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Ghost hunting in Houghton Mansion: The mystery continues By Jennifer Huberdeau, North Adams TranscriptArticle Launched: 03/31/2007 03:44:53 AM EDT Saturday, March 31The basement was cold and dark. An eerie blue light pierced the darkness just a few feet from me. Was this some sort of sign from the beyond? Well, I wouldn't go that far. It was Grant Wilson, from SciFi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" series, illuminating an electro-magnetic field reader as he checked the copper pipes on the ceiling. "Do you feel kind of spooked out down here?" he asked. I'd been in the basement of the Houghton Mansion, more...

British spies haunted by blunders By George Jones, Political Editor Last Updated: 2:13am GMT 20/02/2007 The James Bond image of Britain's spies took a knock yesterday when an official report disclosed they were making an "unacceptably high" level of blunders. Mistakes included tapping the wrong telephone numbers and continuing to collect post from an address after its target had moved on. The most common mistake was wrongly entering a telephone number on a tapping warrant - usually a simple transposition of numbers. Sir Swinton Thomas, the outgoing Interception of Communications Commissioner, disclosed that dozens of similar errors were reported to...

LOVE HEWITT CONJURES UP REAL GHOST ON SPOOKY SHOW Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)2007-01-14 15:48:59 JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT and the crew of her spooky TV drama GHOST WHISPERER got the chills during a recent late-night shoot when a real spectre showed up on the set. The actress, who plays an antiques dealer that helps troubled spirits cross over, was filming a tense scene earlier this week (beg08JAN07), when crew members noticed movement in the shadows behind her. Love Hewitt and her pals crowded around the monitor to watch the scene played back and were...

City office haunted? Odd occurrences can’t be explained, employees say December 31,2006 Sara Perkins Monitor Staff Writer RIO GRANDE CITY — Haunted houses are nothing new in Starr County. At the historic La Borde House, which is home to county offices, a restaurant and a hotel, the locals say things go bump in the night — and during the day. At the county courthouse, lawyers and clerks tell stories of whispering ghosts in the halls. But knowing about these haunted buildings didn’t lessen the surprise of the county’s compliance and collection department when pictures started falling off the walls of...

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House has a past, maybe even a spirit The home of Brooksville's redevelopment coordinator is old and full of character. And it doesn't hurt that the house might be haunted. By MICHAEL KRUSE Published December 5, 2006 BROOKSVILLE - Brian Brijbag took a job this past summer as this city's redevelopment coordinator. He got an office and a badge and got going as an upbeat leader of the continued revitalization efforts. But the most meaningful thing he's done so far might be a real estate transaction: He moved into the big Victorian house on a corner of W Fort Dade...

Paranormal investigators probe bar Posted by the Ocean County Observer on 11/20/06BY CHRIS LUNDY STAFF WRITERPOINT PLEASANT — "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," Sherlock Holmes said. Holmes is fiction, and so are ghost stories. Aren't they? If so, how do some places become the setting for so many? For instance, Magee's West Side Tavern on Route 88 is the stuff of local legend. General Manager Jeremy Margolias has heard or seen it all. Items disappear off orders. The blinds in an attic window are open every morning, no...

Scott & Harrill Residence Halls-haunted?? Russell ConoverIssue Date: 11/10/06 Scott and Harrill Residence Halls may seem like just two more dorms on the campus of Western Carolina University. However, each building has a reputation for being haunted because of some mysterious events that occurred in the past. Current and prospective students of WCU should keep these stories in mind when they select a dorm in which to live. The early 1990s was the time that Scott Hall began its conversion to "the dark side." During this time, it is said that a female student hung herself in the East Wing...

Paranormal Investigators Videotape Apparent Ghost In Graveyard Oct 31, 2006 04:37 PM EST AfterDark Paranormal Investigations contacted WAVE 3 and provided the following account of their investigation, including the video and audio material. (BARDSTOWN, Ky.) -- According to its website, AfterDark Paranormal Investigations is a Louisville-based family operated ghost hunting group that investigates and documents paranormal activity. Their services are free of charge, and it investigates in Louisville, surrounding areas, and Southern Indiana. Recently it claims to have videotaped a ghost in Bardstown. Back on May 20th, 2006, the group did a follow-up investigation at a private home in Bardstown....

Ghost Stories at the Houston Library On a dripping, windless night, darkness swamped a jewel-box ceiling high above the Ideson Library’s top floor. Forty windows, each with eight panes glowing like opal in moonlight, crowned the walls. Downstairs, a dead girl gazed morosely from a framed photograph on the wall. In a portrait in the hall, a librarian gone from this life for 60 years sternly surveyed her domain. One notices such things as a long night’s ghost hunt creeps toward dawn. Halloween brings out the spookiness in everyone. Even the most pinched skeptic secretly yearns for a tap on...

