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Saturday, November 01, 2008 
JANUARY, 2007, the Central New York Ghost Hunters1 (CNYGH), based in Syracuse, New York, were invited to investigate an old hotel in upstate New York. (The owners of the hotel have asked to keep its location confidential.) The investigation proved to be one of the most intensely active the group has ever encountered, and produced an EVP – an electronic voice phenomena recording – that is remarkable not only for its length, but also for its terrifying content.

It may well be the most intense, frightening EVP ever recorded.

THE INVESTIGATION

On that weekend in January, CNYGH founder Stacey Jones and several members of the group went to the hotel on an overnight stay for what they thought would be a routine investigation. They had no idea what they were in for.

Originally built in the late 1800s, the building was in its colorful history the site of some nefarious activity, a fact that might be key to what is heard in the EVP.

On Friday night, Stacey and her group set up their equipment – audio recorders, video recorders and other electronics – and settled in, hoping to document some evidence for the haunting the owners had claimed. Most investigations are relatively quiet, but this night was filled with paranormal activity, including muffled voices of unknown origin, footsteps from unseen bodies and more. Members of the group I spoke with confirmed that it was the most active haunting they had personally experienced.

The real shocker came the next day. On Saturday afternoon at about 3 p.m., two female CNYGH investigators and a member of the owner's family (also a female) sat on the staircase of the hotel with a digital voice recorder, intending to capture some EVP. They chose the stairway because they had heard soft conversations and footsteps on the floor above, although no one was up there.

When they later played the recording back, however, what they heard were not soft voices and footsteps, but something totally unexpected and completely terrifying.

THE EVP: WHAT YOU'LL HEAR

Stacey Jones describes what you'll hear on the recording:

"You can [faintly] hear the three females talking throughout the recording. You will hear a female – the family member – say, 'Hello, baby,' and another long conversation. Those are all human voices. But what sounds like a struggle or attack is going on as well.

"The male [voice] you hear was not present at the hotel. You will hear a cuckoo clock (which was not present) a ticking of a hall clock (which was there); you will hear what sounds like the microphone being moved (which was not touched) and then the sound becomes clearer.

"You will hear a creaking door and slamming of the door, which is real. Then you will hear a [unknown] woman say, 'Get off me,' and what sounds like the woman being attacked. The struggle continues for awhile, and during the EVP you can hear some of my investigators' conversations. After interviewing my investigators, they said they went and sat on the stairs of this hotel, because they heard from an above floor, what sounded like footsteps and conversations, not what you hear on this recording. When the noises stop, you hear the investigators participate in a lulled conversation. They stated that they started to talk when the noises stopped. In their conversation, you will hear a male voice say, 'Help me' several times."

 

Caution: the recording is violent and may be too intense for some listeners.

It's a large file, so the download may take awhile. If you're having trouble downloading the file, try right-clicking the link above and choose "Save Target As..." in Internet Explorer or "Save Link As..." in Firefox to save the file to your computer's hard drive, then play it from there.

http://paranormal.about.com/library/media/audio/cnygh-evp.mp3

"The EVP has not been altered in any way, except it was edited for time," Stacey says. "CNY Ghost Hunters have tried to reduce the noise, amplify and 'clean' it up, but found it difficult to make out exactly what was being said. We invite you to download this EVP to see what you can make of it.

"Please let me know what you make of this EVP. I can't give you any more of the history as we are no longer able to enter the hotel where the EVP was obtained. If you can make out any further detail, please drop Stephen an email (paranormal@about.com) or contact Central New York Ghost Hunters at: Stacey@gotghosts.org"

Central New York Ghost Hunters (of which I am a member) is one of the oldest paranormal investigation groups in the state.

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Saturday, November 01, 2008 
Friday, October 10, 2008

'Bigfoot' cop wants job back

Friday, October 10, 2008


By Daniel Silliman

dsilliman@news-daily.com

The Clayton County police officer, who perpetuated a Bigfoot hoax, is fighting his firing.

