Name: Do you believe in ghosts? Bryan Mims investigates the age-old question
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Description: Bryan Mims shows us, there is one group in the Triangle determined to answer that age-old question: Do ghosts wander among us?

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Bryan Mims shows us, there is one group in the Triangle determined to answer that age-old question: Do ghosts wander among us?

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS I'M ON MY WAY. GOOD SPINE CHILLING GHOST STORIES ALWAYS IN ORDER THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. SOME HAUNTED HOUSES AND RUMORS OF GHOST SIGHTINGS STIR UP THE IMAGINATION, AS WRAL'S BRIAN MIMS SHOWS US, THERE'S ONE GROUP IN THE TRIANGLE DETERMINED TO ANSWER THE AGE OLD QUESTION, DO GHOSTS  WANDER AMONG US? >> IF AROUND HALLOWEEN YOU BUMP INTO PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE THEY'VE SEEN A GHOST, MAYBE THEY REALLY HAVE. WE WANTED TO GET THE WORD ON THE STREET. ARE GHOSTS REALLY REAL? >> YEAH. BECAUSE I BELIEVE I SAW ONE IN MY SON'S BASEMENT. >> GHOSTS DO EXIST, AT LEAST IN OUR IMAGINATION. >> I SWEAR I SAW ONE. >> IT'S ONE OF THOSE PERSISTENT QUESTIONS BY MERE MORTALS. >> DO I BELIEVE IN GHOSTS ? NO. PERSONALLY, NO. >> UHM, YES. BECAUSE ANY TIME I GO TO MY FRIEND'S HOUSE, SOMETHING PARANORMAL HAPPENS. >> THE PARANORMAL. THE UNEXPLAINABLE. PEOPLE IN RALEIGH INVESTIGATE THOSE BUMPS IN THE NIGHT. THEY CALL THEMSELVES THE GHOST GUILD. AND THEY'RE A REGISTERED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. >> FOR ME, I LIKE TO INVESTIGATE MYSTERIES. >> JOHN-MICHAEL IS ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS. HIS VERDICT. >> I'VE NEVER FOUND ANY EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT GHOSTS EXIST. I'VE ALSO NEVER FOUND ANY EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT GHOSTS DON'T EXIST. BUT IT'S A CONTINUAL JOURNEY. >> PLACES THAT SEEM RIPE FOR A GOOD >> DO I BELIEVE IN GHOSTS ? >> NELSON, COFOUNDED THE GHOST GUILD. >> I DON'T KNOW. >> HE SHARED A TALE ABOUT INVESTIGATING AN OLD ASYLUM IN WEST VIRGINIA, ALLEGED TO BE HAUNTED  BY THE GHOST OF A LITTLE GIRL. WHEN HE CAME HOME, HIS OWN DAUGHTER AWOKE ON REPEATED NIGHTS CLAIMING TO SEE A GIRL IN HER ROOM. IT'S THINGS LIKE THIS MAKING ME WONDER COULD THERE BE SOMETHING THERE. THERE'S A LEGEND IN RALEIGH WHERE THE STORY GOES AT THE SIGHT OF A LONG AGO OR FANNAGE FIRE, YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF CHILDREN CRYING. CHRISTINA IS A RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR THE GUILD WHO RESEARCHED THE CRIES, ONLY TO FIND CRICKETS. >> SIMILAR STORIES ARE TOLD IN OHIO, NEVADA, PENNSYLVANIA. SO I GO BACK THROUGH THE NEWS PAPER ARCHIVES AND SEE WHAT PARTS OF THE STORY ARE TRUE. SO IT'S A LOT OF, I WANT TO SAY DEBUNKING. >> STILL IT'S FUN TO SEEK ANSWERS TO WHAT WAS THAT? >> I AM DOING THIS KNOWING FULL WELL THAT I WILL LIKELY NEVER HAVE AN ANSWER. FROM NOW TO THE DAY I DIE. >> WE'RE HAUNTED BY THE WHAT IFS. CHILLED BY THE NOT KNOWING. WE'RE LEFT IN PERPETUAL SUSPENSE, WHICH IS ALL PART OF THE THRILL.