Spooks and thrills: Woman says house is haunted JANETTA ROACH, For The Saratogian 10/30/2006 WATERFORD -- After grieving the passing of her mother, Pauline Bartel, local writer and president of Bartel Communications, based in Waterford, thought she was finally getting on with her life when she purchased a 1930s bungalow in Waterford. 'I named it 'The Maryline' in honor of my mother, Mary, and the last part of my name,' said Bartel. Bartel bought the home in the summer of 2003 and spent the next two years renovating it and restoring the house to its original splendor. 'About a month...

Scranton’s past full of spooky tales 10/29/2006 Spooky legends and ghost stories abound this time of year. Some may be far-fetched, even outlandish, but local history does record some unexplained oddities and some of the darker events of human existence. Before Scranton was founded in the 1700s, the Slocum family settled along the banks of Roaring Brook. According to research conducted by Christine Schaefer, a member of the Lackawanna Historical Society who develops living history programs, a young girl hanged herself at her family’s home near the present-day courthouse. The family no longer wished to stay in their home and...

'FRIENDLY' GHOSTS HAUNT HOTEL October 28, 2006 -- THE trendy Maritime Hotel might want to start teaching its old ghosts new tricks, because living among the dead is no treat for their guests. In a very scary tale of hotel room hauntings, sources tell Page Six the 10th floor of the West 16th Street hot spot is housing more than an occasional celebrity or socialite - lost souls and spirits from the past are said to be taking up shelter there, too. One incident sent a woman guest running to the lobby - dripping wet and wearing nothing but a...

The Haunted Haunts Of Galveston Ghost Tour Has Proven A Popular Tourist Trade October 28, 2006 - Posted at 3:57 a.m. BY MICHAEL GRACZYK - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GALVESTON - Steve Havlock thought he was alone. He'd shut Luigi's Ristorante Italiano for the night, the other employees had left and he was doing some final cleanup. Then he heard a woman's voice, calling "Steve! Steve!" "It was very clear," Havlock, 50, said. "The voice was in the distance, but very clear. And it was certainly my name." No one was visible. He'd heard the stories about a ghost that inhabits...

Haunted spots -- fact or fiction? By Ann Tatko-Peterson CONTRA COSTA TIMES IN BYRON, the gutted, burned-out shell of a hotel stands blanketed in moonlight. In Antioch, leaves rustle in the trees of a dilapidated cemetery that stands in the shadow of a deserted old mine. With Halloween just around the corner, we asked Times readers to tell us about their favorite East Bay haunted spot or ghostly encounters. Here, we dig into 10 of those rumored hauntings, trying to separate fact from fiction. No. 1: Rose Hill Cemetery and Black Diamond Mines, Antioch The claim: Kathy Ives, 54, of...

The haunts in the house By ROBYN STUBBS, 24 HOURS Even after everyone else has left for the evening, Marisa Ferrari senses she's not alone in Burnaby's historic Ceperley House. Now the site of the Burnaby Art Gallery, the ghostly spirits of the house's former residents, including a monk, a caretaker and a little blonde girl, have all been said to roam the gallery halls. But the strongest spirit arguably belongs to the original 19th century owner, Mrs. Grace Ceperley. Whatever - or whoever - it is, there are some very strange things going on, says Ferrari - items are...

Here is the annual haunted thread. Post your true ghost stories here... This has been somewhat popular ovedr the last three years given the feedback I've received. We just need to keep bumping the thread and keep it active.

Like ghosts themselves, the best ghost stories never seem to go away. But there's no better time than Halloween to share tales of fright and things that go bump in the night. Mischievous spirits haunt at least two north-metro establishments, according to employees: Billy's Bar and Grill in Anoka and the Pizza Hut in Columbia Heights. As Maria King, who works for the Anoka County Historical Society and directs walking ghost tours in Anoka, says to her customers: "I know not what the truth may be. I tell the tale as told to me."

On ship, a ghost of a chance Researchers spend night aboard after visitors see mysterious man By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff | June 26, 2006 MYSTIC, Conn. -- Rain drummed on the deck of the 19th-century whaling ship Charles W. Morgan late Saturday night, as below deck, in the cramped and stuffy captain's quarters, a group of men and women armed with flashlights and digital cameras took their positions. They were ghost hunters, members of the Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group, who had come to Mystic Seaport, the museum that houses the Morgan, to investigate reports of strange happenings on...

If there's anybody who looks like he can introduce you to a ghost, it's Michael Henry. He wears a black button-down shirt, black pants and a silver, skull-shaped ring on his finger. He trims his gray beard to a devilish point, and his bushy eyebrows swoop up and out and give him that "you are getting very sleepy" look.