The Most Haunted Live team is scheduled to return to the United States to investigate the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA in a 7-hour live event. They will tour the 161-room estate with their high-tech equipment in an attempt to contact any spirits that might live there. As with the Eastern State Penitentiary investigation, multiple Web cams will stream live images from selected areas within the mansion.

TV viewers may actively participate in the broadcast by posting paranormal sightings, well wishes for the team, and suggestions on rooms to investigate, predictions and premonitions via message boards, text messaging, and faxing psychic art. Selected user-submitted content will be presented during the interactive segments of the event, as well as scrolled across the bottom of the screen during the live investigation.

Sound like fun? Then tune in to The Travel Channel on Friday, October 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Andrew and Tonya Keyser began researching paranormal phenomena for a book project, only to toss the idea when they felt a book would be too dry. They turned their focus onto making a film, which they called The Other Side: Giving up the Ghost. The 80-minute documentary contains interviews with people who run or attend ghost tours, paranormal research teams, paranormal organizations, skeptics and psychology experts. It was filmed mostly in Gettysburg over the summer and fall of 2006. Other locations include Allentown; Amherst, N.Y.; Philadelphia; Richmond, Va.; and St. Louis.

There are a great number of people Adams County who are interested in the paranormal. However, Tonya wasn’t sure if this interest is because they experienced paranormal phenomena or because they are seeking to experience such phenomena. This was one aspect she and her husband covered in the film, which is due for release in DVD format on May 1, 2007. They will sell this DVD directly from their website, but hope to sell it on Amazon soon.

Our tours follow a course of history that starts with the very beginnings of Chicago, traveling from its humble origins as a frontier outpost, through the 19th century — including the Great Chicago Fire and its aftermath–, into the 20th century and the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s, and forward to today. We cover a lot of information and a lot of stories. There is no exact formula; we don’t set out to scare people, rather we let the stories and our own experiences speak for themselves. This, we’ve learned, seems to work well.

Among the more popular locations they visit include the Fort Dearborn Massacre site, Iroquois Theater & Death Alley, the Eastland river disaster site, haunted Streeterville, death site of Resurrection Mary, Hull House, Harpo Studios, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre site, Graceland Cemetery, Candyman’s Cabrini Green, the Tonic Room, the Biograph Theater and many others.

Visit ChicagoHauntings.com to learn more about their tours and to make reservations.

John Luckton, a 50-year-old advertising executive, runs Ghost Tours of West Virginia in Lewisburg and Beckley during the height of the state’s tourist season, which peaks around early September and ends around Halloween.

“Everybody’s favorite is the Greenbrier Ghost,” Luckton said, invoking the name of one of West Virginia’s most famous, or infamous, spirits.

The way Luckton tells the story, a woman named Zona Shue came back from the grave to visit her mother and reveal that she had been murdered by her husband. Her mother told the tale to anyone in town who would listen, and she convinced authorities to exhume her daughter’s body. The corpse was found to have had a compound fracture in her neck, and Shue’s husband eventually was convicted of her murder.

A plaque in Lewisburg now proclaims the case as the only one in which a person was convicted of first-degree murder based on the testimony of a ghost.

Luckton’s tours have become so popular that the State Division of Tourism has posted them in their events section of their website, which also lists fairs and festivals that have supernatural themes.

Source: Charleston Daily Mail