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New York - A burglar who got stuck in a chimney on Sunday morning was rescued after a woman who lives in the building next door heard a voice coming from within the walls and called for help, police said.
City emergency officials, who heard the whimpering, broke through the brick chimney of the residential building on the West Side of Manhattan and used ropes to pull out the man, who was arrested, police said.
The man, about 1.6m tall and weighing 50kg, was covered in soot and grime. He was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Police said he would be charged with burglary.
They didn't say if he was going in or coming out of the chimney or how he became stuck.
ShareTAIPEI - A Taiwanese court has sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for killing his girl friend in a retrial said to have been prompted by the victim’s ghost, Taiwanese television reported on Saturday.
Issuing its verdict Friday, the Taichung District Court found Wang Chi-cheng, 25, guilty of pushing his girlfriend Chen Chi-hsuan, 22, over a bridge and killing her.
Chen, a kindergarten teacher in Taichung county, central Taiwan, and Wang had known each other since high school and had been dating for several years.
But in 2004, Chen told Wang that she wanted to break up with Wang. He however wanted to continue the relationship.
Chen is reported to have left her home about 1.00 am on December 7, 2004 to meet Wang to discuss their breakup. Wang told police that he and Chen were quarrelling on a bridge and that Chen jumped to her death.
But Chen’s parents claimed their daughter had no reason to commit suicide, and that her ghost kept visiting them to tell them she had been murdered.
Wang was initially cleared of murder, but the trial was re-opened last year at Chen’s parents’ request.
“Although justice is delayed, it shows there is justice in the world,” Yeh Ya-shan, the mother of the victim, told cable television channels TVBS.
ShareBy Ekram Ali, Maholi (Muzzafarnagar): Despite many awareness campaigns by rationalists in various parts of the country, the fear of ghosts haunt many rural areas. Uttar Pradesh's Maholi village is one such place.
Omveer and his family members in Muzaffarnagar district are facing a tough time these days. They are fearful of a ghost that has made their life a living hell.
According to the family, some 'supernatural power' is destroying their clothes and books of the children. But Omveer alleges that all this has taken place because of the black magic done by one of his acquaintances.
Omveer family was stunned when they found burnt clothes in iron cupboards and torn books in school bags.
According to Pooja, the daughter of Omveer, a neighbourhood woman gave sweets to her brother and sister. She thinks all the strange incidents began only after that.
"My brother and sister ate a piece of sweets given by our aunt. But I didn't take it. It was soon after eating that sweets the health condition of my brother and sister started worsening. Our clothes caught fire on its own. We found torn books in our bags," said Pooja.
ShareA ghost called the White Lady is being turned into a tourist attraction at a local resort.
It is hoped she will be one of the stars of this year's Prestatyn
Walking Festival from May 19-21.
The apparition, thought to be a nun, is one of the spooky characters to be featured in a Ghost Walk, researched and developed by historian Harry Thomas.
This year the festival is benefiting from marketing and promotional expertise provided by Tourism Partnership North Wales.
It will last three days and features a total of 16 walks, ranging from a leisurely 45 minute stroll to a 20-mile marathon along the Offa's Dyke long-distance path from Moel Famau to Prestatyn.
And Harry is hoping that some uninvited guests will join the throng during the 90-minute walk, called "Dead Time Stories", on the evening of May 19.
ShareThe ghost story has needed, for some time, frankly, the shit scared out of it.
Though the genre never ceases to attract those besotted and bewildered by the dead, stories of haunting have never seemed more tedious in their need to explain their modus operandi. Due in no small part to the assembly line of horror-less films that consumers of the supernatural industriously devour, the form’s power to tear a hole in our minds to access other realms has transmogrified into a duty to drag darkness into light: to placate rationalism, materialism, and other golden-calf principles that robbed the spiritual spectrum, and our vocabulary for it, of potency.
Enter Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. Currently on the shortlist for the 2006 Orange Prize, longlisted for the 2005 Booker Award, and now in paperback, the book does not humor fiction's willing suspension of disbelief but abolishes it. The living and non-living intermingle haphazardly without explanation: “Messages from the dead arrive at random. You don’t want them and you can’t send them back. The dead won’t be coaxed and they won’t be coerced.” Mantel’s disconcerting landscape stretches between comedy and tragedy, the domestic and the epic, earth and hell. The comforts of heaven, or, for that matter, further explication, exist far away, if at all.
ShareA GHOST called the White Lady is being turned into a tourist attraction at a North Wales resort.
It is hoped she will be one of the stars of the Prestatyn Walking Festival being staged later this month.
