Boston Borough Council Call in Paranormal Investigators

Paranormal investigators have concluded Boston Borough Council’s offices are haunted by the ghost of a former lawyer called Jeremy.

The council released details in November of a number of spooky goings-on at its Municipal Buildings in West Street.

These included a shadowy figure appearing behind a member of staff and then disappearing, disk drawers on computers opening on their own – even when computers have been switched off and a glass flying off the top of a fridge and smashing to the floor.

A number of paranormal groups contacted the council offering to investigate strange events including Boston-based “Paranormal 3”.

They are now analysing their findings, which they claim, point to a friendly haunting by someone who may have worked in the office when that part of the building was the police station.

Breathing and sounds of movement were detected on a recorder left in the unoccupied office next door and devices measuring electro-magnetic waves and static electricity were both set off.

The static electricity device, only activated when a significant presence discharging static electricity passes within close proximity, sounded its alarm twice when it had been left alone in a nearby file room.

The team of four said they were made aware of the presence of a person who worked in a responsible legal position in the building when the council shared space with both the police and fire brigade.

Jeremiah, known to his friends as Jeremy, may have been a lawyer and had a large desk in the office now occupied by the environmental operations team at the council.

His office may have extended into the next door building control office where the recording of someone moving about was made. A stud wall now separates the two.

The investigators said Jeremiah indicated a connection with the Freemasons – and his presence in the real world is accidental and not menacing.

On the day when paranormal investigators arrived, staff complained of a breeze whirring like a fan above their heads, chilling the office despite the heating being on at full blast.

The office is in the oldest part of the 110-year-old Municipal Buildings and close to where the police cells were once positioned. The investigators said another “residual” presence was detected in the file room – that of a slightly built young man.

Tina Woodcock, founder member of Paranormal 3, said: “I have been busy reviewing more of the footage and have discovered the disembodied voice of a man saying what sounds like “Come back” and a male groan.

“The name Jerry, spoken by a male voice, is also heard to come through the white noise on a device that scans radio frequencies.”

Boston Borough Council spokesman Andrew Malkin said he invited the group into investigate as they were the first to show interest.

He said: “They were one of a number of groups to contact us after the unexplained occurrences. I let them in as they asked first.”

Staff member Kayleigh Wagg was confronted by a shadowy figure when making a coffee. She was alone at the time.

She said: “I sometimes get a creepy feeling and there are cold spots in the office. I turned from the fridge after making a coffee and in front of me was this dark figure.

“I screamed and it just disappeared. The office is often really cold even though we have good heating. I don’t like to be here on my own now and if I am I keep the door open with a chair. I never believed in ghosts, but I’m not so sure now.”

Colleague Emma Butler said her computer disk drawer had popped open, even when the machine had been switched off. And she said a glass, which had been placed well away from the edge of the fridge, had smashed to the ground.

Becky Shinn, an environmental crime officers, added: “Something is definitely happening. One day the beam supporting one of the strip lights began to creak and we could see it. There was nothing to cause this and after a while it just stopped.”

Scared mother asks ‘Is there a ghost inside my child?’

A Virginia Beach family is concerned about what’s happening to their 4-year-old son. Following psychological testing, they are convinced there is a ghost inside their child.

According to WTVR, U.S. Marine Sgt. Val Lewis died in a bombing explosion October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, yet 4-year-old Andrew remembers it as his own death.

“He just starts crying hysterically and I say “What’s wrong Andrew?” and he says, “Why did you let me die in that fire?”Andrew’s mother Michele Lucas told WTKR.

The show ‘Ghost Inside My Child’ helped the Lucas family connect the information provided by Andrew to a group of Marines who died decades before Andrew was born.

The family decided to go to Georgia visit the gravesite where Sgt. Lewis is buried. They thought it would give Andrew some closure and close the door on past memories.

“He went right up to the gravesite, he was okay. Put the flowers down and then he took off and ran to another grave and it was a marine and he said, ‘That’s my friend,’” Lucas told WTVR.

