Just outside of Houston, Texas, is a neighborhood filled with upscale homes and manicured lawns. In the early 1980s, Sam and Judith Haney settled in at the far western edge of the development. Sam described it as their dream home: 

“When we bought the house in Newport, it was the house that we had always been looking for. So, it was the house that we intended to stay at for a long period of time.” 

But there was a morbid secret about the Haney’s perfect home, one that soon turned their lives into a never-ending nightmare. Sam said it all began when amysterious old man showed up at their door with an ominous warning: 

“This elderly man told me that he had noticed that we were putting a swimming pool in our backyard and that there was something about our backyard that I needed to know about. So I followed him around to my backyard and he pointed at the ground and said that there are some graves right here. And he marked a spot on the ground where they were. And I really didn’t know how to react to that. I didn’t know if he was just joking. I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to joke about something like that.” 

Using a backhoe, Sam decided to see if the man’s alarming claims were true. Sam says it wasn’t long before he hit something: 

“And at that point, we stopped with the backhoe and we got down into the hole and continued digging by hand. There were pine boards. When we lifted up the first board, we could see an indentation of a skeleton form. It didn’t take long to figure out that it was actual human remains.” 

Sam immediately called the Sheriff and county coroner who conducted an official exhumation. Most of the bones had turned to powder. But 25 fragments were found, some so brittle that they disintegrated when touched. 

Wanting desperately to do the right thing, the Haneys decided to find out whose remains were buried in their backyard. The search led them to a longtime resident named Jasper Norton. 

Years earlier, Norton had dug several graves in the area. He told the Haneys that their home and a dozen others were built on top of an old African American cemetery called Black Hope. The deceased were mainly former slaves. The last burial was in 1939, and as many as 60 people were interred there in paupers’ graves. 

he two people buried in the Haney’s backyard were Betty and Charlie Thomas. They died during the 1930s and their graves were eventually forgotten. 

Judith and Sam Haney made an extraordinary decision. They reburied Betty and Charlie in their yard, and prayed their spirits would rest in peace. But, according to Judith, peace was not forthcoming: 

“There was a clock in my bedroom and one night it started sparking and putting out a sort of blue glow.” 

When Judith checked the clock, she found that it was unplugged. That was only the beginning of the Haneys’ ordeal. On another evening, Sam went to work the night shift, leaving Judith alone: 

“I heard the sliding glass door open and I heard what I thought was Sam saying, ‘What you doing?’ Everything was quiet, the sliding glass doors were locked, and I thought, ‘Well, you know, you must be losing your mind. This really must be getting to you.’ But much to my amazement that’s not where the story ended. In the morning I awoke, went in my closet to get my red shoes, and I could not find them anywhere.” 

Sam backed up Judith’s story: 

“So, of course, I started looking for them and went through all of her closets where she normally puts things. And we just couldn’t find them. We had walked just a short distance from where the gravesites were and I could see something on the grave. And they were both side-by-side like someone had just picked them up and carried them over and laid them down on the gravesite.” 

Even more disturbing to Sam was the realization that this was Betty Thomas’ birthday: 

“And I kinda got the feeling that it was like Charlie was giving Betty a birthday present.” 

Judith felt she knew what was going on: 

“I began to come to the realization that this was not all in my mind and that this had to have some relationship to Betty and Charlie’s graves being disturbed. Their spirits were saying, ‘This isn’t right.’” 

The Haneys were not alone. A dozen of their neighbors also reported lights, televisions and water faucets turning on and off, and unearthly sounds andsupernatural apparitions. Worse, these bizarre events were becoming malicious. 

Like the Haneys, Ben and Jean Williams thought that they had found their suburban paradise when they moved into the same neighborhood. But Jean said she never felt at peace in the house: 

“After we moved, in everything changed. When I tried to plant new plants, they just would not live no matter what I did. You know, fertilizer or whatever, they still would not live. And I constantly had a foreboding feeling, a feeling of things are not right or something bad is about to happen.” 

The Williams said that near their flowerbed, sinkholes appeared in the unmistakable shape of a coffin. The Williams would fill them in, only to have them reappear a few days later. The Williams also felt their ideal home was being invaded by a menacing presence. Random shadows slid along the walls, followed by whispered words and a putrid smell.

