If you have had an experience with the paranormal or want to, this is the place for you. You will find ghost stories,unexplained pics, inexpensive ways to investigate a haunting, ghost hunting tools and equipment for your everyday Ghost Hunter. No fancy equipment required. Spirits and the whole "after life" has been questioned for centuries. Lets see if together, we can't come up with some answers. Take a haunted ghost tour with me to Goatman's Bridge! Evil never was so kind.
Behind Every Cloud is a Kindred Spirit (BECKS)I lost my grandfather when I was 17. I had a VERY difficult time getting over it. How could I still communicate with him? I loved him so much I didn't think I could live without him. I read everything I could get my hands on to do with the "afterlife" and that started it all...the love of Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal. I have been researching the paranormal for over 37 years!! It is my way of staying in touch with my grandfather. Being a Ghost Hunter is not always as exciting as it seems on TV. Many nights I have sat in the dark and not a thing happened. BUT it is those times you DO get that one voice, that one explainable picture or have an experience that sends chills down your back that makes it sooo worth it all!!! My purpose of this blog is not to make people believe in ghosts but maybe to open their minds just a little bit... I LOVE this crazy thing called Ghost Hunting. It is as much a part of me as breathing. I am just a girl that refuses to accept we can't still contact our loved ones after they die. My grandfather won't let me.
First, I hope everyone had a GREAT Thanksgiving. I know I did. I am STILL struggling to get up off the couch without help!!! (I ate WAY to much)
How does a 300 year old Inn sound for ghost hunting??? Well, according to many, many people this place is DEFINITELY haunted!!!! I have not been there but the more and more I read about it, I can't wait to stay here one night.....and ONE NIGHT may be all I need!!! LOL
The Logan Inn, New Hope, PA
With a history dating back to before the Revolutionary War, The Logan Inn certainly has history. As well as being on the National Register of Historic Places, this Inn is also regarded as one of the most haunted places in America. No less than eight ghosts haunt the rooms and corridors here...
At the Logan Inn, there are reports of no fewer than eight ghosts! However, it’s believed there are more than this. One of the most active rooms in the Inn is room no. 6. Women often report seeing a man stood behind them through the mirror in the bathroom. Upon turning round the figure disappears. Another report in this room is of a pressing on the chest in the middle of the night. Upon wakening after this experience, people have witnessed a white misty shape moving in the room. Many guests have left in the middle of the night after witnessing this in what is now known as Emily’s room (room 6). Emily is believed to be the mother of a previous owner of the inn, and is supposedly behind this ghostly mist that is often seen in the room.
Also in room 6, people have clearly seen the apparitions of two children, and also in the mirror. Not much is known of these two children, but it’s believed they lived and died there many years ago. Reports in room 6 don’t end there. People have heard the sound of crying, and experienced pillows being pulled from beneath their heads.
A picture of a couple in the lobby of The Logan Inn is said to give off the scent of lavender, believed to be the favorite scent of the woman in the picture. The inexplicable smell of lavender is often experienced in other areas of the inn as well, which many people believe signals the fleeting presence of this woman.
A soldier from the Revolutionary War is seen frequently. He can be seen in full attire, seemingly marching to the sound of a phantom drum. Another soldier in military attire of a different era has been seen and heard near the steps of the men’s room. Soldiers have also been known to frequent the hallways and the guest rooms of the inn, randomly appearing at night in each of the 16 rooms, then disappearing. Another very active area is the cellar. Heavy footsteps are often heard walking in the cellar, believed to be from a soldier who was temporarily laid to rest here during the frozen winter months.
The last report is of a ghost of a little girl in the parking lot. It is believed this is the ghost of young girl who fell off the nearby bridge and drowned.
This is kinda' a long story but an AMAZING TRUE ONE!!!
Over fifty years ago, in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, two men wearing football helmets and parachute harnesses, were guided through a borehole to safety on the morning of August 27, 1963. The two men had a secret between them that they felt the world would never believe!!! But when their fourteen-day ordeal was revealed to the public, the strange revelations of their experiences where told.
