Ghosts in the Museum?

My sister is a keeper at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. For years she's been telling me that weird things happen there - elevators with minds of their own, strange noises, sights in the basement and galleries, etc. Recently a surveillance camera in the Etruscan gallery where she works caught a ghostly figure. Check it out below:

On October 22, the Young Friends of the Museum will couple up with The Free Spirit Paranormal Investigators to investigate the unexplained happenings.  Read more here.

INTERESTING CNN INTERVIEW: A HAUNTING IN CT

I'm finishing up my column on The Haunting in Connecticut and found this interesting CNN interview with Carmen Snedeker. She's the woman who lived in the Southington, CT house, which was the subject of the movie and the Discovery documentary, A Haunting in Connecticut.

In the interview she told CNN that she:

• is writing her own account of what happened in the house
• that she has always been sensitive to the paranormal and that might be why she and her family were visited by the presence in the house
• that she feels terrible about sending her son, Matt, off to a mental hospital
• and that Matt, who is now thirty-five, is cured of his cancer.

NEW TV: GHOST LAB

The latest in big-dudes-busting-ghosts reality shows will air on October 6 at 10 pm on the Discovery Channel. "Ghost Lab" follows two brothers from Texas, Brad and Barry Klinge, who want to get to the scientific root of why ghosts act the way they do.

Their team, titled "Everyday Paranormal" travels in a mobile lab that is capable of providing 200,000 watts of electricity to power audio, video and photo analysis stations; flat-screen televisions and an interactive touch-screen smartboard. The lab also contains surveillance video cameras; temperature, humidity and dew point data loggers; thermal imaging cameras; and audio recorders.

Some of the locations the Klinge brothers and their team investigate on the 13-episode-show include Tombstone, Arizona; Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, where Elvis got his start; and Granbury Opera House, where legend says that John Wilkes Booth changed his name and performed Shakespeare after assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Apparently the Klinge brothers also manage to get Civil War soldiers talking on audio.

Sounds worth checking out, especially in time for Halloween.

The team (with Klinge brothers looking on ominiously in the back)

GOOGLE AND CROP CIRCLES??

Crop circles have once again "cropped up" overnight (September 14) all over the world, according to National Geographic News. What makes this outbreak so odd and suspicious is that the Google logo on Google's homepage also turned into crop circle artwork that featured a UFO on the same night. Hmmmmm.