The Evening Leader has once again been besieged with calls and emails from members of the public reporting fresh sightings of strange lights in the night sky over North Wales.
The bizarre objects were spotted by numerous readers in different areas of Wrexham last Wednesday and Thursday evening.

One resident even claimed her television reception was affected as a result.

The sightings come exactly a week after the Evening Leader was handed footage of slow moving lights, arranged in a triangular formation, over Rhos.

The latest reported incidents add fuel to claims Wrexham is now the region’s number one UFO hotspot.

Paul Griffiths, of Gwalia Terrace, said he had spotted three red lights over Pen-y-Cae on Thursday, September 25, just before 8.10pm, along with his wife and son.

He said: “At first we thought they were stars but when I looked around there were no other stars in the sky as it was cloudy.

“I believe we have viewed what others have viewed over the same area in the past week – unexplainable red lights in the sky over Rhos, Johnstown and now Pen-y-Cae areas.”

Meanwhile Beverley Davies, of Ponciau, reported seeing the same lights over her village at around the same time.

She said: “I was letting the dog out into the garden when I saw a bright red light and when I looked up another two red lights were following it, so I called my husband Heath to come and take a look.

“We watched and after a few minutes as they started to form into a triangle.

“We did not hear a noise like it was an aircraft. It was the strangest thing we have ever seen. Then they just moved across the sky in the triangle.”

The lights were also spotted the previous night – Wednesday, September 24 – by a number of residents in the county.

Peter Davies, of Ponciau, said: “I saw the UFOs over the Rhos village at 8.15pm on Wednesday, September 24 – they were travelling at the pace of a helicopter, yet there was no sound to suggest they were helicopters.

“Me and my sister-in-law watched as the glowing red lights, five in all, sped off across the Pen-y-Cae mountain.”

Zoe Morris added: “We saw five flashing lights around quarter past eight around Ponciau.

“Three were making the V-shape and the other two were travelling much faster. We also lost reception on Channel 4.”

Sceptics say the lights are nothing more than so-called Chinese lanterns, claims backed by rugby player Simon Hughes, of Rhos, who contacted the Leader on Wednesday evening.

He said: “To put everybody at rest about the UFO sightings – they are definitely lanterns. I saw four in total, three were in the triangle shape that everybody is seeing and there was one on its own only about 30 to 40 feet up.

“You could see very clearly the flame and the lantern shape. It went down in a field at the top end of Pen-y-Cae. There were several people that saw this as we were rugby training for Rhos.”

Source: http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/UFO-affected-TV-reception-.4540684.jp

ASPEN — A second Aspenite has reported seeing an unidentified flying object in the skies over Aspen in the early morning hours of Thursday.

Dr. Patricia Hill, a psychologist and host on GrassRoots TV, said Friday that she saw an object moving through the sky over her home in Meadowwood that morning after being awakened by what she described as “some big, bright lights, kind of casting about toward the tops of the trees.”

“I thought at first it might be a car,” she said. “I thought maybe there was a road [up the hill from her home] that I didn’t know about.”

Then the object, which had moved past her house, came back, “but higher,” she recalled. “And I thought, ‘Cars aren’t up in the sky.’”

She said she was not sure of the time of her sighting, but she believes it was at about the same time that Fay Franklin, of Brush Creek Village, reported seeing lights in the sky above her home.

Franklin spotted the lights around 4 a.m. after being unable to sleep and getting out of bed, and said they looked “like somebody was shooting fireworks off up above.” But the object soon took on the appearance of a trumpet, she said, with colored neon lights surrounding it.

Hill, who said she has been interested in UFOs for some time and has served on scientific panels discussing the topic, did not call police. She described the object as glowing with white and red lights, and said she reported the sighting to a friend and fellow UFO researcher at the University of Wyoming, Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Sprinkle could not be reached for comment.

Franklin called the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office around 1 p.m. Thursday to report the sighting, and county dispatchers said they had not received any other reports. A Pitkin County Sheriff’s deputy, Jim Hearn, reported seeing lights in the sky while on night patrol, somewhat earlier than Franklin’s sighting but in roughly the same place.

