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Bloomburg University Sorority Haunted By Entity

BloomUToday.com-- According to the sisters of Phi Sigma Sigma, who currently live at 351/353 Lightstreet Road, there have been several acts of unexplained phenomena since their sorority moved into the house two years ago.

The girls recall stories of shadows that lurk the halls late at night when nobody else is home, beds shaking uncontrollably, and each sister has an eerie feeling like they are being watched. According to junior Lauren Foster, popular sites for ghost activity in the house are the downstairs foyer, where a dark shadow is often seen roaming, and the stairs, where a few girls claim to be pushed down.

Foster was not sure of any deaths in the home, but since the house was built in the early 1900s, it is likely that there have been at least one death in the house. According to what senior Rachel Kochinsky heard, somebody died in the upper bedroom of the house.

Colorado Ballon Boy : Did they do it for show ?

Haunted lighthouse in Maryland?

BaltimoreSun.com-- Is the Point Lookout Light in Scotland haunted? Coastal Living magazine seems to think so. The local lighthouse was named among five others for its spookiness and haunted legend dating to its use as a hospital and prison camp during the Civil War. I've never visited the place myself, but according to a Sun reporter, who wrote about it in 2003, the haunting is as much history as local lore:

Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin

Reuters.com (ROME) - An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake.

The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ.

"We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday.

A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, Garlaschelli made available to Reuters the paper he will deliver and the accompanying comparative photographs.

'Ghostbuster' Dan Aykroyd says supernatural runs in the family

Canadian Press (TORONTO) — "Ghostbusters" star Dan Aykroyd says he is often asked where he got the inspiration for his blockbuster '80s comedy. He says it's simple - his own family.

Aykroyd's father, Peter, and great-grandfather, Samuel, regularly held seances in the parlour of their eastern Ontario home in a bid to contact the dead.

Samuel recorded their experiences in pencil-scrawled notes that were found in a locked trunk after his death.

Peter reworked the material in his new book, "A History of Ghosts" (Rodale).

"If you ever wanted to know anything about seances, mediums, everybody from (spiritual investigators) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Oliver Lodge to (Sir William) Crookes, (Emmanuel) Swedenborg, this is the encyclopedia," Dan Aykroyd said Thursday as he accompanied his 87-year-old father to Toronto for a media blitz.