello' the friends looked at each other.

"Ok so who's pushing it" asked Jane, but all five teens looked shell shocked. This wasn't a game.

Gradually the glass became more fluid and seemed to build up momentum and strength, responding to the terrified teens' questions.

"When did you die?"

"1964"

"What was your name?"

"Eian...it still is"

"Do you have a message for anyone here?"

"Yes, I will be visiting you tonight...alone"

The words rang with such an unnerving horror that a young teen left using the board immediately, that girl was Jane.

Eventually intrigue changed to caution and her friends soon followed suit and stopped playing with their new sinister and mysterious 'toy'.

The day drew to a close and the night began to set in. Jane was now at home in her bedroom at her parents' home in Meir.

Alone, she got ready for bed and it seemed that although she had felt apprehensive for some time after that, her rational side attempted to take over, perhaps one of her friends had been pushing the glass all along?

As she settled down for the night into her bed, the events of the day had become a distant memory, almost, until Jane noticed something.

At first it looked like a small ball of light, like someone was shining a small torch into a net curtain. It looked almost angelic, gentile.

It moved gracefully across the room until it settled about two feet away from her bed near the floor.

It floated for a moment before it dissipated into the floor. The room was dark again.

Then, from the exact place that the small ball of light disappeared, a red column of light began to rise.

The atmosphere in the room changed at that instant. A dark foreboding feeling hung heavy in the air making Jane feel terrified. The column rose higher, and as it did so did the operative feeling of something negative, evil had entered her room.

She knew this was the entity that had threatened to visit her alone that night, something not of this world.

Terrified, she leapt from her bed, ran around the column and out of her room, across the landing and began to bang on her parents' bedroom door, her father came to the door in a panic.

Jane told her father as he dragged him by the arm towards her bedroom about her unwanted visitor, but as the door opened they both saw that whatever had been in her room had now gone.

The following day Jane and her parents; whom were both devout Catholics, requested a house blessing on their home, and to their relief the entity never returned.

Jane had learnt her lesson, we should not 'play' with things that we do not understand.

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Paranormal Corner: Intimate experience at Eastern State Penitentiary

Many paranormal investigators are sensitive to the energy that is believed to make up spirits.

I, however, am not one of them.

I can count on three fingers the number of times I have "felt" something during an investigation.

Two of those three times occurred in cellblock 4 at Eastern State Penitentiary.

My first experience in cellblock 4 was in 2011 while I was investigating with a group of people which included Kris Williams, formerly of "Ghost Hunters" and "Ghost Hunters International."

This investigation took place before I joined Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society, so I was basically going off the education I had received from those shows and similar ones.

As soon as I entered the cellblock, I got a heavy, creepy feeling. Not too long into the investigation, I was touched by something I couldn't see.

On May 18, four years since my first ghost hunt there, I returned to Eastern State to, once again, investigate the prison - this time with four members of the JUMPS team.

While this was only my second investigation there, I've visited the historic site more times than I can count. So, JUMPS Founder and CEO Doug Hogate Jr., asked for my advice concerning what areas we should focus on during the four-hour investigation.

Of course, the first spot I wanted to revisit was cellblock 4.

More experienced in ghost hunting and comfortable in the prison, I felt more confident while investigating this time.

However, after being in the cellblock for about 20 minutes, I started feeling strange.

I was leaning up against the cellblock wall between two cells when I got the feeling that someone was standing very close to me. I felt warmth move close to me and then linger, as if someone's face was just inches from mine.

My right arm began to tingle, and I suddenly had chills from the top of my head down to my toes.

Being one that doesn't usually sense things, I didn't say anything to anyone for a few minutes. Finally, the feeling got so uncomfortable I had to tell fellow investigator, Susan Sacavage.

Before I even got the sentence out, Susan's daughter Samantha - who has been able to sense and even see spirits since she was a toddler - could see a tall figure standing next to me.

Hogate held the Mel meter close to me and got a .04 reading that quickly went down to zero. When that happened, all my feelings went away.

Was there someone next to me?

I'm not sure, but I know I felt some weird feelings and it is possible I had a friend there in cellblock 4, but, being a skeptic, I question everything over and over.

We are in the process of reviewing many hours of audio recordings and video footage that will hopefully help me decide if I was, indeed, in the presence of a ghost again in cellblock 4.

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Scary as Hell, Old Masonic Lodge (Video)

Paranormal Investigation at Extremely Haunted Old Masonic Lodge built in 1860's and Became a Masonic Lodge in 1897. I had One of the most Profound Experiences I have ever had on any Investigation at this location . This building was at one time abandoned for 30 years. Warning Explicit Language

The ethics of spirit communication: Ghost hunter allegedly contacts B.B. King

Riley B. King, better known as legendary blues singer and guitarist B.B. King, passed away in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 14, 2015. Not 24 hours after his death, Steve Huff from Huff Paranormal, acting on the urging of his fans, conducted a spirit box (an instrumental trans-communication device, which allows non-physical beings to communicate through electronic devices) session in an attempt to communicate with the guitar legend. He then uploaded the video to his Facebook page.