He said, however, that what he saw was a plane.

The Pitkin County Airport flight control tower did not return a telephone call concerning the sightings.

Source: http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080929/NEWS/809299991/1001/FRONTPAGE&title=A%20UFO%20over%20Aspen

Paranormal group seeks members

Are you interested in the paranormal? Join The Haunted Barrie Meetup Group.

This is where paranormal enthusiasts can unite and help each other unravel the mysteries of this wonderous subject. The group welcomes the public to join them and share experiences, investigation techniques, and participate in investigations at area haunted locations.

Interested members can sign up at http://ghosts.meetup.com/628/.

Source: http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1224743

Mark your calendars now for the second annual Allegan Paranormal Conference to be held at Allegan Place, in Allegan, Michigan on October 17th and 18th. Events kick off on Friday night with guest speakers- renowned psychic medium Kristy Robinett and Amy Williamson, radio host and founder of the League of Extraordinary Paranormal Women. Kristy will be speaking on children and the paranormal with a short gallery reading included. Amy’s topic “So, You Want to be a Ghost Hunter” follows.

Later that night, join us for a lantern-lit ghost tour through the streets of downtown Allegan where your guide will share the town’s many ghostly legends. You can sign up for the ghost tour to be held at the Old Jail Museum which housed Allegan’s sheriffs and their families as well as its convicts for many years. Some say many remain in spirit. Speakers and classes will cover a wide variety of paranormal topics throughout the day on Saturday.

Saturday night, police officer and psychic medium, Sheri Hawk, will be conducting a murder mystery based on her own experiences in helping to solve crimes using her psychic abilities. Activities continue until the wee hours Saturday night at the Old Church where a ghost hunt is scheduled. See how paranormal investigators work to document ghostly activity while actually taking part in the process. Bring your camera. You never know what you might catch - or what might catch you.

For more information on times and ticket prices and purchase, visit Michigan Paranormal Encounter’s web site at: www.michiganparanormalencounters.com.

Source: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080930/NEIGHBORHOODS13/809300324

Haunted Historical Cowtown
Saturday October 25th, 2008
Starts @ 7:30
Admission: $10.00 Adults/ $4.00 10 & under/ the Little Wee’ones FREE (3 & Under)

Wichita’s Historical Cowtown has been a big piece of our city that preserves the history of the Great Plains. There are over 200 volunteers that bring Cowtown to life…with Gun Shows, Wagon Rides, a Saloon to enjoy a cool bottle of sarsaparilla, and many other activities and attractions. Along with these attractions, the homes and buildings throughout cowtown tell another story and carry a big piece of Cowtowns Heart and Soul. We were honored and were all ecstatic to hear that Cowtown would love to have us come out! To me, this was a great honor and Cowtown had been somewhere that I’ve wanted to investigate once I became apart of the WPRS.

Over the years, Cowtown’s employees and volunteers have experienced ghostly activity that they couldn’t explain. After hearing the claims we were anxious to research Cowtown. During the investigation, once I walked along the wooden pathways, there was definitely a feeling in the air that there is an unseen part of Cowtown that our team just had to discover. Once we investigated this mystical place, I felt that my team and I became a part of that history that couldn’t be erased. When it was time to go over audio and video…one by one, the unseen part of cowtown was coming to the surface. After conducting two investigations, we discovered that Wichita’s Historical Cowtown definitely has Ghostly activity. We still have audio and video from the 2nd investigation to go over and are excited to see what we will possibly discover.

Now for the first time, the WPRS and Cowtown invite the public to be a part of the BIG Reveal!!! The WPRS and Cowtown Teams will share the personal experiences, share the evidence, and give a haunted tour of Cowtown. This is your chance to become a part of Cowtown and say you were in the places that are occupied by the Historic Spirits of Wichita.

You can go to www.wichitaparanormal.com to become a member of the WPRS, check out other investigations and the evidence we found, and look at other events the WPRS has coming up.

