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The Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy wrote of Cornwall "The place is pre-eminently the region of dream and mystery". This mystical county exerts a strange feeling over those who come to visit its legendary sites, it's beautiful coastline and rock-strewn beaches. One is never more than 20 miles from the sea in Cornwall...and never more than a short walk from it's haunting history.

We have heard the famous Cornish folklore...Jack the Giant killer, the Lady of the Lake, the Cornish Witches, etc. As well, ghosts and wandering spirits are a daily occurrence in Cornwall, considered by some as the most haunted county in all the British Isles. The following are excerpts and links to investigations of two of the most haunted forests in southwest England.

The Giants Hedge, legends of witches and strange nocturnal inhuman screams drew us to Kilminorth Woods one late winters night. A pleasant moonlit stroll in the woods was expected, but we found Kilminorth had something nasty hidden among the birches and beeches.

I have upmost respect for the woods, and Caradon Council, and mean no disrespect with the following investigation and findings, but I do need to be utterly honest, and open in my findings. I have had many agreeable rambles along the well signposted walks, and waters edge. Daytime, the woods present a pretty backdrop for the Looe Valley, and West Looe River. Bolder walkers can wander from the paths, and marvel at how wild this small area remains, given that a major tourist town (and a 750 space carpark at its base!) surrounds it. Perhaps there is something about the woods, which deters the less confident visitor, as you can quickly find your self utterly alone within minutes of entering by the main gate.

In terms of history, the hillsides have been wooded from before 1600AD, and features include the pretty ford based Hamlet of Watergate, a plethora of birdlife (including peregrines and buzzards) and otters.

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There have been nearly 1,000 reports of demonic activity in the past quarter of a century, with Yorkshire the nation's most ghostly county.

Encounters with devils, demons and evil spirits are as widespread today as they were in medieval times, researchers claim.

The research was led by the UKs leading authority on the unexplained Lionel Fanthorpe who studied various archives and websites as well as his own reports to identify all sightings and recordings of supernatural beings with satanic qualities.

The study found that despite being in time of accelerating technology, 21st century Britons have not turned their back on ghouls, boggarts, hell-hounds, witches, wizards, banshees and black magic curses, with a whopping 968 reports of demonic activity in the past 25 years.

The report indentifies Yorkshire as the centre of ghostly goings-on demonic activity with 74 reports of demons, including Uncabus and Succubus (male and female demons that make sexual attacks on sleeping victims), instances of demonic possession and sightings of hell hounds, water demons and demons with repulsive forms such as ghouls and werewolves.

Sightings of demons in Yorkshire have included a hideous shadow-like hell-hound with no discernible facial features which collided with a car between Northallerton and Leeming Bar on the A684. A sea-going water demon has also been reported off Filey Bay in Yorkshire. Witnesses claimed to have seen a ghostly creature with a long neck, a vast serpentine body and glowing eyes.

Devonshire rated second in the study with 57 reports of sinister activity, mainly from encounters with or sightings of demons with devil like qualities.

On Dartmoor there have been reports that the demonic shape of a man named Stephens who committed suicide still appears and bodes ill for those who encounter it his grave. The apparition is described as hideously skeletal and dressed in the ragged remnants of a grey robe.

Third in the ghoulish league table is Somerset, which hosts the highest number of monsters and has 51 sightings or reports of demonic entities, with Wiltshire coming in fourth with 46 sightings of demons.

Wiltshire is one of the most popular areas for sightings of phantom dogs, shucks or hell-hounds. At Black Dog Hill near Black Dog Woods in Chapmanslade, there are reports of a huge black hound with eyes like red hot coals.

People in Inverness report sightings of 13 water ghosts in the last 25 years, evil spirits whose main purpose is to lure their victims into dangerous water and then drown them. The water ghosts contribute to the area's overall total of 39 demonic beings and one of the most notorious water ghosts resides in the area of Boat of Garten, which lies on each side of the River Spey, near Chapeltown and Tulloch Moor. The paranormal reports from Boat of Garten involve an ancient, inscribed stone visible when the river is at its lowest. According to legend, the stone is cursed and guarded by a malevolent water-demon, or kelpie-type entity, who protects it savagely. Anyone touching it or attempting to move it is said to become prey to this aquatic, demonic being.

The Demonic Britain report was carried out for the latest DVD release of US TV series Supernatural, normally broadcast on the cable channel Living.

