HAUNTED
PLACES REPORT
Monthly Newsletter Archives
Vol. 2 (1999)
January – July 1999
(Note: HAUNTED PLACES
REPORT was originally the HAUCK REPORT.)
January 1999
Vol. 2 No. 1
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Researching consciousness through the investigation
of paranormal and mystical
experiences.
Contents:
- ANNOUNCEMENT (Invisible Ink Closing Down on March
1)
- CURRENT PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Breaking cases from throughout North
America)
- TRUE LIFE ENCOUNTERS (Accounts of true mystical and paranormal
experiences)
- HAUNTED HOUSE TEST (An article by California
ghosthunter Richard Sentate)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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One of the best resources for paranormal research
is about to close its doors.
INVISIBLE INK, the first and largest book catalog
to deal exclusively with
ghost books, will shut down on March 1. The
following is a copy of the
announcement letter from owner Chris Woodyard:
"As of March 1, 1999, I'm
retiring from my Invisible Ink catalog and going
back to what I do best:
ghost-writing. I have worked very hard the last
five years to make Invisible
Ink the very best selection of ghost books
possible, but now it is time to move
on. So here's your chance to get some of those ghostly
titles you've always
wanted with our HUGE 30% OFF SALE! Discounts will
be taken on Catalog 9 prices.
The Haunted Ohio/Spooky Ohio merchandise are not
included in the sale. When the
books are gone-they're gone! So buy early while the
selection is still good!
Dealer inquiries welcomed. I am going to finally
break down and sell my mailing
lists to carefully selected publishers and
retailers of ghost books, as well as
a few ghost organizations. I'll only be selling
names and addresses, not phone
numbers or credit information. IF YOU DO NOT WANT
YOUR NAME SOLD, YOU MUST CALL
OR WRITE US BY FEBRUARY 1, 1999. WE WILL GLADLY
TAKE YOU OFF THE LIST. If you
have a gift, refund, or credit certificate, it must
be used or cashed in by
March 1, 1999. Just send
it in for a cash refund. If you can't find a
certificate that you thought you had, please call.
We'll check our records. If
you are missing any backorder books, please let us
know by March 1, 1999 so we
can issue a refund check or send you the merchandise.
No returns of any kind
will be accepted after February 1, 1999. The
Invisible Ink name will live on as
I continue to provide a used booksearch service and
I will probably do a used
list mailing two or three times a year. If you
would like to be on my mailing
list for used paranormal books, just let me know.
Please include your e-mail,
if you have one. If you have any questions, please
call me at 1-937-426-5110.
It's been a wonderful 5 years! I couldn't ask for a
better group of friends and
ghost-lovers. It's time to renew my writing career,
but I will miss all of you.
Thank you for your patronage and kindness! Happy
Hauntings!"
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CURRENT PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
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CANADA - Chatham
(Ontario)
I'm sending you this email in hopes that someone
can help me. My family and I
have been experiencing things that can not be
explained. My wife has been
telling me that she's been hearing people walking
around our house, banging on
dressers and standing beside our bed at night.
Until last night I shrugged it
off. At approximately 3:00am I awoke from my sleep
to hear walking sounds
upstairs In our hallway. We have a baby monitor
downstairs that monitors the
upstairs but nothing was coming through on it. I
settled back down to sleep and
was awaken once again to the sounds of someone
walking down the stairs. These
sounds were'nt creaking sounds of a house settling.
These sounds were that of a
person walking down the stairs as if you and I were
walking. I have nobody
within my area that specializes in these types of
cases. I'm interested in
finding a psychic who can come in, assess what's
happening and maybe fix the
problem if there is one. If you know someone who
can help me, please let me
know.
- Mike <spinmstr@ciaccess.com>
PENNSYLVANIA -
I live in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This area
of Pennsylvania is semi to
moderately rural. I am a religious man, and have a
strong faith in God, and I
am not sure if there is anything living in another
world among us here on
earth, meaning that I have never seen or dealt with
anything like this before.
I am writing this just less than a week after the
first incident with something
making an incredible noise and banging against the
second story windows of the
house that I live in with my brother and my
sister-in-law. From my guessing,
and I am not a professional, the house is
approximately 100 years old.
