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Location: Rycroft, Alberta, Canada
The following report was sent into our website by Peg on February 12, 2015:
“I am a ghost magnet. I have three stories to tell.
When I was small my family had lots of land but little money so the community came together to help provide a home for us. An old hall and an old church were torn down for lumber to build our house. My family grew up with tea pots that brewed on their own, dishes that floated from cupboard to sink. And Jimmy. He was invisible to our parents and knew how to play pranks by hiding things. We would watch him shred a suit in the closet without anyone near. When my sister was born he decided the place was crowded and left.
As a teen my brother and I often helped on neighbors’ farms to get the harvest in on time. One neighbor had built a home on the property that used to be school land. No other building was ever built there. Shortly after construction was finished an old man was often seen in the yard. The neighbor paid no attention to this as there were older people in the area who would often walk fences looking for breaks. One day the owner was surprised to find an old man in his kitchen and called to him, asking if he would like to stay for coffee. The old man turned around and the neighbor saw that the man’s clothes were all torn up and bleeding and the old man disappeared. Later we found out that many years previous, a man had disappeared when he was out hunting a bear that had attacked his cows. This event happened in Blueberry Mnt. community.
Shortly after my divorce I bought a trailer that had been listed as non-habitable by the town. The previous owners had been known drug users and the place was trashed. As I renovated and brought the place back up to code there was a series of odd events. The front door would open and close on its own. I changed the door frame and installed new locks, it still opened and closed on its own. I did not own a dog and yet dog food dishes would keep appearing near the back door and neighborhood dogs would often run up to the door after it opened by itself as if to greet someone only they could see. When I moved into the place I chose the larger bedroom. After a few weeks I moved to the other one because the room would suddenly get cold, even in summer. I would often awake in the middle of the night because the living room rug would be thrown at me while I slept. Canned food would get moved in my kitchen and the stove would turn on by itself. Always the burner on the right. I found out that a young man had overdosed in the house and that burner was the one he had used to heat knives with. There is more to this story, but it makes me sad to tell it. I sold the place and the new owner has had similar experiences. She is a senior and owns a dog, she says she does not mind sharing with a ghost.”
Location: Santa Monica, California, USA
Type: hotel
Built: 1933
Article by: Michelle McKay
Photo: edited, original from Jelson25/Wikipedia
Located at 1415 Ocean Avenue, this hotel sits along Route 66 in Los Angeles County. At one time it was called The Lady Windemere, and is said to have catered to Hollywood studio executives and famous personalities such as Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Bugsy Siegel, Fatty Arbuckle, Oliver Stone, Robert DeNiro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others.
It is said that employees, and guests, have reported hearing “loud sighs” in the “Speakeasy Restaurant” during closing hours when it was empty. Also reported was an unknown voice that says “Good Morning” in the restaurant, and the sound of “running footsteps” have also been heard in the restaurant. Transparent apparitions have also been reportedly seen at the same restaurant.
One guest wrote on tripadvisor.ca that there have been so many reports of hauntings at this hotel that the front desk staff spent 15 minutes telling him about their ghostly experiences here, along with what other guests have reported.
WARNING: Do not trespass! Permission from the location owner must be granted to investigate this location!
If you have experienced any activity at this hotel, or at any other location anywhere else in the world, please tell us about it here
Sources:
examiner.com/article/a-ghost-story-at-the-georgian-hotel-santa-monica
legendsofamerica.com/ca-georgianhotel.html
tripadvisor.ca
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The following report was sent into our website by Laura on December 31, 2014:
“Back in 2003, my husband and I moved into a beautiful 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in another building in our complex, as our son had just turned a year old, and we needed more space. It is a great older complex, only three stories high, with a secluded courtyard in the middle for residents. This new apartment offered everything we needed; it was two stories, with the bedrooms and larger bath being on the second floor, and we loved it from the day we moved in.
Within the first few weeks, we noticed an odd feeling at night upstairs, especially when laying in bed trying to fall asleep. It felt like someone was “watching” you at all times; there was just that uneasy, uncomfortable feeling that you were not alone. Though neither of us talked about it at that time, we later came to find out we were both experiencing the same feelings.