Matthew Whitton has filed an appeal of his termination, asking to be reinstated to his job as a uniformed patrolman. Whitton, 28, was fired in August, after he attracted international media attention with claims he had the body of a dead Bigfoot.

Whitton and Rick Dyer, who once was a corrections officer, claimed they had the corpse of a legendary North American man-ape and had it frozen in a secret, safe location. They described the alleged animal in detail, including the color of its hair, its sexual organ and how "man-like" the animal would look, if it were shaved.

Teaming up with Tom Biscardi, a California man with a history of Bigfoot hoaxes, Whitton and Dyer held a press conference to "reveal the evidence." The "evidence" amounted to blurry and unconvincing pictures, and an e-mail reporting DNA test results as "human," "opossum" and "unidentified."

A few days later, everyone involved admitted the claims that captured media attention from CNN to The Sydney Morning Herald, from the Clayton News Daily to the New York Times, were false. The find was apparently a rubber suit stuffed with animal entrails.

When news of the claims first broke, Clayton County Police Chief Jeff Turner said Whitton's activities were personal as long as he did it on his own time, didn't do anything illegal, and didn't involve the police department. After the hoax was admitted, Turner said Whitton had lied on national television and lost his credibility.

Court cases in which Whitton was going to be a key witness, including an armed robbery that left a woman shot in the head and comatose, will probably be affected, legal observers say. Some charges could be dropped and some cases could be dismissed, observers speculate, because of the possible issue of Whitton's credibility.

Friends of Whitton in the department, have privately called the incident a personal and professional embarrassment, even though the fired officer said the whole thing was just a joke. To date, he seems to still think it was a joke.

Dyer responded to Whitton's firing in a conversation with the Clayton News Daily by attacking Turner's personal integrity, and called Whitton a hero, because the officer was shot in the line of duty a few weeks before claiming to have found a Bigfoot body.

Whitton said he always kept his job separate from his hoax hobby, at one point using a different first name and telling reporters at the big press conference that "my job has nothing to do with this." Most media outlets mentioned Whitton's work, however, as a reason his claims could be credible.

The appeal, filed by attorney Robert F. Webb, adds another argument against Whitton's firing, saying Whitton was "suffering from the physical and mental stress" from the shooting.

Webb is expected to also argue that the firing was done improperly.

A civil service board hearing has not yet been scheduled, according to the county's personnel department.
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Friday, October 31, 2008 

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In the 1970s, a psychical research group "invented" a spirit named Philip. To their astonishment, Philip actually made contact with them through a host of incredible psychokinetic phenomena

A group of teenagers gathered around a Ouija board receives mysterious messages from a person's spirit who claims to have died 40 years ago. A paranormal society conducts a séance where they contact a ghost that communicates though table rappings. The residents of a century-old home continually see the spirit of a young child playing in the hallway.

What are these manifestations? Are they truly the ghosts of departed people? Or are they creations of the minds of the people who see them?

Many researchers of the paranormal suspect that ghostly manifestations and poltergeist phenomena (objects flying through the air, unexplained footsteps and door slammings) are products of the human mind. To test that idea, a fascinating experiment was conducted in the early 1970s by the Toronto Society for Psychical Research (TSPR) to see if they could create a ghost. The idea was to assemble a group of people who would make up a completely fictional character and then, through séances, see if they could contact him and receive messages and other physical phenomena - perhaps even an apparition.

The results of the experiment - which were fully documented on film and audiotape - are astonishing.

The Birth of Philip

The TSPR, under the guidance of Dr. A.R.G. Owen, assembled a group of eight people culled from its membership, none of whom claimed to have any psychic gifts. The group, which became known as the Owen group, consisted of Dr. Owen's wife, a woman who was the former chairperson of MENSA (an organization for high-IQ people), an industrial designer, an accountant, a housewife, a bookkeeper and a sociology student. A psychologist named Dr. Joel Whitton also attended many of the group's sessions as an observer. The group's first task was to create their fictional historical character. Together they wrote a short biography of the person they named Philip Aylesford. Here, in part, is that biography:

Philip was an aristocratic Englishman, living in the middle 1600s at the time of Oliver Cromwell. He had been a supporter of the King, and was a Catholic. He was married to a beautiful but cold and frigid wife, Dorothea, the daughter of a neighboring nobleman. 

