"Ghost doctor" caught on camera lurking in a derelict hospital

A terrified ghost hunter probing a 'haunted' derelict hospital was horrified to see the spectral figure of a doctor lurking in one of her pics.

Jamie-Leigh Brown, 21, was exploring the empty corridors of St Thomas's Hospital, a former Victorian workhouse, in Stockport, when she took eerie photo.

The decorator was so unnerved by spooky footsteps above them - even though the building has no working stairs - that she and her team of amateur ghost-busters didn't check the image at the time.

The paranormal enthusiasts ran from the building in terror, but when Ms brown developed the photo later she found a chilling surprise - a spectral doctor lurking in the background.

She said to The Sun: "It freaked me out.

"It's standing in a lift shaft. It's really creepy to think my friend was just heading towards the area where the ghost was.

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New York Cop assisted in more than 20 exorcisms (video)

Meet the cop who busted scumbags by day — and Satan by night.

The new horror film “Deliver Us From Evil,” due in theaters July 2, is based on the accounts of a real NYPD sergeant, Ralph Sarchie, who spent many years on the force while assisting with exorcisms in his spare time.

In this exclusive clip from a forthcoming 15-minute documentary about Sarchie, he talks about his real-life experiences investigating demonic possessions. He worked in the company of a breakaway Catholic priest who split with the church over exorcisms.

Sarchie, who wrote a 2001 book about his demon-chasing career called “Beware the Night,” says he assisted at more than 20 such rituals, and investigated more than 50 spooky cases in all. He and his crew would typically roam a spirit-infested house to spread holy water, incense and holy oil, then pray in unison.

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Has Edinburgh's most haunted pub ghost finally been caught on film

IT is believed to be Edinburgh’s most haunted pub, with more spooky spectres than there are spirits behind the bar.

Now staff at the Grassmarket’s White Hart Inn have what they believe is a photo of a troublemaking ghost, captured by a family of Australian 
tourists.

It shows what staff claim is a ghostly female apparition near the venue’s main bar.

The spooky snap is believed to be a girl in a red dress who haunts the bar, a spectral hand visible at her side.

Such has been the 
excitement over the image, a ghost-chasing film crew has asked to spend a night locked inside the pub in a bid to capture unmistakable proof of the afterlife on camera.

Inn manager Michael Johnson, a self-proclaimed sceptic, said the couple’s daughter took the holiday snap about eight weeks ago on a night out.

Mr Johnson said he remembers the night well as he had been giving the pleasant couple “jip about the rugby”.

He said: “They were about the second last group to leave and they pulled on my shirt and said ‘look at this’.

“They’d looked through the photos and seen something a bit strange. She pulled it up on us and that’s when I knew it wasn’t a hoax. She couldn’t have done any computer graphics because she was still in the pub.”

County employees busted for ghost camera

Two city-county employees have been given reprimands for having a camera posted in hopes of capturing paranormal activity in the county health department, Chief Executive Matt Vincent said Tuesday.

Vincent said an internal investigation concluded — as the county attorney had said in August — that no crimes had been committed. When asked if the matter could be characterized as off-the-wall or something serious, he said both.

“I mean, for God’s sake, whenever you are talking about ghosts it’s off the wall,” he said. “But it’s serious in that the public gives trust in us and we need to take that seriously, and setting up cameras in public buildings to catch paranormal activity I don’t think is gaining the public’s trust.”

The investigation began after a motion-sensitive camera was found Aug. 21 in a vacant, little-used room in the Butte-Silver Bow County Health Department at 25 W. Front St. It was determined later the camera belonged to a nonprofit group called the Butte Paranormal Investigative Team, which set it up after work hours.

According to a memo about the investigation from Interim Human Resources Director Penny McElroy, one employee indicated that she worked with a local group to see if there was any paranormal activity in the building.

Butt Pinching Ghost Terrorizes Bar Patrons

Drinkers and staff at an ancient pub are being terrorized by a cheeky ghoul — who pinches drinkers' butts.

Terrified regulars at The Queen’s Arms have been keeping their backs to the wall since they realised the randy ghost was stalking the bar.

And it has become so bothersome that the exasperated owners have had called in a team of ghostbusters to give the saucy spook the bum’s rush.

Staff at the Birmingham city centre boozer have nicknamed the ghost Grasper after they described feeling a “firm pinch” to the buttocks.

Assistant manager Paula Wharton, 41, initially believed the tweaks on her body were muscle spasms.

She said: “One night three of us were talking and I mentioned that I’d felt this pinch on my bum, and everyone else said that it had happened to them too.

"Haunted" Ohio Prison a Hot Spot for Weddings

The 100-year-old Ohio state prison featured in "Shawshank Redemption" has taken on a new, significantly less creepy role in recent years: wedding venue.

The penitentiary even hosted its fifth annual Glamour in the Slammer bridal show this month, drawing more than 500 potential brides and grooms to view the venue's space and outfit their weddings.

The jail was famously the setting of "Shawshank Redemption," the 1994 film about an escape from prison. The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society now runs historic tours, hosts paranormal events including ghost hunts, and rents the space out for weddings and banquets.


"The room is beautiful," said Susan Nirode, operations manager of the Preservation Society. "It's seated right between both of our cell blocks, in the very center of the building, with large granite columns, black and white marble floors, and floor-to-ceiling glass walls."

The one-time Ohio State Reformatory prison hosted its annual fifth annual Glamour in the Slammer bridal show this month.

Weddings start at $1,000 for venue rental, according the Preservation Society, and the prison's Central Guardroom is booked through the end of 2012. They've already hosted more than 50 weddings in the space, she said.

The prison has also been home to film crews for the movie "Air Force One," a rap video for Lil Wayne, an advertisement for World Wrestling Entertainment, and the reality show Ghost Adventures. 

It was an operational jail which held prisoners from the late 1890s to about 1990, Nirode said, when the inmates were transferred to a newer facility nearby. A group of interested citizens organized the preservation society, eventually securing the deed to the prison. It's now run as a non-profit. 

After a few years of haunted tours and film fans visiting the prison, a couple suggested a "spooky" wedding in the Central Guardroom. Nirode and others from the board decided that a renovation, completed in 2006, would help draw more events and, eventually, an additional revenue source for the prison. 

Nirode, who runs the bridal show for the Preservation Society, said that many brides can shake off the prison feeling when they see how beautiful the building is. 

"When you walk up, it looks like a castle from the outside. For the weddings most couples even leave the curtains in the guard room open so people can look down the halls at the cells. And it's not couples you would think would want to have weddings in prison. Very simple, very elegant," she said. "You wouldn't even know you're in prison."

Source: ABC News