Alex Pryce aims to banish Edinburgh ghost tours

Spooky spectacles, such as the new Paradox Experience, are being challenged by a sceptic who wants to see reason triumph

Much like death itself, the ghost industry of Edinburgh crept up on us. A decade ago it amounted to little, just a smattering of walking tours through the clammier catacombs of the Old Town, where in ye olde days, we were assured, peasants expired in a squalor their spirits allegedly seemed compelled to revisit.
Now, though, the tours have a new lease of life, or afterlife. You can’t progress up the Royal Mile these days without skirting forests of A-boards and resting actors in Regency ruffs, each selling the X Files-meets-Time Team take upon the city’s picturesque horrors.
An ever-increasing proportion of the city’s tourist economy is a thing that goes bump in the night, which is rather galling in the city that was the cradle of the Scottish Enlightenment. The news rather darts like an icy hand right up the nightdress of Alex Pryce too, as the Edinburgh-based thespian and theatre director prepares to challenge the hokum of Edinburgh’s ghost industry.
A one-man ghostbuster, Pryce will be escorting his charges, he hopes, into the clear light of reason by exposing what lies, or doesn’t, behind the veil: “I’m not sure why Edinburgh even has this reputation as such a focus of paranormal activity,” Pryce says.

Voodoo faith 'could hinder Haiti's recovery from quake'

Haiti is facing a spiritual as well as a physical crisis with the collapse of many of its most potent religious symbols in the earthquake, according to a leading Labour peer and Methodist minister.
Even those who have retained their faith in the face of the overwhelming crisis will struggle to find somewhere to worship on Sunday, with so many churches including both the Catholic and Anglican cathedrals destroyed, and many others severely damaged.
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, superintendent minister of Wesley’s chapel in the City of London, who was ordained in Haiti and wrote a biography of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country’s first democratically-elected President, said he feared the fatalism inspired by the voodoo religion would militate against recovery.
The death of the Catholic archbishop along with the destruction of the cathedrals will be seen as potent symbols of the failure of those religions to withstand an act of God, he warned.

Voodoo is fundamentally a home-based cult where each family has their own collection of household gods, many of them Catholic saints. In many households, it sits comfortably alongside a family’s Catholic observance.

A Place To Play Ouija Board To Guarantee Demonic Possession

OuijaBoardDangers.info-- There are no safe places to play the Ouija Board. However if you use the board in any of these places than you’re guaranteed to have a negative experience

1) Deserted Mental Hospital
Playing the Ouija Board in a deserted mental hospital is asking for trouble. You’ll be tapping into all sorts of negative energies from the past. You could contact the spirits of those who died insane or of those who killed themselves.

2) Cemeteries
How would you feel if someone was playing the Ouija board over your loved ones grave? Wouldn’t you feel a little bit indignant? I know I would.

If you play the Ouija in a cemetery, not only do you risk contacting all sorts of potentially evil spirits but you could be arrested for holding a seance in public.

3) In Your Bedroom
Would you actually want a demon in your bedroom? Would you want to wake up in the middle of the night with a ghost at the foot of your bed threatening to cut your throat if you don’t worship it as a God?

If you ever want to sleep again, it’s advised that you do not play the Ouija in your bedroom.

Is your home haunted?

BangaloreMirror.com-- Whether you are a believer or an atheist, it is a fact that energies —magnetic, thermal, gravitational, solar and other known and unknown energies — exist together. For no reason, children behave abnormally, adults become chaotic and aggressive and women fall sick. The malefic energies in the home and surroundings could have accumulated over a period of time because of improper home care, inappropriate ways of living in the home, absence of a healthy garden and waste objects getting dumped into corners. Often, faulty construction and faulty habitation contribute to the release of these malefic energies.

Malefic Energies
Proximity to cemeteries and graveyards can also see the gathering of malefic energies to your detriment, with people dying for no reason.Habitations near railway lines where deaths take place frequently can also see these malefic energies entering to cause disease and penury. Homes near maternity homes where constant births (and deaths) occur can release energies to the detriment of the habitants. Over a period of time, if there have been deaths taking place, the malefic energies are powerful enough to show in the form of incessant cawing of the crows and eagles hovering over your area. These energies in composite form can cause the home to be haunted, with the residents suddenly hearing whispers or seeing shadows across walls in the absence of any living people.