Lionel Fanthorpe said: This report clearly shows we are a nation still rich in sightings and reports of devils, demons and evil spirits of various forms.

"The present human population is many times greater than it was in the past. Therefore the more people that there are, statistically, the more potential encounters they might have with these unpleasant, non-human entities.

Top 10 ghostly sightings by area:

1 Yorkshire 74

2 Devonshire 57

3 Somerset 51

4 Wiltshire 46

5 Inverness 39

6 Dorset 37

7 = Norfolk 32

7 = Lancashire 32

8 = Sussex 30

8 = Derbyshire 30

9 = Essex 29

9 = Suffolk 29

10 Lincolnshire 24

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Is Lusk home to one of the longest running whorehouses in Wyoming? Some say yes, some also say that its haunted.

Mary Ada Fisher followed the gold boom west from Ohio, and found herself in the town of Lusk the year was 1919. Mary changed her name to Dell Burke, set up a tent, and started taking customers. Soon she had enough money to rent a house and bring in a few girls; it seemed Dell was on her way to bigger things. It was only a year later she bought a large house, painted it yellow and took in even more girls. .

Dell entertained most of the town's prominent citizens, her house offered the best steaks in Wyoming, danced to a live orchestra, played billiards and card games, and drank the finest booze around. It was not until in 1978 that the last paying customer visited the Yellow Hotel. Dell fell on the sidewalk in front of her house a year later and broke her hip. She spent the next few years in a hospital care center until she finally passed away in 1980.

The Yellow Hotel now sits vacant, a little run down the bright yellow paint fading in the hot Wyoming sun. Visitors to the house claim feeling a bit strange and overwhelmed while in the building. Some have even reported the smell of perfume floating through rooms seemingly following you around the house. Outside the house residents claim to have seen lights and hear music coming from the house long after Dells death.


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A excorcism will be performed on a council house in the Republic of Ireland tonight, amid claims that it is haunted.




The occupants of the house at Hollyhill on Cork's northside have fled, saying it is occupied by an evil spirit that is determined to keep them out.


Laura Burke, her partner Ritchie and her son Kyle are terrified to remain after a spate of bizarre occurrences over recent weeks.


The young couple moved into the house last August.


Today, special prayers will be said at the house to placate the spirit and a 'New Age' shaman (spirit worker) will perform an exorcism.


Laura said holy pictures were routinely being knocked from the wall, screams were heard in the dead of night and their son was flung from his bed.



The family received their greatest shock when they spotted what they described as "glowing orbs" hovering in mid-air in certain rooms in the house.


"It's an evil spirit -- I don't believe it means us well," said Laura.


"We tried saying prayers in the house and the next thing all you hear is banging furniture upstairs or clothes being fired out of wardrobes."


Clairvoyant John O'Reilly was invited to inspect the house. He said he immediately felt "a presence", adding: "There is someone here -- someone who is very angry.


"I get (a feeling) of a younger man who would have hung himself."


However, locals remain dubious about the haunting claims and said nobody recalls previous incidents at the house or any tragedy fitting the descriptions being cited.


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In Gettysburg, Pa ghosts are in no shortage and neither is the numerous tales of haunted hotel rooms. It makes sense since most of these structures were built over or near many of the battlefield sites.

At the General Lee's Headquarters(Mary Thompson house) there is a actual gravestone flush up against one of the hotel rooms. There are restaurants on the land where Pickett's Charge took place.

On this trip we stayed at the Colton Motel. It is on Steinweir Ave across from the National Cemetery and used to be a few steps down from the old visitor's center.

We obtained a very reasonable rate for a two room "suite". We split this three ways so my cost was only 44 dollars for three nights. Our other friends stayed in the room next to us for a rate of 29.

Our first night there I had trouble with the internet and the office guy came over and Brigid immediately recognized him from his paranormal website. Since I have not obtained permission to name him..I won't. He came in a talked to us for about an half hour. He told us of being told the same story about the same room....so of course we had to ask ..which room....he laughed and told us....yours!

He told of numerous accounts of a male figure in the back room pulling the sheets off of people or a figure pushing down on the bed near the wall.

So we set up my Sony Camcorder before they went to bed...so far after a quick review...nothing. I didn't listen to the audio yet. Chris, Brigid's husband "debunked" some of the electrical claims.

As for any experiences in this room ...we got nothing...but is it because we were looking? Brigid did get one possible EVP in the room. We had asked which bed they went to and it sounds like they responded. She also got one EVP over by Sach's Bridge.