Instead of closure, however, the trip to the gravesite produced more questions and even stranger occurrences when they returned home.

“About two weeks ago, there was an emblem on my wall and it was like somebody went up to it and turned it, and it went right back,” Lucas told WTVR. “So it’s kinda creeping me out. I don’t know if I’ve picked up spirits while I was in the graveyard. I don’t know.”

Now the family wonders what they should do next to make it all go away.

This Is What Happens When You Grow Up In A Haunted House

I have one foot firmly enough on ground to know it sounds crazy -- but only one foot. The other half of me believes.

I think houses have spirits. that's why it's important to do your chores and clean up. It shows them you care about and appreciate them, and that changes the energy they radiate back at you. Not like they have veins and a lymphatic system tucked in between the HVAC unit. It's an extension of that feeling you get when you're a kid and your stuffed bear feels sad if he falls off the bed in the middle of the night. 

And not like houses are necessarily haunted with the spirits of deceased humans. I think a house, itself, can be a d-bag. I don't believe houses are alive, per se. But they're definitely not dead.

I know this because I used to live in a mean one. 

Photo: My aunt and I in front of my old yellow house.

I grew up in the Colorado mountains in an old farmhouse. Rumor was, it was built on an old Native American burial site. That would explain why the house's groans sounded like a slow rain stick, and why we found curious objects buried everywhere in our backyard: arrowheads, jewelry, painted rocks. It wouldn't explain the tiny, hidden room behind the bookshelf, though. We never knew what that room was for.

Growing up, I quickly compartmentalized my friends into two categories: Those who were too scared to come over, and those who quite possibly only wanted to be my friend so they could come over. The latter became my best friends, and because I had no other choice, I became one of them: the odd crew. The crystal-collecting, alien-book-reading, scary-movie-watching mountain kids. I wore lacy, floor-length Gunne Sax gowns and full petticoats to school, and my neighbors and I played "circus," when other kids played, well, I don't know. What do normal kids play? I had a club with my five dogs and one (somewhat domesticated) wolf: the Diamond H Club. We had regular meetings to talk about the hauntings, which I chronicled in a "diarrhea" (that's fancy for "diary") entitled "Earth No. 2."

I did a goblin puppet show to the "Labyrinth" soundtrack, when the cool girls sang "My Boy Lollypop" and did gymnastics routines to New Kids On The Block. But how could I care about Jordan (wasn't he the cute one?) when my house was such a grumpy, old brat, and I had to live inside of it? It regularly spit up old, rusty keys -- just randomly on a shelf, or in the corner of the playroom. Sometimes, we'd find piles of ashes (which added to my belief as a child that the carpet was made out of hot lava).

The house to the west of us was struck by lightning -- twice. The house to our east was nearly swept away in a flood. The house directly to the north caught on fire when the propane tank exploded. But our yellow farmhouse with the big red barn remained untouched.

It clearly wanted to be alone. So we moved.

In our new house, which my parents built from the ground-up (an intentional choice after living in a haunted house for a decade), I could feel the difference. At first, it was peaceful. The air was cool, slow and smooth. The new house was young, unscathed, grateful and happy. But something was missing. I was in seventh grade, going through a "theater kid" phase, so my walls were adorned with those ceramic masks that were all the rage in 1992. I remember one night sitting in my room staring at the masks. The eyes were empty. I dared a ghost to tease me. Nothing happened.

Nothing ever happened. It was so boring. I missed my yellow jerkface house, with its raw sense of humor and defiance -- like a pucker-faced old man throwing mashed potatoes at the helpers in the cafeteria, pretending to be senile but totally doing it on purpose. Now, in a very normal house with a very normal temperament, I felt even freakier than before. Now, even asserting that houses could have spirits, I realized how completely ridiculous I sounded. I was an outsider in my own bedroom.

For half of my childhood, I grew up in a haunted house. For the rest of my childhood, I lived in a normal house. This is why I have one foot in reality and one foot on ash-covered, hot lava carpet. Every few years, I still go back to visit that yellow house.

