The Ex Files

The Discovery Channel and the Vatican are teaming up for a new series called The Exorcist Files. The show will recreate real-life hauntings and demonic possession, based on cases investigated by the Catholic Church. The organization’s top exorcists and religious experts will host and star on the show. The Discovery Channel says if the first season is a success they will look to do live exorcisms and demonic ride-a-longs.

Happy Haunting

Colorado's most haunted hotel, The Stanley Hotel, is offering special packages for Halloween. Stephen King wrote The Shining in room 217 after learning how Flora Stanley, the hotel's first owner, died. She can still be heard playing the piano and seen wandering around in the lobby. Guests say if you stay in room 418 you'll hear children playing outside the door.

The Red Garter Bed & Breakfast is Arizona's most haunted inn. Guests say during the night, they've felt their bed shake, heard someone climbing the stairs and felt a spirit touching their arms. Many believe the ghost is a former prostitute, who worked at the inn when it was a bordello back in 1897. Locals claim she was led upstairs to a room and never left. Innkeeper John Holst says, "The stories about Eve, the turn-of-the-century ghost that visits the rooms occasionally, are greatly exaggerated."

OMG of the day

Michael Jackson has canceled plans to rent the Foxbury Manor in Chislehurst, Kent. He was planning to stay at the 18th century London mansion during his upcoming concert run there, but decided against it after hearing the home is haunted. Michael doesn't want ghosts frightening his children.