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Monday, October 26, 2009

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Also… DAPS has worked with

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The  Discovery Channel

As well as multiple other television

and

news agencies over the years,

To Help Bring the Best of the TEXAS,

OKLAHOMA,

ARKANSAS, NEW MEXICO & LOUISIANA,

Paranormal Investigations to the World!

Also NEW HAMPSHIRE & the UNITED MEXICAN STATES!!!

Aside from that DAPS Currently consist of over 135 members,

and we have done some 80 plus investigations over the years!

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‘Country House Ghost Caught On CCTV’
9:56am UK, Wednesday April 08, 2009

Alex Watts, Sky News Online

Paranormal experts are investigating an alleged ghost sighting apparently caught on CCTV in the grounds of an Edwardian country house.

Is this the ghost of a long-dead Earl said to appear around the time of the National?

In the eight-second footage, a luminous yellow glow is seen emerging from trees outside Croxteth Hall in Liverpool.

It then heads towards a path leading to the house before disappearing.

Like many old buildings, the hall has a reputation for being haunted, and the mystery light – captured at 3am last month – has left paranormal enthusiasts in high spirits.

County Hall ghost on CCTV

One theory among the happy mediums is that it may be the ghost of former resident Hugh William Osbert Molyneux, the 7th Earl of Sefton, who died in 1972.

Another contender is the infamous gambler William Philip Molyneux, the 2nd Earl of Sefton, who laid the foundation stone for nearby Aintree Racecourse in 1829.

A local legend says his spirit appears and strolls the grounds around the time of the Grand National.

Ghost appears during Grand National

Former Most Haunted ghost hunter and TV presenter Jason Karl has seen the footage, and believes it could be an important sighting in ghost circles.

He told Sky News Online: “This is very intriguing. Video footage of phantoms is very rare.

“If this stands up to scrutiny, it could be a very important piece of spectral evidence for the worldwide community of paranormal enthusiasts.”

He believes the last time an alleged ghost sighting was caught on CCTV was at Belgrave Hall in Leicester in December 1998.

Then, security cameras appeared to capture a strange white apparition, but it later turned out to be a fake, he said.

Liverpool councillor Berni Turner said she was keeping an open mind about the Croxteth Hall footage.

“I’m a huge believer in the paranormal and think this footage is really interesting,” she said.

“It’s great to think that we may have ghosts walking around these beautiful grounds.”

Generations of the Molyneux family lived at the hall from the sixteenth century until the death of the last Earl in 1972.

THE VIDEO IS AVAILABLE AT:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Ghost-Captured-On-CCTV-At-Croxteth-Hall-Liverpool/Article/200904115257658

Now Dallas Area Paranormal Society has a Podcast! The following are instructions to find and download our “DAPSCast” featuring the Jason & Alan Show, Nick & CJ Show, Texas After Dark, and Requiem to your iPod. All you have to do is search the iTunes store for “Dallas Area Paranormal Society Radio!” without the quotes. That’s it. Just subscribe to the Podcast, and it should immediately download to your iPod. If you have the iPod Touch, or iPhone, you can just search the Podcasts in iTunes on the device and put in the same search data, and download whichever casts you would like! Hope to see some good download numbers from you people!

You may of heard of The Mount Washington Hotel event in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire on Texas After Dark with Nick & CJ. Here is some more information on it from the website http://beyondrealityevents.com/mtwashington2/index.html

Friday April 17th – Monday April 20th, 2009

Featuring Members of the Cast of Ghost Hunters ( The Atlantic Area Paranormal Society TAPS ) and Many More Including: 

Jason Hawes , Grant Wilson , Kris Williams , Kristyn Gartland , Amy Bruni , Britt Griffith , Mike Brody , Michael & Marti Parry , Dianna Avena , Joe Avena , Jeff Belanger , Tiffany Johnson , and many more!!!

