By Edwina Caito

In 1930, an urgent news bulletin interrupted “Mercury Theatre on the Air”. People were glued to their radios as word of an alien invasion swept the country. Calls flooded police stations and media outlets. Citizens were desperate to learn how they could flee their city or, in the least, protect themselves against the deadly gas attacks.

Orson Wells infamous “War of the Worlds” became much more than a clever stunt, it became known as a cruel hoax. People were outraged and far from being entertained.

Paranormal hoaxes have been commonplace through the centuries and are still prevalent today as video, audio, photographic equipment and computer programs become more advanced. Those who study the paranormal set out not only to find evidence of the paranormal, but also to separate scientific evidence from hoaxes.

By Edwina Caito

Cases such as William H Mumler’s ghost photography, mysterious crop circles and the Amityville Horror may be considered some of the most infamous paranormal hoaxes of all time, but paranormal scams are still taking place today and many times, right on television for everyone to see.

TAPS was called to investigate Moss Beach Distillery in Moss Beach California. The legend behind the Moss Beach Distillery tells the story of the Lady in Blue. In the 1920’s a young woman was reportedly murdered after she was found cheating with another man at the site of the distillery. The ghost of the murdered woman is reported to lurk around the cliffs surrounding the distillery and has even warned children not to play too close to the edge. Other reports within the distillery building include boxes of wine being stacked behind a door which leads to a windowless, locked storage room, incessant phone ringing, items being thrown about and doors slamming shut. Voices are heard by patrons as well as a ghostly face appearing in the ladies room mirror.

By Brad Smith

This is going to be a hard little piece to write about this week because I take it kind of personal. Recently while surfing across the inter-web I was looking for pictures of how people fake ghost photos. It was interesting non-the-less but then I came across a whole series of webpage’s that exclaimed how the show Paranormal State was a fraud. Article after article explained in detail about how certain “evidence” gathered on this show was either faked or edited. I am big fan of the show so I figured I should say something about it.

I am sharing a story told to me by a client that wanted me to track down the history of a building. I am not sure what to make of it, however something happened to this family and it is still having an impact all these years later.

"When my parents first moved into it, my dad was on third shift and someone tried to break into the house with Michelle and me there at night. Funny thing is, mom was watching the 700 club and she started to pray for god to protect us and then it all stopped. That is just the beginning of what happened around that house. When we were little, Michelle and I were picking raspberries because they grew wild along the fence it was abandoned because the old woman died, so nobody was there at that time. She was 6 years old and I was only four, so we knew better. We had picked all the berries on our side and ate them, so Michelle climbed over the fence because we saw more - remember that I said nobody lived there and mom never told us what happened to the old woman they kept that secret.

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