Adam Ellis shared this
disturbing encounter with a child ghost on his Twitter account back in 2017.
He first posted—
“My apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost
of a dead child, and he’s trying to kill me.”
Illustration Adam Ellis drew.
He then followed this tweet
up with an illustration, he drew after seeing this ghost sitting in a rocking
chair at the foot of his bed.
He described what he saw—“he has a huge misshapen head that is
dented on one side.”
This ghost then came to him
in “a dream” and explained he had been killed when a bookshelf had fallen and
crushed his head.
Cats at the front door.
During this time, Adam’s cats
began to act strangely. They sat at his front door, crouched down and sniffing
at the bottom crack for four nights in a row. They refused to move.
Adam snapped several photos
of the hallway at the entrance to his apartment. He used two different cameras,
but despite this space was well lit, his photos came out pitch black.
Dark hallway
One of his followers on
twitter then took one of these photos and “brightened it.” This revealed a
figure standing at Adam’s door.
Brightened photo showing figure. Click to enlarge.
Ellis had another dream where
David “dragged him.” He woke up the next morning with a bad bruise on his arm.
At this same time, he began to receive strange phone calls, multiple times a
day that didn’t show up on his Caller ID.
When he answered a weak voice
would say, “hello.”
Adam now concerned, set up a
video camera in his apartment. His first recording captured his green rocking
chair moving on its own. This link is to Ellis's twitter account where you can view
this chair moving.
Ellis began to see this ghost
child standing on his roof. He snapped several photos, but the figure moved too
quickly. But he finally captured the image he saw.
Image Adam Ellis captured on his roof.
A screenshot of one still from the video. Click to enlarge.
Adam set up another video to
record while he slept. He then captured the most disturbing image of all. This
recording shows the ghost running over his bed, and then it ducks down by the
side of the bed, only to pop up and then duck down again.
Here is a link to a twitter
feed that still has a gif of this video.
This doll created in 1740 was
used as a “plaything” in order to distract spirits while two men performed
exorcisms.
After these rituals were
performed many felt various spirits must have attached themselves to this this
doll during these rituals.
The reason for this belief is it changes its facial expressions.
Click to enlarge.
In 1888, this doll was given
to Cedric Argyle Brown in London. He and a friend, the Rev. Thomas Blythe used it while performing exorcisms, around the UK, at stately homes that were
haunted by ghosts.
The reverend was the first to
notice something odd. He felt it followed him with its eyes and
he noticed that it changed its expressions.
A friend of the two men
photographed the doll twice—the second picture taken twenty minutes after the
first. When he developed these plates he became spooked for the expression of
the doll in the second picture had changed. It was now smiling.
All the people who viewed
these two photos were amazed by the difference in the expressions on its face—the facial features had definitively changed.
Rumors began that the some of
the spirits that had been exorcized must possess the doll. It appeared they
were trapped—so it was now considered to be haunted.
In the late 1950s, Mr.
Brown’s grandson sold the doll to a dime store in America.
While it was displayed
here—old photos taken of the doll were displayed around it. A red line of tape
was placed on the floor.
Thousands of visitors stood
behind this tape and took photos of the “possessed doll.” In most instances its' expression changed in each picture taken.
Mouth is now open.
Click to enlarge.
Sometimes the doll looked
like a boy and in other photos it looked like a girl. It sometimes was smiling
and in other photos it appeared to be sad.
The doll made its way back to
the UK and was exhibited at the Museum of
Curios in Cornwall for 7 years—until 2007.
It again was photographed
thousands of times. It became the most popular exhibit at this museum. This doll is made of cloth
with glass eyes. It is nine inches long and because of its age it is in
delicate condition.
Two young cousins in the
early 20th century were able to pull off one of the world’s greatest
hoaxes. They did this with the unsuspecting help of a famous writer.
Cottingley Beck
Where cousins saw
fairies.
Elsie Wright, 16 and her
cousin Francis Griffiths, 10 lived in the small West Yorkshire village of
Cottingley Glen England. They spent many hours playing at the bottom of a long
garden near a beck or stream.
Francis was severely scolded
one day when she returned from the beck with her shoes and dress wet--she had
fallen in the stream. Elsie mentioned they enjoyed visiting the beck because
there were fairies.
When the skeptical adults did
not believe her Elsie borrowed her father’s camera, in July of 1917, and took a
picture of Francis in order to cheer her up.
When Elsie’s father developed
this plate he spotted strange shapes in front of Francis. Elsie told him these
were fairies. Elsie had taken the picture to prove to the adults there were
fairies near the beck.
First photo Elsie took of Francis, 1917
The girl’s stated these fairies had white bodies with pale wings of green, mauve and
pink.
Second phot Francis took
of Elsie with winged
gnome.
In August, Francis then took
a picture of Elsie with a winged gnome. When Elsie’s father developed this plate he
suspected the cousins were playing a prank and refused to let Elsie borrow his
camera again.