One day when out riding on the boundaries of his estates Philip came across a gypsy encampment and saw there a beautiful dark-eyed girl raven-haired gypsy girl, Margo, and fell instantly in love with her. He brought her back secretly to live in the gatehouse, near the stables of Diddington Manor - his family home.

For some time he kept his love-nest secret, but eventually Dorothea, realizing he was keeping someone else there, found Margo, and accused her of witchcraft and stealing her husband. Philip was too scared of losing his reputation and his possessions to protest at the trial of Margo, and she was convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake.

Philip was subsequently stricken with remorse that he had not tried to defend Margo and used to pace the battlements of Diddington in despair. Finally, one morning his body was found at the bottom of the battlements, whence he had cast himself in a fit of agony and remorse.

The Owen group even enlisted the artistic talents of one of its members to sketch a portrait of Philip (see picture above). With their creation's life and appearance now firmly established in their minds, the group began the second phase of the experiment: contact.

The Séances Begin

In September 1972, the group began their "sittings" - informal gatherings in which they would discuss Philip and his life, meditate on him and try to visualize their "collective hallucination" in more detail. These sittings, conducted in a fully lit room, went on for about a year with no results. Some members of the group occasionally claimed they felt a presence in the room, but there was no result they could consider any kind of communication from Philip.

So they changed their tactics. The group decided they might have better luck if they attempted to duplicate the atmosphere of a classic spiritualist séance. They dimmed the room's lights, sat around a table, sang songs and surrounded themselves with pictures of the type of castle they imagined Philip would have lived in, as well as objects from that time period.

It worked. During one evening's séance, the group received its first communication from Philip in the form of a distinct rap on the table. Soon Philip was answering questions asked by the group - one rap for yes, two for no. They knew it was Philip because, well, they asked him.

The sessions took off from there, producing a range of phenomena that could not be explained scientifically. Through the table-rapping communication, the group was able to learn finer details about Philip's life. He even seemed to exhibit a personality, conveying his likes and dislikes, and his strong views on various subjects, made plain by the enthusiasm or hesitancy of his knockings. His "spirit" was also able to move the table, sliding it from side to side despite the fact that the floor was covered with thick carpeting. At times it would even "dance" on one leg.

Philip's Limitations and Power

That Philip was a creation of the group's collective imagination was evident in his limitations. Although he could accurately answer questions about events and people of his time period, it did not appear to be information that the group was unaware of. In other words, Philip's responses were coming from their subconscious - their own minds. Some members thought they heard whispers in response to questions, but no voice was ever captured on tape.

Philip's psychokinetic powers, however, were amazing and completely unexplained. If the group asked Philip to dim the lights, they would dim instantly. When asked to restore the lights, he would oblige. The table around which the group sat was almost always the focal point of peculiar phenomena. After feeling a cool breeze blow across the table, they asked Philip if he could cause it to start and stop at will. He could and he did. The group noticed that the table itself felt different to the touch whenever Philip was present, having a subtle electric or "alive" quality. On a few occasions, a fine mist formed over the center of the table. Most astonishing, the group reported that the table would sometimes be so animated that it would rush over to meet latecomers to the session, or even trap members in the corner of the room.

The climax of the experiment was a séance conducted before a live audience of 50 people. The session was also filmed as part of a television documentary. Fortunately, Philip was not stage shy and performed above expectations. Besides table rappings, other noises around the room and making lights blink off and on, the group actually attained a full levitation of the table. It rose only a half inch above the floor, but this incredible feat was witnessed by the group and the film crew. Unfortunately, the dim lighting prevented the levitation from being captured on the film.

Although the Philip experiment gave the Owen group far more than they ever imagined possible, it was never able to attain one of their original goals - to have the spirit of Philip actually materialize. 