Every time, she tries to shoo me away with a scary stunt, usually involving a rattlesnake. Oh yes, she used to hide those things in my sock drawer at least once a month. I'm used to her old tricks. And secretly? I think she's just a little odd and likes the excitement.

Maybe that's why I visit her, too.

Haunted Plymouth: The Silver Ghost

Could Plymouth State University be haunted? For centuries, tales of ghosts and haunting's have been a cropping up in places all around the world. The origins of these stories can be difficult to trace and stories tend to change as they’re passed along from one generation to the next, but there is always one consistency in each of them; there is something supernatural out there. 

The same applies to PSU’s Silver Center for the Arts. For years, the so-called “Silver Ghost” has been rumored to haunt the halls and theaters of Plymouth State’s performing arts center. For years, stories have been passed along about strange experiences, cold spots, and sometimes even actually sightings of this ghost in and around the Studio Theater and costume shop in the Silver Center. 

“When I first got here there was talk about her,” said Theater Department Chair, Paul Mroczka. “She’s been described as having black hair, dressed all in white, around 19 years old.” 
The Silver Center opened in 1992, and contains three different stages: Hanaway Theater, Smith Recital Hall, and the Studio Theater. The last (and oldest) of which has been rumored to be a frequent haunt of the Silver Ghost. 

“Most of the time people have described running into her in the Studio Theater,” said Mroczka. “She seems to be attracted to certain female performers…some people attract these things, I’m not one of those people.” 

Many theaters throughout America have rich histories of ghost sightings, certain Broadway theaters particularly. This is rumored to have something to do with the fact that so many people come through theaters, either as performers or spectators, and in the afterlife those who had passion for the theater arts just could not bring themselves to leave. On the other hand, there have also been those who say that people with careers in theater just have overactive imaginations. 

There have been those with their fair share of these experiences in the Silver Center. Danee Grillo, the Silver Center’s Costume Shop Manager, described an experience with former student Nicki Mandiola. “In the prop room, there was this tree with fake greenery on it...there are two doors to the room, the other one being locked all the time, and there are no windows. Nicki was talking about the ghost, and as soon as she was finished saying whatever it was, one leaf out of the pile of leaves began shaking and moving really fast. None of the other ones were moving at all.” 

This is only one of the many experiences told by students and staff coming through the theater department. There are those who are certain that there is something there, and there are those who are on the fence about the idea. 

“I have not experienced the Silver Center Ghost personally…I’ve felt like maybe there was something there. Whether it was a ghost or not, I can’t say, but it was certainly sketchy,” said Sophomore Theater Major, Leo Curran. “I don’t see why ghost’s wouldn’t exist…just by sheer lack of knowledge it seems completely plausible that ghosts could exist.” 
There are also those who deny that any such thing is possible. 

“When you’re afraid of the dark in general your mind will compose what it wants to see sometimes,” said Junior Musical Theater Major Nick Kalantzokas. “I think when you’re in a state of anxiety of fear your mind can play tricks on you…I don’t believe in ghosts.”
Whether students believe in the supernatural or not, one can’t help but think about the different stories and experiences that have been told for years, and wonder what other mysteries could be out there. 

Hauntings…Signs You Have A Resident Ghost!

Hauntings…what a terrific topic! They make your skin crawl, your hair stand up on end, your hands

start to shake. We see  them in photographs, in windows, on television. We’ve heard myths about ghosts, tales about poltergeists, and stories about spirits. But there are certain ways you absolutely know there is someone, or something, sharing your house with you.

You know you have a spirit in your house if…you find objects in very strange places. After my father had passed away, I noticed there was a mug way up on the top of the kitchen cupboards. I had to get a chair out to stand on the counter top. Then I had to reach up in order to get hold of the mug. The mug was virtually dust free, while the rest of the cupboard top was covered with dust. Now let’s think about this…a mug…high up…dust free. Only my dad would do that sort of thing.

