July 28, 2011 The more historic and tragic a site, the more common it is to find legends of its hauntings. While there are many historic sites with a tragic history it seems that it is even more common to find rumors of hauntings associated with a historic site because a significant historic figure came to that location at one point.
July 18, 2011 Today, the paranormal is very common. It seems like every television channel has their own paranormal show- even Animal Planet, and it’s a rare weekend when there isn’t a movie about the paranormal premiering. What a lot of people don’t realize is that before the current trend of science meeting the paranormal, there was an equally widespread interest in the unscientific paranormal, otherwise known as the Spiritualism Movement.
July 7, 2011 With history in the Mohawk Valley of Upstate New York stretching back beyond the French and Indian Wars, our area is home to some notorious haunted locations. We've been exploring them with the help of the NY Shadowchasers. H
June 30, 2011 In our last article, we discussed how a group of buildings can be haunted due to activities in that area. This week, we’re going to discuss another side of that, talking about whether ghosts haunt areas, or specific buildings.
June 16, 2011 It is very common while researching the paranormal to get caught up in reports and accounts of the ghostly activity and lose perspective. The history of a site is not limited to the structure or immediate grounds. Often significant historical events can affect an entire region to leave multiple locations and artifacts with potential hauntings.
A renowned example of a historic event causing regional activity is the Battle of Gettysburg. A sustained event over the course of several days has resulted in countless reports of paranormal activity spread through multiple locations, objects and individuals. In Central New York we have many variations of these regions but none so clearly defined as Herkimer.
June 2, 2011 In the latest article in our CNY Paranormal series, the NY Shadowcasers look at hauntings focused on a certain object, particularly an antique:
In researching the paranormal or history it is almost a common occurrence to find people who believe a site is haunted whether it is a field, graveyard, home or other structure. A unique aspect of paranormal research is that we may never know all of the ‘rules’ for paranormal phenomena this is why it is actually possible to have hauntings associated with objects.
May 31, 2011 I love this kind of stuff. There is so much to this world we've yet to discover; so much we've yet to learn; so much beyond our understanding.
Think back to the joy you experienced in your childhood after digging in the ground and finding a small little treasure, even if it was just a malformed rock.
Researchers at Mexico's National University are feeling that glee on a much larger scale now that they've discovered an 1,800-year-old tunnel underneath the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan.
May 19, 2011 The next article in our Paranormal Central New York series explores the unexplained near Steuben and Remsen:
As paranormal investigators, we are interested in the history of sites. Sometimes, what we get instead is the legend of the location, leaving us to fill in the gaps of history.
As we are located out of Remsen, NY, we often get requests for information on haunted cemeteries on Starr Hill Road, which runs from Remsen to Steuben. We are told stories of a cemetery off of Starr Hill Road that contains an old rocking chair. It is local legend that anyone who sits in the ghostly rocking chair will meet a mysterious death. We don’t know about any rocking chairs of death, but there is an interesting ghost story connected with the road itself.
May 5, 2011 Often when you think of hauntings it conjures images of decrepit old buildings, battlefields and many other sites that can have numerous deaths attributed to the grounds. In general people feel that ghosts are only caused by violent deaths and haunt the place where they died.
In many instances where there are violent deaths there can be hauntings, but it is not the only circumstance. The reason why most people associate ghosts with these locations is because of the grim history that they do possess. It is far more common for people to know of a violent history of a location than a ‘quiet’ history.
April 20, 2011 When many hear the words 'ghost' and 'haunting', they think of mist figures of women in white or a shadow figure that darts out of the corner of your vision. While hauntings by former humans are widely reported, and what we are most commonly called in to investigate, they are not the only things that can leave behind an impression. There are numerous cases across the globe of spirit animals; proving that the realm of paranormal research is a formula for surprise.
April 19, 2011 It's the most viewed video on YouTube at the moment and it is alleged to show the body of an extraterrestrial being in the Russian snow. There is no explanation as to how supposed body ended up in the field and there is no evidence of a UFO crash
April 6, 2011 One of the questions that we are always asked is “Are cemeteries haunted? If they are, why?” That’s a seemingly simple question that has a very complex answer. The simple answer to those questions is that some are, some aren’t, and the reasons vary depending on the ghost