The Aftermath

The Philip experiment was so successful that the Toronto organization decided to try it again with a completely different group of people and a new fictional character. After just five weeks, the new group established "contact" with their new "ghost," Lilith, a French Canadian spy. Other similar experiments conjured up such entities as Sebastian, a medieval alchemist and even Axel, a man from the future. All of them were completely fictional, yet all produced unexplained communication through their unique raps.

Recently, a Sydney, Australia group attempted a similar test with "the Skippy Experiment." The six participants created the story of Skippy Cartman, a 14-year-old Australian girl. The group reports that Skippy communicated with them through raps and scratching sounds.

Conclusions

What are we to make of these incredible experiments? While some would conclude that they prove that ghosts don't exist, that such things are in our minds only, others say that our unconscious could be responsible for this kind of the phenomena some of the time. They do not (in fact, cannot) prove that there are no ghosts.

Another point of view is that even though Philip was completely fictional, the Owen group really did contact the spirit world. A playful (or perhaps demonic, some would argue) spirit took the opportunity of these séances to "act" as Philip and produce the extraordinary psychokinetic phenomena recorded.

In any case, the experiments proved that paranormal phenomena are quite real. And like most such investigations, they leave us with more questions than answers about the world in which we live. The only certain conclusion is that there is much to our existence that is still unexplained.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 
 

Bigfoot Hoaxers Resurface, Blame California Promoter

Thursday, August 21, 2008

By Paul Wagenseil

 

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Bigfoot hoaxers Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton are back in the limelight — and they're blaming Tom Biscardi, the California promoter who trotted them out for a nationally televised press conference last Friday.

Back home in Georgia after their brief moment in the big time, Dyer and Whitton told two Atlanta TV stations Wednesday that the entire affair was a "joke" that got out of hand.

"I just wanted to put out some good news," Dyer told Joanna Massee of WGCL-TV. "People are upset with the war and stuff — what's so bad about Bigfoot? Nobody got hurt."

The men admitted they bought the Sasquatch suit over the Internet, and showed WSB-TV's Mark Winne a Web page at TheHorrorDome.Com selling it.

"It got into something much bigger than it was supposed to be," Whitton told Winne. "It started off as just some YouTube videos and a Web site. ... We're all about having fun."

Two people definitely aren't smiling. One is Clayton County Police Chief Jeffrey Turner, who fired Whitton from his job as a police officer Tuesday after the hoax came to light.

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"A defense attorney could put him on the stand and say, 'You lied about this — how do we know you're not lying now?'" Turner told FoxNews.com. "A police officer needs credibility and honor."

Whitton will be allowed to contest his termination, and he insists he's still an honest man.

"I don't believe it does affect my credibility at all, because this is Bigfoot," he told Winne. "It would be one thing if I came out and said I had something else that is tangible or real, but right now, as far as I'm concerned, there is no real Bigfoot."

The other unhappy party is Biscardi, who accuses Dyer and Whitton of running off with the $50,000 advance he gave them a week ago. According to an employee of his Searching for Bigfoot company, Biscardi plans to sue.

"There will be legal action," Catherine Ortez told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "If this was a joke, it was very methodical and thought-out."

Neither of the TV interviewers asked Dyer and Whitton about the money, but the men have hired a prominent defense lawyer.

They also briefly posted a YouTube video arguing that Biscardi knew all along that the Bigfoot body was bogus. It was taken down, but Cryptomundo.com managed to save it for posterity.

"We have proof," Dyer told Massee. "Not proof of Bigfoot — we have proof of everything, and that's what's gonna come out in the next couple of days."

• Click here for Dyer's interview with WGCL-TV.

• Click here for Dyer and Whitton's interview with WSB-TV.

• Click here for Dyer and Whitton's yanked YouTube video.

 

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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 

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I recieved this from Troy Taylor's Newsletter.....Thanks for the Heads Up Troy and Jeff.......Teams be aware!!!!!

 

WARNING FOR GHOST HUNTERS!

