OREGON CITY, Ore. — It's almost Halloween, but things are already pretty spooky at an Oregon City marijuana shop.
Employees at Five Zero Trees have been seeing some strange things, and some think it might be haunted.
“It’s like, what's going to happen next?” budtender, Andy Gomez said.
In
August, Gomez was working at the counter by himself, when surveillance
video shows a glass tip jar slowly begin to slide off the edge of a
level counter, then fall off.
“As it happened, I kind of felt like someone was standing next to me like somebody was right here,” Gomez said.
Not long after that, surveillance cameras captured another strange happening.
The
video shows a pen cup on a different counter with no one around when
suddenly, the pens begin to move. To skeptics who think the video was
doctored, the store’s general manager said as a cannabis shop, that
would be against the law.
What
happens after we die? It’s a question that seems to have a million
answers, and one that has perplexed humans for thousands of years. In
the early days of photography some believed that the camera could be
used as a tool to connect with the spirit world.
Spirit photography began in the late 19th century, around the time
that the the spiritualism movement was gaining traction across Europe
and the United States. The photographers who practiced it claimed that
they could capture images of a portrait subjects and their deceased
loved ones in a single frame. The haunted images were a big hit and
spirit photographers like William H. Mummler, who charged ten dollars
for a photo—which was considered a huge amount of money at the time,
thrived.
“Photography
was very new at the time and people didn’t really understand how it
worked,” says Jolene Lupo, Manager of Manhattan’s Penumbra
Tintype Studio, a nonprofit dedicated to historical forms of
photography. “They knew that it could see more than the human eye could,
but they didn’t understand the boundaries of the medium.”
Sometimes ghosts would appear very realistic, with their arms draped
around the living portrait sitter. In other images the spirits would
appear as no more than cotton-like whisps. One of Mummler’s most well
known images featured first lady Mary Todd Lincoln sitting with a
translucent image of her husband Abraham Lincoln—five years after he was
assassinated.
“Each photographer had their own trademark,” says Lupo. The haunted
frames were obviously—at least to our modern minds—a result of some kind
of manipulation: chemical, in-camera or something done in the darkroom.
Every photographer seemed to have a few tricks for making the ghosts
appear.
Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. The Abominable Snowman. Stories of large,
hairy creatures appearing to be half man and half ape have been told
around campfires for hundreds of years.
In the folklore of some Native American tribes, the beasts are said
to be peaceful, supernatural beings with intelligence and spiritual
powers. Other tribes, however, describe them as malevolent creatures who
attack humans, play dangerous tricks, or steal children.
For obvious reasons, the vast majority of mainstream scientists
maintain that the existence of such creatures is impossible. Yet
thousands of people have claimed to spot the mysterious hominids roaming
the woods of North America since the 1800s.
Eyewitness reports describe the creatures as bipedal primates that
are 6 to 10 feet tall and weigh at least 500 pounds. The footprints left
behind by Bigfoot (a singular and plural term) range in size from about
12 to 22 inches long. They are also thought to be non-aggressive
creatures, whose human-like intelligence and shyness make them elusive
and thus rarely seen.
A woman charged in the bizarre water-borne
burglary of a World War II-era submarine stuck in a murky Bergen County
river is a psychologist and ghost hunter with an apparent hobby of
exploring abandoned buildings.
Laura B. Palmese, 38, and Jon P. Stevens, 48, both of Connecticut,
swam to the USS Ling, which is moored in the Hackensack River, after
leaving their car at a nearby diner, city police said in a statement
Thursday.
The duo allegedly stole a lantern and a medical corps lieutenant's
shoulder lapel from the historic former Navy vessel on Aug. 11.
Palmese has worked as a member of Thames Society of Paranormal Investigations, a Connecticut-based team of ghost hunters who seek out the supernatural around the region.
"Our mission is to research, investigate, educate and provide
assistance to those who are experiencing the paranormal phenomenon," the
group website says.
The group's director, Shamus Denniston, insisted Palmese was not tracking down a spirit on the Ling for his team during the alleged burglary.
A worker at a nursing home in Chicago got the last laugh on his friends
and family who disbelieved his claims of seeing a ghost after he
produced security footage which seems to show the spirit in question. Jay Brown was working the overnight shift at a school last weekend when the bizarre event occurred.
He told friends and family how he saw a ghost walking through the halls of the deserted building.
But no one believed him.
So Jay, from Chicago, US, went back to work the next day to watch the CCTV footage in the hope it would help prove his claims. And he was left shocked by what he found.