Featured in Season 4 of Ghost Hunters, the Mount Washington Hotel is a stunning building set amongst the beautiful backdrop of New Hampshire’s Bretton Woods. Built in 1902 and mostly known for its elegant atmosphere and Spanish Renaissance Revival architecture, this historical hotel seems to have something else up its sleeve. From the ghost of a Princess who supposedly writes on walls, to mysterious sounds of babies crying, to a malevolent woman said to haunt room 206, local legends and lore abound here.  

Unlike any other paranormal retreat, we’re coupling your favorite TAPS members with popular past Beyond Reality Guests. We’ll be covering Cryptozoology, UFOs, Crop Circles, Hauntings, and more!  

From Beyond Reality Events .com at

http://beyondrealityevents.com/mtwashington2/index.html

Also Remember to listen every Sunday Night at 10: PM CST (11:PM EST) to Texas After Dark with Nick & CJ on Para X Radio part of CBS Radio at  www.para-x.com

Dear Freinds:

Here is a copy of our Fort Worth Weekly ad, it states all the cities we recruit from, just so that it will help answer all your questions about how we recruit for our paranormal side of ghost investigation (s).

DAPS AD IN FORT WORTH WEEKLY:

Dear Friends:

Visit our website at www.dallas-ghost.com and check out some of our Paranormal Classes and Tours! We were established in 2001 to serve the paranormal needs of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex of Texas.

AGAIN VISIT US at DALLAS – GHOST .COM www.dallas-ghost.com

Take Care,
Nicholas Nix,
President of D.A.P.S.

Cities DAPS recruits from in Texas (the North East Texas Region)!
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Addison Aledo Allen
Alma Alvarado Alvord
Angus Anna Annetta
Annetta North Annetta South Argyle
Arlington Aubrey Aurora
Azle
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Balch Springs Bardwell Barry
Bartonville Bedford Benbrook
Blooming Grove Blue Mound Blue Ridge
Boyd Briaroaks Bridgeport
Burleson
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Caddo Mills Campbell Carrollton
Cedar Hill Celeste Celina
Chico Cleburne Cockrell Hill
Colleyville Combine Commerce
Cool Coppell Copper Canyon
Corinth Corsicana Cottonwood
Crandall Cresson Cross Roads
Cross Timber Crowley
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Dallas Dalworthington Gardens Dawson
Decatur Denton DeSoto
Dish Double Oak Dublin
Duncanville
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Edgecliff Village Emhouse Ennis
Euless Eureka Everman
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Fairview (Collin County) Farmers Branch Farmersville
Fate Ferris Flower Mound
Forest Hill Forney Fort Worth
Frisco Frost
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Garland Garrett Glen Rose
Glenn Heights Godley Goodlow
Gordon Graford Granbury
Grand Prairie Grandview Grapevine
Grays Prairie Greenville
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES

Hackberry Haltom City Haslet
Heath Hebron Hickory Creek
Highland Park Highland Village Hudson Oaks
Hurst Hutchins
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES

Irving Italy
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES

Josephine Joshua Justin
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Kaufman Keene Keller
Kemp Kennedale Kerens
Krugerville Krum
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Lake Bridgeport Lake Dallas Lake Worth
Lakeside Lakewood Village Lancaster
Lavon Lewisville Lincoln Park
Lipan Little Elm Lone Oak
Lowry Crossing Lucas
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Mabank Mansfield Maypearl
McKinney McLendon-Chisholm Melissa
Mesquite Midlothian Mildred
Milford Millsap Mineral Wells
Mingus Mobile City Murphy
Mustang
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Navarro Nevada New Fairview
New Hope Newark Neylandville
North Richland Hills Northlake
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Oak Grove Oak Leaf Oak Point
Oak Ridge Oak Valley Ovilla
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Palmer Pantego Paradise
Parker Pecan Hill Pelican Bay
Pilot Point Plano Ponder
Post Oak Bend Powell Princeton
Prosper
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Quinlan
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Red Oak Reno Retreat
Rhome Rice Richardson
Richland Richland Hills Rio Vista
River Oaks Roanoke Rockwall
Rosser Rowlett Royse City
Runaway Bay
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Sachse Saginaw Saint Paul
Sanctuary Sanger Sansom Park
Scurry Seagoville Shady Shores
Southlake Springtown Stephenville
Strawn Sunnyvale
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Talty Terrell The Colony
Tolar Trophy Club
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
University Park
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Venus
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
Watauga Waxahachie Weatherford
West Tawakoni Westlake Weston
Westover Hills Westworth Village White Settlement
Willow Park Wilmer Wolfe City
Wylie

PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES
And from from the Texas Counties of Dallas County , Denton County, Collin County, Ellis County, Hunt County, Kaufman County, Rains County, and Rockwall County
PARANORMAL / GHOST / TOURS / CLASSES

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DALLAS AREA PARANORMAL SOCIETY and other Dallas-Fort Worth area groups are on spirited hunt for paranormal activity

12:00 AM CDT on Friday, October 31, 2008
By SHAWN FLOYD / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

Think you might have a spirit or two hanging around? Several local groups are willing to look into just about any ghostly sighting.

REX C. CURRY/Special Contributor
Vicki Isaacks and the Metroplex Paranormal Investigations crew detected some activity in the Greater Lewisville Community Theatre’s costume room. People sometimes call looking for answers to the unexplained. And sometimes these groups decide to satisfy their own curiosity about a place with a bit of history.

“You always get activity in a cemetery – that’s a given,” said Vicki Isaacks, a 10-year investigator of paranormal activity and a member of Metroplex Paranormal Investigations. “When you have a place of high emotional outlet, there is always a chance of paranormal activity. Also, older buildings can have residual hauntings.”

Bart Van Bemmel, lead investigator of the Carrollton Paranormal Society, said renovations also stir up activity.

“Spirits are used to the old building,” he said. “They go through walls because where there may be walls in the new part, there may have been doors in the old one.”

The Dallas Area Paranormal Society, led by Nicholas Nix, specializes in older buildings in the Fort Worth area, such as the Granbury Opera House.

“We didn’t get much in the opera house,” Mr. Nix said. “But we did get some EVPs [electronic voice phenomena] in the building behind it that used to be a hospital administration building and is now the opera’s dressing room.”

The group’s next stop will be Saturday at Miss Molly’s Hotel, which promotes its spirits on its Web site. The group will focus on the cowboy and cattlemen’s rooms as well as a room said to be haunted by a young girl who was a former tenant.

Chad Miller, author of A Ghost Hunter’s Journal, spent the past weekend with his group, DFW Paranormal Research and Investigations of North Texas, chasing down two spirits at Six Flags Over Texas. It’s believed that a young girl named Annie and the park’s founder, Angus G. Wynne, both haunt the four-decade-old amusement park in Arlington. Apparitions have also been reported at the park’s Texas railroad station.

The results are not in yet, but Mr. Miller said the group found “two really awesome EVPs in the candy kitchen.”

A lot of misconceptions exist in the spirit-chasing world. One is that this time of the year, with all of Halloween’s ghoulish ghosts and goblins, is the most popular for ghost hunting. That is not the case, Ms. Isaacks said. Paranormal activity occurs year-round.

The other myth is that spirits are only in cemeteries.

“Many spirits are known to come back to places they loved, like watching a baseball game from the stands,” said Mr. Van Bemmel, who teaches history by day and hunts ghosts at night.

And though nighttime is more popular for spirit-chasing because infrared cameras operate in total darkness – picking up what the naked eye cannot see – ghosts are 24-hour phenomena.

The Metroplex group has checked out several places, including the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas and Cobwebs Antique Mall in Plano.

Recently, members converged on the Greater Lewisville Community Theatre, which was built in 1885 and originally housed a dry goods store.

“I’ve never heard anything about ghosts here, but there might be some,” theater board member Bill Thorne said.

