Beverly HIlls

The Paul Bern Death House of Beverly Hills is a weird one. He'd been married to Jean Harlow for only two months when director, screenwriter, and producer Paul Bern was found naked and shot in the head inside his home at 9820 Easton Dr. Death motive theories include: suicide due to impotence, murder by crazy ex-wife, and murder by MGM's studio manager. Gripskipper reports claims from Creepy LA that, "subsequent owners have reported sobbing and the sounds of a struggle from the location of the shooting," and also that Sharon Tate stayed here, telling friends she was awoken "by Paul Bern's ghost, who showed her a vision of herself, tied up and slaughtered."

Long Beach

The Queen Mary is certified haunted according to the countless seekers who claim to hear voices, rattling chains, and maritime clanking on their paranormal ghost tours and overnight stays. If that doesn't sound creepy enough, simply pay someone to scare the bejeezus out of you at their Shipwreck Haunted House event. After a spin through the Ministry-soundtracked, boat-bowels maze, you will BEG for a haunted room. You will also be peeing yourself. Gross.

Hollywood Hills

Dan Ackroyd cites his former haunted Los Angeles address as the inspiration for Ghostbusters. However the house at 7708 Woodrow Wilson Drive is probably not brimming with Zuul, it's more likely the former owners Mama Cass Elliot or Natalie Wood.

Pasadena / Altadena

Despite architectural arches and rows of romantic lampposts, Colorado Boulevard's "Suicide Bridge" has a less than glamourous past -- it's said the bridge claimed the life of a construction worker during completion, as well as many greatly depressed Great Depression jumpers who continue to haunt the location and Arroyo Seco below.

And who can forget the Enchanted Forest. If you like to be chased by red orbs and headless apparitions through hots spots in a tar black forest, make sure to add this vaguely located woodland treasure to your map.

Playa Del Rey

Really? You need to be told not to build on the Ballona Wetlands? Not building on wetlands seems like an obvious gimme, especially when those wetlands are found to contain human remains a from Native American burial ground. Didn't anyone see Poltergeist? Construction crews and locals have reported strange mists and a plague of unexplained problems.

Downtown LA

Mobster tales, prohibition-era folklore and Great Depression suicides have lead to rumors of underground tunnels and major spookings at the historic Alexandria Hotel. LAist operatives went to investigate a while back and spoke with residents who reported chills in front of the Rudolph Valentino suite and someone touching their hair in the middle of the night... could be a mouse?

Addressing these allegations, the team spoke with a security guard and several employees who confirmed supernatural sightings of a little girl walking around in a white gown, as well as access to said tunnels (our not-so-fearless ghost hunters found only blocked access when they tried to get downstairs).

Continuing their shadow quest, the team found a room closed for construction and was quietly let in by their newly befriended security guard. Inside, they heard phantom footsteps from a room upstairs that was said to be empty and closed off. Then, "in the dark corner, we all saw this white glowing mist. We thought it was a trick so we shut the door and it was still there. OF COURSE I ran out screaming."

The energy in the ballroom was also deemed unsettling, with several explorers reporting unusual headaches. They were told the ballroom mirrors are known to show an unexplained image of a lady and were slanted oddly as not to reflect each other.

Similar sights and sounds, doors and elevators inexplicably opening and closing, spectral apparitions, and decidedly creepy vibes were also reported at the PE Lofts, Mercantile Lofts and the Cecil Hotel (where the Night Stalker serial killer, Richard Ramirez, once lived).

The Forever 21 offices downtown also appear to be a portal to the dark side. According to an employee, the building was formerly some variety of a mental facility as evidenced by the marketing department occupying the padded rooms. Insert joke here. We were told that stylists and reps keep clothes for photo shoots in the floor to ceiling padded chamber with a single, thick window and a giant lock. Employees reported seeing a vanishing girl inside late night and for some reason they don't like to stay there after dark anymore.

Angelino Heights

If I were Michael Jackson I would totally haunt the Thriller house in Angelino Heights. And then moonwalk to the Pantages if I got lonely.

Obituary: Alvin Lawson dies at 80; UFO researcher questioned beliefs of alleged abductees - latimes.com

ACCORDING to Chinese folk tales, the gates of hell open annually during the Hungry Ghost month, which causes more deaths in this period, but Singapore statistics show a different story, China Press reported.

The daily reported that the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which usually falls in July and August, did not show a rise in the death toll.

Some funeral parlour operators said their business even declined compared with other months.

An undertaker said his business dropped 10% to 20% on the seventh month, so he would usually travel overseas on this particular period.

However, there were a number of undertakers who said their business increased as old people easily fell sick due to the weather change in the seventh month.

