Ghosts in Ellis Avenue Home Caught in Snapshot
August 30, 2003
By Joanna Gaitanoglou
joanna@wlbt.net
If you're afraid of the dark, you might want to turn on all your lights before you read this story. A Jackson woman claims her house is haunted with not one but four ghosts. She invited WLBT to her home Saturday to see if we would find anything out of the ordinary.
Joyce Rouson says she's seen and heard strange things going on in her house on Ellis Avenue ever since she moved into it in 1997. Rouson says every year, a gruesome sight shows up in the corner of her living room: maggots.
"I say around December (1997) was the first time we seen the larva," said Rouson. "And every year in November after that there was larva right here, and after we searched the house and couldn't find nothing that would make the larva come here, I thought, 'somebody died in this house.'"
Rouson says she braves many nights with the spirits.
"I could be in the bed and the cover will come off my legs," said Rouson. "If I sleep with my legs up under the cover, their tickling my feet. They're running their fingers down my leg."
And Rouson says the ghosts like to play with her grandchildrens' toys while no one is in the same room as the toys. She says her five-year-old granddaughter Brittany who lives with her has been seeing the ghosts since she was three.
"Whenever she comes up in here in this bathroom, she tells me she sees the scary man."
If all of this sounds bogus, Rouson has a Polaroid picture taken by her daughter that may hold the evidence. In the picture, there is a dark face in the foreground which is Rouson's grandson. Behind him is the faint outline of a coffee table. Above the television, which is behind her grandson's head, are four green illuminated faces. Rouson says the television was off and the flash on the camera, for some reason. didn't work.
"Didn't think about it until today that look where the ghosts appeared at, right over here, and I said, ...'think about where we see the larva, right over there,'" said Rouson. The ghosts appeared about two steps from the larva spot.
The whole experience made WLBT cameraman Carlos Spann a little terrified, but he made it through this shoot without any harm. Rouson says her paranormal roommates don't harm her either.
"People say I should move, but it doesn't bother me,." said Rouson.
Siberia find revives yeti legends
Is this the foot of the yeti?
Siberian scientists say they have a discovery on their hands which raises the possibility that the local legend of the yeti - the abominable snowman - is more than mere fiction.
According to Russian TV, the well-preserved furry limb of a mystery creature was found some 3,500 metres up in the permafrost of the Altay mountains, in Russia's remote Siberia region.
"I turned the limb over and examined the sole of the foot, and I thought it looked unsual," Sergey Semenov, the mountain-climber who made the find, said.
"So I decided to bring it back with me."
Scientific tests and X-rays show that the bones are several thousand years old, but attempts to identify the creature they belonged to remain inconclusive.
Local opinion on the find, described as "surprisingly well-preserved", is divided.
There is a long tradition of alleged sightings in the area of what might - or might not - be the abominable snowman.
Size 36
Local people say the creature must have walked on snow, because the sole of the foot is furry.
X-ray tests remain inconclusive
They have already labelled the discovery as the foot of the yeti.
But veterinary scientists and academics at the local animal research institute and agragrian university tend towards a more rational explanation.
"It looks very human," Yuriy Malofeyev, vice-president of the Russian association of veterinary anatomists, told the TV after examining the X-rays.
"There are many similarities," he said.
That view appears to be supported by the fact that the length of the foot is about 24 centimetre - normal for a human being.
"A size 36 shoe would fit him just fine," the TV concluded.
BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
Is it the real thing?
WTVM Video Shows Possible Ghost in Springer Opera House
A "ghost hunt" in the Springer Opera House last night by News Leader 9 Reporter Jason Dennis turned up far more evidence than expected.
Exclusive video shows what paranormal investigators call "spirit orbs" moving around inside the Springer, the historic local theater recently named one of the "top ten" haunted places in America. WTVM was accompanied on the ghost hunt by professional investigators who were looking for any real scientific evidence of ghosts in the Springer.
In one piece of video, a ball of light can be seen zipping through a room and settling near a window. In another segment, an "orb" comes into a room and touches one of the professional investigators, who immediately bolts from the room.
WTVM will air some of the exclusive video today on News Leader 9 at Noon and more on News Leader 9 at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.
'Ghostly' image on tape at Henry's palace
A ghostly image has been caught on CCTV at historic Hampton Court Palace.
It was formerly the home of Henry VIII and has long reported to be haunted.
The 16th Century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before.
However, in October this year, this curious image was caught on the palace's CCTV footage.
