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Post by JoannaL on Jun 5, 2020 0:01:08 GMT -5
Ghost Sightings Increase During Coronavirus PandemicSince March, when non-essential stores, shops and other business concerns closed and people were instructed to isolate themselves at home in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, many have discovered their houses are haunted.
“It was just little things,” Dr. Kelley Best-Biagioli, a chiropractor in Wyoming, Penn., told WOLF News. “Doors would close, doors would open. Just like little noises.”
Actually, Dr. Best had been experiencing the unexplained since she purchased the property at 274 Susquehanna Avenue, but without patients and employees coming and going, the weirdness became more pronounced. “I was here by myself an awful lot, so you could just always feel that there was something around,” she added. So she contacted Northeast Pennsylvania Paranormal (NEPA), a group of paranormal investigators in Wilkes-Barre.
“Most of the time, the phone calls I get are ‘You’re going to think I’m crazy.’” said Alissa Caridi, a NEPA case worker who has been ghost-hunting for 12 years. Lately, however, the number of calls have increased by 30 to 40 percent and seem to be more intense. “People being home and being more aware of their home surroundings,” she continued. “Like, ‘Oh, what was that? That doesn’t happen when I’m at home.’”
While the ghost hunters aren’t conducting formal investigations at present, Caridi and Dr. Best are friends, so she agreed to check out the property. While on the premises, she detected a male voice that told Caridi he was with a queen and when asked the woman’s name, he said, “Esther.”
Of note, Kelley’s home and office are next to Queen Esther’s Bloody Rock (above), a stone protected by a steel cage that marks the site where “Queen Esther,” an Indian woman, angered by the death of her son, smashed the skulls of more than a dozen soldiers. “She bludgeoned a bunch of civilians like a savage on the rock next door,” Dr. Best explained. “But I really don’t necessarily believe in that type of story. I just think she was a very disheartened mother who lost her son because of the way things were. And back then it was an eye for an eye.”
According to a survey by YouGov, 45 percent of adults in the Untied States believe in ghosts and while paranormal investigators are convinced some reports are the “real deal,” others are easily explained. “People are spending more time in their home and everything from the wood drying out … you’re getting popping sounds ... because we are getting into the warmer months of the year,” asserted Ghost Nation host Jason Hawes.
In a recent New York Times interview, John E. L. Tenney, former host of Ghost Stalkers, claimed his calls for assistance have increased from five per month to five to 10 per week. Because of the quarantine, people are “in a heightened emotional state,” he said. “They’ve been sequestered. They’re spending time in their house, which they normally don’t do at certain hours.”
According to Tenney, the reports he receives consist of “everything from typical knocks and footsteps in the hallway, to some very new, strange occurrences, like people hearing whispered voices through their television sets or getting text messages from long deceased friends and relatives.”
When asked by Carol Off of the Canadian TV show As It Happens if perhaps the ghosts themselves are becoming more active, Tenney replied, “If ghosts are the way that we traditionally think about them, which is, you know, were once people, then perhaps the ghosts are getting bored, too, and they’re making themselves a little more known to the people that they’re not commonly used to seeing at all hours of the day and night. Maybe they don’t want that company. I mean, some of the reports that I was seeing in this New York Times article, this sounds quite annoying – like little petty things of doors slamming and towels on the floor and rattling the shades and things. I mean, maybe it’s a message that they just want to be left alone in these houses. Most people are gone at work and so they’re not used to hearing the pops and creaks in their house normally. But if there are ghosts, perhaps they’ve had a ghost in their house all along and they’ve just never noticed that.” So what should people do if they think they’re being haunted?
“I tell people to kind of take copious notes,” Tenney continued, “Journal about it, keep track of when it happens, because the majority of cases that I investigated over the past 30 years have had a natural solution to them. There might be something happening in your house, whether it be your furnace turning on or a truck driving down the street every day at the same time, that you never noticed before. But once you start to take notes, you’ll notice that it’s a repeating pattern or something that’s very familiar.”
And his strangest supernatural experience?
