Ghosts now joining Facebook, thanks to Niagara Supervisor

Steve Richards, ghost hunter.

In this picture, taken in a home in Niagara Falls, there appears to be a ghost floating in mid air, who is said to be haunting the house.

In this photo an alleged "shadow person" appears in the background.

During the Christmas season, many people contemplate the wondrous message of Christ and that there is life after death for, according to the Bible, He was born and He died for our sins and rose again on the third day.

There is a fairly large group of people who not only believe that there is life after death as evidenced by the death and resurrection of Christ but, with a little bit of searching themselves, they can find some palpable evidence in encounters with a few of the people who passed away. These they call – in the most general sense –ghosts.

One of those people setting out to prove it – a hunter of ghosts - is no less a personage than our own Town of Niagara Supervisor, Steve Richards. Richards is ably aided and abetted by a number of other intrepid ghost hunters, including our friend Jim Szwedo.

These men and others have a Facebook page called the “Dark Star Paranormal Research Society” and they believe they have seen and heard ghosts and other kinds of apparitions of once living people among us.

Most people who say they have seen ghosts describe them as a kind of fuzzy, misty, airy presence. And places where they are seen are described as haunted. Usually ghosts are associated with people who died violently or suddenly or by suicide.

In any event, Richards and his team have recorded what they believe to be the voices of several ghosts, ghouls and perhaps a goblin or two on tape recorders and have taken some pictures good enough to put up on Facebook.

It is intriguing to imagine that, thanks to Richards, ghosts might someday soon join the ranks of millions of Facebook users looking up old friends and liking the activities and comments of the living.

Since ghosts are generally described as solitary beings that haunt particular locations, joining Facebook may help them become more gregarious.

Meeting ghosts on Facebook will have the additional pleasing benefit that the ghosts will be less likely to scare people by sneaking up on them and spooking people late at night and generally being a nuisance by showing up in the darnedest times and haunting places.

For more information visit www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Starr-Paranormal-Research-Society/103350056401347