Chilling Discoveries At Museum

Some claim to have seen the apparition of a young boy inside the Wm. Phelps General Store on Market Street in Palmyra.

 

 

Palmyra, New York – Phantom footsteps, whispers, a swaying chandelier and a piano that played on its own exposed the presence of ghostly spirits residing in two local museums on Market Street. Or so say members of a few ghost-hunting teams that recently camped out with some high-tech equipment.

 

The spook sleuths from Scientific Paranormal Investigations and Finger Lakes Area Spirit Hunters on Thursday, Feb. 19, shared their findings with a crowd of about 55.

 

They played recordings they said captured whispered ghostly responses to questions and faint piano playing. They shared bone-chilling stories of apparitions and chills and breezes that seemed to come from nowhere.

 

“A feeling of dread engulfed me,” said Rob Henning, co-founder and case manager for Scientific Paranormal Investigations of Palmyra, as he described an encounter he said he had with a young girl in the piano room in the general store. “Immediately, we were blasted with cold, dry air.”

 

The general store and attached living quarters, at 140 Market St., is a preserved mercantile that thrived on Erie Canal commerce and a bustling downtown back from the early 1800s to the 1940s.

 

Some believe its visitors are not just docents and tourists but also some long-dead members of the Phelps family, including spiritualist and musician Sibyl Phelps, who lived above the store and became something of a shut-in in the years before her death in 1976.

 

 

The Historical Museum just up Market Street, meanwhile, is on the site of a 1964 blaze that claimed seven people, six of whom were children. The museum itself is an old hotel that was moved from William Street in the 1970s during urban renewal work.

 

Bonnie Hays, director of Historic Palmyra Inc., was contacted about a year ago by members of the Victor-based Finger Lakes Area Spirit Hunters. “They said, ‘we’ve always wanted to come to your buildings, would you mind if we came?’” she said. “Of course, I said, ‘We’d love it.’”

 

 

And so, for the past several months, the Spirit Hunters and Scientific Paranormal Investigations have surveyed the museums with video, camera, audio, high-tech night vision and thermal-vision equipment.

 

The investigators aren’t the only ones who’ve experienced strange happenings in the museums.

 

“I swear a black cat came in the front door of the Phelps Store, walked down through the store and up the stairs,” said Ralph Kommer. “Bonnie Hays and I looked for it, but never found anything. She left food. It was never touched.”

 

 

 

Author: Sue Higgins

 

Source – http://www.mpnnow.com/

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Walking With The Lady In Blue

Many people claim to have have seen the apparition, thought to be the wife of a missionary, over the past thirty years.

 

 

Lewiston, Idaho – It was Friday the 13th, unusual in that it was the second time in two months for the day one in five Americans think might actually mean something. Maybe black cats or broken mirrors get their attention. Or maybe they turn that attention to ghosts.

 

To many business owners on Lewiston’s Main Street, ghosts, spirits, or whatever you want to call them, are very real.

 

Morgan’s Alley is rumored to be haunted by a spirit known as the Lady in Blue.

 

“Everybody talks about it and has had little experiences,” said Harvesting the Arts employee Carmelita Nedrow.

 

Nedrow said she has heard and felt the Lady in Blue and that lead her to paint a portrait. Many of the encounters happen in a stairway to the 3rd floor. Nedrow took photographs to prepare for her painting, and when she looked at the pictures, she discovered something strange.

 

“I saw these little orbs on the steps and coming down the steps, going around the corner,” said Nedrow.

 

Nedrow’s experiences are not unique. Vikky Ross is one of the owners of the building and when she bought it, she heard the stories.

 

“The Lady in Blue has been seen by other people for the last 30 years,” said Ross.

 

Ross said doors open and close unexpectedly, lights flicker and many tenants said they feel like they are being watched.

 

“I heard piano music start to play and I followed it through, because it was really getting louder and louder as I was coming up stairs,” said Ross. “I went clear to the 3rd floor and there was music coming but there was no explanation for it. It was just there, so I decided to leave.”

 

As spooky as that sounds, no one thinks the Lady in Blue has ill intent. Lewiston City Council Member Garry Bush owns Ghost Tours and says the Lady is a friendly character.

 

“I think she’s curious and I think like Vikky said, she’s not mean spirited,” said Bush. “When something happens in this building she is the caretaker.”

 

In the 30s and 40s Morgan’s Alley was a mix of rowdy bars and brothels. Once thought to be a prostitute, now the Lady in Blue is regarded as Mary Spalding, the wife of a missionary. Bush said she often shows herself on his ghost tours.