Wednesday 22-Dec-98 (Between 2:00am - 3:00am):
It was between two and
three in the morning. It was cold and very windy
outside, and I had just awoken from sleep. I had
gone down stairs to get some
iced tea to drink, and had just returned to my
bedroom. I heard several loud
banging against the second story windows of the
house. Less than a second,
almost along with the banging, I had seen flashes
of light, one flash for each
bang. This had startled me, and I had just hollered
"HEY". That was the end of
the first incidence.
Thursday 23-Dec-98 (5:30 am):
My alarm clock had just gone off, and I got up and
shut it off, and turned on
the TV to watch the morning news. Just after I had
turned away from the window
and the TV, I had heard the same banging this time
on each window around the
second floor. I ran to the hallway, and knocked on
my sister-in-law's bedroom
door, and asked her if she had heard anything. She
said that it was just the
cat, and ignored it. I on the other hand, looked
out the hallway window, and
saw a glimpse of someone running past the window
resembling and young child
between the age of 8 and 10, and heard laughing
from a child approximately the
same age. Remember, the house that we live in is in
a semi to moderately rural
area and the closest neighbor is at least 4/10th of
a mile away. Again a close
to the second incident. This being the end of the
second incident got me
thinking of the first incident. I had passed the
first instance off to the high
winds that we had that night, and early hours of
the morning. I later told
friends and co-workers about this, and yes, they
laughed at me. One person who
did laugh, did tell me that I should keep a
documentation of these happenings,
and that is partially why I am writing this.
Saturday 26-Dec-98 (Between 9:00pm & 10:00pm):
The past two days, and nights, I had heard nothing,
and thought the noises were
gone. My fiancée Crystal and I were sitting on the
couch in the living room,
and my brother and sister-in-law had just settled
down for sleep. We were
watching TV, when we both heard banging outside. A
few seconds later, we both
heard a door knob being rattled. I immediately got
up and went to the back
porch, then outside to investigate, but nothing was
to be found. No barking
dog, or footprints in the snow. My brother had even
come outside to investigate
as well, but nothing was there. My fiancée is a
firm believer in spirits, and
had never heard these noises before in my house,
but immediately she apologized
for laughing at me. Being a believer in spirits,
she is now a believer in the
spirit in the house that I live in.
Sunday 27-Dec-98 (Between 2:00am - 3:00am):
I don't know if this time is significant or not, I
am not a ghost buster, and
do not know any history on the house. Remember
also, this is my first
experience with anything like this. My fiancée and
I were sleeping in the
bedroom, and had woken up. This is when we both
heard the banging again, then
after about a minute of it, it was gone. I had gone
back to sleep, but my
fiancée said that she was lying there in bed awake
when she heard noises of
someone being awake in the bathroom. This went on
for approximately the next
two hours until my brother's alarm clock went off,
and he had to go to his
weekend job. Not that I discredit my fiancée, but I
didn't hear these noises,
so I really can't document them. After the incident
on Sunday morning, I have
not heard anything since. I am waiting for the next
incident to happen.
Hopefully I can get more info while also trying to
do my own ghost busting on
my own recorder and camera in hand.
- George Czerny <gczerny@greeley-hansen.com>
TENNESSEE - Milington
(Naval Air Station)
In the summer of 1986, I was in the Marine Corps.
and station at Naval Air
Station Memphis in Milington, TN. I was part of a
work detail that was given
the task that day to clean the movie theater on the
base. After a morning of
scrubbing floors, taking out trash and such we
looked forward to lunch. After
lunch had been eaten, myself and two others decided
to go into one of the
theaters and take a nap. These were old theaters
with big wooden stages that
were now used just for showing whatever movies the
Navy could get their hands
on for a reasonable price. We had turned the lights
out except for the small
lights along the walkways and the end of the
aisles. I was in the back and the
other two were up front, near the stage. uddenly I
heard noises, like people
running on carpet. I stood up with my back to the
wall, straining to see in the
darkness and saw two figures running through the
rows of seats, then seated in
the middle of the
I has seen a boy and a girl, but I knew that
couldn't be true as there was just
us three guys in the theater.
walking slowly up the walkway towards me. Faint
shadows were cast on the walls
from the dim lights on he floor. Thinking that my
friends were trying to scare
me I slowly moved towards the light switch, to
throw it at just the right time
and scare then first. When the time in the stage.