This has sparked outrage from several paranormal groups and various individuals who viewed this stunt as offensive. Alex Matsuo wrote a blog entry entitled “My Skewed View of Death according To Steve Huff.” In her post, Matsuo denounces Huffs actions as “morally wrong.” Having recently dealt with a death of a family member, she called the timing of the video “extraordinarily distasteful.” Matsuo messaged Huff about the video on Facebook, letting him know what she thought about the video’s timing. Huff responded unapologetically, saying “I simply post what comes through, and if you do not like how I do things, then do not come here. If a message comes in from someone who died 6 hours ago I will post it, as it is called research and figuring out some of life's mysteries.”

Justin Brown from Interface Death also responded to Huff’s post virtually the same manner as Matsuo. He calls Huff’s attempts to communicate with B.B. King “asinine” and “unethical.” Brown feels this “should be done in private and not posted on the internet.”

Regardless of the fact that ghost hunting is centered on communicating with those that have passed, it is generally agreed that there are some boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed. Everyone has heard of lawyers that chase ambulances to try to get clients; this was ambulance chasing for B.B. King. Matsuo suggested rather than posting the video to let the family know of that he had a conversation with King from beyond the grave. No grieving family wants to see someone posting a video of them trying to communicate, or receive a phone call notifying them that someone talked to their recently deceased relative. The best thing that Huff could have done was decline his followers’ requests, or waited for time to pass before trying to cash in on talking to a celebrity ghost.

Before anyone decides what to think of Huff’s actions, ask yourself one question: Would you want someone attempting to communicate with your loved one and posting the video of it just hours after their passing?

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Paranormal investigations a fast-growing hobby

Saurabh Singh is a commercial pilot who’s just conquered a deep fear. It wasn’t fear of flying but a dread of the dark and of what he might encounter in its depths that had Singh spooked for years. Until a few months ago, he wouldn’t even sleep without his bedroom lights on. But a three-month course in paranormal studies has changed all that. “The course equipped me with knowledge of what ghosts are all about and how to deal with them. Now, I sleep peacefully in the dark, secure in my new-found knowledge,” says Singh.

He is not alone in the pursuit of the unknown. An increasing number of urban Indian professionals are signing up for courses and training in paranormal sciences from a host of institutes that have mushroomed across India. And the cost of these courses — which can touch Rs 75,000 — is no deterrent.

Some, like Singh, sign up to face their fears, but for others it’s all about the thrill and sense of adventure.  “When I started the Indian Paranormal Society a few years back, the word ‘paranormal’ was not familiar to everyone. I am happy that so many people are now taking interest in paranormal investigations. Ghosts are nothing but human consciousness without a physical body,” says Delhi-based Gaurav Tiwari, the country’s most famous ghost-hunter.

His Indian Paranormal Society runs the Ghost Research & Investigators of Paranormal (GRIP) academy from which, Tiwari says, around 3,700 have ‘graduated’. The academy’s three-month-long course can cost anything between Rs 45,000 and Rs 75,000 depending on the level of specialisation one wants to achieve.

It includes training in the use of ghost-hunting devices such as the electromagnetic field meter, infra-red thermometer, electronic voice phone, full spectrum cameras etc.

These can detect changes in electromagnetic field and temperatures which, paranormal investigators point out, can be indicators of paranormal activity.

Has Tiwari come across any such activity? Quite often, he says, citing an investigation he conducted last year in Delhi’s Karkardooma court where advocates complained of unexplained events at night. “The lawyers installed CCTV cameras and one day, at around 11.55pm, they saw all the computers getting switched on.

They also saw a bright light in the shape of a ball. When I was called to conduct my investigation after a few days, I put balloons on every computer and ordered aloud (to a suspected paranormal entity) to switch on the computers, move the balloons left and right, and to open the web browser. All these commands were carried out. Our electronic voice phenomena recorder also captured a voice that asked us to ‘get out’. The place was really haunted,” he says.

Around 50 paranormal teams and societies across India are in the pursuit of such paranormal occurrences, with Delhi alone boasting of over a dozen. Interestingly, a lot of these are run by doctors and engineers. 

Kolkata-based Soumen is a mechanical engineer by day and a self-taught paranormal investigator by night. He was attracted to the paranormal during spiritual classes in his school where ‘soul’ was an often-repeated word. Like Tiwari, he too believes that ghosts are human consciousness. “Ghosts do not appear in white saris as most people have come to believe from movies. Their paranormal activity is nothing but an attempt to complete the task they couldn’t complete in their lifetime. This generally happens when someone dies in an accident,” says Somen, who founded the Paranormal Society of India (PRSI) along with a lawyer friend.

The most common signs of a place being haunted, he says, are unexplained shadows and noises, the feeling of being watched, lights turning on and off on their own, balls of unexplained light, eerie crying, unexplained handprints etc. “But in 90% cases that we handle, there is no real haunting,” says Soumen.

Bangalore-based dentist Rahul Kumar says he turned a paranormal investigator because science cannot explain everything. “Many behavioral and physical conditions of man lie beyond the boundaries of medical science. There are many doctors in our team of paranormal investigators who discuss cases that medical science cannot explain,” says Kumar, who is part of the Pentacle Paranormal Research Society.

The society, set up by former journalist Shishir Kumar takes the study of the paranormal a notch higher to include the mysteries of extra-terrestrials and UFOs.

Team Pentacle, which claims to have captured the first ever full-body apparition in India, runs the Institute of Paranormal Research and UFOlogy. “Our team has doctors, engineers, physiotherapists and charted accountants who blend the psychic and scientific approach in paranormal investigations,” says Mumbai-based Shishir, adding that most cases come from Mumbai and Pune.

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