YouTube user RaleighUFO has uploaded the video above just a few days ago, asking the public for assistance in identifying the strange lights.

Captured in Missouri, the video shows four bright orbs of light floating across the night sky. The craft glides silently as it pulsates a bright flash of light in different intervals. If any of you GT readers know what these lights could be, drop us a line.

Full source: YouTube
Hello Viewers:

For those skeptics, I will be glad to provide anyone a copy of the data file for analysis and review. Just email me a request. I’m actually wanting your help and experience with video editing so this object can be identified – or not.

Best viewed in 1080p..

This enhanced picture is from this video that was paused and zoomed. The contrast, hue and brightness were altered. No way this is a plane that we are aware exists.

Please excuse my comment in middle of this video, I was really excited.

This video was taken in Lebanon, MO on 5/26/12 at 4:49am using generation 3 pvs-7 night vision goggles with a 3x zoom recording onto a Sony Cybershot camera through the second eyepiece.

This craft appeared in the sky over Lebanon, MO approximately 3-4 miles in the air at 146 deg SE, traveling NW at 320 deg unknown rate of speed. Slight rumble of the

I immediately discounted this as a aircraft because of the strobe lights. However, once it got closer I realized that it had 4 very bright lights and 3 of the strobes were flashing in a pattern. I have never seen an aircraft lights look like this so I stayed with the object.

Around 1:53 – I turned to get a better view of the craft. The craft did not turn I did.

Appears to be some sort of aircraft (not sure if man made or not) that may be mimicking an airplane since it has strobe lights. Normal behavior would be to ignore a flashing light in the sky as a plane but if you saw a moving object with no flashing lights then that would certainly draw attention.

You can clearly see 4 very bright lights 3 of them pulsing. Once you blow this video up you can see that the object is connected by some sort of dense frame structure connecting to the 4 light corners. It also appears to connect through the middle of the craft from the front light to the back light.

After adjusting the contrast etc I was able to determine from the video that the tail light flashes, then the left light flashes, followed by the front forward light. It does not appear that the right light flashes at all for some reason.

Once it passed over me I turned towards the right with the goggles looking straight up. Once I did that the goggles became saturated with the bright lights and washed out the object prevented me from getting a sharp image and focus.

I honestly cannot remember hearing any noise from the object but I do know that I was standing about 20 feet from the ac condensing unit and that may have come on a few times…

The craft continued Northwest towards Eldridge and then I lost it behind the trees.

The 200-foot wide unidentified object that sits at the bottom of the Baltic sea made headlines last summer when it was discovered. What many speculate to be either a UFO or ancient structure will soon get a new examination by a team of Swedish oceanographers, divers, and engineers.

On June first, the team will reach the exact location where the object lays and will begin a new look into the deep mystery. Hopefully uncovering more clues to help identify what this object is.

Exciting news! I’ll be sure to follow up when the reports begin trickling out to the media.

Read more: Foxnews.com
“We don’t know whether it is a natural phenomenon, or an object,” Lindberg, captain of the Ocean Explorer, told FoxNews.com. “We saw it on sonar when we were searching for a wreck from World War I. This circular object just turned up on the monitor.”
The discovery was a worldwide news event, covered in the popular press, the scientific press and in the blogosphere. Many speculated that the discovery was of a long-lost unidentified flying object (UFO), that crashed into the sea — evoking Duchovny’s alien-hunting character on the TV show.
Lindberg is clearly aware of the connection: The logo for his “OceanX Team” is clearly meant to evoke the X-Files logo. But is the truth out there this time? He aims to find out.
“We’ll be searching the area in a number of ways,” Lindberg explained. “We’ll use sonar to make 3D images of the bottom, the clay bottom, of that part of the sea. We’ll send down deep-sea divers too. And a camera robot. We’ll also take samples from the sea bed and measure them for toxicities and radiation

We’ll be searching the area in a number of ways,” Lindberg explained. “We’ll use sonar to make 3D images of the bottom, the clay bottom, of that part of the sea. We’ll send down deep-sea divers too. And a camera robot. We’ll also take samples from the sea bed and measure them for toxicities and radiation.”

Read more: Foxnews.com

Elizabeth Templeton

The Cumberland spaceman mystery has never been solved. Various explanations have been given as to what this mysterious being could be, but none have really killed the curiosity that lingers from such iconic image.

