The Horror of MOMO
05 March 2019 | G. Michael Vasey's Nightmare Corner, Ghosts in the news, Your True Encounters
By now, everyone has heard of the Momo challenge? It’s a ghost story that has caught on across social media and was widely shared by worried and concerned parents. It is, however, according to Forbes, …. just a hoax that followed a real YouTube controversy which highlighted the issue of child safety on that site. Matt Watson, a former YouTube creator, uncovered a series of predatory comments featured on videos of children on the streaming giant. According to Watson, this exposed a “wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring on YouTube.” Watson’s expose prompted a flood of media attention, followed by an advertiser exodus. In response, YouTube restricted commenting on millions of videos and adjusted its recommendation algorithm to limit the reach of videos containing predatory comments. Momo is an imaginative response to a perfectly valid fear; of mysterious,
Read More »Is This her Dead Son Visiting? Caught on Security System?
16 January 2019 | Evidence?, Ghosts in the news, Haunted houses, Your Stories, Your True Encounters
I’m always on the lookout for evidence and I have to say that so far, this particular story has my interest. A Mother and Daughter at home last week, watching TV in the bedroom. She checked her phone she saw a notification that there said, “Your entryway camera saw someone.” Attached to the message was an image from the camera that seemed to show a transparent, bearded male figure in what look like pajamas. While that is enough to freak anyone out, what they realized next truly left them shook up – the person in the picture looked exactly like the son and brother of the Mum and daughter, who died two in 2016 at the age of 23. Here are the Mum’s twitter post and the picture from that
Read More »Haunted Hotel Congress Plaza, Chicago
10 January 2019 | Creepy places, Evidence?, Haunted locations
The Congress Hotel in Chicago is featured in my book “Motel Hell“. It has a strong reputation for being haunted. Here are a couple of videos that take you around some of the most haunted areas of the hotel and show you the locked rooms……. It looks creepy!
Read More »Is This A Ghost?
09 January 2019 | Creepy places, Evidence?, Ghost hunting, Haunted locations
A ghost hunter in Edmonton took this video of an abandoned hospital. What is that? A ghost? An urban explorer? A homeless person? And you can see the orignal story here….
Read More »MUM CAPTURES HORRIFYING PARANORMAL FIGURE ON VIDEO CHAT TO BEST FRIEND
13 December 2018 | Evidence?, Ghosts in the news, Haunted houses, Haunted locations
This story and video from StoryTrender certainly gave me the creeps. – Here is the first part of the article and you SHOULD watch the video…… it’s wild! Mum-of-four Lori Simmons was video chatting last Friday [NOVEMBER 30] on an app called Marco Polo, which allows users to record videos to each other in real time. The 47-year-old from Yakima, Washington, USA, said she had just woken up and was chatting with her best friend Shana Thomas – but was left horrified when Shana asked if there was somebody in the house with her. Lori – who claims to have been home alone at the time – said her ‘heart stopped’ after she replayed the chilling footage and witnessed a dark figure dash in and out behind her while
Read More »Interview with Paul Dale Roberts, HPI’s Esoteric Detective Halo Paranormal Investigations
05 December 2018 | Ghostbusters, Ghosts in the news
Interviewed by: G. Michael Vasey Paul Dale Roberts (left) is a ghost hunter…. After a career as varied as being in the military to dancing, Paul Dale Roberts became a paranormal investigator in 2004 and with over a thousand investigations under his belt and over a thousand paranormal articles he has written lead him to be in 8 documentaries. From History Channel’s Monsterquest (Mothman episode) to Conversations of a Serial Killer by Two Four Productions to Showtime’s Penn & Teller Bullshxt – Mayan Prophesy of 2012 to 3 Biography Channel’s My Ghost Stories to Mysteries of Angels and Demons by Ives Street Entertainment to Michael Jackson: You are not Alone/In Search of his Spirit. His full biography can be read here. We reached out to Paul Dale Roberts to feature him
Read More »Dashcam Captures a haunting Figure
12 April 2018 | Bizarre, Ghosts in the news, Haunted locations, Your True Encounters
A few newspapers are reporting the emergence of a strange and haunting video in which a driver is navigating a windy road in the early hours of the morning. They come across a woman walking along the side of the road and simply navigate around her. Then it gets really weird. As they continue around the twists and turns of the road, they meet the very same figure several more times until finally, the figure blocks their path and they make a hurried u turn and getaway. It’s a haunting piece of video…
Read More »The Haunted Clown Motel? It’s Real… Apparently!
