The Necessary Ghost Hunting Tools
You don’t need a lot of equipment to go on your first ghost hunting adventure. Since…
The Necessary Ghost Hunting Tools
You don’t need a lot of equipment to go on your first ghost hunting adventure. Since ghost hunting equipment can be pricey, we recommend that beginners test the waters with basic gear first. The “basics” are: Voice recorder Point-and-shoot camera Binoculars Electromagnetic radiation detector (EMF meter) However, if you want to upgrade your gear, here’s the…
America’s Top 10 Haunted Places
Ghosts are out there. The following list are some of the most haunted places. Read on — or better yet, visit them — if you dare. Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada Washoe Club, Virginia City, Nevada Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia Queen Mary, Long Beach, California Pennhurst State School, Spring…
What Not to Do as a Ghost Hunter
Many things that can happen in the course of a paranormal investigation, and not all of them are good. The list that follows offers some ideas and guidelines of things that you should avoid. Never investigate alone. Investigations are not only more exciting with a team, they’re also much safer. Having other sets of hands…
Guidelines for Your Investigation
These are a few of the guidelines, ideas, hints, tips, and suggestions for investigating the paranormal. Make sure you have permission to conduct an investigation. Keep your perceptions clear prior to the investigation. Never drink or smoke during or before an investigation. Arrive with an open mind. Always be aware that there may be a…
Hauntings
According to the definition, a haunting is the repeated manifestation of strange and inexplicable sensory phenomena at a certain location. Hauntings have no general patterns, which is what makes them so hard to define. Some phenomena may manifest on occasion, or even continually, for periods that last from several days to centuries. Other manifestations may occur only…
Find Haunted Places
What causes a place to become haunted? No one really knows. In fact, there are so many types of hauntings from human ghosts, to animal ghosts, and even ghost ships, that no one has ever been able to come up with a general theory that can explain all of them. Any single theory would have…
Louisiana St. Roch Chapel, Yellow Fever Shrine New Orleans
In the 19th century, yellow fever swept New Orleans, but Reverend Peter Thevis, the pastor of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, had a plan. He prayed to St. Roch (who is most identified with good health and healing), asking for members of his parish to be shielded from the disease and promising to build a…
Kansas Stull Cemetery Stull
Locals know this tiny cemetery in an unincorporated Kansas township as a portal to Hell that the devil comes through twice a year. As outlandish as that sounds, the ruins of a nearby church and the bizarre architecture will have you half-believing the rumors. No Satanic sightings have been confirmed, and anyone caught trespassing in…
Illinois Old Joliet Prison
You know that feeling you get when you find out the previous renter of an apartment was kind of a creep? This gothic, castle-like prison complex was once the (involuntary) home of notorious murder clown John Wayne Gacy and serial killer Richard Speck. There were riots and slayings, executions and other maladies that made this…
Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde
The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde was a strange disappearance that allegedly happened to newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde, who disappeared while attempting to run the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, Arizona in 1928. Description Glen Hyde had some experience with river running, having traveled the Salmon and Snake Rivers in Idaho…
