Where Have All the Apparitions Gone?: An educational project by the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena sought to investigate and research all known haunting reports in the borough of Swindon, England. One Hundred and forty-five accounts were found but only half of these were included in the “census report.” The other half lacked the quality of detail needed for useful analysis. Reports from the last thirty to forty years showed that 82% of the reported hauntings involved at least one sighting of an apparition and more than half also involved some sort of movement (seen or unseen) of inanimate objects as well as auditory phenomena and unusual “sensations.”

Twenty-four of the reports included events that happened in the last ten years, either as part of a longer term “haunting” or as a new event. Of those hauntings taking place in the last decade, only one-third included the sighting of an apparition. This stands in stark contrast to the 82% sighted from older surveys. Surprisingly, even the hauntings that were a continuation of long-running cases primarily marked by apparitions prior to the last decade were now found to be largely apparition-free.

Another interesting finding looked at that old idea that hauntings take place at night. This theory was inconsistent with the findings in the study which showed the most common time for haunting events to occur was in the afternoon. In fact, over two-thirds of the events in this survey happen in the afternoon.

From: The Paranormal Review, April 2008, Issue 46, “Where Have All The Apparitions Gone? Conclusions of A Census Of Hauntings by David Wood

Ghost Whisper Set is Haunted: Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays fictional medium Melinda Gordon in the NBC TV series Ghost Whisperer, says that she is convinced the show’s set is haunted. She and several crew members have felt a “paranormal presence” tugging on their clothes. Hewitt says that, “There can be energies and spirits in and around places. We were filming in a certain part of a lot and there was this building I was walking out of to start a scene, and there were seven crew members who went inside this building and had very strange experiences. One of the ladies felt her sweater being tugged and she couldn't explain it and another guy felt somebody tugging on the bottom of his jeans, and I had the bottom of my dress tugged. We definitely felt like something was in there.” Hewitt has also reported that, “lights move, literally three and a half inches to the left, as you’re sitting there…. We’ve had lights burst over actors’ heads when they’re playing people who don’t believe in ghosts. A light will burst into a million pieces right over them. People are like, ‘We’re not guest-starring on that show!’ But for us as a crew, we’re kind of like, ‘Awesome! Maybe they [the ghosts] are with us.'”