On several occasions security guards were alerted to an open fire door in an exhibition area of the palace. After securing the door each time, they returned to their office to view the CCTV footage to see who had opened them.
On the first occasion the footage showed the doors flying wide open, but no evidence of why they had.
On the second, the guards were stunned when a ghostly figure in period dress suddenly appeared on the screen and closed the doors. The same thing happened on a third day, but again no figure appeared.
Stranger still was that a visitor had noted in the palace's visitor book that she thought she had seen a ghost in that area.
One of the palace's "custody warders" (security guards) said: "I was shocked when the CCTV footage showed an eerie figure in period dress in the doorway. It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human.
"My first reaction was that someone was having a laugh, so I asked my colleagues to take a look. We spoke to our costumed guides but they don't own a costume like that worn by the figure. It is actually quite unnerving!"
Story filed: 12:48 Friday 19th December 2003
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Mysterious Object Caught On Video Over KC Sky
NORAD Says It Did Not Track Object
A security camera from a downtown energy corporation captured a bizarre sight in the eastern sky over Kansas City last week, KMBC's Martin Augustine reported.
The video shows an object that appears to be slowly falling in the sky
around 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 14.
Bob Lindsay, a security worker at Trigen Energy Plant, spotted the object on security monitors and asked a co-worker to zoom in on the mysterious image.
"It had the appearance of more of a really light yellow -- wasn't quite
white, wasn't quite yellow," Lindsay said.
Lindsay believes he saw a long vessel, like a missile or rocket aircraft
with flames shooting over the nose and up its sides. The staff at Trigen has come up with several theories about the nature of the strange image.
"We got UFOs, we got experimental airplanes -- a jumbo jet maybe? There's a lot of guesses going around," Lindsay said.
KMBC's Martin Augustine showed the tape to astronomer Tom Armstrong, who has worked extensively with NASA.
Armstrong guessed the object could be man-made space debris, but it's more likely just a meteor skimming across the atmosphere.
"If you've watched a meteor shower and you put this at night against a star background, you'd probably think meteor," Armstrong said.
He added that meteors often give off what looks like a long tale.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD, said it was not tracking any man-made space junk reentering the atmosphere on Jan. 14.
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UFO picture a saucer wonder
Kate Uebergang
urban affairs reporter
24jan04
Creating a buzz: the photo taken by council worker Roland Rozario of a
crailway crossing shows a mysterious object in the sky.
WHILE man is making his mark on Mars, some humans are wondering if aliens have zoomed into Melbourne.
A mysterious photograph has sparked a UFO frenzy in the city's north.
Both believers and sceptics are scratching their heads over this picture,
snapped in Beveridge by a council officer last week.
Whittlesea Council is considering informing NASA and has already sent the image to Australian authorities.
The photographer, Whittlesea Council traffic engineer, Roland Rozario said he could not explain the digital photo, which shows a small round object zooming through the top right side of the frame.
Mr Rozario said he and a colleague were doing a routine audit of a railway level crossing about 2pm on Thursday, January 15.
"We didn't see or hear anything when we were there," he said. "I took about 10 or 12 photos, facing east and west.
"Then I came back to the office, downloaded the images and noticed an object in one photo.
"I still don't know what it is. I passed it around the office and people
didn't know what it was. A few said it didn't look like a bird, an aircraft
or even a bug in front of the camera."
Mr Rozario said a train passed through the crossing just seconds after the
photograph was taken and believes a passenger may have spotted something in the sky.
Whittlesea Council's communications officer, Jim Linton, said the image to the Chief Defence Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation and the Civil Aviation Authority.
He said the council was considering referring it to NASA and other
authorities.
"As a municipal council we have this image and we believe it is responsible to pass it on to the Government authorities who have the expertise and let them work it out," he said.
Mr Linton said staff assured the council the photograph was not altered or tampered with.
"We're not making any claim on it. We're looking for some expert who can look at it and tell us. Maybe there will never be an answer."
Weather bureau senior forecaster Peter Blake said the photograph did not look like anything meteorological.
"It almost looks like a plane from the rear. It is certainly not a weather
balloon," Mr Blake said. Local flying saucer experts also struggled to
explain the photograph.
Victorian UFO Research Society scientific adviser Bernard Wilson said the group needed more information in order to make a full assessment.
"There are some interesting aspects to this photo. The sun reflections from the object and the rails appear to be fairly consistent," he said. "There appears to be some motion blur to the left of the image which might indicate a fast-moving object."
