Angels and Demons-coming next week! :)

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback last week. Looks like everyone agrees, Angels and Demons it. is. I'm going to have to push it to next week because I'm house sitting for a friend this week and their Internet is spotty. I'm really looking forward to blogging about this topic, I hope you are all looking forward to reading about it!

Weekly News Round-up 7/25/12

This week in the paranormal...

The Denve Channel posted a photograph taken at a vigil for the recent shooting in Colorado. Many believe the photo shows a cloud in the shape of an angel. You can see it here and judge for yourself.

The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on cult healers being funded my Medicare here.

The Huffington Post recently posted a flyer distrubuted by a religious group outside of Comic-con. The flyer lists hobies that could lead to demonic possession including vegetarianism, LOTR, Video games, and Twilight films (just to name a few.) Perhaps you should check out the list yourself and see how many things you can check off. The article is here.

Paranormal Themes

It's been awhile since I've done a theme week on this blog. Here's a few topics i'm thinking about focusing on next week. Let me know which one sounds like the most fun/interesting. I may do some extra posts,polls and things to go with the theme (once i've decided what it is.)

1. Angels and demons
2.Ghosts
3.Cryptids
4.Aliens
5.Psychic phenomenon

or write in your own topic if there's something not on the list. Thanks for your feedback!

Weekly News Round-up 7/18/12

Strange creatures dominated the paranormal world this week.

The River Journal posted a short article about cryptids in the Northwest here.

There's an article about the Missouri version of bigfoot, Momo, here.

Millions of tiny mysterious creatures have been washing ashore in Hawaii. You can read about it here.

UFO's

When I was in high school, I saw something strange in the sky. It was Superbowl Sunday and I went outside with a friend after the game. There was this really bright light in the sky so we started watching it. At first we thought it was a star, until it moved. It flew right over us. It was some sort of oval/triangular aircraft. Two more just like it followed shortly after.

This is a rough sketch of what they looked like

It was pretty interesting but I’m almost certain it was some sort of government aircraft. There’s a large airforce base close to where I live and it isn’t uncommon to see various odd planes around. Usually, though, I see them during the day. This was at night. I’ve always wondered if there was something to what we saw in the sky that night.

So I’m curious, have any of you ever seen something unfamiliar in the sky?

Weekly News Round-up 7/11/12

This might be my favorite news headline ever:

This just in: Mermaids are NOT real, U.S. agency says

A government agency was flooded with calls from concerned citizens after Animal Planet aired a found footage style movie that claimed the body of a mermaid had been found. You can read the article here.

There's a short video on the Mothman posted here.

A ranger discusses reports of Bigfoor sightings he's taking over the years. You can read it here.

Ghost Encounters

One of my paranormal group's members has been hard at work putting together a web show from some of our teams investigations. The show is called Ghost Encounters. If you want to check out some video from one of our recent ghost hunts at a haunted rectory click here. The show is posted in four parts. I hope you enjoy it. Hopefully some more episodes will be coming up in the future!

Happy Monday!

Happy 4th of July!

There will be no round-up this week as I'm taking the day off the celebrate the holiday! Happy 4th to all my American friends (and anyone else who feels like celebrating!)

Ghost Story

There have been several times in my life where I’ve seen ghosts. It’s a hard experience to describe, because there’s really nothing like it. Today, I’m going to share one of those experiences.

I went with another group member to scout a site we thought might be haunted. We like to look at places in advance to make plans for our investigations. As we pulled up, there was one of those little ticket booths where people collect money for parking. I noticed a lady sitting in the booth so as we slowly drove up the driveway, I started rolling down my window.

The person driving asked me what I was doing. “I’m rolling down my window to give some money to the lady,” I said.

His response? “What lady?”

As soon as he said it I turned and looked. We had just pulled up to the ticket booth-and no one was in it!

I didn’t want to look completely crazy so I started looking around, thinking maybe she had stepped out or ducked down. “The lady in the booth,” I said in defense. “She was wearing a red shirt.” But the more I searched the more I realized there was no way someone could have left without us knowing. The booth was tiny and in a large open area.

To this day I have no idea who the woman was. I just hope she isn’t stuck working in a ticket booth for eternity.