Across from the White House is a purported haunted house, which President-elect Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha will temporarily call home.

The first family is expected to move into the storied Hay-Adams Hotel in the capital this weekend.

Hotel spokesman Robert Volmer declined to comment. But Democratic sources say the Obamas, whose daughters start school Monday, will reside there until Jan. 15.

The Hay-Adams is among the top-rated luxury hotels in the world, but it’s also allegedly home to a lingering resident, the ghost of Clover Adams, the wife of Henry Adams, a descendant of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, who took her own life in 1885.

Read more…

WHILE visiting a friend in hospital, a woman suddenly finds herself transported to a beautiful garden where she is surrounded by friendly people and the sound of happy laughter, in an apparent near-death experience.
A poltergeist takes up residence in a suburban home terrifying the family who move in there, while a man foresees the mortal danger facing his young son just in time to avert a terrible accident.

It all sounds like the stuff of Hollywood psychological horror films – the kind of thing most of us would probably scoff at if we were told it was happening next door.

Read more…

FRANKLIN — When Tim Smith opened a restaurant downtown, he didn’t count on the spot coming with a side of paranormal.

But the owner of PH Bistro on South Main Street reluctantly admits he and his staff are being haunted by unexplainable pranks and uneasy feelings.

“A lot of us have felt a presence,” Smith said. “There’s something.”

Read more…

Get some great paranormal related items and for a good cause!

Read more…

Doors were open. Lights were off. The thermometer recorded a temperature of 69 degrees. The electromagnetic field meter beeped and flashed as Becca Warren carried it around the second floor of Prentis House.

Her team gathered in a room with a fireplace and large desk jutting from the wall. The teen scientists placed a compass and a Geiger counter - a metal box that detects radiation - on a rug and waited.

Then they got their cue: “Let’s party like it’s 1899,” Marcus Daniels, their teacher at Lakeland High School, called over the radio, signaling it was time to start the investigation.

Since September, members of the Lakeland Skeptics Society have pitted science against the supernatural. Daniels, an earth science and oceanography teacher, formed the club to boost students’ problem-solving skills. Twenty-five students signed up.

Using the scientific method, the students meet after school and on weekends to investigate myths, urban legends and paranormal activity.

“It’s strictly science and I like to keep it that way,” Daniels said. “These kids have all kinds of different beliefs.”

Early on, the group tested the question: “Is a Ouija board guided by the paranormal or is it just a piece of compressed cardboard and plastic?” They formed a hypothesis - that the board works by subconscious human error - and conducted the experiment. Ten students decided paranormal activity couldn’t be ruled out, while six others agreed with the hypothesis.

Something of a novelty in high schools, the club is scheduled to be featured next year in an issue of Colorado-based Haunted Times magazine.

Last month, students met on two Saturday nights for evidence-gathering sessions at Prentis House, a more than 200-year-old structure that’s home to the city’s visitors center.

Several students sported black shirts with the “Ghostbusters” logo. They carried plenty of gear, including a Ouija board, tarot cards and a $5,000 thermal imaging camera on loan from Southeastern Environmental & Construction.

The room where Becca’s team sat was quiet, save for a couple of whispered questions and Civil War-era music blasting on the floor below. Daniels, who described it as “Lil Wayne of the 1800s,” figured the music might stir up paranormal activity, if any existed.

“We’d really like to talk to you if anyone’s here with us,” Becca said.

“Can you just give us a sign of your presence?” freshman Kayla Culbertson asked in the same quiet tone.

The sign never came.

Or did it?

Anyone on the second floor knock? Daniels asked over the radio. Nope, they responded.

But somebody heard a knock.

Students on the third floor thought they heard a scream. Then Daniels said he heard another knock on the second floor. Becca’s team heard nothing.

A minute later, they did hear a knock - a loud one. Their bodies stiffened. Becca immediately reached for the radio.

“There’s somebody at the front door,” Daniels said.

Source: http://www.paraurl.com/?JEZAp

Craig Cady’s never seen a ghost, but he would like to, and he’s going to great lengths in his pursuit.