But the Australian UFO Research Network Victorian director George Simpson said a digital photograph was not considered acceptable evidence of a flying saucer.
"They cannot be verified. They are too easily manipulated on the computer and you don't have a negative," he said.
Mr Simpson said he had not heard of any other recent sightings in
Melbourne's north. But he said a local member would investigate the sighting for his group.
Viewer Analysis of UFO Picture
March 20, 2004
This may interest you, a photo of a ufo in Australia. My analysis is that it is 'dubious'.
Chroma enhamcement shows normal specular pattern of sky (center square insert).
But a halo is around the object suggest different sky in the imediate baground of the object that was from a medium with finer pixel resolution then the landscape photo.
Had this halo conformed to the profile of the object shape, one could argue it is some field-effect related to the object.
But, that it is a conventional circle shape independent of the object profile, suggest a simple clone tool (they are circular) lifted the image from another higher resolution source.
The scene lighting is different in the landscape compared to the object.
In the landscape, the sun is near high-noon infront of the camera-right.
The object, itself, is lit by a source over behind the right side of the camera.. (left insert)
Conclusion: the photo is either a fake, or it was taken on a planet that has two suns.
Stew
Enter the dragon
By Humfrey Hunter
23 January 2004
With tiny teeth and claws, a little tail and soft-looking white skin, could
this really be what it seems - a baby dragon?
Real or hoax: this pickled dragon is a mystery in a jar.
Highly unlikely of course, but this disturbingly realistic model almost had
the experts fooled.
The dragon, suspended in a jar of what is thought to be formaldehyde, is
believed to be the brainchild of German scientists who wanted to humiliate their English counterparts in the 1890s, when the rivalry between the two countries was intense.
Had they pulled it off it would have been one of the greatest hoaxes of all
time.
However, according to documents found with it, the Natural History Museum turned the dragon away, possibly because they suspected it was a trick.
It was then sent to be destroyed. But it appears a porter intercepted the 2
1/2 ft-high jar and took it home. Now the dragon has surfaced in an
Oxfordshire garage.
The papers say the porter was either a man known only as Moredun, or a Frederick Hart - whose grandson David found the jar containing the dragon in his garage last month.
Mr Hart, 58 , from Sutton Courtenay, said: 'My father, George, who is dead now, left it at my house when he moved away from London about 20 years ago.
'I was not there when he put it in my garage so I never really looked at it.
It was just in the corner with a load of other junk and I found it when I
was having a clear-out.
'I had never looked at it so when I saw the dragon it was a huge shock. I
remember the crate it was in from when I was a kid because it was in my
dad's workshop.
He just used to say the crate was fragile because it had a glass container
in it. But I never saw what was in it.
I didn't know until recently and when I first saw it I didn't know what to
make of it. Such things don't exist do they? It is very odd-looking.'
Mr Hart, who runs a marketing services company, asked his friend Allistair Mitchell to help him investigate the dragon's background.
Mr Mitchell, 42, who runs a marketing company in Oxford, said: 'The late 1800s were a time of intense rivalry between Britain, Germany and France over who was the world's leading nation.
'It would appear that this was an effort on the part of interested parties
in Germany to discredit the British scientific community.
'At the time, scientists were the equivalent of today's pop stars and their
achievements were heavily reported in newspapers.
'It would have been a great propaganda coup for the Germans if it had come off. Some of the documents are in German and date back to the 1890s.
'I've shown the photos of the dragon to someone from Oxford University and, like everyone who sees it for the first time, he thought it was amazing.
Obviously he could not say if it was real or not but he wanted to come and take a biopsy of it.
'It is a truly amazing thing. It stands about 30 centimetres but if you were
to take it out of the jar and lie it flat with the tail extended, it's
probably about a metre long.
'The dragon is flawless, from the tiny teeth to the umbilical cord. No
matter how closely you look, you cannot tell if it is real.
It could be made from India rubber, because Germany was the world's leading manufacturer of it at the time, or it could be made of wax.
'Or, of course, it might be real.'
Extraterrestrial visitor in Russian province
February 18, 2004
Research of the clothes alien Aleshenka (found in the Ural region) was wrapped in, revealed that this creature has nothing in common with a human being, it is an alien, Moscow expert on UFOs Vadim Chernobrov said in interview to Chelyabinsk media.
