The ghosts--literally--of 9/11?

For obvious reasons, I am careful when reporting ‘ghosts’ at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center attacks so many years ago.. 

But there is an article appearing in the NEW YORK POST about the subject of paranormal activity in relation to the infamous terror attack site.. Gary Busio writes about a number of workers at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island who were sifting the rubble from the 9/11 attacks reported seeing a female ghost holding a tray of sandwiches, a new book ­reveals.. 

Other police officers witnessed things, too, like large black masses and shadows. Some comments are mocking the story, others are accepting of it. 

I did a bit more research on the book that the NY POST was talking about. 

It’s called From Landfill to Hallowed Ground, by Frank Marra. Marra is a retired police officer. He also worked at the Staten Island Landfill World Trade Center Recovery Site from September 2001 until February 2002. The inspiration to write the book obviously came from the work he performed.. It does not seem that the entire book is dedicated to paranormal affairs, but instead offers an historic account of what it was like on the ground during the aftermath of the biggest crime scene in American history..

There are only two reviews at press time on AMAZON.. I think that number will increase with attention. 

I am a firm believer that the paranormal is NOT real until it happens to you. 

And it would appear many police officers now consider the paranormal to be very real..

Kiss and ghoul.
When the hauntin’s a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’

A whole new meaning to ‘boning’ perhaps?

Natasha Blasick is making some paranormal headlines—and raising suspicious eyebrows—after she made the claim that she had sex with a ghost. Not once, though—twice.

The star, who appeared in the horror movie PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, told the British show THE MORNING that she had her first encounter when she was alone in her room.. MORE:

"I couldn’t see anybody, and suddenly I could feel that somebody was touching me. The hands were pushing me against my will, and I could feel the weight of a body on top of me."

Despite her initial discomfort, Blasick said she decided to “relax” and the experience became “really, really pleasureable”.

It’s good to see things worked out for them.

She went no to say:

"It was fun. I think ever since I was a child I always wanted to know if there is anything more to this world, I was always asking the questions, and I think this made me feel kind of reassured that there is something more than what we can see with the naked eye," she continues. "It gave me comfort and support and love, and it did answer questions for me that there is something else out there."

Blasick is not the first to claim an encounter with a spirit from beyond.. There are stories circling in the paranormal world of people claiming to have such relationships with the dead. It’s noted though the paranormal ‘mainstream’—if there is such a thing—gives little credence to the stories of sexual lust from ghosts..

As for Blasick: There is video of the interview--but to our knowledge no ‘sex tape’ exists capturing the event ..

The dreadful heartbreak

It has been about a year and a month since I lost a friend to cancer. She was a brave soul who endured agony before she passed away.. She was young—at least I look at her that way since she graduated the same year as me from high school, and I’m not old, right? 

It is somewhat weird that Facebook pages never die .. We can pass from this existence, but the words and ‘likes’ we had will remain so as long as Mark Zuckerberg and the NSA permit it.. 

My friend’s name was Lori.. I visited her Facebook page the other night and realized that people were still actively posting messages to her.. sending love .. actively asking for her to help them. Grieving never stops, perhaps.. And maybe with technology it is evolving. Does it help or hurt to be able to constantly go back to someone’s Facebook, or Twitter, or blog? After all, a visit to the page could make it seem like they’re still here, somewhere.

And maybe they are.

Alexander Graham Bell often visited seances. Some think his invention of the telephone was meant to help the deaf.. others wonder if Bell, like all of us, were searching for a way to speak to the dead and ponder an afterlife. The mystery of EVPs has been around for centuries.. are they recordings of ghostly apparitions, wandering the earth? Or are they just a recording of the endless loop of life—a recording of what we say that replays over and over again? We are told by paranormal ‘experts’ that Bell had those questions. He didn’t find an answer—but his invention led us to years of creepy stories of the dead calling their loved ones after they left the earth.

I wonder how long until we hear from people who claim that the dead updated their Facebook accounts.. I wonder how long until the dead do it—if the dead are powerful enough to do such things.. And that takes into consideration the fact that an afterlife would be existent. And if there was one, it would have to have a few dull moments that people would rather update a Facebook status as opposed to playing musical instruments with angelic figures…

I don’t say this in mocking. As a matter of fact, I am quite surprised that there are no movies or scary stories to tell in the dark regarding Facebook, or Twitter. 

It is a little eerie to me to visit Lori’s Facebook page a year and some time later after she lost her battle to cancer.. The photos of her struggles remain.. her hometown remains, as though she’s still there. Her profile picture remains.. as though it’s still current. And the messages to her are continuous, as though she is still alive. 

It’s the new way we deal with grief and pain. And there is nothing wrong with it. Any way we try to cope is healthy—it shows we are actively trying to get a hold on our emotions and become mentally stable with the tragedy that life can be..

Alexander Graham Bell was quoted once as saying this, 

I have been thinking for some time of a machine or apparatus which could be operated by personalities who have passed on to another existence or sphere. I believe that if we are to make any real progress in psychic investigation, we must do it with scientific apparatus and in a scientific manner.

Maybe one day that apparatus will be Facebook….when a lost soul responds to friends who miss them. Just imagine that premise next time you post a message on a deceased friend’s wall…

Nursing home haunts

Paper reports of paranormal activity in Michigan nursing home.. report indicates that staff often see those who have died, now even expecting visits from those who pass away in home.. 

Money quote from the article:

"On Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010, another caregiver at the assisted living center, whom we will address as Amanda, was working second shift when she went to attend a resident in need. When she returned to her medical cart in the hall, she found a message scribbled out in black ink. It read: “We are from the plane — lost — we will not hurt you! Honest!””

Field of screams: Some believe that a ghostly presence made itself known on Tuesday at the College World Series.. according to reports — and video evidence— University of North Carolina players were in the outfield attempting to catch a ball when suddenly two appeared to trip over nothing..Media sources are having fun laughing about the trip up, but if you watch the video, it seems somewhat unexplainable. Science and reason should prevail. But I for one have no reason to understand why these two players flopped the way they did. What I noticed is that we may have funny little headlines about ghosts, but no one seems to have tried to get the players statements on what exactly happened at the College World Series..

I guess she’s being Miley.

MILEY CYRUS claims she was stalked by ghosts when she was in London..

And sadly, the ghost continued to follow her and live in her hair.

Did anyone ever see a ghost moth before??

Some strange activity just took place in my home, at least I think it did, as I was working out of the corner my eye I saw a shadow flying around near the floor. I quickly turned around in my swivel chair and looked for whatever the shadow may have been. And somehow out of thin air I realized I was suddenly looking at a dark moth with a shadow underneath it near the floor.. 

I wondered to myself in the split-second when I so the moth, ‘how did this odd little creature even get in here, it is the middle of the day it is not flying near any light and it seemed to appear out of nowhere?’ 

It took no longer than two or three seconds before the moth was gone. And I mean gone. Vanished. And the strange part was it disappeared somehow while I was still watching it.

I know there have been some paranormal urban legends that have existed for such a long time about ghost cats and ghost dogs and even ghost rats. I don’t think I have ever heard one about a ghost moth. Until I experienced it myself today, and now I have a tale to tell. 

If the moth reappears out of nowhere maybe my story of a ghost moth will be proven false. If I find a carcass of the little creature somewhere or see him again I will update you all .. but until then a ghost moth flies from realm to realm and it visited me today.

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Good evening… Hot and humid in the United States of hell

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