At the time, the Williams’ granddaughter, Carli, lived with the couple. During the blazing heat of summer, Carli said she would stumble into bone-chilling pockets of ice-cold air: 

“It would be very, very chilly and you’d have this feeling of foreboding, or just, you know, like something wasn’t right. Anywhere in the house you’d have a feeling that you were not alone. Somebody was watching you. It terrified me to be in the house by myself. The toilets used to flush on their own. As the water went down I could hear, it was almost like conversations. You could hear people murmuring to themselves. It was a presence or spirit or something there. Something that wanted to be heard. Wanted me to know that it was there.” 

Jean Williams had no doubt as to the source of the disturbances: 

“I absolutely believe that all of these things happened to us because we were on the graveyard, and that we were simply going to be tormented until we left there.” 

Ben said he and Jean debated what to do next: 

“Me and Jean, we talked it over. And she said, ‘Well what can we do? Walk off and leave it?’ She said, ‘We ain’t got enough money to pay down on another home.’ I said, ‘We’ve always been fighters. We’re gonna stay right here and fight it and try to beat it.’” 

According to Ben, it wasn’t long before he got his chance: 

“I came home from work around ten after twelve from the midnight shift, and I walked straight to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, and that’s when I seen these two ghostly figures. And they went straight backwards into the den. And then they started heading right down the hall to Jean’s. And it was standing right about a foot and a half from the end of the bed. The only thing I really thought of was, ‘They ain’t messing with me wife.’ As I dove through it, I felt a sticky cold sensation in my body.” 

Down the street at the Haney’s, Judith said the disturbances caused her life to unravel: 

“I was crying all the time. I was frightened. I was scared of doing my daily routine in my own home.” 

The Haneys decided to fight back in court. They sued the builder for not disclosing that their home was built over a cemetery, in part, so that everyone would know what was happening at their subdivision. A jury awarded them $142,000 for mental anguish. But a reversal ruled on legal grounds that the developers were not liable. The verdict was thrown out and the Haneys were ordered to pay $50,000 in court costs. Sam Haney recounted the total cost of their ordeal: 

“At that point we decided to file bankruptcy. All in all, we ended up losing the case, losing the money, losing the house.” 

The Williams also explored legal recourse. But they say that they were told that without definitive proof of a cemetery on their property, nothing could be done. It was then that Jean made a decision that she will forever regret: 

“That was the last straw. You want a body? I’ll show you a body. So, I thought to myself, I can dig about two feet a day and I knew I would reach a body.” 

But soon after she started digging, Jean felt ill. Her adult daughter, Tina, volunteered to finish the job. After digging for a half hour, Tina also fell ill. Carli Karluk was there that day: 

“I remember her saying that she was, that she felt funny. She was getting dizzy as well. She put the shovel down and she went back inside. And she just laid down on the couch. She’s like mom, daddy, I don’t feel right. There’s something wrong. The last thing I remember her saying was, ‘Mommy, take care of my baby, take care of my baby.’ And she looked so scared.” 

While waiting for paramedics to arrive, Jean tried to keep her daughter conscious: 

“Almost immediately her eyes started glazing over. And I was talking to her, trying to talk her out of dying. ‘Please Tina, talk to me.’ And all this time her eyes were changing until they got to the point where I knew that she wasn’t responding at all.” 

Tina had suffered a massive heart attack. Two days later she died. Jean burdened the blame: 

“I realize that I had desecrated another grave and now I’m paying. I told Ben, ‘We have to get out of here. It doesn’t matter what we lose, what we had.’ And I knew that if we didn’t, that I was not going to make it, because my fight was gone. I could fight no more.” 

The Williams escaped to Montana and later moved back to another house and another neighborhood in Texas. Today they are a happily growing family, no longer plagued by mysterious noises, horrific apparitions or heart-breaking tragedies. 

Back in their old neighborhood, none of the current residents have reported any paranormal activity. No one has ever been able to explain what happened to the Williams or the Haneys. 

As smart as he is, he does have a few weak points.  Sadly, he can’t understand even the most rudimentary concepts of algebra and geometry, and when I try to discuss the works of ancient philosophers with him all I get is a blank stare.  He can learn a new command sometimes within minutes, but he has no grasp of the Pythagorean Theorem, no matter how many times we go over it.

It’s not because he’s lazy or fell in with the wrong crowd at doggy high school.  It’s just how his brain is wired.  He can understand some things really well, while others are simply beyond the scope of his biological makeup.  In short:  Dogs can’t do algebra.