 
Jeff Belanger asked me to pass this on to you, although I'm sure that none of our readers would be stupid enough to fall for this one, or would be desperate enough to be on TV to believe that it was a good idea. Right? Um, right? Anyway, thanks to Jeff for sending the information and just so you know, the Sci-Fi Channel does not do it's own production work -- and that's just for starters on this one. - Troy Taylor
 

Here's what Jeff wrote:

 

Ghost Investigation Equipment Scam Involving "Sci-Fi Productions"

Folks, recently I've been alerted to a scam going around involving a group that calls itself "Sci-Fi Productions." The implication is that they are with the Sci-Fi Channel — they are not. My friend Brendan Skeen, who runs Ghost-Mart, has been receiving calls from people who want to place some very big orders for various investigation equipment. While we're grateful for the orders, we don't want to see anybody get ripped off.

Here's how the scam works: Your ghost investigation group receives an email from someone claiming they're with Sci-Fi Productions. The email says they are casting for a new ghost show and they're interested in you. They may ask you for some headshots of yourself, or they may be looking for some more information about your group.

 

Next, they offer you a phone number based out of California. You call the number and they answer it, "Sci-Fi Productions." They will tell you they work in a cut-throat business and tell you that you can't tell anyone you're talking to them or it might jeopardize your chances at starring in their new show. Then they'll ask you what kind of investigation equipment you have. They may ask you to get some more if you're serious and want to be on the show. The scam ends when they ask you to ship your investigation equipment to them so they can check it out before they schedule the filming of the pilot. (In some cases people are shipping them thousands of dollars worth of equipment.) Once you send in your stuff, the contact stops and you don't hear back. The number (which is likely a pay-as-you-go cell phone) gets disconnected, and you're out all of your equipment. Our best guess is that the scammer then sells your stuff on eBay for hundreds of dollars.

 

I've had the opportunity to work with a few television production companies on various projects and I can tell you, they would never ask you to ship them your equipment for any reason. They may ask for headshots, they may ask for sample video of you in action, but they simply won't have any interest in your EMF meters. If they are for real, and do have a budget for a show, they'll buy you all the necessary equipment when they start filming.

 

This group is preying on people who want to be famous and have their own ghost show. Television is still hungry for the paranormal, but please think before you send all of your equipment away to some stranger. - Jeff Belanger

 

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Peter James Haviland A.C.C.H.
Clinical Forensic Hypnotherapist
Co-Host Parahub Radio
www.parahub.org
Field Investigator Office of Paranormal Investigations
www.mindreader.com
Co-Founder of Paranormal Research Organization
SE Texas Area Rep for American Ghost Society
www.prairieghosts.com
President/Lead Investigator of Lone Star Spirits Paranormal Investigations.
www.lonestarspirits.org
Member of the AAEVP
www.AAEVP.com

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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 

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This will be a growing list of scam artists,bull shit artists, and people that mis represent themselves.....Please add to this for reference to the community....

Julie V - Click for Story

John Cifarelli posing as NJPR - Click Link for Story

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 

Man Believes His Dead Wife is Contacting Him Via Cell Phone

by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Apr 2nd 2008 at 11:01AM



It was five years ago when Frank Jones' wife and son died unexpectedly. His son, Steven, died of a brain tumor at an early 32. Three months later, his wife, Sadie died from a heart attack at the age of 69.

Sadie was a cell phone addict. "She always had a mobile with her," Jones told the Blackpool Gazette. So, of course, they buried Sadie with her cell phone.

Now Jones believes Sadie is getting service six feet under, and she has been sending him text messages with words only Sadie would say. Of course, there is no return number on the messages or missed calls, leading Jones to believe the communications are form his deceased wife.

Creepy? Yes. But here's where things get creepier: The house Jones lives in has a history of hauntings from a being called "The Thornton Thing". The entity drove a family from the house in 1971, and after the Jones family suffered hauntings as well, they had the house exorcised.

It wasn't until the untimely deaths of his wife and son did Jones start experiencing messages from beyond. The obvious question we can't help asking: What kind of service does one get up there? She's clearly getting a lot of dropped calls.