You know you have a spirit in your house if…you hear unknown sounds. We had to have our family dog put down by a vet. It was very painful for all of us. She was 17 years old and I was 1 when we got her. For years after her death, we could hear her nails clickey clacking on the linoleum flooring…clickety clack, clickety clack…

You know you have a spirit in your house if…taps turn on and off. When we lived in a rental home, we has weird occurrences. One night the kitchen faucet turned on full blast all by itself. Another night the pots and pans rattled in the cupboards. The former owner of the house had passed away and we always felt like she was with us.

You know you have a spirit in your house if…pieces of jewelry went missing. My mother always said that opals were unlucky. Well they must have been because she lost (lost???) every opal earring she ever owned. As well, she lost the opal bracelet that I brought back, for her, from a cruise. I guess we had a spirit who had a fondness for opals.

So there are always ways that you can check for ghosts, I prefer to call them spirits. If you have weird sights, sounds, smells or happenings, then you probably have a spirit living with you. But cheer up, they are probably a loved one looking out for you. Well that’s what I like to think anyway…

Can You See the Ghostly Figure of a Man Captured at the UK's Most Haunted Location?

A ghost expert captured this mysterious image of what looks like a man walking out of a brick wall at the UK's most haunted location.

Nottingham’s Galleries of Justice

During a day at Nottingham's Galleries of Justice with his brother, Simon Brown, a qualified parapsychologist, snapped 100 photographs. He only noticed the figure when he downloaded the picture. What he captured is the same vision as sightings reported by staff and customers throughout the building. The Galleries of Justice were previously a courthouse and a gaol and many sightings, nosies and ghostly experiences have been reported there although never captured in this way. The photo was taken at 4.29pm on Thursday, March 11. Below is Mr Brown's account of the experience.

There is clearly a spectral figure seen at the base of the stairs walking from right to left. To the right where the figure appears to have come from is a modern brick wall.

I was standing at the bottom of the stairs looking directly up at an empty stairwell as seen in the other empty picture taken seconds before this shot.




The only way a figure could be seen walking in this direction is if it walked out of a brick wall. When I took this picture there was no one in the frame and I was the last person who walked up these stairs at the end of the day 4.29 pm. The figure appears to be wearing clothing which you would associate with a turn-of-the-last-century prisoner and dragging its right leg as if in chains.

The Haunting Morning Visitor

Laying in bed at 7am, I heard someone walking up the stairs.

I was too scared to hardly breathe. I thought it was an intruder, but the steps came into the bedroom and I felt someone sit on the bed beside me.

I was sweating to the point I thought I was going to pass out. I knew this was a spirit of some sort.

I said 'please go now' and felt someone get off the bed and the door slightly moved.

This happened every morning for four days and I had nothing from there on.

I try to understand, as it feels someone wanted to see me but meant me no harm. Perhaps it's someone from my past that I miss? I like to think so.

Haunted House? Ghost Sits on Couch

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Schoolgirl Films Weird Mysterious Fire Dragon!

Video Description: This incredible video taken by a school girl captured weird dancing lights as they floated above her house for several minutes.

Katie Real 11 year old, saw a blazing light outside bedroom window in Northampton, she used  her laptop to film it dance in the sky for 39 seconds before it disappeared.
Her mother, Fiona Fearon, 30, said: ‘It looked like a ball of fire – it was weird’, She called local airfield the next day but they said they knew nothing about it. 




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'Jinn' Tree Cut Down In Maldives Attack

A group of masked men targeted the tree after it had been blamed for the possession of three children.

A group of masked men broke into Thakandhoo School in Haa Alif atoll after threatening the security guard with a knife in order to cut down what they claimed was a ‘Jinn Tree’ with evil spirits.

Thakandhoo Island Council Vice President Ibrahim Saeed said the incident happened around 3am this morning.

“Three masked men jumped over the school wall last night and one of them threatened the security guard with a knife. And while he held the security guard, the other two went in with a hand saw and cut down the tree,” he said.

