The Exorcist - syfy.com Seriously folks, it's not always demonic. Why do so many ghost hunters go there first? It should be the last thing that is mentioned - don't you think? I get a handful of calls every year to investigate private homes. It might seem exciting to get entry into an alleged haunted property and a team may feel the pressure to produce results - yes, I get that. But also our clients are entitled to the truth. As exciting as it might appear on all the TV shows,in my experience, a true haunting is actually a rarity.  Each ..read more

Ghost hunting in the heat of an Australian summer can be somewhat of a challenge! I'm just let me say that that is truly an understatement. These last few weeks have seen me conducting tours at two local sites - one of which is a Gaol that is 200 years old and the other is a small terraced house that belonged to a family from the late 1800's. Neither has air conditioning or adequate ventilation. There is not much you can do when there is no breeze and the humidity is high. It can get quite embarrassing when you have sweat rolling down your face and all the way down your back into ..read more

Norfolk Island is a ghost hunters paradise. If you can get past the lack of great internet and many of the other tourists being of a more graceful age and totally not interested in anything remotely related to ghosts you will have an absolute hoot investigating this pearl just 2.5 hours from Sydney. Measuring just 8km long and 5km wide Norfolk is covered by rolling green hills and a rocky shoreline. It is a tiny volcanic outcrop located just over 1000 kilometres off the shore of Australia but it could not be any more different. My own fascination with the island came about because of ..read more

Maria Windeyer moved into Tomago House in 1847 and the story goes that she still keeps a close eye on her homestead in the Hunter Valley. Visitors and also volunteers have claimed they can feel her and her family's presence at the site over a hundred years after her death. A few years ago big storms did loads of damage but they also revealed some surprises - during the renovations two trap doors were discovered in Maria's bedroom! "Until the storm, this floor was covered by carpet," says Marjorie Biggins from Friends of Tomago House. "I knew it was there because it creaked - it's a proper ..read more

Every since I first laid eyes on Jenolan Caves guest house as a much younger person I have always wanted to stay overnight. I have imagined the grandeur of the wealthy coming down the winding road to this hide away - safe from the rest of the world and being treated to a 'European style' getaway right here in Australia taking in the fresh mountain air and meandering quietly through the caves. In 1896, the grand hotel, Jenolan Caves House, was built, as a wilderness retreat for the wealthy1. It was designed in the Colonial Architect’s office, under the supervision of Colonel Walter Libert ..read more

We have all watched the movie, "Men in Black" but did you know it is based on a real phenomenon? And...not only are there men in black there are also women in black too! These men have been reported to appear after UFO sightings ( just like in the movie) and threaten those first hand witnesses. They appear at their homes and knock on their front doors, driving cars that seem in come cases to float slightly above the ground, and apparently seem to have some type of hypnotic effect on people. Men in Black are usually male, but women have been reported too, and are normally dressed in black wea ..read more

There have been a number of articles lately about alleged 'close encounters' with ghosts. Very close encounters. Well, one woman actually, a 27-year-old “spiritual guidance counselor” named Amethyst Realm. (For real?) Realm claims to have done the dirty with at least 20 ghosts. She prefers them to men. Realm appeared on the British TV show “ITV This Morning” to talk all about the many (dead) men in her life. “It started as an energy, then became physical,” she told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. “There was pressure on my thighs and breath on my neck. I just always felt safe ..read more

Egyptians called the shadow khaibut.  TheY believed that the khaibut was one of seven souls that each person had.  The shadow was an integral art of the whole person. The Roman word for shadow was umbra, also meaning ‘the shade’ or the ghost of an individual who went to a place called the Land of Shades.  The land of Shades was believed to be underground or part of an Underworld and after the person died, their shadow went there. Again it was part of the person - not separate. In Greece, people were known to dedicate their shadows or give them over to a God. This was considered to be a m ..read more

Last night we conducted our first ghost tour/investigation of Stroud. As usual with a new tour I was feeling very anxious. Would it go well? Would people like it? Did we have enough to keep everyone interested and engaged? I really had little idea of what was going to work for this tour as, although we do have a set format that we run to, it is only as good as it is when the group is vibrant and interested and the ghosts connect. Each night can be totally different. Well, it turns out, that I had nothing to worry about! We were overwhelmed and so were our participants. Our group ranged ..read more