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Friar Street Mall: Is the derelict shopping centre haunted?

A derelict shopping centre was the scene of a paranormal investigation on Saturday night as ghost hunters explored abandoned stores.

Black Cat Paranormal led the hunt at Friars Walk in, Friar Street, Reading town centrethroughout the night on Saturday, May 30.

Clare Durrant, one of the ghost hunters from Black Cat, said the team's finding had been interesting.

"I took my spirit box with me," she explained.

"It's a radio scanner which is set in reverse. It flicks through around 300 frequencies per second so it would never pick up a station, even if it did we wouldn't be able to understand because it's in reverse.

"We heard two voices on there - a female voice which sounded like a girl and a very deep male voice.

"We asked them questions like how many of us were in the room and heard numbers back from it."

The team also experienced a couple of spooky situations which Clare said "freaked" her.

She said: "There was one point when we split into two groups.

"I took one group into the old C&A shop and we all saw a figure walk pass with a flash light.

"I thought it was someone from the second group but when I went to ask if they'd found anything the figure had gone.

"Later when I asked the other group if they had been there they confirmed they hadn't been anywhere near us.

"I also took one of the visitors into a shop corner to see if we could find anything and we both got blasted in the face with cold air - it freaked me out enough for us to run away. We weren't welcome there."

Despite the incident Clare said she didn't think harm could come to her or the rest of the group during a paranormal investigation.

"Lots of people believe different things but in my opinion spirits are just disembodied energy which, for whatever reason, has decided to stay in a certain place," she explained.

"We also protect ourselves by splashing incense on us and we take cleansing very seriously before we leave."

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Beware: Paranormal investigators say Bryan-Downs, Stockade and Eells-Stow houses in Milford are haunted

TOP: Bryan Down’s House in Milford. (Register file photo) BOTTOM ROW: From left, Clark-Stockade House, Eells-Stow House, and a photo taken inside Eells-Stow House. From the NPIS website: “Over 50 photos were taken during an EVP session in a room on the first floor of the Eells-Stow House. We found this one photo of the 50+ taken to contain a blue energy not present in any of the others. This energy was captured following a sensation of static electricity in the room by some our team members.” (Photos courtesy of NPIS website) 

MILFORD >> Paranormal investigators say the historic Bryan-Downs house is haunted by a woman and servant girl, while the Revolutionary War hero Captain Dr. Stephen Stow continues to “live” in the adjacent Eells-Stow House.

But they want more details about the spirits who live on the Milford Historical Society complex — more pieces to the puzzle — and will attempt to find them with the help of the public during paranormal investigations June 20 and 27th.

For a $50 fee, with a significant portion of the money going back to the Milford Historical Society, participants will learn ghost hunting techniques and be provided with tools.

“Each paranormal investigation is an opportunity to find out a little more information about a place or people there,” said Cindy Wolfe Boynton, a popular author and writer who leads the popular Spirits of Milford ghost walks. “Hopefully, we’re going to get information that will expand on what we have.”

Boynton has teamed with Northeast Paranormal Investigations Society — NPIS — to train the public on site. As each session is limited to 30 people who will be broken into groups of 10, the June 20 session has already sold out.

The investigations will take place from 9 p.m. to midnight at 34 High Street.

Participants will use professional tools, including voice recorders,dowsing rods, digital and infrared still and video cameras, pendulums and more in the attempt to make contact with spirits, Boynton said. They also will be lead through exercises designed to enhance their own psychic abilities.

Adam Shefts, of Wallingford, founder of NPIS, said the group limits its investigations to historic sites.

“We have history as a foundation for every investigation,” Shefts said. “We want to connect evidence with history.”

Members of his group have visited the historic Milford complex twice and found a definite presence of spirits, he said.

Shefts said the presence of additional investigators — meaning the public — could really add to the investigation, because, “Everyone has their own energy and a spirit may be more inclined to interact with one person than another,” he said. “To interact with someone who passed away hundreds of years ago is exciting to take part in.”