This sensation goes back to 1996 to village Kaolinovy near the provincial town of Kyshtym in Chelyabinsk region.
On August 13, 1996 pensioner Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina went to the village cemetery. Poor old lady suffered from psychiatric disease, and her perception of the surrounding world was weird. She used to gather flowers from the graves and decorated her room with these flowers almost every day.
In the evening the woman had supper and went to bed. Suddenly strange "voice" aroused in her brain. It requested Tamara Vasilievna to go to the cemetery again. The lady got dressed, took her torch and went out.
Huge eyes were staring at her out of the closest grave mound. The pensioner approached the grave and saw a strange creature about 25 centimeters in height. This was not a human being.
Tiny onion-shaped head looked like it was composed of five petals. The little creature had no ears, huge slanting catlike eyes occupied the biggest part of its face. The creature could not talk, but it started whistling quietly to attract the lady"s attention. Probably in this manner the alien was communicating in its planet.
The pensioner took the creature to her place. At home she started examining the alien. The body of Aleshenka (the diminutive name she gave to the creature) was plump and was swaying like jelly. The skin on the body was gray and with dark spots in brown on the head. No hair, small holes instead of ears. Small flat nose enabled the creature to breath.
Dark-gray eyes. No eye-lids. The vertical pupils of the eyes were constantly narrowing and expanding.
Long fingers had small sharp claws. No genitals revealing creature"s sex. The creature had no navel which all mammals have.
The woman could not figure out how to feed Aleshenka. Its mouth resembled a tiny hole and had no lips, but it could stretch itself widely. The alien had a complete set of teeth, but too small lower jaw and huge scarlet tongue occupying almost all the mouth cavity disturbed chewing process for it. Tamara Vasilievna put a caramel candy into the creature"s mouth, and the alien started sucking the candy. The lady was gave Aleshenka some milk and water with a tea-spoon.
Moist sweat appeared onto the alien"s body after eating. Aleshenka started disseminating sweet smell soaking clothes and furniture. Tamara Vasilieva wiped Aleshenka with a rag from time to time. The creature was lying and did not move most of the time. From time to time it started stretching its legs.
The next day all the villagers heard of the news: the woman was telling everybody that she got a child and his name is Aleshenka Cute. At first many people thought the child just seemed to Tamara Vasilievna resulting from her disease. However, one day the pensioner"s daughter-in-law (also named Tamara) came to her place. After sitting and talking in the kitchen for a while, the old lady said it was time to feed her child. Her daughter-in-law followed the lady into another room and saw the weird creature wrapped into swaddling band.
Both the daughter-in-law and her mother saw the creature, but they did not report the police about it. They say if Aleshenka was a human child, they would report the police. The creature was not a human being, consequently it was an animal, and there is no reason to report anywhere about it. "Let it be Tamara Vasilievna"s pet. She will take care of it, and she will have something to do", the women decided.
However, a neighbor reported about Tamara Vasilievna to psychiatrists, and one day ambulance came and took the woman to psychiatric hospital. Tamara Vasilievna tried to explain that she left a child in the house,but the doctors did not take her words seriously. The lady"s relatives were not aware of her being taken to hospital, and therefore there was nobody to feed the creature. Soon it died of thirst and hunger. After the alien"s death, its body started drying out and becoming mummified.
Only one person, Vladimir Nurdinov remembered about the creature. He used to come to Tamara Vasilievna"s place, and saw Aleshenka. After hearing that the lady was taken to hospital, the man came to her apartment to take Aleshenka to his house. He was too late, Aleshenka was dead. Dry mummy was lying in bed.
Nurdinov took the mummy to his place. He did not know what to do with it. Soon the police came to the man"s apartment - he was suspected of stealing power cable in Novogorny village. The policemen decided this was the mummy of a child and took it for expertise.
However, doctors claimed the mummified creature has minimum 20 features distinguishing it from a human being. Medical experts rejected the idea that Aleshenka could be a mutant child. During the second expertise, some doctors had this version. The town of Kyshtym is situated in the area contaminated after the accident at the secret object in Chelyabinsk-40 town in 1957. After the accident, freaks are born in the area from time to time. After taking the body from the expertise, the police investigator started researching the version of extraterrestrial visitor in his unofficial investigation - his bosses prohibited him from "doing nonsense".
The investigator decided to ask UFO expert organization called "Star Academy UFO-Contact in Zolotov Method". The Academy was 200 kilometers away, in the town of Kamensk-Uralsky of Sverdlovsk region.