It makes me wonder about humans.  We like to think that our brains are the penultimate creation in the universe, that scientific laws as we understand them are infallible, and that if we can’t imagine something it isn’t possible.  But maybe we need to stop and think:  In the same way that dogs can’t do algebra, is it possible there are concepts we are simply incapable of understanding?  It’s not that we’re not advanced enough, or don’t try hard enough; it’s simply that our brains are not wired in a way that we could grasp certain ideas.  There are limitations to our mind that prevent us from understanding certain concepts.

Don’t bother to try to imagine what those concepts may be.  You can’t imagine them, and that’s the point.  Your brain doesn’t work that way.  But this does raise some interesting questions.  For one thing, if we accept the theory that there might be beings out there, somewhere, with far more brainpower than we’re capable of processing, doesn’t that raise the possibility that interplanetary travel could be easier than we think?  Our hang-ups about extraterrestrial visitation really hinge on our understanding of science.  Once that’s out the window, and once we embrace the possibility that there is science that we aren’t capable of understanding, all bets are off.  Alien visitors may be able to travel here and take part in all kinds of bizarre activities that we literally can’t even fathom.

And what about other paranormal activity like ghosts or even the existence of God Himself?  Anyone who argues against the existence of such beings usually does so while standing behind the shield of logic.  If we dispose of the idea that our minds are the highest form of intelligence in the universe, we then need to discard logic as a valid opposition to such ideas.  We need to give up our self-imposed crown as master of the universe, and open our minds to greater possibilities.   

There lies problem.  We’re an arrogant species, and we don’t like to think there might be some entity or creature out there with a bigger brain than we have.  It’s scary to let to go, to embrace things that logic tells us are impossible, and believe in the unbelievable.  Once we can do that, once we’re able to put aside our ego and embrace the possibilities of an endless universe, maybe that’s when many of the problems we’ve inflicted on ourselves will began to go away.  Besides, my dog seems pretty content being blissfully in awe of the world around him.   

Many people believe in ghosts and want to expose them to the public, that’s how most of these shows were started. To know if these shows are real, we just have to take a look at some Hollywood motionpicture movies! There are always special effects that are so realistic, we can’t even tell the difference between it and the real thing. Having that in mind, do you really believe Hollywood would air some shows about ghosts without sprucing it up a bit, or a lot, just to catch our attention? If they don’t spruce it up, it would be boring, no one would watch.

Also these shows do not allow us to view their evidence on our own computers at home, is it because they don’t want us tampering with it, or that they already have? If they do have real true evidence that can not be argued with, they should let us have a look at it ourselves.

The actual investigation is supposed to take more than 30 minutes, but in a mess up on one of the shows it shows them “acting” as if they were investigating the whole time, only on camera though. This brings much skepticisim into this show, which in turn brings skepticism to all these shows alike! This one is debatable whether they are actually investingating or just pretending to investigate and really spend the time editing video to make it look real.

Overall, with all this evidence pointing against the shows, I must admit, I do not believe these people are telling us the truth. It is all staged, they add music for the thrill, the fake audio to catch our attention and the video to freak us out. With modern technology there is no way they would let an unedited video of “real” ghosts go on air, because it wouldn’t be as believeable. The producers want money, and the investigators want to do what they love. This leads to the investigators becoming actors, and lying just to do what they love for a living, it’s either that or find a new job, they have no other choice. Some findings may be real, but I would definitely say that these shows are corrupt, and don’t show us the real truth behind these “haunted houses.”

Scientists have found archaeological evidence that Neanderthals buried their loved ones with handfuls of flowers – neatly organized, doesn’t this show that there was some belief in an after- life. The film exorcism was actually based on the true story of a girl called Annelise Michal that was possessed by a demon. Unfortunately, she died of starvation and dehydration after tried and failed attempts to heal her soul. 

This piece of writing is from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel

Anneliese went on a pilgrimage to San Damiano with a good friend of the family, Thea Hein, who regularly organized such pilgrimages to “holy places” not officially recognized by the church.[3] Because Anneliese was unable to walk past a crucifix and refused to drink the water of a holy spring, her escort concluded that she was suffering from demonic possession.[2] Both Anneliese and her family became convinced she was possessed and consulted several priests, asking for an exorcism. The priests declined, recommended the continuation of medical treatment and informed the family that exorcisms required the bishop’s permission.[1] Eventually, in a nearby town, they came across vicar Ernst Alt, who, after seeing Anneliese, declared that she didn’t “look like an epileptic” and that he didn’t see her having seizures.[3] He believed she was suffering from demonic possession.[2] Alt urged the bishop to allow an exorcism. In September 1975, Bishop Josef Stangl granted Father Renz permission to exorcise according to the Rituale Romanum of 1614,[2] but ordered total secrecy.[4] Renz performed the first session on 24 September.