A feng shui master jokingly said it was baseless to claim that more people died during the Hungry Ghost month.

“The ‘officers’ from hell are too busy monitoring the ghosts, which can roam freely during the month, so they may not have time to take in new ones,” he said.

Another feng shui master said some older people believed that their spirit might be forced to wander around if they died during the month.

The daily also reported that a temple caretaker did not cut her hair for nine years to show her faith in God.

The 65-year-old Indian from Teluk Intan, known only as Soma, also did not wash her hair during the period, causing her hair to tangle and become hard like tree bark.

“This is the second time I have kept my hair for so long.

“The first time I kept it for 10 years before it dropped off,” she said.

Soma said she was used to people staring at her hair and that her mane did not affect her daily life.

Black Annis

Black Annis, also known as Black Agnes, is a bogeyman figure in English folklore. She is imagined as a blue-faced crone or witch with iron claws and a taste for human (especially child) flesh. She is said to haunt the countryside of Leicestershire, living in a cave in the Dane Hills, with an oak tree at its entrance.

She supposedly goes out onto the glens at night looking for unsuspecting children and lambs to eat, then tanning their skins by hanging them on a tree, before wearing them around her waist. She would reach inside houses to snatch people. Legend has it that she used her iron claws to dig into the side of a sandstone cliff, making herself a home there which is known as Black Annis's Bower. The legend led to parents warning their children that Black Annis would catch them if they did not behave.

It is thought that the earliest written reference to Black Annis was from the eighteenth century, from which a title deed referred to a parcel of land as "Black Anny's Bower Close". Ronald Hutton, in his book The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, suggests that the Black Annis of Leicestershire legend was based on a real person, Agnes Scott, a late medieval anchoress (or by some accounts a Dominican nun who cared for a local leper colony), born in Little Antrum, who lived a life of prayer in the cave in the Dane Hills, and was buried in the church yard in Swithland. Hutton suggests that the memory of Scott was distorted into the image of Black Annis, either to frighten local children, or due to the anti-anchorite sentiment that arose from the Protestant Reformation. In Victorian times, the story of Agnes Scott, or Annis, became confused with the similarly-named goddess Anu. T.C. Lethbridge made this connection and went on to claim that Annis was the personification of the Great Goddess in crone form, leading to interest from Wiccan groups.

While Agnes Scott may have been the inspiration for the local legend, the Black Annis figure has several possible origins. Some have claimed, as Lethbridge did, that the origin can be found in Celtic mythology, based on Danu (or Anu), wife of the Celtic God Llud, or it may derive from Germanic mythology (see Hel). It has been suggested that the legend may derive from a popular memory of sacrifice to an ancient goddess. Black Annis has also been identified as being the same as the Gaelic legend Yellow Muilearteach, with the wearing of the victims' skins a local addition to the myth. Others have identified her with the Celtic legend of Cailleach Bheare. The origin of the legend may go back to the mother-goddess of ancient Europe, who was remembered as a devourer of children.

It is thought that offerings of children may have been made to the goddess that inspired the legend in the archaeological Hunting Period, the oak tree at the cave's entrance also a common site of local meetings.

Annis was also represented in cat form and the legend led to a local ritual in early spring, when a dead cat would be dragged before a pack of hounds in front of her bower, to celebrate the end of winter.

Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles

Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality.

One of them, ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it. Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.

Captain Salas notes, "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." Col. Halt adds, "I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted—both then and now—to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."

The group of witnesses and a leading researcher, who has brought them together for the first time, will discuss the national security implications of these and other alarmingly similar incidents and will urge the government to reveal all information about them. This is a public-awareness issue.

Declassified U.S. government documents, to be distributed at the event, now substantiate the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites extending back to 1948. The press conference will also address present-day concerns about the abuse of government secrecy as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons.

WHO: Dwynne Arneson, USAF Lt. Col. Ret., communications center officer-in-charge

Bruce Fenstermacher, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

Charles Halt, USAF Col. Ret., former deputy base commander

Robert Hastings, researcher and author

Robert Jamison, former USAF nuclear missile targeting officer

Patrick McDonough, former USAF nuclear missile site geodetic surveyor

Jerome Nelson, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

Robert Salas, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

LM: You did an episode of Destination Truth with Josh Gates. Are there any plans to do that again?
LM: Your the most prolific Tweeter I know - a lot of the GH team tweet, is that something you decided to do on your own or is Syfy's big push to get all their stars on Twitter the reason?

KW: Actually Jason and Grant started it. They began telling me you should really get on MySpace and then Facebook and then Twitter. So I started checking them out. MySpace was just too chunky but Twitter is very easy and I really like it. I can retweet and answer people immediately. A lot of times I'll get the same questions from several people and I'm able to answer them all with one tweet.

