Baseball Giants scared by hotel ghosts

San Francisco baseball players Pablo Sandoval and Edgar Renteria are Giants - except when it comes to haunted hotels. As reported by the San Francisco Bay NBC affiliate and SF Weekly, the major leaguers checked out of the 117-year-old Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wis.

According to Giants' publicity director Shana Daum, they were uneasy about ghosts because last year, both "had some sort of experience there," she says. Daum is unsure about the nature of the experience, but the hotel is famous for his is haunted hospitality, and PrairieGhosts.com says, founder Charles Pfister still looks after his guests long after his death. "He has been spotted looking over the lobby from a spot on the grand staircase and has also been seen walking in the gallery above the ballroom," the site alleges. "Witnesses identify him from a portrait of him that hangs in the lobby."

The hotel plays host to the city's visiting athletes, and last year, Milwaukee's NBC site WISN.com reported on the phenomena plaguing sports stars and one L.A. Dodger supposedly even slept with his bat while there. And lest we forget, this story comes only a few months after the New York Knicks faced a similar spectral issue at the Skirvin Hilton in Oklahoma City.

Well you can't blame the hotel for root, root, rooting for the home team - even if it means scaring the crap out of the rivals.

Double Rainbow: Not paranormal ...

... But funny as hell

Significance of Roswell 63 years later

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of one of the most famous conspiracies, and most well-known UFO incident, of all time. After nearly a century since the incident, official answers about Roswell seem thin, and the site of a purported alien crash landing site continues to attract tourists and paranormal enthusiasts - so much so that the town of 50,000 residents hosts an annual celebration as UFO Central this time every year for 13 years now.

It's pretty well accepted that something crashed in the New Mexico desert July 2, 1947 - only a few days, really, after pilot Kenneth Arnold said he saw a flying saucers near Mt. Ranier on June 24, which was the first widely reported sighting. Then, on July 8, the Roswell Daily Record reported the press release by the Army stating that a flying saucer had crashed in the area. The next day, the military changed the story to suggest that it was a crashed weather balloon, and not an alien craft. The story died down until, a little more than 30 years later, physicist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved in the original debris cleanup and claimed the crash was no balloon.

Although it wasn't the beginning of the UFO fascination in the States (that probably has a lot to do with Arnold, and Edward R. Murrow's CBS program, "The Case for the Flying Saucers"). But Roswell is the UFO incident most people withing the mainstream know about, and it did solidify the government cover-up conspiracy theories.

To learn more about the Roswell story, check out Lee Speigel's excellent two-part story on the crash and the festival at AOL News.

Paranormal Pop Cuisine: Chupacabra Burgers & Unicorn Meat

All this talk about Paranormal Pop Culture sure does work up an appetite. At the end of a day of delving into the unknown and unexplained, I'm simply famished and ready to dig into a menu of mystery meat.

Luckily, for the true connoisseur of paranormal pop cuisine, there are many reliable outlets for learning how to cook mythical beasts and magical beings, or finding out which supernatural creatures are kosher. There are even solid recipe trading tips on the Internet amongst amateur gourmands. Even if you're less inclined to eat paranormal food, but you just want a paranormal cook, you can find that too on the Washington, D.C., installment of Top Chef in the form of psychic foodie Tracey.

But the thriving market of paranormal pop cuisine even extends to quaint Texas towns and burger shops, such as the Lone Star State's newest steak, the chupacabra.

In response to the chupey (which was actually a hairless raccoon) found at the North Texas Runaway Bay golf course in January, the restaurant/bait shop/grocery store One Stop of Texas has unveiled the paranormal-themed burger. According to NBC DFW, owner Linda White's burger isn't actually made of mythical beast, but is instead 1/3 pound of beef, chili, bun, grated-cheese, and a hot dog split down the middle.

"We split the hot dog to make it look like paws. We use a pickle spear as the tail," White said. The burger is also served with "Chupa Chips."

Although Runaway Bay has officially nominated chupey as the official town mascot, there's no word yet whether the Texas beef association will now adopt the motto, "Chupacabra - It's what else is for dinner."

Also, while the burger sounds delicious, the culinary combination seems likely to produce smells often confused with demons. Besides, no matter how tasty it may be, the Chupacabra Burger is no match for the reigning paranormal pop cuisine product, Unicorn Meat, or the close follow-up from the early '90s:

Ghost of Lizard King haunts Mexican restaurant

Jim Morrison's ghost really gets around. Last October, news broke that music historian Brett Meisner caught the possible ghost of the Lizard King at his Parisian grave in Père Lachaise back in 1997.

Now comes word, on the 39th anniversary of Morrison's death on July 3, that The Doors frontman is hanging out in a West Hollywood Mexican restaurant. AOL News contributor Chris Epting reports the location was once known as "The Doors Workshop," "an office space/crash pad/recording studio used by the band in the late 1960s and early 1970s."

Opened by chef - and Doors fan - Larry Nicola, the restaurant Mexico was known for its history and the locale continues to honor the band's legacy.

"His presence hangs very heavy here," general manager Christina Arena says. "It gets eerie sometimes." She also says the unisex bathroom, which served as a vocal booth where Morrison recorded "L.A. Women," has the strongest energy.

"Jim Morrison is definitely still here," office manager Christine Chilcote agrees. "Funky things happen all the time we can't explain. Lights popping on and off at weird times. But when that bathroom door handle jiggles by itself, that's the weirdest sign. It's totally inexplicable."

So instead of spending all his afterlife in the city of the dead in Paris, it seems Morrison's ghost likes to "Love Me Two Times" and split his spiritual time with good food and fans in sunny California. Strange Days indeed

Jennifer Love Hewitt still 'Ghost Whisperer' to fans

In an interview with the United Kingdom's Press Association, Jennifer Love Hewitt says fans of her canceled show Ghost Whisperer frequently approach her in public to share their paranormal experiences.

The actress, who portrayed medium Melinda Gordon for five seasons, explains, "I have a lot of very unusual, incredibly emotional experiences with people where people will just come up to me and they'll be like, 'Can you just sit with me a second? I have to tell you my story because it had to do with the storyline last Friday night' and then they'll just start balling like, in the mall."

She adds, "Then I have other times when I have people who will just be convinced that there is a ghost attached to them and that I need to get it off of them, right there when I'm buying lettuce in the middle of the grocery store."

Hewitt says in order to cope with the situation, she carries cards for mediums in her purse and hands those out to people who need them.

Although it's hard to believe J. Love is buying her own grocery store in the middle of a regular non-celebrity grocery store, this story does prove one thing: Jennifer Love Hewitt needs better security.

The Night Shift: Hot Days, Cool Pics

The Night Shift is the on-set diary of Fighting Owl Film's new independent supernatural-adventure-comedy of the same name currently in pre-production in Mobile, AL. Over the course of the next several weeks and months, you'll get an insider's peek at what it's like for filmmakers to craft a new entry of paranormal pop culture from Erin Lilley, a producer and actress on the film.

Hot Days, Cool Pics

Sweet fancy Moses, it's hot!  According to the weather forecast, it's "only" in the 90s, but the heat index has stayed well over the 100-degree mark for the past few days. The good news is we have all but one zombie shoot in the can, so we won't have to work with melting greasepaint too much longer. The bad news is we still have two major prosthetic shoots to go, and then a few nights of picking up scenes we weren't able to get to because of time constraints and rain delays.

There's light at the end of the tunnel.

Very, very dim light - but I can see the end, and a day when I once again have a clean car with no bodies in the back seat.

Now is when Thomas and I get to kick publicity into high gear. This week, I get to learn how to use the