After being yelled at by them
for nterrupting their sleep, I decided to dismiss
the event as runaway
imagination. We resumed our duties of scrubbing
floors and taking out trash. A
little while later, we were talking with the
civilian janitor whose been
working at the theater for many years. After we had
told him we had taken a nap
in the theater, he asked if we ahd seen the ghosts.
Then, I felt an ice-cold
chill come over me and every hair on my body as
raised. I mustered up the
courage to admit to seeing something, even though
my co-workers were sure to
think me a lunatic. Then the old janitor told the
story of how two lovers a boy
and a girl were killed backstage in a fire as they
were laying in each others
arms. He said that some nights after the crowds are
gone, that he can hear then
trying to run from the fire. Other nights they bang
on the walls and the doors
to be let out.
- Dave Hillier
<davo_98@hotmail.com>
MASSACHUSETTS -
Boston (Ramada Inn)
I want to find out if anyone else ever stayed in a
haunted Ramada Inn, in
Massachussetts outside Boston. When I was about 11
years old, we went to Boston
on a short trip, spending the night at a Ramada
Inn. The problem is that I was
just 11 and never thought to investigate or at least
get the address of that
Ramada Inn. That night, I was taking a shower. I
distinctly heard flapping
noise, like when you're drying a towel or sheet and
you flip it to smooth it
out so you can put it on the line. As soon as I
opened the shower curtain, it
stopped. When I closed it, it started again. I did
this twice, then finished my
shower and quickly finished so I could get out of
there. It freaked me out when
I realized it wasn't a neighboring room or my mom
because it distinctly stopped
as soon as I opened the curtain and started again
when I closed it. What do you
think happened in that bathroom? Anyone else have
similar experiences?
- aria121@geocities.com
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TRUE LIFE ENCOUNTERS
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I have a ghost living in my house. My next door
neighbor told me about how an
old lady died in the house I live in. She was a
nice old lady that everybody
knew.she did have some health problems, but it
didn't seem to bother her. One
day my neighbor realized that she hadn't come out
of her house to get the paper
or anything for a week, so she called the police.
They came and opened the door
and this smell was so strong it made them sick, and
they had to wear gasmasks.
The police went in the
house to look
for the old lady they found her in the room that is
my room, so they carried
her out and had a nice funeral for her. Before we
moved in they had to air out
the house for a couple days. They redid the house
so we could move in. What's
weird is sometimes I see her standing in front of
the closet door. I know I'm
not seeing things. One time she reached her hand
for me, I closed my eyes then
opend them, but she was still there. When I see her
I'm not afraid. I know she
real my best friend is a witness of this. One day I
was in my room with my
friend. We were going to watch a movie i set the
tape case down and all the
sudden it just flew to the floor Katie my friend
her a eyes were real big. I
looked around and said why did you do that. Katie
said to me Naomi who are you
talking to? I said the ghost, she gasped. My dad
sometimes has
encounters with her. He turns on the back porch
light and she turns it off. She
plays games; it's funny. She is really nice. I wish
I could have known her.
- Naomi <muse@iwaynet.net>
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HAUNTED HOUSE TEST
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by Richard Senate (OUR PSYCHIC WORLD)
For anyone who lives in a haunted place there comes
a time when the evdence of
your own eyes is too much to ignore. It is then
that the idea that you live in
a haunted house becomes a recognized fact. You can
scoff and give brave
rational answers to the strange and unexplainable
events that are happening all
around you for only so long. These excuses become
all the more strained as time
passes. At last you feel there can be no other
explanation than a ghost (or
ghosts). At that time one should try to call in an
expert.
Ghost Hunters and such are, in some small way, akin
to plummers. Just as you
attempt to fix your own pipes at your peril so it
is with having a specter
lodging with you. It may well be cheaper to ‘do it
yourself' but this can also
be unwise. So, I have devised a simple test for you
to take if you believe that
you may be living in, or working in, a haunted
site.
1. Have you ever heard a voice in this location
when there was no one there?
Yes, No
2. Has the TV or Computer turned itself on by
itself? Yes, No
3. Have you seen doors open and close by themselves
without a reason? Yes, No
4. At anytime, have you
smelled something out of the ordinary? Yes, No
5. Have you ever had things vanish only to turn up
a few days later? Yes, No
6. Have you ever seen any object move on its own,
without reason? Yes, No
7. Have you ever woke out of a sound sleep swearing
that there was a scream?
Yes, No
8. Do you find one part of the building strangely
cold when it should not be?
