Demon

According to legend, the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man possesses supernatural powers. These hands are said to possess the power to manipulate the movement of a room or house full of people… But what is it !?

The Magic Behind The Hand

Im sure all you Harry Potter fans out there will be going nuts over Mr Malfoys Hand of Glory. This cursed item, in particular, is surrounded by mystery, black magic and death. It has a much darker purpose than most objects of a similar nature.

The hand made it’s first appearance during the 1600’s, it was mentioned in the grimoires similar to Petit Albert and the Compendium Maleficarum, It was also published in some manuals for witch hunting. The creation of this sinister object varies, as do its magical uses. They all involve a rather obvious hand but sometimes it is the severed hand of an executed criminal or a dead child’s hand, but the latter not so often.

(The Last Hand of Glory on Display)

The exact instructions are : Take the right or left hand of a felon who is hanging from a gibbet beside a highway; wrap it in part of a funeral pall and so wrapped squeeze it well. Then put it into an earthenware vessel with zimat, nitre, salt, and long peppers, the whole well powdered. Leave it in this vessel for a fortnight, then take it out and expose it to full sunlight during the dog days until it becomes quite dry. If the sun is not strong enough, put it in an oven with fern and vervain. Next make a kind of candle from the fat of a gibbeted felon, virgin wax, sesame, and phone and use the Hand of Glory as a candlestick to hold this candle when lighted …

None of this sounds too difficult and this item could come in handy to any local thieves! The most common suggestion of the hands uses where the use of the dead man’s fat to fuel the flame, in doing so the user would be able to paralyse anyone in a house or building, anyone but the user.
Other theories vary. Including the candle having the power to open any lock, the flame burning brighter in the presence of treasure, or only provides light to the wielder ( Potterheads ).
This does all sound incredibly useful ! But I can guarantee that your local store does not sell Zimbat or Ponie. Although the word ‘ Ponie ‘ is thought to mean horse poop ! So you have a little bit of a head start there.

Now there are ways to protect yourself from the creepy ass reach of a Hand of Glory. You can render it ineffective by running the threshold of all the windows and doors of your home with a mixture of screech owl blood, fat of a white hen and the gall of a black cat.

In these modern times, researchers do now think that the idea of a Hand of Glory is a kind of ” lost in translation ” moment. The theory first arrived when the word ” Mandragora “, or the mandrake root ( Potterheads ) was mistranslated from the french word main de gloie. However, this did not stop the Hands of Glory appearing time and time again throughout English Folklore and in actual homes !

Most Haunted Objects

One story involving the Hand of Glory comes out of the Spital Inn in North Stainmore 1797, where a burglar was found in the dead of night and in possession of one of these rather useless severed hands. There is also an actual Hand of Glory in England’s Whitby Museum. The magic relic was found sealed up in the walls of an old cottage in Castleton in 1935. It is apparently the last genuine Hand of Glory in existence.


Today the Hand of Glory has been used in a few movies like Hellboy and Harry Potter. There are even a few songs about the hand. It will remain in English Folklore and hopefully, the last remaining hand stays in good condition for hundreds of years. An awesome example of the madness of the 1600’s. http://www.the-line-up.com/hand-of-glory/

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The Beechworth Lunatic Asylum holds the title of world’s most haunted Asylum and that is something to boast about ! Abandoned asylums are by far the creepiest of any stereotyped locations, a creepy ass empty building full of former mental patients… But this location has something a little more than the walking dead. There is said to be something dark here, attracted by all the pain and suffering. With over 9,000 recorded deaths it is not hard to believe.

The Mad Within

600 men and 600 women would be held at one time in the second oldest asylum in the world, over the span of 128 years, 9,000 patients died within the cursed walls. The building closed its doors for good in 1995 after failed attempts of a hotel, conference center and even a university. All of these businesses tried to face the problems after spending a presumably large sum in the shell of the old asylum but they where all driven out by those who still resided within.

In one of the rooms, you will find the signature of J.Kelly, one of more famous ghosts of Beechworth. He was sentenced to 15 years after burning down his sister-in-laws house. When he entered he was thought quite sane but he left a broken man and died in hospital in 1903. He is seen in his old room, striding and banging. In the same room a manical laughter is heard and objects are seen flying across the room before smashing on the wall. Anger ? Or is this pleasure from the fear he inspires.

A Jewish Patient is seen here, she was thrown from the terrace over a pack of cigarettes.Check out the orb captured

The Reaction Hall is one of the most haunted rooms within the building. It was an area where patients would come together and sing or play music even preform from time to time. Two ghosts are seen here constantly. A young girl and an old man. The young girl is heard wailing and scratching at the walls and the old man is seen staring down at passers-by from the window.
The old Matron Sharpe is an active spirit around the dormitories. She is seen walking around the room and rushing up towards people who try and enter.
Tommy Kennedy was murdered in the kitchens when he was working with another patient. People report a tugging sensation or being poked in the ribs. The sound of pots and pans are heard clanging and smashing despite the fact there is no equipment left ! The screams of Tommy are heard, agonising and prolonged.


Little girl saw around the asylum.

