Living in a haunted world — The ghost stories around us
Halloween is coming and the ghosts are floating out. But if a site is really haunted, ghosts may be seen, heard, or felt any day of the year...
The miracle of Fatima
Stephen Mason, Ph.D.: As a youngster, I had a few friends who went to Catholic school. Years later, I taught for a time at a Catholic college. As a result, I heard many references to what has come to be called the Miracle of Fatima. Most of these tales followed the same basic plot line. In the early part of the 20th Century, some children in an Italian village saw an angelic figure descend from the sky. It turned out to be the Virgin Mary and, after a few additional visits, she provided a prophecy for the Pope...
Do-it-yourself ghost hunt
You can go hunting for your own ghosts this Halloween armed with just a digital camera and a pocket voice recorder, expert ghost investigators say. The odds you'll spot something – about 1 in 10, and typically only after the fact when you review your film and tape, says Dan Jungles, director of the Will County Ghost Hunters Society. But it can and does happen, and you don't have to be a trained expert to have success, he says. "Just because you can't see it or hear it doesn't mean it's not there," Jungles says...
Haunting photo from a Cleveland ghost tour
Looks like a group of women that went ghost hunting caught some sort of image in a picture taken when one woman’s divining rod started to receive a lot of movement. It seems these ghost hunters were touring the Erie Street Cemetery in Cleveland when one woman began to get some movement on her magical rod. As soon as she mentioned that she was receiving some activity, another woman took a snap shot and claims they caught this image on the photo. Now that there are many ghost tour’s going on during this time of year, I’m sure we’re going to see our fair share of ghost images...
Spooky! Haunted mansions in real life
What if the ghost isn't inside the house, but is the house? NPR rounds up three pieces of fiction where houses want their inhabitants to get out, and quickly, like Manderley, the domain of secrets in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca where a skittish second wife tries to root out how her predecessor died...
Where do ghosts come from?
As Medieval castle bedrooms go, this one looks the part. Disturbing Flemish tapestries share the walls with stern portraits. On close inspection, the ornate fireplace's iron firedogs turn out to have devils' heads. This place is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Tom Skelton, a 16th-century jester said to have committed murder. The malevolent face of "Tom Fool" stares from a dimly lit oil painting just outside the bedroom...
