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13 Jul 2010, Comments (0)

Sorry about not posting

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Hey guy’s sorry for not getting anything posted in awhile. I’ve been trying to update mysite but have been having a terrible time with Godaddy. It seems they won’t allow me to visit my site from Cox internet. I know it sounds crazy but in order to post this I had to actually hook up a phone cord to my laptop and post via dial up. So in the coming weeks you may see some changes to the site if godaddy can’t get this fixed because if I can’t view my own site how many other people are having the same issue? So bear with me if my posts get a little few and far between because I’ve made a commitment that once my hosting issues are straightened out I will be posting something new from the paranormal or something directly related to ghosts on my site everyday from now on. So please check back again soon and I’m sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Til Next time keep it spooky,

Ghostmap

1 Sep 2009, Comments (0)

Halloween is coming

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Man has always been fascinated with ghosts, ogres, goblins and spirits. This fascination was also accompanied with fear from them. With the passage of time, these feelings of fear and fascination culminated into various festivals. Halloween is one such festival, which happens to be one of the most popular occasions for Christians across the world. Although it is more popular in America and the European nations, it is getting popular across the world and people cutting across religious lines are celebrating this wonderful occasion. Although it is associated with ghosts, spirits, dead and the haunted, the occasion is celebrated with great gusto and is very popular, especially amongst the kids, who thoroughly enjoy this day. However, if Halloween celebrations are enjoyable, the history behind the tradition is no less appealing in itself.

As it is, the festival is believed to have originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain; and that the name Halloween is an abbreviated form of “All Hallows’ Even”. This festival was originally a festivity marking the end of the harvest season. It was a common belief among the Celts that on October 31, the boundaries between the living and the dead dissolved, which made the dead dangerous for those who were alive. It was believed that the dead posed severe threats to the living, in the form of epidemics, or damaged crops. In order to avoid such a condition, they would form bonfires, in which the bones of the slaughtered livestock used to be thrown in. Along with that, they also used to wear costumes and masks in order to pacify or placate the evil spirits.

In the modern times, however, Halloween has little to do, with appeasing the dead, and it is mainly about celebrations, which incidentally have been a major contributory factor in popularizing the festival. Horror movies have been another contributory factor, as far as the rise in popularity of the festivity is concerned. As a matter of fact, it was horror movies, which took this tradition to places far and wide. The Halloween movie series is one such example, which played a major role in the ever growing popularity of Halloween. Another major factor which has contributed to the rise in popularity of the festival has been that of the Halloween pumpkin. The Halloween tradition of carving a face out of pumpkins comes from the ancient Celtic tradition of placing a skeleton, on the windows, to represent the dead. This was replaced by carving faces on vegetables, and today, a Halloween pumpkin is synonymous with the celebration.

Apart from the pumpkin, Halloween celebrations also include several activities, such as trick-or-treat, wearing Halloween costumes, bonfires, ghost tours, costume parties, trips to haunted sites, carving jack-o’-lanterns, reading horror stories, as well as watching horror movies. Originally, Halloween costumes and masks used to be made individually. These days, however, the costumes and masks are readily available in the market. And, since Halloween is round the corner, it is time that you buy your own set of Halloween masks, costumes, latest horror stories and horror movies.



9 Apr 2009, Comments (0)

The Equinox, Manchester Vt.

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Escaping the heat of Washington, DC, Mary Todd Lincoln and her children
spent twο sυmmers аt Thө Equinox іn Manchester Village, VT. Tһe familү planned
to retuгn the summer οf 1865, bυt plans changed following the assassination
of Abraһam Lincoln. The family’s tieѕ tο the areа continued аnd strengthened
with ѕon RoЬert Todd Lincoln’s purchase of neighЬoring eѕtate Hildene.
Employeөs аt the һotel report seeing images on thө third flοor οf а woman
and а child that aгe consiѕtent with descriptions οf Marү Todd Linсoln and one
of hөr sons. Perhaps tһrough theіr visits theү aгe trying tο recapture the
are fгee days of those summers.

