Scott and Harrill Residence Halls may seem like just two more dorms on the campus of Western Carolina University. However, each building has a reputation for being haunted because of some mysterious events that occurred in the past. Current and prospective students of WCU should keep these stories in mind when they select a dorm in which to live...
Family planning doctor 'told patient she needed exorcism'
A doctor at a family planning clinic told a patient that she needed an exorcism because there was something sinister moving around inside her stomach, a medical tribunal was told yesterday. Joyce Pratt, 44, allegedly told the patient, who was seeking contraceptive advice, that she might be possessed by an evil spirit and needed religious rather than medical help...
Paranormal investigators visit ghosts of the Main Street Grille
Investigators from the Arizona Paranormal Investigations (API) presented a slide show of "hauntings" from around the state, followed by an overnight analysis of the Payson's Main Street establishment. They set up cameras, video recorders and tape machines to capture anything out of the ordinary. Psychic Deb Lane said she felt unearthly energy around the house almost immediately...
"Aliens could attack at any time," warns former MoD chief
UFO sightings and alien visitors tend to be solely the reserve of sci-fi movies. So when a former MoD chief warns that the country could be attacked by extraterrestrials at any time, you may be forgiven for feeling a little alarmed...
Steven Johnson's "ghost map" / Sasquatch
Is it the footprint of Bigfoot or jumbo?
The saga of the Johor Bigfoot may not have ended. Loud noises and the breaking of branches at a rubber plantation in Kampung Batu 4, about three kilometres from the Kota Tinggi waterfall on Monday night, have fuelled interest again in the creature. Workers at a kongsi checked the area at dawn and found large footprints on the ground...
Southwest Missouri's Spook Light Road
A dusty gravel road connects Newton County, Mo., with Oklahoma south of Joplin. Thick patches of trees on the Missouri end hug the road's shallow ditches where believers, and unbelievers, park at night and wait for something otherworldly to happen. This is Spook Light Road...
Ghosts and time slips with Richard Senate
Bigfoot, baloney!
Bigfoot doesn't exist. That bold editorial stance is subject to change if and when there's scientific evidence that the legendary ape-man of the Northwest, also called Sasquatch, now roams or ever did roam the Cascades or other mountains anywhere. Until then, taxpayers shouldn't subsidize the fantasies of people such as anatomy professor Jeffrey Meldrum at Idaho State University or the late Grover Krantz of Washington State University...
Spirits haunting balgonie castle
With the dark nights rolling in and the spirits and ghouls out in force last Tuesday for All Hallows Eve, where in the town can you turn for eerie tales of ghostly figures? Fourteenth century Balgonie Castle of course...
Sasquatch not a mystery to some
Last week, I mentioned the Idaho State University professor who is attempting to bring the mythic Sasquatch into the world of science. Then I read an article about him in my favorite daily newspaper last weekend. His name is Jeffrey Meldrum, a Ph.D. and tenured professor who has written a book about the big, hairy "American Ape" that supposedly lives in the wilderness forests and mountains of this continent...
Young girl's grave is haunted, some locals, visitors say
The facts alone are creepy. A young girl dies before her time. Her mother is unable to let go and has a walk-in grave built. The woman spends each night sitting underground, facing the glass wall that separates her from her daughter. She sings, reads, anything to comfort a child who was afraid of the dark...
