April Update…

Hey all,

• We recently celebrated one year as a team. We have been a pretty busy little group, with several residential investigations, investigating a public building and some cemetery investigations in between.
• We had a meeting to catch up recently after some busy times in our non-investigation lives. We are refreshed and ready for our next investigation.
• We discussed our previous investigation, and while we didn’t find any evidence, I think we gave our client some piece of mind and allowed them to stop being so concerned by the paranormal. Expect the notes from this investigation to make their way online soon.
• Speaking of investigation notes, expect a few changes over the next month to the site, the biggest being all the notes in one handy location.
• We also discussed our upcoming investigation. We will have more details on this soon, but it is a residential investigation with an absolute stack of activity being reported. Very exciting.
• I don’t know if you remember we reported on a zombie boot camp in the UK. They have been doing really well apparently, and wanted to let us know about their new experience set in a shopping mall. Prepare for your own “Dawn of the Dead” experience.
• We’ve also got a few other leads you will most likely hear about shortly, so stay tuned. And  as usual drop us an email at launceston.paranormal@gmail.com

We’re baaaack…

Hey all,

First I would like to apologise for the severe lack of updates in the last couple of months. Many excuses, new jobs, moving house and lack of internet. However, the society has still been at work. We recently investigated a private residence after a request from a member of the public who has had some paranormal concerns. I also discovered an EVP on some old footage I was checking back through. I want to fix up the volume a little but I’m hoping to put it up soon. It appears to be two voices, one answering a question, and the second responding to that. Exciting stuff!

For now here are an interesting video and website. Let us now what you think in the comments.

The video is an interesting source, the breakfast show “Sunrise”. The brekky central crew don’t seem convinced, how about you?

Looking to buy cheap property in Hong Kong? This website can help. It is a listing of possibly haunted houses for sale in Hong Kong. Fear of the supernatural throughout Asia is much more common than here, so much so that buyers may want to screen their houses for a potential haunting. This site was created to help. Haunted houses sell much cheaper than non-haunted, maybe you could pick up a bargain? The listings are very detailed, check out a couple below, or the entire Haunted Houses in Hong Kong website here.

• Young female texted and asked her boyfriend to meet her but he sent his sister instead. Victim jumped off the building in front of the sister
• Security guard noticed strong odour and found a 77 years old male resident dead in the flat
• 19 years old female breathed in smoke due to the short circuit of her computer

A little strange, but very interesting. You can even check all the deaths in every apartment in your building!

Thinking sceptically

Hope you’re having a great Friday the 13th guys. Maybe watching some spooky videos on YouTube? Can they all be trusted though?

Many of you have probably seen the pantry ghost footage. If not, here is one of them.

What do you think? Do you leap straight to belief, or try to think of a logical explanation? Or do you think that it’s a hoax?

When we investigate haunted locations, and get unexplained footage or sounds, we always have to try to debunk it. This leads to us throwing a lot of stuff out, but it also makes the stuff we can’t explain that much more exciting. With these “paranormal” videos online, you also can’t take them at face value. There are many misidentifications and some people just aren’t honest. Here is one explanation for the pantry ghost from the great skeptic Captain Disillusion…

Now while certainly not the only answer, a lot of what he says make sense. It’s up to you to decide for yourself, but remember to examine all the evidence you have, and think critically. The same goes for our stuff. Got an alternate theory? Let us hear it. Try out your critical thinking on this sound clip.

Have a nice Friday the 13th.

Ghost Sex?

Interesting video I just found, in which they interview a family who has been seeing ghosts. They claim to have seen (and photographed) two ghosts having sex. See what you think.

If true, what would this mean for the world of hauntings. Is it a residual haunting, a recording of one particular night of passionate love-making, or have two intelligent ghosts found new love in the afterlife.

Tell us your views in the comments below.

Fact or Faked

First off, apologies for the lack of new content. It’s a busy time of year, and we have been focused on our non-paranormal lives. However I have been watching a new show that I thought might interest a lot of you.

It’s called Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. Basically it’s Mythbusters for paranormal videos. At the beginning of each episode they watch several paranormal videos, often from YouTube. Usually they debunk a few on the spot, they then pick the 2 most interesting ones and set about their investigation. This usually consists of interviews with eye witnesses, followed by attempting to recreate the phenomena. They also occasionally do traditional paranormal investigations when they are warranted. Occasionally their conclusions are a little different to what I would think, but it’s almost always interesting. Most importantly though, it reminds us we need to be skeptical, and not rule out hoaxes or misidentified ordinary occurences. Check out there explanation of the famous Ghost Car video below.

Welcome to Zombie Boot Camp

While not strictly paranormal, I thought this might appeal to some of our readers.

Have you ever wondered what you would do if Zombie’s started taking over. Would you survive, or become part of the horde? Now you can start training to give yourself a better chance!

Ram Training in the UK now offer Zombie bootcamp training packages, and “Using blood balls, fake grenades and all the military cunning you picked up during that half hour’s training, you’ll identify and eliminate the enemy.” (The enemy in this case being a bunch of guys dressed as zombies.)

I’m hoping to make it to the UK soon, and I will most definately be checking this out. More info here if you want it.

Haunted Videogames

Often you hear about a haunted house, or other haunted place. Less often, maybe you hear about a haunted antique or other item. That said, I doubt many of you have heard stories about haunted video games. I certainly hadn’t before I discovered this interesting article on the website IGN.

Reading through the comments I found there are even more game ghost stories. I discovered this creepy tale of a bootleg Pokemon game.

 

Speaking of Pokemon, check out this messed up tale. (It’s not paranormal, but I believe could interest you guys none the same)

So this has gotten me thinking, what’s the strangest haunting you have ever heard of? Let us know in the comments.