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Do you believe in ghosts? Bryan Mims investigates the age-old question 

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Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baga Leone here in the WRL severe weather center. Certainly a very busy start to the weekend. Here's a look at some of the reports that we've gotten associated with Ophelia as far as the wind gusts are concerned about 45 miles an hour there in Rocky Mount, 39 in Fayetteville, 37 Greensboro. That's just a look at some of our select cities out there. Everyone was really gusting from about 35 to 45 miles an hour. So, a very impactful storm system in the way of rain and wind, there's a look at the rainfall totals, some spots getting very close to 4.5, even over 4.5 inches there in Tarboro, Garner almost two and three quarter inches of rain at Rocky Mount 2.61 inches. Where do we go from here? There's where the storm system is. It's pushing on out. We're going to see this continue to weaken and bring all of that moisture that was associated with it here to start the weekend kind of away from our area. There could just be a lingering shower in the next couple of hours. But I think for the most part really starting to wind down into tonight, we had during the day tomorrow looking a whole lot better, more cloud cover to the north. And I do think some sunshine to the south of the triangle. So we'll just call it kind of a mix of sun and clouds through the day we had later on during the day. No rainfall expected to close out the weekend, 80 degrees tomorrow afternoon. So it will be warmer temperatures definitely warmer than our Saturday. Starting off tomorrow morning in the sixties, we go from here feeling very fall like 80 on Sunday, 82 Monday in the low to mid seventies there, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this upcoming week. So feeling a lot more like fall and it officially is fall like now where we started here on our Saturday, 80 degrees there, Sunday, 82 Monday, most of us, all of us in the seventies here next week, just an isolated shower there into Tuesday looking relatively calm. We'll see just a mix of sun and clouds most days. So no big issues here after a very busy forecast here in the past couple of hours.

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Ophelia really bearing down on the coast right now That's where we've seen the heart of these impacts so far Yes Wr Grace Holland is live on Atlantic Beach Grace We the last time we were with you we saw that that power line had been on fire What is the status right now Yes So that actually blew within the last few minutes Really loud pop that was heard from that You know this is just the first effects that we're starting to see of all these hours of sustained winds  So right now that power pole is just sort of hanging in two pieces right there and there are firefighters on scene I spoke briefly with one fire department official who just kind of told me that they've been monitoring this for about an hour Now They got the call around 645 five The road is open as far as I can tell they're letting cars through But I do see a firefighter who is sort of helping direct traffic just through this area That pole of course doesn't cross the road but it's just right there on the side The main concern that they really had was this driveway right here This is very close to that pier that we were in the last hour and this driveway is where people normally come in and out So they're not letting anyone in and out that direction  He gave us that officer gave us some directions on if we needed to get out of here how to do that safely So we don't go under these lines but this just goes to show I mean it's stuff like this This is why there are sections of the beach that don't have power right now is because of things like this And of course those crews are continuing to work on these lines and try to get it restored But at this point the outages are still happening So we're going to continue to keep you updated and monitor this situation Yeah of course this is a very active situation and grace I know you're going to stay on top of the course Thank you very much

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Good evening. I'm Tina Selden Cash with tonight's lottery drawings for Friday, September 22 2023. Our first winning number in the Carolina pick three. Tonight is seven, followed by two. Our third winning number is four and our pick three. Fireball number is also four. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from mcconnell and Jones LP. Here we go with the Carolina pick four, check your tickets. First winning number tonight. Eight, the second winning pick 44. 3rd winning number is one. Our fourth winning Carolina pick four is nine and our pick four fire ball number is zero. Let's turn now to the Carolina cash five. If no one matches all five numbers in the jackpot tonight, tomorrow's top prize is an estimated $120,000. Good luck first winning cash five tonight 22 followed by 35. Our third winning number is 10. The fourth Carolina cash five tonight is five and our final winning number in the cash five is 13. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education and thanks for your support.

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