Ghost Hunting Scariest Ghost Encounters
GHOST HUNTING • Scariest Encounters
Who, Us? Scared? • We’ve been menaced, grabbed, and challenged. In our line of work, frightened comes with the territory.
THE LURE OF THE SCARY ENCOUNTER • Chills, thrills, and the fear of the unknown are just some of the reasons humans are drawn to the world’s creepiest corners.
The Dark?
Clowns?
Dolls?
Bigfoot and Extraterrestrials?
Demons?
HOW TO FIND GHOSTS • So you’re ready to begin your own investigations into the paranormal. Here’s where to start.
Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and the Italian Medium
How a Spirit Box Experiment Works
MAKING CONTACT WITH A GRIEVING GHOST • In a former Kentucky sanatorium, a spirit who looked like Hannibal Lecter grabbed Bruni by the arm while Berry watched him vanish into thin air.
TACKLING A LEGEND • In a heart-pounding encounter in the basement of the Old Arnold House in Rhode Island, Bruni and Berry reached out to the infamous Bent-Neck Lady and had to deal with what they’d wished for.
FRONT ROW SEAT TO TERROR • Backstage at the Rialto Community Arts Center in Morrilton, Arkansas, Bruni and Berry sought out an entity they thought was a murder victim—and paid the price for their curiosity.
Feeling Surrounded and Threatened • While doing the Estes Method in a client’s basement in upstate New York, Berry was tapped by a female spirit on the throat and arm. He screamed but stood his ground.
A HAUNTING TRADITION • Ghosts, and belief in the paranormal, are as American as apple pie.
How the Eastern State Penitentiary Got Haunted
A Source for Stories from America’s Enslaved People
UNNERVED IN THE CONSERVATORY • When Bruni tried to engage a malicious spirit who’d been taunting guests at a manor house in Maryland, the phantasm threatened to kill her.
DEALT THE DEVIL CARD IN SALEM VILLAGE • While shooting a segment in one of the most famous houses from Colonial America, Bruni and Berry upset some resident spirits who feared the investigators were doing the devil’s work.
THE SPIRIT WHO DIDN’T REALIZE SHE WAS DEAD • Walking along railroad tracks in Cape Cod where a young woman had been killed in an accident, Bruni triggered intense spirit activity and set off the train alarm. Was an engine barreling toward her?
HISTORIC, NOTORIOUS, AND HAUNTED • The Pennsylvania inn had been used during the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg as a perch for Confederate snipers and as a hospital for wounded soldiers. But the ghost who haunted its halls was of a more recent vintage.
Seeing Bigfoot • Bruni was not yet a teen when she and some friends spotted the famous creature near a dry creek bed near her childhood home in Petaluma, California.
CRIME AND THE PARANORMAL • Why so much unexplained activity is associated with prisons and scenes of terrible crimes.
Al Capone’s Music Haunting Alcatraz
When “Spectral Evidence” Helped Convict a Murderer
THE SPECTRAL BEING THAT GOT AWAY WITH IT • Looking for spirits in the basement of a haunted building in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Berry and Bruni stumbled onto a possible crime.
AN ENCOUNTER WITH PURE EVIL • Whoever murdered eight people at a house in Iowa in 1912 was never caught. But when Berry and Bruni visited the scene of the crime, the killer’s spirit spoke up.
LEARNING A MURDER VICTIM’S IDENTITY • A 20-year-old whose throat had been slashed was upsetting the spirits at an old elementary school until Berry and Bruni intervened.
Strangest Things • Slamming doors, hair pulling, and growling from behind locked doors.
Ghost Hunting Scariest Encounters
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