The Solway Firth Spaceman (also known as the Solway Spaceman and the Cumberland Spaceman) refers to a photograph taken by Jim Templeton in 1964 at Burgh Marsh, situated near Burgh by Sands and overlooking the Solway Firth in Cumbria, England. Templeton claims the photograph shows a background figure wearing a space suit and insists that he did not see anyone present when the photograph was taken. The image has attracted interest from ufologists and has become a source of international fascination. Templeton insists that he did not see the figure until after his photographs were developed, and analysts at Kodak confirmed that the photograph was genuine. Responding to a request from ufologists to know if the photo was of interest to the authorities, a British Ministry of Defence official said that the Templeton photo was of no interest to them. –Wikipedia

Thanks Tim for the heads up!

Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot was recently in an expedition that covered some deep-wooded areas in Queensland, Australia. According to a recent article, the team is claiming to have captured audio from the mythical Australian Yowie. Bigfoot’s cousin down under.

The Finding Bigfoot team claims that the sounds they recorded are of an unknown animal, hinting at the Yowie.

While he was reluctant to give details ahead of presenting their evidence on the still-to-be-completed third season of the US show, Fay said that in two different locations they had activity that they had attributed to a yowie – the fabled ape-like creature of the Aussie bush.

“We got some really compelling audio,” he said.

“It is not a known species, I can tell you that. One of the details (convinces us) there is nothing else it could have been.”

You know, you would think that with all this “compelling evidence” that is found –coincidently around the third season finale– these researchers would release it to the public domain immediately to get a collaborative analysis done.

Here’s the article from the CourierMail.

A US television crew has recorded what it believes is compelling audio evidence of the existence of yowies.

The four-member team from Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot series were on an expedition through remote forests spanning the Queensland and NSW border when they made the recordings.

Bigfoot Field Research Organisation member James “Bobo” Fay said that of the more than 20 expeditions conducted around the world by the TV team, this was “maybe the best one as far as audio recordings”.

While he was reluctant to give details ahead of presenting their evidence on the still-to-be-completed third season of the US show, Fay said that in two different locations they had activity that they had attributed to a yowie – the fabled ape-like creature of the Aussie bush.

“We got some really compelling audio,” he said.

“It is not a known species, I can tell you that. One of the details (convinces us) there is nothing else it could have been.”

Their discovery comes as scientists from Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology are preparing to use new DNA analysis techniques to determine whether creatures such as yowies, Bigfoot, sasquatches or yetis exist.

The European scientists have asked other scientists, museum curators and Bigfoot tracking groups to share samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature.

Bryan Sykes, of Oxford University, told the Associated Press the research group had already received offers of samples to test, including blood, hair and items supposedly chewed by Bigfoot.

Fay is still “stoked” with having captured the Australian yowie sound on tape.

“When at first we all heard it, we were like, ‘No way’,” he recalls.

“If you were in North America, you could have written off one of the compelling things we heard as being a large bear. But there are no large bears here.”

Some seven years after the events of the Patterson/Gimlin film, even without the internet, it is unlikely many people had never seen the famous footage of “Patty” making her way across the river and into the woods to escape intruders into her habitat. What could they think they were hearing? Even as witness to the sounds they heard there must have been some doubt in their minds. When Ron next returned to the camp it was in the company of an investigative reporter named Al Berry, and some recording equipment. There began a life long study and interaction with Bigfoot.

Some of Ron’s results can be found here

Always careful to express that he proposes no answers to these questions, leaving those to the experts, and expressing that his study relates only to those creatures he has interacted with, Ron relates a broad range of interactions and experiences with the species. Believing that the creatures are tribal and possibly divided into sub-species as, if other stories are true, they are separated by oceans and could have evolved along different lines.

Footprints, exchanging gifts (to the extent that the creatures added fresh branches to the roof of their camp shelter,) sightings, and voice recordings. They have no pictures, or at least none were presented at the conference, as Ron echoes the experience of others that Bigfoot are seemingly aware of exceptionally shy around cameras. They have attempted to post trail cams and found them later removed, at times violently, from trees.

People have asked “How can Bigfoot be found?” Ron will tell you they cannot. Like most animals, they are aware of the presence of bumbling noisy humans long before we are aware of them. If Bigfoot want to interact with you they will find you.