The apparition, thought to be a nun, is one of the spooky characters to be featured in a Ghost Walk, researched and developed by local historian Harry Thomas.
This year the festival is benefiting from marketing and promotional expertise provided by Tourism Partner-ship North Wales.
It will last three days from May 19-21 and features a total of 16 walks, ranging from a leisurely 45-minute stroll to a 20-mile marathon along the Offa's Dyke long-distance path from Moel Famau to Prestatyn.
Harry is hoping that some uninvited guests will join the throng during the 90-minute walk, called "Dead Time Stories", on the evening of May 19.
He said: "The White Lady is the most familiar apparition and has been seen most often.
ShareGHOST hunters who break into a mysterious and remote Lake District house could be putting their lives at risk because of the dangerous state of the property.
Police and local authority officials are concerned about a series of break-ins at Rigg Beck, the famous purple house at the foot of Newlands Hause, midway between Keswick and Buttermere.
A police spokesman said that teenagers had been coming to the house, which once provided theatrical lodgings for the likes of Tom Courtenay and Bob Hoskins and was a favourite of poet Ted Hughes.
ShareFlemington, NJ (AHN) – Some of the people who work in Flemington’s Hunter County Courthouse say that the ghost of Bruno Hauptmann, the man who in 1935 was convicted there of kidnapping and killing the toddler son of Charles Lindbergh, is flipping on the courthouse’s lights every night.
They say that the strange happenings began a month ago when renovations started to make the courthouse look as it did in 1935.
"It’s Hauptmann’s ghost," county administrator Cindy Yard says.
However, county architect Frank Bell says the courthouse’s new electricity system is the most probable cause.
The renovation included sensors that shut off the lights when no one is present in certain areas of the building.
Bell says the system is very sensitive and reacts when air currents shift from a heating or cooling system starting up.
ShareSTRANGE spirits have scared the life out of BAE shipyard workers, prompting top brass to call in ghost-busting experts.
A specialist in paranormal research and the shipyard’s chaplain, Reverend Di Hervey, will visit the Pipe Shop on Ferry Road next Tuesday to exorcise the spirit.
They have been called in after paranormal occurrences caused things to go bump in the night.
Bizarre behaviour, including a crane jib and other machinery moving by itself, unexplained shadows and an eerie presence, have been witnessed by a number of shipyard workers.
Rumours suggest the ghost may be the spirit of a man who committed suicide at the plant many years ago.
ShareBy Pam Huffman, Clarion News writer
LARION -- In a small rural area such as Clarion County not much happens out of the ordinary. Or does it? There are people who swear there is more going on than meets the eye, and they’re not talking about what happens after people leave the local watering holes.
Maybe it’s something seen out of the corner of your eye, maybe you hear footsteps in the dark when you are the only one in the house, and maybe personal items are mysteriously disappearing and reappearing.
Or just maybe you live in a house with a tragic history with tales of “strange happenings” passed down through the generations, re-told on cold, stormy nights.
Is there something more than meets the eye going on in Clarion County ?
These tales of the paranormal are exactly what a local ghost hunting organization is seeking.
ShareLandlord's terror at phantom menace
A TERRIFIED landlord is calling in a priest to exorcise his Yorkshire pub after he confronted a ghostly apparition causing mayhem to his premises.
Roger Froggatt, of the Low Valley Arms, was left severely shocked after seeing the ghostly figure of a woman dressed all in white when he went to what he thought was a break-in at his Barnsley pub around at 1.30am yesterday.
But it was when he went to check the toilets that he got the shock of his life.
In front of him stood the grotesquely disfigured apparition of an elderly woman dressed all in ghostly white.
When she turned to look at him he saw half her face was missing, from her cheekbone down to her jaw.
He and his wife Kathryn were so terrified they called the police who also witnessed spooky goings-on.
SharePosted from the Daily Record newsroom
Audience in Hackettstown hears stories of spirits that remain where lives ended
BY ANDREW NYNKA
DAILY RECORD
HACKETTSTOWN --Describing the "true and shocking tale of a soul-eating house," Rosemary Ellen Guiley, a self-described paranormal researcher and investigator, told the story of a haunted house at a ghost conference here on Saturday.
"Everything we're going to learn about today is real," she told some 75 people at the third annual New Jersey Ghost Hunters Society conference at the Hackettstown Community Center.
"It's a soul-eating house because, if you die in the home, you don't leave," Guiley said.
Guiley described the stories of several people who died in the home and whose ghosts still occupy the building. Among them is a farmer who committed suicide in 1795 and "is probably buried on the property," she said.
ShareMYSTIC, Conn. - Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.
A five-member team from the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group visited Mystic Seaport on Friday night to spend time on the Charles W. Morgan, a wooden whaling ship where several visitors have reported seeing the apparition.
