Leslie Rule, daughter of best-selling crime author Ann Rule, grew up in a haunted house built on an Indian burial ground overlooking Puget Sound, where her lifelong fascination with the paranormal began. Her latest book covers stories of the restless dead, narrating the events surrounding their passing and telling of the rumored ghosts seen afterward.

“They are clamoring for attention now. In hotels and cafes and hospitals and schools and within private residences, they are trying to make us notice.”

Chapters include:

• The Ice Files. These old, unsolved cases of homicide have long gone cold, but they may be the key to the question of why certain places have been haunted for generations.
• Witch Hunt. This chapter exhumes the old stories of witch trials in Boston and Salem, placing them historically parrallel to a wave of hauntings reported in those locations.
• Victims of War. An old naval shipyard, Gettysberg and other sites related to war are explored as places where ghosts from past conflicts continue to linger in this world.

Gold Circle Films has optioned the English-language remake rights to the Russian supernatural horror movie Dead Daughters, with Jared Rivet on board to adapt, Variety reported.

Directed by Pavel Ruminov, the original film centered on three girls who are murdered by their mother. To seek vengeance for their untimely deaths, their ghosts randomly pick people to watch. If that person does something wrong or acts out of line, the girls hold a merciless trial.

This sounds like a very intriguing movie. Shouldn’t they be haunting their mother instead of innocent people? The movie hasn’t been made yet, but I’m going to watch for it.

Source: SciFi Channel Newswire

I’ve always enjoyed watching Unsolved Mysteries when I could because they re-enact true stories so well. This 4-disc set looks very good, and the reviews helped me decide to place it in my Amazon Wish List for my upcoming birthday.

I’m familiar with a few of the stories in this set, such as the Highway Vision, where the ghost of a mother alerts highway patrolmen of the car accident she was involved in. The rest, I look forward to watching.

The Meenapur police station of Muzaffarpur district in India appears to be haunted by the ghost of an English policeman, named Bowler Saheb, who met a nasty death when he was set on fire by freedom fighters in 1942.

Apparently, he doesn’t want anyone sitting in his favorite chair, especially commanding officers. Whoever violates his wishes finds himself behaving abnormally, landing in trouble with the department (resulting in a suspension or transfer), or experiencing a disturbing event in their family. One officer tried to debunk what he thought was a superstition and experienced this:

All of a sudden, Sharma’s eyes turned red and he started speaking English like an Englishman,” he said, adding that Sharmaji became unconscious after that. Though he remained posted in the police station for next three years, he did not dare sit on the chair again.

He is currently posted in one of the police stations of the district. Yet another SI rank officer, U S Jha admitted the chair was haunted by the ghost of Bowler Saheb.

Though we have seen nothing, we were told about the presence of the ghost and its activities by our predecessors,” he said, adding that the truth is that none of the OCs have ever dared to sit on the chair.

The officers have since started using the newer quarter to hold their meetings, since nothing has ever happened to them in there. Binod Kumar Singh, the current OC, said that he stays in the quarter of Bowler Saheb. But he hasn’t summoned the bravery to sit in that chair.

Source: The Times of India