The three houses involved in the investigation are the Eells-Stow House, believed to be the oldest house in Milford, The “Stockade House” and the Bryan-Downs House, c. 1785.

During the Revolutionary War, one was a hospital where many had died, including about one-quarter of 200 British soldiers with small pox who had been dumped on Milford’s shores. Captain Dr. Stephen Stow treated them and later died of the disease himself. Boynton said that in 2007, paranormal investigators came in and determined Stow “absolutely” still lives in the Eells-Stow House.

The Bryan-Downs house is also believed to be haunted, including by a servant woman. Several historical society members have heard their names whispered and have been touched going out the door, Boynton said. In the Eels-Stow house, there is a picture made of human hair, common practice back then as a way of preserving part of a deceased loved one.

Shefts said one of the group’s “sensitives,” Kyle Berghiaume, could “hear“ the energy of a spirit in the Bryan-Down’s house and when he walked into the Stockade House, Bible scriptures started running through his head.

In the Stow house, NPIS investigators identified some electronic voice phenomenon and captured a spirit voice on a recorder. Similar equipment will be set up for the public events.

Shefts said “a ball of energy” also came into a room when investigators were present.

While outside of the Stow house, investigator Mark Firulli saw a woman dressed in old time clothing standing in the window, Shefts said.

Shefts said every investigation is conducted in a respectful manner and guests will be prepped with safety tips.

“We do investigations respectfully,” he said. “We believe that just because a person is in a spirit form, there’s no reason not to treat them like a person.”

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Ashmore Estates...Paranormal Activity.. Living Dead Paranormal & Dead People See Me

The Living Dead Paranormal Crew & Medium Cassidy Rae travel to Coles County IL to investigate the haunted Ashmore Estates. Three days after filming Ashmore Estates would suffer massive storm damage.........

The Roff Home.. State Of Possession.. Living Dead Paranormal (Video)

The Brothers travel to Watseka IL to investigate reports of paranormal activity taking place at the Roff Home.. Site of the Watseka Wonder A young girl Mary Roff who was Possessed in the 1800s one of the first documented cases of spiritual possession ever recorded.. Lurancy Vennum another young girl from Watseka IL would become the second girl possessed in the small town of Watseka.. Spending 100 days inside the Roff Home before her family moved..

Mystery at the Manse

The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is not only home to assorted local flora and fauna, but some say the historical site also houses several spectral occupants.

And the public is invited to tag along as the Island Paranormal Society, based out of Long Island, N.Y., investigates the ghostly phenomena in the property’s colonial revival mansion.

The Morris County Park Commission, which is co-sponsoring the event with the society, did not seek out the ghost hunters, said society director Matthew Haas.

“Nobody really advertises, ‘Hey, we’ve got ghosts.’ So (the society) sends out email inquiries to places with a rich history, which tend to have more activity,” Haas explained.

And the Frelinghuysen manse fit the bill.

The arboretum was established on the former site of Whippany Farm, owned by George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1851-1936), son of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, and a New York City patent attorney and president of Ballantine Brewing Company from 1905 until his retirement, and Sara Ballantine (1858-1940) of Newark, the granddaughter of the founder Peter Ballantine of the Ballantine Brewing Company. In 1964 their daughter, Matilda Frelinghuysen (1887-1969) began plans to turn the estate into an arboretum. Today’s Frelinghuysen Arboretum was dedicated in 1971.

After park officials responded to the society’s inquiry, the team began to research the site’s history and made two visits to the mansion, Haas said.

“We walked away with quite a lot of evidence on the second investigation,” said Haas, adding that the team was a little surprised at how much evidence they had been able to record. “Maybe it was because (the spirits) were starting to be a little more familiar with us. It doesn’t happen on demand. The former inhabitants have to get used to you and (the investigators) have to open up to the spirits that are there.”

The team uses a variety of video and audio recording devices to capture evidence of spirit activity.

Originally scheduled for Saturday, May 30, a Paranormal Night at the Historic Frelinghuysen Mansion has been postponed to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, after one of the investigators broke his foot.