 

“I have an article that I think is dealing with this lady and as I read it to the folks, she has been seen over my shoulder, next to me, reading the article,” said Bush.

 

But Morgan’s Alley isn’t the only haunt on main street.

 

“I think that every one of the buildings downtown has some paranormal activity,” said Bush.

 

In the basement of one of those building people said they have seen lights flicker, in a room with no electricity.

 

Bush said some ghosts are interactive like the Lady in Blue while others are on a loop, always doing the same thing.

 

The next time you are in downtown Lewiston, keep your eyes open, because you never know who’s watching.

 

 

 

Author: Stephanie Smith

 

Source – http://www.klewtv.com/

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The Hauntings At Ghost Cottage

The owner says there’s nothing usual about her two-story home where several ghosts inhabit the property and house.

 

 

Gold Beach, Oregon – It looks like any other house as you drive down Mateer Drive in the Hunter Creek area, but owner Kelli Ryan says there’s nothing usual about her two-story home.

 

She has owned the property, 28315 Mateer Dr., for around three years now.

 

Ryan, who says she has always had psychic abilities since she can remember, didn’t intentionally purchase a haunted dwelling.

 

“I wouldn’t have bought this place if I had known,” said Ryan. “Once things began happening, I befriended the spirits to make sure we could get along.”

 

She now embraces her psychic abilities, but it made for a troubling childhood.

 

“When I was only two to three years old, I would say something was going to happen and it would,” stated Ryan. “When my parents would be making plans for the following week, I would tell them not to schedule anything for that day, because so-and-so’s funeral was that day. That person hadn’t passed away yet, and they would pass away shortly after.”

 

Ryan says that when someone was going to pass away, she would see heat waves around the person, similar to those rising off an extremely hot roadway. These experiences occurred until she was a teenager.

 

The house and property surrounding the house has become a popular site for paranormal researchers. Many of their experiences on the property have even been uploaded as You Tube videos.

 

“Many researchers say this is the most active place they have visited,” said Ryan.

 

Among some the evidence that researchers commonly see and collect are pictures and video white masses, shadows, orbs and recordings of disembodied voices.

 

The Property

 

Several ghosts inhabit the property and house. The hills above her house is reportedly home to Valkeryies, also sometimes referred to as forest guardians or fairies, and have been seen by many people as a traveling mist that moves throughout the forest. Ryan even has a collection of gifts from them. She says they give her many sculptures and special rocks, many contain heart-shaped rocks – which Ryan believes it is a sign they like her.

 

“I used to sing Irish songs to them and nothing ever appeared,” said Ryan. “Once I learned some Celtic songs, they started leaving me stuff. I wanted one of those rocks with a cone-shaped hole in it, after watching The Spiderwick Chronicles. The next day, there was one outside.”

 

Bill Starkey

 

Another ghost that roams the property is that of Bill Starkey, who once owned the house above hers.

 

“One day, I was walking my dogs up there and I suddenly got very overwhelmed. I thought a cougar or something was about to pounce on me,” said Ryan. “Suddenly, I felt something touch my shoulder and a voice tell me, ‘Honey, it will be alright.’”

 

“I immediately thought, ‘I need to get off this hill now,’” added Ryan. “I came back later and asked him his name, and he just said Starkey, which I mistook for Star Key. Later on during a conversation with another person, I learned that this was his last name only.”

 

Bill Wells

 

The most active ghost in the house is a former pharmacist named Bill Wells, who died in a car wreck in 1978. He has been known to bang pots in the kitchen and can be seen walking around the house, especially near the laundry room and hallway. He is one of the past owners that haunt the property.

 

“He treats the house like it’s his. We don’t mind, though. He is fine with us being here,” said Ryan. “You can really see him around 10:30 at night.”

 

Lilly The Witch

 

Prior to the home’s construction, purportedly there was a witch named Lilly that lived in a trailer in the exact spot where the house would later be built. According to local lore, she suffered a mysterious death after making someone’s wife sick.

 

“I don’t really take action against the nicer spirits; they are no threat to anyone,” said Ryan. “I do take action to keep the mean ones, like Lilly, away.”

 

Lilly’s mean streak was a threat to the Ryans. She would turn appliances on and off; make them dizzy and sick; lock Kelli in the bathroom; move objects and even assaulted them. “We would go to Brookings and she would turn on the stove or coffee pot,” said Ryan. “She was doing some extremely dangerous things. She could have burned down the house. She drew so much energy from us to do these things, we would get sick.”