The sounds of children giggling and light footsteps are heard all over the building. The building had a huge childrens ward, ofcourse until very recently children were deemed insane when they where acting anything but ” Normal ” and they where treated brutally. Whipped, slapped or kicked. All it took was i slap around the head and an awkward fall and a child would be dead. In alot of old orphanges or aslyums the childrens deaths where often covered up and bodies hidden by evil old women who fed from the suffering of innocent children. In the past resident children were punished for talking to imaginary friends here. We know now that children’s imaginary friends are not always imaginary…

There are alot more intelligently active ghosts here but alot go unnamed. A certain presence or presences here are thought to be alot more than just former patients. All the death, pain and suffering felt here would have easily attracted something darker than the spirit of a little girl. People have enetered the building and been hit with a sudden sickness others have been scratched and bitten. A large black shadow is seen in every part of the bulding, stalking the corridoors, followed by a stench of human feses and with glowing red eyes. The feeling of terror some are said to experience without explanation can only be summed up to something demonic within. Is it possible certain groups have broken in an preformed dark rituals ? It would not be the first time insane asylums have been used for this…
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Convicted and Condemed

All it took to be convicted to Beechworth Asylum was a request from a pissed off relative and a signature from a doctor who was not even required to examine you in person, and the majority of patients left in body bags…

By far the most haunted part of the building and most terrifying is the Grevillia wing. It was infamous wing that all patients feared, insane or not. With medication not being introduced until the 1950’s. So if you were called mad the only way to cure you were shackles or straight jackets in a tiny white room with padded walls. Often patients would spend weeks, even months on end in this room. Or electro-shock therapy, you would be strapped down and connected to electric wires, the shock felt throughout the body would have caused ligaments to snap and bones to break. The end result if often permanent brain damage that would normally kill so many brain cells and you would be a vegtable.

The image actually was taken inside Beechworth Asylum…

The Greville wing is by far the most haunted and easily the main part of the building to experience some intense paranormal activity.
All of this is, let’s be honest, shit scary but that is nothing compared to the dark history ignored down in the cellars and more.

Rituals & Necromancy in Beechworth

In some mourges or prisons or aslyumns there is rumour of evil practises being preformed of the corpses of the dead. Removing dead bodies or preparing the coprses for burial or indeed the burial itself were all roles that involved the dead were underpayed jobs and relativley easy work to get. So as you can imagine it attracted some of the stranger members of society. As for the doctors, that profession was diffiucult to get into, incredibly difficult. It would have taken a lot of hard work and dedication so it would have been efficent to certain sociopaths with fasination of human anatomy. So what happens then ?

A doctor begins by testing the bodies reactions or perhaps a person’s mental response to certain treatment and they are fascinated by it, then they begin to reach out further and experiment on the dead bodies, then when that was no longer enough to fulfill there self-proclaimed purpose they turned towards the rumours of necromancy and satanic rituals.

There was whispers of this type of activity taking place in the bowls of Beechworth Asylum and why not ! Acts of this kind always attract those darker things and i understand this sounds a tad wacky but go to places supposedly haunted by demonic creatures and then place judgement. It is not hard to believe that these kinds of acts took place at this location and even less hard to believe that something inhuman is still lurking the abandoned halls of the worlds most haunted asylum.

A terrified woman has recently surfaced about her horrific experiences at home. She claims that she has been followed by the ” Violent ghost of Jack the Ripper!” for four decades. She even sent in a video to support her claim. Check it out below.

 

Her Story

The women called Gaynor Issit had said that the evil presence in her home has been following her around for as long as she could remember. She claims that the evil presence is, in fact, Jack the Ripper !!, the infamous East End murderer who took the lives of 11 women in 1888, he was never caught. She said his ghost in one of a few in her home.

Apparently, they burn bibles, attack her in her sleep and she has even claimed to have been punched and hit around the head.

Some of the evidence she has captured to date.
Some of the evidence she has captured to date.

Ms Issit said she has to “share the property” in Leicestershire with all of the evil spooks. The house has even been exorcised a few times all of the priests have tried and failed to get rid of the ghosts inside. The women have been dragged from bed a couple times since those ” Life-saving ” exorcisms, as well as being pushed down the stairs.

She claims the September following the exorcisms is when the shiz began to really hit the fan. She claimed that since then her life has been a living nightmare. But she simply refuses to move out, because it’s the house where she has brought up all of her children, which to be honest does not sound to homely.

Some serious paranormal investigators have been in the home since the claims first hit the media, and they agree that her house is amongst the top five most haunted in Britain. A guy called Mark Vernon who has been working within the paranormal world for over 15 years is convinced that one of the spirits involved could easily be the true ghost of Jack the Ripper. ” I feel sorry for what she has had to go through, i have never seen a house with this level of activity”.

Locations Haunted Jack the Ripper

Ms Issit has been living at home alone after the poltergeists attacked her husband.He knows lives in a care home following an accident that left him paralysed, he’s 43….

They have dubbed the ghost causing the most harm ” Jack “, he is well known for burning the heads from family photos and furniture. Ms Issit added, ” He has started fires so often that I have to keep buckets of water around the house, he physically attacks me, and I have been left bruised in the past.” ” We have also heard growling noises and my partner has seen the figure of a large man walking around the house, as well as a little girl and old women.” ” We have never spoken to it directly, but we’ve recorded them and they swear and say there going to kill someone in the house.” ” We have learned to just live with it…”

jack-the-ripper-ghost3One of the many burned photographs

It would seem to us after seeing countless cases like this, that this is without a doubt the work of something inhuman. Fires, scratching, growling, attacks, death threats, they all sum up to the same cause. Perhaps Jack the Ripper is here also but this is the primary work of something demonic…

Witchcraft is something that will be remembered in English and American history perhaps until the end of days. Whenever we look at haunted locations or ghosts, we see some pretty fudged up locations. But the most fucked up locations are always linked to demonic activity and witchcraft. Sometimes they come hand in hand. We have found some of the most infamous witches in history, and we have found where they haunt!

Madame Lalaurie

Madame Lalaurie is defiantly the best known of this sinister bunch, thanks to American Horror Story. The character she played was one of pure evil. But unlike Hollywood, they played it down ! Madame Lalaurie was a black-hearted woman. She was and is famous for the brutal treatment of her slaves. Dr Louis Lalaurie and his wife, Delphine ( Madame Laurie) moved in the Creole mansion in 1832. For a long time, they were well respected for their wealth and social status. She was considered one of the most intelligent and beautiful women in the city. But behind closed doors, she cold-blooded and possibly insane.

She kept her cook chained to the fireplace in the kitchen, where he would only be unchained to cook, nothing less than perfect meals. A lot of slaves were treated much worse than this. This cruelty, however, were happening in a certain period when the brutal treatment of slaves was illegal. The police were called many times, but Madame Lalaurie was always ready and she was not caught for a long time. Until one day a fire broke out in the kitchens said to be started by the cook.