I believe she is posting them on her website THE PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS. I really didn't get anything except for pretty photos. So for LIGHT....nothing to add to our cache!

As for the cleaniness of the Colton....it was ok...we had heard some horror stories but in reality for us....it was a good price for a decent room.

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I have got to stay here!!!

A New Zealand woman has solved the mystery of what gift to get for the person who has everything.
But she's raised a whole lot of other questions in the process.
Avie Woodbury claimed she was so tired of being haunted that she called in an exorcist to rid her house of two ghosts.
The exorcist trapped the spirits in bottles of holy water - which Ms Woodbury has now put up for sale on internet auction site TradeMe.
'The holy water dulls the spirits' energy, sort of puts them to sleep' she said.


Ms Woodbury added: 'We have had no activity since they were bottled on July 15th 2009 . So I believe they are in the bottles.'
Bids on TradeMe have already shot as high as NZD$2,000 (£923).
'I just want to get rid of them as they scare me,' Ms Woodbury, from Christchurch City in Canterbury, wrote on the site. 'But someone might like these to play with.'
For the ghosts can be released from the bottles, she explained.
'To revive the spirit, I have been told that you pour into a little dish and let it evaporate into your house,' she wrote on the website.
The bottles are carefully labelled so users can tell which ghost they are releasing, she claimed.
Ms Woodbury said she had managed to identify one of the ghosts as a man named Les Graham, who died in her house in the 1920s.


The exorcist, from a spiritualist church, told her that Les likes to spook people - but is a weak ghost.
The other spirit, that of an unidentified little girl, is far stronger, the exorcist claimed.
She 'likes to move things and turn things on and off,' Ms Woodbury said.
The auction has drawn plenty of interest - not the least from sceptics.
'What do you reckon would happen if I were to pour these into a shot glass and drink them?' one user wrote.
Another wanted to know if the little girl does anything 'constructive, like put the dishes away?'
Others drew the inevitable comparisons to the hit 80s movie Ghostbusters, warning Ms Woodbury not to 'cross the streams' if she were to capture any more ghosts.
A final user quipped that he, also, was the proud owner of two spirits in bottles - adding that their names were Jim Beam and Johnnie Walker.
But, with two days of the sale still left to go and the price tag swiftly approaching £1,000, it seems it will be Ms Woodbury who has the last laugh.
The sale closes on Monday.


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I want one!!!

A BUILDER demolishing an old school discovered this eerie image of a young boy in a mobile phone picture taken of the site.
The snap of the part-demolished brick building seems to show a boy aged around eight with short hair and wearing old-fashioned clothing, standing looking into the camera.

Workman John Fores, 47, only spotted the shadowy figure when he was looking back through the photos.

He was carrying out demolition work on the site of Anlaby Primary School near Hull, East Yorkshire, and took several snaps to record the work.

Mr Fores said: "I took a few pictures and at the time didn't notice anything.

"But when I put the pictures on the computer and I saw the figure, the hairs on the back of my neck stuck up. I couldn't believe what I had seen.

"I didn't believe in ghosts but since I got this picture I am not so sure."

The school, which is still in use, was built in 1936.

Caretaker Gordon Bradshaw, 54, said the school has long had a reputation for being haunted.

He said: "I've been here 29 years and the kids have always said there is a ghost at the school."

Rob Taylor, of the Hull Paranormal Ghost Society, said: "I have never seen anything as clear and as distinctive as the boy in the picture.

"I am aware of people using mobiles and getting orbs and misty images. But I think it needs investigating further."


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HARDENED inmates at a Midland prison are terrified of entering a “possessed” cell after two near identical suicides in less than a year.

The lock-up at HMP Brinsford, near Wolverhampton, is being avoided by spooked lags after the deaths took place on the same day of the week – at the same time.

Now sources claim crooks are refusing to enter the ‘haunted’ cell and are demanding that priests are called in to perform an exorcism.

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HMP Brinsford is a Young Offenders’ Institute housing almost 600 inmates aged between 15 and 21, including many awaiting trial for serious offences such as murder, rape and robbery.

The two suicides are said to have taken place in the same cell in 2009, although full details have not been made public.

But insiders claim a previous occupant was a devil worshipper – and that talk of the ‘demonic’ lock-up has now swept the jail.

“The deaths were on the same day and virtually at the same time,’’ a prison worker told the Sunday Mercury.

