‘Bottled ghosts’ sell for £1300
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Two bottled “ghosts” have sold for NZ2830 (£1305) in an online auction in New Zealand.
The ghosts, supposedly trapped inside two glass vials, were put up for bidding by Avie Woodbury from the southern city of Christchurch. She said they were captured in her house during an exorcism.
The spirits were trapped inside the vials with stoppers and then dipped in holy water, which she says “dulls the spirits’ energy.”
She said they were the spirits of an old man who lived in the house during the 1920s, and a powerful, disruptive little girl who turned up after a session with a spirit-calling Ouija board.
Since an exorcism at the property last July led to their capture, there has been no further spooky activity in the house, she said.
The auction attracted more than 214,000 page views and dozens of questions before the winning bid, Trademe auction site spokesman Paul Ford said. The name of the winning bidder was not released.
Woodbury said that once an “exorcist’s fee” has been deducted, the proceeds of the spirit sale will go to the animal welfare group the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The auction drew derision from some quarters, with one posting on the site declaring: “I have two spirits in bottles at home.
“I think they are called Jim Beam and the other is Johnny Walker.”
Off-licence staff scared by CCTV spirit
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Mysterious things that get drunk in the night are causing terror among staff of a Carlisle off-licence.
Two women working in Simply Food & Drinks in Durranhill Road, Botcherby, were stopped in their tracks when a strange white mist appeared on CCTV screens showing the outside of the store.
Trish Nolan was working in the shop alongside Sonya Hird when the mysterious spirit appeared to drift in and out of the shop almost 10 times in one hour on Tuesday night.
Miss Nolan, 42, said: “I have never believed in things like ghosts until that night but unless somebody can explain to me what it was, I believe now.
“I wish to God I hadn’t seen it. I kept serving afterwards, but half the people that came in were standing staring at the screen.”
The ghostly apparition could only be seen on the shop’s CCTV cameras, and the recording has quickly become notorious around Botcherby.
One theory says that the spook has been disturbed by workmen renovating a flat across the road, which was also said to have been haunted.
And it is an idea that makes sense to Miss Nolan.
She said: “I turned around last night and said I felt that it was coming across the road as they have disturbed the flat upstairs. I said to Sonya before we saw anything I was freezing, right down my right hand side I was freezing. At one point we were standing there and I said ‘it’s going to happen again’, and it did.
“I am the worst for watching the CCTV screen while I’m working, and I have never seen anything at all before this. As the night goes along it gets a brighter orange and seems to be more of a definite figure.”
To view the CCTV capture CLICK HERE.
Ghost boy photo debunked
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Last week we brought you a report of the Ghost Boy photo from a Daily Mail report, and now thanks to the Ghost Theory website it has been officially labeled as a hoax.
It has been revealed that the hoax is thanks to an iTunes application that allows you to create your own paranormal pictures called “Ghost Capture”.
According to the iTunes description of the app:
Create realistic paranormal photo manipulations right on your iPhone and iPod Touch**!
With Ghost Capture, you can manipulate any photo from your iPhone photo album. After choosing an image, (or taking a new photo directly through Ghost Capture) select a ghost to superimpose onto the photo. Choose from creepy Victorian children, faceless torsos, Civil War soldiers, ghostly orbs, and more. After placing the ghost, slip the horizontal, adjust the size, rotation, and transparency to achieve the optimum effect. Don’t like the way your ghost is turning out? Hit the reset button to put it back in the center of the screen for you to start over or even select a different ghost! Save and email your creation to your friends, and let them judge for themselves!
You can also submit them to us for the gallery!
Check out what other people are doing with the app. From jokes to flat out creepy. At times pictures are done so well it’s almost a ‘Where’s Waldo’ game when trying to locate the ghost.
The source of the hoax was John Fores, who “took” the photo outside the building site and was very willing to speak to the Daily Mail, ironically about how this photographic revelation had swayed him towards believing in ghosts.
Perhaps in future though, Journalists should check on their iPhones for verification before printing obviously questionable photographs.
For the original story CLICK HERE.
Two bottled ghosts for sale
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Two vials, which the owner claims contain the spirits of ghosts exorcised from a house in New Zealand, have been put up for sale on online auction site, TradeMe.
Entitled “Two Captured Ghosts” the auction had reached a top price of NZ$62 ($47) after 35 bids yesterday (AEDT).
The auction description claims the spirits were captured by an exorcist from a spiritual church at a property in Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand’s South Island.
The seller claims that one spirit belongs to a man who died in the house in the 1920s.
“We have had no (paranormal) activity since they were bottled on July 15, 2009,” the seller said.
“So I believe they are in the bottles.”
The auction said the “holy water” in the vials dulled the spirit’s energy and put them to sleep.
To revive the spirit, the buyer would need to pour the contents into a dish and let it “evaporate into your house”.
“I just want to get rid of them as they scare me,” the seller said.
Windermere gadget mystery solved
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The BBC reported a few weeks back that on a street in Windermere, motorists car remote controls stopped working for some unexplained reason.
What was dubbed the ‘Windermere Triangle’, car key fobs were mysteriously disabled and alarms would go off for no apparent reason.
Some locals looking to science blaming a new set of traffic lights, while others claimed a ghost called Albert said to haunt the nearby bakery was responsible for the electronic shenanigans.
But now, the mystery has been solved with all interference being caused by a hand-held ordering gadget at a local tea shop, Lazy Daisy’s Lakeland Kitchen.
Field engineer Dave Thornber who quickly traced the problem to Lazy Daisy’s said: ‘The source of the interference was a wireless order-taker used by waiting staff in the restaurant.
‘The device is designed to use airwaves that neighbour those used by wireless car keys.’
The culprit gadgets have now been switched frequency and the ghostly gadgetry interference is no more.
