Paranormal investigator Debby Constantino spoke with a member of the recovery crew, who was on the site immediately after the crash. As he worked on the grisly task, ghosts of the dead wandered aimlessly through the wreckage. “He wasn’t the only one who saw them,” said Debby. “He said nearly everyone there witnessed apparitions.”
Earthbound Accident Victims
Candid Camera
Employees of the Belfast print shop can’t help but jump when they hear the frightened shrieks. But they know there is nothing they can do to help. The screams of the Irish teenager make the tiny hairs on their arms prickle. The poor girl has been dead for nearly a century.
In 1912 when Helena Blunden took her last breath, the sixteen-year-old could not have imagined the technology of the future. If she had lived a normal life span, one day she would have embraced inventions such as televisions and microwave ovens, and, perhaps, even cell phones and computers.
But when fate literally threw an obstacle in her path, these things were years from being introduced to the world. The day Helena died, no had ever heard of a “ghost cam.”
What would Helena have thought if she had known that one day millions of eyes from around the earth would be trained on the place her life ended?
The ghostly goings on of Helena Blunden have become part of the focus of a hobby utilizing ghost cams. In countless haunted places throughout the world, video cameras have been set up and connected to the Internet so that ghost enthusiasts can watch twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, if they choose.
People stare wide-eyed at their computers, trying not to blink lest they miss an apparition. Often, message boards are attached to the Web sites so that viewers can record their observations.
Helena Blunden had dreamed of being a star. Today, she is one of the stars of Ghost Watch, a Web site that features a ghost cam trained on the print shop where Helena’s restless spirit roams. According to the folks who run the site, Helena toiled sixty hours a week in the place when it was a linen mill.
Her job was in the spinning room, and the cheerful girl hummed while she worked, despite the poor conditions. Summer days brought stifling heat, and it was not unusual for workers to faint there.
Helena, however, did not let the environment get her down. She had hopes for the future. She was going to be a singer. She loved music, and on Sunday, April 14, 1912, she had plans to go to a concert at the Grand Opera House immediately after work.
According to Ghost Watch, a grumpy old woman named Margaret was in charge of mopping the stairs. When a boy walked over the damp stairs, Margaret dropped her mop and proceeded to scold him.
Helena finished her work at seven p.m. and was headed down the stairs when she tripped over the forgotten mop. She toppled over the banister, screaming as she fell. The impact killed her instantly.
In addition to the sound of her disembodied screams, employees in the old building have reported the sound of Helena’s humming. Sometimes her apparition materializes, and sometimes folks know she’s around because items are mysteriously misplaced.
Since the live Web cam was installed in 1998, watchers regularly post their ghost sightings on the Web site. They record such paranormal happenings as boxes moving on their own, the press inexplicably running, and the appearances of ghosts.
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Blue Bell Hell
In a scenario that sounds as if it came straight out of the plot of the 1960s hit television program The Twilight Zone, a driver in southeast England thought he had struck a young woman as he drove along a dark road in November 1992.
When the accident victim mysteriously vanished, the distraught driver went to the police, who returned with him to help search. When no victim could be found, it was concluded he had encountered a ghost.
Blue Bell Hill near Maidstone in Kent soon became notorious as a haunted spot when the figure materialized in the paths of at least two other vehicles that November.
Paranormal investigators speculate that the apparition belongs to a bride who was killed on the road on her way to her wedding in November 1965. Two of her bridesmaids also died in the car collision.
Newspaper articles chronicled the supernatural experiences, including the details of the encounter of one horrified driver who wrapped the victim in a blanket and placed her beside the road before rushing to get help. Upon return, the injured woman was missing.
The witness descriptions of the ghost varied. While some described the apparition as lovely and young, others shuddered as they remembered a shriveled screaming face.
It may be that all three of the women killed there are appearing, each taking on a different form. Or the bride may be materializing in varying moods. She had experienced a gamut of emotions on that fateful day, and witnesses may be sensing a range of these.