- Ghost Hunting
"Ghost hunting" is the process of investigating locations said to be haunted. Typically, a ghost "hunting party" will involve 4-8 individuals who work as a team to collect evidence of paranormal activity. Ghost hunters usually record data in a scientific manner, making observation using electronic equipment of various types, such as; EMF Meters, digital thermometers, infrared and night vision cameras, handheld video cameras, digital audio recorders, and computers. - Greenbrier Ghost
Elva Zona Heaster, the murder victim, was born in Greenbrier County sometime around 1873. Almost nothing is known of her early life, other than that she was brought up near Richlands and that she gave birth to a child out of wedlock in 1895. In October of 1896, Zona met a drifter named Erasmus Stribbling Trout Shue, also known as Edward; he had moved to Greenbrier County in search of a new life, and to work as a blacksmith. - Frozen Ghost
Frozen Ghost is a South African psytrance producer who has been making music for 3 years. He comes from Fish Hoek a.k.a. The Valley and has become amazingly popular in the psytrance scene. He is known for his use of Computer Game sound samples (Such as Prey in his track Multiprey). He has collaborated with artists such as Lost and Found and Hiyarant. - Amanda Ghost
Amanda Ghost is a singer and songwriter from London, England. After an initial period in which she performed as a solo artist, she formed a band which performs under her name and of which she is the lead singer. - Patrick Swayze
Patrick Wayne Swayze (born August 18, 1952) is an American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter. His breakthrough role was as the dance instructor in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing", and he also had a hit with the 1990 film "Ghost" - Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards. - John Cassaday
John Cassaday (born 1971) is an American comic book artist and writer born in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently lives in New York City. His style is highly detailed and uses relatively realistically-proportioned human characters. He is best known for his work on "Planetary" with writer Warren Ellis, "Astonishing X-Men" with Joss Whedon and "Captain America". Other earlier work includes "Desperadoes". - Jerry Zucker
Jerry Zucker (born March 11, 1950) is an American movie director known for his role in directing comedy spoof films. Zucker was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Charlotte, an actress, and Burton Zucker, a real estate developer. He graduated from Shorewood High School. Zucker's early career work included co-directing the movies "Airplane!" in 1980, "Top Secret!" in 1984, and "Ruthless People" in 1986. - Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13, 1924) is a French composer and conductor. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean -- "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and "A Passage to India" (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards. His other notable scores include The Message (1976), … - Anthony Wong
Anthony Wong (born May 12, 1965) is an Australian actor of Asian descent. His most well known role is that of Ghost from "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions", a role which was greatly expanded in the video game "Enter the Matrix", in which he starred alongside Jada Pinkett Smith as the lead. Wong's other roles include Jumping Ship as the leader of modern-day pirates, "Little Fish", … - Tony Goldwyn
Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and director. He may be best remembered for his roles of the villain Carl Bruner in "Ghost" (who had his friend and co-worker Sam Wheat killed), Kendall Dobbs in "Designing Women" and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated "Tarzan" and "Kingdom Hearts" - John Cho
John Yohan Cho (born June 16, 1972) is a Korean American film/television actor, known for his roles in the "American Pie" films and "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" (2004). - Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins (born December 2 1953 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA) is an American actor. Jenkins earned a degree in drama from Illinois Wesleyan University before relocating to Rhode Island. He worked as an actor with Trinity Repertory Theater Company in Providence, Rhode Island before breaking into film with a bit part in "Feasting with Panthers" (1974), a television movie. - Joey Wong
Joey Wong (王祖賢, Hanyu Pinyin: "Wáng Zǔxián", born January 31, 1967, also known as Joey Wong Cho-yin (Cantonese), Joey Wang Zu Xian (Mandarin), Joey Wang Tsu Hsien (Taiwanese), Joey Ong Jyo Han or Hen (Fukien) and Joey Wang) is a Taiwanese actress. Wong was born and raised in Taipei and also received a secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama course of Kuo Kwan Arts School. She has an older brother, a younger brother and one sister. - Stephen Root
