Bouts of hysteria after 'ghostly sightings'

Ghost photographed in Romania

A hotel in Romania has become a local attraction after a photograph of a ghost was published by newspapers and television. The ghost of a tall woman in a long white dress reportedly watches the hallways and staircases of the Decebal hotel, in the Baile Herculane mountain spa.The 150-year-old hotel isbelieved to hide ancient Roman treasure under its foundations and the ghost is said by locals to keep treasure hunters away. The hotel has been closed for renovations for five years but people who ha...

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The South Shields Poltergeist

Danny Penman: Marc and Marianne undressed themselves and quickly slipped under the duvet. Although the heating had been on for many hours, it was unusually cold in their normally snug bedroom. Soon they hoped to be as warm as toast and drifting off to sleep after a hard day looking after their boisterous three-year-old son Robert. Seconds later, Marianne was hit on the head by their son’s toy dog. She sat bolt upright in bed with a bemused look in her eyes. The cuddly toy was clearly aimed at he...

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Phantom Call in Iraq

(A true story posted by a reader of Paranormal Phenomena at About.com) I am a soldier in the US Army and was recently deployed to the Iraqi desert with a medical unit in support of OIF. We were in the middle of nowhere in these abandoned buildings, and several people have experienced "strange phenomena" while we were there, but this is my experience. One night while I was on guard duty, our duty phone rang. My battle buddy and I assumed it was an emergency and someone was hurt,...

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Angry Ghost Caught On TV?

Televisions crews, psychics and paranormal investigators have been flocking to a store in Gloucester, England, that seems to have video proof of the existence of ghosts.After finding the store a mess one morning staff at Poundstretcher on Eastgate Street examined CCTV footage of the night before. What shocked them was the sight of a ghostly figure of a Victorian woman pushing a whole pallet ofgoods to the ground.A bit of research shows that the shop stands on the site of an old Theat...

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Ghostly figure photographed on Yorkshire moors

THIS ghostly figure was snapped by a holidaymaker on the moors of North Yorkshire — and experts reckon the eerie photo is GENUINE. Unsuspecting Colin Foster, 34, aimed his new digital camera at the winter scenery during a trip earlier this year. He didn’t spot anything unusual until he returned home from his backpacking tour and began checking the photos he had taken. Colin said: “My girlfriend and I were looking through them when she grabbed my hand and said, ‘Stop’. “She insisted I z...

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Ghost-hunting skeptics

When Carol Copeland started renovating her World War II-era Stockton home a year ago, things started to happen that were unexplainable, she said. At first, when she came home to find an empty shelf ripped out of her bedroom wall, she blamed it on faulty carpentry. When she heard the sound of footsteps and her name being called aloud, she brushed it off. But when she watched as a shot glass collection flew off a shelf in her living room, she said, there was no denying it anymore. “I always said I...

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Shadow people, poltergeists or demons ?

A man details his terrifying experiences with the unexplained during the 1980"s in Toronto, Canada."My experiences took place in the early 80"s in Toronto, Canada, and just like the fellow writing of his experiences on your site, mine also took placein a very old house. The house then was at least 75 yrs old and has since been razed to the ground and a brand new structure built in its place.When my family moved in there we...

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Is Highway Sheila for real?

Recently, a number of people have claimed to have seen ghostly Highway Sheila in the Chatsworth area, which she is said to haunt. Legend has it she is a restless spirit who is often seen by motorists in the middle of the road signalling them to stop. One tale has it that a man stopped to give Highway Sheila a lift one chilly night and lent her his leather jacket. When he dropped her off, he forgot his jacket.The next day, when hereturned to her home to pick it up, the woman who answered the door...

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Something strange in the neighborhood? Call ghost hunters

A sliver of a moon illuminates gravestones and a motley group treading slowly over fresh-cut grass. It has been several hours since the search began. Suddenly, the thermal gauge, held in the palm of one member's hand, registers a steady temperature drop: from 67, to 54, then 42 -- and finally to 34 degrees. "It's colder here," the member reports. Just then, the lights on the electromagnetic field detector begin flashing, drawing the group deeper into the grounds. The gr...

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Have scientists found proof of ghosts ?

New research in to the acoustics of paranormal sounds may prove that they are neither natural nor human in origin.Conducted by Dr. Barrie Colvin the research is to be published in the respected Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. He found that the properties of sounds thought to be of paranormal origin such as raps, bumps and other noises are fundametally different in their acoustic properties to the type of sounds we otherwise encounter in ourdaily lives. These startling co...

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