Hosted By::
Wichita Paranormal Research Society

When:
Saturday Oct 25, 2008
at 7:30 PM

Where:
Historic Cowtown Museum
1865 W Museum Blvd
Wichita, Kansas|17 67203
United States

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — On a rainy night of November 2, 1966 a Wood County man by the name of Woodrow Derenberger was driving home from his job in Marietta, Ohio to his farmhouse in Mineral Wells approximately one mile south of Parkersburg when he was suddenly stopped. As he came to the intersection of I-77 and Route 47, what he believed to be a semi-truck without its lights on drove up behind him forcing his vehicle to the side of the road. Much to the surprise of Mr. Derenberger it was not a semi but a spaceship that came down in front of his truck and hovered about 12 inches above the highway. A hatch opened, a man stepped out and walked toward Derenberger’s vehicle which was now parked alongside the road.

The strange man dressed in a long dark overcoat uttered these words, “Do not be afraid. I mean you no harm. I only want to ask you a few questions.” Later the man would introduce himself to Woodrow Derenberger as “Indrid Cold… I come from a country less powerful than yours.”

This story eventually made it into the famous book “Mothman Prophecies” written by John Keel and was also covered in the movie of the same name. But the Indrid Cold story is just one of the many uncanny tales that Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours (which covers other aspects of the paranormal) offers up.

Now in its twelfth year and having been named the number 10 most popular ghost tour in the nation in 2008 by the Haunted America Tours, this historical walk of the downtown section of Parkersburg covers not only ghosts and hauntings but tales of a Scottish Banshees, red-eyed portents of doom attached to certain Irish and Scottish clans.

The Civil War and the years following seem to have inspired many of the ghost stories. During the time of the Civil War there were five Civil War hospitals in Parkersburg, one of which was on Quincy Hill in the downtown section. This was not only a tent overflow hospital but also an important lookout point for both the B&O Railroad and the Ohio River. A number of hauntings have taken place on Quincy Hill including sightings of ghosts of Civil War soldiers.

Also tied to the history of the railroad are two other chilling tales such as the “East End Ghoul” (which happened close to a cemetery and once a coffin factory next door where Hank Williams allegedly had his last drink after it was converted into a bar in the 1950s) and the “Ghost of Silver Run,” where a mysterious dark-haired beauty road on the cowcatcher of the train all the way into Parkersburg and disappeared mocking the man who did not believe in her.

Island haunts, such as that of Margaret Blennerhassett searching for the grave of her infant daughter on Blennerhassett Island is also included in this collection of tales. Many who visit the tour are surprised that Parkersburg is an area with so much history an element most tour goers are not expecting. In one of the old homes, the spectral vision of a man dressed in ruffled shirt with curly blond hair is thought to be the ghost of state seal artist Joseph H. Diss Debar whose wife is buried only a block away in Riverview Cemetery. The owner of the home not only named West Virginia but was friends with not only Abraham Lincoln but Edgar Allan Poe.

Creator of the Ghost Tour Susan Sheppard compiled all of the stories of Haunted Parkersburg and added others from West Virginia and the Mid-Ohio Valley region which ended up with over seventy-five tales of ghosts and the paranormal. They are featured in her new book “Cry of the Banshee” published by Quarrier Press (West Virginia Book Company) in Charleston last month.

The Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours begin at the historic Blennerhassett Hotel in downtown Parkersburg and take through the 1st weekend in November.

The dates for the remaining 2008 tours are Oct. 3-4, Oct. 10-11, Oct. 17-18, Oct. 24-25, Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1.
Tours meet at 7:30 p.m. All tours are Friday and Saturday night except for the 30th which is on a Thursday. Visit the website for more information www.hauntedparkersburg.com

Source: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x1464130324/Parkersburg-hosts-its-12th-annual-ghost-tours-of-downtown

Most would think chasing ghosts and other spooks can undoubtedly only lead you down a dead end street. For KAPS, Kentucky Area Paranormal Society, it led to a live weekly radio show on CBS Radio and a dedicated national and international following.

