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Historic Souls Haunt Baltimore's Fells Point
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Historic Souls Haunt Baltimore's Fells Point

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:42 AM PDT

A group of paranormal investigators based in the nation's capitol, has been asked to investigate four historic, haunted properties in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood. The Preservation Society of Federal Hill and Fells Point requested the investigations in order to determine the truth behind the many reports of ghostly sounds, sights, and smells at these properties over the years.

The Robert Long House, constructed around 1765, is the oldest urban residence still standing in Baltimore, while the Merchants House dates from circa 1800. The old hotel, now the Fells Point Visitors Center, is more accurately described as a former saloon and brothel that served the sailors in this active port city. Staff and visitors have experienced paranormal phenomena in all these locations, as well as in the nearby Horse Car Barn.

"We're very excited about this opportunity," R.I.P. President Patricia Marin stated. "We've investigated a number of historic sites before and we're looking forward to seeing what we can discover in Fells Point." The group uses both scientific and occult methodologies to uncover paranormal activities. Along with employing various types of equipment, R.I.P. also has two mediums on the team, one of whom is a federal law enforcement agent in his day job. "We have high standards of proof for paranormal activities," explained Lisa Linden, R.I.P. Co-Founder.

R.I.P.'s first investigation of the Robert Long House and the Merchants House begins the evening of April 24th and may last all night. This investigation is being filmed for an episode of "The R.I.P. Files," the group's new Internet TV series which will debut on Ghost Channel TV (www.ghostchannel.tv) and on blip.tv this spring.
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HAUNTED FELLS POINT, BALTIMORE, MD

The Horse You Came In On, a pub on the last street before the docks, is rumored to have been one of Edgar Allen Poe's favorite drinking spots. In fact, one of the female employees, who declined to give her name for superstitious reasons, theorizes that the dark poet, "…had been walking home from The Horse You Came In On when he died".

She believes it is Edgar Allen Poe's ghost that resides in this pub. She believes the spirit, which this employee lovingly refers to as "Edgar", is responsible for strange occurrences throughout the bar.

Aside from having seen the chandelier swing on its own, the bartender also recounts an eerie memory of one morning when she arrived to open the bar and prepare it for the evening. As she walked by the cash register, its drawer opened by itself. She closed the drawer and went about her business. To her surprise, the drawer again opened by itself. Once again, she pushed the drawer closed. Before the bar opened, she would close the drawer twice more in this mysterious exercise.

At the end of her shift as she was leaving, she told the evening bartender about what had happened. To her amazement, he told her that the same thing had happened to him several times in the past.

The employees have since nicknamed their ghost "Edgar" and now speak to him regularly. The female bartender says that when one of these occurrences happens, usually around closing time, she speaks to him, acknowledging his presence. Whatever the source of these phenomena is, the employees at The Horse You Came In On do believe in the existence of spirits, particularly that of the legendary Edgar Allen Poe.

In 1726, William Fell purchased the land where the small waterfront community of Fells Point still thrives. His son, Edward Fell, laid the lots and streets of Fells Point. Stories surrounding the ghost of Mr. Fell are unclear as to whether the spirit is that of the father or of the son. Coby Kay Callahan recount stories of seeing a man dressed in 18th century clothing walking the streets of Fells Point.

Callahan tells the story of leaving the bar known as Friends. "Some of my friends bartend at Friends. I live three blocks east of Friends and I have to walk east to get home. About 2:30am one morning, I saw this man dressed in funny clothes like you would see in an old picture like from the 18th century". Callahan was afraid. She felt somewhat protected by her boyfriend Christopher Carter who was walking with her.

The pair walked towards their home in the direction she had seen the man. She caught another glimpse of the man, but this time she saw just the back of him in motion as he walked into an alley. When they reached the alley and looked for the man, there was no one there.

Later that week when Callahan told her friends at the bar about the man, they told her about the local legend of "Mr. Fell". It is said that late at night after last call, either William or Edward Fell can be seen walking the streets of Fells Point, just the way they might have walked after last call during the days in which they lived in the tiny port town.

