A GHOST AT THE GAS STATION... A few days ago, CNN.com posted an interesting video reporting on a mysterious apparition that showed up on a gas station’s surveillance footage. It was mentioned that the station, located in Ohio, was built on what used to be an old Indian reservation. Numerous theories abound...with some people online either saying it’s a plastic bag (unless it could fly around on a windless day like that feather at the beginning and end of Forrest Gump, I don’t think so) or shoddy Disney animation (this footage looks a whole lot more interesting than the trailer and TV spots to Disney’s upcoming "masterpiece", Enchanted). You decide for yourself.

You can view the video here.


CNN / WOIO

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! Since I'm too lazy to write a new, original Blog here... I thought I'd just re-post this list from two years ago. Of course, it's only interesting if you happen to live in SoCal:



"Some" Haunted Sites In Southern California:
Anaheim – House of Blues
Buena Park – Knott’s Berry Farm
Chino – Chino Hills
City of Industry – Puente Hills Mall, AMC 20 theater
City of Industry - The Sheraton Hotel (now known as the Pacific Palms Hotel)
Covina – "Zelda’s Legend" about an underground tunnel
Diamond Bar - Brea Canyon Road
Diamond Bar – Diamond Bar High School
Disneyland – The Christmas Shop
Disneyland – The Disney Gallery
Disneyland – Fire Station
Disneyland – Haunted Mansion
Disneyland – It’s a Small World
Disneyland – Matterhorn Mountain
Disneyland – Pirates of the Caribbean
Disneyland – Space Mountain
Disneyland – The Star Trader (4th floor stock room)
Disneyland – the old “People Mover Ride”
Disneyland – Tom Sawyer’s Island
Disneyland – Tomorrow Land
Fullerton – Cal State Fullerton dorm
Hollywood - El Capitan Theater
Hollywood – Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood – Mann’s Chinese Theatre
Hollywood – Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory
Hollywood - Roosevelt Hotel
Hollywood – Universal Studios
Huntington Beach – Bolsa Chica Wetlands
Irvine – University of California Irvine – Campus Dr.
La Puente – Hurley Elementary School – Tetherball courts
La Puente – Nogales burgers
La Puente – Nogales High School
Long Beach – The Queen Mary
Los Angeles - Dodger Stadium
Los Angeles - The Coliseum
Los Angeles – Loyola Marymount University
Pasadena – abandoned asylum
Pasadena – Angeles Crest – Old Hotel
Pasadena – the bridge of Fair Oaks exit
Pasadena – The Castle Green
Pasadena – Green Street Hotel
Pasadena – Haunted forest
Pasadena – The Haunted mansion
Pasadena – Rose Bowl parking lot
Pasadena – The Colorado St. and Scoville Bridges
Pasadena – The historic State Landmark Theater
Pasadena – The Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena – The Ritz Carlton (this is where I had my high school senior prom in ‘98)
Pomona – Lanterman Developmental Center
Rowland Heights - Rowland High School
San Diego – Coronado Island - Hotel del Coronado
Walnut – Haunted Church (once abandoned) off Nogales and Amar Road
Walnut - Lemon Avenue
Walnut - St. Mary's Catholic School
West Covina – Galster Park
West Covina – South Hill Elementary
Whittier - Turnbull Canyon Road

For an UPDATED LIST, go to TheShadowlands.Net


The (supposedly) haunted church in Walnut, CA


The infamous Turnbull Canyon Road in Whittier, CA


Diamond Bar High School, CA


The Pacific Palms Hotel in City of Industry, CA... This particular pic obviously doesn't help give the notion that this resort is haunted. Though ironically, the part of this complex that is supposedly haunted happens to be the golf course in the foreground.

Err- Do you believe in ghosts? Ever since I posted up that entry about supernatural occurrences taking place after last year’s Asian tsunami disaster, I’ve been visiting ghost websites to read more about this stuff. I’m not saying that I believe everything I read on these pages, but the stories some of these people have are pretty interesting. How many of these stories are true…I don’t know. But if you want to judge for yourself, visit them! One notable site is Ghoststudy.Com , which has photos and stories submitted by people who claim to have experienced paranormal sightings (Sigh, I miss The X-Files. Haha). Another page is TheShadowlands.Net, which has a list of various haunted sites across the country. Living in California (SoCal, to be exact), I posted up a list of all the haunted sites close to where I live or that I traveled to in the past. If you live in any of these cities, this list should be of interest to you. Though I, personally, didn’t encounter any strange occurrence at the places that I did go to listed below [such as the AMC 20 theater in Puente Hills Mall or Diamond Bar High School (though I only visited this high school once)]. Anyways, enjoy!