Fellin, who was fifty-eight at the time, recalled Throne, the twenty-four year old worker had been buried alive. David Fellin thought the world should know who had given them the strength to survive. Both men, interviewed separately, described with amazing accuracy their visitor,
who had stayed with them during the last eight days of their ordeal when they'd all but given up. Who was the dedicated spirit that made its presence known? Who never left them......who never gave up on them......None other than Pope John XXIII, who had died just weeks before. David recalle da span of time when he left his body, saw a beautiful marble door, and witnessed scores of Egyptian men going about their work. He was in awe at the sight before him, as he studied the men building pyramids. He went on to say that the Egyptians did not move the stones as many people over the centuries have thought. Rather, twenty-five men carrying buckets of sand and water poured the mix into wooden forms and built each million ton block one at a time.
There may be some that think Fellin and Throne were hallucinating. Fellin swore an oath on the Bible, that everything he experienced while trapped in the mine was true. He passed at least two polygraph tests about his experience trapped in the mine. In 2002, a researcher studying the pyramids shared his revelation that, just as David Fellin had seen, each block was created from "cement" being poured into a form.
Here is there story:
On the morning of Aug. 13, a frantic call came in to the newsroom at The Standard-Speaker. There had been a cave-in at a coal mine near Sheppton and three miners were entombed.
The loss of three miners was initially of little interest elsewhere in the world but five days later, on Aug. 18, 1963, contact was made with two of the miners underground, and it became a sensational human-interest story.
Louis Bova, 54, of Pattersonville, near Shenandoah, the third miner entombed that morning, had been separated from the other two and his body was never found.
But for those first six days, Fellin, then 58, of Sheppton, and Throne, then 28, of Hazleton, courageously faced what appeared to be certain death.
Fellin, a miner for more than four decades, knew there was nothing the rescue party of volunteers could do to reach them.
There was only one entrance or exit - known as a slope - at the Oneida No. 2 mine, which was actually located outside the geographical limits of the Village of Sheppton midway between Hazleton and Shenandoah.
However, rescuers couldn't enter the slope because of additional rumblings deep inside, as well as the presence of hazardous gas. So, for several days, officials of the state Department of Mines and Mineral Industries as well as members of the rescue party could do very little but watch and wait.
Meanwhile, Fellin and Throne were simply trying to stay alive.
Fellin, co-owner of the mine with Gene Gibbons, was semi-retired and no longer a full-time miner. But that morning, he descended underground with Throne and Bova to show them what he wanted them to do and also help load a metal mine car that ran on railroad tracks and hauled the coal to the surface. When the first buggy was loaded, Bova pulled a cord that signaled the hoisting engineer in a small building topside to activate the mechanical hoist and pull the car out of the mine.
That first buggy made it about halfway to the surface when, suddenly, it stopped and the earth began quaking about 100 feet above the three miners. Within seconds, Fellin, Throne and Bova heard louder rumbling above them just as a long electrical cord inside the gangway snapped and began dancing wildly, sparking electrical current. Fellin knew the miners would be electrocuted if they came in contact with the live wire, so he led Bova and Throne to a small chamber off the main gangway. When they entered the small enclosure - only about 2 feet wide and 9 to 10 feet long - the rumbling intensified and it appeared that tons of dirt, rock and coal were about to cascade down on them. Just then, Bova noticed a different chamber a short distance away and began running toward it. It was a fatal mistake because, almost immediately, the worst of the cave-in occurred, filling the area where they had been working.
That was the last Fellin or Throne saw Bova, whose body was never recovered and who is remembered today by a tombstone at the site of the rescue. While the initial rescue team was totally frustrated above ground, Fellin and Throne were doing what they could to survive below.
For almost an hour they sat side by side in the enclosure, which was hardly wide enough for one of them to squeeze past the other.
All the time - while waiting for the aftershocks of the first cave-in to subside - each pulled up his shirt and placed it over his nose and mouth because there was little letup in dust. Finally, when the tremors had ended and the dust finally settled, they realized they had to find water. Fellin was familiar with the mine and knew there was a reservoir of stagnant, sewer-smelling water beneath their feet. So he used a broken tool to dig a small hole and, after it seemed to have hit a void, he grabbed an empty oil can, tied a rope to it and lowered it deep below him. Soon, he was hauling up a can of putrid water. Sipping it the first time, both Fellin and Throne spit it out. But after a few more sips, they began swallowing.
Next, the two miners had to combat the cold. The temperature inside the mine hovered around 55 degrees but their clothes were wet and Fellin and Throne were shivering. That's when Throne, sitting next Fellin with their backs to a wall, told his companion that he knew how he could make them warm. He told Fellin to sit between his legs and start rocking, which he did. Each time they rocked, Throne had Fellin's shirt lifted and was blowing air down his back. Soon, both men were warm.
