Scientifically Haunted House Suggests You're a Sucker Source: Wired News
To test whether it's possible to artificially induce paranormal experiences — or, from a different perspective, to technologically summon a spirit — researchers at London's Goldsmith College and architect Usman Haque designed a scientifically haunted room.

Ghost Hunters Halloween Live 2009 has come and gone.
If you watched it, what are you thoughts on the following?
The White Witch of Rose HallSource: Internet
Many of the slaves were practitioners of the art, and in order to curry favor and live longer, they taught Annie everything they knew about magic, particularly Voodoo. This was to include human sacrifice, particularly of infants, whose bones she used in practicing the black magic.

Simple question. Simple answers.
Please comment and vote. Thank you.

Lately, I have been thinking about death and death issues since I'm coming into that time of year that many people I've known and loved have died.
I was wondering, is there an afterlife at all? Is it just a fancy myth propagated throughout the ages?
Researchers claim Jim Morrison's ghost picture is NOT a fakeSource: Daily Express
Travelling American rock historian Brett Meisner decided, one day in 1997, to stop by his grave at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris to pay respects to his hero.
As he did so, he asked his assistant to take a souvenir photograph.
Best ghost walks and tours in the USSource:
With Halloween approaching, stores are filling up with costumes, candy, and all manner of ghoulish items. But in Savannah, Georgia, it's Halloween every night, because Savannah is not only one of the most interesting cities in America, it's also the most haunted.
Spore's first casino for ghosts Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE
HOW do you tell if Singapore's first casino for ghosts is somewhere in the vicinity near you?
Sign number one: You can hear the sound of jackpot machines coming from a make-shift tent decked out in black cloth.
Baseball Teams Fear 'Haunted' HotelSource: AOL
MILWAUKEE (July 11) -- First Carlos Gomez heard voices. Then he watched his iPod go haywire after he got out of the shower, sending him scrambling for the lobby without stopping to put on his pants and shoes.

So far today, it has been fairly quiet, couple of visitors, things like that. Heck, here it is 4:12 p.m., and I'm still in my jammies. I was sitting here reading email when I heard an ongoing sound not quite as loud as the vacuum running.

Among the many definitions of "ghost" on Dictionary.com, the listing from American Heritage Dictionary includes:
1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.
2. A demon or spirit.
Dan Aykroyd, Paranormal Researcher and GhostbusterSource: The New York Times
Just steps off Central Park in the Beaux-Arts town house of the American Society for Psychical Research, in a library lined with books like "Gods From Outer Space" and "Wall Street and Witchcraft," Mr.

3B/Ghostbuster
Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post shared an amusing story about the Marlins' road trip to Milwaukee:
The Shadow Man - Part One Source: Thylazine.org
The Dark Man, The Shadow Man or The Hat Man has been part of my mother's and my lives for as far back as I can remember. I first sensed him in my mother's bedroom [left side of the house above] when I was a child.
Castle of Spirits: Ghost StoriesSource: castleofspirits.com
if you believe in Ghosts and spirits and in the "after world", here is a web site full of stories. I have not perused it yet, but this first story is similar to something I have experienced. I have seen my father in a semi awake state which is very familiar to me.

7. Where the Lake becomes the River
Kate Betterton
IBN 13:798-0-9815192-1-0/ISBN 10: 0-9815192-1-0
Published 2008 NOvello Festival Press, Charlotte, NC
For Scott Butki 2009 Reading Challenge