Organization Head Galina Semenkova took the mummified body to conduct its astral expertise. After that the investigator was unable to contact her: the woman"s relatives responded to the phone calls that she "went shopping", "went for a walk" or "is away on a trip". Only recently Galina Semenkova said at the seminar on UFOs in Tokyo what had happened to Aleshenka remains. According to Semenkova, when she was carrying the mummy from Kyshtym to her town, flying saucer appeared in the sky. Her vehicle engine stopped working. Aliens from the flying saucer demanded the body of their dead fellow, and the woman gave them the body immediately.
The detective story of the little alien continued. Japanese TV crew phoned Tamara Vasilievna"s relatives. The Japanese were working on a documentary about Aleshenka and wanted to interview the lady. However, just several days before the Japanese TV crew arrival, tragedy happened. Late at night on August 5, 1999 Tamara Vasilievna somehow showed up on the highway. The psychiatric hospital patient was absolutely naked, the only garment the woman was wearing were socks. Eye-witnesses say it looked like the woman was reacting to somebody"s call. People wanted to take the woman off the highway, but were too late: two vehicles ran into the place where the poor sick lady was standing and caused her instant death.
In 1997 the announcement was posted in the Internet on sale of the mummy of extraterrestrial visitor found in Russia. What is this? Is somebody selling fake mummy of the well-known alien? Maybe no aliens took the mummy to their planet? Probably both the statements are correct. Selling fake mummies of Aleshenka became profitable business. Aliens from Alfa-Centaurus did not stop the woman's vehicle. The mummy is likely to be under the research in some special services laboratory, or just destroyed because of careless treatment. Aleshenka"s remains may also be in the collection of some rich man fond of UFOs.
Aleshenka"s story is still in progress. Japanese decided to sponsor erecting the monument to the alien. Ordinary Japanese donated money for the monument after seeing the documentary "Traces of alien Aleshenka" by Asahi TV company.
Marin Khlybova
UFO SIGHTED OVER CITY
February 19, 2004
This amazing photograph snapped over Plymouth is being called one of the best pictures of a UFO ever taken.
A city-based amateur photographer captured this image when he was trying out his new hi-tech digital camera at night. It shows what can only be described as an 'unidentified flying object' hovering above St Budeaux.
Another, equally stunning, snap shows the same brightly-illuminated object tilted at a different angle.
UFO experts are highly excited by the pictures and the Royal Navy today asked the Herald to supply them with the photos - because they want to study them.
Plymouth-based UFOlogist Bob Boyd has called the snaps among the 'best five' pictures of a UFO he has ever seen - in 25 years of spotting the phenomena. Mr Boyd, chairman of the Plymouth UFO Research Group, said: "It's the real thing."
He claimed the picture had been examined by a photographic expert who confirmed it was genuine.
The man who took the photograph, a dockyard worker living in St Budeaux, didn't realise what he had snapped until he got home and inspected his pictures.
A Plymouth City Airport spokesman said it was 'highly unlikely' it was a commercial flight. Mr Boyd does not know of anybody else reporting the UFO, but said: "That doesn't mean nobody saw it."
Spooky woman haunts Martin's spy camera
A GHOSTLY bride is haunting a bed-ridden man's security camera system.
3/18/2004
Martin Finlayson, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, tuned in to the mysterious woman in white when he checked his CCTV equipment last week.
He swears she came into focus, wearing a wedding dress and holding a child - while sitting on a stool in the middle of the road outside!
And the spectral image stayed with him for about two hours before fading eerily away.
Martin (54), who lives in Drakies Avenue, Inverness, has been confined to bed for the past 10 years.
He uses CCTV to check on people who come to his door.
He told the Highland News:
"I saw this woman sitting in the middle of the road. It looked like a woman in a wedding dress.
"She was looking straight into the camera and then she was holding a child.
"It looked like she was sitting in a seat or on a stool. One leg was not touching the ground.
"At first I thought I was imagining things - I just thought nothing of it.
"But it stayed there and then she moved. It has never been there before."
Martin said the spooky apparition in white remained on his screen for about two hours before gradually starting to fade. It couldn't be seen with the naked eye.
He even asked his wife Catherine to clean the camera's lens and the screen of his monitor.
"There were no marks on them, " he said.
"I thought it could have been that, but they were both clear as a bell and it definitely wasn't the sun that was causing the image. It is the most weird thing I have seen in my life."