Then, odd things started to happen – when sitting downstairs in the living room, you would hear footsteps right above you (in what is the master bedroom). We chalked this up to it being an old apartment building; with creaky floors, and other tenants beside us, it could be just the floor settling or something like that. But then we started to hear deliberate steps upstairs – the exact same sound as when an actual person crosses the rooms. This was harder to explain away.
Next came the issues with the shower; it is an old building, and with that comes I am sure lots of plumbing issues. But we started hearing the shower upstairs turn on – when everyone was on the lower floor. When we would walk up the stairs, and get to the bathroom door – it would shut off. We figured it must be the plumbing – maybe pressure in the pipes, etc – so we called the building manager to come take a look. To this day, they cannot find anything wrong with that shower, and have replaced all parts repeatedly; but it continues to turn on and off, and only when nobody is upstairs; but as soon as you walk up the staircase, it shuts off.
There is also an ongoing feeling of not being alone in the bathroom when showering – you hear shuffling noises outside the curtain, or see shadows, but as soon as you open the curtain to look – it stops.
Many times, we see things move in the corner of your vision; always in your peripheral – it looks like something darts quickly away. This happens a lot when sitting in the living room – you will catch movement at the top of the stairs, almost as if someone/something was at the top step, and quickly went back up.
After about a year living here, we would be falling asleep and just about to drift off, when you feel like someone yells “HEY!” really loud in your ear. This happens to both my husband and myself, but never at the same time. We will be laying right beside each other, but the other person will not hear it too – but it happens to both of us, on a regular basis. There have been rarer occasions where both of us have heard someone whisper our first names in our ear (again, never loud enough for the other person to hear), but each of us have experienced it, and the voice is very clear and easy to understand.
Other times, when laying in bed, you will get woken up – immediately from deep sleep – to absolutely wide awake – like when a person is awoken by a loud noise. You will lay there, heart pounding, frantically listening for whatever woke you – but there is nothing.
Both my husband and I have also had our legs and feet touched when laying in bed – either when falling asleep, or just as you are drifting off – it feels like someone smacks your leg, from near the foot of the bed – not hard enough to hurt you, but enough to get your attention.
From the time my son turned two years old, he started having trouble sleeping through the night. He would wake up in a panic, and scream for us – we would run to his room (only a few feet from our own), and he would be hysterically crying. After calming him down, he would refuse to tell us what was wrong – but would instead want to come sleep with us. This went on for a few months, before he finally told us what was scaring him at night – he said “I don’t like the scary man that stands in the hallway”.
After talking at length with him, he shared with us that he sees an “old man”, who “stands outside his bedroom door looking at him”.
Being an early childhood educator, I did not want to dismiss his fears, but I also wanted to look at the whole situation, to see if there was any other reasons for what my son was feeling (bad dreams, overactive imagination, stress or anxiety, etc). But nothing else, no other explanation, ever emerged; and to this day (he is now 12 years old), he is adamant that not only did he see this man, but he saw him on a regular basis in the years since.
When he first shared his experience with us, my husband and I had not talked about our experiences around our son, nor had we talked about ghosts in general with him. So when all three of us had experienced separate unusual events, we started to think our home may have spirits.
So that night, while my husband took my son out, I stood in his bedroom, and said “I don’t know who you are, or if you are here – but my name is Laura, and this is OUR home. You are NOT allowed to bother my son – this is HIS home, and you are not allowed to scare him, show yourself to him, enter his bedroom, stand in that hallway, or make him uncomfortable in any way. Whether or not you were trying to scare him – you are – and it stops NOW.”.
When my family returned home, we performed a smudge of our whole home (my husband is Sioux), and of ourselves. One night when my husband’s cousin was over visiting, we started telling him about what had been happening, and our experiences. He is deeply involved in their Sioux culture, and had a lot of knowledge about situations like this. After listening to everything we shared, he believed we were dealing with a “Trickster” spirit, who was basically playing games with us, with the intent of causing pranks/drama. He also pointed out that in a complex of this size, and this old, there were bound to be many people who had passed away in this building; and some of their spirits may still be here. Which could also explain why the activity comes and goes on a regular basis – they could be wandering throughout the complex. He recommended that we continue what we were doing – claim our home verbally, with intent and forcefulness, and continue to smudge on a regular basis.