 

“Bill gets along with most of the others, but he doesn’t want her in his house. He protects us from her. She likes to hang out around the doors and sneak in at night when we go outside,” added Ryan.

 

Dan Kuykendall

 

A previous owner of the house died after crashing his plane into a mountain, and reportedly walks the property. He rarely visits the actual house itself, spending most of his time outside. He even has an additional connection to another person haunting the house; Kuykendall married Wells’ widow and moved into the house after his death.

 

Jean Hawkins

 

Ryan was in need of a bed to finish one of the bedrooms, so she traded her piano for one she really liked. She knew the bed had once belonged to Jean Hawkins, who had passed away. What she didn’t know was she was getting more than a bed; apparently it was one of Hawkins’ most prized possessions. The bedroom in which the bed is placed has become known as the Rose Room. People who knew Hawkins are amazed at how much it looks like something Jean would have done.

 

Ryan stated that Hawkins likes to look at the front windows of the house, something she liked to do while living.

 

“You can see a black figure kind of lean out of the kitchen area and look towards the window,” said Ryan.

 

The Myrtlewood Grove

 

Ryan believes how the property was created has something to do with all the paranormal activity.

 

“I have heard from people that were around while the property was being developed that a big grove of Myrtlewood trees were destroyed, then a huge slice of hill was taken out to flatten the property,” stated Ryan. “I know the forest guardians are not happy that occurred. Those are sacred trees.”

 

Water Intensifying Activity

 

There is a belief that water intensifies paranormal activity, and Ryan thinks that between the Pacific Ocean, the Rogue River and other numerous waterways in and around Gold Beach, we are more prone to have such activity.

 

“The Chinese never build their homes facing a river; they believe that the river will carry more spirits towards their home,” said Ryan.

 

Educating The Public

 

The Ghost Cottage is also home of the Southern Oregon Paranormal Research Association, which Ryan runs. She helps other researchers by allowing them to use her home and property as a learning environment. She also teaches classes on improving people’s psychic and intuition abilities.

 

“I believe everyone is psychic; I just help them hone and refine that ability,” said Ryan. “A lot of them say, ‘I don’t want to be a fortune teller or something.’ It isn’t about that; it is about using it to enhance their everyday life.”

 

Her Other Passion

 

It doesn’t take long to see Ryan’s other passion in life – art. Paintings hang from the wall as if you’re in an art gallery. Antiques are on every shelf, which both Ryan and her husband Riley love to collect. She works as a manuscript illuminator, textile restorer and general art restorer, working on Medieval and Renaissance pieces to modern works.

 

She spent around three years in Florence, Italy helping re-pigment frescos at the Vatican, restoring the images and making them pop once again. She hopes the Oregon Coast will become a haven for fresco painters.

 

“Gold Beach is a perfect place for frescos, since a true fresco is painted while the plaster is still wet; the cool and moist air is perfect for having more time to finish,” said Ryan. “I have been illuminating since I was 12 years old. I love the idea of making transcripts the same way monks did.”

 

Ryan also is very interested in Pentimento, which is where finished paintings are utilized by the painter as a canvas for a new painting. The under image is completely hidden by the new painting, but over time the top layer gives way and a “ghost” of the under image is visible. Black lights and x-rays can be used to pull the under image out even further. Art supplies were expensive; so many painters utilized this technique to save money.

 

“In a way, this is a lot like a haunting. You see what’s on the surface; but with some work you begin to see the history,” said Ryan.

 

 

 

 

Author: Matthew Smith

 

Source – http://www.currycountyreporter.com/

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Town of Vail may face supernatural forces in West Vail

By Tom Boyd , www.realvail.com:80/BoydsBlog/763/Town-of-Vail-may-face-supernatural-forces-in-West-Vail.html

 

 

 

 

June 9, 2009 —  Usually when people talk about affordable housing being a “nightmare,” they don’t mean it literally.

 

But The Town of Vail housing project planned for Arosa Drive in West Vail certainly has some ghoulish qualities. The project, which will be discussed at the next Town Council meeting June 16, is planned for a plot of land with a strange and storied history.

 

Lonely and deserted for nine long years, the Town-owned lot is slated for construction of two family-friendly housing units. They will be the first domiciles on the lot since 2000.

 

Before that, an A-frame house squatted at the base of the hill, overlooking I-70 with a malignant, hooded eye.

 

I remember that old house clearly, not just because of its 200-yard proximity to my childhood home, but also because we all knew – everyone in West Vail knew – the house was haunted.