From the Blackpool Gazette
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Friday, August 22, 2008 
The curse of "A Shot at Glory" By Maggie Hendricks Before the Olympics began, the HD television station Mojo ran a miniseries, "A Shot at Glory," which told the stories of eleven American Olympians. I enjoyed the series, but looking back, things did not go well for the athletes profiled. Consider: - Wrestler Daniel Cormier had to drop out of the games after he was hospitalized just hours after weigh-in with kidney failure and other physical problems from cutting weight. - Wallace Spearmon ran the finals in the 200m, but was disqualified for crossing into a competitor's lane. - Boxer Gary Russell Jr., a medal threat for the United States, dropped out of the games when he passed out while trying to make weight. - Gymnast Samantha Peszek sprained her ankle minutes before the women's qualification round, relegating her to one performance on the uneven parallel bars. - Runner Tyson Gay injured his leg at the Olympic trials and didn't qualify for the 200m. He then didn't make the finals for the 100m, a race he was expected to medal in. - Swimmer Kate Ziegler did not make the finals in any of her events, though she was expected to medal. That's a pretty frightening record. To future Olympians, if you are approached to participate in this series, you might want to think twice. Photo via Getty Images
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Friday, August 22, 2008 
 

Haunted Doll Amazing ACTIVE

PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE AFRAID

THIS IS A CLASS A PARANORMAL OBJECT TESTED BY THE AMERICAN PARANORMAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

APRS link : http://www.freewebs.com/americanparanormalresearchsociety/index.htm


their powers are amazing!!!

bid now!!!!

do not let this offer pass you by!!!!

Are you the one that he wishes to bring joy, happiness, KNOWLEDGE, and companionship to ???

Up for bid is an amazing doll named ___SHAYLA

She is very active and is desperately seeking a new home.

Is yours the home for her??

She needs a loving warm and happy home and LOVES kids and animals.

She is a very active girl looking for a new home.

We are very privileged to bring to you some of most haunted dolls from a visit and investigation at to the Mary Haven Children's Home and Orphan Asylum and Children's Home. These dolls have been put away in safe keeping for some time and we are now offering up for auction. These dolls are from The APRS investigation of the home in 1999. The home had been closed for a few years. We were asked to investigate while it was under renovation. The renovators had heard children laughing, children crying, shadows, movement and more. Hundreds of children HAD PASSED THROUGH THOSE ROOMS for many years. These are very precious souls.

The house was one of the most haunted places that we had ever investigated. You could hear children everywhere. They pulled on your clothes. We got one of them to move a ball back and forth. It was amazing.

The history of the house:

On June 6, 1863, Mary Ann Klingling died, she left 40,000 to start a home "where poor white children, who have lost one or both parents, may receive a sound moral and Christian education, and if necessary, be supported during their minority." come from this fund was to be offered only for the education and support of orphan "white" children. It was advised that all provisions for a "like benevolence for indigent children of all classes" be deemed proper.
In 1898 it was operated by Rev. and Mrs. R.S. Hageman who were, respectively, superintendent and matron.

It all started out ordinarily enough but over the years there were many caretakers and many children died there. There is no doubt that those souls are still in the house today along with a few of the caretakers. We had evps of over 30 children, We experienced amazing results with these dolls and can even match names to those who once lived there.

These children are still here looking for a home and we are so happy to find wonderful people to care for them. Above all these children need people who will take care of them. I believe that a few were abused. I believe that some of the Strict Christian discipline was not so nice. These boys and girls are here because they were given up by their parents and they long for a loving home more than any others that I have ever experienced.

The Mary Haven Home was operated for more than 120 years.

 

This home seems to be a portal where many spirits of dolls have gathered over the years.

The area has numerous sightings and ghostly reports.

There are many haunted reports and sightings in that home.

This house has drawn these spirits for a reason and the dolls were brought to us for a reason.

 

They are searching for the one reading this that the story has touched.

You know who you are.

She needs you!!!!