When the fire was put out, the firefighters found something behind a barred door in the attic that would reveal this devious bitch for who she really was. They found more than a dozen slaves here, chained to the walls in a disgusting state. Somewhere strapped to makeshift operating tables, somewhere confined in cages made for dogs, human body parts were scattered around the room, human heads and organs were crammed into buckets, and on the shelves next to them, a collection of whips and paddles.

According to the newspaper, the New Orleans Bee, all of her victims were naked and the ones not chained to tables where chained to the walls. Some of the women had their stomach’s sliced open,their intestines pulled out and then wrapped around their waist. One woman had her mouth stuffed with animal shit and her lips sewn shut. The state the men were left in was even more horrific. Private parts had been sliced off, eyes poked out, one man even had a small hole in the top of his head, used to stir his brains. Somewhere even still alive, one woman, in particular, had all of her limbs broken in order to be forced into a tiny cage. There was also rumour of pentagrams and other strange symbols scattered around the room , drawn in the servant’s blood. This was a time where witchcraft was wildly feared, so mention of her demonic activities would have been hushed up and they were hard to find !

The Madame and her husband fled, following the gathering of a vicious mob outside of the mansion. There were rumours of her fleeing to Paris but this was never proven.

She returned to the house many years later, in the form of a spirit. She is seen often in her house of horror. She has been seen around the house accompanied by the screams of her victims. The house has been plagued by mysterious deaths and occurrences since then. Black people, especially have been affected more than any other, on one occasion a young black girl, who went to school in the former torture house had huge and bloody whip marks on her back. People are attacked a lot in this sinister mansion but who can say what is really here… Is it the madame still roaming her former home, the slaves trapped in the place where they suffered so much, or is it something else completely, something summoned by the inhuman activities of Madame Lalaurie.

The Bell Witch - The Bell Cave

The Bell Witch is one of the most well-known hauntings in American history, and the Bell Witch herself is one of the most famous Witches in the world. She was an evil entity that tormented an American family between 1817 and 1821, to this day it is called ” America’s Greatest Haunting “.

The story begins with a man called John Bell in 1817 when he spotted a strange animal sitting in his field. It was the size of a dog, with the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, with thick black fur and piercing red eyes. When Mr Bell began to shoot, it vanished on the spot. That very evening they were plagued by activity. There was a beating on the front door, it sounded like someone banging on the door to be let it, this carried on for the entire night. It wasn’t long until the Bell Witch began to show her true self.

She would rip the covers from the sleeping family and slap them in the face repeatedly during the course of the day. Then they began to hear what sound like faint whispers and an old woman singing rhymes in an unfamiliar tongue. Over time the voice became stronger, eventually what she was saying became easily distinguishable, it sang hymns, quoted scripture and even replied intelligently to question.

The haunting went on for a long time, it attracted the investigations of the military and they only lasted one night before the soldiers would be seen fleeing from their tents in the dead of night. She then killed a member of the family with a poison they found in the medicine cabinet and proclaimed ” I gave Ol’ Jack a big dose of that last night which fixed him!”.

Almost 200 years later, the witch still haunts the land and caves below. The faint sounds of people talking and children playing can be heard and candle lights dance through in the fields in the black of night. There is a lot of evidence captured here gathered through photography. Including what looks like apparitions of an old woman, hunched over with wild hair… Is this the Bell Witch herself or just another trick of the light?

Elizabeth Demdike - Pendle Hill

Pendle Hill, is perhaps, the most haunted location in the Uk. It is an entire hill infested with the spirits of witches and some say demons. The activity here is matched by very few places in the world.

People when calling out or provoking on the hill have been psychically harmed. Some have been scratched, burned and slapped. One man actually had a pestle thrown at his head, nobody knew where it came from ! Another group heard a sharp click hitting the altar on the top of the hill, only to find a human tooth had been thrown at them ! The locals down in the village refuse to even speak about the ghosts on the hill.

It is said that up on the hill there are 9 witches in total, all lead by the legendary Elizabeth Summers aka. Elizabeth Demdike. There Demdike family were all heavily involved in satanism and witchcraft. All of them were eventually caught and hung. But not before they successfully called a demon that they named Tibb. Tibb came in the shape of a boy with a thick coat of fur, half black, half brown.

Elizabeth took great care in raising her family and teaching them witchcraft of the darkest kind. She lived in the Pendle Forest which is also insanely haunted. Following the hanging of Elizabeth and her family she proclaimed that they would be back, along with their master Tibb. It would seem that is just the case. A very dangerous location but well worth a visit .

George Pickingill - The Village of Canewdon

The village of Canewdon is almost unheard of, but is known locally as the Village of Witches ! There is a tonne of mystery and legend surround this little village and in particular the church. One of which states ” If you run around the church 3 times, anti-clockwise, the devil will appear”. There were a lot of people here sentenced with witchcraft, but there was one guy who put Canewdon on the map for witchcraft, George Pickingill.

George was well known for practising Arabic Mysticism, Christian Heresy, Danish Paganism and French Witchcraft. He famously wrote the Pickingpill Papers, which covered the history and anthropology of Wicca. He also created nine covens in Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Sussex. He controlled all of them… If that wasn’t enough he was also able to summon all of his witches with a wooden whistle ! Lefebure wrote that Pikingill had close relations with the Devil and he had sold him his soul.

He is thought to be the man seen lurking around Canewdon’s churchyard, and causing harm to people there. Both mentally and psychically. But he is not the only ghost of Canewdon.

There is also a woman seen dancing, naked in the night. She is normally spotted, again, around the churchyard. As well as a faceless grey lady in a poke bonnet. The faceless lady is seen floating from the graveyard down towards the River Crouch. Some have seen her even crossing the water and it looks like she is walking directly upon it.

Doubtless Canewdon is one of the most haunted locations in Great Britain. But who is causing the most harm here ? The ringleader George Pickingill or is it one of his many witches ?

