A couple weeks ago I saw a sappy romantic movie with my friend Kevin. I won’t tell you which movie at the risk of spoiling it for you, but at the end of this sappy romantic movie, the main character finds out that her best friend was actually a ghost. I was totally thrown off by this ghost plot twist, but it turns out Kevin was quite taken with the idea of being friends with ghosts. “Think about it,” he told me on the way home, “a ghost friend would never get in the way of where you wanted to put a chair.” I had no idea that Kevin was so inconvenienced by the way his mortal friends get in the way of his chairs, but apparently it’s a major problem in his life. When I mentioned the concept of ghost friends to Ami, she, too, was instantly obsessed, so we teamed up to compile the following list of reasons to be friends with a ghost. Read on if you’re in the market for a supernatural BFF… Keep reading »
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Ke$ha’s Ghostly Romp & 7 Other Sexual Encounters Of The Third Kind
We’re not followers of Ke$ha’s music, but after hearing about the inspiration for her latest song, “Supernatural,” we’re, well, haunted. “It’s about experiences with the supernatural… but in a sexy way,” she told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show. “I had a couple of experiences with the supernatural. I don’t know his name! He was a ghost! I’m very open to it.” [Huffington Post]
Listen, we’re not totally opposed to concept of their being an afterlife and that some spirits walk amongst us. But we don’t know that we’d be game to get frisky with one either. Doesn’t seem very … intimate. But maybe we’re wrong. After all, Ke$ha is not the only person to have had some sort of sexual encounter with someone or something not quite … human. Read on for more sexual encounters of the third kind…
Bartenders Claim Pervy Ghost Likes To Pinch Their Butts
Talk about sexual harassment in the workplace: Bartenders at a pub in the UK say someone in their bar is indiscriminately pinching their butts. But it’s not a patron whose getting grabby … it’s a ghost. Both male and female staff at The Queens Arms in Birmingham report feeling “a very firm pinch” which happens “day and night.” They assume it’s from a “small, bald, smartly-dressed” phantom who haunts the 170-year-old pub, moving chairs, singing and causing mysterious puffs of smoke. Explained the manager, in adorable British parlance, “You turn round, but there’s no one there. It’s most off-putting.” Most off-putting, indeed! And wily, too. At least if a drunken patron was getting fresh there would be some sort of physical entity to slap. [Daily Mail UK]
Ghost Loves Fruit Roll-Ups
Do we even need to debate this? Obviously, this supermarket in Australia is haunted. There’s no way that fruit roll-up could have just fallen off that shelf on its own. Not a chance! I’m hoping this means you can still eat food in the afterlife, which would be great news. I have a feeling that if my soul got trapped on Earth, I would be doing pretty much the same thing. Only, I would skip the fruit roll-ups and go right for the ice cream aisle. Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. All those calories and none of the consequences? It’s a no-brainer. [Newslite]
Beware The Haunted Toilet Of Son Hoa
As if toilets (especially public ones) weren’t terrifying enough already, some students in Vietnam are claiming their boarding school latrine is possessed. Students at Son Hoa Boarding School are blaming a haunted toilet for the descent of 13 unlucky students into madness. The loo allegedly causes those who “go there” there to emerge in a state of hysteria — talking gibberish, scratching the walls, and eventually losing consciousness. When they recover, they claim to have “met a ghost in the toilet.” (Who hasn’t?) I’m sure this has nothing whatsoever to do with drugs or alcohol. It sounds like a toilet exorcism is in order. They’ll need to start flushing with holy water. [Oddity Central]
Ghostly Groping, Reptilian Romp & Sasquatch Assault: 6 Sexual Encounters Of The Third Kind
A couple of weeks ago we heard about a family who witnessed some ghosts getting freaky in their living room, but at least those humping haunts had the decency to keep their phantasmagorical paws to themselves. UK woman, Doris Birch, isn’t quite so lucky. For the last four months, the 73-year-old grandmother claims that she has been groped nightly by a ghost. “It’s like an octopus … I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands. I kicked frantically and it went away. Next time it came I hurled the duvet on to the floor!” she said of her visitor. It’s obvious that she’s dealing with an incubus, a male demon that lies upon sleeping women and tries to have sex with them. Or she is suffering from dementia. Either one. Keep on clicking for more stories of (alleged) sexual encounters of the third kind. [Huffington Post]
Ghosts Get Freaky In Family’s Living Room
This is by far my favorite story of the day, possibly of the year. Dianne Carlisle of Euclid, Ohio, claims to live in a house haunted by horny spirits. Dianne’s four-year-old granddaughter snapped a cellphone photo of the alleged ghost sex. “It look like, like ghosts having sex in my living room!” she said. “They are having sex, you can see the lady’s high heeled shoes … I never seen anything like this … I mean, ghosts still have feelings? [They're] having sex?” If there is indeed a wild ghost orgy going on in Dianne’s house, this gives me great hope for the afterlife. Maybe our sex drives live on long after we are gone. That’s, like, the best case scenario for what happens when we die. [Fox 8]
Who You Gonna Call? Ghostbuster Gals!
Ronnie Rennae Foster and Laura Lee Mistycah, better known as the Ghostbuster Gals, don’t look like your typical ghost hunters, but they promise to deliver “fast, friendly ghost-removal services.” These two ladies, trained in the arts of psychic healing and metaphysics, will come and eradicate even the peskiest Stay Puff Marshmallow Man camping out in your home for a mere fee of $250 an hour. Considering that 30 percent of people in the US say they have experienced some kind of paranormal activity in their home, the Ghostbuster Gals are in very high demand, especially during the Halloween season. They say that clients’ most commonly reported haunting signs are electrical disturbances, obnoxious odors, and cold spots. So how does their ghostbusting work? Find out after the jump if you’re not too scared. Keep reading »
6 Celebrities Who’ve Had Ghostly Encounters
Lady Gaga just dropped $5K for a Ghostbuster machine to do a “spirit-seeking sweep” of one of the London venues on her Monster’s Ball tour. See, she believes that evil spirits are haunting her. We are serious. One of her aides had to buy the kit, which includes an electro-magnetic field reader. Owner of the “ghost-busting firm,” Dan Webb told the Sunday Mirror, “Her aide said the gear had to be robust as they were taking it on the road, so they must be doing this everywhere Lady Gaga is performing.” If I were a ghost, I would totally go on tour with a band! [Radar Online]
I guess that ghosts are just like us—celebrity-obsessed—since so many celebrities have had their own ghost encounters. More after the jump. Keep reading »
Kind Of Romantic: Sam Taylor-Wood’s “Ghosts” Photos
If you are a fan of the novel Wuthering Heights, then you’ve imagined the Gothic landscape upon which Catherine and Heathcliff’s tortured relationship played out. You can see if your imagination syncs with reality in Sam Taylor-Wood’s “Ghosts” photo exhibit, on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art this fall. The snaps were taken in 2008 within a 4-mile radius of the Yorkshire moors that inspired Emily Bronte’s fictitious masterpiece (and near Taylor-Wood’s country home); the dark skies, turbulent clouds, and windswept grasses do echo the drama of that famous story, no? The timing of this photo exhibit is perfect, not just because Halloween is around the corner, but because Sam Taylor-Wood is most certainly having a moment this fall. Keep reading »
