World's Most Supernatural HauntedPlaces

The most famous case in the career of Harry Price was undoubtedly that of Borley Rectory, a deteriorating house in Essex.

Borley Rectory was a Victorian mansion which gained fame as 'The Most Haunted House in England', before it was destroyed by fire in 1939.

It is Located in the village of Borley, Essex, the big Gothic-style rectory had been the scene of occasional alleged hauntings ever since it was built. But these reports increased suddenly in 1929, after the Daily Mirror published the findings of paranormal researcher Harry Price.


Harry Price got involved in the case after a newspaper carried a story about a phantom nun at the house in June 1929. Price was asked by the paper to investigate and he was told about various types of phenomena that had been reported there, like phantom footsteps, strange lights, ghostly whispers, a headless man, a girl in white, the sounds of a phantom coach outside, the apparition of the home’s builder, Henry Bull, and of course, the spirit of the nun. This spectral figure was said to drift through the garden with her head bent in sorrow.

Local legend had it that a monastery had once been located on the site and that a 13th century monk and a beautiful young novice were killed while trying to elope from the place. The monk was hanged and his would-be bride was bricked up alive within the walls of her convent. Price scoffed at the idea of such a romantic tale but was intrigued by the phenomena associated with the house.

2. Whaley House (San Diego, California)

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She says " I took this photo this past March at The Whaley House in Old Town, San Diego. This was my first time visiting the house. The bright light on the upper left side is from the flash on my camera, but I've circled what I can't explain. I have no idea what this is. I just thought I'd share this pic with you all. Also, this was the only pic that came out blurry! "

The Whaley House is located in the Old Town San Diego, California. The historic house opened as a museum on May 25, 1960. Now, the Whaley House is one of Southern California's most popular tourist attractions.

Author deTraci Regula relates her experiences with the house: “Over the years, while dining across the street at the Old Town Mexican Cafe, I became accustomed to noticing that the shutters of the second-story windows (of the Whaley House) would sometimes open while we ate dinner, long after the house was closed for the day. On a recent visit, I could feel the energy in several spots in the house, particularly in the courtroom, where I also smelled the faint scent of a cigar, supposedly Whaley’s calling-card. In the hallway, I smelled perfume, initially attributing that to the young woman acting as docent, but some later surreptitious sniffing in her direction as I talked to her about the house revealed her to be scent-free.”

3. Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia

It is Designed by John Haviland and opened in 1829, Eastern State is considered to be the world’s first true penitentiary. Its revolutionary system of incarceration, dubbed the Pennsylvania System, originated and encouraged solitary confinement as a form of rehabilitation. On June 1st, 2007 a television show called “Most Haunted” went live to the penitentiary. Part of the group went to Al Capones cell. Two people passed out while “investigating” the prison. One member of the team, Yvette, stated that “this is the most evil place I have ever been.” They claimed to have had contact with spirits but there was no hard evidence that their claims were legitimate.

4. Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England

 

 

 

Raynham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England. For nearly 400 years it has been the seat of the Townshend family. The hall gave its name to the area, known as The Raynhams and is reported to be haunted, providing the scene for possibly the most famous ghost photo of all time, the famous Brown Lady descending the staircase. However, the ghost has been seen infrequently since the photo was taken. Its most famous resident was Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674–1738), leader in the House of Lords.

5. Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Kentucky

Waverly Hills Sanatorium, located in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. It has been popularized on television as being one of the “most haunted” hospitals in the eastern United States and was seen on ABC/FOX Family Channel’s Scariest Places On Earth as well as VH1's Celebrity Paranormal Project. It was also seen on the Sci Fi Channel’s Ghost Hunters. Ghost investigators who have ventured into Waverly have reported a host of strange paranormal phenomena, including voices of unknown origin, isolated cold spots and unexplained shadows. Screams have been heard echoing in its now abandoned hallways, and fleeting apparitions have been encountered.

