The Paranormal Blog

Two Sundays ago we posted up a Smackdown entitled Investigating Recent Tragic Deaths. In response we received the following comment, and the author of that comment has given us permission to repost it here.

"Thank you. There's a similar problem involving one of our local cemeteries. The young boy's tombstone has a drawing on it. The rumour is that it mysteriously carved itself after the tombstone was erected, it shows the scene of his murder, etc. And few people going to see the ghost grave treat it or the cemetery with any respect.

Someone took a picture of that tombstone and submitted the rumour to Ghoststudy.com. They published it. Unfortunately, they never added the information I put in the message board that this is a rumour along with the link to the online newspaper article on the distraught family who PAID to have their son's last drawing carved on the tombstone and included an interview of the stone carver who made it.

I gave up when the best response was "oh the kid must have had a psychic vision of his death." If I'm remembering correctly, he loved to go hunting and drew the picture about hunting and the accident that killed him was on a hunting trip. *Sigh*"

Our thanks to Bookworm

We've heard similar "horror" stories about Ghoststudy.com. Just awful!

The cemetery, and child that are referenced by Bookworm were the focus of a newspaper article. It has since been archived, and no longer online, but there is reference to it on the JREF forums.

Family of buried teen wants ghost stories to stop
By Heather DiMattia
Hammond Daily Star

"More than 20 years after her 15-year-old son died in a car accident, Wilkinson and her daughter, Mary Anthony, are defending their loved one's memory against fictitious ghost stories that have led many to visit the Springfield Cemetery. They'd like to know who started the stories and why."

This is exactly the pain, and anguish that can be caused by those we ranted about in the Investigating Recent Tragic Deaths entry. It is disgusting what this family went through, and for what a cheap thrill? A photographed bit of dust being proclaimed a ghost????

This is EXACTLY why we never investigate nor write about recent nor tragic deaths.

This also reminded me of a really dreadful book released a few years ago that I obtained an advance copy of. Thinly disguising an actual location it purported to be the story of an actual haunting involving a young teen that had committed suicide. That part was in my opinion just a sensational grab at attention as the book mostly concentrated on some horrific claims of the author against what was once a household of a prominent Italian Canadian family. Complete hogwash according to one paranormal investigator I met that personally knew the family, again so thinly disguised I did not even have to look them up to know who the author was writing about or exactly where their former home was located.

Who knows what pain this reopened within those that loved this teen in life or the family whose home was written about? Perhaps they too suffer unheard by the masses as the family that Bookworm told us of has. In a book that read like Stephen King on a very bad hangover. It was that predictable, new puppy dies, demons in the end. Ugh!

Not only do these actions make a laughingstock of all who take these subjects seriously, it makes us all appear like cemetery stomping weirdos who could care less of the feelings of real living people, and more for 15 minutes of pixalated fame, or books exploiting the dead....