NYPAPS New York Pennsylvania Paranormal Society

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Here you will find some Ghost Stories and pictures that have been sent to us by our viewers and some of our stories.  Please feel free to send us your stories and pictures by e-mailing us here.

                                                                                                      OTHER STORIES

               WOMAN FROM PA

My daughter, who is now 15, has always claimed to see a woman in her room.  We never said much to her either way about it because we didn't want to scare her.  As the years went by, she would see this lady once in a while and we still never did anything.  One day about a year ago, she said that the woman had popped her head into her room, walked in, stood at the foot of her bed, then left.  She told me about this the next morning.  Finally, I decided to investigate.  I called our elderly neighbor down the street and asked her about the couple that used to live in our house.  She asked me to describe the woman.  My daughter told me that she was a tall woman with a bigger build wearing a white dress or housecoat with her hair up in a bun at the back of her neck.  The neighbor didn't talk for a while, then said--Oh my gosh--that is Mrs. _____!  That is exactly what she looked like.  Apparently the woman had passed away in our bedroom.  She has never done anything scary--just opened locked doors, or put laundry baskets in front of the dryer with the dryer door open.  Little things like that, but my daughter can now put a definite name to the ghost visitor!!

                                                                                            

When I used to live in my apartment in Reading, PA, I thought it was just like any other place.  I soon found out that it was not.  When I moved in, a little old lady was moving out to live in a smaller apartment.  We chatted for a while and she told me that her husband had passed a while ago.  She said that he was a carpenter, wood-worker, and a household handy-man.  I thought nothing of it at the time.  When I moved in, I soon had to do some laundry and went to the basement.  There I found my washer and dryer and a workbench that the late husband must have used.  Once in a while when I was going to sleep, I would hear my not so sturdy desk creaking back and forth.  I didn’t think anything of it.  One morning I was looking in my long mirror that hung over my door.  I looked and thought that I should probably get a new mirror because it had taken some shots from the move.  The mirror part was starting to escape from the wooden frame.  A few days later when I was getting ready to go student teach, I looked in my mirror again.  I noticed that the mirror wasn’t hanging out of its frame like it had.  I took the whole mirror off my door and saw that a piece of cardboard was placed on the whole bottom of the mirror and had been attached with some heavy duty staples.  I was FLOORED.  I didn’t fix it.  I called my dad and he said he didn’t fix it.  I asked my boyfriend at the time if he fixed it (mind you that I knew more about fixing anything better than he did), and he did not fix it.  I asked everyone that was even in my apartment.  Nobody seemed to have fixed it.  I didn’t really know what to think.  I came to the conclusion that I had a handyman in my house, just a non flesh and blood one!  Too bad my boyfriend didn’t have some of the characteristics as my handy-man ghost!   ;)

So, there you have it!

Kari Forys

                  WOMAN from PA

      Once when I was working evening shift at __________ hospitaL the guy I was working with left to go for dinner.  I was sitting at the nurse's station, which was arc shaped, by myself, charting.  After a couple of minutes I saw dark blue legs out of the corner of my eyes heading for our sink, and then I heard them clunk into the pedals of the sink.  I turned, expecting to see my coworker, but there was no one there.  This was the same day a man named "XXXX" had died.  The TV kept turning itself on(no one had the remote), the blood pressure cuff kept turning itself on, and one of the other patients wrote  us a note that said "XXXX" is still here."
Another time(same hospital) we had Halloween decorations hanging all down the hall.  The two of us working were in our break room, and the girl I was with started to leave the room, then stopped in her tracks.  I joined her because she was getting a little freaked out.  Halfway down the hall, one(and only one, all the others were completely still) of the decorations was swinging wildly back and forth.  There was no one else on the floor, no patients were up, and there were no breezes coming from anywhere.
 

            

                                                                                 WOMAN IN NY

             It is October and as I’m talking to my friend on the phone when my bedroom lights shut off.  Now, I’m wondering why the circuit breaker tripped.  When I get to the light switch I see it was shut off from there.  She asked me what was wrong and I told her that one of the Spirits shut the lights off on me. 

