Was a "Civil War" era ghost accidentaly caught on camera ? (video)

A family were given holy water to sprinkle around their house after the ghostly shape of a 'civil war maid' floating in their living room was caught on camera - with their terrified dog looking right at it.

Tim Welty, 25, had visited his parents' home to fix their computer when his mother got in touch to say their camera installed to keep an eye on the dogs had captured something unusual while he'd been round.

A picture that the camera had taken while he had been sat in the room alone showed the shape of a large lady hovering over the sofa and the cocker spaniel looking up at her, with her ears pulled back in fear.

Tim Welty claims his dog spotted the ghost of a civil war maid inside his Virginia Home 

Welty believes the dog is alerted to the presence of the apparition which is captured on video

Tim Welty, pictured second right, along with his family Anna, left, mother Cheryl, brother Chris and father Bill, right, was fixing their computer when the ghostly apparition appeared.

After sharing the image, some Catholic friends of the family were so 'freaked out' by what they saw that they gave them holy water and urged them to sprinkle it around.

Bigfoot sighting in Virginia (video)

Bigfoot, like the Loch Ness Monster, is a mysterious figure that divides people all over the world into those who believe in his existence, and those who don't.

But is this the biggest proof yet that the elusive Sasquatch actually exists?

Randy O'Neal, 40, reckons his father's picture, taken on the Intercoastal Waterway in Virginia this weekend, backs up his previous claims of a sighting after he apparently encountered the beast 25 years ago.

While on a camping trip in 1989, he believes he saw a 'set of red eyes' in the darkness.

 Randy told the Mirror: 'My memories and experiences have made me a believer.

'I can honestly say that these are the clearest, most "non-blurred" images I personally have ever seen.'

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The Paranormal Activity Lab at University of Virginia

The market for stories of paranormal academe is a rich one. There’s Heidi Julavits’s widely acclaimed 2012 novel The Vanishers, which takes place at a New England college for aspiring Sylvia Brownes. And, of course, there’s Professor X’s School for Gifted Youngsters—Marvel’s take on Andover or Choate—where teachers read minds and students pass like ghosts through ivy-covered walls.

The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine is decidedly less fantastic than either Julavits’s or Marvel’s creations, but it's nevertheless a fascinating place. Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson—originally as the Division of Personality Studies—its mission is “the scientific empirical investigation of phenomena that suggest that currently accepted scientific assumptions and theories about the nature of mind or consciousness, and its relation to matter, may be incomplete.”

"Survival of personality after death" is something like a law of conservation of energy applied to human consciousness.

 

What sorts of “phenomena” qualify? Largely your typical catalog of Forteana: ESP, poltergeists, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, “claimed memories of past lives.” So yes: In 2014, there is a center for paranormal research at a totally legitimate (and respected) American institution of higher learning. But unlike the X-Mansion, or other fictional psy-schools, DOPS doesn’t employ any practicing psychics. The teachers can’t read minds, and the students don’t walk through walls. DOPS is home to a small group of hardworking, impressively credentialed scientists with minds for stats and figures.

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