From Reality TV Magazine - For the first time in the show's history, the 'Most Haunted' paranormal investigation team will bring their hit special, 'Most Haunted Live,' to the United States for a live investigation from a top secret, yet-to-be disclosed haunted location. ( Link )

From About.com - Spring is here, and that means it's time for our annual Paranormal Photo Hoax contest. This contest gives readers the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of the unknown as well as their creative photo-manipulation skills. (Deadline May 31, 2007) ( Link )

Today's trek through the RSS reader brings us tails of creepy jails, conspiracy theories, and fake photos. Read on:

Exploring Creepy Jail
From Charleston.net - Skeptics and ghost hunters faced off after midnight in the Old City Jail, pitting logic against the paranormal. On one side sat members of the College of Charleston's Atheist-Humanist Alliance. On the other, two teams of paranormal investigators. ( Link )

Rosie, Bigfoot, UFOS
From Town Hall: Everyone's seen Rosie O'Don...
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From About.com - "Most paranormal investigators today advise against the use of the Ouija as a harmless pastime or game. There are too many instances, they say, of negative feelings and unwanted phenomena. The skeptics maintain that these sometimes frightening experiences are nothing but the result of over-stimulated imaginations, and that the stories told are of events that are imagined or greatly exaggerated. Those who lived the experiences, however, usually refuse to accept this explanation. ...
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From the Scotsman - Sceptics would dismiss the shadow that traversed Glasgow's oldest bar at 3.35am yesterday as no more than a trick of the light. But to paranormal experts investigating the Scotia Bar's spooky past, this moving figure was the latest proof that ghosts walk - or float - among us. Spirit Finders, Scotland's answer to Ghostbusters, were on a mission to detect signs of paranormal life lurking amidst the bar stools of this Glasgow institution. ( Link )

From UnionLeader.com -Bonnie Hall is convinced her pub is haunted but says she doesn't want the prankster of a ghost to leave. Hall says strange occurrences have been a daily thing since she and her husband, Robert, took over the fire station and converted it into the FireHall Pub and Grille in 2005. Firefighters had told her that the building, more than a century old, may be haunted, she said. ( Link )

From The Express Times - Unexplained things happen, especially at night. A tap on the shoulder by an unseen hand. The feeling of a presence but no earthly body in sight. Staff and guests at Historic Hotel Bethlehem have been saying for years it is haunted, and the time has come to talk about these ghostly experiences in the daylight, to embrace the hotel's turbulent past to ensure its future, hotel historian and special events manager Natalie Bock said. ( Link )

From time to time I catch an episode of "A Haunting " on the Discovery Channel. I try to do this in daylight hours because frankly, this show creeps me out. Since the program is done in the style of a docudrama, I am honestly torn about the accuracy of the stories and their utility in furthering an examination of the paranormal.