Isobel Gowdie - Auldearn

At Auldearn, in Scotland, many have been disturbed by the sight of a spectral old woman believed to be the ghost of Isobel Gowdie. Isobel was a Scottish woman who was tried for Witchcraft in 1662. Her detailed confession was given freely, without the use of torture, gave a detailed insight into European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts.

Her confession was pretty insane and explained the deeds of her coven. They could apparently transform into animals. She explained to turn into a hare, she would chant : “I shall go into a hare, with sorrow and sych and meikle care, and I shall go in the Devil’s name, ay while I come home again.” She also claimed to be close to the Queen of the Fairies, known as the Queen of Elphame, in her home under the hills. As well as she and her coven having a cardinal knowledge of the Devil who walked amongst them.

There is no record of Isobel really doing any harm to people, or being executed. Little is known about what happened following her trail. But witchcraft is known to involve death and torture… So to suggest she was able to summon some form of a demon by simply chanting some words, or ” turn into a hare” without first giving something substantial to her dark lord seems a bit off. But history is not always correct.

She is seen around Aulderan, in the form of a ‘Green Lady’. The area around Dead Man’s Wood is said to be most active with her spirit. Like most other dark locations, people are being mentally disturbed as well as psychically harmed. This could be the ghost of Isobel, she is seen here. Floating along in her long earthen green dress. But it could also be something that came through from the other side. Invited through by the activities of these evil women.

In the year 1986 human kind saw one of its worst nuclear disasters to date. An event that killed 31 people but had long term affects on over 500,000. As horrific as this event is, there is something else around this abandon town, something that even the military began to take notice of. People have reported seeing the ghosts of those who died here still roaming, but what about Chernobyl’s Blackbird ?

The Blackbird

The year before Chernobyl’s power plant blew in 1968 the people working and living in Chernobyl began to report strange events. Sightings of a strange creature, described to have huge and thick black, it was said to be a bird like creature with the body of a man, colossal black wings that stretched over 20ft, no head and glowing red eyes coming from the pit where its neck should have begun. blackbird-of-chernobyl

People who had actually seen the Blackbird began to suffer from horrific nightmares, they received threatening phone calls and some had more encounters with the winged beast. Reports of the beast continued to increase until the morning of April 26th, 1986. 1.23am reactor No.4 at the Chernobyl power plant exploded in the former Soviet Union.

The Powerplant suffered a cataclysmic steam explosion that began a chain of events that resulted in a nuclear meltdown. The power plant then regurgitated a world changing amount of radioactive fallout. The fallout spread over parts of the Western Soviet Union, Eastern & Western Europe, Scandanavia, the Uk, Ireland and North Merica within 48 hours.

cheronobyl2reactor 4 following the explosion.

When the firefighters arrived and attempted to flight the flame over 500 people reported seeing this winged creature swirling in and out of the rising black smoke. No further sightings of the Blackbird were reported that day. However this is not the only time in history this being has been reported.

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The Mothman

The ” Mothman ” has been seen for thousands of years. It is an omen of death and disaster and it’s description matches perfectly with the Blackbird. It has been noticed more and more throughout history especially in more recent times where we find it easier to connect with other people and hear their stories from around the world.

One of the best-known accounts of the Mothman apart from Chernobyl occurred in the old West Virginia Ordnance, an area known as ” TNT Area”

The TNT Area dates back to WWII. The facility during its operation manufactured ammunition and dynamite. It is mainly a large woodland area but it is riddled with little concrete igloo like buildings that hold large amounts of TNT. It is also a maze of underground tunnels with random storage units of gunpowder. Most of which, these days are flooded or have been sealed off.

In 1979, the fisherman in the area reported that chemicals that been left in the water of the TNT area. It was unchecked for so long that by 1983 it became an environmental disaster and the area became one of the most polluted in America. It was here on November 15th, 1966, that two young couples would encounter this strange creature. These two young couples were taking a cross country trip in a black chevy. It was the youngest female, Linda who noticed the creature first. She saw two glowing red eyes in the darkness beside the old power plant. They quickly noticed that the eyes belong to a human looking 7ft tall, black figure. Obviously, they drove off and to their horror, it followed. The creature spread its wings and chased them down Highway 62 at speeds over 100mph.

blackbird-of-chernobyl2one of the abandoned TNT area’s gunpowder containers.

They arrived in town and felt stupid, they began to try and make some sense of what just happened. They settled on the fact that this was just a large bird… So they returned to face their fears. It wasn’t long until the Black Bird showed itself again, apparently, it was waiting for them on Route 62. They quickly realised this was no bird and it stood in the shape of a man. It shot up vertically into the air at an impossible speed and disappeared above the tree line.

They returned to town, in shock to report the story to the sheriff. The story actually made headlines ; ” Couple sees man-sized, bird…Creature…Something”. It was a disturbing experience for all. Linda the youngest female who first encountered the Mothman suffered a nervous breakdown in later years, but it is common for those who have encountered this beast to suffer in such ways.

Continued Sightings

The creature would be seen throughout the next thirteen months in Point Pleasant. There was roughly over 100 sightings around this time. The Mothman was seen so much that it took the attention of the government to a point where witnesses were being harassed by the Men in Black, they were warned not to speak out about this creature. I think that proves that fact that something paranormal was occurring in the area. The sightings all seemed to arise just before the collapse of The Silver Bridge in that area.

There have been soooooooo many sightings around the modern world of this creature and it is always followed by disaster. It was recently seen in Freiburg Germany, where a Mothman-like creature chased miners away shortly before a collapse. There was also multiple sightings around the Minnesota Bridge collapse time and even before and after 9/11…

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The Legend Goes On

Mothman sightings have been associated at least two other cryptids. Thunderbirds with grey bodies and red eyes were sighting in the same area and at the same time as the Silver Bridge incident. Owlman is also an identical creature with black wings and red eyes in Cornwall.