Once convinced of her possession, Anneliese, her parents, and the exorcists stopped seeking medical treatment, and put her fate solely into the hands of the exorcism rites.[2] Sixty-seven exorcism sessions, one or two each week, lasting up to four hours, were performed over about ten months in 1975 and 1976.[2] At some point, Michel began talking increasingly about dying to atone for the wayward youth of the day and the apostate priests of the modern church, and refused to eat. At her own request, doctors were no longer being consulted.[2]

On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated her cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed.[5] She weighed 68 pounds (30.91 kilograms).

However there are accusations from scientists that Anne in fact was suffering from a mental disorder that made her believe she was possessed by a demon. 

 Ermmmmm……Anyway, let’s get back to ghosts:

I don’t think I’ve ever been scared in my life, but last night was one of the scariest nights ever. I was looking after a friends pet whilst she went to check on her mom (she lives on a floor of a large Victorian type house). I decided to watch a bit of telly when the door swung shut behind me – I got so scared since there were no windows open in the house because its winter here in England. I finally built the courage to look around – armed with a blanket, to find that there was nothing there…… I swear, this has spooked me so much – I’m going to have to sleep with the light on today!

Why? Maybe some ghosts are just spirits that have not realised they are dead yet. Or they are confused and want to stay in familiar surroundings – maybe they have a message to a person that’s living. I mean who said ghosts have to be mean. Some people even say that ghosts are spirits waiting for judgement day. Ghosts are just lost people that don’t “actually” have physical bodies. There is a scientist in Russia called Dr Konstantin Korotkov (search him up) that photographed the soul leaving the body using a hi-tech science equipment that traces energy.

Or Ghosts just don’t exist………….

The best scientific answer to this is it’s just a pigment of our imagination – we, as human beings, fall for anything believable and we trick our mind into believing Ghosts? Simple….

Any way you look at it, Ghosts might or might not exist, the arguments on both sides cancel each other out, but if you want my opinion………I think I’ll stick with believing in them – after that experience last night I don’t know who wouldn’t believe in them.

John Wall loved his family home of Chingle Hall near Ribchester. A cross-shaped, moated, manor house built in 1260, it had been the location of secret masses during Henry VIII’s persecutions. Wall himself was martyred in the 17th century, his head sent off to France. In 1789 it is thought to have been brought back and hidden somewhere in the Hall. They should have told John Wall where it was, for it seems he is one of many ghosts still walking the Hall, trying to find it.
We can, of course, dismiss such nonsense as superstition. But at least one guide at the Hall will disagree. As well as hearing footsteps, she has had her head and arm stroked by an invisible entity. One brother and sister visiting the Hall watched a cloaked apparition for fifteen minutes. Other people have regularly seen two praying monks.

GHOSTIES IN THE UK
The UK is full of ghosts. Why is this? Whether we accept ghosts as existing or not, stories of ghosts persist. Could it be that there is value in those stories? Could they have a distinct purpose that guarantees they will exist?

Croft Castle on the Welsh border near Leominster is older than Chingle Hall, being mentioned in the Doomsday Book. During the 1920s a host of stories were told, such as the visitor who saw a spectral man dressed in a black leather coat.
Folklore states that it is the ghost of Welsh folk hero, Owen Glendower. Even in the 1950s stories continued to be told, including a visitor who heard 18th century music coming from the castle when it was known to be empty; and a head teacher who, whilst talking to the custodian, saw a reflection in a mirror of someone walking across the room.

MOST HAUNTED
One of the most haunted houses ever was 50 Berkeley Square in London. Ghosts, here, are said to include an insane man who died in the room in which he was imprisoned, a Scottish child killed by a servant, and a woman who threw herself out of a window to avoid being raped.

A terrifying ‘shape’ was often seen in the house, inducing a sailor spending the night there to throw himself out of a window. When the writer Lord Lyttleton spent a night there, he fired pistols at the shape.
Burton Agnes Hall near Driffield is occasionally haunted by Awd Nance, the ghost of a woman who died after a beating in the 19th century. Before dying she made her sisters promise they’d keep her head in the hall.
Horrified, they buried her intact. Within days doors started banging, and the sound of people would be heard in the corridors at night. Eventually a vicar exhumed the woman and placed her head in the hall. The haunting stopped, yet occasionally she still flexes her ghostly muscles.