I have spoken with a few neighbours over the years about it, and they too have had unexplained experiences in their apartments, on a consistent yet not every day basis.
Over the years, we find the activity kicks up every few months, and when it becomes a regular occurrence, we smudge again, and verbally claim our home. This seems to help, and makes the activity lesson. We still get the voice/breathing in our ears at night, hear footsteps, have the shower turn on and off, see shadows dart in the corner of your vision, and feel like you are being “watched”; but it has never escalated beyond that, and we do not feel like something here means us any harm. We are still here after 11 years, and have no plans of leaving based on the paranormal experiences we encounter.
And as our son has grown older, we have kept open lines of communication about it all; making sure he knows he can share any feelings or experiences with us, and that we will tackle them as a family.”
NOTE FROM MICHELLE MCKAY: Everything that this family is doing to keep the activity relatively calm is right on target, bravo to this family!! For those having difficulty with troublesome spirits please see my article here.
Michelle talks about what it was like to grow up with her pioneer UFOlogist Uncle, her exorcism, and her paranormal bloodline including Freemasonry.
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Location: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
The following report was sent into our website by Ivan on Nov 7, 2014:
“I’m interested in paranormal activities and like to investigate about it!. So I planned to go to some most haunted houses and investigate.
It was hard to get permission to enter a haunted house because people here in Pakistan take it very seriously if something is concerned with paranormal activity. But somehow I struggled and I finally got the permission. So I told my friends about what I was about to do. I was glad to investigate because my friends volunteered too. So we set off on 2nd Nov. 2014 which was Sunday.
Now this house is located 8 miles away from the city, so it was indeed in a very quite place. So we had arrived there and my seven friends Reynold, Sunny, Nathan, Asad, Vivek, Jennifer and Daisy were ready to go inside it. Unfortunately we had no equipment to catch the evidence there. All I had was a camera to take pictures. Even though all of us had torches it was still very hard to see where we were walking.
It was pitch black in there. The owner of the house told us that “There were about 29 spirits in that house and who ever came to investigate about it died inside and were never found”. This fact was giving me chills the whole time we were investigating!..This was the first time that I ever investigated, so it was a very weird feeling for me because I could clearly feel that there is something inside that is uncomfortable with our presence.
We could clearly hear voices of a female screaming and laughing, and these voices scared the hell out of me. Not only voices, but we were physically attacked too. One of my friends started nose bleeding, the others felt very heavy and spiritually disturbed.
I did not encounter any of those 29 spirits except for one whom I came face to face with was a female. It was said about her that she was abnormal and that she was murdered in that house, and since then she had been haunting it.
I clicked a picture too which I believe has something to say because in that picture I saw something right in front of me (see photo above). But it was faded, and without the camera flash and torches I could see her in front of my eyes like a dark shadow, even though it was complete black out. I was alone in the room.
My friends also could hear the same things and the same happenings inside the house which was terrifying for them because it was their first ever experience too.
By the end of the investigation at 5am there was one creepy moment which scared all of us, and which made us go out of the house when we were on the second floor. This was a double-story house, and on the top were bedrooms, at least 5 of them. We split up and started investigating, but there was nothing there so when we regrouped there was a bang on the ground floor — so loud that we remained silent for like 5 mins to see if that happens again, and indeed it did. But this time it sounded like heavy footsteps due to which the wooden floor was squeaking and we heard those footsteps clearly climbing the stairs and coming towards us which made my friends panic so much they didn’t wanted to stay in that house any more. So I, unwillingly, decided to end the investigation there. Although I felt that it was incomplete and yet there was so much to discover there. But I could not risk my friends.
This investigation was an event that I’ll remember forever, and I’ll soon make a documentary too!.. thank you”
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