GHOST HUNTERS

I saw this documentary on instant watch on Netflix and it was fascinating. I was both horrified and very sad and also comforted at the same time. By the time it was done, my typical American fear of dead bodies and dealing with death was gone. “A Family Undertaking: POV” is an amazing PBS documentary that shows how even today family members can and do opt to do a loving funeral themselves, sometimes involving the dying person in the details of their homemade casket and such. The process is watched with people who are dying and their funeral by their family members. It’s very intimate and very strange and surreal, but also in the end very loving and almost joyous. As I will do for posts this month, the following is a list of movies that this subject might inspire you to watch - if you dare! SAFETY COFFINS In the Victorian era, a lot of hysterica abounded about being accidentally prematurely buried. Safety coffins were the rage with a bell attached to a string within the coffin so the b

Want to know what haunted attractions are happening in your area? Look up your state in HauntWorld.   You can also look up hay rides and corn mazes, pumpkin patches and real haunts. Wow! Love this site! Here's the one Julie and I will do in October and report back about with photos and video - The Crypt in Mesa, AZ A theme of a cryptkeeper and restless spirits in the vault. It also includes the Asylum - with a mental hospital theme. Are you lucky enough to be in New York? Here's one that sounds like my ideal - Headless Horseman Hay Rides and Haunted Houses This one in Ulster Park, NY promises this  "In 2013 guests travel on a one-mile hayride journey witnessing their futures unveiled as a fortune teller reads from a cursed deck of Tarot Cards. The haunted attractions also include: The Lunar Motel, Glutton's Slaughter House, The Root Cellar, Dark Harvest Corn Maze, Nightshade Greenhouse, Dr. Dark's Black Spider Sideshow, The Feeding, Dahlia Blood's Manor,

“The eyes of that extinct species of giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.” Abraham Lincoln Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian text) tells of the Annunaki who were said to be giants and part human/part god.  "The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. They were also regarded as giants [Hebrew rephaim], like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim ( Deuteronomy 2:10–11 )." Bible According to the Paiutes , the Si-Te-Cah were red-haired band of cannibalistic giants. According to Native Americans in the Ohio Valley area , the giants were here when the paleo-indians first entered the continent and this giant race was violent and evil. The Natives gathered forces to fight them off and kill off the last of them, so they believed. New York Times May 4, 1912 First reported in the 4 May 1912 issue of the New York Times, the 18 skeletons found by the Peterson brothers on Lake Lawn

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Does the body carry the mind around or does the mind carry the body around? We are more than just our physical limitations as a "solid object." We know this because every night we enter the dream world and during our work days we enter the daydream world. There are many ways in which our mind escapes the confines of our bodies and even travels distances and time. Just as you're falling asleep, in that wonderfully blissful relaxed state, your entire body takes on a rushing sensation as if you are free falling; you startle, your body jumping, as you come awake with a protective reaction. You have just experienced something 70% of all people do at some point - a hypnic jerk. The "Silver Cord" is a term used to explain a kind of psychic spiritual strand of light that holds our spirit to our body. When that cord is severed, we are fully dead, but those who experience NDEs feel a sense of separating from the body and then when returned to continue their physical life,

Tales From a Gas-Lit Graveyard Assembled by an authority on vintage thrillers, these 17 Victorian-era stories of the macabre include works from around the world by both popular and lesser-known authors. Among the more celebrated contributors to this collection are Ambrose Bierce, Robert Barr, R. Murray Gilchrist, Mrs. H. H. Riddell, Richard Marsh, and Guy Boothby. Ghost in the Mirror Inside Ghost in the Mirror , Rule documents more than dozens of stories of paranormal apparitions that reveal themselves on the other side of the looking glass. Rule's painstaking archival research presents factual clues to each haunting, along with her own dramatic black-and-white photographs that capture the eerie unrest of the scenes she explores. Servants of the Supernatural "Servants of the Supernatural takes us on a joyously weird circuit of the Victorian obsession with the supernatural... Riotously enjoyable." Judith Flanders "Fascinating... brings to life the wonderful

I've been photographing this abandoned trailer park for several years, each time finding more and more of it gone. Originally other trailers and shed have long since been taken down and hauled away. Just one stubborn trailer remained and the other day, Julie (my co-author) and I found it collapsed. The trash items all around the desert were still strewn all over the place and this time a pack of dogs awaited us, wild ones.  Ironically, my son who did a film about the place while in college, had written a short story inspired about it of a man trapped in his trailer while the hounds of hell taunted him. That story went through my mind as we approached to photograph. Vultures flew around overhead in silent circles. As always, we ran into yet ANOTHER boat in the desert - And the trailer was rather fascinating - It gets even odder that we felt compelled to go see the place, feeling like it might be gone. And, it was definitely collapsed on its last leg. As well, the night before we we