The program will begin with an orientation session explaining the methods that the society uses to investigate paranormal activity. The investigators will explain the types of phenomena that the participants may encounter.

Tour participants will then be divided into smaller groups and one of the investigators will lead the groups to locations where paranormal activity had been detected during the society’s preliminary investigations in February and April, Haas said. Most of the investigations will be concentrated on areas on the mansion’s main floor and the third floor, the location of the former servant quarters, he said.

However, Haas stressed that the investigators would not point out occurrences during the actual tour because they do not want to unduly influence participants.

The idea is to teach attendees about what to look and listen for before the tour begins so that they become an active part of the investigation, Haas explained.

“At the end, we’ll all meet again and we will reveal our findings” and audience members will be asked to share their own observations. “We respect what we do and if our participants respect our investigation and approach ... they could have an experience just as much as we did.”

Locally, the team also has investigated paranormal activity at Liberty Hall Museum on the campus of Kean University in Union. They will gladly travel anywhere in the tri-state area to investigate paranormal phenomena, Haas said.

Island Paranormal Society is an all-volunteer organization that deals with the study and research of unexplained phenomenon. Other members include Josie Haas, Brian Bee and Alex Franzini.

“We are a small team of Investigators who are passionate about helping our clients and researching paranormal activity. (Our) goal is to find a resolution based on our findings, whether we determine it is paranormal or not paranormal. We use various methods that include investigating and documenting claims of paranormal activity using instruments entirely safe to the environment and designed to help us collect data during the investigations. Such instruments include video cameras, audio recorders and a surveillance system that helps us monitor the entire investigation,” states the society’s website.

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Charlie Demon - Educatiom Ministry Warns Of "Paranormal Behaviour" Among Students

The Charlie Charlie Challenge, which has gained international attention and condemnation from the Vatican, has been causing disruption in a number of Jamaican schools, prompting the Ministry of Education to impose a ban on the game.

The Charlie Charlie Challenge is a game played using two pencils and a paper. It is a simplified version of the Ouija board. Players cross the two pencils on the paper and invoke a fabled Mexican demon by calling out: "Charlie Charlie can we play? Charlie Charlie are you there?"

There are many videos posted online, from different countries, supposedly showing the pencils moving on their own in response to the players' chants.

In a release to the media yesterday, the Ministry of Education indicated that several schools have observed disruptive behaviour by a number of students who have played the game and as such has moved to ban the game.

"The ministry issued the ban following reports from several schools across the island of very disruptive behaviour by students who engaged in the game. Some reports intimated that students displayed demon-possessed or paranormal behaviour while playing the game," the release stated.

The release did not expound upon "demon-possessed or paranormal behaviour".

According to the release, a bulletin was sent out to schools instructing administrators to monitor students to ensure that they do not play the game.

Monitor The Children

The bulletin advised school administrators to immediately contact the regional offices if they need help and further support to address the situation.

"The education ministry is also calling on parents and guardians to monitor their children carefully outside of school as based on the reviews of the Charlie Charlie Challenge, there can be serious psychological effects on children. Parents and guardians should note that the playing of this game can also result in serious physical harm to our children," the release added.

President of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) Everton Hannam has added his own voice to the call for parents to monitor their children.

"News of the Charlie Charlie Challenge in a number of our schools has been met with concern by the NPTAJ. If the allegations are correct, there seems to be some intent to introduce games which are not of the kind that we would want to welcome in our schools," he said.

"The ministry has asked parents to be vigilant of these kinds of introduction of these games and we would want to endorse that call and expand it to ask all parents to monitor our children carefully," he said.

Hannam called on the education ministry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the use of the game.

"The ministry should move swiftly to investigate the veracity of these games and the extent to which they are going to affect our children. The study should also include our psychologists and guidance counsellors so as to assess the impact," he added.

Schools across the region have also been facing challenges with students who have played the game.

Reports from Antigua and Barbuda suggest that students were rushed to the hospital after playing the game as they were fainting and having seizures.

