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A real ghost or not?
You decide.

Here is a video taken in Barton Mansion in California in the USA on an investigation conducted in 2001.

Someone just dressed up?
Who cares the investigators reaction is funny.

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Ghost Stories from the Proprietery House in Perth Amboy, NJ. The most haunted house in New Jersey according to Jane Doherty, noted psychic and ghost hunter who leads ghost tours at the Proprietery House. Look closely and you can actually see some form of other world entity.

Does a group of teenagers capture a real ghost?
Is the death the cause of accident?
You decide.

Rispin Mansion, once a fabulous landmark of the Monterey Bay, now sits in ruin overlooking the community of Capitola. Built by Henry Allen Rispin and his oil heiress wife, Annette Winfeld Blake,in 1921. The eventually estate went from the Rispin family to the Catholic church where it was used as a monastery from 1940 until it was abandoned by the nuns in 1957.

It’s said that the old mansion has several resident ghosts, with sightings of a woman dressed in black like the nuns were. There’s also been sighting of a well dressed woman, but her identiry is anyone’s guess.

Learn more about the ghosts and history of Rispin Mansion.

WE ADVERTISED IN A LOCAL PAPER FOR PEOPLE WITH GENUINE GHOST STORIES TO TELL. AMAZINGLY WE GOT A LOT OF REPLIES, AND FILMED MANY OF THE STORIES. THIS FILM IS ONE OF THE BEST WE DID, BECAUSE OF THE STRANGE ORBS WE CAPTURED ON FILM. THESE ORBS ONLY APPEAR WHEN THE CHILDREN ARE AROUND.

By Bobbie Grennier

I met psychic Jane Doherty by pure chance, which is to say that nothing is ever left to chance when it comes to the psychic world. Her book, Awakening the Mystic Gift: The Surprising Truth About What It Means to Be Psychic, chronicles Jane’s own psychic awakening and what it truly means to be psychic. For those seeking more information on what it means to be psychic, this book is a very compelling read.

Jane Doherty is a gifted psychic and medium of international acclaim. Many refer to her as the “real deal” because of her accuracy and sincere caring nature. In fact, Hans Holzer, known best for his many books on ghosts and paranormal activities, has named Jane Doherty as “One of the top twenty psychics in the world.” A born teacher, Jane feels part of her own purpose in life is to teach others to open to their own psychic abilities, and for this reason Jane has brought her psychic teachings to an online format through the Herbal-College.com website. Here Jane has established a book club for her readers to explore more about their own psychic abilities with her personally, and Jane will also teach her multi-leveled Psychic Development courses at the Herbal-College.com website.

Widely recognized and respected for her extraordinary psychic skills and sensitivities, Jane Doherty has been featured on Fox Network News, CNN, The Today Show, Sightings, MSNBC Investigates, WB11 and numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New York Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has been named one of the top twenty psychics in Woman’s Own magazine. Reuters News Media has featured her in Australia, Austria, Germany, England, Russia, and the major Spanish network, Telemundo. She has also co-hosted a psychic call-in radio show for eight years and has been featured in three books, as well as in Woman’s World Weekly magazine.

Currently Jane is featured on The Learn Channel’s Dead Tenants show. The Dead Tenants TV show follows the journeys of the Preternatural Research Society (PRS) — a team of paranormal investigators — through the attics, basements, living rooms and back yards of some of the most haunted houses in the country. Coming to the aid of families experiencing very unwanted ghosts and unexplainable activity in their homes, Jane Doherty and the PRS team do their best to assist the families. The Dead Tenants show weaves the historical, scientific and psychic into a rich tapestry to help the viewer better understand the hauntings.

A renowned psychic for more than 15 years, Jane Doherty works with PRS as a psychic and channeler, helping to discover ghosts at haunted locations and to communicate with them directly. She also provides individual guidance through private consultations, while also offering classes and workshops to those who are interested in discovering and developing their own psychic abilities.

Meeting Jane Doherty has changed my life for the better. Her devout belief in the power of God is very infectious. Jane uses her God-given talent to bring comfort to hearts that are hurting; hope to those who have lost all hope, and encouragement to the beleaguered and down-trodden. She has also assisted law authorities in cases of missing persons and homicides.

