Word Of The Wise! Be Careful while Ghost Hunting!

This is the second case I heard of someone that died while ghost hunting (the other was in Canada). I believe this should be the " number 1 " on everyone's check list. To be careful!  In the the boy scouts they believe in "two-deep" leadership. When investigating please bring a partner with you at all times.

http://www.examiner.com/paranormal-in-pittsburgh/paranormal-investigator-hit-and-killed-by-real-train-nc-and-two-others-injured

Confused About "Most Haunted"?

There seems to be something is going on with Most Haunted? I noticed that you can't find them on the Travel Channel anymore. Even on the website Living TV something just didn't look right?
Most Haunted been around since 2002, a couple of years before Ghost Hunters. They've been around a long time. I did notice that their show lately have been changing in recent years. I loved their "live" shows. Seven days straight of pure fun (I saw those on Youtube). But when they had the spin-off's like the Screaming Banshees and others. It just wasn't making much sense? I know Yvette had a major operation (even that was made a show of over in the UK).
Screaming Banshees

So I looked into what the heck was going on with the show?  To my surprise just this past June Yvette Fielding has step down as hostess of Most Haunted.
Here's was happened to the series:
"After the first 11 episodes of the original series 7 were added to series 6, series 7 became a 6 episode series.
During the Most Haunted spin off series Midsummer Murders, the team filmed a 9 part series. However only 8 were ever aired. The 9th episode, filmed in Lymm Village and featuring a Jack the Ripper suspect, was never aired.
Series 10 was due to be a 20 part UK series but was made an 11 episode series after LIVING shelved the remaining 9 episodes for series 11, which was made up of the filmed UK episodes."
I don't understand what this means?  Is it "done"?  Know body is talking. What's even more confusing is that they just started a new Paranormal Channel in the UK back in 2008 (don't know if it's still on?). She is however still involved in the paranormal with a show called "Ghosthunting with ..."
Personally I think this is the start of the "slow down" I spoke about awhile ago on my blog. The supernatural wasn't a thing that people spoke about on a daily basis. Only us few do. It's just a matter of time when it goes back to being something that is just done on Halloween. Or talked about in front of a campfire late a night. Sad but true.

About Yvette leaving Most Haunted:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1566839.php/Yvette-Fielding-Spiriting-Herself-Away-From-Most-Haunted

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a233349/yvette-fielding-quits-most-haunted.html

Yvette Fielding show "Ghosthunting with ..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosthunting_with...

Bridge Cafe, The Oldest Haunted Drinking Establishment In NYC.

If anyone saw The Gangs of New York the film director pays homage to this particular bar. Rightfully so, it has a very colorful history behind it.
First of all, it's one of the very, very few wood standing structures left in Manhattan (maybe about three or so).  The bar started it's life first as a grocery store in 1794 right by the East River (The World Trade Center was on the opposite end of Water Street on the Hudson River). Next door, in later years, came The Brooklyn Bridge. Fulton Fish Market was a stone's throw away (To this day it still brings in the freshest fish to the Cafe).
As for hauntings? The Cafe was once known as one of the rowdiest watering holes on Water Street. It was a brothel (otherwise known as a "disorderly house"), pirate bar "The Hole in the Wall", packing store, and many different kinds of restaurants. Reports have been shadows, footsteps, the feeling of being watched, and the smell of lavender

The paranormal group EPIC investigated the Bridge Cafe. Here's their findings:

As for colorful? It has to be the stories about Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat. Here's some interesting quotes:
"Built in 1794, the Bridge Café was a stopping point for pirates, and also had one of the most famous bouncers in New York. Gallus Mag, an Englishwoman who stood more than six feet tall, was less than kind when throwing rowdy drunks out of the establishment; she’d drag an offender through the door with his ear in her teeth, and (depending on her mood) was known to bite off an ear or two and stash them in an old jar. Ms. Mag’s ghost is said to still haunt the café today."
"Sadie was a regular on Water Street, the Fourth Ward’s main drag and a favorite of sailors and those looking for underworld fun. A travel guide of the day called it the most violent street on the continent; another warned readers absolutely to steer clear after dark. The Fourth Ward Hotel kept a trapdoor to dump corpses into the East River. The street had no shortage of saloons and their unlicensed cousins, called “blind tigers,” which served the locals, slumming gentry and the criminals who preyed on all alike. On the corner of Water and Dover Streets was one of the roughest taverns of all, the Hole-in-the-Wall, the favorite basement hangout of Sadie the Goat.
By far the scariest bouncer at the Hole-in-the-Wall was Gallus Mag – a six-foot-plus Englishwoman with a truncheon tied to her wrist and a revolver tucked in her belt. Mag had a unique way of dealing with rowdy drunks: smacking the lout with her truncheon, dragging him to the door with his ear held firmly in her teeth, and if she was in the mood, biting off the ear before tossing its owner into the street. The ears were added to her collection, which she kept in a pickling jar behind the bar. One spring night Sadie ran afoul of Mag,"
It's also written that Gallus Mag would sharpen her teeth to fine points.
*One little added info: The Bridge Cafe has 6 beehives on their roof. All for fresh honey.
http://bridgecafenyc.com/New_York_Restaurant_cafe_Tavern/the-history/