6. The Queen Mary, California 

This grand old ship is quite haunted, according to the many people who have worked on and visited the craft. Once a celebrated luxury ocean liner, when it ended its sailing days the Queen Mary was purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1967 and transformed into a hotel.

The most haunted area of the ship is the engine room where a 17-year-old sailor was crushed to death trying to escape a fire. Knocking and banging on the pipes around the door has been heard and recorded by numerous people. In what is now the front desk area of the hotel, visitors have seen the ghost of a "lady in white."

Ghosts of children are said to haunt the ship's pool. The spirit of a young girl, who allegedly broke her neck in an accident at the pool, has been heard asking for her mother or her doll. In the hallway of the pool's changing rooms is an area of unexplained activity. Furniture moves about by itself, people feel the touch of unseen hands and unknown spirits appear. In the front hull of the ship, a specter can sometimes be heard screaming - the pained voice, some believe, of a sailor who was killed when the Queen Mary collided with a smaller ship.

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Father's Day And Its History

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, though it is also celebrated widely on other days by many other countries. Father's Day was created to complement Mother's Day, a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood.

History of Father's Day

History of Father's Day Festival as seen today is not even a hundred years old. Thanks to the hard work and struggle of Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Washington that just as we have set aside Mother's Day to honor mothers we have a day to acknowledge the important role played by the father. However, some scholars opine that Father's Day history is much older than we actually believe it to be. They say that the custom of honoring dad's on a special day is over 4,000 years old. There are a few more claims about the Father's Day origin about which we will learn in this page.

Earliest History of Father's Day
Scholars believe that the origin of Father's Day is not a latest phenomenon, as many believe it to be. Rather they claim that the tradition of Father's Day can be traced in the ruins of Babylon. They have recorded that a young boy called Elmesu carved a Father's Day message on a card made out of clay nearly 4,000 years ago. Elmesu wished his Babylonian father good health and a long life. Though there is no record of what happened to Elmesu and his father but the tradition of celebrating Father's Day remained in several countries all over the world.

History of Father's Day in US
Modern version of Father's Day celebration originated in United States of America and thereafter the tradition spread in countries around the world. The world owes thanks to Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd a loving daughter from Spokane, Washington as it is because of her struggle that Father's Day saw the light of the day.

The idea of Father's Day celebration originated in Sonora's mind when she per chance listened to Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Fairly mature at the age 27, Sonora pondered if there is a day to honor mother then why not for father? Sonora felt strongly for fathers because of the affection she received from her own father Mr William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran. Sonora's mother died while childbirth when she was just 16. Mr Smart raised the newborn and five other children with love and care.

Inspired by Ms Anna Jarvis's struggle to promote Mother's Day, Ms Dodd began a rigorous campaign to celebrate Father's Day in US. The Spokane Ministerial Association and the local Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) supported Sonora's cause. As a result Spokane celebrated its first Father's Day on June 19, 1910. Though there was initial hesitation the idea gained gradual popularity all over US and Fathers Day came to be celebrated in cities across the country.

Looking at the heightened popularity of Father's Day in US, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea in 1916. President Calvin Coolidge too supported the idea of a national Father's Day in 1924 to, "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations". After a protracted struggle of over four decades, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father's Day in 1966. Then in 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. Sonora Smart Dodd was honored for her contribution at the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974. Mrs. Dodd died in 1978 at age 96.

Other Theories of Fathers Day Origin

• There are several theories behind the origination of Father's Day.
• Some believe that the first Fathers Day church service was held in West Virginia in 1908.
• Others opine that the ceremony was first held in Vancouver, Washington.
• The president of Lions' Club, Chicago, Harry Meek is said to have celebrated the first Father's Day with his organization in 1915 to stress on the need to honor fathers. He selected third Sunday in June for celebration, the closest date to Meek's own birthday. In appreciation for Meek's work, the Lions Clubs of America presented him with a gold watch, with the inscription "Originator of Father's Day," on his birthday, June 20, 1920.
• Some historians honor Mrs. Charles Clayton of West Virginia, as the Founder of Father's Day.
• In 1957, Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote Congress that, "Either we honor both our parents, mother and father, or let us desist from honoring either one. But to single out just one of our two parents and omit the other is the most grievous insult imaginable."
• In countries where Catholic Church holds greater influence Father's Day is celebrated on St. Joseph's Day (March 19).