‘‘We have had a devil-worshipper in there and the chaplains are convinced that there’s something not right about the cell.

“They want it closed off completely. A lot of people are unhappy about it and the chaplains feel very strongly about it.

“There’s a lot of inmates who are very afraid, people don’t even want to walk past it anymore.

“It’s spooky... there’s definitely something strange going on in that cell.”

Another guard confirmed that prisoners had been raising fears about the cell since the second suicide in October.

“With two deaths so close together there has been talk on the corridors,” the warder said.

“Word gets around and everyone who has been here a year knows about the suicides in that cell.

“The cell is back in action again now as once the police and the coroner have finished their bit it comes into use again.

‘‘There is only so much room in prison and you can’t have one cell cordoned off.”

Prison chaplain Phil Seadon refused to answer any questions when quizzed by our reporter saying he could not “confirm or deny” plans for an exorcism.

A Prison Service spokesman said there was “no truth” in suggestions that an exorcism was planned.

But exorcisms have been carried out at public buildings before by priests, including at hospitals and schools.

One vicar who has worked for the Church of England’s highly secretive ‘Ministry of Exorcism’ for 40 years said that any ceremony at HMP Brinsford would be aimed at “blessing” the cell, to protect it in future.

“If the chaplains or local church are asked for help, they would certainly be able to give it,” the reverend said.

“The cell could be blessed if something like a suicide has taken place in there.

“Buildings and rooms can acquire a good or a bad atmosphere. If a building has a force of unrest of this kind, Christian ministers within the prison can hold a ceremony.

“The priest would go into the cell, say the appropriate prayers, bless the room and use holy water.

‘‘It’s something that we do quite regularly, although I don’t remember a case in a prison.

“But it’s nearly always a successful procedure.”

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Hound of the Cannock hills?

A wave of paranormal and mysterious episodes in the town have helped usher in a new decade of spooky sightings, with readers encountering UFOs and wild wolves in the first week of the year.

The area has a long standing association with paranormal activity – with websites across the World recording spooky incidents in the area.

Resident, Jane McNally, recently had a run-in with a mysterious canine creature while out walking with her partner on Cannock Chase.

“I was walking with my partner and his dog,” Jane said.

“We put the dog back on the lead as we thought in the distance there was an enormous ‘dog.’ As we approached the animal we realised this wasn’t a dog and it just stared at us for a while – I said I thought it looked like a fox, but the size of a lioness – it then turned into the wooded area, and we proceeded to walk on.

“As it turned its long, bushy black tipped tail, we realised it was definitely not a dog.

“I have just logged onto the net and went onto images of wolves, and can honestly say whatever we saw yesterday was the closet thing to a wolf.”

The area has also become a hotbed of UFO sightings, with dozens of people claiming to have witnessed strange lights in the sky.

Christie Oliver became the latest person to experience a close encounter, when she spied mysterious lights over Heath Hayes at the turn of the year.

“Me and my partner came home from celebrating New Year in Cannock and I let the dog out, turned to my left and saw four red dots in the sky,” she said.

“I have never seen anything like this before. I immediately called my other half out to look at it. I could not believe my eyes.

“They then flew north and two of them disappeared. The last one went around six seconds later. I can’t believe what I saw, and I would like to find out if anyone else saw it too? It was around 00.37 on New Years Day.”

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A reader has informed us of a bizarre story involving a sighting of the ghost of deceased singer, Michael Jackson, that is spreading through the African nation of Zimbabwe.

The sighting of Jackson's ghost occurred at the St Mary's Mission School,a Catholic institution, in Zimbabwe's capital of Harare. Allegedly a group of students aged from twelve to fourteen years were sitting along with some of the nuns that work at St Mary's and watching a nativity play that was organised after school hours.

Children dressed as Mary, Joseph and the Wise Men were on stage when suddenly the lights went out. Then ghost-like being appeared on stage waving a white-gloved hand. The terrified students emptied the hall along with the supervising nuns.

Almost all the students later agreed that it was Michael Jackson that they saw' 'It definitely was MJ' noted Theresa, a student at the school. 'It was his face and his clothes. he smiled and waived at us'

'I saw it too' commented Sister Maria 'it was not human and must have been a spirit. The students later told me it was Michael Jackson'.

News of the otherworldly event spread through the area and some interested locals even visited the hall in the hope that they too might see Jackson's ghost. Belief in ghosts is widespread in Zimbabwe.

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Still chasing little boys.