Two legends from Shawnee Indian lore mention creatures identical to Mothman deemed Misignwa and Waupee.

Some believe the Mothman is an Angel, Demon or the product of a blood curse. In our experience looking at these things we find demon like creatures always seem to have the glowing red eyes and appear and large black figures. But what is this Blackbird, Mothman, Owlman Misignwa. There is no doubt it exists, there are just too many reports around the world of this creature. But is it an Omen of Death ? An Angel that warns those who are in danger by appearing ? Only further investigation can tell us more. Soon we will be heading down to Cornwall in hunt of the Owlman himself, so keep an eye on the facebook page you can find on the sidebar. We will solve this mystery.

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There are places in the world that are truly fucked up. Places where inhuman things like ; murder, kidnap or occult activities happen every day. The theory stands that activities in this nature open a kind of doorway to the other side. But what happens when these acts have been happening in one area countless times ? This is The Goatman Forest, and this is one of the most paranormally active locations in the world.

Oscar Washburn

Oscar Washburn was a black man who lived in Denton, Texas during the 1900’s. Oscar was successful and honest, everything the local Klu Klux Klan hated in the black population. Oscar raised a sign and wrote, ” Goatman this way”.

In 1938 the Klu Klux went to Oscars home, kidnapped him and hung him from the Old Alton Bridge. They then proceeded to take his family and burn them in the yard in front of their house. But when they went back to raise Oscar’s body and bring it to burn with his family, he had gone. The rope hung below, bare. There was nobody to be seen.

goatmanA Klu Klux Klan March in 1948

The legend states that it is the spirit is causing havoc and attracting death in this forest, that he is patrolling the forest causing harm to any other living person, taking vengeance for the injustice that befell him and his loved ones.

However, whatever is here is victimising women and it has clearly identified itself as ” Steve” more than once. Is it possible that hate can transform what you are on the other side ? Or is it the sheer amount of satanic activity in the forest that has attracted something a lot worse than Oscar Washburn.

The Haunting in the Woods

There is a lot going on in the forest and especially surrounding that bridge. It is recorded that lynching was a popular past time for the wacky locals, on the bridge and in the surrounding area. There are records of children going into the forest and are lost to the shrub, some even came back women with a wiped memory. There is a shit

There is a shit tonne of evidence for satanic worship in the forest and cursed booby traps left for the unwary to pick up. Every day people are finding new evidence or occultists. People who live around the forest report figures dressed in black with white candles crossing the bridge into the forest. So all of a sudden it becomes a lot more logical that ” The Goatman” is something conjured up by these cultists.

Inside of the woods themselves, there are the remnants of an asylum, an old church and the actual remains of the Goatman’s house. There is a lot of activity in these areas, especially around the old house. Hikers have been pushed, scratched, they have heard screams, moans, and malicious laughter. Some have even reported seeing old goaty on a night time.

goatman3A Supposedly Captured Picture of the Goatman.

What Did They Conjure ?

The Alton Bridge, and surrounding Denton forest is one of the world’s most active hotspots for satanic activities. People find a ton of evidence they are there, including a picture of a Goatman inside of the old goat herders house. There is no doubt that they are there.

These activities ; the death, the rituals, the kidnap etc always attracts something demonic in nature. We see it all around the world in places like the suicide forest in Japan.

People in this forest report constantly, that they have been viciously attacked and hurt by unseen forces, some have been picked up and flung 20 ft in the air ! Like Aaron from ghost adventures in their Halloween special. Hikers have seen red glowing eyes staring at them through the shrub, other have been bitten and scratched. All of these are plus signs on a demonic presence. There is no doubt in my mind that this location is one of the most dangerously haunted locations on the planet. So where else is this haunted and unheard of ? We are discovering them every single day… And some say ghosts don’t exist…

Links

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There is an old mansion in Pittsburgh, America that have been forgotten. A location lost to history, but the stories that originated from the events that took place in Congelier Mansion will never die.

When you think of the most haunted houses around the world, instantly certain places spring to mind like ; The Amytivalle Horror House, or the Exorcist House maybe the Enfield Poltergeist house in the UK. That’s all because of the storm of media attention these places have attracted over the years. With their own movies, documentaries etc…. The former residents are practically celebrities . But what happens to the locations that have terrified resident after resident, terrified them to a point that they refused to remember. This is Congelier Mansion and this is one of the most brutally haunted locations on the planet.

The Congelier Origin

Congelier Mansion was built on 1129 Ridge Ave during the 1960’s, in Pittsburgh’s Northside. Charles Congelier was the man who built his dream mansion, he lived there with his wife Lyda and their maid Essie. Charles has made his fortune as a direct result of the Civil War and settled in Pittsburgh, which at the time was a booming industrial industry, ” happy families ” did not last long…

Lyda found her husband in bed with Essie the maid. She calmly walked to the kitchen picked up two knives, went back into the bedroom and slaughtered her unfaithful husband and his lover. She was found three days later sitting in an armchair in the parlor with her husband’s severed head on her lap.

congeliermansionIndustrial Pittsburgh in the 1800’s.

Dr. Adolph C, Brunrichter

After the murders the house lay abandoned for many years. The neighbors, however, called the police a lot of times during those years, because they thought they saw or heard vagrants moving around in the house, the police never found anyone there and the house would still be locked.

In 1892 the house was purchased by a railroad company, who had planned to turn it into housing for their staff. That was short lived. After several workers refused to stay because of strange noises and seeing something in the house, the company put it up for sale and it lay, once again abandoned until the 1900’s.

Then the mad Doctor, Adolph C Brunrichter bought the house. He was known for being strange and elusive, he rarely left his home. The house remained resolute and silent, nobody knew what he was up to, or if she was just a quiet man..