Gallus Mag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_Mag
Sadie the Goat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_the_Goat

"New" Movies Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You!

I've noticed lately that not many "spooky" movies are being made. Which is a little odd to me? So here's a few (very few) that are coming out soon:

The Last Exorcism:  (I'm not too crazy about this one. It's too much trying to follow The Grudge "look".)


The Black Swan:  (This looks interesting. Lots of twists and turns. She really becomes the black swan. Real evil.)


Enter The Void:(Now, this movie is a really psychedelic's dream. It's a junky that comes back as a ghost to protect his sister.)


Vampires Suck: Comedy (Typical teen picture. One of the guys from "The Hangover" works in it. It's a "take it, or leave it" kind of movie.)

Roebling Museum, Roebling, NJ. Is It Haunted?

The Main Gate Building has been empty for decades when the Roebling Company - Kinkora Works Steel Mill closed in 1974.  Steel cables and support structures for the Brooklyn Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and many other "known" structure's that have used their products. The list is endless.
Just recently the Roebling Museum has been opened up for the public to visit. The museum use to be the gate house where from hundreds of people pass through to go to work in shifts around the clock in the 240 acres facility. Many went in, and many never came out.
One paranormal group went in to conduct an investigation along with a local radio personality. The reason they wanted to do the investigation was they were hearing about "activities" going on while the gate house was being renovated for the museum.
It was confirmed by one of the museum's employees that a man did hang himself there in the 1930's. In the area of the building (shown in old building blueprints) that was used as jail cells and a first aid area.  You have to remember, many people died at the mill due to industrial accidents. (Many were written about in the old, New Jersey Mirror newspaper)
Personally I'm not an investigator but this place should have a second investigation. The first group didn't write clearly their findings (I can't even find their website). Just the usual cold spots, being touched and so on.  Do I think it's haunted? Sure! Who knows how many have passed away during the centuries. Maybe even too many to count.

Steel Mill's Story
http://www.delrivgreenway.org/heritagetrail/Roebling/RoeblingCompany.html
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2010/07/remembering_roebling_-_museum.html

John A. Roebling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Roebling

Museum's Website
http://roeblingmuseum.org/

Seth Rogen To Work On A New Animated Movie Called "Boo U".

Seth Rogen worked on such films as Pineapple Express, The Forty Year Old Virgin and Funny People. Next film coming out is the Green Hornet. He's one busy young man. "Boo U" is a Dreamworks 3D animated picture and Seth will be a ghost that has to go back to school to become a better ghost.

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/08/19/seth-rogen-boo-u-casting/
http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/08/19/seth-rogen-to-voice-ghost-in-new-dreamworks-animated-flick-boo-u/





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If anyone is interested it seems SYFY is looking for a female to join Ghost Hunter Academy (check it out):
http://www.realitywanted.com/call/8213-casting-for-female-ghost-hunter-for-gh-franchise-intl-academy-gh

New York Times Write-Up About The Hauntings At "The Copper Queen Hotel", AZ

Saw this article yesterday's NYT Sunday newspaper. Great article about The Cooper Queen Hotel's hauntings. But mainly about their Ghost Tours that they run weekly at the hotel. Ghost Hunters did an investigation there awhile ago. I thought I will just pass along the article to you guys with the Ghost Hunters synopsis too:

New York Times: "A Hotel Where Some Guest Have Been Dead For Years"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/us/23bisbee.html?src=me&ref=us#

Syfy's Ghost Hunters Season 4-Episode 408 "Spirits of the Old West"
http://www.syfy.com/gh/episodes.php?seasonid=4&episodeid=408

The Copper Queen Hotel, AZ Website
http://www.copperqueen.com/history_and_legend.html