Halloween Edition 2 ~ BOO!

This is my favorite Halloween story of them all, so I’m following every lead into the quaint, quiet, slow moving – and creepy Sleepy Hollow.

 

Some Reality

Oh, look ….. a man with a map ….. too much, almost!

Well, dude, can’t say you didn’t ask for it!

 

Irving did base a lot of the book on facts. Check out the names on the graves.

Halloween Edition Part 1 - A Tease

I'm starting early this year on spooky and fun things for Halloween. Some true, some not so true and some downright freaky. I want to kick it off with something I found by accident. I do not promote anything in this blog but only to inform. Keep this in mind, however with this one I couldn't help it. Enjoy!

The Ride of the Headless Horseman (The real path!)

“The Amityville Horror House” Up for SALE

On May 25th, 2010 I saw on CNN that the house that is famous for the Amityville Horror is now up for sale. Wolf Blitzer was asked if he was interested in buying it and without hesitation a big “NO” came from his mouth, even before the question was fully out of the lady’s mouth. I couldn’t help but chuckle and agree because that was my own reaction, too.

Professor Hans Holzer, Phd., did a television interview on the Amityville case that he investigated while the haunting of the Lutz family was still in progress. The interview was much later, rather recently before his death, in the timeline of events. The interview itself is in the first posts in this blog within the “Halloween Special” posts. I found it quite intriguing that his prediction in that interview did come true. In fact, I have been waiting to hear this news also just as he was waiting. It was a “when” issue to Professor Holzer, not an “if" it happens” kind of thing. He stated he would not be surprised to hear of spontaneous fires and was watching the papers for the sale of the home and property. I’m not sure about the fires occurring as his prediction but the for sale part is indeed true. He had watched the newspapers in NY to see this ad since his initial learning of new owners.

The article states the address of the home had been changed but according to other sources the telling eye-like windows were also replaced to make the home less noticeable to “fans and fanatics”.

Here it is:

Source Link: BBC News - 'Amityville Horror' home goes on sale for $1.15m

Article:

Six members of the DeFeo family were shot and killed in the house in 1974.

The house made famous by the 1970s Amityville Horror film has gone on sale in Long Island, New York, with a price tag of $1.15m (£800,000).

The five-bedroom house at 108 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, gained notoriety through the film based on the story of the Lutz family, who moved in in 1975.

The Lutzes say they soon discovered that the house was haunted.

Several months earlier, six members of another family had been shot and killed as they slept in the house.
The family's eldest son, Ronald DeFeo Jr, was convicted of the 1974 murders.

A book and a series of films based on the events described by the Lutzes followed.

The high asking price of the house - a Dutch Colonial style home overlooking a canal - is based on renovation work, reports say.

It has had several owners since the 1970s. The address has been changed from the original 112 Ocean Avenue in a effort to keep onlookers away.

Another article says that the organization PETA may rent the home:
PETA Aims To Rent ‘Amityville Horror’ House

Joshua P Warren – Bloody Ectoplasm?

Did bloody ecto really show up here in this still shot and video from the Myrtles Plantation while Joshua P Warren was investigating? This is definitely not the first story I’ve heard (or witnessed myself) of this phenomena occurring. I’m not sure what is showing up here since it was not clear what else the infrared could have picked up that the naked eye couldn’t see on that floor but it is not dismissed by me either. In my mind this is one I cannot explain one way or the other but find it very interesting indeed that this “bloody ecto” shot happened in the bedroom of General David Bradford.

Many ghostly encounters of General Bradford are reported at the Myrtles Plantation and I, myself, have seen evidence of this man’s presence from both video and photos that friends have shown me of their own investigations at this very haunted plantation in Louisiana. He is not the only well known presence in and on the plantation. LA spirits’ website has a submitted photo taken on the plantation grounds that show the notorious lady and two kids by the statue and tree that others have seen many times in the past. That’s one of my personal favorite photos taken at the plantation of modern day ghostly photos. This below could very well be in that category if no other explanation is found for this showing up. It comes from http://www.joshuapwarren.com/

 

The still shot is taken from the video below. Decide for yourself.