Fellin was amazed but Throne told him it was something he had been taught in the armed forces while stationed at a base in the far north.
They didn't have to face the other necessity - food - until the next day. That's when Fellin and Throne, who hadn't eaten for more than 24 hours, experienced serious hunger pain. They were so hungry, in fact, that they attempted to eat the bark off timber that was holding up the roof of their chamber. But they spit it out when they realized they couldn't swallow it. Then, suddenly, Fellin told Throne that he believed he had a way to "feed" them. He then got the can of water, held a finger to his Adam's apple and took a sip. Fellin then told Throne to do likewise.
After doing it a few times, both realized they were no longer hungry. Fellin explained that, for some reason, he remembered seeing movie newsreels in which Mahatma Gandhi would be shown in the midst of his many long hunger strikes, subsisting only on water. Fellin said he remembered that anytime Gandhi was shown taking a drink, he was pressing onto his Adam's apple. Years later, Fellin said he had learned that the maneuver triggers a mechanism in the body that allows a person to live off body fats. He did that until food was sent down through a borehole after the rescue crew made contact. 'They're alive'!
On the surface, rescuers began to fear there was nothing they could do to save the miners, if they were even still alive. When virtually all hope was lost, a million-in-one gamble was taken.
It was decided, as a last-ditch effort to satisfy the families of the miners, to drill a 6-inch-wide borehole in an attempt to reach the men buried more than 300 feet underground.
Drilling the hole took much of Aug. 17 and all of Aug. 18, but about 11 p.m. Aug. 18, a Sunday, a hole had been drilled to the proper depth. Just before midnight, a light and a microphone were lowered in an effort to establish contact with the miners. A member of the rescue crew cupped his mouth over the borehole, got as close as he could to the ground and yelled: "Look for the light!"
He thought he had heard something, so he stood up and waved both arms, demanding total silence.
Once again he got on all fours and hollered, "Look for the light!" then cupped an ear to the borehole and excitedly jumped to his feet and screamed: "They're alive! I hear them! They're alive!"
Within minutes, the astounding news spread like wildfire around the world.
"MINE MIRACLE" was the giant headline across the top of the Los Angeles Times the next morning. What followed was the patient drilling of larger boreholes, then the drilling of a 17 1/2-inch borehole with a drill loaned by one of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes' companies.
People worldwide waited for a happy ending - and it finally came in the wee hours of Aug. 27, 1963.
First Throne, then Fellin were pulled to the surface wearing parachute harnesses and football helmets.
It was a scene that would be almost duplicated at the Quecreek bituminous mine in Somerset County in 2002.
There was a great difference in the two rescues, however. At Somerset, high-tech scientific equipment was used to determine where the men might be underground. In the cave-in and rescue near Sheppton, it was sheer guesswork - and a good deal of luck. The original drill had traveled many miles to arrive at the site where the cave-in occurred. It was destined to drill the borehole near a wooden stake that indicated where the miners might be found, at the recommendation of state Bureau of Mining and United Mine Workers officials and veteran miners who had worked inside that mine years before.
But it didn't quite work out that way. The truck carrying the drill broke down quite a distance from the stake. With little recourse and less time to waste, rescuers decided to sink the borehole there, and the rest is history.
Just wanted to share this story with you guys about a haunted house in Hanover Pennsylvania.
A home in Hanover, York County will be featured on a national TV show on Saturday. The homeowners say their house is severely haunted, with multiple ghosts and other entities.
Homeowner DeAnna Simpson says they’ve lived in the home for seven years, and put everything they had into buying it. She says she and her husband didn’t find out it was haunted until soon after they moved in.
“We put everything into this house,” says Simpson. “And we do want to move, but we would have to list it at such a price where we could recoup what we put in.”
Simpson has ghostly photos, as well as photos from something that scratches people who come inside. She also has audio recordings of voices, children laughing, and dogs barking that were not in the house.
“Five plus,” she says of the number of ghosts in the house. “I have some here that are protecting me, some women here that are protecting me, but the majority are bad, dark forces, inhuman.”
Simpson says one of the entities in the house is a demon. It appears in a photo as a 7-foot-tall shadow figure. While the TV crew were there, Simpson recorded orbs on her cell phone camera and it caught a clip of a shadowy hand reaching out.
