Anthropology and the Ontological Status of the Paranormal by Jack Hunter

Anthropology and the Ontological Status of the Paranormal by Jack Hunter

here's a great article i found an the approach of an anthropologist in the study of the paranormal.

The creepiest HOME in AMERICA....

Villisca Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa

This is by far one of America's worst murder case. On June 10, 1912 eight people as they slept in their house in a small town of Villisca, Iowa fell victim to an unknown intruder with an axe and killed the entire family including two young children visiting at the time. In this brutal act of murder the victims were a husband and wife along with their four young children and 2 of the neighbor kids. The murderer is unknown and was never caught but at the time they did apprehend a man and he did testify explaining his brutal act of murder and still he was acquitted ??!! People have claimed to seeing strange visions and hearing odd noises. Is this house haunted by the spirits of the family?? or by other unknown demonic forces?? find out for yourselves should you dare to spend the night and find out? or visit during its visiting early hours? whatever you decide i think this house is haunted and  by far one of the creepiest places to visit.

Bhangarh fort haunted or NOT??

many of you may or may have not heard of this place its consider 1 of the most haunted places on earth BHANGARH FORT located in INDIA. India people and locals are very familiar with the story and hauntings of BHANGARH FORT. It's so haunted that autnorities have advise not to enter the ruin city around night time.


The story is that the wicked sorcerer cursed the city after being spurned by a princess. By the 17th-century the city was destroyed by an army leaving only its temple intact, and it has been uninhabited ever since. Locals and visitors say that birds and wildlife fall silent as the spirit of the sorcerer lurk the night, and no one has ever attempted to spend the night there because of it being too spooky and risky to take that chance.


So after reading this do you think this place is just an over imagination of the people some legend passed on generation to generation. OR is it SIMPLY JUST not real?????

Hauntings in America: Haunted Places

JAPAN HAUNTINGS

Lets take a trip to japan and investigate some hauntings that are well known around the area. The Kanmon Straits  or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands 

Amiidaji (Temple of Amida) in Dan-no-ura, in the Shimonoseki Strait, is the location of a legendary haunting. It is said that the blind Biwa hōshi Hoichi, a resident of the temple, was visited every night by the ghost of a dead samurai and made to play the biwa in the cemetery, but the priest of the temple soon found out and had the heart sutra painted on every part of Hoichi's body apart from the ears. When the samurai returned one night to take Hoichi to the cemetery, he could only see Hoichi's ears, so he took them instead and Hoichi was left earless. Hoichi is commonly known as "Mimi-Nashi Hoichi", "Hōichi the Earless", due to this event. This legend was famously retold by Lafcadio Hearn in his Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things which was later adapted as part of Masaki Kobayashi's film Kwaidan.

Aokigahara, the forest at the bottom of Mt. Fuji, is a popular location for suicide. This gives rise to a widespread belief that it is haunted. 

Okiku's Well at Himeji Castle is often said to be haunted by the ghost of Okiku. She is supposed to rise from the well at night and count to nine before shrieking and returning to the well.

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reportedly_haunted_locations_in_the_world#Japan 

HAUNTING??????

Lets start of with the definition of a haunting in order to understand one must know that their are different types of haunting but first lets discuss what a haunting is. 


haunting- Continually recurring to the mind; unforgettable
To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being
a haunted place is somewhere inhabited by apparitions or ghosts 
a ghost (or apparition) is a 'spirit'
(these are a few but traditional definition of hunting's)


These definitions reflects peoples culture traditions and beliefs. So in this case a HAUNTING;an apparition may, or may not, be seen. IT varies through out  the world to some you must see it to believe it while others feel you don't have to see a "GHOST" or "SPIRIT" "APPARITION" 


since we establish that even if no apparition is seen, its presence is implied how would we define a haunting that its seen?? Lets change the definitions of the prior ones to a haunting is usually composed of several components or different phenomena. Each component may turn out to have a different, unrelated mundane cause. OR a collection of odd, apparently paranormal, events reported at a particular location, at least some of which have not, on proper investigation, been explained by natural causes.


SO we have established that in many cultures or traditional beliefs you don't have to see a haunting or apparition and if so one must show proof or evidence of any encounter with the paranormal that is non natural causes.


So a ghost (or apparition) is a human figure witnessed which is not apparently physically present


These were different types of definitions for haunting's etc but clearly this answer is different all around the world but it seeks the same meaning.

paranormal talk

Here is a pic of me at Guntown Cemetery.


Gunntown Cemetery is an old cemetery in Naugatuck, Connecticut which was established in 1790.

the Gunntown Cemetery in the Millville section of Naugatuck features numerous headstones from the Colonial era. A smallish plot, it is enclosed by a stone wall and an iron gate.




ENCOUNTERS: some claim to have heard random music and the laughter of children; a man carrying a lantern leading a horse across the grounds, as well as  a little boy playing by the back wall who simply vanishes. Still others have claimed to have glimpsed a black dog that also quickly disappears.




If You Go: Gunntown Cemetery is located on Gunntown Road in Naugatuck. From what I can tell, there are no set hours, and there are no “No Trespassing” signs. 
***BUT ITS HIDDEN SO MAKE SURE YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROADS!!!****


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