A personal trainer got quite the fright when he filmed what he says was a
ghost, lurking in the window of a castle in England. "I didn't see the
figure until I watched the footage back, but the whole time I was in the
castle I felt something watching me."
In the eerie footage from September 8, there seems to be something
moving in the window before suddenly a figure appears – complete with
what look like glowing eyes.
Tony Ferguson tried to debunk his ‘scary’ encounter as another visitor
to Hurst Castle, Hampshire, playing a prank but discovered that the
window is only accessible through a tunnel ‘as narrow as a snooker cue’.
The 33 year old now believes the apparition to be the spirit of a former
castle caretaker that he also encountered on a previous visit to the
16th century artillery fort in 2017.
“Last
time I visited, it appeared like a white mist but this time it
obviously had the energy to actually take form,” Ferguson said. “I was
asking it to show itself and this white mist flew straight at my camera. You can see it almost reaching out like a hand.”
More than one billion people use London underground annually, yet few
of them know just how haunted the tube really is. We investigate the
supernatural secrets of the oldest underground network in the world.
Our
hair-raising journey takes us through the graves, church crypts and
plague pits that tube tunnels have disrupted. We hear the startling
stories of the men and women who work one hundred and fifty feet below
our capital’s pavements; we also scrutinize the network’s amazing
architecture and exceptional engineering. This remarkable programme
enables us to survey one of the most familiar environments in London
from a radical and chilling perspective.
JIM THORPE, Pa. — The asking price — $749,000 — includes gallows,
nooses, handcuffs, the everlasting handprint of a hanged coal miner, and
possibly some ghosts who have good reason to be ticked off.
“Oh, we have ghosts here,” Betty Lou McBride said last week. “Tons of ghosts.”
McBride,
84, and husband Tom, 87, purchased the former Carbon County Jail in Jim
Thorpe in 1995 when it still housed prisoners, and took over once the
county moved the last of them to a new facility in Nesquehoning. The
McBrides have spent the last two decades running the imposing,
147-year-old stone building as The Old Museum Jail.
“We’ve been saying we were going to sell it for a long time, but it’s hard to let go,” she said.
The two-story, 27-cell jail
is tucked into a rocky hill atop Broadway in the quaint mining town
formerly known as Mauch Chunk on the Lehigh River. Pennsylvania has
plenty of old stone buildings where nothing much happened, but the jail
is on the National Register of Historic Places because of its unique and
ominous place in the history of labor unions in America.
In
the late 1800s, immigrants were pouring into Northeastern Pennsylvania
and heading down into the mines to extract anthracite coal. Faced with
low pay, meager living conditions and discrimination, Irish miners
turned to fraternal organizations such as the Ancient Order of
Hibernians for solidarity and, eventually, to fledgling trade unions to
organize.
“What
they were, basically, were miners who were just trying to get the mine
owners to treat them fairly,” said Karliene Zack, of the Mauch Chunk Museum down the street.
Visitors flock to the USS Lexington to get a look at the vintage WW2
ship and if you are lucky, you just may see more than you bargained for.
“There a bunch of stories that we just can’t discredit,” said Paranormal Tour Guide, Bill Miller.
The latest was a photo taken by a man visiting from Louisiana.
In the photo you can clearly see a shadow of a man, but is it a real ghost?
We contacted the man who took the photo, who swears it’s real, and
that reflection or shadow is not of a man standing by the display. There
was no one else around.
“Nothing in the room! There is nothing that can make that reflection.
I’m 5′ 3′ and 280 pounds. That’s defiantly not me in that reflection,”
said Will Smith.
One that the USS Lexington does not dispute and it is the most common and consistent sighting.
It takes place in the ship’s galley.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) prepared the "partly serious, partly
fun" code of practice in 2001 amid a period of intense interest in
Nessie.
This year's interest has been piqued by scientists
gathering DNA from the loch, and Scotland's first minister saying she
believes there is a monster.
SNH said it would "dust off" the plan if Nessie was discovered.
The code of practice was drawn up to offer protection to new species found in the loch, including a monster.
It stipulates that a DNA sample should be taken from any new creature, and then it should be released back into the loch.
The story of the monster can be traced back 1,500
years when Irish missionary St Columba is said to have encountered a
beast in the River Ness in 565AD.
Later, in the 1930s, The Inverness Courier reported the first modern sighting of Nessie.