“There was never a question of how I would use my gift,” Jane says firmly. “I have taken every possible opportunity to help others.” Jane Doherty is the real deal. Her words are like the words of her book - so compelling, you won’t be able to put it down.

If you’d like to learn more about Jane Doherty’s book club and book (Awakening the Mystic Gift), or about her Psychic Development courses, please visit the Herbal-College.com website for more information and registration details.

About the Author: Bobbie Grennier is a freelance writer and master herbalist. She teaches herbalism at herbal-college.com. She publishes several herbal health blogs. Visit her web sites http://www.boocasting.com and http://www.master-herbalist.com for more herbalist healer information.

Did you ever wonder why and where Halloween began? I myself have often thought, what a fun way for kids to get some candy, and at the same time enjoy being some other thing or person if only for a few hours. Going trick or treating was the highlight of the evening. The real truth of Halloween goes back over 2000 years and was not for fun but to bring back the dead once each year on Oct. 31st.

The Celtic tribes of Ireland thought on the night of Oct 31st the spirit of the dead would be allowed to come back into the world of the living. And being afraid of the spirits, they dressed up in disguise to try and fool the spirits into thinking they were not living things.

Most would wear old clothes and disguise their face with ashes or berry juice, or anything that was available to keep the spirits of the dead away. Over the many years Halloween has changed a great deal but we still use the same reason for dressing up in disguise. To fool the people as to whom we are and, instead of spirits we expect candy in return for not playing a trick on our neighbors.

As far as Halloween costumes go, today we may see lots of Batman costumes, or Little Red Riding Hood costumes, as well as many of the popular TV characters of today. There are even baby costumes/infant costumes, and toddler costumes available that will be sure to bring you many years of joy just looking at the pictures of that first Halloween. There are even dog Halloween costumes available that are always great for a laugh. It is yet to be seen as to what the most popular Halloween costume will be this year, but you can never go wrong with something traditional

Regardless of the beginning or, to what Halloween has evolved into, it still is a great day and night for our kids to enjoy. Once thought of as the only way to enjoy Halloween, trick or treating seems to be on the way out in most areas today. Although this does seem to be what is happening, trick or treating is still done on a limited base in many areas across the country. Many Malls now offer and encourage kids of all ages to come and trick or treat in a safe and enjoyable environment.

Another way to have a safe Halloween is to entertain your little friends and Goblins with a Halloween party at home. It is important to make a list of friends and family members you want to invite. Plan out a list of games, and contests to keep everyone entertained. You will also need several different kinds of treats for all who come to your party. Maybe you could offer a prize for the best costume. Be sure to decorate with many different Halloween decorations, maybe a few really spooky ones which always create a lot of interest when friends arrive. Keep things as simple as possible so all who attend will understand and enjoy your party.

One great game idea for everyone to play at your Halloween party is called “who’s the mummy”. Divide into pairs give each pair a roll of toilet paper. With one child wrapping and the other child being the Mummy, whoever wraps and uses the full roll of paper fastest is the winner, and receives a treat of your choosing. There are many other games, and I’m sure you will be able to come up with others.

As far as trick or treating being a thing of the past, things may not be what you and I remember but our children can still build Halloween memories of their own to someday tell their children.

For great Halloween costume ideas, as well as halloween party planning ideas and more, visit Haunted Cams and halloween.factslink.com

Red Line Studios films “Jane Doherty Investigates“:
Former Mark Burnett employee and crew member of the hit show “The Apprentice” Matthew J. Pellowski has teamed up with local east coast psychic phenom sensation Jane Doherty to produce a series of paranormal DVDs based on her investigations. Pellowski a central New Jersey native, along with his business partner and Co-Producer, Anastasia Konstantinou of Red Line Studios, an independent production company, first met Jane through a mutual friend several years ago in New Jersey.

Their first DVD of the series which is titled “Jane Doherty Investigates” follows lead psychic investigator Jane Doherty to one of the most haunted areas in the United States located in North West New Jersey and just a stone’s throw away from the big apple. In the hour feature, Jane brings four everyday people with her to act as participants in two very emotional and outer worldly seances conducted in a haunted wood and at the foot of a haunted lake.