Strong warnings against playing the game have been issued in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia.

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Paranormal Activity New Paris...Two Different Houses.. One Family... Living Dead Paranormal

The Living Dead Paranormal Crew travels to New Paris, Ohio to investigate reports of unexplained activity taking place at two different houses. The homeowners moved out of the old house only to find the activity followed them to their new house.. Can the paranormal crew link the two haunting during their investigations at both houses.

Real Ghost Story: The Ouija Board, The Portal and The Psychic

Me and my mother had just moved into a new semi-detached rented house with our dog. It was a good looking house and for the first three days we were up till early hours organising, assembling and unpacking. Those first three nights my mother had clothes hanging over her door, which meant she had been unable to close it when we both went to sleep, as a younger child I didn’t like closing my door and always kept it open ajar.

On the fourth night after moving in we had assembled my mother wardrobe and were able to put all her clothes away, we headed to bed at about 12.45am, exhausted from the week. I got into bed and heard my mothers door close and her bed creak as she got in to retire. I was just on the verge of sleep when something yelled ‘Woooo!’ down my ear, I felt the air from the noise against neck and ear and was frozen with terror and now wide awake.

I finally managed to make myself move and ran from the room straight to my mums with tears in my eyes. At 12 I was quite a calm, happy child, who very rarely had bad dreams and for me to cry over a noise was very unusual. I told my mum about the noise and could see from her reaction that she had also heard something, she tried to give me the parent speech on how ‘It was probably the pipes, and it’s a new house you’re just not used to.’ all whilst trying to urge me to go back into the room.

I made it very clear I was not going back into the room, which was also strange for me as 9 times out of 10 I did what I was told as a kid, she gave in too tired to argue and said I could sleep in her room.

The next day my uncle came to visit and we told him what had happened. My uncle was a skeptic at the time and brushed it off as us being both very tired from the move and said to prove nothing was going on he would sleep in the room that night. We followed the same pattern that we had done the night before, all shuffling upstairs to bed at 12.45. Me and Mum said goodnight to my uncle closed her bedroom door and we got into bed.

My uncle is a guitarist and we could hear him gently doodling on the guitar next door, he had the light on and had left the door open slightly as I had done the night prior. My mother had just flicked the light off in her room when we heard what I can only describe as a howling choking sound, very loudly on the stair case that sounded three times. Even now remembering the noise brings tears to my eyes.

Because the noise was so audible my mother was certain it was uncle and was angry that he would try and scare me. We waited a moment before hearing my uncle next door very slowly creep across the landing to my mothers room, he knocked the door and we said to come in.

He had tears in his eyes and was very pale, he said in an accusing and scared voice ‘Was that one of you? That wasn’t funny if it was one of you.’ I watched my mothers face pale as she said ‘I thought it was you.’

My uncle dragged my mattress out of my room that night and we all slept in my mothers room.

The following morning we knew something supernatural was going on, my mother had seen a psychic earlier that year and called her for help. She came that day with her friend to investigate the house. I should mention now that ever since we’d moved in we’d kept our dog in the kitchen, every night he would howl and scratch the door wanting to come upstairs. I had also felt sensations of being watched, from time to time.

We had also noticed that our neighbours had a son, who at first we thought dressed like a typical goth, however when unpacking some boxes from the van on the second day I had noticed that he wore a pendulum on his neck. With myself and my mother being interested in Wicca and Spiritualism I had no negative connotations to go with that symbol, however his character and family gave me a sense of unease, they never seemed rested when we saw them and moved out quickly after we moved in.

The psychic confirmed that there were spiritual presences in the house, she asked me if I had noticed a little girl as she was drawn to me and meant no harm, I said I’d felt being watched but that whoever yelled down my ear definitely wasn’t trying to welcome me into the house. She said there was another presence, who was a very angered spirit and that we would need to conduct a circle in order for him to move on.

