The ghost

Please enlarge to see both pictures…. Head doorman Reece Hugill of Manhattan’s Pub in Stockton, Teesside, UK, was exploring the pub after a team of paranormal investigators had just taken a tour of the building.

Reece, a self-confessed sceptic, decided to take a random photo and was shocked to see what looks like a ghostly image of young boy in the picture.

Reece said. “Manhattan’s is said to be Stockton’s most haunted building,

“People have said there has been over 100 recorded deaths here. Others, like old owners and staff, have said they have heard voices and seen things move.

“I was showing a new member of security staff around the building, and I told him we had some mediums/paranormal investigators come and check the place out a few days prior.

“We went all the way to the top floor – each floor got creepier and creepier. The other two also started to say it was very cold, which I shrugged off because the windows were old and cracked.”

He added “Everybody has said it’s a little boy which is strange because the investigators mentioned a young trapped spirit named Joshua

Ghost

BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON SAW A GHOST.

Early in 1970, George purchased the dilapidated Friar Park in Henley on Thames, saving it from demolition.

Recently the home of a school run by nuns, the massive mansion was a restoration nightmare.

It had once been grand, replete with stunning gardens, but had gone to rack and ruin.

The 120 room mansion had been the mastermind of Victorian eccentric and lawyer, Sir Frank Crisp (1843 – 1919), who built it in 1890.

The neo-Baroque building boasted lots of scantily clad friar sculptures in the garden, an underground cave system, a recreation of the Matterhorn and stepping stones just under the pond to give the impression of someone walking on water.

The public were allowed in the gardens, and Crisp would enjoy leaping out on unsuspecting visitors walking round the grounds.

Sir Frank became something of an inspiration to George Harrison, who put in a lot of graft restoring the grounds and mansion to their former glory, and restoring the dignity to the unfortunate friar statues who had their ‘anatomy’ chopped or cemented over by the affronted nuns.

Around the grounds, George rather enjoyed the quips and sayings Sir Frank had carved.

Quite a few found their ways into Harrison’s music, and Sir Frank even was the subject of a song on Harrison’s post Beatle’s LP All Things Must Pass (the cover art of which was photographed in Friar Park’s gardens).

However, Sir Frank seems to have impinged on Harrison’s tenure in Friar Park in a supernatural way.

There already was local legend that Sir Frank’s ghost walked his former home. For George and his associates living there, it was more of a reality.

Chris O’Dell, a tour manager and general assistant, who had worked for The Beatles at Apple, lived at Friar Park and worked for George and his first wife Pattie Boyd.

In her memoirs Miss O’Dell: Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, O’Dell writes that she always felt Friar Park to have a spooky tinge.

One night, Terry Doran, George’s assistant burst into the kitchen trembling and pale, exclaiming, “I just saw a ***** ****** ghost!”

He had been in the Minstrel’s Gallery and encountered a man standing there.

On being asked who he was, the strange man vanished. It took a lot of wine to calm Doran’s nerves.

As for George himself, he liked to while away time in the garden, and could be out there until well after midnight.

It was during one of those sessions, he happened to spot Sir Frank striding around the garden. George’s response isn’t on record, but perhaps with his spiritual outlook, he maybe took it a little better.

Besides, along with Paul McCartney and John Lennon, George already had some personal experience with the paranormal.

Lennon’s home, the Dakota in New York had a haunted reputation long before he took up residence, and he said he had encountered the apartment block’s crying white woman in the corridors.

Friar Park is still in the Harrison family, home to Olivia, George’s second wife, and son Dhani whenever he’s in the UK.

And perhaps Sir Frank Crisp still keeps a quiet watch.

Grad duhova

Grad duhova: Burkittsville

Burkittsville je ukleti grad u Marylandu i dom je duhova građanskog rata i čudnog stvorenja nalik ptici.  Grad Burkittsville su osnovali 1824. godine Joshua Harley i Henry Burkitt.

Godine 1875. zajednicu je počelo terorisati  stvorenje koje su zvali Snalygaster.  Mještani su ga opisivali kao polugmaza, polupticu s udovima hobotnice i metalnim kljunom obrubljenim zubima oštrim poput britve.

Pričalo se da je stvorenje letilo iznad grada i spuštalo se kako bi pokupilo svoje žrtve 

Najranija legenda tvrdi da je ovo čudovište sisalo krv svojih žrtava i da je Imalo ogromna krila, dugačak šiljasti kljun, kandže poput čeličnih kuka i oko u središtu čela

Međutim, većina duhova Burkittsvillea su ljudi koji su izgubili živote tokom građanskog rata.

Sablasni glasovi vojnika se i dalje mogu čuti u nekim dijelovima gradua 

U gradskoj kožari je bila postavljena improvizovana bolnica iz koje većina vojnika nikada nije izašla.  

Kožara je srušena, ali mjesto još uvijek opsjedaju duhovi tih vojnika.

Priča se da će svako ko tu parkira  automobil preko noći, ujutru zateći vozilo obilježeno otiscima vojničkih čizama.

 Tokom rata, kada su se vojnici Konfederacije povlačili, nisu imali vremena pokopati svoje mrtve suborce.  Umjesto toga, platili su čovjeku po imenu Wise da osigura da mrtvi vojnici budu pravilno pokopani.

Wise je prihvatio novac, ali je tijela bacao u napušteni bunar. Svake noći, nakon toga, Wisea su mučile vizije jednog mrtvog vojnika koji mu je rekao je da se zove Jim Tabbs i zahtijevao prikladan pokop za sebe i svoje ljude.

Ne mogavši ​​više izdržati spektralne vizije, Wise je ušao u bunar i otkrio da je posljednje tijelo bačeno u njega imalo pločicu s imenom ušivenu u ovratnik.  Pisalo je: "Narednik Jim Tabbs".

Užasnut, Wise je izvadio sva tijela iz bunara i pokopao ih na groblju. Više nikada ga nisu uznemiravale vizije mrtvih vojnika.

 Vještica iz Blaira

Burkittsville je postao poznat nakon objavljivanja filma The Blair Witch Project.  Siromašni grad Burkittsville se iznenada našao preplavljen grupama turista- istraživača  koje su lutale šumom, pokušavajući pronaći ''prava'' mjesta na kojima se priča dogodila.

Zaista cudno

U nekim delovima Afrike i Južne Amerike neki mravi se koriste za improvizaciju hirurških šavova. Dorilus gribodoi je naučno ime za jednu od šezdeset vrsta mrava koji naseljavaju Afriku, takođe poznatu kao ratnički ili legionarski mravi, a ovi mravi se uglavnom nalaze u centralnoj i istočnoj Africi. Njihov ugriz je toliko jak i uporan da domoroci koriste ove insekte za pravljenje šavova, držaće mrava za zadnji deo tela, poravnati mu čeljusti sa ranom, a zatim će mrav ugrizati pomoću vilica. Jednom kada čeljust sjedini obe strane rane, slomiće telo mrava, ostajući samo glava i vilice. Ovo stvara prirodni šav koji se može koristiti u prirodi ako nema drugih medicinskih sredstava.