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Thursday, December 25, 2008

10 years anniversary HotGhost.com

Currently HotGhost.com new web contents are in background construction and will be moving to the new web hosting which provides more functionality such as guestbook, dynamic content, web board, and etc. Hope you all enjoy with the new HotGhost.com in Jan 2009.

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Paulding Light



The Paulding Light (also called the Lights of Paulding or the Dog Meadow Light) is a mysterious light that appears outside of Paulding near Watersmeet, Michigan. The light appears to hover and move along a power line right of way. The colors shift continuously - red and white are the most common although green and blue have been reported. It does not appear every night and the fullness and brightness of the moon has no play on whether it will appear or not. As of late paranormal researchers are becoming more and more skeptical of the mysterious light, advocating that the light is nothing more than reflected headlights off of a recently expanded highway.

While the story surrounding the phenomenon asserts that the lights have been visible since the turn of the century, the first documented sighting was by a group of teenagers in 1966.


Possible Explanations


There are many popular explanations for the cause of the phenomenon; theories include ball lightning, radioactive gas, anomalies in the earth's magnetic field, glowing plasma, or swamp gas. Skeptics assert that the light is nothing more than headlights in the distance. Similar explanations have been advanced for some of the Hessdalen lights.

Others believe that the paranormal has a hand in the lights origin. One popular paranormal tale describes the ghost of a brakeman killed in the nineteenth century as the cause. Alternative paranormal theories include UFO's and other ghosts.

Several amateur studies have been conducted, all of them concluding that the lights are indeed the result of the mid-1960s rerouting of US 45, giving the viewing spot a slightly angled view of sporadic traffic along the new highway. The colors then match headlights, tail lights, and the warning lights of the occasional emergency vehicle. Proponents of supernatural explanations discount these studies, claiming that the lights studied in these cases are not, in fact, the actual Lights of Paulding.

Another popular paranormal explanation is the ghost of a mailman, who was carrying out the mail about 60 years ago in the northwoods with a dogsled. Because the mail was running late public authorities were looking for the missing mailman and found him and his dogs dead on the spot where nowadays the Paulding Light is observed.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paulding_Light

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Origins of Ghost Hunting

Pliny the Younger recorded what has been regarded as the first story of a ghost hunt in 100 AD. The story was already a century old when Pliny told it, and concerns a haunted house in ancient Athens being investigated by a philosopher named Athenodoros Cananites.

The Ghost Club, founded in London in 1862, is believed to be the oldest paranormal research organization in the world. Famous members of the club have included Charles Dickens, Sir William Crookes, Sir William Fletcher Barrett and Harry Price.


Early "ghost hunter" Harry Price


In the mid 1880's, William James, philosopher and founder of the American Psychological Association and brother of Henry James suggested applying scientific method to paranormal questions such as the existence of ghosts or spirits. He found allies in England such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Cambridge philosopher Henry Sidgwick and his wife, Eleanor, Edmund Gurney, and others to form the core of the Society for Psychical Research to collect evidence concerning apparitions, haunted houses, and similar phenomena. The investigators gathered case studies, attended séances, designed tests of claimants' veracity, and ran what came to be known as the Census of Hallucinations, which counted apparitions of persons who were said to have made spectral appearances on the day they died.

Similar investigation into hauntings was undertaken by Harry Price through London's National Laboratory of Psychical Research during the 1920s, and later in the 1950s and 60s by American independent researchers such as Hans Holzer and Ed and Lorraine Warren. Other paranormal and parapsychological investigators like Loyd Auerbach, Christopher Chacon and William Roll were each independently conducting field and laboratory investigations in the 1970s and 80s, long before reality TV cast a spotlight onto this subject matter.

Ghost hunting among part-time hobbyists began to be popular in the late 1970s with the founding of the Chicago area Ghost Tracker’s Club, which became the Ghost Research Society (GRS) in 1981. The popularity of the Ghostbusters movie of 1984 may have boosted the proliferation of such "ghost clubs".

In the last decade, the term "paranormal investigation" has increasingly been adopted by hobbyist and professional groups who do not investigate any other aspects of the paranormal such as Extra-sensory perception and Psychokinesis, but whose sole purpose is ghost hunting.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_hunting

Sunday, March 30, 2008

REAL GHOST MAKES DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE LIVING

This clip I found on YouTube.com, caption from source below.

"Here in this clip our invesigators captured an entity which was viewed as a swirling ball of energy with two shafts of light reaching out from top to bottom. It appeared to possess intelligence and reacted to the investigators presence before moving away to the right very quickly. Judge for yourself."




Source : http://haunted-earth.org/h/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3ZJAXA1QA

Ghost History

Whether we choose to believe or not in ghosts and spirits, there is no denying that we only have to look through history to find a wide range of spooky encounters.

In the 1st century AD, a ghost was reported to haunt a house in Athens belonging to Pliny the Younger. According to Pliny the ghost would rattle chains and take the form of an old man with a beard.

The first poltergeist was recorded in 856AD at a farmhouse on the banks of the River Rhine in Germany. The spirit tormented the family by throwing stones, banging on walls and making fires. Even when several priests armed with holy relics came to visit, it sent them packing with a hale of stones.

Sightings of spectral armies after key English Civil War battles were reported in contemporary sources, similar accounts also came from Gettysburg, The Somme and Gallipoli.

The last two hundred years has seen a huge increase of interest in science but also in the spirit world. It seems that no matter how much we progress, we have a natural interest in ghosts.

Source: http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/paranormal/spirit_world/history/index.shtml

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Basic ghost photography

Twenty helpful tips:

1.
Ghosts are not just in haunted old buildings. Ghosts are almost everywhere in one form or another. So don't be afraid to take photos at the mall or out on a busy intersection at night, or anywhere else for that matter.

2. When you take photos at night, let's say in a cemetery etc. make sure you have you camera set for night filming. If your camera has this setting, please use it otherwise your photos might come out to dark or fuzzy.

3. Always take photos of something and not just a clearing. Having a background image such as a tombstone, tree, building etc., It adds to the quality of the photo and allows mild light reflection for best possible results.

4. Take lots of pictures! Takes photos of anything & everything with a good background image. The odds are good that you will capture an anomaly if you take at least 50 pictures on your hunt. Then again, you might just get some great stuff on your first roll, you just never know.

5. When taking your photos, make sure to avoid shinny surfaces. The shine from a glossy tombstone or pane of glass etc. can cause anomalies that can appear to look like ghost mist, fog & orb shapes. Oh, and never try taking photos through a glass window. It's just to easy to create shapes that aren't really there. Not worth wondering if it was created from the glass or not. Old glass is the worst.

6. Make sure your camera lens is clean at all times. Again, this can cause anomaly type images to appear. If the lens has a smudge it can easily show up on several pictures and can look like an anomaly, so look for that sign. Try to always keep your lens spotless.

7. Make sure you know where your camera strap & lens cover are at all times. These can appear as a vortex or other ghostly images if left to dangle free from the camera. If your thumb or finger is in the way of the lens it can cause this same effect.

8.
Make sure long hair is tied back. Hair can also appear as a ghostly anomaly. Strains of hair can look like orbs in motion as well as ghost energy.

9. Completely avoid taking photos when conditions are windy, foggy, rainy, dusty and where it's snowing or when moisture is in the air. All of these conditions can cause images to appear that look exactly like orbs and ghostly anomalies.

10. In cold weather make sure your breath is not affecting the photo results. Exhaled air in cold weather can appear in front of the lens to create all sorts of strange elusions including mist & orbs shapes.

11. A condition called "Lens Flair" produces strange effects in your photos. To avoid this do not take photos in the direction of the sun. Also, never take a picture in the direction of any direct light source. Preferably have all light sources away from you or even behind you when snapping your photos.