Yes, No
9. Do you ever feel "watched" in the
bathroom? Yes, No
10. Is there any odd stains in the building that
look like blood? Yes, No
11. Do animals, such as dogs and cats, avoid rooms
in the structure? Yes, No
12. Do small children scream when forced to enter a
room in the building? Yes,
No
13. Has there ever been a murder or suicide in the
structure? Yes, No
14. Was there ever a
battle fought near the site? Yes, No
15. Have you ever found Native American artifacts
near the location? Yes, No
16. Do you have persistent night mares when you
stay at the structure? Yes, No
17. Have you ever seen a ‘shadow' move out of the
corner of your eye at the
site? Yes, No
18. Have you ever felt something, invisible, touch
you at the site? Yes, No
19. Have you ever gotten a white spot or shaft in
pictures taken at the site?
Yes, No.
20. Do creative people seem disturbed being in the
building? Yes, No.
21. Have you had pictures, crosses, etc... fall off
the walls by themselves?
Yes, No
22. Do fireplace fires or candles act odd in the
house? Yes, No
23. Have you ever seen odd markings appear on the
walls like "Get Out"? Yes No
24. Does the bathroom toilet flush itself? Yes, No.
If you answer "yes" to ten of the
following questions you live or work in a
haunted site. If you answered "yes" to
five of the following questions it is
possible you live or work in a haunted building. If
you answered "yes" to 15 of
the questions you should seek help and advise as
soon as possible!
(For more information contact Richard Senate via
email at ghostlamp@msn.com)
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Subject: Hauck Report - February 1999
Vol. 2 No. 2 February 1999
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THE HAUCK REPORT
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Researching the
transformations of consciousness
in paranormal and mystical experiences.
Contents:
- CURRENT PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Breaking cases from throughout North
America)
- TRUE LIFE ENCOUNTERS (Accounts of true mystical and paranormal
experiences)
- NEW RELEASES
(Review of new books and videos on the paranormal)
- ORGANIZATION SPOTLIGHT (A look at popular research organizations)
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CURRENT PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
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CANADA - Ontario
Tanya Powell
(tlpowell@hotmail.com) reports a haunting occurring in her
apartment in Ontario, Canada: "I live in a townhouse complex that is
about 11
years old, and it is rumored to have been built on
an old Indian burial
ground. An
Indian shaman had to come and bless the land before any kind of
construction could be started. Well, I remember one night, I had just gotten
ready for bed and removed my necklace and placed it
on a hook on my dresser. I
hopped into bed and fell asleep. When I woke up the
next morning, the necklace
was laid out neatly at the foot of my bed! I didn't really think too much of
it at first
and took my necklace and put it back on. A few weeks later, I was
getting ready to go out an went to apply some
perfume, only to find the bottle
gone! I
searched my room up and down looking for it to no avail. It was gone
for about a week, and I heard somewhere if you ask
for the object back, the
ghost will return it. So I stood in my room and
said
aloud, "Please return my perfume!" The next day, I found it on the floor
beside my dresser. I had searched that place many
times before and it wasn't
there, and now suddenly, there it was! I haven't had any recent occurrences,
but I still feel the presence. I think my visitor
may be a woman, and just
wants to keep up her womanly appearance!"
ILLINOIS - Chicago
Over the last two decades, several sightings of a
Lady in Black have been
reported in the area around Maxwell Street in
Chicago. The encounters always
take place outdoors, and the good-Samaritan spirit
appears to be wanting to
help people or warn them. I've just received
another report from Frank D.
Ayers
(fdayers@ibm.net): "The year was1969, and I was 20 years old. I was
enrolled in the Chicago Police academy, which was
located near Maxwell Street
and the Dan Expressway. I had been attending the
academy for several months
and
was taking lunch with two other academy students. As
we entered a small
restaurant in this area, I remember a white lady
dressed in all black clothes.
Her dress reminded me of someone from the 1800's,
and the reason I mentioned
her color is because the area was basically a black
neighborhood and seeing a
white lady in this area makes this individual
encounter even stranger. Now, as
I stood in the entryway to the restaurant with my
friends on either side of
me, this
Lady in Black came up to me and looked right into my eyes.
Without a
word or hand gesture or even a facial expression,
she somehow communicated to
me to hand her the pen and small note pad I had in
my upper left hand shirt
pocket to her. I did just that without knowing
exactly why. She took the pen
and note pad and wrote something into the note pad.