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951, in Sarasota, Florida) is an American actor. Among his most recognized television roles were eccentric billionaire Jimmy James on NBC's "NewsRadio" and as the voice of Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on "King of the Hill". Recently, he had a recurring role on the final two seasons of "The West Wing" as Republican campaign consultant Bob Mayer, for which he received an Emmy nomination. - Bruce Joel Rubin
Bruce Joel Rubin (b. March 10 1943, Detroit, Michigan) is a screenwriter best known for the supernatural romance, "Ghost" for which he won the 1991 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. His other writing credits include "Deep Impact", "Brainstorm", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "My Life" (which he also directed), "Jacob's Ladder (film)", "Stuart Little II" and "The Last Mimzy". - Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott is a musician from Bristol, who initially recorded as The Third Eye Foundation, and since 2001 has used his own name. He has also been a member of Movietone and Amp, and was involved in some early recordings by Flying Saucer Attack, playing bongos and clarinet on their debut album. The first album "Semtex" was a mixture of drum and bass programmed rhythms, and heavily processed guitars in the style of My Bloody Valentine. - Ivan Reis
Ivan Reis, born 1976 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian comic book artist. For three years, Reis worked for Mauricio de Sousa in Brazil. He began his international career for Dark Horse working on titles such as "Ghost",starting with issue 17 and acting as regular artist until that title finished at issue 36. There, he also worked on "The Mask", "Time Cop" and "Xena". Later, he worked for Lightning Comics. - Herne The Hunter
In English mythology, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. - Russell Lee
Russell Lee is the author of "True Singapore Ghost Stories", a series of books that have been among the most popular sources of ghost stories in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong ever since Book 1 was released in 1989. Each book is a compilation of spooky tales relating to the supernatural, all of which were either collected by Russell Lee and his team or sent to them by readers. Most of the stories occur in Asia. - Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the "Turner Prize". Whiteread is one of the so-called Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's "Sensation" exhibition in 1997. She is probably best known for "Ghost", a large plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, … - Rick Aviles
Richard Anthony Aviles (October 14, 1952 - March 17, 1995) was a stand-up comedian who is best remembered for the role of Willie Lopez in the movie "Ghost". Rick's parents emigrated from Puerto Rico to the United States in the late 1940s looking for a better way of life. They settled in Manhattan, New York City, where Rick was born. He was raised in a tough neighborhood and at times got himself into trouble. One of his assets was that he had a comical side to him. - Chris Warner
Chris Warner is a comic book writer and artist who has done work for Dark Horse, notably their mid 1990's line of Comics Greatest World and Dark Horse Heroes. He is listed as the creator of "Barb Wire" and the developer of the setting of Steel Harbor for these lines. His work on this line includes writing and penciling the mini-series Barb Wire: Ace of Spades(1-4), penciling issues 10-12 of X, being the image illustrator(ie, … - Jes Brieden
JES/Guardians of the Earth *"Star Children" (2001) *"One Moon Circling" (2001) JES/Motorcycle *"As The Rush Comes" (2004) *"Imagination" (2004) *"Deep, Breath, … - Chris French
Christopher C. French BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS FRSA is a psychologist and vocal skeptic specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is currently Professor of psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is head of their Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit which he founded in the year 2000 and is the co-editor of "The Skeptic" (UK) magazine with Victoria Hamilton. - Victoria Francés
Victoria Francés is a Spanish illustrator, born in Valencia. She is a graduate of the "Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos" at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Her work is very goth-inspired: ghostly women in long dresses are perhaps the most common characters found in her art. Unsurprisingly, she cites her influences as Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice and H.P. Lovecraft. She also claims to have been influenced by the art of Luis Royo and Brom. - John Robert Colombo
John Robert Colombo (b. March 24, 1936, Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian poet, editor and humorist, best known as a writer of reference works and editor of anthologies pertaining to Canadian culture, history and geography. Colombo's most famous works compile quotations by famous Canadian figures, in a format similar to "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". He has also been a prolific compiler of Canadian stories of the supernatural, including ghost and UFO stories. - Emma Noble
