The Supernatural

"It's a stretch of road, up north in Maine that's never ever, ever seen a smile…"Those words from the song "A Tombstone Every Mile" refers to the isolated highway in Maine that most folks called the Haynesville Woods. Country singer Dick Curless recorded this song in 1965 and it proved to be his biggest hit. For many years, this section of Route 2 has made its way through some lonely and remote parts of Maine. Truck drivers and motorists alike dreaded traveling through the Haynesville Woods, especially during the cold and snowy New England winters. The place naturally developed a sinister reputation. A native of Maine, Curless was one of the few country stars to come out of the Northeast. He was also a former truck driver who knew all too well the dangers of traveling through the Haynesville Woods. The song talks about all the truck drivers and others who were killed in accidents along this stretch of road, hence the title "A Tombstone Every Mile." Any place that could inspire a song like this one must be scary. And it is probably haunted by those who didn't make it out of there alive. For many years, people living in that section of Maine talked about seeing a woman in white walking along the road at night. She would appear out of nowhere in front of a tractor-trailer and ask the startled truckdriver for a ride. She would tell the driver that she and her husband had just been in a terrible wreck and they needed help. Those drivers who encountered the mysterious woman said later they could feel a weird chill when she got into their trucks. As they exited the dark Haynesville Woods, the woman would then vanish without a trace, according to a Web site.The story behind the ghostly hitchhiker was that a newly married couple traveled through the Haynesville Woods one dark night. The husband was drunk and driving and the car crashed into a telephone pole. He died instantly. It is believed that his young wife crawled out of the wrecked car and she froze to death in the snow.Folks living in that part of Maine believe that the young bride still wanders Route 2, desperately looking for someone to help.

Who you gonna call? How about 911? A and E is seeking to one-up Sci Fi's "Ghost Hunters" with a new series that blends paranormal investigation with law enforcement. "Paranormal Cops," tentatively slated to premiere this year, will feature a group of Chicago police officers who moonlight as ghost chasers at night. Given the team's law enforcementcredentials, the concept seeks to add a new layer of credibility to a genre that has featured ghost hunting teams founded by professional plumbers, college students and academics.The police group includes four officers, two tech assistants and a "medium." The ghost-chasing group existed before the show's producers came along, a network spokesman said, and the officers' respective departments have approved the venture.The networkalso announced a third season of its similar show, "Paranormal State," which features a group of Penn State University college students.

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Do you believe in ghosts? Although sometimes a silly question, Do You Believe in Ghosts? has been a fundamental aspect of all human culture since long before recorded history. Belief or disbelief in ghosts crosses all past and present civilizations, cultures, countries, religions, ethnicities and belief systems. Accounts of individuals crossing from the physical to the nonphysical and then communicating with the living are found in everything from ancient cave drawings to the Bible, from folklore to scientific journals to local newspapers.While a generous slice of humanity readily or reluctantly believes in ghosts, a larger slice refuses to believe in the paranormaldespite stories of hauntings in cities and towns across the world.

And while a good percentage of ghost sightings are faked, false alarms or practical jokes, another good percentage is believed to be the real thing.Still, individuals talking about their encounters with the paranormal to people in their everyday lives will almost always be met with cynicism. Psychics communicating with the dead can all too easily be debunked. And until recently, paranormal groups were considered as not much more than bunches of weirdoes and crazies.So what do paranormal investigations and investigators need to do to change the perception? Change the rules. Over the last few years, paranormal groups have redirected their efforts from communicating with spooks to aimingto prove the paranormal exists... scientifically. As in creating a sophisticated and controlled environment at the site of a haunting by using an array of devices and technologies that were not sensitive or powerful enough, or available that long ago. Cable shows such as Ghost Hunters now focus on capturing provable paranormal evidence by digital video, sound, images, electromagnetic waves, and other scientific principles. The goal of modern ghost hunting is conducting paranormal investigation less focused on wandering around a haunted site trying not to be scared, and more focused on helping the discipline become an accepted branch of natural science.But what about the ghostly shoulder taps? Forms in corners? Flashes of swirling light? Voices onvoice r...

Every now and then a query reaches me regarding a Horned Man, who is said to haunt the outskirts of Kirkby. This Herne-like figure was first reported in the 1890s (but probably seen much earlier) around Clarke’s Farm, off Glover’s Brow, which is now Prescot Road, leading to Melling Mount.The figure looked like a crouching man with deer-like antlers, and was usually seen in the winter months. Whenever this peculiar humanoid ‘maninal’ was chased, it always seemed to go to ground at Bank Brook, where dogs sent to track the horned entity would lose its scent.At Christmas 1897, a 10-year-old girl named ElizabethJohnson, was staying at her aunt’s cottage on Shevington’s Lane in Kirkby, when she overheard the cook and maidservant whispering about a recent sighting of the Horned Man. On Boxing Day, Elizabeth rose early and left a tray of mince pies and some turkey in the snow for the unidentified creature, and minutes later, when she looked from her bedroom window, she saw the mysterious oddity creep across the snowfields to the silver tray, which it lifted up and made off with. Elizabeth was scolded for losing the expensive tray, but the Horned Man returned it on the following morning, leaving it at the cottage gate.

His nearby hoof marks were tracked as far as Bank Brook. There have been many sightings of the horned hybrid over the years, especially in the 1970s, around the English MartyrsSchool playing field near Windermere Drive, and there was even a sighting of the weird unidentified ‘cryptid’ a few weeks back off Bank Lane. If you have any information about this entity, please email me. Almost every Christmas Eve, the ending of an old romance from some bygone time can be heard in the night’s icy stillness. If you stand beneath a certain balcony on Canning Street around midnight on that date, you may hear lovers who have long turned to dust, bidding one another a tearful goodbye. The voices have been heard by many people over the years, including myself. ‘I will love you forever,’ sobs a young female voice on the balcony. ‘Always?’ queries a broken male voice on the pavement. ‘Yes, forever,’ she answers and asshe cries......