The four of us gathered in my room, the psychic poured sea salt all across the room apart from a circle left in the centre, she then began to burn sage. She ordered us to different positions and told us to hold hands, she said we were not to let go without being told so and that we may hear or see things whilst we try to get the presence to cross over.

I was feeling slightly skeptical at this point, even with interests in Wicca I was unsure how salt and holding hands was going to persuade a spirit to leave the house. She began calling on Archangel Michael and other angels the rooms temperature dropped noticeably and there was a sense of electricity in the air. The most unusual of all was that it felt like cold snakes were winding around our ankles. She told me I needed to let go of her friends hand who was on my left and assist the little girl to cross over, I did so and felt a coldness on my hand there was a rising sensation and I knew the girl had crossed over.

There was trouble in getting the angered spirit to cross over and twice he pretended to ‘cross over’ only to try and hide in another area of the room. The psychic told me and my mother to wait downstairs while her and her friend dealt with him. Whilst downstairs we heard them speaking and stamping on the ceiling. Eventually they managed to get him to cross over.

After it was finished they told us that the man who had been haunting us had been a drug addict, his friend had locked him in a room to go ‘cold turkey’ and he had choked on his own vomit and died.

She explained that he was taking his anger out on us because he thought we were the ones who had locked him in the room. She said that the incident hadn’t happened inside this house, but someone had been playing with portals, she eyed both me and my mother wearily but both of us looked completely blank.

She closed her eyes for a moment and then said, there was a boy next door, I believe he used some sort of Ouija board and created a portal in the wall leading to your bedroom by accident, this meant that any spirit could walk through the portal which acts as a door between the spirit plane and ours.

Me and my mother were completely lost for words, but everything she had said rung true and it matched with the haunting we had experienced. To this day I believe there is something more particularly because of this experience, since then I have never experienced something so strong or real and hope I never have to unless it is of a kind and true nature.

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5 Creepiest Ghost Sightings Caught On Tape (Video)

‘Ghost’ in photo sparks supernatural mystery

A spooky photo caught on a phone has plunged a Welwyn Garden City woman into a supernatural mystery.

Vicky Mills, 62, of Verulam Close, was lying on her sofa when her grandson took a picture of her on his phone last Friday.

It was only when then looked at it that they noticed the figure.

Standing in the doorway to the front room is the figure of what appears to be a woman.

Vicky said: “It’s so clear, down to the hand on the arm of the sofa.

“I know you can get apps to create these effects but the phone had nothing like that on it.”

The picture on it’s own would be enough to peak a person’s interest.

However there is more to the tale.

Vicky’s grandson, Lewis McGlynn, died in 2011, aged eight and the night prior to the picture being taken, Vicky had what she describes as a dream.

She said: “I felt someone standing over me when I heard someone say ‘Hello Nan’. I thought I’d imagined it.

“But as I opened my eyes I saw something. When I opened them fully, it was gone.

“The figure [in the photo] is identical to what I saw.

“I don’t believe in ghosts but I’ve been to his grave to tell him to stop bothering me.”

Vicky is now looking to find someone who can confirm the picture has not been tampered with and to provide a scientific explanation.

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The politics of ghost hunting.

Ghosts in the mirror, or just a product of wishful thinking? It would seem that those involved in the paranormal (even armchair enthusiasts) can have their gullible moments.

There has been a rash of ghostly spectacles on the internet posted from impressionable fans that have tie-ins with ghost apps for the phone. What is most amazing…the buy-in—this is conclusive proof for the existence of ghostly shenanigans. Are we that stupid? Do we so desperately seek entertainment and consequently shut off our brains?

Friend Kenny Biddle believes in the possibility of the paranormal, yet at the same time recognizes ‘junk’ for what it is. There is a definite lack of advancement in the pursuit of paranormal realities. We are doing the same things over and over…and making the same mistakes. Groups have become mired in the mud.