Martin said that when a car drove along the street the image stayed where it was.
"If a car went by it just stayed there. It didn't move, it looked as though the car went straight through it or to the side of it.
"There may be some ghost stories from this area but I don't know of any and I don't know of any road accidents along here either.
"I would say there are definitely such a thing as ghosts."
The eerie event reminded Martin of a childhood experience.
"I saw something like this when I was younger and I got the fright of my life, " he added.
"I was cycling back from the Black Isle Show and I went past a fence and thought there was a woman sitting on it.
"I was so frightened I came off my bike."
Welcome to the haunted house
A stately home thought to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain has been opened to the public.
Published: 2004/04/27 15:10:39 GMT
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Ghost snapped at Welsh castle
Things have been going bump in the night more than usual at Craig Y Nos Castle in the Brecon Beacons recently.
May 26, 2004
The castle is well known as the scene of many ghostly tales but these were largely taken with a pinch of salt until a professional research body carried out some research there.
During its investigations The Ghost Research Foundation International (www.grfi.org) an international organisation of ghost researchers, obtained solid evidence that the castle is indeed haunted.
On a tour of the rooms and corridors psychic Norie Miles 'sensed' a spirit on a staircase. No-one saw anything but when photographers of the stairs were downloaded onto a laptop - they realsied they'd caught a ghost.
The photograph appears to be that of a shadowy figure standing on the staircase. Paul Howse, president of the organisation said: "This in itself could be explained as simply shadows. It was totally dark at the time and we were using infrared night vision photography to capture images in zero light conditions. This combined with the fact that the 'figure' was in the precise position that Norie had described makes this an amazing result."
GRFI plans to return to the castle to try and capture more evidence for a whole weekend in September 2004 when it is holding its second 'GhostCon - Ghost Convention' and the public are invited to attend.
"We need lots of extra investigators for the weekend as there is so much research to complete" said Paul Howse.
Date Published: Monday 11 October 2004
Is this a ghost?
THERE was a ghoulish shock in store for Gazette cameraman John Myers when he downloaded photographs taken during a ghost hunt at the famously haunted Red Lion pub in Avebury.
One of his photographs taken of a mirror in the pub restaurant shows a gruesome reflection of a bald, pale faced man streaked with blood.
The photographer was unable to explain how his digital Nikon camera had captured the reflection when there was no-one even faintly resembling the man in the building.
Mr Myers had gone to the Red Lion on Saturday to cover a vigil by a group of supernatural investigators. He remained with them for some time and while in the pub restaurant, where the lights were turned off, he took random pictures.
The cameraman said: "I was just taking random shots around the room to see if I could pick up any orbs or anything."
The "orbs" he was referring to are little balls of light occasionally spotted by ghost hunters and sometimes seen and photographed near crop circles.
He didn't get around to downloading his photographs until two days later when he made the gruesome discovery of the face. Pub landlord Richard Bounds' first reaction to the photograph was: "Bloody hell."
Mr Bounds said: "There was a guy murdered here hundreds of years ago apparently, the original owner.
"It's said that he hid peasants in the cellars but then double crossed them. He was murdered so perhaps it's him."
Mr Bounds said there had been a number of recent spooky happenings in the pub included one his staff feeling somebody touch her. "This happened two or three weeks ago and she was scared rigid," said the licensee.
He said he had never seen anything like the Gazette picture before and added: "It's very bizarre."
Mr Myers was not the only one to pick up unexplained sightings during the vigil by the Swindon-based group, Paranormal Site Investigators.
Organiser Dave Wood said: "Several of us saw strange lights and we did catch some orbs of light on our cameras. Three or four of us picked up the presence of a child or children in one of the upstairs bedrooms and the staff said there had been reports of ghosts of children seen in this bedroom before."
In the cellar, said Mr Wood, some of the psychic investigators taking part in the vigil picked up the presence of a man acting violently with a knife.
He said: "We discovered subsequently from talking to the staff that a man had been murdered in the cellar with a knife several hundred years ago."
While one group was in the cellar a bottle-top remover that had been fixed to the bar on the ground floor was hurled down the stairs. "That brought a couple of blood-curdling screams from our group," said Mr Wood.
One spook who did not put in an appearance for the investigators was the pub's most famous ghost of all, Florrie.
She is said to be the ghost of a woman murdered by her soldier husband when he returned home from the Civil War and found she had been unfaithful.
When former Blue Peter presenter Yvett Fielding went to the pub to film an episode of the TV series Most Haunted she ran from one of the rooms screaming after "something" touched her hair.
PHOTOGRAPHED GHOST SIGHTING IN JULIAN?
(11-17-2004) - People living in Julian have heard the stories for years about ghosts haunting a local hotel. But now an eerie picture is turning some non-believers into believers.
The situation seemed innocent enough - a professional photographer taking snap-shots of an old Julian landmark. But he may have captured an image of a spirit looking him dead in the eyes.
For nearly a hundred years, there's always been a feeling that people inside the Julian hotel are never totally alone.
Ed Masterson thought he was alone Saturday night. Ed's a professional photographer, and he was looking for some interesting shots around town. He came up along side the Julian Hotel.
"I saw the shot of the picket fence and said, okay, I'll take a shot," Ed explained. "Boom, there's these eyes looking right at me. It was freaky."
What looked to be two, large, human eyes appeared in window. A little spooked, Ed's search for answers only brought more questions.
"The larger I made it, the more it appeared to be eyes staring at me," continued Ed. "I don't know what to believe, I'll be honest with ya. I have never, ever taken anything this weird."
Managers at the Julian Hotel didn't want to speak on camera, but did tell us about the legend of Albert Robinson. He's the hotel's original owner, and some say his spirit never left.
Ed brought his vision to the boar's head saloon, an old Julian staple, and from that moment the image was clear.
In fact, spirits are nothing new to folks at the boar's head. In fact, they welcome them. However, not everyone was as convinced as Ed. Some thought it was lighting. But many thought the other world had made an appearance in this one.
Ed isn't a supernatural kind of guy.
"Normally I wouldn't believe. Does it exist, I'd say there's a possibility," Ed added.
But after seeing those eyes, he has come to believe Albert Robinson is more than a name, he's a familiar face.
"Maybe, I have no other explanation," Ed said. "If it's not Albert, it's somebody, so that's it."
Ed Masterson says there was no reflection when he took this picture, no strange shadows, and he used no lighting tricks. Like he said, he's not sure it's a ghost, but he has no other explanation.
Charles Fort letter up for auction
Sunday, February 13, 2005
A curious signed letter by Charles Fort (1874-1932), the "patron saint" of research into anomalous phenomena, is up for auction on eBay. The three-page letter from 1925 is "vintage Charles Fort, as he expounds his views on the stationary earth, visitors from outer space, farming ants, black rain, superstitious birds and more." The auction ends tonight and the current bid is above $300 right now. Link (Thanks, Loren Coleman!)
Misterio de la casa embrujada sigue sin explicación
El living de la casa de los Vera Zúñiga fue durante tres años un campo de batalla entre las fuerzas del bien y un espíritu maligno.
Por Alexis Matamala Olavarría.
Un año después de que la casa embrujada de Llanquihue se hizo conocida en todos los medios de comunicación, aún no hay respuestas sobre las causas de los fenómenos paranormales que atormentan a la familia Vera Zúñiga.
Si a una persona le hablan de cosas que vuelan, se incendian y se rompen, lo más probable es que esta se imagine un estado en guerra. El living de la casa de los Vera Zúñiga fue durante tres años un campo de batalla entre las fuerzas del bien y un espíritu maligno. Todo comenzó en el año 2002 cuando aparecieron agujeros y extraños ruidos en la pared de la cocina de la vivienda ubicada en la calle Ramón Carnicer número 120, que, la dueña de casa Teresa Zúñiga, interpretó como roedores.
"En un primer momento pensamos que los ruidos que sentíamos entre las paredes eran ratones, es lo más lógico, nadie piensa que son espíritus o algo paranormal hasta que ve cosas realmente extrañas. Mandamos a reparar toda la pared de madera y la cambiamos por zinc. Pensamos que eso solucionaría el problema, pero no fue así. Esto continuó y cada vez fue más fuerte", dijo Zúñiga.
Fenómenos
El dueño de casa, José Vera quien vive junto a su esposa y una nieta, relató que en un primer momento no creía en lo que su mujer le contaba. "Un día mientras almorzábamos, mi mujer me contó que creía que una presencia maligna habitaba en la casa, yo no le creí. Justo en ese momento, frente a mis ojos, un tarro de café cruza desde un mueble que se encontraba a tres metros de mí y se estrella en la pared. Eso sólo fue el principio. Gotas de sangre que caían desde el cielo raso aparecieron en el piso de la cocina, los calendarios se incendiaban de forma espontánea, los sillones se movían y los colchones de las camas presentaron cortes".