The 165-year-old craft made 37 ocean voyages in search of whales during the 60 years it was in use. About 1,000 men worked on the Morgan over those decades.
The ship, due for a $3.5 million restoration next year, one of the main attractions at the Mystic Seaport maritime museum.
The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group became interested in the Morgan after receiving reports from three different groups of people about the apparition.
The visitors said that while touring the ship last summer, they saw a man in what appeared to be 19th-century clothing working below deck. They said the man, who had a pipe in his mouth, nodded at them but did not speak.
ShareThe Archbishop’s Curia has confirmed that human blood was oozing from the eyes of the statue of the Virgin Mary in a private residence in the last few weeks.
A spokesman for the Curia said in a statement that the first report was examined by the Church Authorities and it transpired that the red liquid was human blood.
The same phenomenon was reported a few weeks later and this second incident is still being investigated, the spokesman said.
Local newspaper In-Nazzjon on Friday revealed that the statue is in a private residence in Birzebbugia.
The owner of the statue of the Immaculate Conception reported the weeping of the red liquid to the parish priest on Monday. The latter advised the owner to report to the Curia.
ShareA ghost researcher is set to search for spirits this weekend in Wedron.
Troy Taylor of Decatur, who has penned 39 books about the supernatural, is set to turn his attention Saturday to the area around the old St. Joseph's Health Resort -- a location rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of gangsters and others, according to Taylor.
Starting at about 2 p.m. at the DeBolt House, which is immediately east of the St. Joseph's property, Taylor will lead an exploration of the area, before returning to the house for a barbeque and bonfire at sunset. After the meal, Taylor will take participants to investigate the nearby Sulfur Springs and 17 acres of woods for evidence of the supernatural.
Legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh stayed at the DeBolt House after his airplane crashed nearby in 1926.
ShareBhagalpur, April 18: Cellphones have gone “spooky” in Bhagalpur.
Mobile users in the east Bihar town and its adjacent areas are getting calls with strange noises and promises of a fortune from unknown numbers. The calls started around four weeks ago.
Residents of Bhagalpur, Sabaur, Nathnagar and Ghogha claimed that most of the calls carried the promise that they would become crorepatis if they visit Lal Kothi after dark.
An educational institution used to run from Lal Kothi, where post-mortem is conducted these days. No one has reportedly has fallen for the “bonanza” so far.
ShareOk, so I am sitting in my office just now, listening to coast to coast stream link, and boom it's gone, well I can understand that, yet!! I was sitting a foot from the monitor and even closer to keyboard. I had my head turned while listening, looking out my open window. So the show stops, I look over at my monitor, and it's black. It shut off, my monitor went off when the show did too. My computer was still on, monitor off, and player for show was actually stopped, the square button had been clicked, and not by me. I'm the only living being in the room. So?
ShareBy Kim Burgess
Close-Up Correspondent
All about fun: Two women lead students through technique but keep the mood light
The Forever Bronze Tanning Salon is a cheery white-stucco building with hardwood floors, potted plants and overflowing magazine racks.
Business is brisk, but eight women in the basement aren't here to work on that perfect glow. In fact, what they're looking for is more likely to turn them pale.
Welcome to Ghost Hunting 101, a five-week course that covers the nuts and bolts of seeking out spirits.
For $45, students learn ghost-hunting basics, including the typical types of entities (poltergeist, intelligent and residual) and the necessary equipment (flashlight, notebook, tape recorder and 35 mm camera), and they attend four field trips to haunted locations along the Wasatch Front.
The class also provides plenty of opportunities for students to share their own encounters with the paranormal.
ShareBeverley Moore’s appeal for more witnesses to a ghost she saw on the A595 is bearing fruit.
Mrs Moore, of Hensingham, saw the ghost of a lady near the Crofton cheese farm, near Carlisle, while driving down the road at 2am.
Following her report on this website, Paul Swailes, originally from Whitehaven but now living in Florida, has got in touch to report a similar sighting. He too saw the ghost in the early hours of the morning.
He was with a friend at the time of the incident, in the late 1980s.
Paul said: "We were driving along the A595 heading to Whitehaven when my friend was telling me about a story he had heard of a ghost of an old lady who supposedly haunted the road. He said she was picking flowers one evening on the side of the road when she was hit by a car and killed.
"Just a few seconds later (the hairs on my neck are standing up now just thinking about it again), we came to a bend in the road. If my memory serves me right, there is a brick gateway or archway near by. Just as he said this, we came to the bend and an old lady was bending over picking flowers on the side of the road,it came as quite a shock and I put my foot down and we took off as fast as we could. The fact that just moments before he was telling me this story is what made it more wierd."
