Check out this site. http://downriverpit.webs.com They're based here in Michigan, and I'm a member of the site. My brother, his friend and his girlfriend are the founders. You'll notice I've made most of the comments on the pics. Hoping that others would join in the conversations and postings. Tell me, and them what you think. Just something to get the wheels turning to discuss what goes bump in the night.
I absolutely believe in ghosts and the paranormal, having seen evidence of both with my own eyes, so I of course went to the web site.
I'm afraid the images where so grainy that I couldn't see what was being shown to me, even when it was outlined in yellow, so I didn't leave any comments. Sorry.
I love it, but I don't believe since I've never experienced anything.
I love this really spooky Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G74ZJrG4ICc
There was an interesting episode of the Skeptoid podcast that explains how many ghost hunters don't understand how their electronic tools work http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4081
There was an interesting program on PBS recently that discussed ghost in the London subways that mentioned the effect of low frequency "infrasound" on people as a possible explanation of some haunted locations.
http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/ghost/theories-infra.html
The subject interests me (I've seen plenty), but unfortunately for me, ghosts like me so much they will attach themselves to me if they can....so I tend to stay away from haunted places including cemetaries. Getting rid of unwanted spirits can be a pain in the arse!!!
I, too, have had my share of experiences - some as calm as sharing the same room for several minutes, and others that scared me half to death. And like RR, I have to be very careful because they like to attach to me. (We must have some strange sort of energy that attracts them.)
Last week I spent four hours in a basement so loaded with ghosts no one should have been able to last in there more than two minutes. Of course, I was killed nine times.
My sister says- "In order to see ghosts you have to have the gift." Okay, in this case, I'll just skip the gifts and go for the cake. :-[
I am a definate believer, having seen for myself. My nephew and I both have the gift...I plan on encouraging my son as well when he is old enough.
I'm a strong believer of the Paranormal. There were a few times when I've seen things that had no
explaination. I have a question about picture #3 in the Investigation Album. I saw the orb, couldn't make out the face in which was described but I saw something else in the picture that I can't make out what it is, maybe you can shine some light on the subject. Between the orb and the tree in the background there is something there that looks like someone standing beside another tree. Any ideas?
Good eye, It does look like a person. I wasn't on this particular investigation so I don't know if anyone was standing there. I'll have to ask them.
Very cool, thank you for sharing
I've seen three ghosts and that is enough to last me forever.
Unfortunately orbs are pretty much debunked as dust in the air caught by the camera flash. That being said, I'm currently reading the book The Most Haunted House in England (1940) by Harry Price one of the most well known psychical researchers of his time. http://www.harryprice.co.uk/index.html
A fun book to check out is Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393329127?ie=UTF8&tag=turninglibrary-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0393329127) It's an entertaining historical survey of investigations into the afterlife. Did you know in the early 1900's that regular cheesecloth was the most common prop used by fake medium's to simulate ectoplasm?
One of the most interesting bits was a University of Virginia operating room experiment where cardiologists have installed a laptop up high where no one can see it during the procedure, and it displays a random image. After the cardiac surgeries where they stop the person's heart, they ask the patient if they had an out of body experience. No positive responses as of the printing of the book, but an interesting idea.
Eh, I tell myself that they don't exist so that I can get some dem sleep.
*they don't exist, they don't exist, no my walls aren't bleeding*
It's only a movie, It's only a movie... ::)
Never missed an episode of Ghost Hunters since its beginning.
I have experienced a couple of different kinds of hauntings.
The GH are very informative about anything you would want to know. PJB got me and my sister a copy of their latest book when he met them and had it signed. I haven't read it yet, but my sister's telling me all about it.
PJB lives only about 15 minutes from their hq. Yes, I'm dragging him there when I go.
I catch orbs all the time. Just because you catch an orb, doesn't necessarily prove anything. As said, it's usually dust or a bug. There are, however, certain orbs that can't be debunked. You just have to know what to llok for. I'll see what sites I can dig up that can clarify that.
They told me no one was there. In front of them, so maybe you're seeing something they didn't pick up. They also told me our eyes maybe matrixing, which is the body's/eyes natural ability to find familiar shapes in distorted images.
Thank you for the reply.
No problem. I just hope they go on more investigations. I may even join them. Once the weather breaks, we'll probably do more.
We hope to see more people from Michigan join the DPIT site, and come forward with more stories and we'd be able to discuss more about the areas hauntings, but it seems pretty slow at this time. But, even people fro out of state are welcome to join on and share their stories and have fun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2343015.ece
AN eerie image of a figure at a Scottish castle has got ghost experts spooked.
The scary shot was unearthed during the biggest ever investigation into photographic evidence of ghosts.