“I’ve been in a situation where I was in a room with 13 people and we had the lights off and this room was allegedly haunted,” Tenney recalled. “And so we were sitting in the dark and everybody was saying their name, kind of introducing themselves to the ghost, for lack of a better word. And one woman in the corner refused to say her name. And that’s fine, but when I asked if she could say where she was from, she didn’t respond. So I turned the light on, and that’s when everybody in the room realized that that woman that we had all thought was with us had never been there. There was an empty spot where we thought she had been sitting.”
Should people be receptive to these experiences? And can they get hurt?
“I would. I think that our world is so strange, you should have as many weird experiences as possible,” Tenney said. “I also think that once you open yourself up to a weird experience, you start to have more of them. The majority of cases that I’ve ever investigated, people don’t get hurt. It’s not scary. It’s startling, but it’s not scary. If someone does get hurt, it’s because they are startled and fall off of a ladder or run down the steps and trip on their own feet. But I think that if ghosts are here, they’re a part of our environment and we should get to know them.”Sources: Victoria Hallikaar, WOLF, May 29, 2020; KCAL, May 23, 2020; Sheena Goodyear, CBC, May 15, 2020; Molly Fitzpatrick, The New York Times, May 14, 2020; and As It Happens.
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Post by catherine on Jun 5, 2020 11:45:58 GMT -5
The chiropractor was charged with insurance fraud last year, so she's just trying to drum up business. Other people who call paranormal investigators are uneducated, trashy types who buy plastic statues of Jesus and Mary. Remember in the old group when that idiot Alex Saenz posted photos of one of his "investigations" and there was a plastic Jesus statue beside the TV? He was such a dunce.
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Post by Kate on Jun 5, 2020 11:57:00 GMT -5
The chiropractor was charged with insurance fraud last year, so she's just trying to drum up business. Other people who call paranormal investigators are uneducated, trashy types who buy plastic statues of Jesus and Mary. Remember in the old group when that idiot Alex Saenz posted photos of one of his "investigations" and there was a plastic Jesus statue beside the TV? He was such a dunce. A lot of chiropractors defraud insurance companies, especially in car accident cases. Was Dr. Best convicted?
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Post by catherine on Jun 5, 2020 12:23:41 GMT -5
A lot of chiropractors defraud insurance companies, especially in car accident cases. Was Dr. Best convicted? Pennsylvania chiro allegedly bills while on honeymoon
May 02, 2019, Cumberland County, PA — The owner of a chiropractic office in Wyoming, Luzerne County has been charged with insurance fraud and theft by deception, according to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office.
Kelley Best-Biagioli, the owner of Personal Chiropractic Services & Rehabilitation, is accused of billing Highmark, a health care provider that has offices in Camp Hill, for more than $13,000 worth of services she did not provide.
It’s alleged that Best-Biagioli billed 36 Highmark members for services totaling $7,865.76 in June 2016 when she was on a honeymoon and out of the country. The DA’s Office also alleges that she billed 72 members for total services of $5,513.34 on two other occasions in 2017 when she was out of state.