And Mrs Moore has tracked down another witness who saw the ghost shortly before her sighting in 1994. She hopes to learn more from his sighting.
Mrs Moore said the 'old lady' was dressed in a cardigan, blouse and tweed skirt.
If you know anything about the ghost or have seen her yourself, contact alan.cleaver@whitehaven-news.co.uk. See also Alan Cleaver's ghosthunter Blog.
Share| I went to college with Stephen King's kid. I didn't know him at all, but everyone on campus adored the fact that his parents had named him Joe. Joe King. Get it? Oh, the clever. It's sort of a cruel joke, but also an awesome bit of human-borne wit from a man who will always be associated with horror. I was disappointed, then, to read in Variety this morning that Joe is calling himself "Joe Hill" (that's a picture of the real one up there) these days. I mean, it's good because he's getting gigs on his own merit, but all the pleasure that was once availble in his name is now gone. Sad. |  |
ShareSome buyers are going crazy, over condos at former asylums.
Many old state mental hospitals are being eyed for residential development. The ominous Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts is being transformed into nearly 500 luxury apartments.
The state institution was once called the scariest building in the world. It's also rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of former patients.
Developer Scott Dale says the notoriety will probably help sales.
In New York City, the site of the old Lunatic Asylum is now home to the 500-unit Octagon apartments. Rents are ten percent higher than expected, with studio apartments starting at $1,700 per month.
ShareBy LEN WELLS
he supernatural is not something I'm completely sure of. In fact, I'd not really given it a whole lot of thought in recent years, until a co-worker told a story the other day about some ghosts that apparently inhabit the radio station in Fairfield, Ill. The station, WFIW, has been on the air since 1953.
The story goes something like this. Years ago, when the station signed off at midnight, the evening board operator had to power down all the transmitters and turn off all the lights before locking up and leaving the station.
On repeated occasions, after all the power was turned off, and no one was in the building but the evening board operator, the sounds of a man and woman arguing could be heard drifting from a back room. Repeated investigations revealed no one was there, but the thin and somewhat distant sounds persisted. Complicating things further was the fact that when the evening announcer turned out the last of the lights and drove out of the parking lot, he would often look in his rear view mirror and see a light come on in a sales office.
ShareFrom Lakeland Radio
Students from across the world have enrolled at a new school for ghost hunters at Muncaster Castle.
People from as far afield as Australia, France, Spain and Ireland have been taking part in the course at Muncaster, which is reputedly one of Britain’s most haunted buildings.
Dr Jason Braithwaite, an independent research scientist from the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre at Birmingham University has lead the course.
He has been researching the reasons why there are so many ghost sightings at Muncaster Castle for nearly fifteen years and remains sceptical that ghosts exist.
SharePop star Robin shares house with a ghost
By Cameron Robertson
FORMER Bee Gee Robin Gibb is sharing his 12th century home with an unwelcome spooky guest.
The history fanatic claims to be living in his converted monastery home with a ghost who plays pranks on the singer and his family.
Robin, who sang lead vocals on Giving Up The Ghost on the band's 1987 album ESP, said: "It was a place where monks would be trained for their vocation.
"There's even a resident ghost, who mysteriously fills up the water in the old font in the chapel, which we converted into a dining room."
There is also the spooky sound of a clock being wound each night around midnight in the room where a clockmaker - who lived in the house in the 17th century - kept his gear.
Robin said: "We've done everything to try to find a scientific reason but there isn't one."
The house, called The Prebendal, in Thame Park, Oxfordshire, was built by the theologian Robert Grosseteste in 1241.
Elizabeth I stayed there, as did Henry VIII with his wife Anne Boleyn.
The ghost is believed to be that of John the gardener who tended the 20-acre estate 500 years ago.
Robin, 57, who also had a hit album called Spirits Having Flown with his brothers, said his love of the past began as a boy.
He said: "I love visiting old churches and reading about historical characters.
"I've always had at least one history book on the go, even on tours."
ShareBy VINCE STATEN
When Lisa Childress is the first to arrive at the offices of the Downtown Kingsport Association, she will call out, "Lucy, I'm here."
Lucy isn't the night watchman. Or the custodian.
Lucy is the Ghost of the Gem Theater.
Honest. The old movie theater at the corner of Shelby and Main, which now houses the DKA offices, has its own ghost and has had for years.
Long enough that the ghost has picked up a name, Lucy. Lisa isn't sure if she gave the ghost that name or if someone else did, but she says that's what they have called the ghost since Lisa has been at the DKA, which is six years.
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