   “Groups are stuck in a rut…and have been for several DECADES. Hell, over a   century. There is no “advancement” going on. The recent rut consists of the following:

• Get permission (or not, as recent news reports) to a “haunted” location.
• Set up a lot of gadgets that are believed, without any evidence, to work to capture and record something to do with ghosts (which again, no evidence to back up such an idea).
• Turn all the lights out. Sit in the dark. Talk to the dark.
• Review all recordings at a later time and assume everything you cannot explain absolutely must be that ghost of a little girl you read about.
• Post it all, wait for praise. Delete and block questions, rational explanations, logic, reason, professional knowledge…evidence that refutes your claim, etc.”

Paranormal groups and/or individuals can do more harm than good. Clients—many without any religious affiliation or familiarity with what is suddenly happening to them— reach out for help, answers, validation…and instead receive the “official” wisdom and verdict of some noodle head who has received their ghost hunting diploma from the internet or television. They can be wrong, and don’t realize the long lasting ramifications of their words or actions. They leave and move on to other adventures while their befuddled clients are left behind in the same situation, with often inaccurate information to help them move forward. It’s a sad and scary state of affairs knowing this continues, and groups and individuals out there are more interested in making a name for themselves than actually working towards a reasonable explanation for what they do.

It is all a part of the politics of ghost hunting.

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Ghost Caught On Video.. New Oxford PA.. Living Dead Paranormal

The Living Dead Paranormal Crew travels to New Oxford PA to investigate the Historic Golden Lane Antique Gallery. While Josh is alone in the basement a dark shadow moves past the camera.

Seymour neighbors attempt to explain paranormal activities with help of high-tech tools

Two neighbors who didn’t know each other took a shared skepticism about the paranormal and turned it into a mission.

Pharmacist Kenny Hayes and teacher Mark LaBello of Seymour are co-founders of the North American Paranormal Research Team. Their goal is “to try and explain activity that is considered paranormal and answer questions that will bring our clients peace of mind.”

They are aided by a crew of eight to 10 fellow investigators as well as a spiritual intuitive.

Hayes and LaBello, who met on a paranormal investigation of Old South Pittsburg Hospital in Old South Pittsburg, Tenn., were drawn to the field after watching television shows such as “Ghost Hunters” on Syfy. Hayes estimates he’s been investigating 10 years now, LaBello about seven.

Hayes was working night shift at a local hospital when he first dabbled in paranormal investigation. A technician came to him “freaking out” about something he thought he had seen on a closed floor of the hospital, but security staff said there was nothing up there.

“I said, ‘I’ve got an audio recorder and a video recorder; let’s see what we catch,’” Hayes remembers.

It was in one room, oddly cold despite having no air conditioner on that floor, that Hayes heard a voice cursing him. The next time he caught a female voice.

“When I catch something that cannot be explained, I will present it to you and let you make the decision of whether it is paranormal or not,” Hayes says.

LaBello started investigating as a self-proclaimed skeptic.

“I was trying to disprove everything they found,” LaBello remembers.

It was during his second investigation, however, that he felt something tug on his hair. Later that evening he thought he saw something six or seven feet tall in a corner. His wife and mother-in-law, watching on a live stream at home, later confirmed they had seen the same thing on camera.

“I couldn’t disprove it,” LaBello admits. “I’m still a skeptic to some point. You always have to be. I don’t believe in forcing anyone to believe in anything.”

Hayes agrees.

“There are a lot of weirdos in this field,” he says. “We debunk a lot of things that aren’t true, and we gain a lot of credibility that way. It develops our clients’ trust.”

The North American Paranormal Research Team does not charge for investigations, and Hayes and LaBello caution clients to be skeptical of those who do because taking someone’s money could increase pressure on investigators to find something that is not there.

Supporting Wheatlands

Their exception to the no-charge rule is investigations of the Wheatlands Plantation in Sevier County, established in 1791. Wheatlands, built on the site of a Revolutionary War battle, has a storied history including fatal fires, falls and family disputes, and its grounds include both a Cherokee burial mound and a graveyard for the plantation’s slaves.

“We hold ghost hunts here to raise money to try to take care of the place,” LaBello explains of the “tagalongs” that the team sets up about once a month at the plantation off Boyd’s Creek Highway in Sevierville.