 

The legend began with screeching tires and a loud crash somewhere in the night, sometime long ago. Yet another winter driver had confused the North Frontage road with the highway on-ramp, but this time the mistake had been fatal. Just as the driver accelerated into high gear he slammed on the brakes, but not in time to avoid hurtling over the precipice and down into the drainage below.

 

Emergency medical personnel tried to resuscitate the man, but he perished in the driveway of that old, creaking A-frame … where many say his spirit made a phantasmal home.

 

We didn’t think much of the event in the years that followed, but then stories began to circulate. Lights flickering on and off, doors slamming, dogs howling and barking at the walls, and always the sensation that there was someone – something – there under the apogee of that A-frame, watching.

 

The home passed from one owner to the next, never one staying long, until the Town of Vail bought it in 1995 and used it for employee housing, renting it room by room.

 

Trouble seemed to plague the place. I once met a young couple in the old Jackalope (now the Sandbar), who looked stressed, harried, and guarded their luggage at their feet. They were homeless for an evening, by choice, because they had been living in the A-frame on Arosa but simply couldn’t stay another night. Haunting, they said, was their sole reason for abandoning their room. They stayed with friends until they could find a more peaceful place to live.

 

Peace was hard to come by at the A-frame ever since it was built in 1971. My dad was one of Vail’s early home builders, and as he completed our house up the street he helped out on the A-frame from time to time. A good ol’ boy named Frank Higgens ran the show, and to save a dime he decided to buy and build one of those “kit” homes, a kind of mail order home which falls somewhere between “double-wide” and “tenement housing” on the home-quality hierarchy.

 

Bob Armour, a former Vail mayor, has lived across the street from the lot for 20 years with his wife Mary Lou. He remembers a nice young couple who worked for the town, stayed in the house for a while before they were driven out. Their dogs, it seems, were constantly barking at thin air, appearing to chase specters round the house.

 

Armour believes it was mice, not ghosts, that were chased by dogs through that house. Doors slamming without warning, lights flickering on and off – it seems the symptoms of a haunted house are one and the same with symptoms of a slapboard, clapboard, murky old A-frame that creaked and splintered with even the slightest mountain breeze.

 

Still, the legend lives on. At a recent Town Council meeting, when someone asked why the original place was torn down, Vail housing coordinator Nina Timm roused old suspicions when she replied that it was torn down because it was haunted.

 

Lamentably, she told me she was only kidding around. “We didn’t tear it down to rid the neighborhood of supernatural forces.”

 

But how can we know for sure? I remember the signs, I remember the stories. And if the place wasn’t haunted, then why the long, nine-year wait for reconstruction? Why do all of us who live, or once lived, in that close-knit, congenial community simply know, without question, that something strange was afoot at the old house on 2657 Arosa Dr?

 

And why does Armour still keep the wizened skull of a Big Horn Sheep on the corner of his property, it’s cavernous eyes unceasingly fixed upon the empty vacant lot across the street?

 

“To ward off the evil spirits,” he told me over the phone … and I could barely, just barely, hear the sound of Bob and Mary Lou getting a good chuckle out of it all in the background.

 

So when new strangers move into our little hamlet on Arosa Drive in West Vail, we’ll have to quote them the old verse from Hamlet, act 1, scene 5:

 

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- Hamlet Act 1, scene 5

 

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Press Release: Unique Paranormal Organization That Specializes In Hostile Hauntings

 

Press Release: Unique Paranormal Organization That Specializes In Hostile Hauntings

Written By: OPET

Posted: 5/24/2009

 

All hauntings have the potential to become dangerous. When this does happen, who do people call? Too bad there isn’t a specialized paranormal intercession group out there, right? Well, there is. The Omega Paranormal Eliminations Team’s (OPET) objective is to help those with problem hauntings to understand the nature of their haunting and offer solutions or recommendations on how to deal with or resolve it. The staff of OPET includes shamans that perform the traditional rite of spirit removals (exorcisms), house clearings, and spirit transitions (assisting spirits to move on). They use traditional methods to help people in problem hauntings at no cost.

 

A traditionally-apprenticed shaman spends years in his apprenticeship to learn about spirits and their ways. This knowledge is beneficial when it comes to interacting with those energies that we investigate. A shaman not only has the gift to see spirit, but is also trained in how to identify many different spiritual attributes, such as what causes a spirit’s energy to be held to a place (for example, the spirit may actually be connected to an object, not necessarily the building it is in). A shaman can interact with entities through the manipulation of spiritual energies.