We have been taught an education through educational institutions, religious institutions and even the government that is false. It's a history that is biased, that is at times downright rearranged and rewritten to fit their purposes. Always question the inconsistencies in your education and don't ever hold these institutions to be beyond free will and individual thought. Reconstruction the Giant Skeleton rediscovered in Loja in Ecuador 19 October 2012. Filed under: Anomalies (Source: Global333) in the province of Loja, in the So uth of the Ecuador and the Peru border, residents remember hearing long ago in the beautiful valleys in this province were reportedly discovered skeletons very similar to those of humans, but of an incredible size. .

Belief is a powerful thing and it colors how we explain things in the world. If someone loses a loved one and believes in God's Will, he believes this was the person's time. One who believes in random acts of living believes it was just plain old bad luck and timing.  Same evidence (death of a loved one) interpreted two very different ways. We can believe in Bigfoot, aliens and UFOs or ghosts, but when that explains evidence to us, then we are not employing critical thinking. A sound in a reportedly haunted location does not a ghost make. It makes a sound. A sound is not evidence of anything except a physical dynamic creating an audible outcome. Someone recently shared a video of a reported Bigfoot. Besides the very contrived setting of the filming, all that was seen was a glimpse of something that looked hairy, moving out of frame within seconds. There were no details.  Someone in the BF community insisted it was legit because the witness was well respected. But, witness and e

You dream that your uncle dies. The next day, you get a call from your aunt; your uncle died. You go to sleep and during the night you dream about the house shaking. You wake up in the morning, stumble into the living room, turn on the news and find out a big earthquake hit in Guatemala. Even people who do not consider themselves psychic, at some point in the lives, have a dream of some impending calamity. My son, a few days before Billy Mays the TV pitch-man passed away, said he had a dream that Billy Mays died under questionable means. He woke up feeling sad that it had happened until he realized, the man was still alive. Days later, when Billy Mays passed under questionable means, my son shook his head. "I don't want that skill." Understandably, those who rarely have prophetic dreams are uncomfortable with these events. But, those of us who have had many over many years, have to learn a new attitude about this ability to see briefly into an event that, to us feels as i

  Tonight's show is going to rock! We have on a dream specialist -  Dr. Gillian Holloway has been on the faculty of Marylhurst University for 20 years. Her work with dream research is known internationally and she is the author of four books on discovering meaning in our dreams. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times Health Blog, magazines such as Shape, Allure, Cosmopolitan, Self and Women's World. She is a veteran of over 500 radio and television interviews including Coast to Coast a.m. and ABC's 20/20. 9 pm EST/8 PM Central/6 pm Pacific Paranormal Geeks Radio  

This fun project was very cheap to make and yet had a very creepy effect.  It cost about $45 for this 30 x 44 inch large mirror that looks old and worn and has semi-translucent black-eyed children peering out. One 30 x 44 inch glass picture frame from Goodwill only 24.99 2 cans of looking glass spray paint by Krylon 1 container black acrylic paint 1 container crackle medium 1 container ivory paint printer paper Print life-sized photos of Victorian kids in black and white (eyes blacked out) Cut them out, glue with mod podge glue them to glass. Wet your fingers and rub some of the paper away from the ink along the edges to soften the "cut-out" effect. Spray the back of the glass (back of the pictures too) with looking glass paint. Don't worry about making it too perfectly even because you can create an aged glass look out of imperfections. Paint picture frame black. Let dry. Paint with crackle medium. Let dry. Top coat frame with ivory paint and it will crackle in minutes.

I am more obsessed with the outside of the home than the inside and I also love gothic atmosphere. There are a lot of wonderful ways to add creepiness, mystery, magic and frights to a garden. You might want to begin with wrought iron. Nothing says cemetery, Victorian Era , and Gothic better than wrought iron fencing, gates, furnishings, and details. Think in terms of hidden spaces and overgrowth, shadows and structures. Cryptic -that's critical for spookiness. It's what you can't see, what you have to meander to find, what you have to poke around in to discover that keeps the mind uneasy. Architectural details can give a very spooky feel, especially if they are worn, broken, and look like you stole them from an ancient church. The last thing you want to do is something neat and modern. Look at how the stone is broken as if it were ancient and yet left there in place as if no one had tended to it in centuries. Let vines grow up. Use brick for the ground that is beaten do