Not only will the North American Paranormal Research Team set up the equipment and teach folks how to use it on these tagalongs, which typically last about four hours, the team will live-stream the investigations so that family and friends watching from home can chat back and forth with those on site.

The North American Paranormal Research Team also offers private investigations of Wheatlands for groups that are visiting the area, but they warn that “you can’t turn paranormal on and off like a light switch,” Hayes notes. “Nothing could happen for hours and hours and hours.”

A lot has happened for the team, however, at Wheatlands, which is located just five miles from Hayes’ and LaBello’s Seymour neighborhood.

“We’ve caught a lot of voices here,” LaBello says, including one that sounds like an elderly lady saying, “blood on the floor” in the room known as the Blood Parlor because its floor still is stained with the blood of “Big” Tim Chandler, bludgeoned to death by his son “Little” Tim Chandler in 1942.

Another recording caught a man’s voice saying, “It’s time to go.” On a separate occasion, LaBello heard a door handle jiggle while he was alone in the Blood Parlor, and the audio recording picked that up as well.

“I also thought I saw a small shadow on the staircase, like an arm on the railing,” LaBello remembers. “There are things you can’t explain. That’s how we got started in it, and now we can’t stop.”

Talking with the dead

There are many pieces of equipment the North American Paranormal Research Team uses in its investigations. One of the most successful for communicating with spirits is a simple Maglite flashlight that Hayes and LaBello believe spirits turn on and off using their energy in response to yes or no questions the investigators ask.

Hayes and LaBello say they’ve communicated at Wheatlands with one of the former owners named Adele, a slave named Paul, a Civil War soldier named Jim, a Cherokee Indian and the children who died when the original house burned to the ground around 1818. (The house there now was built on the same site and completed in 1825.)

Other equipment includes the Ovilus III, which picks up words the team cannot hear; the K2 EMF, which measures electronic magnetic fields; the REM-POD, which goes off when something unseen comes near it; full-spectrum cameras, which can take pictures in the dark; a vibration detector; a shadow detector; and a digital voice recorder called a Zoom, which could probably pick up a pin drop, LaBello says.

“This is your best friend,” he notes. “We catch EVPs — electric voice phenomenon — all the time, and usually we don’t know it until we download it onto the computer. Nine times out of 10 we don’t hear it.”

Some of the EVPs the team have caught include babies crying in hospitals that have been closed for more than 20 years and a female scream in an elevator shaft in a sanatorium in Kentucky.

“Some say, and I agree, that it’s like they’re trying to yell through water at you,” Hayes says.

Hayes and LaBello chose to name their group the North American Paranormal Research Team because they are willing to travel to investigate supposedly haunted places. Hayes has been as far as Pennsylvania while LaBello has been to Indiana, and the team will spend two nights this June in the Sedamsville Rectory in Cincinnati.

“We love it,” says Hayes, noting they pour their own money into purchasing equipment for the team. “It’s our passion, like people who work on old cars.”

Helping the living

Hayes and LaBello see their paranormal investigations as a way of helping people, they say. One couple contacted the North American Paranormal Research Team because their 3-year-old daughter said she was seeing another girl in the house. The child was calling the other girl “Mona.”

An investigation picked up what sounds like a child’s voice saying, “Mommy, Mommy,” in a high-pitched, sing-song voice, Hayes said. The team took their findings to the mother, who listened and said, “That’s not my daughter’s voice.”

“I don’t think we’ve ever felt a threatening presence,” LaBello notes, adding they do not use Ouija boards or anything else that invites evil. “But here’s the sad thing: When we give evidence to the owners, they often say, ‘Can you get rid of this for us?’ We can’t do that. That’s not our field.”

Their paranormal investigations have not dissuaded them of their religious beliefs.

“I believe they are able to make contact with us, and that helps me prove that there is an afterlife,” says Hayes, who was raised Southern Baptist. “I like to call it research. I don’t judge. It is best to keep an open mind.”