The Maldives Police Service confirmed that the incident is currently under investigation and that a police team from Ihavandhoo arrived on the island within an hour of the incident.

Local media outlet CNM has reported that the tree is approximately 13 years old and was planted by the school staff.

“It was a beautiful tree planted to give a good look to the school compound. Sometimes students try to climb it, and last year three students were possessed by Jinns,” CNM was told by the school staff member.

“People say it is because of that tree, so we even brought five people to look into the matter. But even they didn't recommend to cut down the tree.”

CNM also quoted the staff member as saying that the Jinns [of the tree] had already “stabilised” when it was cut down last night.

Fanditha politics

Speaking to Minivan News, a local who supported the cutting down of the tree said that many believed the tree was connected to the jinn possession of children last year.

“Thing went really bad last December,” explained the local man. “Many of those children have recovered now but there is a child who is still possessed. And there is young girl who loses consciousness whenever she walks past by this tree.”

“Even when things are like this, the island is so politically divided that these issues are politicised and an agreement is not reached as to how it should be dealt with.”

He said the rivalry between two group of islanders dates back to the pre-democracy era and that issues have further polarised with party politics.

“Fanditha practice is very common here. The island is divided into two rival groups even before party politics.”

“But now it [the divide] is [politically] coloured, and represented by supporters of PPM [ruling Progressive Party of Maldives] aligned with the former island chief’s family and friends, and those supporting MDP [opposition Maldivian Democratic Party]. There are magicians on both sides,” he explained.

Last September a group of ‘Islamic exorcists’ uncovered ‘hexed clay tablets’ buried near the school compound following a series of ‘jinn possession’ incidents. A police team went to the island with a court warrant and searched all the houses for black magicians and traditional fanditha magic related objects.

The incident, which took place as the whole country was preparing for the second (cancelled) round of presidential election, left the island community in shock and fear.

MDP supporters from the island claimed it was a political plot to frame their members for practising black magic as reports of black magic emerged across the country during the 2013 election period.

Practice of black magic is a criminal offence under Shariah Law, which it is punishable by death – a sentence still handed down for the offence in countries like Saudi Arabia.

In 1953 local black magician Hakim Didi was sentenced to death in the Maldives for practising magic which eventually lead to the murder of an atoll chief by poisoning and use of black magic in a plot to kill President Mohamed Ameen Didi.

Along with a group of magicians and other co-conspirators, Hakeem Didi is said to have confessed to carrying out many disturbing black magic practices. These include the brewing of a magic poisonous fish potion, the extraction of liver oil from corpses of children, and eating them along with flour dough effigies of the president.

Didi was executed by a firing squad, after which there has been an unofficial moratorium on death penalty in the Maldives.

The permitted forms of white fanditha magic are also regulated by the government and can be legally practised only with a written permission from the Ministry of Health according to the Traditional Medicine, Fanditha (Magic), Circumcision and Midwifery Services Act of 1978.

The Philip Experiment

The Philip Aylesford Experiment: Can you Create a Ghost?

One of the most impossible of seances ever conducted was the Philip Experiment of 1972. In an attempt to venture the true meaning of the Buddhist concept of "tulpas" or thought forms, a group lead by famed psychical researcher Dr. A. R. G. Owen set off to 'create" a real ghost through a series of seances. The experiments did succeed, and resulted in the birth of a most incredible entity...

The Experiments Begin...
In the early 1970s, the Toronto Society of Psychical Research (TSPR), a paranormal research group based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was influenced by the Tibetian idea of "tulpas", the idea that with the power of the mind, people's thoughts can be projected into the material world. Accordingly, the TSPR decided to test the legitimacy of the belief, and thus established a little group of 8 members from different sections of society, including poltergeist expert Dr. A. R. G. Owen and his wife. Other members, however, had no noticeable relation with the supernatural realm. Thus, the group set off on its first step to create a fictional character named Philip Aylesford.