From Georgetown and London, Ky., brothers Tom and Dave Jones, co-founders of KAPS, are broadcast via the Internet and the airwaves all over this world, and maybe others. Part “Car Talk with Click and Clack” and part séance, “KAPS Paranormal Radio” entertains such guests as Barry Fitzgerald from the “Ghost Hunters International” television show and Erin Gray (who played Colonel Wilma Deering from “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”) while touching on subjects ranging from apparitions and ectoplasm to spirituality and close encounters of the third kind.

But it wasn’t always so glam for the group, which also includes Tom’s wife, Bobbie. Incidentally, the society’s instigation and Tom and Bobbie’s second anniversary in November share the same occasion. A picture taken of Bobbie in front of a portrait during the rehearsal at the Bell House, just outside downtown Lexington, revealed eerie imagery.

“I was blurry, the little boy standing next to me was blurry,” she said. “But the picture was nice and clear. In it you can see a face, what looks like a little child’s face.”

Somebody who was working at the rehearsal stoked their curiosity by telling them about a rumored spirit that jumped down the stairs and into walls. They were rapt.

“We had no paranormal experience, period. We said, ‘You know what would be cool? If we took a cooler of beer, sat at the foot of the stairs and wait. But we’ve never been back,” Dave said.

The gang didn’t go back to the Bell House, but their interest in things that go bump in the night (or day) was roused. They started researching other paranormal groups online–how they conducted investigations, what sort of equipment they utilized. They also started reading up on notorious local haunts, namely Lexington’s Eastern State Hospital, a purported hot bed of supernatural activity. They acquired some basic gear (an audio recording device, a digital camera), got some permission to be on the premises and gave ghost chasing the old college try.

Popular theory in this line of work holds that most specters and anomalies aren’t going to be detected by the human eye or ear, at least not all the time. Ghosts no longer have their physical bodies, which means they don’t use lungs to push air through vocal folds. Many in the field maintain that otherworldly beings communicate on a frequency we can’t detect with our ears, but one that can be picked up with audio recording devices.

After KAPS’s visit to Eastern State Hospital, going back through the recordings, they distinctly heard an exhale of breath, and a voice say something along the lines of “Oh, gee.”

“We said, ‘Man this is cool as hell,’” Dave said. “And from that point on we were hooked. Now we’ve got enough equipment…I’ve got a pickup truck and the equipment fills up the entire bed.”

Their current arsenal includes infrared cameras, EMF (electromagnetic field) meters, thermometers, motion detectors, night vision scopes, cameras and scads of other recording devices. As their interest and inventory grew, so did the scope of their travels. Within less than two years, KAPS has conducted investigations in Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Michigan, Nevada and all over Kentucky, and hosted national and international paranormal societies in regional investigations.

KAPS also began conducting investigations in private residences, so long as the property owner contacted them first. Sometimes people just want to know why a door will shut of its own accord or why they have the overbearing sensation of another presence in parts of the house. When the investigators show up, they immediately begin to look for natural causes for these scenarios, like the house being built close to a lot of power lines, which has been documented to instill a sense of paranoia. Surprisingly, most residents are thrilled when KAPS reports that unexplainable phenomena are occurring in their house. “It backs them up that they’re not mad or something,” Tom said.

With any private investigation, permission is always sought before posting evidence online to their Web site, which is now, with forums and chat rooms and other multimedia, an integral part of their investigations and presence in the paranormal world (check out their chat room before a live show).

Evidence obtained from public investigations, like at the Paris Tuberculosis Hospital or the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, is immediately disseminated throughout the Web to be debunked or deemed unexplainable. And involvement in the paranormal world is a sprawling and hyper-interactive niche on the Web. Each group or individual adds a further layer of scrutiny to submitted evidence, which is not only tolerated, it’s welcomed with open arms.

“If there’s a rational explanation for something in question, we love that,” Tom said. “We love it when people debunk our evidence; we want that, it just makes our other material that much more credible.”

To give their evidence and investigations a little more credence, Tom and Dave started a weekly, hour-long podcast, “KAPS Paranormal Radio,” early this year where they discussed recent findings and other happenings. Each episode was recorded remotely–Tom lives in Georgetown and Dave in London, Ky. Admittedly, when it came to recording or broadcast experience, the two had a “resounding none.” And it was an immediate trial and error experience, as can be witnessed listening to early episodes available in the archives.