Despite this the girl’s
managed to take three more photographs of the fairies in September.
These photos were kept within
the family until Francis sent one in a letter to a friend in South Africa where
she had lived before coming to England. Then Polly Wright, Elsie’s mother
attended a Theosophical Society meeting in Bradford near Cottingley.
At this meeting Polly
mentioned her daughter and niece had photographed fairies. This of course was
considered the Holy Grail and the girl’s photos were then shared among various
theosophical circles.
Third photo of Francis with fairy.
Fourth photo of Elsie with fairy.
Even though the photos
looked suspiciously faked, in early 1920 they caught the attention of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle.
Doyle a supporter of Spiritualism firmly believed in spirits,
ghosts and survival after death. He sent a theosophist friend, Edward L. Garner
to investigate.
Garner pronounced them
genuine and sent the photos to Doyle. Doyle asked the opinions of Eastman
Company and Kodak but took Gardner’s word as truth. Also, Elsie’s parents at the time had searched for evidence of trickery but had found none.
A clairvoyant friend Geoffrey
Hobson told Doyle he had seen fairies in Cottingley. This further convinced
Doyle the photos were real.
When the cousins produced
three more photos Doyle was elated. He published an article in the Christmas
1920 issue of Strand Magazine with
illustrations. Besides his desire to believe, he refused to believe two
innocent young girls could produce such convincing trickery.
In 1922, Doyle published The Coming of the Fairies where he
shared more evidence about the cousin’s encounters with the beck fairies. He
stated that in future more sightings would be authenticated. He then left for
Australia on a lecture tour.
When he retuned to England he
found himself the “laughingstock of the press on both sides of the Atlantic.”
By this time the photos had been widely circulated and proven to be fake.
Doyle, now embarrassed was forced to admit that he had been duped.
It was not until fifty years
after Doyle’s death that Wright and Griffiths in the 1980s finally admitted
their hoax. They stated they had faked the photographs to get back at adults
who had chided them for saying they played with fairies.
Cutouts alongside Princess Mary's Gift Book illustrations.
Years
later, the girls stated they used cutouts taken from illustrations in Princess
Mary’s Gift Book published in 1915. They then made wings and attached
them to these cutouts.
Many people upon first seeing the
photos had wondered why the fairies wore modern hair fashions.
The cousins stated that when
Doyle had become involved, they had not wanted to embarrass him by admitting
the photos were faked. Unfortunately, their silence led to an even greater
embarrassment for him.
Fifth photo taken.
One interesting fact is
at the time both cousins confessed to their deception, they said as girls they did actually see real
fairies. Griffiths went as far as to say the fifth photo they took was not
faked but real.
The USS Arizona has been a
tomb ever since the morning of December 7th. When this ship was bombed and
sunk, 1,177 crew members perished with her, making it the most significant loss of life
on any United States warship in American history. On this date in 1941, the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into the Second
World War. Today the USS Arizona rests in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor
off Oahu, Hawaii, as a tribute to all those who died.
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The USS Arizona was based
along with seven other battleships in Pearl Harbor's "battleship row," its shallow waters ideal
for these massive ships. During the attack, several bombs hit their mark, one of
these penetrated her forecastle, which detonated her forward ammunition
magazines. The resulting massive explosion wrecked Arizona’s forward hull,
collapsing the forward superstructure, and causing her to sink. After the attack, in the following months, much of her armament and topside structure was removed.
Two of her aft triple 14th gun turrets were transferred to the Army
encampment as coast defense batteries for Oahu.
Arizona’s wrecked hull
remains where she sank. In the 1950s, she began to be used as a site for
memorial ceremonies, and, in the early 1960s, an official memorial was built. It is run by the National Park Service. It is a permanent shrine for
all those brave souls who lost their lives in Pearl Harbor, and those who died
fighting the Pacific war that began there. All warships that enter and leave
Pearl Harbor, pause and salute the USS Arizona.
Countless visitors to this
memorial, which stands on pillars astride Arizona’s broken hull, pay their
silent tribute to this tragedy. A few bits of this sunken hull, rusted, twisted metal, can be seen near
the shallow waterline. Still attached to the deck is the
ship’s flagpole; Arizona’s hull still leaks oil from her bunkers—all these
decades later. Some state this is a fitting tribute for she appears to still
bleed for all who were lost on the day Franklin D. Roosevelt called, “a date
that will live in infamy”.
For years, people who have
visited this memorial and park service employees have witnessed some strange
activity. Many photographs that have been taken around the memorial have
captured strange foggy spots and misty human figures seem to appear in the
background of these photographs. One specific ghost that appears is said to be
the officer who was posted on Arizona’s deck the morning of December 7,
1941. Distracted by something personal, he left his station briefly.
It was during this time the Japanese planes attacked. This officer was killed. Some speculate he is seen because he is driven by guilt to walk the deck, and then look out near the flagpole. He is seen mostly at night, low tide, and in the dim light of dawn.
