It will soon be time for all those delightful Christmas ghost stories to be appearing on telly - that's if they do this year. The BBC have had some classics in the past. They could do a lot worse than to repeat them again this year. My favourites being Lost Hearts by M.R. James and The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Both spine-tinglers but still quaintly old-fashioned. None of the glossy, Hollywood-style special effects, just excellent acting of equally excellent stories. If you are listening BBC planners, please, please re-run these ..read more

We received an email from one of the staff at The Feathers. A pub on Bridge St Warrington. Several staff had seen the apparition of a woman. Glasses had been thrown from tables in front of them and one member of staff had his clothing tugged at in the cellar. There was also a report that the spirit store (no pun intended) where all the whisky, brandy etc is stored, kept unlocking itself. We arrived there at 7pm and did a full EMF sweep of the building and found quite a few odd anomalies. We also did a yes/no session using the K2 meter and dowsing rods and there was a huge amount of activity ..read more

Yes, it's almost here again. Your door is about to be haunted - by kids trick or treating! Has anyone got anything planned. Any investigations ..read more

It's getttng that time of year again when all good paranormal investigators are dusting off their equipment for the impending ghostie fest. That's my job for today ..read more

Really cool stuff. Actual security camera footage....and no, no horrible big face will leap out at you ..read more

Many people say that they have seen a ghost. I am not saying that they didn't THINK they saw a ghost, it's just that the bodies senses are easily fooled. Here are 5 reasons that could explain a ghost sighting: 1) Paraedolia  The mind is hard-wired to recognize faces. It is in us from babies. We need the obvious capability to recognize family and friends and identify enemies. The way a shadow or a mark sits on a wall may appear to take on a human shape. Especially when only glimpsed for a brief moment. Paraedolia is when the brain is trying to piece together the recognition factors and a ..read more

With the advent of the computer age, virtually anyone with a PC, a bit of software and a modicum of knowledge can now fake any picture or video. With software getting more and more sophisticated, it is now virtually impossible to spot a really good faker. Most of the old ghostie pictures were quite crude double exposures. All you needed was a reasonable SLR camera, a tripod, a cable release and a dark room to make some spectacular looking ghost pics. I made dozens of these things when I was in my twenties. They were great for fooling the unsophisticated. The point I am trying to make is this ..read more

There are many things that seem to have slipped into the collective knowledge of ghost hunting and are accepted as an absolute truth. Few of these (if indeed any) can be supported scientifically as an absolute fact. Take my favourite aggravation - orbs. What leap of faith first made someone view dust specs and anomalous spots of light on a digital camera photograph as being the energy of a spirit that is about to materialise (or whatever they say it means)?  We could also hypothesize and say they are fall-out from the vapour trail of a UFO that is leaving earth's atmosphere - where does i ..read more

Ghost Grapplers will be holding a ghost hunt in aid of MND at Mill St Barracks, St Helens this friday the 14th June 2013. You can still get tickets at the website http://www.ghostgrapplers.co.uk This is a really active building. Tickets are only £25 each. Starts at 8-30pm for a 9pm start. Finishes at 1am ..read more

To anyone with an interest in ghost hunting and the paranormal, the name of Peter Underwood needs no introduction. I have read many of his books and treasure every one of them that I own. His new offering 'Where the Ghosts Walk' is set to become the handbook and must-read for every seasoned and every would-be paranormal investigator.  There are many books on haunted buildings, but this book is different. It is a well laid out volume of haunted locations and their associated spooks and spectres. It is handily broken down into different types of location, such as haunted airfields ..read more