LM: You've been teasing your followers on Twitter lately about a big secret -- When will you be doing the big reveal?

KW: I don't know yet -- I can't say until I get the go ahead.

LM: There has even been a hashtag created for the secret #KrisBigSecret ...

KW: Yes, it's funny, I've been getting all kinds of crazy guesses.

LM: Which was your favorite?

KW: (laughing) Oh, there was one about starting a new reality show called 'Kris' new BFF' where you would have to learn to shoot, ghost hunt and sing a Doors' song in order to win.

LM: Speaking of the Doors, I hear you'll be joining a Doors tribute band in New York City. How did that come about?

KW: A mutual fan of the Doors tribute band and I got us together. Some of my other interests are that I'm a huge Morrison fan. I'll be doing the one appearance with them and we'll see New York goes.

LM: Will you be singing?

KW: (laughing) Oh god, no. I only sing to people I want to torture.

LM: Here on the blog I like to give you and Amy a hard time about sitting around a lot. Is it an editing thing where the clips they choose to include in the show of you, you just happen to always be sitting or is it really your ghost hunting technique?

KW: When we get to a location I like to wander around and explore. We'll try some debunking first, but we do a lot of EVP work and for that you really have to be as still as possible so sitting is the best way to achieve that, that way we aren't bumping into stuff or making noise that we have to tag (on the recording) for later.



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STAR-STRUCK residents have continued to respond to reports of a strange bright star.

Rochelle Kvalsvig of Kokstad said that about two months ago, while looking toward the Chengwan Mountain between 5.30 and 6 pm, she too saw a bright white light with a red dot underneath it. It was there for at least four days, then just vanished.

Mandy Park of Pelham said that just before 9 pm on Monday, looking to the right of the Moon, she saw a bright object with what looked like rays of light shining out around it.

“At first it seemed to be standing still, then towards the centre of it I saw the flickering of a red light. I called my friend to come and have a look.

“We watched it for at least 10 minutes and it then started to move forward; then it looked as though it hovered and turned around and started moving in the opposite direction.

“We then noticed that it was moving higher and then it looked as though it was getting smaller and started to disappear. For one brief second, we could glimpse a green light that appeared just before it started to move.”

Her friend, Eve Armstrong, corroborated the account, saying that she was enthralled to see the bright white light from Dalry Road. “We are very curious also to have more information about this UFO — it definitely wasn’t a plane or a star.”

Ajesh Srikissan also saw the bright star-like object on Monday. “It seemed to be moving. At 7 pm it was white, big and radiant. By 8.30 pm it seemed smaller and more yellow. By 9 pm it had vanished.” — Witness Reporter.

CRAIG Fleming said he too saw the light above the city last week, and it evoked memories of a previous starry event covered by The Witness.

“… I remember like it was yesterday standing on the back verandah of my parents’ home, looking over to Montrose and seeing the exact same, constant bright light. It never moved or flickered and I remember coming out to the verandah a number of times that night to see if it was still there, which it was.

“I was not sure what the light had been and a few days later your paper, then the Natal Witness, ran a story on the strange light, asking residents if anyone else had seen it and speculating on what it may have been.

“I have never forgotten that light I saw or the story you published about it.”

We think Fleming may be referring to reports published in January 1993 on three consecutive days.

“Hovering light perplexes city residents” on January 12 told of a celestial object “far too bright to be an average star” and “partly red”. On January 13, “Hovering light still a mystery” appeared.

The last word? “Mystery light may be Mars, says resident”.

I as I'm sure millions of other viewers watched the series primer of the highly touted Event. What is the event? Well who the hell knows? We got ourselves a whole mess of players with no back story. We have ourselves an Obama-ish president who is out for (UFO?) Disclosure and another guy (hero? villain?) who try's to prevent a prepositional assassination.

Right off the bat this show jumps around too much for not having any back story or even for theatrical enjoyment. But I think I have a general idea what this show could do in the future, so I'm not writing it off just yet.

I think this show is at least in hindsight a great tool to bring disclosure to the general public at large. Unfortunately I don't think we will ever have a President push for disclosure or a press apt to report on it. I do however hope I'm wrong.

Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens, USAF (Ret.), the lead investigator in the still ongoing Billy Meier UFO contacts in Switzerland, died on September 7, in Tucson, Arizona. Stevens, who began researching UFOs for the Air Force in 1947, played a major role in bringing the Meier UFO contacts to public attention. Having learned of Meier's contacts and seen some of his early UFO photos in 1977, Stevens organized a team that included private investigators Lee and Brit Elders of Intercept, and photographic expert Jim Diletosso and Tom Welch. Their findings were augmented and attested to by numerous scientific experts when independent author Gary Kinder (Light Years) also investigated the case.

