A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on “Ghost Detectors”. I broke down and bought one: the Baketan Ghost Radar/Detector 2.0 ($19.00 from Strapya-World). It finally came and I tested it out last weekend.
Here’s the video:
Ectoplasmic Bonus Round: The Japanese Baketan website even has a user-submitted ‘ghost sighting’ page.
A – The InfraScan SD thermal imaging handheld camera. If ghosts have a fever, you’ll see them! Only $4,995.00, available through Prairie Ghosts Paranormal Investigation Outfitters.
B – The Gaussmaster EMF Meter. A must-have for the new ghost hunter. $39.95, available through Prairie Ghosts Paranormal Investigation Outfitters.
C – The KII EMF Meter (with switch modification). $66.95 (or $44.95 unmodified), available through Ghost Augustine.
D – The TRI-Field Natural EMF Meter. Don’t let the name mislead you, it also works with supernatural EMF fields also. $207.99, available through Ghost TRHAPS.
E – The Baketan Ghost Detector 1.0. Strap it to your cellphone, it changes color to indicate the nature of the supernatural presence. Only $19.89, cute ghost charm included, available through Strapya-World.
F – The Baketan Ghost Detector 2.0. Small enough to strap to your cellphone, it changes color to indicate the nature of the supernatural presence, also includes new ‘ghost voice translator.” $19.12, available through Strapya-World.
“Back off man, I’m a scientist!”
My sister buys a home and has a party.
I buy her a glow-in-the-dark Ouija Board as a housewarming present (useful around the home, no?).
It went something like this:
(Scene: Seven drunk people in the darkened empty livingroom of an old farmhouse, around 12:00AM.)
Us: “Oh great Ouija, can you hear us?”
Ouija: “YES”
Us: “Oh great Ouija, who are we speaking to?
Ouija: “YES”
Us: “Ouija, what is Jacob’s mother’s middle name?”
Ouija: “M-J-A-Z-A-Z-8″
Us: “Ouija, is there anything you want to tell us?”
Ouija: “YES”
Us: “What do you want to tell us?”
Ouija: “J-R-I-3-I-4-C”
(End scene)
Some observations:
• Ouija Boards often communicate with the living through license plate numbers.
• Some Ouija Boards might need “calibration” – though I’m not sure how to do it.
• Perhaps Ouija Boards can be drunk. Or deaf. Or illiterate.
• When returning a Ouija Board to Toys-R-Us, don’t tell them that you think it’s defective and you’d like to exchange it for one with “stronger spiritual powers.”
Every year around the 4th of July, hundreds of eyewitness sightings of the elusive “Paul Revere” are reported. Also known as the “New England Sasquatch” and the “Colonial Skunk-Ape” – recent photographic evidence may offer the first substantial proof that this elusive creature is not the figment of the wild imaginations of shut-ins and hillbillies.
Our Blogadilla research team has acquired recent exclusive footage of this creature in its native habitat. The Paul Revere walks upright like a human being and has coloration which allows it to easily blend-in with its environment [Can you see it? Photos on the right enhanced for better viewing]. Our Blogadilla Heavy Industries research team suspects that this example is a female.
Bonus Round: The Benjamin Franklin Instant Disguise Kit (just like Scooby-Doo!)
Having recently finished Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, I’m thrilled about this:
Lost Zombies: A Community Generated Zombie Documentary
Become a member and submit evidence/proof of the zombie outbreak in your area (this project has evidence from around the globe).
Undead Bonus Round: The Lost Zombie sticker campaign.
The pattern of recent disasters in China has had many superstitious people concerned about the Olympic Mascots (the Fuwa) – claiming that each of the five reflects/predicts a particular disaster. According to Reuters, Chinese censors have made efforts to remove posts about the Fuwa superstitions, struggling to keep the air of the upcoming Olympics at a rosy-fresh note.
Recently, the fifth and final Fuwa prophecy has been supposedly fulfilled.
Huanhuan – The Olympic Flame – (“The Bearer of Incendiary Strife”) Starting in March 2008, this Olympic Torch Relay may go down in history as one of the most protested and problematic.
Jingjing – The Giant Panda – (“The Lord of Angry Earth”) The panda patron of Sichuan Province has been associated with the disastrous 7.9 May 12th earthquake that occurred there, which left 69,000 dead and over a million stranded or homeless. The epicenter of the earthquake was near the Wulong Panda Research Center.
Yíngying – The Tibetan Antelope – (“The Creature of Righteous Unrest”) On March 10, 2008 – the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day – demonstrations began in China. By March 14th, destructive riots ensued in several regions of China.
Nini – The Swallow/Shayan Kite – (“The Bearer of Unfortunate Wind”) April 28, China Railway Train T195 crashed near the city of Zibo in Shandong Province, killing 72 people and injuring more than 420. The nearby city of Weifang has had a long association with Shayan kites.
Bèibei – The Chinese Sturgeon – (“The Bringer of Torrent and Flood”) Over the last month, flooding in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan Provinces has displaced thousands of people and over 1,000 people are missing or dead.