            The next morning John leaves for work and I hear the door bell ringing so I go out to see why and the dog is barking furiously at the door.  John comes back in to see why she’s barking and I told him he must have accidentally hit the door bell on his way out.  He says he didn’t that he was already getting into the car when he heard the dog barking making him come back into the house to see why.  I laughed.  It is 6:25 AM and we decided we must have a new Spirit here that is very much making their presence known. 

           My brother in law that day told me he was seen driving and when he met up with his friend the man asked who “was the large man sitting next to John wearing a blue shirt and sunglasses”.  My brother in law told him there was no one in the car with him.  Then later on that day he was seen again driving and this guy saw the man in the car with John again and asked one of the other men that were standing with him if they saw the guy in the car with John and they said there is no one with him.  Now this man was confused and asked John again when he saw him who the man was and again John said there was no one with him.

          When my brother in law came home he told me the story the only person I could think of was his brother Robert.  So his mother gave him a picture of his brother and I gave him the card you take from the funeral parlor with the name of the person and date of death.  He took them with him the next day and before the day was done he showed the picture to the gentleman and asked if this was the man he saw in the car with him.  The man said yes and then John showed him the Mass card from the funeral parlor.  The guy did not understand and John told him he must be seeing ghosts which had the poor guy completely spooked. So it was Robert after all who shut my light and rang the door bell.

Had a ghost siting here this morning ... 
It happened to me this morning. I saw Jennie, my cat thar died, in bed with me. Mark was up getting ready for work and I woke up and Jennie was sitting there looking at me. I reached out to touch her and my hand went right through her...I was so dumbfounded that I did it again and the same thing
happened and then she was gone. It all happened so fast.  So naturally. Maybe she will visit more often...I'll keep you posted.
                                                                   Laurie from NY

 

 My daughter had her friend over a couple of weeks ago. She got a digital camera for Christmas that takes pics and video's.  So she and my daughter decided to tape themselves dancing and I guess she asked the spirits to prove they are here. And as they were dancing the camera turned to my daughter only.  The little girl came running out of the room screaming and telling us what had just happened.  She ran back got the camera and showed us as it happened.  We all laughed.  We told her that her question was answered. My daughter thought is was cool that the spirit actually answered her friend.  I just tell them they are not to be in the house when we are sleeping.  That they have to stay in the sunroom or where ever else they prefer.  They pretty much listen. They seem to be nice people. 

                                                                      Judy from NY


                                            YOUR PICTURES

   This in from the Montrose Fire Hall.  Looks like this little girl is dancing with this spirit!  This is a known haunted location that we have done many investigations at.  Thank you for this picture.

This next one was sent in from Kris from Binghamton NY.  Her cat had kittens under her bed and there was nothing there but a wall!  Looks like a face watching the babies!  Thank You to Kris for sending it in!

              OUR STORIES

This was when we were first starting out and we did not know what we know today.  This was our first dealing with an inhuman spirit and had no clue what we got ourselves into.  We were heading towards a tomb that had been desecrated many years ago, we had to walk about 2 miles down a small path in the woods.  There were 4 of us, tape recorders, and our cameras all was calm and we chatted along the way.  We finially arrived at the tomb we took some pics and stayed for about an hour.  When we were leaving the air seemed to change it got thick and ominous as we were walking it got worse.  We were talking about the sightings that had taken place here in the past, when suddenly we heard a tree falling!  So what you say you were in the woods well this tree didn't just fall and be dome with it it continued to fall over and over again. As it did it got louder and louder and started coming from all around us.  We took of screaming and running to our car as we were fumbling for the keys we started saying our closing prayer.  When we were in the safety of our car as we were leaving we listened to our tapes.  Guess what whatever it was erased it's sounds, we could hear the begining of the tree falling, us saying what was that and when it was getting louder our tape went blank but kept taping and you can not hear anything until we said our prayer!  As the tape ran for a couple of minutes there was no sound at all and I have to tell you we screamed like women in a horror movie.  Whatever it was didn't want us to hear this sound again but it will never leave our memory banks.   It was then we started really looking into inhuman hauntings, we still have the tape under lock and key!