This haunted region which lies on the border of NJ and PA is known around the globe by cult paranormal investigators and enthusiasts as “Ghost Lake” “Murderers Mountain” and “Shades of Death Road.” With endless tales of wandering spirits, deadly environmental conditions, and legends of ghosts that are more then happy to approach the curious minded travelers that happen onto this site, Pellowski knew he had found the perfect backdrop for his first paranormal DVD. From cast members to crew, many people went into those woods with a lot of preconceived notions, speculations and doubts, and came out very different. Order your copy of Jane Doherty Investigates here!

By William Wan
The Washington Post

As dusk fell, the group of amateur historians was in position, spread out across the grassy field with digital voice recorders at the ready and infrared cameras rolling. If someone — or something — out there so much as sneezed, they were prepared to catch it in action.

Experts have scrutinized these Spotsylvania County, Va., battlefields for years, looking for clues to the past. Now these history buffs had come from Maryland to conduct their own brand of Civil War scholarship: battlefield ghost hunting. Why limit yourself to letters and artifacts, they reasoned, when you can go straight to the source: firsthand, albeit dead, witnesses.

The group of mostly middle-aged men had picked their spot carefully. Bloody Angle, part of one of three battlefields they visited on a recent night, was the site of the war’s longest, most savage hand-to-hand combat. For 20 hours on May 12, 1864, soldiers shot, bayoneted and clubbed one another. “Rain poured down and the dead piled up in the mud,” says the welcome sign on the grounds.

If spirits were likely to appear anywhere, the ghost hunters said, this was the spot.

More was at stake than a simple chase of the fantastical, said members of the American Battlefield Ghost Hunters Society; they had come looking for keys to historical mysteries, such as the battle decisions of field leaders and the mentality of soldiers, as well as answers about the very nature of life and death.

But so far, nothing. Two hours into what would turn out to be a seven-hour stakeout in freezing wind, the hunters had captured little besides locals walking their dogs.

So team leader Patrick Burke, 47, a mortgage broker, sprinkled beef jerky and chewing tobacco on the ground, trying to entice soldiers’ spirits with what would have been luxuries in their day.

“It usually works better with the Confederate soldiers,” he explained, “because they were less well-fed than the Union.”

Nearby, other members scouted for better camera angles while Patrick’s brother John, 50, and Laine Crosby, a self-described psychic, walked the grounds trying to suss out spirits.

Standing off to one side, looking doubtfully at all of them, was Darryl Smith, the team’s designated science officer.

Smith, 53, a bespectacled mechanical engineer for a construction company, has been with the group since it started five years ago and counts its members among his closest friends. But on the battlefield, as he took careful notes in his composition book, he remarked, “I don’t believe in ghosts.”

His role was to log the time and place of everything that happened in the field, so a flashing camera or a passing car wouldn’t later be identified as an apparition. Over the past five years, members have captured sounds they believe are cannonballs and musket fire from ages past and misty, half-formed figures they believe are dead soldiers.

Stopping at a spot they believed had been the Confederates’ second line of defense, the hunters took out their digital recorders. Crosby put her hand on a mossy stone and said she felt a cold spot. With the cameras and voice recorders running, the team started asking questions and pausing for answers. Then with eager anticipation, they played back the audio recordings to listen for odd noises that might qualify as responses.

“Tell us what your name is.” No answer.

“Are you Union or Confederate?” There was some noise, like static or a gust of wind. Everyone leaned in closer.

After two more hours of searching for ghosts in the dark, the group retreated to a steakhouse.

“The thing I’m really looking for is that perfect night, when you’re out there and it’s like a window opens onto the world,” Burke said. “And you get a whole brigade marching down in one glorious moment. The battle unfolds in front of you, and you get it all on camera — history in motion.”

With dinner over, the group started gearing up to head back into the cold.

Outside, the sky was dark, the wind was blowing and, on the abandoned battlefields, not a living soul was stirring.

Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company

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