Miami Ghost Chronicles
 
Over the years I have had several ghost stories sent anonymously to me, and it's these quaint and subtle stories of hauntings that I find so fascinating, because you realize that ghosts make their prescence known in the most mundane of settings, and sometimes it's only in hindsight that we realize exactly what we were experiencing.  I have excluded surnames and exact addresses in order to protect the privacy of families.

"My family owns an old home in rural Davie. The tiny home was hand-built by my great-uncle (via marriage) - a person I have never met. His name was Charles C. and he and his wife, Betty, lived there. He was said to be a nice man and you can easily see how much he loved his home. Betty C. was an Alzheimer's victim and Charles cared for her himself. He was putting a new roof on the home one day when he felt ill and came inside to lie down. He suffered a heart attack in the tiny hallway and passed away. Betty, being in a poor state of mind, stepped over his body for two or three days before neighbors came to investigate. Having not seen Charlie, they broke down the front door and found him deceased."
 
 
SEVERAL spooky sightings have been caught on camera.

In February the world was stunned by The Sun's picture of a young pale woman in the ruins of Gwrych Castle.

Facing your fears ... image at Tantallon Castle The photo was taken in what was the banqueting hall in Abergele, North Wales. She is thought to be the spirit of a countess who lived there.

The image of a sinister figure in a long coat was captured at Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, in 2003.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2960673/Ghostly-figure-of-a-weeping-girl-in-mirror-of-hotel-room.html#ixzz0o89L01rR
 
 
TERRIFIED couple spotted this ghostly figure of a weeping girl in the mirror of their hotel room - and fled after managing to snap a picture. The "hysterical" pair said she had curly locks and a check dress, and was "crying".

They checked straight out of the room which was LOCKED by hotel bosses after seeing the spine-tingling image, so no one else could stay there.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2960673/Ghostly-figure-of-a-weeping-girl-in-mirror-of-hotel-room.html#ixzz0o88kOkHv
 
 
A council has inspected one of its day centres following claims it is haunted.

A maintenance team was sent to the Wintern Day Centre in Fishguard to look for structural faults or anything that may explain strange events there.

A newspaper reports staff are afraid to work after hours as items have flown off walls, furniture has moved and unplugged printers have burst to life.
 
 
Investigating one of the nation's most prominent unsolved murders, a Hollywood detective pitched softball questions and homemade muffins to a serial killer. He asked: Did you kidnap freckled 6-year-old Adam Walsh from a Sears in 1981? ``Nothing to do with it,'' Jeffrey Dahmer answered, taking another muffin. The word of Dahmer, a sociopath who stashed severed heads in his refrigerator, was instrumental in Hollywood police deciding he was not Adam's killer despite contradictory statements from two witnesses. In December 2008, Chief Chadwick Wagner called a press conference to say deceased drifter Ottis Toole -- long suspected but never prosecuted -- killed Adam. Adam's parents believed it and Broward prosecutors said Toole was the only valid suspect. Case closed. But had authorities fully explored Dahmer's time in South Florida, they would have found more evidence implicating him than Toole, The Miami Herald found. The evidence includes two additional witnesses who said they saw him at the mall with Adam that day, another who placed Dahmer at the scene of an eerily similar abduction attempt two weeks earlier, and people who said he had access to a van fitting an early description of the getaway vehicle. The 29-year-old murder remains among the most vexing unsolved crimes in America, and no one can say with certainty that Dahmer -- or any of the other myriad suspects to drift through the case -- snatched the child.



Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/27/v-print/1551541/adam-walsh-murder-revisited-the.html#ixzz0jzuXksaq
 
 
Once owned by actor Nicholas Cage, the home’s old-fashioned façade still keeps its secrets, especially those surrounding the atrocities committed by its mistress close to 200 years ago.

The three-storied home at 1140 Royal Street (Rue Royale) in the French Quarter is presently for sale for a cool $2.9 million, but for many years it stood empty and ruined.  It was only back during 1832 when it was just newly built for its owners, Dr. and Madame LaLaurie that it was as beautifully furnished as it is now.

 For two years Delphine LaLaurie, a Creole socialite, hosted lavish soirees that were attended by all the prominent citizens in New Orleans; however all that changed on a spring afternoon on April 10th, 1834 when an old Negress cook set a fire in the kitchen.  Neighbors rushed in to save valuables, including  the slaves and what they found confirmed their suspicions beyond their worse expectation. 

 
 
 
A possible death penalty looms on the horizon for a woman accused of the robbery, mutilation and death of a local psychic and her daughter.

Almost five years ago in a small stucco house on Bird Ave in Little Saigon, Tanya Nelson and her accomplice Philippe Zamora allegedly consummated their plans to rob and murder Ha Jade Smith and her daughter Anita Nhi Vo.

It all began when Smith, unable to return Nelson’s lover to her through her psychic powers had advised her she couldn’t change reality. Nelson then allegedly recruited Zamora as a hitman and accomplice, and both traveled across the United States to exact revenge, but according to the Orange County Register Smith’s family and investigators believe the killers were also after the money and jewelry kept in the house.
 
 
Time was that haunted houses would stand abandoned for years, owners would have problems selling because of the midnight wails of headless Lords and white ladies walking the corridors. But thanks to the success of shows like Living TV’s Most Haunted and Derek Acorah’s Ghost Towns, there is a growing market of house buyers who would like to own their own haunted house.
 
 
A psychiatrist facing criminal charges in Anna Nicole Smith's death recently attended a séance for the model, who died three years ago Monday.

Psychic Shayne Goldfarb led the séance at Pol Atteu's Beverly Hills boutique, according to Atteau's partner, close Smith friend Patrik Simpson.

Among those attending was Smith's neighbor and psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, who traveled with Smith in her final months and who, along with two others, will soon stand trial on drug conspiracy charges.
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Luckily though, the ghost of her dead auntie (whom she never met) was close at hand.

"But then I realised my father's sister Joanne, who'd died at 19, had instilled her spirit in me. She was a painter and a poet – and I had a spiritual vision I had to finish her business."

So with her dead auntie's spirit "instilled" in her, Gaga set about becoming the crazy pop star we all know and love.

Is this a case of an attachment?  Makes you wonder what happened to the aunt that she passed away at the age of 19.

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