But the sound quality improved after some tweaking, and the show moved to a live format via the Para X Network online where people could call in and talk about their own paranormal experiences. “After that, it took off quick,” Tom said. “The interaction, that’s what people like.”

Guests grew in notoriety, which included Barry Fitzgerald from “Ghost Chasers International,” whom Tom remembers being very bashful about contacting at first. “I’m thinking, ‘This guy isn’t going to e-mail me back.’ But in about five minutes, bang, he said, ‘Yeah, I’ll be on there.’ I about fell out of my chair when he e-mailed me back. Now we converse two or three times a week.”

And KAPS’s notoriety grew as the group started making regional and national conference appearances. After one recent appearance at the Michigan Paranormal Conference, after doing a live, 12-hour broadcast, a psychic with a show on CBS Radio gave Tom and Dave a contact at the company and told them they should pitch a show. “I said yeah right,” Tom said. “So here I go again, I e-mailed the guy at CBS. They started listening to the show and they loved it. They said, ‘Come on guys, we’re going to put you on the network.”

In mid-September, “KAPS Paranormal Radio” had their first show, which now runs for four hours, on CBS Radio. The group acknowledges that fame and fortune won’t come knocking, but as long as they stay true to their impetus, they’ll get closer and closer their motivation: the truth.

“You don’t get rich in the paranormal, it just doesn’t happen,” Dave said. “This makes the paranormal more mainstream. Pushing this kind of envelope out there to folk who are more and more receptive to the other side–that’s what we’re after.”

And this radio show isn’t the end all for KAPS. Future plans include utilizing a video component in their broadcast and getting some exposure on satellite radio. And maybe, another trip back to the Bell House.

“We need to. Back where it all began,” Dave said. “We could broadcast live, and have that cooler of beer there sitting at the bottom of the steps. Just like we planned.”

Kentucky Area Paranormal Society Online

See videos, pictures and hear archived podcasts at www.kapsonline.com.

Hear the live “KAPS Paranormal Radio” show at www.psychiconair.com, www.para-x.com from 8 p.m. – Midnight on Sundays.

Source: http://www.southsidermagazine.com/Articles-c-2008-09-29-80968.113117_Getting_in_the_Spirit.html

[USPRwire, Mon Sep 29 2008] Hysterical or historical, ghostly spirits enjoy America’s B&Bs, just like living guests. For the past seven years, BedandBreakfast.com, the largest online B&B directory and reservation network worldwide , has compiled the most comprehensive list of inns where ghost seekers will enjoy potentially close encounters with the other world, bed-and-breakfast style. For a complete list of Halloween packages and over 100 great places to sleep with a ghost, visit www.BedandBreakfast.com and click Halloween Happenings or Haunted B&Bs. From west to east, here is a sampling of B&B ghost stories:

Thornewood Castle, Lakewood, WA: This B&B served as a set for Stephen King’s mini-series Rose Red in 2002. In real life, guests have reported their share of chills and plenty of orbs have been recorded on guest photos taken here.

Texas White House, Fort Worth, TX: The ghost here is believed to be the husband of the only family who ever lived in the house. He died here and now haunts his old bedroom (now the Lone Star Room). Interestingly, the ghost sightings occur only when a single woman is staying in the room.

Grand Avenue B&B, Carthage, MO: While the “no smoking” rule is in effect for all guests, the former owner is exempt. A ghostly whiff of his trademark cigar smoke wafts through the rooms when he visits here.

Honeybee Inn B&B, Horicon, WI: It’s believed that a lumber baron named Coton is still hanging around with his female companions. His beloved rocking chair, where he died, rocks by itself, and a woman in a long skirt has been spotted too.

Penny Farthing Inn, St. Augustine, FL: Spirited occurrences include midnight tugs-of-war with the blankets, and glasses leaning over and clinking on sherry bottles. One guest described a young lady in his room when he awakened. A few days later, the owners’ daughter described a strange lady in the dining room –identical to the guest’s description.