Present Day Celebrations
Father's Day Festival has gained amazing popularity over the years. The festival is considered to be a secular one and is celebrated not just in US but in a large number of countries around the world including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Norway and India though on different dates. World over people take Father's Day as an opportunity to thank father and pay tribute to them. On this day children present Father's Day cards not just to their dads but also grandfathers, uncles, stepfathers or any other person who commands the position of a father in their life. There is also a trend to present Father's Day gift to dad, most popular of all being necktie. Other popular gift being roses, the official Father's Day flower. Many people rue that the trend of presenting gifts to fathers has led to over commercialization of the festival relegating the noble idea behind Father's Day celebration.

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Human Body Systems - Interesting Facts About Human Body

• Did you than human nose can remember up to 50000 different types of scents .

• Research suggests that Children tend to grow faster in spring season as compared to any other time of the year !

• Food is either cooled or warmed to a suitable temperature in the mouth !

• Hugging releases oxytocin,which helps to heal physical wounds,makes someone trust you more !

• Do you know that your Toe-prints are also unique , just like your finger prints !And imagine even your tongue print is unique!

• You know ,you have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!

• You know ,you can see your nose all the time but somehow your brain always ignores it!

• We all blink after every few seconds, but do we know the purpose of blinking ! Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs.That keeps them clean and moist.

• An average person has over 1,460 dreams a year which is about 4 dreams every night!

• On a clear night ,the human eye can see between 2000 to 3000 stars in the sky.

• Do you know the similarity between human body and a banana? You will be amazed to know that 50% of human DNA is same as in banana!

• The human body has enough iron in it to make 3 inches long nail.

• A human heart pumps enough blood to fill 100 swimming pools in an average lifetime.In the same time it will beat almost three billion times

• While sleeping, one person out of every eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth

• All babies are color blind when they are born ,so they only see black & white.

• People with dark color skin wrinkle later than the people having light color skins!

• Guess how many muscles are working when you take a step! Well, about 200 muscles are used when we take a single step!

• Weight of the eyeball ! The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

• People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.

• Do you know ,it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open !

• And do you know ,it is impossible to hum while your nose is plugged close !

• Do you know 'rhinoplasty' is the name given to plastic surgery which involves nose !

• Have you heard about Anosmia ,Dysosmia ,Hyperosmia? These all words are related to sense of smelling. Anosmia means inability to smell and Dysosmia is a condition where things don't smell like they should smell whereas Hyperosmia means strong sense of smelling !

• Here is one more trivia about nose :the technical term for sense of smell is 'olfaction' !

• Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

• Do you know what is Uvula? It is the small piece of the small tissue dangling over the tongue.

• Now this is cool ,the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

• And did you know that our fingers don't have any muscles ? The muscles which move our finger joints are located in the palm and up in the forearm.

• An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells!

• Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.

• Do you know ,your brain is 80% water?

• No pain in the brain! Do you know our brain does not feel pain! Even though brain processes pain signals,the brain itself actually does not feel pain.

• Bones in an adult account for 14% of the body's total weight.

• The tips of your fingers have enough strength to support the weight of your whole body

• When you are born with 300 bones in their body, but as an adult you only have 206 bones. This happens because many of them join together to make a single bone.

• The outsides of a bone are hard, they are light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

• The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!

• The smallest bone in the human body is the staples bone which is located in the ear,it is also called stirrup .

• Men get hiccups more often than women.

• A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 miles per hour.When a sneeze leaves your body ,it is at such a high speed that you should avoid supressing it.

• It takes food only seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus, pretty fast ! right?

• Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.

• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

• Women hearts beat faster than men. Also women blink more than men !

• In one day ,your heart beats 100,000 times.

• And do you know that breathing rate is faster in children and women than men !