 

Spiritual energy has a way of attracting other spiritual energies, malevolent as well as benign. Haunting activity does not always reveal the intentions of an entity. There are different influences involved with spirits. Some may be good-natured, some may be malevolent, and some may disguise themselves to look like something they’re not by manipulating their energy as if they were wearing a mask.

 

Dreams are important in these cases as well. Through a person’s dreams is often the easiest means for spirit to communicate to the living, and reviewing dreams is a part of our interview process. OPET staff includes a shaman who specializes in dreamwork. The dreams of all persons sleeping at the location during the course of an overnight investigation should be documented, and cooperation in this area of the investigation is appreciated.

 

OPET was created to assist victims of hostile hauntings by eliminating these dangerous entities from their homes. They also work alongside paranormal investigation groups whose clients request such services.

 

OPET can be contacted via their website at www.sasws.net/pages/opet/opet_home.html or at www.myspace.com/sasws.

 

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Return Of The Bloody Portrait

A spooky Civil War-era painting is back home at a Westminster tavern.

 

 

Westminster, Maryland – Cockey’s Tavern in Westminster has lost its haunted traces after a renovation completed this year, except for one, according to two former employees.

 

Carole Cook and Pat Thomas worked at the upscale restaurant from the 1970s through the 1990s. To them, rumors of a ghost between the dark, oppressive and seemingly haunted walls of the tavern were long gone after seeing the Historical Society of Carroll County’s restoration of the building.

 

Until the two saw a startling Civil War-era painting. A bearded gentleman, who seems to be bleeding, stares out from the tavern’s history into its future. The image of the dark-coated man grows darker; Cook said it seems more haunted now than ever although she said it always seemed foreboding.

 

The employees at the restaurant always thought the painting was of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, but Timmi Pierce, executive director of the Historical Society, has her doubts. “If it is, it’s a very poorly done portrait,” Pierce said.

 

Cook said she can’t really remember when it started, but one day when she was working at the restaurant she noticed the figure seemed to have blood coming out of his sleeve and on his thumb. No one remembered it being that way previously, she said, so they found it unsettling.

 

Over time, the shadow that looked like blood spread down his hand, and also spouted from his forehead, and also on his chest, she said.

 

Today, the painting still has those dark marks, but the whole painting seems to have darkened as well, making those dark spots less dramatic, Cook said.

 

Image: Some think the painting is of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

 

Cathy Baty, curator of the Historical Society, said the darkening is caused by the varnish naturally darkening over time. Having hung in the restaurant and bar, exposed to cigarette smoke, the painting’s varnish likely darkened faster than under normal conditions.

 

After the restaurant closed in 2000 because of a devastating fire caused by arson, many of the building’s contents were sold at auction, including the painting. Pierce said the Historical Society got the painting back in January from the grandson of the man who bought it at auction.

 

Thomas said the “Grant painting” wasn’t the only one that behaved strangely in Cockey’s Tavern. She remembers a time when two women from Baltimore were having lunch at the restaurant, and one woman said she didn’t believe in ghosts. Thomas warned her to hold her tongue, but before she knew it, a painting behind her fell off the wall and on her head, Thomas said.

 

There were other times when pictures would fall of walls without people touching them, candles would re-light themselves, and people would hear voices and the sounds of glasses tinkling when no one was there.

 

“You’d get a little scare, but the ghost never hurt anyone,” Thomas said. “It was just creepy.”

 

Pierce and a few other Historical Society members went through Cockey’s Tavern in November for a “ghost seeking” expedition under the direction of Lois Szymanski, a local ghost hunter and writer. Using electronic equipment, they detected some presences, Pierce said, including some in her future office.

 

As for whether she believes the tales of ghosts in Cockey’s Tavern, Pierce is a little skeptical.

 

“I reserve judgment,” Pierce said.

 

 

 

 

Source – http://www.delmarvanow.com/

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Is there a ghost of Barr Beacon?

Source : www.thisiswalsallonline.co.uk

 

 

 

SPOOKY sightings of three highwaymen wielding muskets and senses of an ‘evil presence’ have posed the question; ‘dare you go down to Barr Beacon hill?’

Two super-natural experiences at the beauty spot near Sutton have heightened fears the area may be riddled with wandering evil spirits.

“A family had just stopped at a set of traffic lights at the bottom of Barr Beacon hill, when – on a grassy area nearby – the mother suddenly saw three men seated on huge, chestnut horses,” said West Midlands Ghost Club’s John Conway.

