5 posts tagged “ghosts”
I don't understand the chain of logic that leads one to believe a series of prank calls/crossed lines/whatever has a supernatural origin:
"If there’s a paranormal “Do Not Call” registry out there, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would like to sign up.
"The governor told radio listeners Thursday that the ghost who supposedly has haunted the 193-year-old executive mansion in Richmond for more than a century seems to have taken up telemarketing.
“'The telephone will ring once in the private quarters that we have at a very inconvenient time. It rings once, pick it up, there’s nobody there,' Kaine said on his monthly radio call-in show. 'It’s always at the exact same moment.'"
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"See the orbs in these first few pictures? Those are just dust particles, lens flares, and such. The orbs in the rest of the photos? Those are real spirit orbs...don't confuse real spirit orbs with dust or flares!"
Sorry, fell bit behind on this weblog. Here, have some articles about people who pass off looking through dark buildings with equipment that detects electromagnetic activity (which is, um, everywhere, so what does that prove?) as "ghost hunting:"
Lens flare again mistaken for "ghost activity."
The Sci Fi Channel show Ghost Hunters has a lot to answer for.
An article that actually contains some minimal critical response to ghost hunting.
"On Saturday and Sunday, the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society will host the Mid-South Paranormal Convention at the Holiday Inn Southwest in Shively."
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"'The afterworld and the afterlife can't be reproduced in laboratory settings,' said Chanda Wright, founder and president of the National Ghost Hunters Society. 'You can't just walk into a lab and make Casper pop up.'
"Wright deals with skeptics two ways.
"She tells them to go away: 'You can't make anybody believe anything. I gave that up a long time ago.'
"Or she invites them to come along:
"Almost every time she takes a non-believer on a ghost hunt, Wright said, 'That person sees an apparition -- and that's pretty convincing to most people.'"
"Ghost hunters say Wood Island is haunted."
"Ghost hunters from the New England Ghost Project spoke to a packed house Saturday night in Biddeford Pool about the signs of haunting they found on Wood Island after spending a night out at the lighthouse and keeper’s house last fall."
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"Over the course of the night the ghost hunters conducted five investigations in various places around the island.
"Their conclusion? Wood Island is definitely haunted and the team can’t wait to go back to see what else they can find. In fact, at Saturday’s talk a chance for two people to go spend the night on the island this fall with Kolek and his crew was auctioned off for $500."
"Ghost Hunters Investigate Central Fla. Home"
"In July, Local 6 News featured a home for sale in Sanford that several people believe is haunted by a woman who moves items and slams cabinets shut inside the 1921 structure."
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"'Hopefully what we'll see in the monitors is a shadow, an apparition, which is the Holy Grail -- capturing the apparition of someone walking past the camera,' Peace River Ghost Tracker spokesman Scott Walker said.
"'Walker must determine whether a floating ball of light (caught on tape) is a ghostly orb or a particle of dust,' Local 6 reporter Mike DeForest said."
Yeah, that's a real stumper. Which could it possibly be?
"Since the original story aired and posted on Local6.com, several prospective buyers of the home have come forward as well as many people interested in the ghost stories."
I'm going to keep that in mind when it's time to sell my house.
There's also a video of the "investigation" at that second link that's probably not supposed to be funny....