“Some” Haunted Sites In Southern California:
Anaheim – House of Blues
Buena Park – Knott’s Berry Farm
Chino – Chino Hills
City of Industry – Puente Hills Mall, AMC 20 theater
City of Industry - The Sheraton Hotel (now known as the Pacific Palms Hotel)
Covina – "Zelda’s Legend" about an underground tunnel
Diamond Bar - Brea Canyon Road
Diamond Bar – Diamond Bar High School
Disneyland – The Christmas Shop
Disneyland – The Disney Gallery
Disneyland – Fire Station
Disneyland – Haunted Mansion
Disneyland – It’s a Small World
Disneyland – Matterhorn Mountain
Disneyland – Pirates of the Caribbean
Disneyland – Space Mountain
Disneyland – The Star Trader (4th floor stock room)
Disneyland – the old “People Mover Ride”
Disneyland – Tom Sawyer’s Island
Disneyland – Tomorrow Land
Fullerton – Cal State Fullerton dorm
Hollywood - El Capitan Theater
Hollywood – Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood – Mann’s Chinese Theatre
Hollywood – Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory
Hollywood - Roosevelt Hotel
Hollywood – Universal Studios
Huntington Beach – Bolsa Chica Wetlands
Irvine – University of California Irvine – Campus Dr.
La Puente – Hurley Elementary School – Tetherball courts
La Puente – Nogales burgers
La Puente – Nogales High School
Long Beach – The Queen Mary
Los Angeles - Dodger Stadium
Los Angeles - The Coliseum
Los Angeles – Loyola Marymount University
Pasadena – abandoned asylum
Pasadena – Angeles Crest – Old Hotel
Pasadena – the bridge of Fair Oaks exit
Pasadena – The Castle Green
Pasadena – Green Street Hotel
Pasadena – Haunted forest
Pasadena – The Haunted mansion
Pasadena – Rose Bowl parking lot
Pasadena – The Colorado St. and Scoville Bridges
Pasadena – The historic State Landmark Theater
Pasadena – The Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena – The Ritz Carlton (this is where I had my high school senior prom in ‘98)
Pomona – Lanterman Developmental Center
Rowland Heights - Rowland High School
San Diego – Coronado Island - Hotel del Coronado
Walnut – Haunted Church (once abandoned) off Nogales and Amar Road
Walnut - Lemon Avenue
Walnut - St. Mary's Catholic School
West Covina – Galster Park
West Covina – South Hill Elementary
Whittier - Turnbull Canyon Road

List courtesy of TheShadowlands.Net



The (supposedly) haunted church in Walnut, CA



The infamous Turnbull Canyon Road in Whittier, CA



Diamond Bar High School, CA



The Pacific Palms Hotel in City of Industry, CA... This particular pic obviously doesn't help give the notion that this resort is haunted. Though ironically, the part of this complex that is supposedly haunted happens to be the golf course in the foreground.

First and foremost, today marks the 5-year anniversary of this Blogspot!


Since Halloween is a week away, I just felt like sharing some supposedly-haunting pictures that were taken in Thailand around the time of last December’s Asian tsunami disaster. My sister was e-mailed these pics, and she in turn showed them to me...and while they’re pretty spooky (at least, err, three of them), a few of these pics can be described as textbook Photoshopped images. Whether or not all of them are remains to be seen. I’ll leave it up to you to decide for yourself. With the exception of adding auto contrast and re-sizing the pics for clarity, I did NOT in any other manner alter these images. And my apologies to those who feel like I'm trivializing that catastrophe with these photos. If any or all of these pics are fake, blame those who got the sick idea of using that disaster to come up with these hoaxes.



This monk is praying over the body of a tsunami victim, and that wavy beam of light in front of him is supposedly that of the spirit leaving the room. Either Industrial Light & Magic had a hand in this photo (I'm not being serious), or some supernatural brouhaha is indeed taking place in this photo. I remember seeing these wavy beams of light in the two Ghostbusters films, haha. Sorry- Anyways...



Faces in the fire... Is this a case of people seeing what they want to see? What an opportune time that the flames would form faces right when this person was taking a picture. Actually, the one all the way to the right looks pretty, um, authentic. I'll admit that.



Mist forming on the camera lens? Notice that there aren’t any water drops obstructing the view of the wrapped bodies on the ground. Could these orbs be spirits who are leaving from this tragic scene? My sister thinks so, but I’m obviously skeptical. Err, who wouldn't be?



More of those misty bubbly things... Being that this photo is taken near water, I think this one can be logically explained. These people sure are superstitious about those orbs...or clever in that they're testing to see just how far people are willing to believe that something out of the ordinary is occurring in these pics.



Wow- that spirit even has the blank, comic book superhero eyes going... If this one’s a hoax, nice cut and paste job! And in case you're wondering, you have to reduce the opacity level through Photoshop so the guy in the middle will become transparent in the image. But that’s only if this pic is a hoax.

EDIT: Upon closer inspection, it seems like someone copied the head of the guy to the left, moved it to the middle of the photo, and then made it transparent to make it look like a ghost. That, and the eyes were altered to give them that blank look. Oh, and Photoshop's film grain option was used to make the image look more convincing. BOOOO!



This paranormal event is taking place on the famous bridge over the River Kwai. My sister should know... She went to Thailand for a film shoot 2 years ago and visited this historic site. More spirits in the form of those wavy light beams. In case you’re wondering, River Kwai was the site of an Allied attempt to blow up the bridge in World War II, despite the fact British soldiers were building it for their Japanese captors. Haven’t you seen the 1957 movie with Sir Alec Guinness in it? I didn’t.



This is a Photoshopped pic assuming someone e-mailed this image to this dude’s cell phone. If not, then how convenient that the ghost is smiling for the camera too! Verizon LG should follow Samsung’s lead... They’d both be making billions if they could build camera phones that can photograph dead people! Anyways, this photo actually appeared in a Thai newspaper.



All you need to do with this pic is conduct a nice cut-and-paste job, reduce the opacity level like in the fourth image above, and blur the “ghost” so he’ll appear the way he does in this image. Other than that, this pic is SCARY!!! ‘Cause those guys sure are posing pretty damn close to each other... Hey fanboys, GET A ROOM!



Back in the day... The infamous 9/11 hoax pic. Overlooking the fact the lighting on the plane doesn't mix with the actual lighting in the photo, notice how well it was cut and pasted into this picture. Don't know 'bout the Pot Baby, though. Whoever added him is a disgrace to Photoshop pranksters everywhere. Haha.



One more for the road... The Coronado Hotel, which is one of the most well-known haunted sites here in this country. I took this picture when a few of my friends and I hung out in San Diego on Saturday.

(Click here to read about ghosts and their place in Buddhism and Thai culture.)

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