On August 12th, 1901 the neighbors called the police after they heard a women’s scream and saw the lights flickering in the house. The police arrived to find the decapitated corpse of a young lady, and the doctor had vanished…

But that was nothing compared to what the police found next. They discovered a hidden laboratory in the basement with even more body parts and even more human heads. Turns out he was trying to keep the severed heads alive…

The doctor disappeared, for over 30 years. Then a strange man in New york was drunk and he claimed to have conducted strange experiments in Pittsburgh. Police actually released him and deemed him drunk, but harmless. He was never heard from again…

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A Place for Ghosts

Throughout the mansion’s evil rise, which only seemed to increase with each new tenant, the house became a kind of home for ghosts. It became quite famous in the local area for ghost busting enthusiasts, even Thomas Edison had investigated the building at one point.The investigators or daring visitors all had strange accounts in the house, but they agreed on one thing more than any other, this house is home to something evil…

It lay dormant again for many years until it as finally purchased by the Equitable Gas Company, to be converted, once again in living quarters for their workers. The house by this period, however, was a completely different animal. Workers reported the usual activity, such as ; the bumps and bangs, strange voices, inexplicable lights, etc… It was kind of liveable until two builders were found dead in the basement…

The company moved the men out of the building quickly and stayed in the area until November 1927, when a gas explosion killed 27 people and injured over 500. The house itself was wiped out. The police never found any signs of harm on the bodies of the two men found in the basement, like they just dropped dead, also, there was no cause found for the explosion…

Ever since the house was demolished, people have been reported strange and disturbing events in the surround homes and area. Some even went as far to say and they had seen or been visited by the devil himself, which earned this location of the nickname of ” The House The Devil Built”.

There are some pretty messed up games out there that a lot of people from famous vloggers to your nan have tried. A lot of these games revolve around conjuring up some spirit of demonic entity, and Halloween night is said to be when the dead can walk the earth some something like that anyways. They are fun and creepy af ! But dangerous at the same time, if you’re going to try any one of these make sure you close it down as instructed below. We are simply informing you of these games and in no way encourage you to try them ! 😉

Charlie Charlie

Charlie, Charlie is a crazy popular game right now, you set up the game and then apparently summon a dead kid called Charlie. It comes from Mexico where it was called “Juego de la Lapicera”, also nicknamed the poor man’s Ouija board. It is said that Charlie was a young Mexican kid who killed himself, died in a car accident or a Mexican deity who Convenes with the Christian Devil…

How To Play ;

Step 1: Open your Vine and get the camera rolling. (If you don’t have Vine, you ARE too old for this.)

Step 2: Draw an X on a piece of paper.

Step 3: Label two of the resulting quadrants “no,” and the other two “yes.”

Step 4: Place two overlapping pencils on each axis of your grid, crossing them in the middle.

Step 5: Say “Charlie, Charlie, are you there?” and ask a question. (i.e., “is one of my friends going to die soon,” “will I go to prom next May.” )

Step 6: Scream, probably.

There have been some pretty messed up things happening to people after they have played the game so remember when you are finished, say ” Charlie, Charlie can you leave?”, then keep pushing until he points the pencil towards yes.

Dry Bones

The Dry Bones Ritual basically involved summoning a demon to play a kind of tag with you. If you win the game your wish is granted and if not the demon gets to do what it wants with you. If it ” Wins ” the result is obviously far from good.

How To Play ;

First up, you will need a bathroom with a mirror, some matches and to make sure you are alone in the house. This includes pets or any animals. This game must be played at 12:01am, all doors in your house must be closed, locked and secured, this includes cabinets, cupboards etc… Turn off all lights and electronic devices, tv etc… When the house is completely silent you can begin. *A word of warning if there are any strange sounds before you begin, Leave The House and do not return until the following morning. That means he is already there and watching…

The Game

Step 1: Picture something realistic that you want ( No floating houses)

Step 2: Light a match and wait until it burns out. It has to last at least 15 seconds

Step 3:Next say, loud and clear ” I am aware of your presence, I welcome you into my home, but not my body. Come Now”

Step 4: Go to the largest room in your house. ( This may take 5 mins or 5hours, so be patient)

Step 5: When you hear a strange sound, most commonly an unearthly moan. * If you hear any voices or feel anything strange, leave your house immediately.

Step 6: He will try and find you straight away, so hide quickly and remain hidden until 3am. Only at 3am is it safe to come out, also if anyone comes into your house during this time they are pretty much screwed.Step 4: Go to the largest room in your house. ( This may take 5 mins or 5hours, so be patient)

Step 7: At 3:01am go to the largest room in your house and say ” Thank you for playing, but please leave now, you are no longer welcome”. Then wait until you hear a sound of some kind and repeat a few times, ” You are no longer welcome, please leave now”

Step 8: If you won, you will be rewarded soon.

A couple of final rules, Do not wish harm to anyone. He may decide that the price you paid was not enough for that, and only play this game once. If he did find you, then seek help, go to the church and ask for a blessing and just be strong in your own mind.

Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary is a very old and very frightening game. The legend is that Mary the Queen of Scotts is the culprit for the horrific attacks following the ritual, but there are also rumours that it´s the spirit of a young girl who killed herself in front of the mirror. Whatever it is, it is bone chilling.

How To Play ;

Firstly, you’ll need to get some items ready, including; a candle, a bathroom, a mirror, some scared friends or none believers and a video camera . Don’t forget the first three, they are kind of essential. Oh and Do Not!, lock the bathroom door!

Step 1: Turn out the lights, light your candle and run the tap/faucet

Step 2: Begin chanting. ” Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary” thirteen times, loud and clear

Step 3:Look into the mirror and confront the bloody Queen herself

Step 4: Get out, and lick your wounds

Don’t actually lick your wounds, take a picture instead. Yup, Bloody Mary is well known for marking her victims. But made no mistake this is a demonic conjuring and if it works ( we have never tried ) then you need to state clearly for the thing to leave, or it might just stay.

Three Kings

Three Kings is considered to be the most dangerous of all the games, so don’t take it lightly and see it all the way through . There is not a lot known about the origins of this sinister game, apart from that te fact that it was posted on Reddit back in 2013 and its been a storm of attempts ever since, ironically that post was called Do Not Try This !!! The results have been nightmarish. The rules are also very specific so follow them bit by bit.