 

About the Doll: (This is what has been documented by the APRS)

Item 55766

Description: HAS BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES

Name: SHAYAL

EVPS RECORDED:21 IN 2 WEEKS

 

 

EMF READINGS: 26.7

Orbs: 10

Other: SHE IS 10 YEARS OLD

This doll is here to find a loving home.

The house located in Lebanon, Ohio was haunted by many. We recorded EVPS and very high EMF readings. Since our first investigation these dolls have been stored and tested. We will be offering other objects in the weeks to come so please check back. We offer these dolls and objects because we really want to find them a home. They do not like being stored away, even in the wonderful facilities' that we have for them. We want to find them homes and ask that you keep us updated if you wish to let us know how it is going for our record keeping.

PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU CAN NOT HANDLE THIS SORT OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY!!!

A little about haunted dolls:

For reasons unknown dolls seem to collect spirits. Is it because they are so loved and adored. We will never knew but we do Know that it does happen. And these souls long for that Special person to bond with.

 

Are you THAT SPECIAL PERSON?

IS she CALLING TO YOU???

 

Haunted dolls have been recorded throughout history and continue today. There are even haunted dolls in museums and author ANNE RICE has a huge display of haunted dolls that she keeps in her museum collection.

We know that the right person is out there.

Is she calling to you????

All dolls come with a COA from the American Paranormal Research Society

Please feel free to email us if you have questions.

PLEASE ADD US TO YOUR FAVORITES OR CHECK OUT OUR OTHER ITEMS!!!!

As eBay policy: This item is for entertainment purposes only. No specific results can be Guaranteed. I am not responsible for paranormal activity that may occur. I am not responsible for harm from this spell. This spell is not in place of any treatment or advice of any kind. Please consult your doctor for that. You must be 18 or older to purchase this item

 

 

OUR POLICIES: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!!!!

Payment Policy: PLEASE IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE AND DO NOT THINK THAT THIS ITEM IS RIGHT FOR YOU DO NOT BID.

IF YOU CAN NOT PAY , pay pal, or U.S. MONEY order DO NOT BID!!!! U.S. Postal money orders ONLY are accepted from U.S. Residents only and must go out the day that you order via first class mail and you MUST inform us upon winning the auction that you intend to pay this way so that we can let you know which location to send it to.

Refund policy: DUE to the nature of our business WE DO NOT offer refunds. I apologize but we can not offer refunds on items that you receive, use, and bond with and then try to send back. This is not fair to the spirits or us and we can no longer do it. PLEASE make sure that the item is RIGHT for you before bidding.

All amulets are as pictured, most come with a free chain as you see in the picture, the chain is our GIFT TO YOU!!!

We can not be held responsible for customs in your country. Your customs department decides what and when to open an item and we have no control over it and can not be held liable for customs charges.

We have noticed in some countries our FREE gifts of incense, stones, etc. are being removed so we will not be including them to certain countries.

Shipping policy: Items are sent out ONCE A week from two different locations ( Wednesdays) sometimes on Mondays also. Due to this fact if you want a shipping discount you need to ask if their is one available on your items. If your items are going out from the same location this may be possible. If they are coming from separate locations it usually will not be possible.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 

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Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World

 

Long before Bonsai Kittens and the tourist guy, hoaxsters have been wreaking havoc on the gullible to amuse themselves and maybe gain a little notoriety. Here are a few hoaxes that pre-date the Internet, in some cases by centuries. There are plenty more, so perhaps a follow-up is in order – if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments.

The Turk

This might not seem so impressive in the day and age of computers, but at the time, a mechanical man who could beat anyone at chess was quite the novelty.

Wolfgang von Kempelen constructed just that. It baffled people from 1770 until 1854. It was a life-sized man from the waist up, dressed in robes and a turban (to emphasize the mystic quality, I suppose). It sat with a cabinet which opened to reveal all kinds of cogs and gears and complicated-looking machinery, which were designed to hide a person sitting on a sliding seat. The person could maneuver around in the cabinet to conceal himself as the presenter opened various cabinet doors to prove that nothing was inside but machinery. The person inside would then use various levers to make the Turk move, pick up chess pieces and even shake his head disapprovingly at opponents trying to cheat. The Turk defeated the likes of Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay on it, guessing how the tricks were done, but was largely incorrect.