• The normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute.

• Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.

• Did you know that Blood is 6 times thicker than water?

• Our kidneys filter about 1.3 liters of blood every minute & expel up to 1.4 liters of urine in a day.

• The capacity of an adult human bladder ranges from approximately 600 ml to 800 ml. The exact maximum capacity varies from person to person. But remember that the urge to urinate is triggered when the bladder contains about 100 to 200 mls , much lower than full capacity. As the bladder fills with fluid, receptors in the bladder wall get stretched.

• Do you know a woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters?

• Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.

• Did you know that, our heart (which is one of the main muscles ) is so powerful that it can squirt the blood no less than 9 meters high? It's because it’s programmed to deliver the blood even in the less accessible areas of the body, like the toes & the fingertips, and therefore, in order to do this, it’s necessary for the heart to create lots of pressure inside the veins.

• People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.

• The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

• The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

• Every drop of blood in your body is filtered by your body over 300 times a day.

• Babies are born with pink lungs but they darken in color as we breathe in polluted air.

• Your right lung is bigger than left lung! The left lung is small so as to adjust heart in that part !

• Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

• You burn more calorie while sleeping than watching TV.

• Almost half of total bones in human body are in hands & feet.

• The Hyoid bone, in your throat ,is the only bone in your body which not attached to other bone..

• Your skeleton keeps changing every 10 years, that means your bodies keep renewing themselves so every 10 year you have a new skeleton.

• The word Karate means, "empty hand”.

• The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

• Do you know left hand side of your brain controls right -side of your body whereas right-hand side controls left part of body .

• Do you know everybody has a strong eye and one weak!

• Pupils in eyes get their name because the picture they give is small ,like schoolchildren !

• Rods & Cons are the two types of light sensitive cells in your eyes.Rods tell about brightness of color but Cones tell about what color it is. Cones don't work well in night ,that is why colors look gray at night!

• The brain grows quickest till the age of 5.!

• And do you know that unlike other body cells ,brain cells can not regenerate . Once brain cells are damaged ,they are not repaired !

• A normal human being can survive for 20 days without eating but it can survive only for 2 days without drinking!

• Your blood carries food & oxygen to all of your body.!

• Body fat is not particularly hazardous to health untill the level of total body fat reaches 35% for men & 40% for woman

• About 90% of what we eat is assimilated in the small intestine.

• Human Bones consist of 50% water & 50% solid material.

• 14 bones make up the human face.

• It is considered that average quantity of blood in a man is 6.8 litres wheas it is 500 ml less in an average woman
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• Hair is made of protein and keratin & has no blood supply.And common belief that shaving facial hair makes them grow faster or thicker is ,not true.

• An average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.

• There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) of blood vessels in each human.

• The average adult can read 150 to 200 words per minute and the vocabulary of an average person consists of only 5,000 - 7,000 words.

• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye.It takes in oxygen directly from air.

• The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood to 30 feet.

• Asmall trivia about human feet: The human feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat everyday.

• An amazing fact :In an adult human body,there are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels .

• A mind-boggling fact:The ear in human body has over 25,000 tiny hair cells to help us hear each and every sound!

• Have you heard about 'Glabella' ! It is the space between your eyebrows!

• Another interesting word 'Borborygmi' -it is the noise or sound which our stomach makes when we are hungry!

• A small important fact about human ears and sound:Ears convert sound waves into nerve impulses that are sent to brain !

• The only joint less bone in human body is Hyoid bone in the throat !

• Do you know that if human eye was a digital camera ,it would have 576 megapixels.

• Another fact about blood :An average human adult has between 4.7 and 5 liters of blood in their body. Blood accounts for about 7% per cent of our total body weight!
  

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Wanna call? Talk to fishes!!
As public phones are outdated due to cellular phones so the japanese came up with an idea of utilizing them to decorate the streets. The phone booths were converted to Aquariums in Osaka, Japan. Can you imagine the amount of food required by all these booth aquariums? And do you think it's worth it?

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