Fells Point is a hot bed of paranormal activity. Its colorful and storied past—full of drinking, fighting and whoring (...and poisonings and deaths of homesick sailors) ensures there are plenty of restless souls floating around this historic waterfront area. It's a neighborhood where the shadow of Edgar Allan Poe still looms on it's uneven cobblestone streets.

NOTE: I'll vouch for the craziness at The Horse You Came In On, at least when I frequented the place many years ago. I may have been a bit inebriated but not to a degree that I didn't recognize some of the paranormal activity....mostly glasses moving on the bar and coasters flying around...Lon

Sources:
www.baltimorestories.com
www.prlog.org
paranormal.about.com
www.wbaltv.com
www.mdsocietyofghosthunters.com

Historic Souls Haunt Baltimore's Fells Point

Video: UFO Corridor - Livestock 'Hunting Grounds'

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:39 AM PDT

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io9 - Members of the "Animal Pathology Field Unit" in the UK have identified a UFO hotspot in the UK, where locals say the skies are lit up by flashing lights and dozens of sheep have been mutilated by mysterious forces.

Why are the aliens always mutilating cows and sheep? No word on that yet, but at least we've got a better understanding of where the UFOs are likely to hit.

According to The Sun:

Phil Hoyle, 53, who has spent nine years probing the riddle of livestock found killed, said of the night-time spectacle last month: "For a short while it looked more like a Star Wars battle."

Next day he interviewed farmers and "all but one had had some type of unusual disappearance of animals or deaths with strange injuries" . . . The retired steelworker, who lives near Shrewsbury, Shrops, said: "Animals are being clinically and surgically sampled by a highly advanced technology." He and members of his 15-strong team saw the UFOs at work as they spent a night at a Welsh hill farm monitoring the skies around the Radnor Forest. The spheres not only fired mysterious rays but sent out smaller versions of themselves, which he believes performed the grisly experiments.

He said: "The technology involved in these attacks is frightening. These lights and spheres are clearly not ours. "They are built by technology and intelligence that's not from here."

Phil said the UFOs like to roam a specific 50-mile "corridor" between Shrewsbury and Powys. But Dartmoor and the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire are other hunting grounds. Sheep have been found with neat holes and their brains and other internal organs removed. Others have lost eyes or had their flesh carefully stripped away, usually on the left side. Phil said of his team: "We've devoted our lives to carrying out serious research into the animal mutilation mystery and its connections to the increasingly reported sightings of red and orange spheres."

So now you know where you shouldn't raise sheep. Or where you should go to meet super-hot lizard ladies who can fill you with bliss. Either way.

NOTE: Here's the link to my previous post - Shropshire Sheep Farmers Witness UFOs 'Laser' Their Livestock. The video started showing up on several UK media websites late Wednesday...Lon

Video: UFO Corridor - Livestock 'Hunting Grounds'

This Week on 'Beyond the Edge' Radio

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:10 AM PDT

This week on Beyond the Edge Radio - Sunday, April 11th at 9:00 pm ET
Hosts: Eric Altman & Sean Forker

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Special Guest - Billy Willard of Sasquatch Watch of Virginia

Billy Willard is president of an environmental consulting firm. He oversees various types of environmental assessment and cleanup projects (e.g., leaking underground petroleum tanks, environmental site assessments, and soil/groundwater remediation). Billy is an OSHA Hazwoper Supervisor and holds many other credentials. Billy became interested in the Bigfoot phenomena early in life as a kid after watching such movies as the Legend of Boggy Creek and the Creature From Black Lake. In 2005, Billy and his son Josh formed Sasquatch Watch of Virginia. Billy is currently vice president of the American Bigfoot Society (ABS), a director for The Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers (AIBR), member of the Northeast Sasquatch Researchers Association (NESRA) and a member of the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society (PBS).