Philip is Born
The group climbed their first rung of success as they created the imaginary character of Philip Aylesford, a nobleman of Medieval England with a complicated a life ending tragically in a suicide. Thus, they drew up a portrait of his (as you can see above) and wrote up the following biography of his life:

• “Philip was an aristocratic Englishman, living in the middle 1600's at the time of Oliver Cromwell. He had been a supporter of the King, and was a Catholic. He was married to a beautiful but cold and frigid wife, Dorothea, the daughter of a neighbouring nobleman.

• One day, when out riding on the boundaries of his estates, Philip came across a gypsy encampment and saw there a beautiful dark-eyed girl. Her name was Margo, and he fell instantly in love with her. He brought her back secretly to live in the gatehouse, near the stables of Diddington Manor – his family home.

• For some time he kept his love-nest secret, but eventually Dorothea, realizing he was keeping someone else there, found Margo, and accused her of witchcraft and stealing her husband. Philip was too scared of losing his reputation and his possessions to protest at the trial of Margo, and she was convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake.

• Philip was subsequently stricken with remorse that he had not tried to defend Margo, and would pace the battlements of Diddington in despair. Finally, one morning his body was found at the bottom of the battlements, whence he had cast himself in a fit of agony and remorse.”

The Group MeetingsAs a second step, the group began to hold informal sittings in September 1972, where they would sit under normal atmospheres, discuss about Philip's life and meditate on him, trying to picture a "collective hallucination". Although certain members occasionally felt a strange presence in the room, hardcore evidence was absent. Thus the group now decided to try something more traditional, something that has been used for spirit conjuring since ages.

The Seances
At the advice of psychologist Kenneth J. Barcheldor, the group decided to hold seances and try to communicate with the spirit of Philip. Thus, they darkened the room, sat around a table, surrounded themselves with pictures of Medieval buildings and artefacts of that time frame, and tried to conjure Philip through chants and songs. Slowly and slowly, Philip began to communicate with the group by producing rapping noises on the table. When asked, he would answer questions regarding his likes and dislikes, his life and things of his own time. He would not only produce rapping sounds, but also move, slide and left the table. He would dim the lights and make cold breeze blow in the room. Sometimes, a thick mist developed at the centre of the table in his presence. People touching the table often felt a current passing through their bodies. The table would, in fact, rush to welcome latecomers and corner members in the room. However, Philip failed to answer any questions that was not in knowledge of any member of the group, proving that he was only a figment of their collective imagination.

The most significant seance was performed before a live audience of 50 spectators, where Philip moved the table by a few inches and produced rapping noises. The seance was caught on camera and the actual video of it taking place....

This was not, however, the first time such an experiment had been conducted. Similar experiments have been tried with a fictional teenage girl Skippy and the futuristic man Axel. All these experiments bore somewhat similar results. Although the Philip Experiment failed in its primary goal to materialize Philip as a being, it did verify the "tulpa" concept to a great extent, and successfully became one of the most bizarre and successful afterlife experiments. 

Can You Conjure A Ghost With Your Mind?

In the 1970s a group of researchers conducted a unique experiment to create their own paranormal entity. 

Known as the 'Philip Experiment', the endeavour involved para-psychological researchers from the Toronto Society for Psychical Research and aimed to determine if it was possible to manifest an entity using nothing more than the power of the mind. 

 To do this, the group started out by creating a complete history for their entity, who they called Philip. Over the space of a year they talked about this fictional individual amongst themselves, focusing on what he would look like and willing him to appear to them. 

 Finally in 1973 during a seance, Philip actually started to communicate to the group by rapping on the table and causing the lights to dim. The results were so impressive that they attempted the same thing again in front of a video camera and audience, this time succeeding in having the table levitate in front of more than 50 people. 

 But what do these results mean? Could the Philip Experiment indicate that with enough willpower it is possible to break through and connect with the other side or does it imply that paranormal experiences are in fact nothing more than a product of the human subconscious?