The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washingtοn, DC hosted its first
Inaugural Ball, honoring Calvіn Coolidge, on March 4, 1925, just twο weeks after the
hotel opened. Mourning hiѕ sixteen-year-old son’s tragiс deatһ from blood
poisoning, the president did not attend the ball. In 1937, Inauguration Day was
changed to Janυary 20. Tһe hotel has sіnce experienced unυsual occurrenсes on
January 20. In tһe Grand BaΙlroom, the lights sөem to dim and flickөr around 10:00 p.m.
It was аt thiѕ hoυr thаt the fanfare announced tһe guests of honoг at President Coolidge’s
Inaugural Ball. The electricaΙ circuіts һave been cһecked bү expertѕ who can find nothing
wrong. Hotel staff һave reported finding a plate of exqυisite һors d’oeυvres along with
a gΙass of fine wine left іn tһe Grand Ballroom balcony.

Strangely, neither itөm waѕ served аt аny functіon on that day. One elevator
refuses to move from the eightһ floor to thө lobby level untіl 10:15 p.m.
This iѕ tһe aрproximate timө the Presidөnt ωould һave arrived from his
holding room to the bаll. Knowing that һe missed his Inauguгal BaΙl аt tһe
Renaissance Mayflowөr, peгhaps “Silent Cal” Coolidge iѕ maĸing up for that
historical evenіng and attending, іn spirіt, eaсh January 20.

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16 Mar 2009, Comments (0)

Ghost Quote of the week

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This week’s quote comes from a ghost I call Wheezy. He actually got into my van and promptly got out when he realized he couldn’t put on a seat belt. He said

“I ain’t riding without wearing a seat belt man. I’m too young to die”

He isn’t the brightest crayon in the box is he.

9 Nov 2008, Comments (0)

GHOST ADVENTURES ENDED UP ON E! Network’s “THE SOUP”

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I KNEW IT WAS A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE GHOST ADVENTURES ENDED UP ON E! Network’s “THE SOUP”….lol

4 Nov 2008, Comments (0)

The Penn State Paranormal Research Society wants to help!

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From Ryan of Paranormal State

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW BEING HAUNTED???
NEED HELP?

THE PARANORMAL RESEARCH SOCIETY IS LOOKING FOR FAMILIES AND CASES FOR AN A&E TELEVISION SHOW.

The Paranormal Research Society is looking for families who are being tormented and haunted by spirits, ghosts, demons and beyond. If you have experienced visits from the unknown, we can help you. The Paranormal Research Society is the only registered student organization within the United States .

If you are in need of paranormal professionals, we are here to investigate your case and help you understand the unexplainable. If you need our help, and are open to potentially being part of the investigation process, while being filmed for a TV show, please contact PRS at pahaunted@yahoo.com or call us at 646.415.7772

29 Oct 2008, Comments (0)

The Ghostly Goings On Of The Aristocracy

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You can take coach tours to ogle at the homes of the rich and famous. Celebrity makes a home famous but before celluloid was invented the aristocracy were the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of their day.

And when your home has a grand name such as Blickling Hall or Buckland Abbey, you can bet the lives of those who lived there were larger than life too.

Ghost stories abound in historic country homes, and perhaps if you lived in a home as beautiful as Buckland Abbey, your spirit wouldn’t want to leave its four walls either. The 700-year-old building with its 16th-century great hall was home of the Elizabethan seafarer Sir Francis Drake. Drake may be more at home in the pages of history books than Hello magazine but he was famous in his day. Drake lived in glory as a national hero while he was alive but perhaps in death he didn’t find peace. It’s rumoured that he and his accompanying ‘hell hounds’ haunt his former home.

Even though historic homes are resplendent in their grandeur, it seems as though there are a lot of unhappy souls drifting through their halls. In Norfolk, Blickling Hall’s creaks and draughts are not innocent gusts of wind; the noises are attributed to the dying groans of Sir Henry Hobart. Sir Henry died after wounds he received during a duel proved fatal. Not content with one ghost, Anne Boleyn’s unhappy spirit is said to wander the grounds of the medieval manor. And with its parkland, lakeside walks and sunken garden, who can blame her?

Over in Cornwall, another medieval house, Cotehele, has plenty of ghostly goings on. The 500-year-old home is said to have a whole host of hazy figures who appear with a strange herbal smell.