The creature's appearance has been described as resembling a plesiosaur, a creature that died out with the dinosaurs.
Nick
Halfhide, of SNH, an organisation that promotes Scottish wildlife and
natural habitats, said the 17-year-old code of practice remained
relevant today.
Little did they know, a piece of the past would come to haunt them.
The couple is convinced that their business,
located in the 2400 block of East Houston Street, is home to about a
half dozen ghosts, and they say they have the video to prove it.
Before seeing the eerie images captured by
their surveillance cameras, Joe Ward said he had the feeling that
something was going on. He said back when he was renovating the space,
he often got the feeling he wasn’t alone.
“I didn't tell (April) about it because I
thought I was losing my mind,” he said. “A tape measure came up missing,
a saw blade and my keys.”
He said he also began to feel something or
someone tugging at his glasses on his shirt collar at times when no one
else was around.
Ward said he tried to brush it all off, but
when decorations began to move around on their own after closing, the
couple decided to turn to their surveillance video.
LAS VEGAS - Fuzzy videos captured by military pilots caused a media
splash over the last six months, but what were those objects in the sky?
Since
the Pentagon's release of three UFO videos, armchair experts have
speculated that maybe the objects are birds or balloons or something
mundane.
But now, the I-Team has obtained an in-depth report
prepared by and for the military, and it analyzes the so-called Tic Tac
UFO using the most sophisticated sensor systems in the world.
On Nov.14, F-18s were
ordered into the area and saw it up close. Veteran pilot Dave Fravor,
commander of the elite Black Aces unit, says the Tic Tac reacted to the
presence of the F-18s then took off like a bullet fired from a gun.
"It takes off like nothing I've ever seen. One minute it's here, and off, it's gone," said retired Navy pilot David Fravor.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The stories seem as tall as the lake
is deep. For hundreds of years, visitors to Scotland's Loch Ness have
described seeing a monster that some believe lurks in the depths.
But
now the legend of "Nessie" may have no place left to hide. A New
Zealand scientist is leading an international team to the lake next
month, where they will take samples of the murky waters and conduct DNA
tests to determine what species live there.
University of Otago
professor Neil Gemmell says he's no believer in Nessie, but he wants to
take people on an adventure and communicate some science along the way.
Besides, he says, his kids think it's one of the coolest things he's
ever done.
One
of the more far-fetched theories is that Nessie is a long-necked
plesiosaur that somehow survived the period when dinosaurs became
extinct. Another theory is that the monster is actually a sturgeon or
giant catfish. Many believe the sightings are hoaxes or can be explained
by floating logs or strong winds.
EAST JORDAN, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) - Do you believe in miracles?
A group of people in East Jordan believe they have come across one.
“I
said ‘That’s an angel!’ And I was just blown away," said Glen Thorman,
whose security camera captured the image. "I couldn’t wait to send it to
my wife and send it to Deneille. And I said ‘I got an angel, and my
camera took a picture of an angel.'"
The camera is only activated by a motion sensor.
On Wednesday, it emailed him a picture that shows what he says looks like an angel hovering over his truck, then moving out of the frame.
One of the first things he did was send the picture to the pastor of his church, Deneille Moes.
“It
was really clear to me the minute I looked at the photo, I just kind of
freaked out a bit," Moes said.
"I went like ‘Whoa! That’s an angel!'
And I texted him back, ‘That’s an angel.’ There wasn’t any doubt in my
mind that we were looking at something supernatural.”
The eerie clip, shot by Raul Arguello, 32, captures the
moment he opens a "banging door" at the Tomás Adolfo Ducó Stadium in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
As he pans his camera around, he unknowingly captures the instant a
"spectre" quickly passes along some benches before disappearing
THROUGH a wall.
At the time, the apparition appears to be invisible to the naked eye as
Arguello doesn’t react to the movement.
He only discovered the unnerving phenomenon later when he viewed the footage
and found he had apparently caught the spooky presence in the arena.
At the beginning of the haunting encounter the guard explains to prove he is
"telling the truth" about the baffling banging door he is going
to film it.
“It’s eleven o’clock at night and it’s the third time I’ve heard this
banging noise,” the frightened man says looking down into the camera.
“I’m going to film it to show people later on, so they believe it when I
tell them because this has never happened to me before. It’s terrifying.”
This is the spooky moment a fitness coach
claimed he saw a ghost fly straight at his camera as he explored an
800-year-old graveyard.