She now faces charges. www.insurancefraud.org/IFNS-detail.htm?key=31434
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Post by jason on Jun 5, 2020 19:57:15 GMT -5
I can't decide which is the most ridiculous: ghost hunters or the fools who believe them. The "ghost" just happened to say the name of the Indian queen. How convenient. I see there's a quote by Jason Hawes and he's identified as the host of "Ghost Nation." Are those two frauds back on TV? In case anyone wants to know why I call them frauds, take a look at this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlM-Uy8ODYQGreat graphic. This is the first time I've ever seen a ghost with boobs.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Jun 6, 2020 18:37:01 GMT -5
I can't decide which is the most ridiculous: ghost hunters or the fools who believe them. The "ghost" just happened to say the name of the Indian queen. How convenient. I see there's a quote by Jason Hawes and he's identified as the host of "Ghost Nation." Are those two frauds back on TV? In case anyone wants to know why I call them frauds, take a look at this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlM-Uy8ODYQGreat graphic. This is the first time I've ever seen a ghost with boobs. Both Jason and Grant are back. They both have their own, separate shows now. Grant's show retains the "Ghost Hunters" name and has an entirely different crew. Jason's show is called "Ghost Nation", and has a few from the cast of the original "Ghost Hunters".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2020 19:42:16 GMT -5
Both Jason and Grant are back. They both have their own, separate shows now. Grant's show retains the "Ghost Hunters" name and has an entirely different crew. Jason's show is called "Ghost Nation", and has a few from the cast of the original "Ghost Hunters". I don't typically watch ghost hunting shows, but "Ghost Nation" recent did one from where I grew up. I couldn't make it through the entire episode. They started to lose me when someone said there were Amish in the area (there aren't, and there aren't even very many Mennonites, either). But I shut it off when one of the hosts found an underground chamber near the road and seriously pondered if it was part of the Underground Railroad.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Jun 7, 2020 17:46:41 GMT -5
Both Jason and Grant are back. They both have their own, separate shows now. Grant's show retains the "Ghost Hunters" name and has an entirely different crew. Jason's show is called "Ghost Nation", and has a few from the cast of the original "Ghost Hunters". I don't typically watch ghost hunting shows, but "Ghost Nation" recent did one from where I grew up. I couldn't make it through the entire episode. They started to lose me when someone said there were Amish in the area (there aren't, and there aren't even very many Mennonites, either). But I shut it off when one of the hosts found an underground chamber near the road and seriously pondered if it was part of the Underground Railroad. Later in the episode, they did have experts come out and debunk most of that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 19:21:34 GMT -5
Later in the episode, they did have experts come out and debunk most of that.
It seems like that's something you shouldn't need an expert to debunk. I remember when I was a kid thinking the Underground Railroad was literally an railroad that ran underground. But I also believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny, so...
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Post by jason on Jun 8, 2020 15:16:21 GMT -5
It seems like that's something you shouldn't need an expert to debunk. I remember when I was a kid thinking the Underground Railroad was literally an railroad that ran underground. But I also believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny, so... Every time some damned yankee or liberal progressive sees a hole in the ground, he or she claims it was part of the "Underground Railroad." Considering where it was, it was probably a root cellar. When those two "Ghost Hunters" frauds investigated (and I use the term loosely) the old capital building in Baton Rouge, which is supposed to be haunted by Pierre Couvillion, they said Couvillion died in the building. He didn't, he died 50 miles away at his home in Avoyelles Parish. whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/7587/mystery-location-72-october-2017Let's face it, ghost hunters aren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree.
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Post by jason on Jun 8, 2020 15:18:09 GMT -5
Later in the episode, they did have experts come out and debunk most of that. What's with your new icon? Couldn't you have found a ghost or something?
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Post by aprillynn93 on Jun 8, 2020 17:27:10 GMT -5
It seems like that's something you shouldn't need an expert to debunk. I remember when I was a kid thinking the Underground Railroad was literally an railroad that ran underground. But I also believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny, so... They probably didn't really need an expert, but they needed to find something to fill the episode LOL!
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Post by aprillynn93 on Jun 8, 2020 17:28:23 GMT -5
Later in the episode, they did have experts come out and debunk most of that. What's with your new icon? Couldn't you have found a ghost or something? It's just temporary. I'm looking for something new. I've been through a couple, but none I've liked so far.
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Post by madeline on Jun 8, 2020 18:48:11 GMT -5
They're still smarter than the people who give them money (who may or not be the same people who believe ghost hunters). Before Ken Burns' PBS series, no one in my hometown cared much about ghosts. The high school soccer coach had a few booklets for sale in local gift shops. I knew of no one who mentioned living in a haunted house, nor did I know of anyone who claimed to see ghosts on the battlefield at night. Now ghosts are arguably as popular as the battle itself. Did all of these ghosts re-animate after 1990? There's a difference between having an interest in the supernatural and ghost hunting. I've always been interested in haunted houses and I enjoy visiting and reading about haunted places, but I can't stand ghost hunters. They walk around with their silly gadgets and claim they can "detect" ghosts and nothing could be more ridiculous because the supernatural is beyond human comprehension and cannot be "detected."
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Post by jason on Jun 9, 2020 23:36:14 GMT -5
It's just temporary. I'm looking for something new. I've been through a couple, but none I've liked so far. I hope you come up with something other than this.
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