The woman reported the men were all were all wearing cloaks, long boots, masks, hats and at least one of the men was carrying a long musket-style gun.

Mr Conway added: “She says that she was instantly mesmerised by the sight, said nothing to the other occupants of the car, but just watched.

“At this point, the man nearest the road turned his head and looked straight at her.

“Interestingly, she noted that the man’s piercing eyes clearly seemed to indicate ‘confusion’ as he stared back at her.”

The witness told the club she then ‘came back to reality’ – and when she told her husband about the highwaymen, they had disappeared, and she was met with derision.

The second spooky incident involved a woman and her partner, who were exploring the hill when they felt an overwhelming sense of evil.

Following the two sightings, the club is appealing for anybody else who may have experienced something similar at the hill over the years.

Contact West Midlands Ghost Club on 07944478708.

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Ted Bundys Ghost Haunting Florida Prison

 

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Ghost Of Ted Bundy Has Returned To Florida Prison

 

It would appear that the ghost of Ted Bundy has returned or showed up at the Florida Prison and appears to be having a great time.

 

 

The reports coming from the Florida State Prison have gotten strange indeed. It appears that the Ghost of Ted Bundy has showed up and is terrorizing prison guards and inmates at the prison. A guard who has asked not to be identified says that Bundy’s Ghost appears in the area where he was executed and in his former cell where 

he spent his last hours before being put into Florida’s Electric Chair. Up until the end Bundy tried to save his life by offering to tell where more bodies were buried but in the end they refused to give him any more time and he was executed. Now over the last year reports of his ghost have leaked out of the prison. It is been reported that the Wardens staff have even threatened to fire guards if they spread the story of Teds Ghost being at the prison. It is also rumored that some guards have been scared into quitting their jobs by Bundy’s Ghost. It will be interesting to follow the story and see where it goes.

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The Bell Witch : The tormenting spirit of America’s best-known poltergeist case

By Stephen Wagner, About.com

 

ADAMS, TENNESSEE, in 1817 was the site of one of the most well-known hauntings in American history – so well known that it eventually caught the attention and then the involvement of a future president of the United States.

Known as The Bell Witch, the strange and often violent poltergeist activity that provoked fear and curiosity in the small farming community has remained unexplained for nearly 200 years, and is the inspiration for many fictional ghost stories, including the recent film, The Blair Witch Project. The facts of The Bell Witch case share little in common with the mythology created for The Blair Witch Project, except they both attracted a great deal of public interest. And because it really happened, The Bell Witch is far scarier.

 

The Historical Record

 

One early account of The Bell Witch haunting was written in 1886 by historian Albert Virgil Goodpasture in his History of Tennessee. He wrote, in part:

 

A remarkable occurrence, which attracted wide-spread interest, was connected with the family of John Bell, who settled near what is now Adams Station about 1804. So great was the excitement that people came from hundreds of miles around to witness the manifestations of what was popularly known as the “Bell Witch.” This witch was supposed to be some spiritual being having the voice and attributes of a woman. It was invisible to the eye, yet it would hold conversation and even shake hands with certain individuals. The freaks it performed were wonderful and seemingly designed to annoy the family. It would take the sugar from the bowls, spill the milk, take the quilts from the beds, slap and pinch the children, and then laugh at the discomfiture of its victims. At first it was supposed to be a good spirit, but its subsequent acts, together with the curses with which it supplemented its remarks, proved the contrary. A volume might be written concerning the performance of this wonderful being, as they are now described by contemporaries and their descendants. That all this actually occurred will not be disputed, nor will a rational explanation be attempted.

The Vengeful Ghost

 

What was the Bell Witch? Like most such stories, certain details vary from version to version. But the prevailing account is that it was the spirit of Kate Batts, a mean old neighbor of John Bell who believed she was cheated by him in a land purchase. On her deathbed, she swore that she would haunt John Bell and his descendents. The story is picked up by the Guidebook for Tennessee, published in 1933 by the Federal Government’s Works Project Administration:

 

Sure enough, tradition says, the Bells were tormented for years by the malicious spirit of Old Kate Batts. John Bell and his favorite daughter Betsy were the principal targets. Toward the other members of the family the witch was either indifferent or, as in the case of Mrs. Bell, friendly. No one ever saw her, but every visitor to the Bell home heard her all too well. Her voice, according to one person who heard it, “spoke at a nerve-racking pitch when displeased, while at other times it sang and spoke in low musical tones.” The spirit of Old Kate led John and Betsy Bell a merry chase. She threw furniture and dishes at them. She pulled their noses, yanked their hair, poked needles into them. She yelled all night to keep them from sleeping, and snatched food from their mouths at mealtime.