The picture, taken in May last year, shows a spectral figure in fifteenth century dress peering out of a barred window at Tantallon Castle in Fife.
No mannequins or costumed guides are used at the castle and photo experts have confirmed that no digital trickery was used.
Even ghost sceptic Professor Richard Wiseman admitted to being puzzled.
"It is certainly very curious," he said.
' We ran it by three photographic experts and they said it hadn't been Photoshopped at all '
"The figure appears to be in period costume, but we know 100 per cent that Tantallon Castle is not the sort of place that has dummies or costumed guides; they just don't go in for that sort of thing.
"I suppose it could be a visitor looking a little bit strange. Perhaps someone will come forward. Another possibility is an odd reflection of sunlight, but it does look very like a person. The explanation is not obvious."
Tantallon Castle, a ruined fortress dating back to the 14th century, stands on a remote rocky headland near North Berwick on the East coast of Scotland. It was badly damaged in an attack by Oliver Cromwell's forces in 1651.
Christopher Aitchison, who took the photo, said: "I was not aware of anyone, or anything, being present in my picture."
Psychologist Prof Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who has made many studies of the supernatural, launched the investigation a month ago.
Members of the public were asked to submit ghostly images for experts to analyse, the best of which were posted on the website www.scienceofhauntings.com.
More than 250 pictures were received from all over the world and more than a quarter of a million people voted for what they considered to be the most convincing photos.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting stuff, I foudn a few very easily debunked though myself. But, a few not so easy. So my skepticism grows.
Our 1925 house has at least one ghost. Have not seen it (them), but when we were first moving in, I was there cleaning and waiting for the guy to come turn on the gas. None of our stuff was there yet, but I distinctly heard something fall and crash. Looked all over - nothing. I said nothing to Lawrence, and a few days later, he announced that he thought we had a ghost, having heard the same thing when he was there another day. He swears he's heard pacing and footsteps since we've moved in.
We're going to do some research and see if we can find out about the original owners and those who came after.
My father is co-founder of a paranormal group down here in TX. I run the website, and occasionally go with them on investigations... I have to say, nothing has ever happened to me while there, though there have been evps that have sounded directed at me while we were at the theatre I worked at. That was a bit unnerving... www.stockyardsparanormal.com Most of the pictures on the website are orbs, and I think are nothing, but I get told what to put up, so have no choice about it heh. But I think it's pretty interesting. I reallyreally want something to happen on an investigation I'm on...
Check out our site Casche, we have some good EVPs and pics, and you can view them without joining, But it would be nice if you did since you are a fellow investigator. Even submit your own findings we love to share locally and nationally, heck even globally. Also listen to our radio interview, I'm not in it too often, but my brother and friend are and they explain what our team is all about and our philosophy and what not. And what we've found and what not.
I checked your site, those EVP's are some great captures. Some are so clear. I'm surprised at the clarity. Most of the time thier very muffled or coincide with other noises in the room or outside.
Thanks :D I'll have to tell my dad that, he's pretty proud of some of the evps we've caught.
I checked out your site as well. I really like some of the information in the forums, I'll have to pass it along to my da and the rest of the team. ;D
There's a group in Minnesota that is trying to get a paranormal TV show off the ground. The producer is a MNRF participant http://www.deadreckoningtv.com/
Thanks casche. I'll have to tell the crew that. I'm Dave Machcinski on that site. I log in there as Warrior13 if that's any info. you wanted. And I too am an investigator, but highly skeptical. Thanks for sharing groomporter. I will definitely check that show out, and possibly join that site.
Here's a pic I took at Devil's Den at Gettysburg. It could be a bug, dust, or droplet of water. But, it's just too darn round, and solid. Most captured orbs are round and see-through a characteristic of snow, or water (raindrops) or a thin bug on a camera lens. Also this is a analog photograph, meanign it's been taken with film not digital, could be developing or negative blemish. But, we took several pics that night there was no rain, a thunderstorm was rumbling, but no rain felt. All other pics show no sorts of orbs like this. If anything it may not be a spirit, but EMF given off by the land there since quartz and many other non-metal and metallic elements reside in those rocks and through science have been shown to have EMF conductive properties, and there could be Ley lines there and runnign underground water which may explain all the sightings. But, who knows? That's why we keep investigating.(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/PoldugarianWarrior/lastscan.jpg)
I have been a believer all my life since many things of that nature have happened in and to our family for many years. Footsteps at night when growing up, objects flying across the room in front of as many as 4 people, shadow people. etc. many incidents have had more then one of us at once bear witness to.
When more than one person experience something, that's proof enough that something out of the ordinary is going on, may not be a spirit per say, but something is effecting the environment in which you have lived. There probably are forces beyond our seeing or explaination, but they are there. I don't think we'd have many people having such experiences if there weren't.