The Turk was lost in a fire on July 5, 1854. In 1857, the son of the Turk's final owner decided that since the Turk was "deceased", it was time for his secrets to be revealed. He wrote a series of articles for The Chess Monthly and exposed nearly everything.

For Sale, Cheap: The Brooklyn Bridge

George Parker would sell anything that wasn't nailed down – no, wait, he sold stuff that was nailed down, too. Cemented and bolted down, in fact. He set up an office in New York to handle real estate deals – huge deals. Among his offerings were the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, Grant's Tomb, Madison Square Garden and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He would convince buyers that they could own a piece of history and even made some very convincing documents giving them ownership. He is the reason the phrase "If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you," came about. Despite all of these sales – he supposedly "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge twice a week – he was only convicted of fraud three times.

The Cottingley Fairies

Tinkerbell would be pleased that these young girls believed in fairies, but perhaps would have disapproved of their methods of "proving" it. Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths were cousins. Elsie, 16, was a wonderful artist who worked in a photo lab and a greeting card factory. She borrowed her dad's camera to take some pictures, and when they were developed, pictures of fairies happened to be in some of them. He declared them fake, but Elsie's mother disagreed.

The pictures soon became public and were up for interpretation. One of the people fooled by the prints was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series. But not everyone was easily convinced. In order to show that the fairy sightings were real, a clairvoyant was brought to Cottingley. The idea was that if anyone else would be able to see fairies, surely a clairvoyant could. Perhaps eager to prove just how spiritual he was, the clairvoyant said that yes, he absolutely saw the fairies, although he was not able to get any more pictures.

The whole thing remained unsolved until 1981, when the cousins were interviewed for a magazine called The Unexplained. They admitted they had made cut-out fairies and held them up with hatpins, and said they realized the joke had gone too far when Arthur Conan Doyle was duped. They were embarrassed to come forth after that and decided to keep up the ruse. However, Frances said that although the first four pictures were fakes, the fifth one (the one on the left, above) was real and that she and her cousin actually did see fairies.

The Lying Stones

A Professor at the University of Wurzburg in Germany was fooled by his colleagues in the 18th century. They carved limestone into animal shapes and carved the name of God on them in various characters and hid them on a nearby mountain where Professor Beringer liked to hunt for fossils. Beringer became convinced that the carvings were actually created by God himself. Even when people pointed out that the limestone showed chisel marks, he held to his theory and even published a book on the stones.

His colleagues eventually came clean, but he refused to believe them and called them agnostic. He was finally convinced when the two men testified in court that they had just wanted to discredit Beringer because he was so conceited. Beringer pretty much ruined himself financially trying to buy up all of the copies of his ridiculous book. The stones became known as Lügensteine, the lying stones.

Princess Caraboo

In 1817, Princess Caraboo popped up in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England. She was speaking a strange language and was wearing clothes that weren't common to the area, so people were quite intrigued by her. No one could understand what she was saying, but when she was offered a room at the local inn, she ate a pineapple for dinner and slept on the floor instead of in the bed.

Finally, a man who spoke Portugeuse claimed to understand her and translated for her. She was a Princess from the island of Javasu who was kidnapped by pirates. She escaped by jumping overboard and swimming to shore, which was how she had ended up in Almondsbury.

A woman in Bristol read about her in a newspaper and recognized her as a girl who had stayed at her lodging house not too long before. She entertained the woman's daughters by speaking in her own made up language, just for fun. Another man said that he met "Princess Caraboo" a couple of days before she turned up in Almondsbury, but at that time she spoke English and drank rum and ate steak (as "Princess Caraboo", she was strictly vegetarian).

When confronted with these stories, the Princess admitted that she was Mary Baker and came from Witheridge, Devon.

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