Andrew Jackson Challenges the Witch

So widely spread was the news about The Bell Witch that people came from hundreds of miles around hoping to hear the spirit’s shrill voice or witness a manifestation of its vile temper. When word of the haunting reached Nashville, one of its most famous citizens, General Andrew Jackson, decided to gather a party of friends and journey to Adams to investigate.

 

The General, who had earned his tough reputation in many conflicts with Native Americans, was determined to confront the phenomenon and either expose it as a hoax or send the spirit away. A chapter in M. V. Ingram’s 1894 book, An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch – considered by many to be the best account of the story – is devoted to Jackson’s visit:

 

Gen. Jackson’s party came from Nashville with a wagon loaded with a tent, provisions, etc., bent on a good time and much fun investigating the witch. The men were riding on horseback and were following along in the rear of the wagon as they approached near the place, discussing the matter and planning how they were going to do up the witch. Just then, traveling over a smooth level piece of road, the wagon halted and stuck fast. The driver popped his whip, whooped and shouted to the team, and the horses pulled with all of their might, but could not move the wagon an inch. It was dead stuck as if welded to the earth. Gen. Jackson commanded all men to dismount and put their shoulders to the wheels and give the wagon a push, but all in vain; it was no go. The wheels were then taken off, one at a time, and examined and found to be all right, revolving easily on the axles. Gen. Jackson after a few moments thought, realizing that they were in a fix, threw up his hands exclaiming, “By the eternal, boys, it is the witch.” Then came the sound of a sharp metallic voice from the bushes, saying, “All right General, let the wagon move on, I will see you again to-night.” The men in bewildered astonishment looked in every direction to see if they could discover from whence came the strange voice, but could find no explanation to the mystery. The horses then started unexpectedly of their own accord, and the wagon rolled along as light and smoothly as ever.

Attack on Jackson?

 

According to some versions of the story, Jackson did indeed encounter The Bell Witch that night:

 

Betsy Bell screamed all night from the pinching and slapping she received from the Witch, and Jackson’s covers were ripped off as quickly as he could put them back on, and he had his entire party of men were slapped, pinched and had their hair pulled by the witch until morning, when Jackson and his men decided to hightail it out of Adams. Jackson was later quoted as saying, “I’d rather fight the British in New Orleans than to have to fight the Bell Witch.”

The Death of John Bell

 

The torment of the Bell house continued for years, culminating in the ghost’s ultimate act of vengeance upon the man she claimed had cheated her: she took responsibility for his death. In October 1820, Bell was struck with an illness while walking to the pigsty of his farm. Some believe that he suffered a stroke, since thereafter he had difficulty speaking and swallowing. In and out of bed for several weeks, his health declined. The Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, tells this part of the story:

 

On the morning of December 19, he failed to awake at his regular time. When the family noticed he was sleeping unnaturally, they attempted to arouse him. They discovered Bell was in a stupor and couldn’t be completely awakened. John Jr. went to the medicine cupboard to get his father’s medicine and noticed it was gone with a strange vial in its place. No one claimed to have replaced the medicine with the vial. A doctor was summoned to the house. The witch began taunting that she had place the vial in the medicine cabinet and given Bell a dose of it while he slept. Contents of the vial were tested on a cat and discovered to be highly poisonous. John Bell died on December 20. “Kate” was quiet until after the funeral. After the grave was filled, the witch began singing loudly and joyously. This continued until all friends and family left the grave site.

The Bell Witch left the Bell household in 1821, saying that she would return in seven years time. She made good on her promise and “appeared” at the home of John Bell, Jr. where, it is said, she left him with prophecies of future events, including the Civil War, and World Wars I and II. The ghost said it would reappear 107 years later – in 1935 – but if she did, no one in Adams came forward as a witness to it.

Some claim that the spirit still haunts the area. On the property once owned by the Bells is a cave, which has since become known as The Bell Witch Cave, and many locals claim to have seen strange apparitions at the cave and at other spots on the property.

 

An Explanation?

 

A few rational explanations of The Bell Witch phenomena have been offered over the years. The haunting, they say, was a hoax perpetrated by Richard Powell, the schoolteacher of Betsy Bell and Joshua Gardner, with whom Betsy was in love. It seems Powell was deeply in love with the young Betsy and would do anything to destroy her relationship with Gardner. Through a variety of pranks, tricks, and with the help of several accomplices, it is theorized that Powell created all of the “effects” of the ghost to scare Gardner away.