So, when he’s lurking through old houses, dilapidated graveyards and other creepy, local haunts, Cady keeps his eyes wide and his ears alert, ready to catch anything out of the ordinary.
It was just last year that the former security guard and two co-workers were working the graveyard shift together and casual chit-chat turned toward the topic of all things eerie. Having found an interest all three had in common, paranormal banter became the topic of many hours of conversation and, eventually, a future pursuit for the co-workers.

“I think sometimes people are so depressed with their world, they want to see what’s on the other side,” Cady said of the current spike in ghostly interest. Paranormal investigation shows are popping up on broadcast and cable television channels like hokey dating shows did several years ago. A once taboo topic was now a part of a growing pop-culture.
Paranormal investigation

So, with digital recorders and cameras in hand, Cady and pals Don Campbell, Maria Rios and Maricela Franco set out to begin their own investigations, and what better place to start than historic Aurora where clusters of creepy buildings have beckoned ghost hunters for years. The Leland Towers in the city’s downtown, where, according to some online bloggers, spirits lurk, has been a hot spot for ghost hunters and a location Cady and friends would like to visit.

But, as Cady cautiously warns, “Just because you think it’s haunted doesn’t mean it is. I like to maintain a little distance.”

Source: http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1255394,4_1_JO02_GHOST_S1.article

WAVERLY - Members of AMVETS Post 58 are awaiting a report containing the results of a July 26 visit to the post by representatives of The Ohio Paranormal Seekers organization.

The post requested the paranormal investigation group’s visit to see if there was any “ghostly” activity in the 100-year-old Greenbaum building in which the post is housed.

Utilizing a large array of specialized equipment, the group spent more than six hours taking readings and observing throughout the building. Though they have not yet released any detailed findings from the visit, representatives did say they experienced several phenomena of interest and felt that when data on the machines was analyzed, it would reveal evidence of possible paranormal activity.

At least one post member who accompanied the team through the building said he heard the voice of his late daughter on sound recording equipment that was utilized by TOPS.

A special presentation to reveal the findings of the visit is expected to take place sometime in the next couple of weeks.

According to a release from the AMVETS post, “The findings promise to be of considerable interest to local historians as the building is a part of the founders of our community.

“We hope to keep the community involved and updated on any and all findings and will invite local historian Blaine Beekman and his wife, Francis, to attend and help sort through all findings.”

TOPS was established in January 2007 and offers investigations free of charge. It conducts a phone interview first with interested parties, then researches a property before bringing equipment down and touring a structure.

The group, on its Web site, indicates that “most of the time we find causes that are not paranormal. But there are those times we cannot (find a regular explanation for something), and what is left just might be paranormal.”

Among the equipment the group uses in its analysis are video cameras with night vision, four-camera digital video recording systems, digital recorders and cameras, EMF meters and others.

Source: http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080803/NEWS01/808030315/1002

“Return To Babylon” a silent film by Alex Monty Canawati is gaining interest among paranormal researchers as well as cinema experts for its spontaneous morphing of the actors into hideous monstrosities. “Return To Babylon” is a silent, black and white film based on Hollywood scandals and tragedies from the early 1900’s. Mr. Canawati ,who became a professional film maker in 1993, wanted to make a old style silent film. While walking back to his car one night he came upon a bag of what appeared to be trash, but after looking in the bag he found a case of factory sealed black and white film. This is how “Return To Babylon” came to be. As strange as it is to find 19 rolls of unopened black and white film it is nothing compared to what he would find while going over the raw unedited footage. Mr. Canawati along with a photography teacher from the Brooks Institute of Photography found the first anomalies while watching the film frame by frame in Febuary of 2004. No special effects were used in the production of “Return To Babylon” yet there are frames where actors hands morph into long, pointy, webbed hands. Noses suddenly become long and pointy, and faces hideously distort. According to the Brooks Institute of Photography the film “breaks all rules of cinema logic.” The frames have also been looked at by Dr. Albert Taylor, and several paranormal groups have seen the stills online and can offer no explanations for the strange morphings. Want to look at this strange phenomenon yourself? You can see the stills at the following links.
“Return To Babylon” Myspace Page 
Alex Monty Canawati Myspace Page 
“Return To Babylon” Paranormal Fan Page 

Tabitha, Founder Permian Basin Paranormal Odessa, TX Please add us as a friend on our MYSPACE.