Then she looked at me and
shook her head in a gesture of no, no, no. She handed me the pen and note pad
and left abruptly. I looked into the note pad and
noticed what she wrote: my
name and my birth date. But then I also realized
that it was in my own
handwriting.
I quickly turned to my friends and asked them, "Did you see what
the lady just did?" They responded to my question as though I was
crazy.
"What lady?" They acted as if nothing unusual happened,
and we went into the
restaurant and had lunch. Well, this strange little
encounter stayed with me,
and I always felt that I would have to quit the
Chicago Police Department
someday. I
felt she was telling me to leave this career option in order to
save my life.
Now, I never told many people of this story. However, I saw a
TV show ("Unsolved
Mysteries") in which a Lady in Black saved a
motorcyclist on
a highway near this area in Chicago and how
paramedics and others saw this
Lady
in Black come to his aid and saved his life
recognize. I am now certain
that it
was the same Lady in Black I encountered outside
that Maxwell Street
restaurant."
TEXAS - Temple
This report is from Mark A. Keeton
(receptionist@brierley.com). It is about an
incident from this city and he wonders if others have
experienced anything
similar in the house in question. "My
great-grandparents lived in an old farm
house in Temple Texas. To my knowledge it was built
around the turn of the
century. My grandparents were very poor people who
had worked hard as migrant
pickers to save money to buy a home. A man came to
them shortly after they
looked at the house and explained to them that the
house was
haunted by the spirit of a young girl that was his
niece. He told them that
they should rethink their decision to buy it. My
grandparents spoke little
English and thought the man was just trying to keep
them from moving in to his
old family home. Sarah, my great-grandmother, loved
the house so much she
wouldn't hear of not buying it. Within days of
their moving-in the presence of
a ghost was undeniable. By the time I was born
they had been in the house at least 25 years. As a
child, I experienced many
poltergeist phenomena in the house. The bedding
would get tucked in tightly
around me at night for no reason, the gas heater
would get turned up to
high in
the middle of July, or the large windows in my
bedroom opened wide in the
middle of the winter. There were times when I would
feel someone touch my hair
or rub my legs when I was asleep, but when I would
open my eyes there would be
no one there. Once I saw someone crying in the
backyard through the screen
door. It was a lady in a dark blue dress, She was
kneeling down and looking at
something that I could not see. She looked odd to
me and her clothes reminded
me of "Little House on The Prairie." All
I can say about her face was that is
was just without any detail. I asked my grandmother
who she was, and she just
looked up through the kitchen window and said
"That's her!" I knew who she
meant without having to ask. The ghost would often return to that same spot.
It was rumored through the family that her baby was
buried there. I have never
seen anything to prove the story, but it was said a
young girl gave birth out
of wedlock and her father murdered the child and
buried in the yard. It is
also
said that the girl went mad with grief and hung
herself in the room that I
slept in on my visits. The haunting continued until
my grandparents left the
house in 1989 to move in to a retirement home.
Since then the house is under
new ownership and has been remodeled. I have often
wondered if she is still
there with the new owners, I just don't think so. I
have driven by the house
many times on my visits there.She use to be able to
be seen by passersby from
the street. Maybe when they put in the pool they
unearthed whatever it was
that
was keeping her earthbound, but I was wondering if
anyone in Temple knows
anymore about this true haunting."
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TRUE LIFE ENCOUNTERS
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"When I was in first grade my sister, nearly
fifteen years older than me at
the
time, passed away. Several years later as I slept
in bedroom, I awoke one
night
and saw a young lady standing at my bedroom door
that I closed earlier. This
lady was standing directly in the door frame as if
the door had been open all
along. At first I thought I must be dreaming, but
as I realized that I was
really awake and really seeing a lady, I assumed
that she was my mother and it
had just taken me a moment to gain my senses. I called to my mother, "Mom,"
three or four times and the lady would not respond.
This was not like my
mother, so I got up to go to the door, all the time
able to see the lady in
full view until I was standing directly in the spot
where she was. At that
point, a chill came over me and I took several
quick steps backwards. To my
surprise, I could still see the lady, who I then
realized was my sister,
Linda,
who had passed nearly ten years earlier. I have not
seen her since then, but
that night after I returned to my bed (quite a while
after the disturbing
incident) I felt a peace come over me and felt that
she and I needed that one
last meetin