TALES DOWN THE CENTURIES
Few ghosts are as persistent as the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, Norfolk, thought to be the daughter of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. Dorothy Walpole married one Charles Townsend after living a scandalous life. When Charles found out about her past, he imprisoned her in a room in the Hall for ten years until her death. However, she has been seen many times since then.

One famous witness was George III who, staying at the Hall, woke up one night to see her standing by his bed. Another witness saw her in a corridor, and walked through her. In 1835 a Colonel described her brown attire, but also noted the apparition seemed to have no eyes, her appearances becoming malevolent.
Indeed, when Captain Frederick Marryat saw her with a group of friends, she chased them into their room, laughing wickedly. However, the most amazing sighting was when two photographers were taking pictures of a staircase in the Hall in 1936. Seeing a shape, they exposed a plate. The plate showed the vague outline of a woman in bridal costume.

HISTORY AND PLACE
We can, if we choose, discount all of these ghost stories. I don’t, but let us assume they are all made up – let us be really skeptical. But even if we do this, we are still left with an intriguing possibility. Is there any value in the ghost story itself?

One vital element of all of the above is that they record an element of history or culture. Coming at a time before a modern media, could it be that their transmission WAS a valid element of media?
If we accept such a possibility, then the recounted ghost story takes on a life of its own. It is a vital part of the transmission of a sense of identity – it places a person in his historic and cultural heritage.

A MORAL ARBITER
We can take this purpose of the ghost story further. One recurring theme in the above stories is that of action and consequence. Awd Nance was not buried as she wished. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall led a life of dubious character.

The result was a haunting – a remembrance of what was done, and what the consequences of such action would be. In a real sense, ‘supernatural’ activity could be the result of behaviour counter to what society expected.
This places a moral importance on the ghost story. So let us be skeptical of such tales if we wish. But remember the importance of storytelling throughout history – to define identity, and to define behaviour. And there is no better way of achieving this than scaring the person to death.
Today, the traditional ghost tale is said to be in decline. I, for one, am sad about this. For whether real or imagined, they served a purpose which helped to bond society together. As I look at the world today, we could do with the occasional ghost to remind us of our humanity.

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Ghosts have been seen in the bathroom of the dormitory of the boarding students.

Students from a school in the province of Phu Yen, Vietnam, fainted after seeing supposed ghosts in the bathroom of the dormitory, the paper said “Tuoi Tre”.

The school director, Phan Van Tho, confirmed that a large number of boarding students fainted or cried at night in the month of unknown causes.

According to the newspaper, in one incident 12 students came to losing consciousness at the same time.

The situation has caused a climate of fear among students, and many are afraid to enter the dormitory.

Erection: The action of putting up or putting together something, also the penis or even the clitoris that has become rigid.

Ersatz: Made in imitation; artificial, especially of an inferior quality.

Epic: Momentously heroic witch is extending beyond the usual, also means a long poem about demigods and other heroic stuff.

Energy: A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.

Empire: A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority; i.e. an emperor.

Electricity: Energy caused by the behavior of electrons and protons.

Ectoplasm: The visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.

Echo: A reflexion of sound.

Earth: The 3rd planet from the sun, also means soil

Bonus:

El Dorado: A legendary lost city of gold thus, any place with massive wealth.

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BLUFFTON, Texas (AP) — Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later.

Now, the cracked marble tombstone engraved with the date Oct. 15, 1882, which is normally covered by 20 to 30 feet of water, has been eerily exposed as a yearlong drought shrinks one of Texas’ largest lakes.

Across the state, receding lakes have revealed a prehistoric skull, ancient tools, fossils and a small cemetery that appears to contain the graves of freed slaves. Some of the discoveries have attracted interest from local historians, and looters also have scavenged for pieces of history. More than two dozen looters have been arrested at one site.

“In an odd way, this drought has provided an opportunity to view and document, where appropriate, some of these finds and understand what they consist of,” said Pat Mercado-Allinger, the Texas Historical Commission’s archeological division director. “Most people in Texas probably didn’t realize what was under these lakes.”

Texas finished its driest 12 months ever with an average of 8.5 inches of rain through September, nearly 13 inches below normal. Water levels in the region’s lakes, most of which were manmade, have dropped by more than a dozen feet in many cases.

The vanishing water has revealed the long-submerged building foundations of Woodville, Okla., which was flooded in 1944 when the Red River was dammed to form Lake Texoma. A century-old church has emerged at Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border on the Rio Grande.

Steven Standke and his wife, Carol, drove to the old Bluffton site on a sandy rutted path that GPS devices designate not as a road but the middle of the 22,335-acre lake, normally almost 31 miles long and five miles wide.

