All Locked Up. Why?

The entrance to Egypt’s cave underworld has been sealed shut just two years after its modern day discovery. Access to the tomb leading to these natural caverns, located beneath the famous Pyramids of Giza, is now blocked by a metal gate set in concrete.

The move follows recent work to clear the interior of the tomb known as NC2 or the “Tomb of the Birds”, and located in the plateau’s north cliff.

This came in the wake of revelations in the press last summer that British explorer and writer Andrew Collins had in March 2008 located a previously unknown opening into a natural cave system long thought to exist at Giza, but never before explored in modern times.

Read complete article here. {via kalkion.com}

Peterborough Museum (Queensgate)

Have you ever wanted to go ghost hunting?

Do you have what it takes to spend a night in the most haunted building in Peterborough?

With Halloween approaching and ghosts on our minds, Children Today is inviting you to take part in what promises to be a night filled with paranormal activity at Peterborough Museum on Friday 16th October 2009.

Our ghost busting team is starting to take shape but we have some places left so you can join them! Lisa, Penny and Angela are all looking forward to hunting ghosts, so much so that Angela is coming all the way from Bournemouth to join the team and David is doing this for his birthday gift! The Peterborough Museum is such a thrilling venue, it has featured on Most Haunted and even made their team flee the cellar when a door inexplicably slammed shut on them. You can join the ghost hunting team for only £10 plus sponsorship so this really is a fantastic opportunity to face your fears and find out what really happens behind the Museum facade at night.

Read complete article here. {via peterborough.net}

The Venetian Theatre Hillsboro (Wikipedia)

While the audience watched the closing minutes of “Death of a Salesman” in The Venetian Theatre’s auditorium Saturday night, a team of paranormal investigators set up equipment, hoping to capture a performance of a different sort.

Greg Gieler, co-leader Chris York and 10 other members of Rain City Paranormal planned to spend the night in the darkened building, watching for a sign from any of the spirits that may lurk in the refurbished theater and bistro at 253 Main St.

On July 25, Gieler had led a smaller investigation at the invitation of owners Denzil Scheller and Saxony Peterson. Since the Venetian’s opening in the summer of 2008, its staff had witnessed a number of unexplainable events. Lights and music have turned on and off unassisted. Phantoms, including a gray-haired man who favors one of the auditorium’s back-row seats, have made multiple appearances.

Read complete article here. {via OregonLive}

Any interesting video on the poltergeist phenomena. The video features interviews with some well known paranormal investigators such as Dr. Barry Taff, Hans Holzer, and Patrick Burns, plus some great scenes from the Speilberg film, Poltergeist. {source: RealXFile and Warner Bros Entertainment & New Wave Entertainment}

Know the Weather

If you have an outdoor investigation you need to know how to dress.

Humidity is a key factor due to excessive water vapor in the air which may give false positive photos. Humidity refers to the amount of water vapor in the air. Relative humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount possible at a given temperature. Air with a relative humidity of 50% is holding half the total amount of water vapor it is capable of holding at that temperature.

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}

Phil Imbrongo talks about High Strangeness, Falling Rocks & Sheep Mutilations. This talk was given at the OCT. 1st meeting of the UFO Roundtable in Yonkers N.Y. {source: theuforoundtable}

Don't expect George Washington's ghost

This is a short and to the point one. For those that are starting out in this field there is a lot you need to learn and understand before you actually go out and do a case. Today’s article is just another point that I think needs to be made to all of the “newbie’s” out there. Simply put “Do not expect anything to happen.”

If you go into an investigation expecting to see the ghost of George Washington or just Aunt Emma, you are bound to be disappointed. Most of the time paranormal investigators are sitting around waiting and waiting and waiting. The paranormal activity doesn’t begin just because an investigator is present. If you go in expecting nothing to be there and for nothing to be paranormal then you won’t be disappointed.

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}

American Theatre in Cherokee (Chronicle Times}

DES MOINES – On May 2, 2009, Mid-Iowa Paranormal came back to investigate the American Theatre in Cherokee after having great experiences from the last investigation almost a year ago on June 20, 2008. Mid-Iowa Paranormal, founded by Robert Sinclair, has been the first paranormal investigations team to investigate the building.

The American Theatre was built in 1920 by Barry Sisk and Walter James, but they ran out of finances before being able to open the building. In 1923, Dale Goldie purchased the building from a sheriff’s auction and opened the theatre in 1925. His wife, Hazel worked in the ticket booth for the majority of her life. The basement of the building was used to store civil defense supplies, and those supplies are still there in entirety in large barrels.

Read complete article here. {via Chronicle Times}

Drum Barracks Civil War Museum

The Drum Barracks Civil War Museum was the former US Army Headquarters for Southern California and the Arizona Territory from 1861-1871. It is housed in the last remaining wooden building of Camp Drum. First called Camp Drum, it was named after Richard Coulter Drum. The building was set for demolition in the early 1960’s, but local citizens campaigned together to save and open the historic building as a museum in 1987.

Drum Barracks once covered sixty acres of land. It served as the main training, staging, and supply base for Army military operations in the Southwest. The Drum Barracks hospital boasted to be the best equipped and staffed medical facility west of the Mississippi River.

Liz, Denise, Maddie, and I were in the Long Beach area for a weekend ghost hunt and stopped at the Drum Barracks Museum early Saturday morning. California paranormal teams had recommended the visit since they had experienced ghostly happenings in the past. The museum has also been featured on several TV programs including “Most Haunted.”

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}

Paranormal Credibility

Are you afraid to tell your family and friends that you are interested in ghosts and conducting ghost investigations? Are you tired of psychologists and psychiatrists saying that every person who thinks they see a ghost needs therapy and drugs, or is on drugs? Are you tired of mainstream science saying there is no such thing as ghosts and they will never accept ghost research or parapsychology as a real science? That’s why it’s so important to maintain credibility in this type of subjective and uncertain field of research.

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}