For the original BBC report CLICK HERE.
Ghost boy snapped at building site?
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
The ghostly image of a young boy was captured on camera as builders demolished an old school building.
John Fores, 47, insists the spectral figure was not present when he took the picture of the part-demolished brick building.
But when he looked back at the images he spotted the boy, aged around eight with short hair and wearing a dark top, standing on the right of the picture looking into the camera.
Mr Fores was carrying out demolition work on the site at Anlaby Primary School, near Hull, East Yorkshire. He took several pictures on his mobile phone to record the demolition work.
He said: ‘I took the pictures just after noon. I took a few and at the time didn’t notice anything.
‘When I put the pictures on the computer and I saw the figure, the hairs on the back of my neck stuck up.
‘I couldn’t believe what I had seen. I didn’t believe in ghosts, but since I got this picture I am not so sure.’
The image of the young boy is exceptionally clear, but the builder insists he has not altered the picture in any way.
The school, which is still in use, was built in 1936.
Caretaker Gordon Bradshaw, 54, said it has a reputation for being haunted.
He said: ‘I’ve been here 29 years and the kids have always said there is a ghost at the school. I’ve never seen anything though.’
Rob Taylor, of the Hull Paranormal Ghost Society, said: ‘I have never seen anything as clear and as distinctive as the boy in the picture.
‘I am aware of people using mobile phones and getting orbs and misty images. It needs further investigating.’
The phantom breadmaker strikes again
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Residents of a Cornish seaside town have been left mystified by personal gifts of bread left on their doorsteps.
The self-named “Phantom Breadmaker” has been making repeat visits to some homes in Fowey.
When the local town crier first opened his door to the little loaves he was surprised by the personally-addressed parcel.
Having jokingly asked for a special order, he was stunned when on Thursday, it arrived.
Town crier Michael Penprase said: “It was beautiful-looking bread. My wife put a notice in the window asking for a sliced loaf.
“Sure enough, this morning in a bag on the door handle were three sliced loaves of bread.”
People across the town have been sampling the gifts, left with a note from The Phantom Bread Maker of Old Fowey Town pictured as a cloaked figure.
Some have their own theories about who the Phantom is, but no-one is letting on.
Boutique owner Belinda Weatherall said: “It could only happen in a place like Fowey.
“I think it’s a lovely idea and I hope he never gets discovered.”
Police in the town warned people not to eat the bread in case it was contaminated.
Ghost snapped at Gwrych Castle
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
A haunting picture has been taken at what is considered one of Britain’s most haunted buildings.
A company boss Kevin Horkin was taken pictures at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales, the picture looks like a woman looking out of a first floor window. Kevin didn’t notice anything unusual until he downloaded the pictures to his PC. Kevin believes that the picture captured a ghost as it’s impossible for anyone to stand at the window because the floor in the room is completely destroyed.
North Wales Paranormal group have confirmed that many sightings have been recorded at the castle. Local history claims that the first castle at Gwrych was built by the Normans in the 12th century. It was seized by the Welsh prince Rhys ap Gruffydd (the Lord Rhys) of Deheubarth in about 1170 who then rebuilt the timber castle in stone. This castle was later destroyed by Cromwell’s army following the English Civil War of the mid-17th century.
The later castle at Gwrych was begun in 1819. The castle is a Grade 1 listed building set in a wooded hillside overlooking the Irish Sea. It was the first Gothic folly to be built in Europe by a wealthy industrialist Lloyd Hesketh. Bamford Hesketh, his son, inherited the title of Gwrych in his early 20s and used his vast fortune to build the 4,000-acre Gwrych Castle Estate.
The castle once had a total of 128 rooms including the outbuildings, including twenty-eight bedrooms, an outer hall, an inner hall, two smoke rooms, a dining room, a drawing room, a billiards room, an oak study, and a range of accommodations for servants. There are nineteen embattled towers and the whole facade is over 2000 yards. Many feel the castle’s outstanding feature was the castle’s 52-step marble staircase.
Busting out the ghost theories
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
An Invercargill man has taken a photograph that could be proof of the afterlife, or it could be a cloud – who knows?
Andrew Watters travelled to St Bathans, near Alexandra, with his partner Kim Ward during the weekend in search of the spirits that reputedly haunt its buildings.
“I’d always been nagging my Kim to go and have a look at the Vulcan Hotel and its supposed ghost, hoping we would find something.”
That search turned up short.
“I had a beer at the pub and got goosebumps but I think it was just the excitement.”
The pair took plenty of photos and didn’t think they had anything until a friend spotted a shape with an uncanny resemblance to a woman in the window at the post office, he said.
“It’s freaked me out a bit. The shape is very close to a human figure.”
The photograph did not make him any more or less sceptical about the existence of ghosts but it was bizarre, Mr Watters said.
Vulcan Hotel leasee Jude Cavanagh said it was the first she had heard of a ghost sighting at the post office.
“It’s a very spirited town, so who knows?”
The post office, which was managed by the Department of Conservation since the 1950s, had been vacant for about a year, at least in the bodily sense, she said.
“It all adds to the legend of the place.”
The department’s Alexandra community relations programme manager Amanda Ware said she had no knowledge of any phantom presence at the post office.
The building, opened in 1909, was a category two historic place and had been vacant for about a year, she said.
The interior largely remained unchanged from its days as a working port office and the second floor, where the mysterious shape was seen, was the postmaster’s living quarters, Ms Ware said.
“Maybe it was him coming back for a visit.”
She would tread carefully the next time she stopped by, she said.
[via: stuff.co.nz by Sam McKnight]
Gadgets go haywire at street in Windermere
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
BBC News are reporting that a street in Windermere is causing motorists grief because for some unexplained reason car remote controls and similar devices will not work when they park there. Click on the link below to watch the report.
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