On Saturday I took part in a last minute investigation with Mike Palmer from PINK (Paranormal Investigators Of Northern Kentucky - see link down the righthand side below), in Middletown, OH.
The hosts were great, and we appreciate them accomodating us for for the duration. The home was built in the late mid-1800’s (1859 I believe). The residents reported various stories from misplaced items, being touched, hearing voices, and footsteps, as well as shadow figures.
I have caught some really interesting things on audio and video, and will be posting them appropriately soon, either here or on PINK’s web site, or both. Please see PINK’s web site for results and updates on the investigation findings.
“Sometimes there’d be weeks where nothing would happen,” Mrs. MacLean explained, “But sometimes it would happen days in a row.”
As they became less and less skeptical of what they described as paranormal activity, the MacLeans began to research the supernatural. While searching the Internet for a way to remove ghosts, Mrs. MacLean stumbled upon the Web site of The Atlantic Paranormal Society, commonly known as TAPS, which is known for its paranormal investigations done on the television program “Ghost Hunters.”
“I had never seen the show, but I sent them an e-mail describing the situation,” she said. The society took an interest in their case and, last October, came to perform a full investigation that was taped for television.
The MacLeans were impressed by the attitude and professionalism of the investigative team.
“It’s not like you can open the Yellow Pages and look for something like this,” Mr. MacLean said.
Mrs. MacLean described them as understanding regarding the situation, but added, “They try to do everything they can to disprove what you’re saying and come up with a good explanation for what happened.”
A group of investigators, described by Mr. MacLean as “electricians and plumbers,” thoroughly examined the house, searching for possible causes in its structure or construction. Investigators also spent an evening in the house, during which they captured footage of strange phenomena as it was occurring. Although there were some things the team observed that they could explain, other occurrences, such as a faucet turning itself on, eluded their expertise.
To the MacLeans, the conclusions of the investigation, aired during last night’s episode of “Ghost Hunters” on the Sci-Fi channel, verified their experience.
“The information we got has made me feel better about it,” Mrs. MacLean said last night, but added, “We’ll move out eventually.”
Eddie Glenn
CNHI News Service
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - Paranormal investigators from all over the country will be converging on the Illinois River, not to investigate any strangeness, but just to talk about investigating the unexplained.
The Oklahoma Paranormal Research and Investigations is sponsoring the 2007 “Para-Float” Friday and Saturday at Diamondhead Resort.
The event will include lectures by Patrick Burns from Court TV’s “Haunting Evidence” series and Keith Age, whose documentary “Spooked” deals with the allegedly haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky.
According to Christy Selfridge, founder and director of OKPRI, this won’t be the first visit the Oklahoma City-based organization has made to the area - just the most publicized.
“We’ve done residentials, and we’ve checked out some of the historical places around Tahlequah,” said Selfridge. “We take a scientific and a spiritual approach - it’s about half and half.”
Selfridge said a lot of the structures the OKPRI investigates are, as one might imagine, old wooden buildings. There is a theory as to why those buildings may be conducive to paranormal activity.
“As wood decays, it puts out carbon, and carbon is a form of energy. The theory is that the more carbon the more energy is there.”
The same type of spirit-conducive energy, she said, may also be produced by electricity and magnetism.
Of course, testing that theory can be a difficult task, and not every member of OKPRI necessarily even believes it’s true.
“We have some really hard-core skeptics on the team,” Selfridge said. “And then there are some of us who are believers.”
Anyone who thinks they might be experiencing paranormal activity is welcome to contact the OKPRI about an investigation, and as OKPRI case manager/investigator Anita Tallball pointed out, folks need not be embarrassed about contacting the organization.
“We respect their confidentiality,” said Tallball. “I know a lot of times, people don’t want a bunch of other people coming around and disturbing things, or they don’t want people knowing they have paranormal activity.”
BY PETE WICKLUND Journal Times
RACINE — Five young adults on a search for ghosts and ghouls early Tuesday morning may have found that the only scary thing about trespassing into a county park is the price of a ticket.
A Mount Pleasant police officer observed the intruders, four 19-year-olds and an 18-year-old all from Racine, all dressed in dark clothing, at about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday running from a parked vehicle on Ohio Street into Pritchard Park.
A Racine County Sheriff’s Department deputy heard the Mount Pleasant officer’s radio transmission and also went to the park.
The deputy located two of the subjects and the Mount Pleasant officer located the other three.
Initially all of the teens said they were searching for a lost dog, but when officers interviewed each of them individually, all admitted they were chasing an Internet urban legend about a ghost that roams the park at night.
One of the teens brought a camera along with hopes of catching an image of the spectre, but all the teens netted were $154.50 citations for entering a county park after closing hours. All were assigned a July 13 court date.
Prior to leaving the park, officers did check to make sure nothing was out of sorts.
“I further checked Pritchard Park and did not locate anything out of place or suspicious, nor did I see any ghosts,” Deputy Chad Schulman wrote in his report of the incident.
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Apologize for the month-off. I’m back up and running after a vacation, and a hard drive failure. Hopefully won’t happen again (the failure that is).
We’ll start investigating again in late summer or fall. We would prefer to do private/confidential investigations, or at least more of them, but realize we’ll have to keep investigating public venues, so that people can see what we’re about.
Please feel free to post in the new forums, no question or post is unwelcome or too stupid (that isn’t blatantly inappropriate or spam obviously).
Would be happy to hear from anyone who happens to drop by. The site has only been live for about 3 months now, so it will take quite some time before we are listed higher on the engines and receive more exposure. Thanks for reading.