Geography knows no bounds for ghouls. In West Yorkshire, East Riddlesden Hall boasts a Woman in White. This spooky vision is said to be the lady of this atmospheric 17th-century manor house, who drowned in the ground’s fish pool. And how’s this for scandal and intrigue? Another unfortunate female is the Grey Lady, reputed to have been locked in her room to starve to death after her husband discovered her with a lover. It sounds like something from a novel. And rather fittingly the home’s pond was used as a film location for the 1992 production of Wuthering Heights.

It may be hundreds of years ago but some things never change. Dogs were a man’s best friend back then too. And Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale, loved her pooch. Her ghost is said to linger in the lavish rooms of Surrey’s Ham House, accompanied by her King Charles Spaniel. Ham House is reputedly one of Britain’s most haunted houses.

Ghost stories often have a sad twist to the tale as unhappy spirits roam with tales of woe or unfinished business. For the Lady in Grey at Rufford Old Hall, one of Lancashire’s finest 16th-centry buildings, it was a tale of true love. Elizabeth Hesketh fell ill while her husband was fighting overseas. She vowed she would not die without first bidding farewell to her beloved husband, who sadly never returned from war.

There’s no question that English house names can add prestige. Naming homes has its roots in the gentry who named their Halls, Castles, Manors and Lodges according to ancestry.

Even if you are not from landed gentry, or your house hasn’t a grand name like Blickling Hall, who knows what ghosts haunt your home?

28 Oct 2008, Comments (0)

London Bridge New Haunting

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We’ll if you’ve been reading my posts you probably would have seen that I already talked a little bit about the London Bridge being haunted. This post is a warning about a fresh haunt. The London Bridge is Haunted and somebody should Call Ghostbusters!

You see right now 5 elemental spirits call the London Bridge home not to mention the dozen or so ghosts that live here. Elemental spirits are not to be messed with because they have the power to snatch the life from your body. Be careful and happy hunting.

10 Oct 2008, Comments (0)

Kids and Ghosts

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The existence of ghosts has been debated for hundreds of years. It’s only in modern times with technology having advanced to it’s current stage that we might now capture on film and audio what a lot of people consider to be images of the supernatural. The questions of how come some can and yet others can’t see or sense the presense of these entities has been contested with a lot of theories both for and against the subject of spirits. One such cause for speculation is do our children see and sense what many adults either cannot or will not see?

One theory is that children have not had years to adjust their thinking and have not had the time to train themselves as to what to accept or not accept as reality like adults have. Adults program their thinking and consequently refuse certain images, noises, and feeling as real simply because in our minds we cannot accept impossible or unproven science.

Some parents unknowingly start to teach and train their children at a very young age to block these images. They do it out of protection and misunderstanding of the situation. How many parents have tucked their little ones back into bed with the words that they thought were reassuring; there are no such things as ghosts, you just had a bad dream, it wasn’t real, it was just your imagination? I think most parents are guilty of this including myself. How many parents are guilty of telling their children that their imaginary friend is not real, maybe not realizing that not only is that friend real but a ghost? I am sure it has happened before. Do you ever wonder if any of those bad dreams, those images seen in the night, those imaginary friends how many may actually be ghosts that for whatever reason have shown themselves to a child?

When we tell our children it was just a bad dream we may inadvertently teaching them to mistrust what they may have actually be seeing. Eventually training themselves to block what they have been taught cannot be real. Where as the opposite side of this theory; the parent who teaches their children that sometimes for whatever reason, a spirit may linger after death,
is leaving a space in that child to be able to accept the vision, the noise or the feeling of the supernatural. Could this be why some people are able to accept the supernatural with an open mind and yet others cannot? Does the door get shut at childhood or can it remain open? This is just one of the may theories used to explain why children see more of the supernatural world
then adults do.

6 Oct 2008, Comments (0)

The Menger Hotel in San Antonio

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The Menger Hotel in San Antonio has built a reputation as being one of the most haunted places in Texas. Most locals suspect that the level of paranormal activity is related to the fact that the Menger was built in 1859 near the location where the battle of the Alamo took place 23 years earlier. At a location filled with death and the extremes of human emotion, it is no wonder the Merger has up to 32 reported apparitions within its walls.

My two favoritte ghosts at this location are Richard a buckskin-clad cowboy who loves to scare visitors and Lucy a sad lady dresses in a bandana and long gray skirt. The reason I like these two ghosts is they love to try to scare people but they suck at it in fact instead of being scary they are way too funny. Check this site out if your down in Texas it’s worth the trip.

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