05 April 2018 | Bizarre, Your Stories
If you’re not a fan of clowns, the Clown Motel might not be the place for you. But if you’re a horror lover, then it might just be your next must-see attraction. The Clown Motel is located in Tonopah, Nevada, and even better: It’s rumored to be haunted… As The Huffington Post explains, it’s literally decked out in clowns. The front office filled with clown figurines, and every room is clown-themed. “There are clowns on the doors, and portraits of famous clowns hang on the walls,” they share. Oh yeah—the motel also sits right next to a graveyard. Uh… Yeah. Terrifying. “Head clown” Bob Perchetti and his wife, Deborah, purchased the hotel in 1996. We’re not sure we’ll be crashing there anytime soon… But we’re not going to lie: It’s tempting. You’ll just have to read the Yelp
Read More »Yes – There is a dating site for ghosts!
03 April 2018 | Ghosts in the news, Your True Encounters
Just recently, the news has been full of lurid stories of sex with ghosts. A couple of women even said they preferred their ghostly lovers to real men! So, it should come as no surprise that there is now a dating site to find your true ghost love – your soul mate…… It’s called ghostsingles.com – go take a look…… Vampires and undead are not wanted there apparently – just dead people.
Read More »Terrifying Hauntings At RAF Binbrook, England
01 March 2018 | Haunted, Your Stories
The former officer’s mess at RAF Binbrook has been giving ghost-hunters a fright for decades – and now a reporter has been to see what all the fuss is about. Plenty will dismiss talk of ghosts as nonsense – but there are many out there who either believe, or want to. And after spending a night there with a team of ghost-hunters, it’s easy to see why people are so interested in this location. Known for all manner of paranormal activity, the base in East Lindsey is perhaps most famous for the tale of Clubfoot. Two variations of the same story basic exist. Some say it was the nickname given to an Australian worker on the base, which closed in the 90s, who blew himself up when trying to sabotage
Read More »Ghostly Goings On In Bradford
10 January 2018 | Bizarre, Ghost Hunting, Your True Encounters
A shop in Bradford, England is under investigation after a number of strange and terrifying disturbances. Craft Market in Darley St.is frustrating its owners who come in in the morning to find drawers tipped out, shelves emptied and things moved around. “One night I put a heavy clothes rail full of items in a room and locked the door. The following day it was in a different room. I know for a fact I locked the door.Things happen pretty regularly and we have CCTV footage of strange lights which we have been told are orbs,: said Mrs. Naylor one of the owners according to Telegraph & Argus newspaper. The door alarm goes off on its own and a customer has seen a ghostly dog and woman at the shop. One
Read More »That’s Another Fine Mess You Got Me Into…..
08 January 2018 | Evidence?, Ghosts in the news, Haunted, Your Stories
British newspapers are carrying a story about the ghosts of Stan Laurel (of Laurel & Hardy fame). Mickey Vermooch of Scarborough claims to have met and talked to the spirit of Mr. Laurel in the derelict King’s Cinema in Bishop Auckland in Country Durham, England. He also claims to have photographic proof of the encounter. According to the Daily Star, he described ‘Stan’s voice as gentle and claimed the comic smelled of Macassar oil, a hair-styling product popular in Victorian times. He said: ‘Stan said he was at peace and told me, “This is where I had my happy times. This is where I belong”.’ Here is the photograph….. You can catch the full story here. What do you think?
Read More »Riderless Motorbike Caught on Camera
04 January 2018 | Bizarre, Ghosts in the news, Your True Encounters
What do you all make of this? As reported by Britain’s Mirror newspaper(?), video footage has emerged of a riderless motorcycle moving along a highway at night. Is it ghostrider? Or something else?
Read More »The Phoenix Poltergeist
30 December 2017 | Ghosts in the news, Poltergeist, Your Stories, Your True Encounters
A word scrawled on the bathroom wall in Hebrew – translated into English it says DANGER! That was the beginning of a truly paranormal Christmas for a family in Phoenix, AZ this year. Next, things began to move around in the kitchen and the family awoke to find all of the cupboards and drawers open. Then both bathrooms flooded. “For the past few days our house that my grandfather, aunt, two cousins and myself have been living in has been ‘acting up,’ ” Rudy Calderon wrote on his Facebook on Christmas Eve. “We have been hearing noises, objects appear out of nowhere, they move around and yesterday all of our kitchen cabinets were left open. All doors were locked so no one could have gotten in and we tried to
Read More »Caught On Camera?
20 December 2017 | Evidence?, Ghosts in the news, Haunted houses, Your True Encounters
Stephen Lee set up a camera to watch his dogs and might just have captured something altogether different. Take a look and let us know what you think? Of course, the video has been picked up by several mainstream media outlets as well in recent days. Apparently, the room overlooks a back garden and so there are no car lights or anything to cause these anomalies and, just to make things creepier, his home was once used as a hospital!
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