Travel with Nigel Danvers to an eerie seaside town on England’s east coast. Learn to use advanced techniques used by real paranormal investigators, and uncover an ancient mystery and treasure. But, beware, not all of the towns residents will help in your mission, whether they are alive or dead.

Inspiration from the haunting works of Charles Dickens, M.R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and E.F. Benson combines with real ghost-hunting gadgets to bring this frightening story to bone-chilling life. Success or failure in locating wandering spirits depends on your skill as an investigator. Placing motion detectors, night vision cameras, and temperature gauges correctly will reveal a location’s haunted past, and expose terrifying apparitions. With nerves of steel, and wits to match, you will soon discover long lost secrets, previously known only to the dead!

I’ve been looking for a decent ghost hunting game for years, ever since I played the once-popular Amber Journeys Beyond. Based on the review from Just Adventure, this sounds like a great game. I liked the soundtrack on the trailer, but the animation looks a bit clunky. I’ll be watching for more reviews in the future.

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, then you’ll know that I love a good ghost story. I found this movie while wandering through Best Buy on Saturday and was intrigued enough with the synopsis to buy it. The first half of The Abandoned crawled to the point that I stopped playing the movie about halfway through.

One of the problems was my mild dislike for the character, Marie Jones (played by Anastasia Hille), who flies to Russia to search for her birth parents. I didn’t understand her bitterness and mistrust toward people until I watched the rest of the movie tonight. Then, I only got a glimmer of her backstory.

She discovers that both of her parents are deceased and that she has inherited their house in a remote part of the wilderness. For the first half of the movie, expect to watch her stumbling around one of the creepiest houses ever shown on film. Director Nacho Cerda did a great job with this, as well as the Russian wilderness backdrop.

The action got somewhat better when her alleged twin brother, Nicolae, appeared on the scene and helps her fight off the dopplegangers that keep following them around. What their purpose was, I didn’t find out until the very end. Why the murders took place wasn’t revealed, only that it did take place and the ghost of their father wanted them back.

This movie was heavy on creepy effects and weak on plot. While it was refreshing to see a 40-something protagonist, I didn’t like the character, although I felt sorry for her when she learned the truth about her family. Because of this, I wouldn’t recommend buying the movie. Rent it instead, if only to see the house.

Jamie and Christa Hughes woke up four weeks ago to find that their house was on fire. Jamie immediately sent Christa out the window before he went to search for his son, Billy. He was almost overcome by smoke and flames when he heard his son’s voice say, “Get out. Daddy, get out.”

By this time, Jamie realized that his son couldn’t be alive. As he crawled out a nearby window, he turned around one last time.

“I turn around and I see — I see two shadows standing on the stairwell. One was my son and one was my father I lost two years ago,” said Hughes. “That let me know that my son was fine.”

Hughes mourned the death of his son while recovering from the burns he received and continues to return to the scene of the fire. Investigators still haven’t determined what started the fire.

Source: MSNBC

This day marks the 69th anniversary of the fire that destroyed the infamous Borley Rectory. Built on the site of an ancient monastery in 1863, the rectory was doomed from the start. Three families lived here, including the original owner, Rev. Henry Bull, only to be driven out by intense paranormal activity. All kinds of strange phenomenon have occurred here, the most malicious occurring when a child was attacked by “something horrible.”

Today, the Borley Rectory still touches visitors with an eerie feeling that is almost palpable. For a fascinating look at the Borley Rectory, read the article from Brooklyn Daily Eagle.