Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world
GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS, POLTERGEISTS:
Poltergeist plagues family home
Spooky goings-on at a Hendon house are scaring the living daylights out of a mum and her six children. Marie Williams believes that spirits are haunting her home, trashing rooms, causing sulphurous smells, opening and closing curtains, throwing objects around and even scratching her. Paranormal experts have all recorded unexplained activity in the Victorian home, in Toward Road, but say the spirits are too strong for them to remove...
(Also read: What is a poltergeist?)
Check in to this haunted hotel
Quaint and charming from the outside, Connecticut's real-life Yankee Pedlar Inn is far from it on the inside. Its hallways and rooms are the resting place of many a ghost story, some of which writer-director Ti West's crew experienced during an extended stay while making 2009's The House of the Devil. "We would go out into the middle of the woods and make this sort of satanic horror movie, but weirder stuff would happen to us back at the hotel," said West, an admittedly skeptical guy who doesn't believe in ghosts...
Former vicar buys haunted Dalhousie castle for knockdown ￡5m
A vicar-turned entrepreneur has snapped up a 13th century Scottish castle hotel. The castle was visited by England's King Edward I, also known as Longshanks, the Hammer of the Scots, and Oliver Cromwell. The castle, which sits by the banks of the River Esk near Bonnyrigg, in Midlothian, is also reputed to be haunted by a 16th century ghost...
(Also read: The Ghosts of Edinburgh Castle)
Anderson Cooper's whacky weird gay ghost tour
Anderson Cooper is oh-so gay and oh-so not ready to talk about it. That's fine, we get it, your personal life is yours to do with what you will. However, when you have a national daytime talk show and invite a ghost-whisperer to psychically evaluate your home for a segment, be prepared for some raised eyebrows...
Hans Holzer, the man behind the ghosts
Born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, my father developed an interest in the supernatural when his uncle Henry told him stories about ghosts and fairies. For him it was the beginning of what would be his destiny and chosen path for his life span...
CREATURES:
New Footage: Colorado Bigfoot, woman sounds somewhat believable
This footage was filmed near Castle Rock, Colorado in 2009. The woman filming sounds, or tries to sound fearful of the creature when she realized what she was really looking at. If that were you, would you drop the camera and run away?..
(Also read: Bigfoot Videos)
Bigfoot is an archetype: Sasquatch reigns supreme among "folk devils"
From time to time there are reports that fall under the "Bigfoot" category that are, to put it simply, present a lot of disturbing problems for eyewitnesses. While these "high strangeness" reports (an expression that had become innate to the study of odd occurrences tucked within the realms of Forteana) are in the seldom minority, they are often overlooked by the greater cryptozoology community for a number of reasons...
