Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

A Visit to Charleston’s Theatre

I was about ten at the time, and my family had went down to Charleston, South Carolina. It was about midnight on Halloween, and our Aunt had been studying the hauntings of Charleston. So she took us by a nearby theatre that was under renovations. It used to be an old hotel.(I cannot remember the name at this point) Our Aunt said, before we even came to the street it was on, that when you passed by the ‘hotel’, you could smell cheap lilac perfume or burning tobacco. The hotel was right in front of a small graveyard, and residents say that when you passed by the building at night, you can see the figure of a lady looking out one of the windows. I still get the chills from this experience.

As we passed by the hotel, I swore, and so did my father, mother,Aunt, and brother, that I smelled perfume. We smelled no tobacco. I looked in all …

McCormack Williamson Winery Paranormal Investigation

Spirits we brought with us, resident ghosts, and more

An interesting investigation was held by Gold Rush Ghosts International Paranormal Investigations for the television show Investigating the Unknown on December 27th, 2009.  We had been invited by the staff of the McCormack Williamson Winery to come and see what was going on, as strange things seemed to be happening in the building that they could not pin-point.  As the Celebrities Psychic, I had been on a recent television investigation at this winery this last Halloween with KMAX Good Day Sacramento Channel 31. At that time I found the building to be rather interesting and exploratory in the true ghost/spirit sense.  And so we jumped at the chance to take a second look.

The winery was originally built in 1868 as a granary, but in the early 1900’s it was converted into a winery.  It was as recent as 2001 that the owners began producing Dancing Coyote wines, good, tasty stuff …

Falling in Love with an Angel

I was 19 then and just living my good life everything was perfect. I went to college. It was after school but I stayed in the library looking for a book. Then I found the book and checked it out and headed out the campus.

I was waiting for a taxi, then I notice from across the street a man I guessed he was about 23 years old he was tall muscular with black hair. He was staring at me uncomfortably then when I looked at him he smiled at me. A taxi came and got in it, while I was in the taxi I couldn’t stop thinking about the guy from across the street. He was handsome but for some reason every time I thought of him it gives me shiver all over my body. Then I got home it was 10 pm at night. I went straight to my room and read the book I have and fell …

Uncle Mike on His Death Bed

Everybody Gets Theirs in the End

This is more of a family thing that no one has talked about since it happened. I was born and raised in south Boston and have the hugest Irish family you have ever seen. Not to make it all long I have 23 first cousins so yeah were pretty freaking huge. My favorite uncle was uncle mike, he taught me to do everything how to be a man, husband, and most of all a provider. We were always taught since birth that family comes first and to do whatever you got to do to provide for them at any cost. So of course we were hustlers we ran anything and everything and if someone had a problem we had my grandpa and uncles to back us up so needless to say no one complained twice.

Well I was in Kansas city takin care of family business when my dad called and said that my …

Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 18 Astral Travel

Have you read the previous parts of this story? Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 1

Having grown up ‘open minded’ I came to accept the physical world we know, isn’t quite as constrained and orderly as skeptics need to believe. I had seen things that can’t be explained by traditional science – so in theory anything was possible… wasn’t it?

The first hint I could astral travel had happened spontaneously during high school when I thought I had dreamed of going to a friend’s place and seeing something specific going on with her dog. The dog seemed to be sick and my friend was crying and I seemed to watch this scene as if I was standing in it (like a dream) but I couldn’t hear what anyone was saying, like a movie with the sound turned down – but you can still work out what’s going on in the scene.

The next morning when I told my friend …

Friendly Orb Jumping Ghost and Flying Pan

This was when I was eight. I can clearly remember each and every detail. Ok, so I was very, very thirsty, and I went to bed each night with a glass of water. I got up to get a drink (the cup was on my dresser.) When I got there, I took a sip, and then set it down. I looked in the mirror for a few seconds. Suddenly, a blue orb automatically floated next to my head. I looked next to my head, and nothing was there. Then, I looked back in the mirror, and it was still there. The orb slowly slimmed out, and got longer. I studied it, very interested in paranormal things, and then figured it out.

It was clearly a human body, completed with the legs, arms, head, hands, feet, and body. No facial features were present at the time. Then, they started to form. First the nose, then the mouth, clothes, ears, hair, eyes, …

My Father

Friday December 11th was the 23rd anniversary of my father’s death. Today, the 15th, was his birthday. Four strange occurrences have taken place in the time since he died, including two on the night he died and the last one to date taking place two years ago. I’ll start with the night he died.

On December 11th 1986 my father and three of his friends were out driving. That night, my Uncle woke up from a dream in which all he saw was a train crash into a car. He sat up in bed and looked at the clock: 1:26 AM. He found out in the morning that that was the exact moment my father’s car was hit by a train. No one had been drinking, no one did any drugs, it was simply a wrong place/wrong time situation.

While in the hospital, my father’s friend Walt was receiving treatment for injuries he’d sustained in the crash. The whole time …

Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 17

Have you read the previous parts of this story? Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 1

After our experiences growing up, being open minded about the paranormal meant my mother, sisters and I all researched what ever we could on the subject. We experimented with transcendental meditation, astral travel and mediumship. We find we tend to have what we call a bit of ‘gut instinct’ about things usually… which are usually found to be right.

After a serious work injury in 1980, I was taught self hypnosis as a method of pain control and ended up with a strange and unexpected side effect. I started to lucid dream and have pre-cognitive dreams. Lucid dreaming is when you are in a dream state but become conscious you are in a dream. So while in theory being fully conscious in a dream sound ludicrous – it is possible to be ‘awake’ and conscious inside a dream state. I have since researched and …

Overactive Imagination?

When I was about 3 years old, my granny died. I never really felt upset because I think I was too young to realize what had happened. And up until I was 6 or 7 every once in a while I would have a nightmare about her.

When I was 7 years old I had something strange occur which I’m trying to just chalk up to being half asleep but I’m not so sure if that’s the case. I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. From my bedroom door you would have to follow a hallway to the bathroom and to your left there was a landing and a staircase that lead downstairs. When I walked by I glanced over the landing and I saw a white figure standing there. I couldn’t make out any facial features but I could tell the figure was wearing glasses. The same big round glasses as my …

The Ghost Who Made us Sneeze

Now I know a lot of people have the quote, “if a ghost walks through you, you’ll sneeze.” Well here in my house that’s true. We have a lot of things that go on in my house, because we use Ouija and voodoo, hoodoo, and a lot more.

I was sitting here home alone, nothing was going on. My mom had just left to the store for about 20 minutes. About halfway into the time she was gone I started sneezing like mad. And then I heard my mom’s bedroom door knob turn and the door opened. I didn’t know what it was! So I got up to see if anyone was there, but no. So I just thought it was the air vents. I shut the door completely making sure it was shut ! I turned the air off, and laid down.

Once again I started sneezing. As it may be obvious, some people close their eyes while they …

Norma and Rubi

Okay well recently my friends were at this park down the road from my mates house, and they say they saw a ghost near the biggest tree in the oval they were at, and they told me three of my friends ran over there and she stepped out from behind the tree, and they ran off because they were scared. My friend (lets call her Britt), her mum is a medium (so her mums explained the paranormal to her) and she could see it that night and a lot of others. On the way home the ghost followed them back to my friends house they were staying at and was walking right behind my guy mate the whole time.

For about two weeks that ghost stalked my friend Britt and haunted her at her dads house (putting voices in her head, appearing in her mirror, showing herself in her dads car on the dashboard) so Britt called her mum and …

Family Ghosts

Alright some of this stuff happened to me and some of it happened to very close family members, and I can assure you that all of it is true. My cousin Kevin died when he was 22 in a car crash, and on the night of his funeral my brother Arnett and my mom were up at my aunts house (which was Kevin’s mom) and they were sitting at the kitchen table and there was a picture of Kevin and his girlfriend in the middle of the table facing the opposite direction of them. The picture swung all the way around and faced them for a moment then swung back around to its original place.

Me and my mom were sitting in the living room one night, and we live in my grandmas old house, she’s dead now. And my dads shoes where sitting in front of the door and they were just slung off you know not in a …