Inn on Main Street, Weaverville, NC: Innkeepers have heard pictures falling off walls, yet never find anything that has fallen. Doors open and close with no one there. Strangely, all ghostly happenings occur on New Year’s Eve.

By The Side of The Road Bed and Breakfast, Harrisonburg, VA: When the innkeeper went to turn off the basement light, something grabbed her hand, yet nothing was there. Just about every day footsteps are heard in hallways, and doors unexplainably open and close.

Manchester Inn, Ocean Grove, NJ: Check in to room 316, and ghosts may literally pull your leg. It’s been known to happen here, when a guest felt a tugging at her pants leg several times.

Cornerstone B&B, Philadelphia, PA: A floral scent precedes sightings of a ghostly female shape. Innkeepers claim she is an ethereal presence, and her signature perfume always occurs as she gently taps the foreheads of guests.

Inn at Jackson, Jackson, NH: Jason, once the inn’s trusted workman, committed suicide, yet returns to check on repairs at the inn. Guests have been awakened by hammering noises, primarily on the second and third floors.

To learn more about these inns and nearly 7000 others, visit BedandBreakfast.com. A variety of search functions and extensive maps enable inngoers to find the perfect B&B. Travelers can make reservations online, purchase gift cards welcomed at 4,000 inns, and read and write property reviews.

Source: http://www.usprwire.com/Detailed/Travel_Tourism/Great_Places_to_Sleep_with_A_Ghost_29736.shtml

BANGALORE: After capacity constraints, connectivity hurdles and criticism from all and sundry over shabby infrastructure, there is now a problem quite without precedent at the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA).

Rumours have been doing the rounds for the past week that airport staff have been seeing ghosts on the runway. The description of the ghost has been varied: its gender, attire and features all change, depending on who sees it. A few claim that the ghost is a woman in a white saree, while others say the mysterious creature is headless.

A Kingfisher employee who works at the Cargo section told to this website’s newspaper that the ghost, a woman in a white saree with her hair flying loose, has been wandering on the runway. He said this saree-clad ghost had disrupted flight movements. “A pilot of an international carrier had to abort landing after spotting a ‘woman’ with outstretched hands in the middle of the runway. Finally, after two failed attempts, when the ‘woman’ did not move from the runway, the pilot could only land in his third attempt,” he said.

Several employees say another ghost, a headless creature, was spotted near the escalators in the terminal area and in the parking bays. A photograph of the ghost is also said to have been captured on an infra-red camera by an employee.

“All that was visible on the photograph was a skeletal figure of the ‘woman’. This was later passed on via bluetooth to mobile phones and posted on YouTube,” he said. On checking, however, one only got images of ghosts wandering about airports in Thailand and Malaysia; there was nothing on our own native ghost! BIA officials flatly deny these rumours: there was no ghost buster team deployed at the airport. “It’s hard to convince someone to come down from New Delhi to investigate a bhoot. If a flight had to be diverted, we would need to take permissions. There are 10 airport controllers and none of them have seen the woman on the runway. One of the staff had a picture on his mobile, but it cannot be true,” said a BIAL official.

Source: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?artid=rTLswG|qWzE=&Title=Rumours+of+a+%E2%80%98ghost%E2%80%99+take+off+at+BIAL&SectionID=7GUA38txp3s=&MainSectionID=7GUA38txp3s=&SectionName=zkvyRoWGpmWSxZV2TGM5XQ==&SEO=BIA

GLASSBORO — The South Jersey Ghost Researchers will give a presentation at the local branch of the Gloucester County Library System on Thursday at 7 p.m.
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The researchers will explain their techniques, display and demonstrate equipment, and discuss some of their investigations.

The program is free. However, advance registration is requested.

Call the Glassboro branch library at 881-0001 to register or for additional information.

For more information on South Jersey Ghost Research, visit the organization’s Web site at www.sjgr.org. The site also includes additional information on lectures and programs in South Jersey.

Source: http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080929/NEWS01/809290349/1006/news01