Bodelwyddan Castle in Debighshire is home to an unknown number of ghosts. Whether these ghosts are from a former girls’ school or a military recuperation hospital is also unknown. Because the castle records were destroyed by a fire, there is no way to determine who lived on the grounds . . . unless you ask the ghosts.

That’s what paranormal investigator, Laura Whitley, plans to do. She and her team are looking for volunteers to hold evening and overnight vigils. Once they determine that a ghost haunts a particular area of the castle, Whitley will seek out the ghost and try conduct an interview with it by using a series of “yes” or “no” questions.

Source: BBC News

For the first time in the show’s history, the ‘Most Haunted’ paranormal investigation team will bring their hit special, ‘Most Haunted Live,’ to the United States for a live investigation from a top secret, yet-to-be disclosed haunted location. The Travel Channel will broadcast an unprecedented seven straight hours live on Friday, June 1, from 8 p.m. through Saturday, June 2, at 3 a.m. ET. Presenter Yvette Fielding, spiritual medium David Wells, and the rest of the ‘Most Haunted Live’ team will conduct the investigation.

Armed with night-vision cameras, thermal-imaging devices and other paranormal investigation tools, the team will perform a thorough investigation of the location and attempt communication with the paranormal. The team will have extensive access to the location, including areas that are not currently open to the public.

The ‘Most Haunted Live’ U.S. experience will be extended online with multiple Webcams streaming live images from select areas within the location. Users will be able to actively participate in the broadcast by posting paranormal sightings, well wishes for the team, suggestions on rooms to investigate, and predictions and premonitions on the boards, through text messaging and FAXing. Selected user-submitted comments will be presented during the interactive segments of the event, as well as scroll across the bottom of the screen during the live investigation.

A downloadable ‘Ghost Detector’ application will also be available for mobile phones. It’s designed to detect subtle changes in electromagnetic fields, which is believed to indicate paranormal activity.

About the Investigators

Yvette Fielding, Host/Lead Investigator, is best known as the face, heart, soul and scream of the world’s leading television ghost hunt. Along with her husband Karl, she started Antix Productions, the company behind the global success that is Most Haunted.

Ciaran O’Keefe, Parapsychologist/Investigator, joined Most Haunted during Series 3 in 2003. Among the crew, he is known as the soft-spoken voice of reason. As a parapsychologist, it’s Ciarán’s role to evaluate all aspects of an investigation. Using a wide range of paranormal equipment and experiments, Ciarán has to determine whether the team’s experiences could have been paranormal or attributable to other factors. It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it!

A lecturer and researcher at Liverpool Hope University, Ciarán specializes in parapsychology, investigative psychology and music psychology. He earned his doctorate at the University of Hertfordshire with a thesis entitled, “Assessing the content of advice from practitioners claiming paranormal ability.” Off camera, he’s friendly and down-to-earth, with a knack for animal impressions and a fondness for wearing a Ghostbusters t-shirt.

David Wells, Psychic, joined the team as a psychic medium during 2004. His first investigation was at the Greengate Brewery. It was considered one of the most exciting investigations in Most Haunted history when Stuart witnessed a beer barrel rolling towards him of its own!

Karl Beattie, Director of Investigation, has worked on outside broadcasts at festivals such as Glastonbury and traveled worldwide as an intrepid cameraman across all genres: sports, music, current affairs, and light entertainment. Karl met Yvette on the BBC’s City Hospital. It was a whirlwind romance. Karl and Yvette were engaged within six weeks and they married six months later.

VH1’s Celebrity Paranormal Project premiered on October 20th, starring Garey Busey, Hal Sparks, Survivor winner Jenna Morasca, Tocarra from America’s Next Top Model, and Donna d’Errico from Baywatch visited Louisville, Kentucky’s infamous Waverly Hills Sanatorium to investigate the hauntings.

Gary Busey, who had three near-death experiences, took the lead role as “emissary from the other side.” Donna d’Errico, who claimed to be fearless, got severely tested by the ghost known as the “Man in the White Coat. Ghosts apparently don’t like people with attitudes. If you missed the premiere, you may watch it on Friday, November 10 at 4pm EST.

The next show, titled Pearl is scheduled to air at 1:00 am EST tonight. It promises to be another doozy. The crew in this show includes supermodel Rachel Hunter, comedian Godfrey, Traci Bingham of Baywatch, workout video guru Tony Little, and Survivor winner Ethan Zohn visit an abandoned New England asylum for the criminally insane. Be sure to tune in.

Synposis

The book begins by describing why the paranormal is worthy of scientific investigation and why belief in the paranormal has increased over the last 10 years. Next it reviews the areas of neuroscience, neurotheology, and quantum physics. These are relatively new areas to mainstream science and therefore can be unfamiliar even to the veteran paranormal investigator. The brief overview of each topic provides one with a general understanding of the topic and explains why they are important to paranormal research and how they may someday make the paranormal very normal.

About the Author

Bobbie Atristain founded CPRI in the Spring of 2000 with Matt Didier of The Toronto Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society. She currently writes for the print edition of Ghost! Magazine, the UK’s Mystery Mag and T.A.P.S. Para Magazine.

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