These pictures created a media frenzy similar to (or greater than) the sightings of the Virgin Mary. The Italian media continually broadcast these pictures to the public. Religious websites posted them, only to experience a server crash when too many people tried to access the sites. Many people believe that the fiery apparition is Pope John Paul II, waving to them from beyond during a ceremony that honored the second year of his passing.
Is this really Pope John Paull II or a trick of the flame? I have to admit that the silhouette looks remarkably similar.
This was one of the sites I wanted to visit on our family vacation this summer, but we never made it. I’d read stories about how visitors would hear maniacal laughter as they walked past Death Row. Much to my disappointment (although not a surprise), Tiffany Stine explains the source of these sounds in her article, ESP, a Real-Life Haunted House.
I was searching for a picture of the penitentiary when I found the complete episode of the Ghost Hunters investigation of this place. After enjoying two unrelated Ghost Hunters episodes, I decided to watch this to see what happened. The highlight of the episode came in Part 2, when the team caught something forming on film in front of cell block 12. It looked like a person running down the walkway with a blanket over his head. I saw what looked like a white pant leg toward the bottom of the anomaly. Jason confirmed what I saw when they watched the film footage.
Was it an apparition or a hoax? In the end, the TAPS team wasn’t quite sure. Neither am I. If this was a hoax, it was a very good one. Watch it for yourself, if you haven’t already.
As for my disappointment in not visiting the penitentiary, I’m glad in some ways we didn’t go, due to the playacting. I wouldn’t want to pay $30 to get a cheap thrill, but rather learn about the history and explore the place on my own.
The oldest of these ghost ships is the Griffon, launched in 1678 by the early French explorer and trader La Salle. The ship vanished on the return leg of its maiden voyage loaded with furs for trade. No trace of the ship was ever found until recently, when a possible candidate for the wreck was found by divers in the form of a very old hand-carved mast sticking out of the muck. In any case, sailors have seen a ghostly apparition of the Griffon under full sail on several occasions crossing lake Michigan. At least 10 more modern ghost ships are occasionally sighted plying the lakes, and.even the giant 729 foot Edmund Fitzgerald was sighted a decade after its infamous sinking.
Ghost ships aren’t the only things haunting the Great Lakes, which are considered to be the most treacherous waters in the world. The ghost of a crewman nicknamed “Grandpa” quietly follows divers as they explore the wreckage of the Emperor.
Phantom vehicles are considered an urban legend in the scientific community. Despite this, people from all over the world have reported seeing ghostly vehicles driving on the highway, on bridges, residential streets, etc. The excerpt below is from a young woman who had a very unsettling experience on a secluded Long Island road.
I was driving down the road, and noticed 2 headlights heading up onto my tail feather at a very fast speed. Because I am a girl, and because I was the only one in the car, and because I was ALONE…my heart began to race.
I had always heard these terrifying stories about rapists bumping cars of women down dark roads just to get them to pull over. I feared that this was what was going to happen, or that this speed demon would simply pass by me. I hoped so anyway.
Read about this creepy tale here. According to the author, this isn’t her first experience with a ghost car. The strange thing is that it happens to her every 3 months.
