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THE WEIRD FILES - November 2004
by Melanie Billings


PHOTO OF THE MONTH:

 The infamous Amityville Ghost Boy  If you've never seen this photo before you are in for a...treat? Perhaps treat is the wrong word. This is one of the creepiest and most unsettling photos I've ever seen, although I don't think it's a ghost as proclaimed by the Lutzes and Warrens. Just an interesting combination of light and shadow and reflection off of a kid's glasses.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH II:

The Paranormal Potato Chip Gallery   Here's something goofy to take your mind off the freaky Amityville photo. I'm not quite sure why this potato chip gallery is considered "paranormal" but I suppose finding a "Hickory Smoked Forefather" in your bag of BBQ chips might be considered a little odd to some.

SITE OF THE MONTH:

Ghosts on Ebaum's World  A lot of the photos here have been around the paranormal block a few times, so to speak, and a few are obviously Photoshopped fakes but this is still well-worth a look...even if it does have the "ghost jumps out at you and screams making you fall out of your chair in shock" video at the very end. Don't say I didn't warn you.

SITE OF THE MONTH II:

 It's 2 for 1 day here at the Weird Files! I can't even begin to explain what's going on at this site and I don't even want to try.

 ABSOLUTELY INSANE EBAY AUCTION OF THE MONTH:

There are a few things in this world that should be neither motorized or animatronic. This would be one of those things. Honestly, I find this just as disturbing as the Amityville ghost photo above.

AbSOLUTELY INSANE EBAY AUCTION OF THE MONTH II:

 Ghost in a bottle  A "genuine" ghost in a bottle, that is. Don't be fooled by the fake imitations that look (and are described) exactly like this one. This one is the real deal! It's interesting to note that apparently Michael Jackson is bidding on this. You can provide your own joke here.

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The Teleparanormalphone  Ever wondered if that strange heavy breather call is a bad connection, a crazed lunatic stalker or a ghostly communication from your great-aunt Sue from beyond the grave? Now you can tell the difference with the Teleparanormalphone (try saying that three times fast) that contains an EMF detector. I'm no scientist but if you do receive a phone call from dead great-aunt Sue, wouldn't the EMF only be detectable on her side of the Undead phone? Unless you, too, are undead in which case you wouldn't need the teleparanormal phone to talk to dead great-aunt Sue.

 Look! Up in the sky! It's something far away and vaguely strange-looking!  Here's something for all you end-of-the-world conspiracy nuts who were kind of disappointed that the Touatis prediction failed to come true two months ago. Scientists call the cluster of stars "puzzling". Oooooh!

Ever wonder what happens to dead bodies that go unclaimed at the local funeral home?  Well, in one funeral home in Alabama, they apparently prop the body up against the wall in a back room and use it as a teaching aid for beginner embalmers for the next 75 years until the owner dies and the funeral home burns down and the firemen find two mummified corpses in the ruins of the building which cause a murder investigation to be launched.

Who in their right mind would want to vacation in a 500-year old refurbished English barn that is rumored to be the site of murders, suicides and violent hauntings?  Presidential hopeful John Kerry....and umm, me, because that sounds pretty cool and I've never claimed to be in my right mind.

Civil War Battles rage on in ghostly form

 The platypus is officially deemed "weird" By scientists and you know how hard it is to impress them, much less hear them call something "weird".

Satan and Virgin Mary sittin' in a tree... Hey, don't look at me that way! They did it, not me--I just report the facts.

More vague and not very convincing evidence of the Yeti found Ever get the feeling that if Bigfoot and Yeti do exist, they might not want to be found?

Ghostly figures caught on camera  I don't scare very easily but I think if I snapped a photo and found that standing behind me I'd skedaddle pretty quickly. ("Skedaddle"--I love that word and it's not often I get to use it in a sentence so I take the chance when I've got it)

For some of you this might actually be a turn-on The infamous "Bunny Ranch" is haunted!

The Blob lives Finally, a mystery blob turns out to be something other than whale blubber. In this case, a very rare Pre-Cambrian organism.

This headless ghost likes the ladies  The apparition appears only to women, although it makes you wonder how he could tell since he's headless and all.

School rules Halloween offensive to witches  What's next? Valentine's Day being outlawed because it's offensive to heart transplant patients? hornets attack: Film at 11:00!
30 hornets go on a murderous rampage and massacre 30,000 innocent honeybees and it's all caught on tape. (Video link) Very disturbing to watch.



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