How do you know they are there? One of the sounds they make is a “whoop” that is believed to be a simple location signal, used among the creatures for their own purposes. But even this is only if they want you to hear them. Bigfoot have a broad range of vocal capabilities, mimicry being just the tip of the iceberg. As has been noted in a previous article, there is a firmly held belief that Bigfoot use infrasound, sound below 20 Hz, outside the human range of hearing.
Ron relates a story of a night when he and another awoke to the sounds of their camp being destroyed, dreading the scene that would present itself in the morning. When they emerged from their shelter, nothing had been touched.

With the advent of the Internet, Ron began making available the compiled sounds he had recorded and that is where Scott Nelson comes into the picture. A Crypto-linguist for the Navy, Scott has 30 years and thousands of hours experience analyzing and transcribing vocal recordings. It was while helping his son on a school reject he got discovered Ron’s recordings. Scott’s son seemed to feel there was something more to the sounds Ron had recorded, so got his dad involved. Scott, unable to determine from the recordings he was hearing contacted Ron for better quality recordings and soon became a member of the team that travel with some frequency to the Sierra hunting camp.

Years of study later:

I would personally like to thank Mr. Neslon for permission to use the parts of his presentation found her for this article.

For more information on Scott and his work follow this link

Yes, the quality of the sound is not the best. The hotel was seemingly not equipped with the best equipment and anyone providing sound had to simply hold the microphone up to the speakers of their computer. That or no one knew how to set up their computer to get direct sound. Also I was using a basic hand held camcorder with condenser microphone. So please understand that you may not hear everything there was to hear. I did not hear everything there was to hear, as much of it takes many repetitions to discern. That said, much of it was there and I can assure you, more than just a trick of human perception finding or imagining what it is looking for.

This presentation more than made up for the absence of Dr. Ketchum.

John relates a series of incidents that happened in his youth while living with his grandfather. His experience is centered around an entity that he refers to as “The Dark Walker”.

I don’t want to give anything away, other than to say it’s a riveting tale that has no middle ground. Either believe it, or you don’t.

Let’s get right to it:

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Quote Lon:

“I received the following correspondence a few days ago. It was forwarded by ‘John’ a retired Federal employee who lives in northern Nevada and who wishes to remain anonymous. The story centers around an experience John had while living with his Grandfather. John later stated to me that the property was in a rural area of Aleppo Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He did not want to pinpoint the location but did say that he wanted the anecdote dedicated to his Grandfather – Samuel Hill, who he considers the most remarkable man he has ever known.

John seemed quite sincere in my opinion. He decided to come forth with the account after he had a rather strange encounter a few months ago (which he did not want to discuss). John did mention in his most recent email that he was 81 years old and a veteran of the Korean War. He also stated that he truly felt his Grandfather’s actions were taken in defense of his family:”

The Dark Walker – Reader Submission to Phantoms & Monsters

When I was a boy my mother and I lived with my grandfather who had a farmhouse in a rural location in southwestern Pennsylvania. My grandfather was a handyman who also worked a small blacksmith shop in his old barn. My grandmother had died before I was born and my father had also passed away while serving overseas in the U.S. Army.

Beginning in the summer of 1946 we noticed strange howling sounds coming from the woods that surrounded the property. The activity came at night and was very frightening when the howling came close. The sounds didn’t seem to bother my grandfather though my mother and I were shaken when it would begin. The sounds continued off and on for about a year but we never noticed any animals. My grandfather and I would hunt for deer and squirrel in the woods during the colder months but we never saw signs of unusual animal activity.

One late afternoon in the spring of 1947 I was helping my grandfather in his shop when I noticed something moving around the edge of the woods near an area where by grandfather had a few junk cars and other items. It was about 200 feet from our location but I clearly noticed someone or something moving around. I told my grandfather to look. He walked to the door, lit his pipe and said nothing. After a minute or two he turned around and got back to work. About that time this thing moved into the woods and disappeared. I couldn’t judge how big it was but it sort of reminded me of a magazine picture I had seen of a large ape that was said to inhabit in the Asian jungles.