How To Play

You’ll need another person with you, a large windowless room ( or just cover windows), a pack of candles, a lighter, a bucket of water, a mug, an electric fan, 2 large mirrors, 3 chairs, 1 alarm clock, 1 fully charged mobile phone and a small object with some sentimental value.

The Set Up

Step 1: Begin at 11pm. Do not begin without your partner, he/she should with you at all times.

Step 2: Place one chair facing north in the centre of your chosen room. This will be your throne, then place two other chairs at opposite sides of the throne, about arms length away. These will be your queen and fool’s chairs.

Step 3:Place on of the two mirrors on the queen’s chair and the other on the fool’s. The mirrors should be perpendicular to the chairs seats and facing both of each other and you. You should be able to see each mirror, your own reflection from your peripheral vision while seating on the centre chair ( throne).

Step 4: Place the bucket of water and the mug just in front of you but just out of reach, then place the fan behind your chair on a medium or low setting ( never high ) and turn it on, make sure its stationary

Step 5: Leave the room but keep the door open.

Step 6: Go to your bedroom. Set the candles, lighter, alarm clock, and cell phone next to your bed and make sure your phone is charging and set your alarm for 3.30am

Step 7: Turn the lights off, hold your prechosen object of sentimental value ( power object) and go to sleep.

The Game

Step 1: Wake up at 3.30am, keep the lights turned off, pick up your cell phone and power object, light a candle and return to the dark room.

Step 2: Do NOT Proceed if the following occur;
. Your alarm did not go off
. Your mobile did not charge
. You approach the dark room and find the door closed
. Your approach the dark room and find the fan turned off
. You are not seated in the throne by 3.33am

Should any of these things happen, take your partner and any other living thing in your house and get the fudge out. Do not return until 6.am

Step 3:If none of the incidents above occurred, proceed. Take your thrones, but do not look directly at either of the mirrors and do not let the candle go out. Use your body to protect the flame from the fan.

Step 4:Keep your eyes focused at the darkness in front of you. Again, do not look at the mirrors and do not look at the candle. Should you have any questions you wish to ask, you may ask them now. You may or may not receive a response; if you do, your response will come from the direction of one of the mirrors. Do NOT turn to look at the mirrors. Any answers received should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt; one of the mirrors is the queen and one is the fool, but it may not be clear which is which. Also note that to whatever may settle in the mirrors, you yourself are either the queen or the fool.

Step 5: Remain in the chair until 4.34am.

Step 6: At 4.34 am, your partner should call out your name to end the game. If this does not work your partner should call your mobile and if that doesn’t work, your partner should enter the room without touching you and pour the bucket or mug of water over you. ( These are to awake you from any strange state you will be in).

Concerning fail safes, If your body is suddenly moved, the fan will blow out the candle, ending the game. Should you become lost or disoriented, your power object will guide your way back. Do NOT ignore any of the previously noted red flags prior to seating yourself in your throne. Do NOT attempt to stay in your home should these red flags appear. Do NOT attempt if you do not completely and totally trust your partner.

During this hour, shit can get really messed up. This one we have tried and it was disturbing ( video posting soon ). our experiences were similar to others such as voices coming from each mirror saying kind of the opposite things. Objects were moving, my chair was thrown, the psychical activity was terrifying but the voices were so damn clear and contradicting each other when answering my questions… I’ll never know for sure if i was hallucinating or just tripping. But i do know that it was something i will never forget.

Daruma-san or The Bath Game

Daruma-san is best known as the Bath Game and its kind of like a deadly version of red Red Light, Green Light. After the initial summoning, it follows the same rules as a Japanese children’s game called Darumasan ga Koronda, literally, ” The Daruma doll fell down”. During the corse of the game , Daruma-san attempts to catch the player, the player is ” it “. But if the Daruma-san catches you then let’s just say it doesn’t end well.

How To Play

You will need a bathtub and obviously a bathroom.

The Set Up

  1. Begin at night, just before you got to bed.
  2. Shed your clothing and enter the bathroom. Fill the bathtub with water and turn out the lights.
  3. Climb into the tub and sit down facing the faucet and taps. Close your eyes and begin washing your hair.
  4. As you wash your hair, repeat the words “Daruma-san fell down. Daruma-san fell down.” Do not stop repeating them until you have finished washing your hair. Do not open your eyes.
  5. If you have performed this action correctly, you will gain a mental image of a Japanese woman standing in a bathtub. She will slip and fall, landing face first on a rusty tap and gouging her right eye out.
  6. Should you hear any noise behind you or feel movement in the tub, do NOT turn around and do NOT open your eyes. Ask aloud, ‘Why did you fall in the bathtub?”
  7. Allow the question to hang in the air. Then, keeping your eyes shut, carefully stand up and get out of the tub. Do not trip and fall yourself, and do not drain the tub. Exit the bathroom, shutting the door behind you.
  8. You may now open your eyes. Leave the bathroom as you left it — water in the tub, door shut — until morning. Do not turn on any lights.
  9. Go to sleep.

The Game

Step 1. Awaken at your usual time. The game begins the moment you open your eyes.

Step2. Go about your day as normal. You will feel a constant presence behind you; it is likely that, should you turn to look, you will see nothing. However, glancing over your right shoulder may occasionally reveal a glimpse of her. Her hair will be black and tangled, and she will have only one eye.

Step3. She will attempt to get closer and closer to you as the day goes on. Should you spot her and find that she is too close for comfort, shout “Tomare!” — that is, “Stop!” — and run away. The idea is to put some distance between you and her; do NOT allow her to catch you.

The Ending:

Step 1. Capture her in your gaze by looking over your right shoulder.

Step 2. Shout “Kitta!” — that is, “I cut you loose!” — while swinging your arm down in a chopping motion. If you have performed this action correctly, a winning condition will have been achieved and the game will be over.

Step3. If you have NOT performed this action correctly… run.