12. Talk to the ghosts. When you enter an area that you want to photograph, such as a cemetery, follow these steps: Walk around the area for about 15 minutes before doing anything else. As you're walking around, clear your mind and think only good thoughts. (Ghosts can sense your feelings and read your thoughts) After 15 minutes, recite the following statement or something similar. "Hi, my name is ______, We have come here to take some pictures of you as ghosts in order to show & document that there is life after death. We have only the best of intentions. We are not here to do any harm and we will only be here long enough to take our photos and then we will leave. Our only request is to take a picture of you, any of you! Thank you so much. I'll begin taking pictures now......thanks. Take all the pictures you think you need to and start heading back to your car. On the way, stop one last time and say: We are leaving now, just in case I didn't get any pictures of you on film can I take just 5 more pictures of this monument (or whatever) and would one of you mind posing for me in these very last photos? Take five more photos and then say: Thank you so much for putting up with me & my group.....we enjoyed being here in your company and am grateful for any photos you have allowed us to have of you..........thanks again, bye. If you were able to get some good pictures and you proved your good intentions to the ghosts.....then you will be welcomed back on your return visit. :)

13. Most ghost energy will appear in the air from two to ten feet above the ground. So focus a portion of your attention at that level but don't limit yourself totally to it. Ghostly phenomena can and will also appear above your head at times so be sure and snap some random shots up above at times. Note: in a buildings they can appear at any level of the structure and at any height.

14. The odds of encountering an evil spirit are slim to none but here is the counsel concerning them. Don't go hunting for evil spirits and DO NOT dare them to come around. If you hear or see a sign of evil spirits you should leave immediately.

15. Avoid mirrors or even taking photos in the general direction of a mirror. The camera flash can create a flash in the mirror that can produce a variety of effects including vapor, mist & fog.

16. Try following your instincts when taking ghost photos. If you have a particular inclination to snap a photo in a particular direction or at a particular object, do it. Trust your feelings an as you do, your abilities to sense ghosts should increase.

17. Ghosts are quite often attracted to people and will follow them around. So include people in the photos you take. Tip: When taking photos of others try to include enough space to one side of the picture and above the heads of those in the photo to capture any anomalies present. Remember the purpose is to catch anomalies and people together in the same photo. Here's another trick to use when ghosts might be following you around......put the camera over your shoulder and snap a picture behind you. This can be an effective technique at times......trust me.

18. The best time of the year for capturing ghost images on film are in the colder months when electrostatic energy is at it's highest. These months being October through February. You can capture any kind of ghost type on film at any time of the year but the above mentioned months just increase your odds is all. Orbs however, don't seem to be affected by seasons and are by far the easiest anomalies to capture on film.

19. Remember your flash limitations. A flash can only be useful for up to a certain distance. Normally within 15 feet. So if you are in a cemetery at night and take a picture of a mausoleum 30 feet away, the image will be hard to view and a bit washed out, as well as any anomalies present. Important note: The flash will help highlight the anomaly if the background image is within the the range (15 feet). Note: A flash attachment will increase your range if you desire to use one.

20. Best places to take pictures: Some places are more haunted than others. Some typically haunted locations are cemeteries, old buildings, including old hotels, houses, hospitals, schoolhouses, and churches. Other good spots are theaters as well as any historic part of a city. Use your imagination and see what works for you. Just remember the best rule of thumb is to include places that are rich in history on your investigations. That's the basics in a nutshell.......study and know them well and you will be well on your way to capturing strange phenomena on film in the near future. I might add, once you start seeing the fruits of your labor, you will be hooked! And life will no longer be the same for you as it was before. Ghost hunting is a great hobby and can be a truly fulfilling one as well. We wish you the best of luck in your endeavors!

Source: http://www.ghoststudy.com/photography_class.html

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The “Can You See Ghosts” Test -- แบบทดสอบการเจอผี

วิญญาณ วนเวียนอยู่ เพราะความต้องการสิ่งต่างๆ ไม่ว่าจะเป็น การล้างแค้น,การปกป้องสิ่งที่รัก, หรืออาจเป็นเพราะเขายังไม่รู้ว่าตัวเองตายไปแล้ว.