Later that evening I told my mother what I had seen. She was shocked because she knew I wouldn’t lie to her and that the howling sounds had been closer lately. I also told her of my grandfather’s response when I pointed the creature out to him. She immediately stood up and walked into the sitting room in order to ask my grandfather what it was. He started to shake his head slowly and said that he was hoping that we wouldn’t ‘see it’ because he was worried we would be scared and leave him.

After assuring him that we’d never leave him my mother again insisted that he tell us what this creature was. He looked away, took a deep breath and said ‘it’s a Dark Walker’ and said that it had lived in the woods for many years. He said the native Indians called it ‘Stone Spirit’ and they thought that it was an evil spirit who would appear when someone was about to die. The last time he had seen the ‘Dark Walker’ was the night before my grandmother died. My mother was skeptical of the ‘harbinger of death’ angle but she sensed that there was something unnatural nearby.

The howling continued each night though we hadn’t seen any signs of the ‘Dark Walker’. One warm evening we were sitting on the back porch. There were a few howls but it seemed like the sounds were further away. We were listening to the radio when all at once my grandfather stood up and looked out towards the barn. He turned to me and said ‘John, go get my pistol and ammo – hurry now’. I ran into the sitting room and grabbed the .455 Webley revolver and a handful of bullets from the old steamer trunk. I handed it to him and watched him load the gun. He then picked up a hatchet and slid it in his pants belt. ‘Now both of you get into the house – now!’ We were in the kitchen looking through the screen door and watched my grandfather walk slowly towards the barn. We saw him turn and walk out of sight into the dark. I decided to grab my shotgun and keep it nearby. After a minute or so we heard three gunshots and a blood curdling scream emanate from the woods near the barn. Then it suddenly stopped and there was complete quiet. We were frozen and wondering if we should go look for my grandfather. A few seconds later we heard him yell ‘stay in the house until I come back.’

I heard the pickup truck start up. I looked out the storage room window and saw my grandfather drive to the back of the barn and park. Several minutes later he backed up and drove by the side of the house out onto the road. I could see that there was something in the back covered up with a tarp. It was getting late so my mother told me to go to bed.

The next morning I came downstairs and sat beside my grandfather who was reading the newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee. My mother was sitting at the other end of the table staring at my grandfather. Not long later she said ‘well dad, tell him’. My grandfather put the paper down and looked at me. ‘I killed the Dark Walker’. That was all he said. My mother told me not to tell anyone and that the matter was closed.

We never talked about it again. My grandfather lived another 15 years and my mother stayed with him until his dying day. When I grew older I moved away and raised a family. I would return home to visit each summer – and never heard another howl. John

NOTE: I asked John if he thought the ‘Dark Walker’ was a Bigfoot or hominid. He responded by stating that he didn’t think it was a hairy man or human-like creature. He thought it seemed more animal-like than human and that it moved lower to the ground…at least during the brief time he observed it. John mentioned that there were Shawnee legends of similar creatures but he never found a reference to a ‘Stone Spirit’.

Yea, I know what everyone was thinking, Bigfoot, right? Well, it would seem this is one of those rare occasions these days when the creature in the woods is likely not Bigfoot.

The story conjures up all kinds of mental pictures and I happen to like that his grandfather never showed them what was in the truck bed or spoke of it again.

For all we know, John’s grandfather killed an Indian Skinwalker. I also completely understand John’s respect for his grandfather. My father was the same way, when he decided not to speak about something, that was it. We forgot it and never asked him again.

Does anyone out there have a Dark Walker in their past?

If anyone can offer information in reference to this mystery, please feel free to forward it to lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com or send it to me: scott@ghosttheory.com and I’ll get it to Lon.

I appreciate that Lon allows us to reprint his stuff and I thank him for this one.

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The Collateral Hominid Project is Oxford University’s project to help identify the so-called “cryptid” animals that are said to roam the planet. Chupacabras, Nessie, and especially Bigfoot samples are welcomed by the project as long as they’re organic samples. This project is to identify the genetic make-up of such creatures.

Which is good news to all you out there that have some Bigfoot evidence stashed away.

With the project opened to anyone in the world, there should be some interesting evidence submitted to the lab. According to the project’s deadlines, the “publication phase” won’t happen until November-December of this year.

Source: Oxford University

As part of a larger enquiry into the genetic relationship between our own species Homo sapiens and other hominids, we invite submissions of organic material from formally undescribed species, or “cryptids”, for the purpose of their species identification by genetic means.