“If you don’t see it now, you might never see it again,” said Carol Standke, of Center Point, as she and her husband inspected the ruins a mile from where concrete seawalls ordinarily would keep the lake from waterfront homes.

Old Bluffton has been exposed occasionally during times of drought. The receding waters have revealed concrete foundations of a two-story hotel, scales of an old cotton gin, a rusting tank and concrete slabs from a Texaco station that also served as a general store. The tallest structure is what’s left of the town well, an open-topped concrete cube about 4 feet high. Johnny Parks’ tombstone is among a few burial sites.

Local historian Alfred Hallmark, whose great-great-great grandfather helped establish Bluffton, said his research showed 389 graves were moved starting in 1931 when dam construction began. That’s the same year Bluffton’s 40 or 50 residents started moving several miles west to the current Bluffton, which today amounts to a convenience store and post office at a lonely highway intersection serving 200 residents.

Residents had to leave their ranches and abandon precious pecan trees, some of which produced more than 1,000 pounds of nuts each year. “It was devastating,” said Hallmark, 70, a retired teacher, of the move. “They had no choice.”

Other depleted lakes across Texas are revealing much older artifacts. More than two dozen looters have been arrested at Lake Whitney, about 50 miles south of Fort Worth, for removing Native American tools and fossils that experts believe could be thousands of years old.

The Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees Lake Whitney, is patrolling a number of areas that contain artifacts, including some rock shelters once filled with water, said Abraham Phillips, natural resources specialist with the agency.

At Lake Georgetown near Austin, fishermen discovered what experts determined was the skull of an American Indian buried for hundreds or thousands of years. It’s not clear what will become of the skull, said Kate Spradley, a Texas State University assistant anthropology professor who is keeping it temporarily in a lab. Strict federal laws governing American Indian burial sites bar excavations to search for other remains.

No such restrictions exist for the nearly two dozen unmarked graves discovered this summer in a dried-up section of a Navarro County reservoir. Some coffin lids are visible just under the dirt. Crews plan to excavate the site about 50 miles south of Dallas and move the remains to a cemetery, said Bruce McManus, chairman of the county’s historical commission. He said the area of Richland-Chambers Lake is on property formerly owned by a slave owner.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime find … and maybe the only silver lining in the ongoing drought,” McManus said.

Nearly 75% of all Americans believe in ghosts. They believe there are things that are happening that cannot be explained through science and technology, that they believe are caused by ghosts. The definition of a ghost is extremely difficult.

Many people that don’t believe in ghosts will advise that these are simply old wives tales and tall tales that people told each other to children to keep them in line. How many of us have actually seen a ghost in our lifetime? Believe it or not many of us probably have and discounted it as something else or nothing at all.

Could ghosts be a figment of our imaginations? Do you believe that ghosts exist only in our imaginations or are there something more out there that we simply won’t accept it exists?

Television shows about hunting for ghosts and ghost hunters have become extremely popular. They have several or more people that are part of the group “hunting”. In almost all cases they are looking for proof of ghosts. The hunters will examine houses, barns, hospitals and more. You name it and they will be there.

Viewers eagerly await proof of the undead. The hunters have all sorts of equipment that measures room temperature as well as picking up the sights and sounds around them while in the haunted environment. What is displayed is evidence that can and cannot be disputed. They make there viewers question if ghosts can be real.

Some of the investigators will record voices that don’t appear to be saying anything. Though, after enhancement of the audio recordings they can project words and conversation. They have motion sensors that don’t display anything, but the investigators are consistently telling you during the show they heard or saw something that wasn’t picked up on all of the equipment they have available.

Are ghosts real? According to the shows and investigations they are. They come in different shapes and different forms. They are men, women and children and they are among us. Some people will testify about what they saw, heard or felt when it comes to ghost. Ghosts can be real for numerous people that have admitted to personal encounters.

They have even developed a celebrity ghost show. Supposedly with celebrity people we all know testifying to their ghostly related adventures we can find more credibility in the unknown and the other world.

Ghosts are real for a lot of people and these particular types of television shows that are of the reality type will help you see, hear and feel in the afterlife. They display for us confirmation of our worst fears. All of these ghosts appear to be angry, hurt and scary. Where are the good ghosts? I suppose they don’t attract as many viewers as their bad behavior cousins.

Whether or not ghosts are real depends on everyone’s individual beliefs. Ghosts can certainly be real for many people, if you believe.

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