Post by Spooky on Mar 27, 2008 15:42:27 GMT -5
*Towards the end of his life, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (who murdered an estimated 20 million people in "The Purges") became so paranoid that his victims would return to haunt him he had guards stationed in his bedroom while he slept.
*It isn't just godless dictators who are haunted, either.Gangster Al Capone claimed he was being haunted for years by the spirit of James Clark who was one of the seven victims of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 which Capone had carried out against rival gang members.He was often heard screaming at the spirit to go away during the night and it alledgedly haunted him until his death about 20 years after the massacre had occured.
*Many parapsychologists believe as many as 1 in 8 households in America at any given time are experiencing some kind of paranormal phenomenon.
*Belief in ghosts is traced back to as far back as 3,500 B.C. in early Egyptian manuscripts which speak about spirits and out-of-body experiences.
*The Capital Building in Washington D.C. is alledgedly haunted by a demonic cat that appears in the basement to fortell national disaster.
*Thomas Edison worked on a device to contact the dead but died himself before even completing his project.
*Abraham Lincoln (who supposedly haunts the White House) alledgedly had a dream which fortold his own assasination only weeks before it happened in April of 1865.He claimed to have seen his body resting in state at the White House, mourners surrounding the casket.After his assasination, Lincoln's body was in fact lying in state at the White House.He has been seen off and on within the White House ever since.
*Legend has it that looking into the eyes of a person you kill will cause them to come back and haunt you.
*Anne Boleyn is probably the ghost with the most sightings.Executed at the Tower of London in 1536 for alledgedly cheating on her husband Henry the Eighth, she has been sighted over 70,000 times in nearly 500 years!
*Legend has it that a ghost cannot cross a body of water.
*Even though roungly one-quarter of all Americans believe in ghosts over 98% believe in life after death or at least the possibility thereof.
*The modern word "Poltergeist" comes from an old German phrase to describe a loud or even a violent ghost.The word "polter" meaning "noisy" and the word "geist" meaning "ghost".
*The Pennsylvania Dutch used the word "schpuk" when referring to spirits as far back as the 17th century.The word has now evolved into the modern term "spook" referring to a ghost.
*One in every six Americans believes they have seen, heard, of felt a spirit at least once in their lifetime.
*As late as 1953 attempting to conjure a spirit of ghost in Britain could mean a sentence of one year in prison as doing such an act was considered a form of "witchcraft".All "Witchcraft Laws" were repealed in Britain by the mid-1950's.
*The most vistied haunted spot on the entire globe is Gettysubrg, Pennsylvania where 53,000 Union and Confederate soliders were killed between July 1-3, 1863.Countless reports of hauntings stem from this battlefield.
*It is common lore that if you don't hold your breath when going by a cemetery you will breath in the spirit of a person who is recently deceased.
*US President Andrew Jackson alledgedly had a run-in with an infamous ghost called the "Bell Witch" in Tennessee during the early 1800's.While on his way to investigate the haunting for himself his carriage suddenly stopped and would move no further until he heard the spirit call out "You can go on, General" in which the carriage began to move again.
*Abraham Lincoln was known to hold seances at the White House on a regular basis and many continue to say he was a psychic.
*Some ghost photographs date as far back as 1839.
*Ghost hunting itself is at least 150 years old with many early ghost hunting organizations starting in Europe in the mid-1800's.
members.tripod.com/~blackdragon_1998/ghostfacts.html
*It isn't just godless dictators who are haunted, either.Gangster Al Capone claimed he was being haunted for years by the spirit of James Clark who was one of the seven victims of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 which Capone had carried out against rival gang members.He was often heard screaming at the spirit to go away during the night and it alledgedly haunted him until his death about 20 years after the massacre had occured.
*Many parapsychologists believe as many as 1 in 8 households in America at any given time are experiencing some kind of paranormal phenomenon.
*Belief in ghosts is traced back to as far back as 3,500 B.C. in early Egyptian manuscripts which speak about spirits and out-of-body experiences.
*The Capital Building in Washington D.C. is alledgedly haunted by a demonic cat that appears in the basement to fortell national disaster.
*Thomas Edison worked on a device to contact the dead but died himself before even completing his project.
*Abraham Lincoln (who supposedly haunts the White House) alledgedly had a dream which fortold his own assasination only weeks before it happened in April of 1865.He claimed to have seen his body resting in state at the White House, mourners surrounding the casket.After his assasination, Lincoln's body was in fact lying in state at the White House.He has been seen off and on within the White House ever since.
*Legend has it that looking into the eyes of a person you kill will cause them to come back and haunt you.
*Anne Boleyn is probably the ghost with the most sightings.Executed at the Tower of London in 1536 for alledgedly cheating on her husband Henry the Eighth, she has been sighted over 70,000 times in nearly 500 years!
*Legend has it that a ghost cannot cross a body of water.
*Even though roungly one-quarter of all Americans believe in ghosts over 98% believe in life after death or at least the possibility thereof.
*The modern word "Poltergeist" comes from an old German phrase to describe a loud or even a violent ghost.The word "polter" meaning "noisy" and the word "geist" meaning "ghost".
*The Pennsylvania Dutch used the word "schpuk" when referring to spirits as far back as the 17th century.The word has now evolved into the modern term "spook" referring to a ghost.
*One in every six Americans believes they have seen, heard, of felt a spirit at least once in their lifetime.
*As late as 1953 attempting to conjure a spirit of ghost in Britain could mean a sentence of one year in prison as doing such an act was considered a form of "witchcraft".All "Witchcraft Laws" were repealed in Britain by the mid-1950's.
*The most vistied haunted spot on the entire globe is Gettysubrg, Pennsylvania where 53,000 Union and Confederate soliders were killed between July 1-3, 1863.Countless reports of hauntings stem from this battlefield.
*It is common lore that if you don't hold your breath when going by a cemetery you will breath in the spirit of a person who is recently deceased.
*US President Andrew Jackson alledgedly had a run-in with an infamous ghost called the "Bell Witch" in Tennessee during the early 1800's.While on his way to investigate the haunting for himself his carriage suddenly stopped and would move no further until he heard the spirit call out "You can go on, General" in which the carriage began to move again.
*Abraham Lincoln was known to hold seances at the White House on a regular basis and many continue to say he was a psychic.
*Some ghost photographs date as far back as 1839.
*Ghost hunting itself is at least 150 years old with many early ghost hunting organizations starting in Europe in the mid-1800's.
members.tripod.com/~blackdragon_1998/ghostfacts.html
Knowing my luck I will pick a house that is haunted...
