The Sci-Fi Channel’s current hit show Haunters follows a group of intrepid former plumbers. Despite the humor inherent in the description, the show comes off as a solid, funny and always sincere exploration of what goes bump in the night. What these guys lack in formal scientific education, they more than make up for in going sober, street sharp, and equipping themselves with heavy paranormal equipment.
Most episodes show the team coming off empty, but it’s rarely superfluous. They can debunk a long belief in a haunted-hotels”>haunted-hotels”> hotel or bar. Business owners are generally satisfied, if a little frustrated, that they can’t claim real han-ex. What audiences look forward to are the moments when something is captured on film or in audio that simply cannot be explained. A spirit from another world cannot be concluded, but there is no definitive way to say what the catch is. When that happens, it’s suddenly gratifying, and it’s certainly part of why I watch it.
Holy Hunters is just the latest entertainment offering, considering our fascination with the other side. – Just because we live after this life. Hollywood has conjured up all manner of spook shows. Everything from the classic Robert Wise directed Haunting to Demi Moore and Patrick Swazye’s love stories Saints to wacky old Bill Murray and crew with Ghostbusters .
So between the fun commentary of the movies and the stone cold detective reality show Haunters – where do the dozens of weird and paranormal events seem to go for the record every day? Well, you may be surprised, but for years, newspapers have dutifully reported on the side of the apparently foreign press contests. Before shows like Ghost Hunters, In Search or Sightings, the mainstream media was obliged to report the matter even if it appeared alien. In the whole country, in every city, they were crushed. Here are a few from NJ.
Spirit of Jersey
Jersey City is today worshiped by a most destructive ghost that recently appeared in a haunted house. At first he was content to wander about in the empty rooms, but soon he entered the room where the man was quietly sleeping and stripped him of his coat, without being silent or waking the master. He also carried his ghosts to the roof of the building and fixed them on the roof. The residents treat their house guest with consideration and prompting that she or he has. the whole house wanders in.
“The spirit.” Morning Daily Oregonian – 1866
Learn From Heaven
A colored man, who says his name is Charles Staats, who gives his age as 24 years, and who says he lives in West Philadelphia, was here incarcerated, brought to Bordentown by Martin Ronan, who found him acting strangely. The man is supposed to be insane. He stated and had a ghost fight in the street here on Tuesday night (June 20). He said that the spirit had a lamp which he brought with him from heaven. Being asked how he did with the Holy Spirit, he said that he himself had a better understanding of him and took the lamp from him.
They are the wonderful stories of the colored man.” New York Times 1905
Red pendants, no head
This part of Burlington County is a ghost in the production process with no recent updates. A few nights ago, a party of four men passed through a village near Ellisdale and saw the figure of a man standing by the side of the road ahead of them. she neither moved nor spoke to the passers-by, and everyone noticed that she was immaculate. The others looked, but nothing was seen in the place where he was standing sullenly. It is agreed among all that he had a figure in a white shirt and red suspenders, and without a head. He was seen in the moon.
“The Holy Cream Ridge.” Atichison – Daily Globe 1885