Stevens first received Meier's transcripts of his German language conversations with the Plejaren extraterrestrials, in 1978, and began having them translated into English. By publishing the information in dated, copyrighted books Stevens effectively, and probably unknowingly, established the prophetically accurate nature of much of the scientific information provided to Meier by the extraterrestrials. This included Meier's advance knowledge of Jupiter's rings, Io being the most volcanically active body in the solar system, the actual number of Saturn's moons, the two planets beyond Pluto, the discoveries of water, small life forms and the hostile environment on Mars, etc., all well before "official discovery".

Stevens investigation into the Meier case was, from the beginning, closely monitored by various intelligence agencies, some of whom regularly detained him and his team on their way to and from Meier's residence in Switzerland. But chief among those who followed Stevens and his team's every step was the CIA, whose station chief in London at the time, Mark Nathan, personally interrogated everyone, according to what Stevens publicly told audiences.

According to Michael Horn, Meier's U.S. media representative, "Part of their purpose was to make copies of all photographs and information that the investigators were getting from Meier. Stevens not only faced harassment from the authorities," said Horn, "but enormous opposition from various UFO organizations who were plainly envious of the stunning evidence Wendelle acquired from Meier. They were especially peeved that he chose to bring in top scientific experts to analyze it and not the unqualified UFO enthusiasts."

In addition to being the preeminent UFO investigator of all time, Stevens was well known as a great storyteller, famous for recounting the details of his decades long investigation into Meier's contacts. Horn says that without Stevens' courageous, pioneering work, the still ongoing efforts to discredit and suppress the Meier case would have probably succeeded completely.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A Minnesota man cited for disorderly conduct for allegedly tying lights to his kite at night to make it appear to be a UFO said that was not his intention.

St. Paul police said they knew the Monday report of unidentified lights in the sky was a kite being flown by Ernest Sawka Jr., 34, who was arrested on an unrelated warrant while flying his kite Aug. 20, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press reported Wednesday.

"Our officers asked him if he was trying to get a rise out of the public by flying his kite at night and he nodded yes," St. Paul police spokesman Andy Skoogman said. "He may think it's funny, but we think it's a waste of our resources."

Sawka was cited for disorderly conduct, public nuisance and being in a playground after hours.

However, Sawka denies nodding yes to the officer's question and said he never intended to fool the public with his kite. He said he plans to fight the citation.

"Hopefully, the judge will say, 'You're here for flying a kite?' and drop the case," he said.

When a Cumbrian landlord was spooling though his CCTV footage, a chill went down his spine and he turned white, as though he had seen a ghost.

Well, Andrew Batemen, believes he had, indeed, seen a ghost. These spooky images and video taken from the CCTV of the pub, which used to be a funeral parlour, allow you to make up your own mind.

In a bizarre 35-second sequence, recorded in the middle of the night at The Wolfe Pub, Penrith, a Casper-the-Ghost-like ball of light is seen descending through the ceiling.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311971/Proof-ghosts-exist-Pub-CCTV-captures-spooky-apparition.html#ixzz0zXZreEM4

It is our opinion that this is merely a bug. Remember the focus is on the room not on the cam lens.

HANGZHOU, July 8 (Xinhua) — An unidentified flying object disrupted air traffic over Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, late Wednesday, the municipal government said Thursday. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 p.m. and some flights were rerouted to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi cities, said an airport spokesman.

The airport had resumed operations and more details would be revealed after an investigation, he said.

Its no secret that I am a paranormal TV junkie. I love it all! From Ghost Hunters to the now canceled UFO Hunters. However a few weeks ago a new show came onto my radar. Paranormal Files: Fact or Faked which airs later in November of this year on SyFy. Over the past few weeks SyFy has been airing whole teaser episodes to drum up support for their new show.

The show follows a group of “experts” who begin the show in round table fashion looking at old and fresh evidence of the paranormal. I needless to say found the show over all intriguing and to be fair have not written the show off yet. However I do have some concerns. Over all they seem to tackle the subject of the paranormal fairly. I do however have some concern with the last “caretaker” episode.

The team travels to Fishers, Indiana to meet Carolyn, a woman to believe her home was haunted by a Civil War solider only because his grave happens to be in a near by graveyard.... And what the heck if your being haunted it must be the Civil War solider in the the next graveyard over only because hes a Civil War solider!

But what brought the team to this location? A tape made by Carolyn showing a “full body apparition” WTF? Anyway folks I have to stop right here. I've been doing this many years and never have I seen “evidence” presented as fact as was presented in this episode.

It's a SPIDER WEB! A child can tell this to be the case.

Paranormal Files need to get with the program...........WTF?