Timetable
The project is divided into three phases.

SAMPLE SUBMISSION PHASE May – September 2012
DNA ANALYSIS PHASE September – November 2012
PUBLICATION PHASE November – December 2012

SAMPLE SUBMISSION
Sample submissions are invited from institutions and individuals. In the first instance, please send details of the material you would like to submit to one of the Principal Investigators. These should include:

· Your name, institutional affiliation (if any), postal and email addresses and other contact details.
· A physical description of the specimen: (Hair, tooth etc). Photographs welcome.
· Its provenance: A short account of the origin of the sample, when and where (with coordinates if known) it was collected and how it came to be in your possession.
· Identification: Your opinion of its likely species identification, and your reasons.
· Authority: A statement that you are entitled to send the specimen for analysis and that we have permission to publish the results.

In order to avoid misidentification of samples due to contamination, our preferred material is hair, although tissues will be considered.

After reviewing your submission, we will send you a sampling kit with instructions. Please do not send any materials without first hearing from us. They will not be analysed nor returned.

You may choose whether to be identified as the donor of the sample, or to remain anonymous.

DNA ANALYSIS
At the end of the submission phase, the most promising samples will be selected for DNA analysis. You will not be charged for the analysis. Unselected samples will be returned.

The process of DNA analysis is destructive. Any unused material from selected samples will be returned or, if you prefer, will be submitted for curation as part of the Bernard Heuvelmans Cryptozoology archive in Lausanne.

PUBLICATION PHASE
Results from DNA analysis will be prepared for publication in a peer-reviewed science journal. No results will be released until any embargoes on publication have passed.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Prof. Bryan Sykes
Professor of Human Genetics
Wolfson College
University of Oxford
Oxford OX2 6UD
United Kingdom
bryan.sykes@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Dr. Michel Sartori
Directeur
Musee de Zoologie
Palais de Rumine
Place de Riponne 6
CH-1014 Lausanne
Switzerland
michel.sartori@vd.ch

When emailing please use OLCHP as the subject of your message

What does Dr. Novella think about this contraption? Pareidolia.

I’ve written a few articles about these so-called “ghost boxes” and each and every time that I do, the end conclusion is the same. People hear what they want to hear through pareidolia.
Dr. Novella gives us an insight perspective on how modern science views such claims.

Full source: NeuroLogica

What you hear, then, is what you would hear if you had an old radio with an analogue dial and you simply moved the dial quickly up and down the frequencies. You get a mix of static with snippets of speech or music. It is a perfect set up for generating audio pareidolia. The practice emerged out of electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), in which ghost hunters listen to hours of audio recorded in an allegedly haunted location and listen for noise that their brains can interpret as words. They then impose meaning on the random words. The ghost box just speeds up the process by generating “raw audio” for the pareidolia.

There are two layers of pattern recognition that are occurring when we have an eager ghost hunter sitting in front of a radio scanner (sorry, I mean “ghost box”) listening for the ghosts. The first layers is hearing words, names, or phrases. Sometimes the words are actual words coming through from a radio station. Sometimes, however, they are just noise that the brain tries to match to a word. Here is a great example – most of the words and phrases “heard” by the ghost hunter in this video are more imagination than anything else. I suggest you listen to the audio without the video and write down any words that you think you hear. Then watch the video and see if they match what the ghost hunter thought he heard.

On the video the alleged words flash up on the screen, so that suggestion will kick in. This is a well-known phenomenon – when a word or phrase is suggested to you, your brain will hear what is suggested. Here is a funny example – the “O Fortuna” lyrics misinterpreted as funny phrases. (Perhaps ghosts are trying to communicate through the lyrics of foreign-language music.)

There is also a second layer of pattern recognition, however – the meaning of the words. People are very good at inferring meaning, which is a useful skill in a highly social species. Like many such things, we are too good in that we tend to over-infer meaning. I see people do this all the time with their pets. They assign very sophisticated human understanding and intent to behaviors that probably have a much simpler explanation. We saw this also when researchers tried to teach apes to communicate with sign language. The researchers were very good at inferring what the apes meant even when signing essentially randomly. Sometimes, for example, the animal would try to be funny or playful by signing the opposite of what he meant.