A smokey white
figure appears to launch itself directly at Tony Ferguson's camera as
he investigated the cemetery at St Mary's Church in Eling, Hampshire.
Personal
trainer and paranormal investigator Tony claims he decided to scout out
the cemetery after reports of a 'negative presence' from people
visiting their loved ones' graves.
The 33-year-old claims the moment he
stepped foot in the graveyard he felt 'unwanted' and then suddenly
heard a 'whooshing' sound which he now believes must have been the ghost
whizzing past him.
While seeing visual
evidence of what he felt and heard was 'really weird' for Tony at
first, he says it is reassuring to know his mind was not just playing
tricks on him.
After watching the
footage in slow-motion, Tony believes the spirit to be a 'controlling'
gentleman trying to discourage people from visiting the cemetery.
A fitness coach was left 'freaked out'
after he claimed a poltergeist threw his camera across the cabin of a
WWII plane before the spirit of the female co-pilot appeared as a white
'angel's feather'.
In the first of two
spine-tingling videos, Tony Ferguson asks whatever is haunting the
former military seaplane to make itself known before a series of loud
bangs echo through the empty cabin.
When
the 33-year-old asked again for the entity to show itself, Mr
Ferguson's camera – which had also been experiencing interference often
associated with paranormal activity – was hurled to the ground.
Tony Ferguson first experienced
paranormal activity on the plane in October 2017. He asks whatever is
haunting the seaplane to make itself known before a series of loud bangs
echo through the empty cabin
Mr Ferguson, speaking to a
seemingly empty cabin, asks the entity to show itself. As he does so,
his camera experiences interference, which experts say is associated
with paranormal activity
Eerie footage has emerged showing a ghostly figure of a woman wearing
what looks like a dress and heels before she disappears through a wall.
A
personal trainer has captured spine-tingling footage of what he
believes to be the ghost of Admiral Nelson’s wife aboard the HMS
Victory.
Tony Ferguson captured the spine-tingling footage of what he
believes to be the ghost of Admiral Nelson’s wife aboard the HMS
Victory.
The 33-year-old was enjoying a day out last week
exploring the vessel, which was Lord Nelson’s flagship in the Battle of
Trafalgar, when he started to feel like someone – or something – was
following him.
“I arrived at the HMS Victory first thing in the
morning and I knew I had the whole upper chamber to myself but I kept
feeling like someone was following me,” he said.
“I got out my camera and as I panned around the camera picked up this woman in a dress.”
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - A mysterious sea creature washed ashore in St. Simons Island and it has beachgoers scratching their heads.
Jeff Warren and his son were at Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge just north of St. Simons Island in Georgia Friday when they came upon the creature on a barrier island.
Warren thought it was a dead seal, but said when he got a closer look it resembled more of the Loch Ness monster.
Warren sent the photo to News4Jax and said
the creature was about 4 to 5 feet long with two fins, though only one
can be seen in the picture.
The creature has little teeth about one-eighth of an inch long.
GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- "It almost sounds like somebody's walking
upstairs, and I'm not the only one whose experienced that," said
Gettysburg Police Chief Joe Doughtery.
The Gettysburg Municipal Building was initially constructed in the
1800’s as the Adam’s County Prison. Criminals died within its walls and
Civil War soldiers just outside.
Inside the Gettysburg Municipal Building, curious happenings late at night.
Phantom footsteps, doors mysteriously closing, and an aroma without a source.
"It smells like just a faint whiff, as if someone had been cooking
chili, and I’m usually one of the first ones in in the morning like
530,6 o’clock, and I know that there was nobody there doing it,"
explained Chief Doughtery.
Those strange experiences have been shared by a number of Gettysburg police officers over the years.
“It happens so often I don’t even think about it anymore. We don’t even think about it anymore," said Doughtery.
Chief Dougherty’s been with the force for more than a decade.
So I grew up watching horror shows like Ssshhhh...someone's there etc.
These shows used to scare the hell out of me, so much so that I feared
to go inside loo at midnight. But at the same time, there was something
inside me that used to get entertained by that fear. I used to wonder
about the moment if some night even I have a faceoff with a Ghost.
A childhood friend of mine also used to have the same feeling. One
day me, her and all the mates while having our tuition classes took the
Maths book out of our bag, placed our finger on it jointly and starting
speaking the chant (we seriously believed that in this way we’ll be able
to attract the spirits but because we are so innocent children they
won’t harm us). What happened next? The God was in the mood of having
fun with us. LOL.