For information on the North American Paranormal Research Team, including dates of their upcoming investigations at Wheatlands, visit www.naprt.com or find them on Facebook.

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OUIJA BOARD GONE WRONG: VIOLENT DEMON POSSESSION (Video)

A creepy ouija board experiment gone horrifically wrong at the haunted welles house, Day 9 Ep 19. During this Ouija Board session Tim gets violently attacked and scratched by a demon called Beelzebub. Please join the livescifi.tv family today and SUBSCRIBE!

The home was investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren in the 1970's however was never had chance to be cleansed of its negative energy. Is it still there today? The Team will use a variety of paranormal equipment such as thermal camera's, custom built dvr systems, ghost boxes, EVP, ouija boards, etc, in its attempt to captured, communicate, and document paranormal activity LIVE!

Paranormal Investigator Damon Simms explores Staffordshire's spookiest places

Paranormal Investigator Damon Simms explored the dingiest corners of some of Staffordshire's spookiest places. Here he recounts the tale of a young teen in Meir, who found that a Ouija board should not have been used as a toy.

THE first record of a Ouija board can be dated back to 1100BC in China, but when we think of films like The Exorcist, we imagine that their origins are nothing more than parlour tricks for people to scare themselves with. Jane thought just that, she was wrong.

In the school holidays of 1991, Leo and Jane were both 16 years old and enjoying the warm weather together along with their friends.

Parents are at work and the fun loving teens are making the most of being home alone.

One of Leo's friends suggested they try something new, a Ouija board. He would make the board using an old piece of hardboard and a thick permanent marker.

All the friends seemed excited by the mixture of fun and fear the prospect of 'playing' with the witch board could bring them.

A short while later, the friend had made the board and all five teens sat in a circle on the floor of the girl's bedroom, fingers touching the upturned glass.

At first nothing happened, and then a slight movement, almost unnoticeable. Then the glass shifted across from its starting position and stopped at 'hello' the friends looked at each other.

"Ok so who's pushing it" asked Jane, but all five teens looked shell shocked. This wasn't a game.

Gradually the glass became more fluid and seemed to build up momentum and strength, responding to the terrified teens' questions.

"When did you die?"

"1964"

"What was your name?"

"Eian...it still is"

"Do you have a message for anyone here?"

"Yes, I will be visiting you tonight...alone"

The words rang with such an unnerving horror that a young teen left using the board immediately, that girl was Jane.

Eventually intrigue changed to caution and her friends soon followed suit and stopped playing with their new sinister and mysterious 'toy'.

The day drew to a close and the night began to set in. Jane was now at home in her bedroom at her parents' home in Meir.

Alone, she got ready for bed and it seemed that although she had felt apprehensive for some time after that, her rational side attempted to take over, perhaps one of her friends had been pushing the glass all along?

As she settled down for the night into her bed, the events of the day had become a distant memory, almost, until Jane noticed something.

At first it looked like a small ball of light, like someone was shining a small torch into a net curtain. It looked almost angelic, gentile.

It moved gracefully across the room until it settled about two feet away from her bed near the floor.

It floated for a moment before it dissipated into the floor. The room was dark again.

Then, from the exact place that the small ball of light disappeared, a red column of light began to rise.

The atmosphere in the room changed at that instant. A dark foreboding feeling hung heavy in the air making Jane feel terrified. The column rose higher, and as it did so did the operative feeling of something negative, evil had entered her room.

She knew this was the entity that had threatened to visit her alone that night, something not of this world.

Terrified, she leapt from her bed, ran around the column and out of her room, across the landing and began to bang on her parents' bedroom door, her father came to the door in a panic.

Jane told her father as he dragged him by the arm towards her bedroom about her unwanted visitor, but as the door opened they both saw that whatever had been in her room had now gone.

The following day Jane and her parents; whom were both devout Catholics, requested a house blessing on their home, and to their relief the entity never returned.

Jane had learnt her lesson, we should not 'play' with things that we do not understand.

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