 

News Anchor Scared by Ghost?

VIDEO: Do you believe?

Children's 'ghosts' haunt Picton cemetery

Amy Dale

January 21, 2010 12:00am

DOES this photograph show the figures of two children, born nearly a century apart, walking in their own paranormal playground?

The family who took this picture while on a Picton ghost tour swear there were no children inside the St Mark's Cemetery - so what are these figures? Pic: Renee English

The family who took this picture while on a ghost tour in Picton, NSW, swear there were no children inside the St Mark's Cemetery.

Which begs the question: who, or what, is out there?

Local legend has it that the two children are David Shaw and Blanche Moon, who died 60 years apart.

Blanche was crushed to death in 1886 when a pile of sleepers that she and a number of children were playing on slipped.

David was the son of a minister who died in 1946 from polio.

The woman behind the lens of this mysterious photo, Renee English, said she was "a sceptic" before undertaking the ghost tour on January 9.

"When we were standing at the bank looking into the Cemetery I was just snapping away and making jokes about the whole thing and asking when the ghosts were going to come out," the Port Macquarie resident said.

"I know that when I took that photo there was no-one else in the cemetery. The only people we saw were a family of four about 10 minutes later but those kids were clinging to their parents the whole time.

"When we uploaded our photos and saw the children all the hairs on my arm stood up and I just went cold all over.

"That night I couldn't sleep at all and I'm never watching a scary movie again.

"I wasn't a believer in ghosts, but now I'm intrigued."

Local historian Liz Vincent conducted ghost tours in Picton, claimed to be Australia's most haunted town, until her death last year. Since then, her husband John and daughter Jenny Davies have taken up the mantle.

"Picton's just so haunted," Ms Davies said. "We find people always love to see their photos afterwards because most of these things aren't visible to the naked eye."

One of the tour's most popular figures is Emily, a lady who was hit and killed by a train in 1916 while taking a shortcut through the Redbank Range Tunnel, also known as the Mushroom Tunnel, to visit her brother.

Emily Bollard resided near the railway line and was a single woman aged in her 50s. Before taking her shortcut, she didn't check the timetable and was hit in the tunnel by a train coming from Thirlmere. She died instantly.

"She likes to move among the participants and loves to touch their hair and body, particularly their arms and legs," Ms Davies said.

"Those on the tour often say that they've also felt a cold wind blowing through the tunnel."

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26613670-953,00.html

Modern Psychological Studies and the Paranormal

A differnet prespective from an investigator I have come to respect.

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Director: Chip
Show Description:
...A trailer for a series concerning the marriage between the field of modern psychology and the field of paranormal studies. I plan on bi-monthly shows concerning various topics related to the theme mentioned above.

All too often the inclusion of a few letters after one's name creates a false sense of power few seem likely to challenge. I understand and respect a decade of dedicated learning as much as the next but I also respect my right to interpret and ultimately, draw my own conclusion(s) on subject matter, regardless of the amount of money I, or my parents for that matter, have spent on further education...

BlogStars, I feel confident, agree with me....if only on principal.

The issue of psychological ailments often comes up when investigating claims of paranormal activity. Very often, in my own, humble experience, said “conditions” if found to exist, disqualify individuals from further investigation (and serious attention) by many paranormal research teams and investigators.

Granted the above statement does NOT hold true for every team or researcher but it would seem these conditions are used as reasons for the principal's experience(s) and not viewed as respectfully as they should or could be... as symptoms that may make an individual even more susceptible to external (paranormal) activity.

Of course, this is my contention but I am positive I'm not alone in that assertion. Please lend your thoughts, regardless of what they are to this series topic, beginning late December (2009).

Please bare in mind that while I am/may promote ideas skewed to bolster my own opinion(s), I am in no way closed to alternative and opposing views and you will not be attacked in any way, shape or form for voicing them.

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