Emma Noble (born June 26, 1971) is an English model and actress. She is also known for her marriage to James Major, the son of former Prime Minister John Major. She is now dating Rick Parfitt, the son of the Status Quo singer, Rick Parfitt. Emma Jane Noble was born and brought up in Sidcup, Kent. - Ivan L. Moody
Ivan L. Moody is an American singer from Los Angeles, California. Perhaps better known under the pseudonym Ghost, Moody has fronted several bands including the presently defunct Motograter. Moody is known for his diverse vocal style which ranges from a deep heavy metal growl to distinct, haunting harmonies. Because of this contrast, he has performed for several bands - Black Blood Orchestra, Motograter, Ghost Machine, and Five Finger Death Punch. - Eric Luke
Eric Luke is an American writer. Eric Luke began his career in film writing. Previous film work included: "Explorers" for Paramount Pictures, co-plotting the "Gargoyles" pilot five-parter for The Walt Disney Company, numerous screenplays for MGM and others, and also directed the "Not Quite Human" films for the Disney Channel. Moving to television he eventually wrote scripts for the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series. - Scare Glow
Scare Glow is a fictional character in the popular toy line Masters of the Universe by Mattel. He is a skeletal ghost warrior, who seems to have a solid but translucent body, and whose bones emit a strong glow which can intimidate even the bravest opponents. He wears a long purple cape, and there is a small crack on the forehead of his cranium. He carries a scythe, which is often called the 'Scythe of Doom'. - Earl Conrad
Author Earl Conrad penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote, was the biography of actor Errol Flynn, titled "Wicked, Wicked Ways". Earl Conrad has also penned these following works under his name, … - R. P. Weston
Robert Patrick Weston (1878 - November 6, 1936) was an English songwriter. He was born and died in London. Among other songs, he co-authored (with Bert Lee), "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm", a macabre little ditty about the ghost of Anne Boleyn haunting the Tower of London, seeking revenge on Henry VIII for having her beheaded. Weston also wrote (with Fred Murray) "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am". - Christopher Hancock
Christopher Hancock (June 5, 1928 - September 29, 2004) was a British television and theatre actor. He was born in Bishop Auckland, Durham, England. His brother is actor Stephen Hancock. He and his brother trained at the Old Vic theatre school. He was married to Ann Walford and had two daughters. He and Ann later divorced. - Phlegon Of Tralles
Phlegon, of Tralles in Asia Minor, Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, lived in the 2nd century. His chief work was the "Olympiads", an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Eusebius' "Chronicle", Photius and Syncellus. Two small works by him are extant: *"On Marvels", containing some stories about ghosts, prophecies by heads, … - Ghost Style
Ghost Style is a rapper/producer based in Hong Kong. He is credited for releasing the first English language rap album in Hong Kong ("Ghost Style's Alias", 2002). He followed up with two other English rap albums ("Supathugz' How Deep Is Yo Love" in 2004 and "Ghost Style's Message Is Complete", 2005). Ghost Style real name is "Brandon Ho" and was born in Montreal, Canada on December 28, 1973. - Duncan Regehr
Duncan Regehr (b. October 5, 1952 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian stage, film and television actor. Regehr was also a figure skater, an Olympic boxing contender and a classically trained Shakespearean stage actor in Canada before he got into film. After numerous appearances in Canadian theatre and television (as, f.e. in the child's TV show "Matt and Jenny on the Wilderness Trail 1850"), Regehr and his wife, Catherine, moved to Los Angeles, California, … - Pendleton Murrah
Pendleton Murrah (1824-1865) was a governor of Texas during the American Civil War. A native of South Carolina, Murrah graduated from Brown University in 1848. He moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Marshall. He ran and was defeated for the U.S. Congress before winning the state gubernatorial race in 1863. During the American Civil War, Murrah emphatically supported the Rebel cause, … - Arlo Bates
Arlo Bates (1850-1918) was an American author, born at East Machias, Me. He graduated from Bowdoin (1876). He became the editor of the Boston "Sunday Courier" (1880-93) and afterward professor of English in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - James Wentworth Day
James Wentworth Day (April 21, 1899 - January 5, 1983) was a British writer and occasional broadcaster, firmly of the Agrarian Right school and essentially a High Tory. He lived for most of his life in East Anglia, an area which would always be his first love; he had a particular interest in wildfowling, and at one stage owned Adventurers' Fen, a piece of marshland in Cambridgeshire. He was also a ghost hunter, and wrote several books about this interest.
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