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Residents now call it "Shoe Corner." It's a mysterious mishmash of footwear — sneakers, high-heels, slippers — of all sizes. Some seem brand-new. Some are so old and foul they can't be donated to charity.

As soon as residents cart off the shoes, more appear. Even the local highway department is a bit confused. Where would a prankster get all these shoes? Nobody in town will admit to it.

"Last week, I saw floppy, red clown shoes," Ambroziak says. "It's very sick and disturbing."

If it is some ghost with a foot fetish, perhaps we can soon explain the real mystery plaguing humanity — missing socks. 5. An Unhappy Meal:

At the McDonald's in Lewiston, N.Y., you sometimes get a shake, even if you order a coke. It's haunted.

What angered the ghost of William Morgan, who died in 1826? Was it a bad Filet-O-Fish Sandwich? A Not-So-Happy Meal?

In the mid-1970s, the restaurant manager said he saw apparitions and strange voices. A cleaning woman described the milky-white image of an old man who would appear in the pantry, and then vanish. After another sighting, a maintenance man quit.

Ghost hunters say Morgan was supposedly murdered after a few run-ins with the Free Masons, although mystery surrounds his death.

The McDonald's is located in Lewiston's Frontier House — where the Masons used to hold meetings. That may be why Morgan's forever ordering takeout.

The current manager says everyone in town knows about William Morgan's ghost, but there are fewer sightings now. Maybe he's decided to try Wendy's.

6. Killer Material: Talk about dying on stage: Many longtime performers at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles are not kidding when they say the nightclub is haunted.

The ghost of Sam Kinison is said to be heard screaming in the night about politics, sex and religion — much as he did when he was alive. The preacher-turned-shock-comic was on his way to a gig in 1992 when he was killed by a drunken driver.

"For years, we just took it for granted that spirits were hanging out — especially late in the evening," says Argus Hamilton, a longtime performer. "You could expect Kinison to haunt any comic who even thought of getting married."

Even before Kinison, paranormal investigators have been homing-in on The Comedy Store as a paranormal hotbed. The club was formerly Ciro's, a 1950s gangster hangout. So many ghosts have been spotted that Comedy Store owner Mitzi Shore had a team of ghost busters investigate the premises.