"Toda mi familia estaba aterrada, mi señora ya no quería que la deje sola cuando salía a trabajar porque temía que este espíritu la atacara. Luego de eso estuvimos tan desesperados que llamamos a Alejandro Ayún para que hiciera un tratamiento a la casa. Lo hizo pero en un principio ni siquiera pudo entrar ya que consideraba que estaba cargada de espíritus diabólicos", recuerda José Vera.
Esos tiempos los rememoran con dolor, hasta el punto de las lágrimas, ya que llevan cinco meses de tranquilidad lograda -según José Vera- por su acercamiento a Dios. "La única manera de expulsar a esta presencia demoníaca fue orar, orar y orar.
Fue difícil, ya que mi familia no era muy apegada a la Iglesia ni teníamos mucha fe en Dios. Habíamos intentado buscar apoyo en muchas partes, pero quienes más nos apoyaron fue la Iglesia Bautista de Llanquihue. Al principio cuando yo comenzaba a leer la Biblia en la casa, las paredes se movían y las cosas de caían. Este demonio no quería que lo espiritual llegara a casa".
El pastor de la Iglesia Bautista, Juan Aroca, dijo que fue testigo de cosas muy extrañas en esa casa. "Esta familia estuvo poseída por un espíritu demoníaco que los atormentaba, confundiéndolos y aterrándolos. Nosotros como Iglesia nos preparamos por una semana para expulsar en una noche de oraciones a este demonio, fue una tarea difícil y cansadora, pero cuando existe fe se puede vencer el mal", aseveró el pastor.
In English
Translation via Babel Fish:
Mystery of the bewitched house follows without explanation Living of the house of the Zúñiga Side was during three years a battlefield between the forces of the good and a malignant spirit. A year after the bewitched house of Llanquihue became well-known in all mass media, not yet there are answers on the causes of the phenomena paranormal that torment to the family Zúñiga Side. If to a person they speak to him of things that fly, they catch fire and they are broken, most probable is than this imagines a state in war. Living of the house of the Zúñiga Side was during three years a battlefield between the forces of the good and a malignant spirit. Everything began in 2002 when they appeared holes and strange noises in the wall of the kitchen of the house located in the street Ramon Carnicer number 120, that, the owner of house Teresa Zúñiga, interpreted like rodents. "About a first moment we thought that the noises that we felt between the walls were mice, it is most logical, nobody thinks that spirits or something are paranormal until he sees really strange things. We commanded to repair all the wood wall and we changed it by zinc. We thought that that would solve the problem, but was not thus. This continued and every time was stronger ", said Zúñiga. Phenomena The owner of house, Jose Side that a granddaughter lives next to her wife and, related that in a first moment he did not believe in which her woman told him. "a day while we had lunch, my woman told me that she thought that a malignant presence lived in the house, I did not believe to him. Just then, in front of my eyes, a jar of coffee crosses from a furniture that was to three meters of me and it crashes in the wall. That was only the principle. Drops of blood that fell from the flat sky appeared in the floor of the kitchen, the calendars caught fire of spontaneous form, the armchairs moved and the mattresses of the beds presented/displayed cuts ". "All my family was terrified, my lady no longer wanted that she leaves it single when she left to work because she feared that this spirit attacked it. After that we were so desperate that we called to Alexander Ayún so that made a treatment to the house. It did it but at first not even it could enter since it considered that it was loaded of diabolic spirits ", remembers Jose Side. Those times recall them with pain, until the point of the tears, since they take to five months of tranquillity obtained - according to Jose Side by his God approach. "the only way to expel to this demonic presence was to pray, to pray and to pray. It was difficult, since my family was not very become attached to the Church nor we had much faith in God. We had tried to look for support in many parts, but that supported to us more it was the Church Baptist of Llanquihue. In the beginning when I began to read the Bible in the house, the walls moved and the things of fell. This demon did not want that the spiritual thing arrived at house ". The shepherd of the Church Baptist, Juan Aroca, said that she was witness of very strange things in that house. "This family was had by a demonic spirit who tormented them, confusing them and terrifying them. We as Church we prepared ourselves by one week to expel in one night from orations this demon, it was a difficult and cansadora task, but when faith exists can be won badly ", she asserted the shepherd.
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