 

Indeed, Gardner was the target of much of the witch’s violent taunting, and he eventually did break up with Betsy and left the area. It has never been satisfactorily explained how Powell achieved all these remarkable effects, including paralyzing Andrew Jackson’s wagon. But he did come out the winner. He married Betsy Bell.

 

 

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Ghostly goings-on at the Lizzie Borden B&B

The family home in Fall River, Mass., is a museum by day, a lodge by night. Which is when things can get creepy.

By Jay Jones

 REPORTING FROM FALL RIVER, MASS.

Source : LA Times

 

Karen Zorn and her boyfriend fled their cozy bed-and-breakfast earlier this year. It wasn’t that the place was dirty or the neighbors noisy. Zorn says they grabbed their bags and left for a nearby motel after discovering that, apparently, some of the other guests were ghosts.

The couple had just finished checking in to the B&B in Fall River, Mass., when things started to go awry.

“We went up to the room and it was freezing cold. It was the coldest room in the house by far. And that kind of spooked us out,” she recalls.

 

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. . . .

The rhyme may be good for skipping rope, but it’s not accurate. The historically correct version of events is shared with visitors to the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, a rambling, eight-bedroom manse that doubles as a museum during the daytime, before overnight guests arrive. When it was built in 1845, it was one of the finest homes in Fall River, a then-thriving community known for its textile mills.

During tours, visitors learn that Andrew Borden, a wealthy banker, was struck 10 times. His wife, Sarah, suffered 18 blows. They weren’t delivered by an ax, either; the police thought a broken hatchet found in the basement was the murder weapon. Although Lizzie’s name is infamous as a result of the shocking murders, a jury found her innocent.

Tourists are shown various crime scene photos during their walk through the antebellum house. Using those photographs as a guide, the B&B owners, Lee-Ann Wilber and Donald Woods, have painstakingly restored the home to what it looked like in 1892, when the slayings occurred. They scoured antiques shops throughout New England in search of furnishings that replicate those in the old pictures.

Intrigued by the legendary Lizzie, Zorn first stayed in the former maid’s quarters at the B&B a couple of years ago. Earlier this year, when she saw an auction on EBay for a stay in the room where Lizzie’s mother was found, Zorn couldn’t resist bidding. The stay was for the night of Aug. 4, the 116th anniversary of the murders. A séance to conjure up the spirits of Sarah and Andrew Borden was included.

When the auction closed, the Crofton, Md., woman discovered she had won, with a bid of $405. She now wishes someone else had bid just $1 more.

“As the night wore on, other weird things started happening,” Zorn explains. “At one point, my boyfriend went into the room and he claimed there was a lamp in there rocking back and forth that had turned itself on.”

There was more to come.

“We were sitting in bed talking about the creepy things that had happened. And I said, ‘What do you say if anything else really freaky happens we just get up and leave?’ And he said, ‘OK.’ And just as we said that, the bedroom door swung open.

“We began to scream,” she continues. “Everybody in the house could hear us.” Within minutes, the couple was headed to a nearby Best Western.

Zorn and her boyfriend weren’t the first people to leave prematurely, and they probably won’t be the last, given the home’s reported paranormal activity.

“On a scale of one to 10, I’d say it’s a 10-plus,” says Christopher Moon, a well-known paranormal investigator from Denver. Four weekends a year, Moon conducts “Ghost Hunter University” at the B&B.

“We have full interaction in the Lizzie Borden house,” he adds. “We have the knowledge to communicate with all the spirits there.”

Wilber says she didn’t believe in ghosts before buying the house four years ago. But after many strange occurrences, she doesn’t know what to believe.

“Things have moved on me. I’ve been touched, pushed, poked and prodded,” she says. “To this day, I try to explain some of them and there’s just no possible way.”

The attraction goes well beyond the spooky stories. Detectives, law students and others interested in the celebrated unsolved case are also among the 10,000 people who tour the home each year. Guests leave with differing opinions as to whether Lizzie, who with her younger sister inherited their father’s fortune, got away with murder. Moon says the spirits of Andrew, Lizzie and others have convinced him that although Lizzie didn’t deliver the fatal blows, she wasn’t an innocent bystander either.

“Lizzie was definitely one of the people involved, but it wasn’t just one person,” he says. “There was a group involved in the murder.”

 

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