Dawn of the Dead Remake – Free on Hulu

Halloween is coming up – a good time to watch scary movies! Hulu has the remake of Dawn of the Dead available online for free. It’s a fairly decent horror flick, if you don’t mind a lot of blood and gore. The basic plot is that a bunch of flesh-eating zombies take over the planet…and a small group of people try to stay alive in a shopping mall.

I always find movies like these interesting just to see how the people react – but there is inevitably the series of stupid decisions that ends up causing people to die in flicks like these. Worrying about saving a dog when a mob of zombies is downstairs (and they don’t even eat dog)? – silly. You also have to wonder why the government wouldn’t just nuke the zombie-infected area in question. But then, we wouldn’t have a movie, would we now?

This movie is rated R for language, violence and some brief nudity.

Angels Caught on Film

Here are two fascinating pictures of “angels” caught on camera. The first is a modern photo taken in St. Peter’s Basilica. While I will agree with commenters on the accompanying story that this is likely just a trick of the light, it’s still a neat picture:

The second is an eerie photograph from the World War I era. The photograph accompanied some letters in an old trunk found in England. As the story goes:

The G.I. who signed himself as “Doug” in a letter to Doidge, told how his unit had been training in Woodchester Park, in Gloucestershire in the spring of 1944. He described how a pontoon bridge a cross a lake collapsed under the weight of armoured vehicles killing more than twenty soldiers.

Doug wrote that in the eve of the disaster, he and a friend named Chuck had seen an Angel hover above where the men would later drown. He wrote: “The whole thing took on the shape of what I can only describe as an Angel. I could see what looked like a long white robe. It had no feet and there were shapes like wings behind its shoulders.”

You can learn more about this story and about angels in general at this link.

Orb Representing Departed Dad?

Thanks to the reader who sent in this picture with the following note:

My father passed away in May 2008 and this was taken in his living room Dec. 28, 2008. His favorite spot was on this couch reading, watching television and napping for the past few years. One of the two women in the picture is his favorite daughter. There are 3 other pictures taken that day with orbs that look much more like the ones on the web sites. In this picture there is also an orb on the couch but very faint and 2 or three on the bottom of the black blouse the woman is wearing.(they are also very faint) I have not seen anything like this before and just wonder if it is unusual. No other pictures I have ever taken before or since
show the orbs that showed up that day.

I think what makes this orb distinctive is its brightness and luminosity. I have to wonder whether a mere speck of dust would “glow” like that.

Cemetery Tour Orbs

Thanks for sharing these photos, Sonny…

I was on a historical cemetery tour, when I saw a ground crypt (with a slotted window) so like any good hunter, jammed my camera in and shot a few pics. Mostly out of curiosity. It wasn’t til a few weeks later I noticed them. The hundreds of dust spots and floaters I’ve seen was getting me down. These are the first orbs I’ve seen, where they cast light on the wall !! You will see a bricked over door with a circular window above. I shot from the opposing window. The date is right, but the time was about noon-ish. The pic. may not come, for it’s a hair over 1MB. If so enjoy. Sonny.

This second photo is Sonny testing out rain drops to see if they look like orbs:

The Haunted Husband

Can a bad husband be blamed on ghosts in the bedroom? Consider the following submission:

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Note no orb in my room with white bedspread.

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Nikki Catsouras Orbs

Nikki Catsouras was a teenager who flipped her Porsche after driving 100 mph on Halloween night. Her crash was so bad, her head was split in half. Graphic photos of her mangled corpse appeared on the Internet after her death, and her family is suing.

While my heart goes out to her family, I feel they are missing an opportunity to educate young drivers on the dangers of speeding. One look at Nikki’s corpse is probably enough to make many eager teens slow down.

What I found interesting is when I took a look at her most graphic photo, I noticed a few orbs on the bottom of the picture. There are two, directly underneath the mangled car. The spirit of Nikki? An angel of death?

You can view the photo online here – I won’t post it up here directly, as it is very graphic. I warn you – it is beyond what you could possibly imagine. Not even multiple watchings of the television series Bones can prepare you for this.

The Haunted Hotel and Saloon

Check out this excellent story on the investigation of a haunting in New Mexico from MSNBC:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there.

Mysterious whispers echo in the current owner’s ear. Things fall off shelves for no apparent reason.

These are just a few of the strange goings-on that artist Josh Bond, owner of the Old Cuchillo Bar in the southern New Mexico ghost town of the same name, has asked the West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society to investigate on his property.

“The creepiest I had was a voice whisper in my ear,” Bond said. “When things fall in the house, I just sort of write it off.”

You can read the rest on the MSNBC website here…

Christmas Orb

I really liked this photo sent in by Christina. Here’s her story:

My name’s Christina and this is a picture of my family on Christmas Eve 2008. As you can see there is an orb right in front of my Grandfather’s right knee. Am I crazy or can you see what looks like a face or almost like a rough skeleton face in the orb??? My mother is a big believer in the whole orb phenomenon and she freaked when she saw it. My grandmother passed away 5 years ago, so I’m sure that my mom is hoping that her mother was with us during that holiday moment. Just thought that I’d share. Thanks.

There is kind of a strange smiley face in the orb when you look at it closely.

Most Haunted Spooky Shorts and Photos

You can upload and share photos and videos of orbs and ghosts on the Travel Channel website. Here’s one spooky picture from the community that I liked, just for the hazy full moon: