Census takers in 2010 may not have an easy time documenting all the residents in a little town called Jefferson. The difficulty comes in the “fact” that a good portion of Jefferson’s residents are no longer of this world. Some people have started calling Jefferson “the most haunted small town in Texas,” according to Jodi Breck, guide of the Historic Jefferson Ghost Walk.

Jefferson is a small, quaint taste of Americana that is located about 200 miles north of the Golden Triangle.
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Research work is underway on another project exploring the Shag Harbour UFO incident of Oct. 4 1967, with a dive on the crash site on July 20 by retired IT professional David Cvet.

Two years in the works but delayed for weather related reasons numerous times, Cvet, who lives in Toronto and summers in the Digby area, said the purpose of the dive was two-fold and was successful on both counts.

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St. Augustine Florida is America`s oldest city and some say the most haunted as well. Furthermore, the most haunted of streets may very well be Marine Street. Starting with the St. Francis Barracks and National Cemetery, the Barracks was built between 1864 and 1867 and is still in use by the Florida National Guard. The Saint Augustine National Cemetery is rumored to be very haunted. It all started when Major Francis Langhorne Dade and his soldier`s remains were sent to St. Augustine, Florida for burial after a bloody massacre. Many soldiers are buried here alongside the historic barracks. Over the years people have captured numerous orbs and specters on film as well as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena).

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Fans of the popular Scyfy show “Ghost Hunters”  (and there are many!) may be surprised to learn that Michigan has its very own paranormal investigation team ready to answer questions and research possible claims of haunting throughout the midwestern United States. 

Michigan Paranormal Encounters brings over 50 years of cumulative professional experience to the task. Before founding the Michigan chapter four years ago, MPE also  maintained an active paranormal research group in the New England area for 8 years.

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Now that we briefly touched on the different types of haunting, lets go just a little bit deeper and talk about what a ghost may be. One thing to always keep in mind when working in the paranormal investigation field is everything is theory, nothing is fact.

So what is a ghost? Simply put a ghost, apparition, spirit, soul or what ever one may call it is thought to be the personality or consciousness of a once living being that somehow survives bodily death.

For thousands of years people have reported full bodied manifestations of ghosts, but how does this happen? Lets look at some theories.

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A report of a possible Bigfoot encounter in Pennsylvania was received by the Sasquatch Watch of Virginia and was then referred to Eric Altman, the Director of the (PBS) Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society to investigate. The incident occurred on July 10, 2009, outside of Uniontown, in Fayette County.

On July 15, 2009, a team from the PBS traveled to the location where the reported Bigfoot encounter occurred to interview the witness and to look over the area for any possible physical evidence. The team was comprised of Eric Altman and PBS members Dave Dragosin and his wife Cindy. Eric also invited me to go along to participate in the investigation.

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You think you have ghost, but you really don’t know how far to take your curiosity. Should you let it alone and hope it all goes away, or should you call in some ghost busters?

Before you go running to Google for a phone number or email address, ask yourself a few preliminary questions about your motives and expectations:

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Lately I have been reading a lot of different opinions on paranormal research. Many groups believe orbs are dust. Just as many groups believe orbs are spirits. Same theory applies to EMF meters and even EVP’s. Why are there some many different opinions on these items which paranormal investigators base their “scientific research” on?
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The UFO Traffic Report for Friday, July 10, 2009, includes 15 selected sightings over nine states, according to witness statements filed in the past 48 hours with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

Today’s stories include: a group of spherical objects over Colorado that seemed to be connected; Orange Orbs over Pennsylvania; Orange orbs in a triangle formation over Pennsylvania; an Orange Sphere over Kentucky; an Orange Globe over the Connecticut River;

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This article has some good info on Keel’s books and theories dealing with the paranormal.

John Keel, who died on July 3 aged 79, was a prominent American ufologist (an observer and chronicler of UFOs – unidentified flying objects) and the author of The Mothman Prophecies (1975), a book about paranormal phenomena which was made into a successful film starring Richard Gere.
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