การพบเห็นวิญญาณ ยังคงมีขึ้นอย่างต่อเนื่อง บางคนอาจไม่เคยได้เห็นเลยบางคนอาจพบเจอสิ่งแปลกๆ บ้าง แต่บางคนกลับพบเจอจนเป็นเรื่องปกติ

แบบทดสอบนี้จะเป็นแนวทางว่า คุณคือผู้ที่มีโอกาสจะได้พบเจอกับวิญญาณหรือไม่?
ตอบเพียง "ใช่" (Yes) หรือ "ไม่ใช่" (No)

The “Can You See Ghosts” Test

1. Have you ever known the phone was going to ring before it rang?
คุณเคยคิดว่าจะมีโทรศัพท์มาหา ก่อนที่มันจะดังขึ้นจริงๆ หรือไม่?

Yes___ No___

2. Have you ever felt a sudden chill in a room, when there was no apparent
reason?
เคยรู้สึกว่าอากาศในห้องเย็นลงวูบวาบโดยไม่มีสาเหตุไหม?

Yes___ No___

3. Have you ever seen anything that could not be explained by science and
logic?
คุณเคยพบเห็นสิ่งที่ไม่สามารถอธิบายด้วยวิทยาศาสตร์หรือไม่?

Yes___ No___

4. Have you ever felt you were being watched when you were alone?
เคยไหมเวลาอยู่คนเดียวแล้วเหมือนมีใครจ้องมองอยู่?

Yes___ No___

5. Have you ever had a vision or a dream that came true?
เคยนอนหลับฝันแล้วเรื่องในความฝันกลายเป็นเรื่องที่เกิดขึ้นจริงในภายหลังไหม?

Yes___ No___

6. Have you ever had a successful session with a Ouija Board?
เคยเล่นพวกผีเหรียญผีถ้วยแก้วแล้วมีผีเข้ามาใช่ไหม?

Yes___ No___

7. Do you have an open mind about the supernatural?
คุณเชื่อเรื่องเหนือธรรมชาติใช่ไหม?

Yes___ No___

8. Would you refuse to spend the night in a “haunted” house?
คุณไม่อยากจะไปหรืออยู่ในบ้านร้าง/บ้านผีตอนกลางคืนใช่ไหม?

Yes___ No___

9. Do you meditate?
คุณนั่งสมาธิหรือเปล่า?

Yes___ No___

10. Have you retained the childlike ability, simply to “accept” new experiences
without distorting preconceptions?
คุณเชื่ออะไรง่ายๆ ไหม?

Yes___ No___

11. Are you more likely to make decisions using your “gut feeling” than your
“thinking logic?”
คุณมักจะตัดสินใจทันทีทันใด มากกว่าตรึกตรองไว้ก่อน?

Yes___ No___

12. Have you ever been told that psychic ability runs in your family?
เคยมีคนบอกคุณไหมว่าคนในครอบครัวคุณมีพลังจิต?

Yes___ No___

Scoring your test: คิดคะแนน ถ้าตอบว่าใช่ นับ 1 คะแนน ต่อข้อ
Understanding your Score: Yes = 1

คะแนน Scores 1 – 4
Your psychic ability has not been fully developed.
คุณยังไม่สามารถติดต่อวิญญาณได้ง่ายนัก

คะแนน Scores 5 – 8
You are coming along quite nicely. Your score indicates that you are open to
unique experiences and you esteem an open, inquisitive mind. You may have
experienced the supernatural.
คุณสามารถพบเจอวิญญาณหรือสิ่งเหนือธรรมชาติได้ในบางครั้ง

คะแนน Scores 9 – 12
It is certainly possible that you have psychic ability. Your score is very
encouraging. You, as well as the last group, may have experienced the
supernatural. Good ghost hunting!
คะแนนระดับนี้ บอกได้คำเดียวว่า คุณอาจพบเจอวิญญาณเอาได้ง่ายๆ ทีเดียว

ที่มา Source: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/GH-SeeGhosts.html

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