Some of the other things you should know about the Daruma-san is that she is fond of water and dark spaces. It is highly recommended that you avoid all dark spaces and crossing running water until the end of the game.

Use the “Tomare!” command sparingly. Each time you use it, the amount of time for which it will stall her will diminish. Use it only when absolutely necessary.

The ending MUST be performed before midnight. Failing to do so will grant her permission to enter your dreams. Do NOT allow her to do this. Additionally, performing the ending is not as easy as it seems. If she suspects you are about to try to end the game, she may hide. You MUST have her in your sights when you perform the “Kitta!” command.

It is NOT recommended that you play this game more than once. Should you play it a second time, she will begin in the same position she was in at the conclusion of the previous game. This will not provide adequate distance to escape her.

Do NOT let her catch you.

Haunted Dolls are a huge, growing trend within the ghostly part of the world at the moment and people just can’t get enough. Thanks to movies like the Conjuring the whole world is aware of Annabelle the doll, and then Robert the doll. But these guys have been hogging all the limelight and other dolls, perhaps many of them are just as frightening. Including Mandy the doll.

The Origin Story

Mandy is an old doll that was made in Germany roughly between 1919-1920. She was donated to the Quesnel Museum, Canada in 1991 after a string of events that drove her owners to the point of insanity.

The owner said she would hear the sound of a little girl crying coming from the basement most nights. When she went to look, there would be no child, just an open window and mandy staring right at here…

It did not take long for Mandy to be donated to the museum where she did stop crying but after a while, strange things began to happen to the staff. Lunches began disappearing from fridges and be found somewhere else, artifacts from the museum would vanish from their display cabinets and end up in a different one, beneath the previously locked glass.

Perhaps the most disturbing of all was the footsteps. Staff would only hear these ghostly footsteps when they were alone, they would begin slow and distant but then they would speed up and sound like they’re coming towards you. ” The faster i ran, the faster she would chase me”.

This was all terrifying but the real haunting began when they tried to place mandy next to the other dolls in the musuem.

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Mandy’s at the Museum

The Moving of objects and the footsteps were just the beginning, soon Mandy grew restless. She was not given a permanent place for a while because it seemed that she was not happy with any of her former placements. At first, she was placed in the front window, facing all of the visitors. She was quickly removed after people began to complain of headaches after looking at her, followed by disturbing nightmares of Mandy watching or harming them in their sleep.

So naturally they moved her. They placed her in a section with some other antique dolls, but that was a mistake. They came back to find the majority of the other dolls torn up and destroyed. But on top of that, she refused to be alone. Staff found papers scattered across the room that she had been locked in as if she was throwing a tantrum.

She also had a certain fondness for messing with the museum’s electronics, causing them to malfunction. She also made the staff feel inexplicably sad and anxious. Some of them even reported that her eyes moved to follow them.

As the time of Mandy’s stay here increased so did her presence. Her little lamb toy began to move by itself, some even saw it “gliding across the room” to be sat in a different spot. Then the staff began to have nightmares of her, a lot of them even quit.

Not a lot is known about this dolls history, there is a legend that the spirit that possesses her is that of a small girl, who became trapped in the basement with her doll and died. So her spirit stayed with Mandy.

To date she has done nothing particularly evil, some investigators claim it is just the spirit of the little girl, lonely and sad… but there are to many similarities between her and the other demonically possessed dolls. Sometimes it just takes a little longer, so keep an eye on this evil little toy !

Links

https://www.wattpad.com/23337858-true-stories-of-haunted-dolls-3-mandy-the-doll

Paranormal photography is a huge subject at the moment. With technology moving forward every day, we are discovering new ways to capture the other side all of the time. A lot are just hoaxes of course, but there’s a few out there that sceptics are unable to debunk.

3. Grandpa´s Ghost

This photo was taken when a family were moving their grandmother to a care home. She was having a tough time with the move… Anyways the younger daughter took a photo and saw a man standing the background, later on when they were checking it out.

The man standing behind their grandmother was identical to their grandad. He had died 13 years earlier… Perhaps he came along to make sure everything would be ok. But it doesn’t end there.

This photo was called a hoax for a long time and it was under speculation for even longer. However, when looking closer, some people spotted what looks like a cloaked figure with a skeletal white face standing by the grandad looking directly at him. Almost like death himself was bringing grandad on a supervised visit. If you can’t spot him, look a little left from the red car.

It’s easy enough to say that, the cloaked figure is a trick of the light… But, there is no denying that grandad is standing right there. Is it a coincidence that this trick of the light happened at the same moment that this spectral giant was caught ?..

2. Please, let that be your shy daughter behind you.

Look just a little to the right, directly behind the women taking the photo…

There´s a game that has been going around recently called Karen the Mirror Ghost. You take a selfie three times in a row and then on the shot, just before you hit the button, say, Karen, I see you. Then she strangles you, steals your children or shares a tub of popcorn with you. After the third snap a girl called Karen, who supposedly died whilst taking a selfie to post on myspace, will appear in the third picture…

It sounds nuts! However, take a look at the photograph above, this Reddit user decided to give it a shot, and what she captured is fudged up.

Is it just us or does the thing behind her have glowing eyes and a dashing if not somewhat evil grin? Not too pretty…

1. The Party Ghost.

For us, this is the most convincing photo out there, not to mention one of the creepiest !

This group were on vacation in southern America and they decided to take a couple of group photos. The first is completely normal, however, take a look at the second…

It would seem that these guys have a party crasher. Upon later review, none of the guys recognised the women who decided to join the fun. Of course, this could just be a member of the party… But look at the proportions of her body and head, she is as close to the camera as the guys in the front of the photo…

That means that she is closer to the camera than the majority of people there, however, she is in the centre of the table. So unless there is a huge hole in the centre of the table, and this group of 10 are all lying or there’s a spectre manifesting right before your eyes.

There´s a lot of ghost photos out there, you can scour the internet all day and find hundreds of them, but just take a closer look and see if they match these three.

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