West Michigan Ghost Hunters Society

Haunted hotels' ghost stories can be good for business

By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY

Ygnacio Salinas says he won't forget his brush with a ghost in a Marriott hotel room in Minneapolis during a business trip three years ago.

Sitting alone on a bed working on his laptop, he saw a man more than 6 feet tall wearing a fedora and a long coat. "I did a double-take, and he was gone," says Salinas, who lives in Yorba Linda, Calif., and consults for a computer manufacturer.

Haunted home offered on eBay

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - For sale, just in time for Halloween, one haunted house. Inquire within if you dare.

The owner of the haunted home in the remote town of Cuchillo in southwestern New Mexico has actually listed it on eBay.

College Student Says He Performed Exorcism In Dorm

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ROME, Ga. -- Officials at a north Georgia college are investigating a possible exorcism.

A student at Berry College near Rome claimed he cast the devil out of a former student.The alleged exorcism happened in late September in a dorm room.

Archaeologists find new prehistoric site

LONDON – Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.

Researchers have dubbed the site "Bluehenge," after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared but the path of holes remains.

Dead' woman wakes up in morgue

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An 84-year-old Polish woman woke up in a hospital morgue after being declared dead by her doctor.

The error was noticed only when someone saw her body bag in the morgue moving, police said.

The ghost ship of Lake Erie

Examiner.com

On December 7th 1941 the Japanese struck the American Naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, an attack that sent both nations headlong into a bloody and culturally changing conflict.

However there was another maritime tragedy that took place on the same date some 32 years earlier.

On December 7th 1909 the at 11 a.m., the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, a 350-foot-long steel-hulled car ferry, left the port of Conneaut, Ohio with a cargo of rail cars filled to the brim with coal. The heavy laden ship headed north, bound for Port Stanley, Ontario. A notable passanger onboard the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was Albert Weis of Erie, the treasurer of the Keystone Fish Company. Weis carried $32,000 in a leather briefcase in order to purchase a Port Stanley fishery for his employers at the Fish Company.

Lake Erie has a long history of being one of the most trecherous of the Great Lake, with powerful storms
seemingly to appear out of nowhere.

Caught on camera: Is this eerie caveman image Britain's oldest ghost?

Mail Online.com

Britain's oldest ghost appears to have been caught on camera at the country's most ancient inhabited site.

The 'spook' was snapped in a prehistoric cave at Kent's Cavern in Torquay, Devon, looming from a wall and surrounded by an eerie mist.

Photograph attached.

Clooney hires psychic to contact dead pig

Examiner.com

Some people have dogs. Some people have cats. Others prefers small mammals like gerbils and mice. Still others need to stay away from fur, and so they get aquariums populated with fish.
And then there was George Clooney, who famously preferred pigs.

Well, not just pigs in general, but his pet pig, a 280-pound Vietnamese black bristled, pot-bellied pig named Max.

Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron

MyStrangeBlog.com

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes.

The researchers located what they believe to be caribou-hunting structures and camps used by the early hunters of the period.

Burglar: I was held captive by ghost for 3 days

MSNBC.com

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A burglar who broke into a house claims he was held captive by a "supernatural figure" for three days without food and water, officials said.