In the costume room, the crew detected some activity when they passed an electromagnetic field radiation meter over an old pink ball gown.

“It’s like an energy footprint,” Ms. Isaacks said. “People’s energies get attached to certain things, and we’ve got a lot of people stirring around, which can bring the energy out.”

Psychic Annette Bingham said she felt “the presence of an older lady. Her personality was quiet and very sweet. I believe that she is not haunting the building but does come to visit occasionally.”

Ms. Bingham also sensed some activity in the kitchen. But the group’s gadgets showed nothing definitive.

“The only thing that we captured on the equipment is dust,” Ms. Isaacks said. “That doesn’t mean there isn’t activity. It just means that on that particular night, we weren’t able to capture anything of a paranormal nature.”

Ms. Isaacks is a self-described “skeptical believer.”

“I’ve seen things in photos and heard recordings that I can’t explain, but have never had an experience that would make me absolutely believe,” she said.

But nothing changes a skeptic’s opinion like a little evidence, such as a spirit breathing in your ear, Mr. Van Bemmel said as he talked about investigating the historic Hotel Lawrence in Dallas.

He and his crew also discovered several orbs on their film and an unexplained voice on an audio recording at the hotel.

“For nonbelievers,” Mr. Van Bemmel said, “they start to think differently.”

Link to the Dallas Morning News Article:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/DN-paranormal_31met.ART.State.Edition2.4aa7952.html

Link to KHOU CBS 11 Houston / Galveston Article: http://www.khou.com/news/state/stories/khou081031_tnt_paranormal-ghost-hunters.167a36c58.html

***The Views and opinions Expressed therein are those of the individual and necessarily represent the views of Dallas Area Paranormal Society.***

This is for informational purposes only

One Hundred Candles

This was mentioned on “Paranormal State” so I found some more information on it.

Party games with a paranormal twist have always had a place among party-goers. Séances, ouija, tarot cards, bloody Mary and palm readings are some of the occasional games that young and old enjoy.

The Origin

The origin of the game is unknown. It is thought that it was first played amongst the samurai class as a test of courage, and later became fashionable amongst the townsmen.

Ordinary candles weren’t used for this game. What was used were Japanese Memorial lanterns. The modern version of this game has lasted since the Edo-period of Japan but Hyaku Monogatari (100 Tales) or Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (100 Ghostly Tales) has been around much longer, with esoteric beginnings of a ritualistic ceremony of courage.

How to Play

The rules of The Game say that in order to participate, three rooms need to be prepared before midnight. The rooms must be paired, adjacent to one another to form the shape of the letter L. The first room is where everyone gathers and should be completely free of any light. The adjoining room should be dark as well, except for the illumination that leaks from the third room. The third room is where 100 candles should stay, along with a mirror on a table. The apron (or tablecloth) used should be blue, as should the

attire of the participants. There is mention that no one should be with a sword at the time.

This is reference to the era where it was common for men to carry weapons. Then the players are instructed to clear the room of anything dangerous.

At the midnight hour each individual gets a chance to tell a story to the players.as each story ends, the telling individual must walk to the third room and douseone of the illuminated room when he completes that task he/she must look athim/herself in the mirror, and return to the first room. As the tellers task isunderway, the group in room one will continue the tales as he/she is away. Talesthat are told include anything with a paranormal twist from curses and demons to ghosts and monsters.

Once all the stories are told, it is said that the spiritual energy increases so until something manifests. Either a ghastly being or a ghost will appear like Ao-andon a yokai woman with rotted teeth, long hair and horns. The ironic humor is that in many cases with this ritual, people were so spooked that they often stopped before the last story.

1. Light one hundred candles!

2. Get a group of people to play with you.

3. Sit in a circle and go around telling paranormal experiences everybody’s had.

4. Each time someone tells an experience, that person blows out one candle.

5. Keep telling experiences until all the candles are blown. When all of them are out, there should be 100 spirits with you in the room!

6. Don’t get too scared!

This is for informational purposes only