In addition, Billy hosts an internet radio program every Monday night at 9pm Eastern on the BlogTalk Radio Network called Sasquatch Watch Radio. Each week he has guests from around the world that include Bigfoot researchers and eyewitnesses.

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Special Guest - Melissa Hovey of The American Bigfoot Society

Melissa Hovey is a researcher, living in the State of Ohio. She is the President of the American Bigfoot Society (ABS). Melissa also runs her own blog and discussion forum entitled The Search for Bigfoot.

In 2007, Melissa began her internet radio work with shows like "Let's Talk Bigfoot", and "The Sasquatch Experience" where she interviewed such personalities as John Green, Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Benjamin Radford and Rick Noll.

In June of 2008 Melissa began co-hosting a new program on Talkshoe, with her friend and fellow TBRC Board Member and Field Researcher Monica Rawlins, called "The Grey Area" which is simulcast on the UK's Global Radio 1.

Melissa was also featured on the all female expedition episode of MonsterQuest, titled "Bigfoot".

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Weekly Segment Host: Nick Redfern - It's A "Para" Normal World

Update: Paranormal Group Seeks R.M.S. Titanic EVPs

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:46 AM PDT

heraldstandard - Matthew "Sandman" Kelley of Markleysburg will undertake a paranormal investigation later this year that never has been attempted when he and his crew travel to the spot that the RMS Titantic sank nearly 100 years ago.

Kelley is a member of Society of the D.E.A.D. (Direct Evidence After Death) paranormal society based in Fayette County. He was hoping to travel to the site to commemorate the 98th anniversary of the sinking in April, but weather concerns have pushed the trip back to July.

The trip will begin July 10 and stretch until July 28, and the crew will leave Nova Scotia and spend four days out on the water at the site of the sinking in the Atlantic Ocean.

Kelley said the investigation would include a day with a paranormal research session, with the crew located directly above the site where the Titanic sank. He said the crew would collect EVPs, which are electronic voice phenomenon believed to be voices of spirits that cannot be heard by the human ear. The crew also plans to perform a side-sonar scan image of the sunken luxury liner.

When EVPs are collected, there are Class A or Class B recordings, with the Class A being interactive and the Class B being residual, or the equivalent of hearing a tape recording being replayed from another time, Kelley explained.

"Great trauma leaves residual impressions," Kelley said.

Kelley said he doesn't expect any Class A voices from the sinking site.

"It would be a sad thing if spirits were still there," Kelley said.

Kelley said the sunken ship is deteriorating rapidly.

The ship sank 98 years ago on the morning of April 15, 1912, and of a total of 2,223 people aboard, only 706 survived.

The number of lifeboats on board the ship was only enough for about half of the passengers.

Kelley said the trip to the site also would include a memorial service in which 1,533 white roses will be put into the water.

A documentary will be filmed during the expedition, and Kelley said he is hoping to get it aired on the History Channel.

Kelley said the idea of traveling to the site of the ship's sinking came to him about a year and a half ago as he was trying to come up with the idea of doing something in the paranormal field that hadn't been done before.

In addition to himself, Kelley said he has collected the following people in the paranormal field to make the trip: Chris Dedman, David Burnsworth, Megan Riggar, Kenny Riggar, Gregg Cable, Robert Davis, Bishop James Long, Serenity Moore, Nicole Leader, Christel Brooks, James Sexton, Brooke Sexton, Chris Maggard, Tom Carr, Liesha Lawson, Karen Miles, Diane Marie Goff, Ash Blackwell and Brian Clune.

The paranormal research group Society of the D.E.A.D. was formed in April 2002 with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of the paranormal with an eye on science rather than superstition, Kelley said.

Society of the DEAD also has traveled to a prison in Mansfield, Ohio, that was featured in the movie "Shawshank Redemption."

NOTE: Many readers have been asking for an update to the original post - Paranormal Group Seeks R.M.S. Titanic EVPs...Lon

Update: Paranormal Group Seeks R.M.S. Titanic EVPs

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