We see the same thing in the ghost box video. The ghost hunter is good at taking the random words and phrases and inferring some meaning from them. He is then very impressed by the pattern of responses, concluding that there must be some intelligence behind them. Of course there is an intelligence at work, but it is at the receiving end of the words. Any apparent meaning to the alleged words is coming from the minds of those making the connection. In this way it is similar to a cold reading. The person making all the connections in a cold reading is not the reader but the subject. They are finding meaning in the questions and fragments (I see a letter “J”) that the cold reader is throwing out.

This general phenomenon is very common – seeing patterns in randomness and then being overly impressed at the connections. The naive premise for the believer is that if there were not a real external phenomenon going on (in this case, ghosts) then the apparent connections would not be there. This premise, however, is false. Humans are good at finding connections anywhere, and in that way we often deceive ourselves into thinking there is something there when there isn’t.

Read the rest of the article: NeuroLogica

Area residents were so distraught that it sparked a full blown search by authorities who suspected there was a bear on the loose in the area.

Now a new report has surfaced bringing back memories of the beast.

university student Helen Murray was out for a walk near the Old River Lea when she saw a shaggy black animal that she says was bigger than a human. At first she thought it might be dead but when it moved she took a couple of photos with her cell phone and then ran in terror.

Here’s the report from London 24:

The ‘Beast of Hackney Marshes’ mystery

A strange creature has been captured on camera on Hackney Marshes – 30 years after the unexplained sighting of another mystery beast sparked a full-scale search for a suspected bear on the loose.

Terrified university student Helen Murray said she took the snaps while out for a stroll near dense woodland close to a path near the Old River Lea on bank holiday Monday earlier this month.

She said she was stopped in her tracks by the unknown animal, which was larger than a person and covered in shaggy black fur.

“I tried to stay calm as I wasn’t sure what kind of animal it was or if it was even alive,” she said. “I had my phone ready to call 999. Then the creature moved. Somehow I managed to take a couple of pictures before I ran.

“I managed to get away but was scared half to death.”

Ms Murray says she didn’t contact the police because she thought they wouldn’t believe her.

A spokeswoman for Hackney police said there have been no other reports of sightings, while experts at London Zoo said the pictures were not clear enough for them to comment.

The photographs have revived memories of the unexplained case of a bear reportedly sighted on the Marshes in 1981 – 50 police officers, army marksmen, and a helicopter were drafted in to search the area, but the beast was never found.

Officers at the time stressed the people who’d seen the animal were not hoaxers, although they admitted they could have been victims of a hoax.

Two bear carcasses had previously been found nearby in the River Lea and it remains a mystery how they got there.

I tried my best to blow up and manipulate the pictures but with little success as you can see above.

Is it a bear, dog or something more crypto-like? The best I can do is leave it up to the readers to decide.

Thanks to London24.com for their spin on the Hackney Mystery Beast.

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The infamous “Haunted hospital” in Los Angeles will soon be getting a facelift. The 107 year old Linda Vista Community Hospital has been the focus of a rash of recent paranormal investigations.
After the hospital closed its doors nearly 25 years ago, urban legends and paranormal rumors have become synonymous with the building. A new proposal was put in place to pump nearly $40 million into the old building and renovate it for a senior living community.

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Would you want your grandma living in an abandoned hospital so well known for its creepy atmosphere and alleged hauntings that it has been used in various Hollywood productions by folks like Rob Zombie and the makers of the horror film “Se7en”?

The L.A. Times says the 107-year-old Linda Vista Community Hospital may soon earn a new reputation once a proposed $40 million conversion is complete, transforming the abandoned building into a senior living home.

“People tell me it’s the most haunted place in L.A.,” said Maurice Ramirez, executive vice president of Amcal Multi-Housing Inc., the affordable housing group heading the hospital’s conversion. “Because it’s been empty for maybe 25 years or so, it becomes the subject of a little urban folklore about ghosts and things.”

The hospital’s caretaker Francis Kortekaas says he has experienced a few unusual moments over the years since Linda Vista closed shop in 1991, including when a sink seemed to turn itself on and off in front of his eyes, and when he felt a child’s hand reach out for his own, even though he was alone at the time.

“It felt like my daughter’s hand,” he told the paper.

Not that I believe that the building harbors ghosts or anything, but I do find it interesting to see what kinds of stories will begin to trickle out of the hospital as more patients and employees start moving in.