Demons Ghosts Goose Bump

Posted on Wed, Oct. 04, 2006
Demons, ghosts and goose bumps? All in a day's work
Three local paranormal investigators talk about how a simple interest
turned into a lifestyle. What do you believe?
By Nikki M. Mascali Weekender Staff Writer

When it comes to ghosts and paranormal activity, people either believe
or they don't.
Maybe some have had experiences where they've had a feeling that
something was near them, the hair on the back of their neck stood up, or
they suddenly got a chill up their spine. Or maybe some have actually
seen apparitions with their own eyes.

With ghost hunting, there's much more to it than just going out looking
for ghosts, and there certainly aren't any séances. And often, even if
someone is actually a ghost hunter, chances of actually seeing a ghost
are pretty slim.
"Some people think that you have this epiphany, I never did, it was just
curiosity," said Kevin Tersavige, director of the Central PA Paranormal
Research Association (CPPRA), when asked how he got interested in the
paranormal 19 years ago. "My parents are second generation Ukrainian and
they still carry the legends and stories about ghosts and things like
that. I was just intrigued by those stories and thought that I'd like to
see if there is really something out there."

Tersavige got his start in the way one might imagine: by going to
cemeteries. When people heard he was interested in the craft, his phone
started ringing. "I got involved in my first house (investigation) , and
then it just blossomed. I needed more people to go with me, so I started
recruiting people that were interested."
CPPRA, in existence for the nine years, is based out of Danville and
includes four chapters throughout the state. At last count, Tersavige
said the group has 80 members.

"That makes us the largest investigative team in Pennsylvania, " he said.
And investigate they do, from residences to universities to demonic
infestations. According to Tersavige, this year alone they have
investigated five demonic infestations alone. Usually, the yearly
average is about one.
"They are really starting to climb a lot," he said.
While each member brings their own specialty to the group, be it audio,
video or computers, Tersavige is trained in demon cases, along with 10
other members of this subgroup within CPPRA. He explained that the
demonologist from the Anglican Church contacts the group to do the
documentations of the events before the demonologist actually steps in.

"We do the initial investigation, and then they decide if it does
warrant a cleansing or an exorcism. When they need to intervene, we
document those procedures," he said, adding that such encounters are
just as nasty as they sound.
CPPRA has three psychic investigators, but they are never included on
any demonic activity cases. Tersavige explained that the demons could
have the psychic's use their gifts against themselves.

"They'll start to see things that they don't want to see, and the demons
will try to terrorize them," he said. And if that's not enough to
conjure up images of "The Exorcist" and have you screaming for the
nearest well lit place, Tersavige also told us about his one – and
only – apparition sighting at Mansfield University.
"I'll tell you, you'll never forget for the rest of your life when it
happens," he laughed.
According to Tersavige, the group was called in to investigate a
possible haunting in the university's library, which he informed us was
once a girl's dorm where a girl either committed suicide or fell
accidentally from the sixth floor to the lobby.

"They were having problems in the library with people seeing an
apparition of a woman. Doors would slam, books would move, disembodied
voices, footsteps … people being touched," Tersavige said.
He and his lead psychic investigator, Jo Soltow (who happens to be his
fiancée), were sitting at the librarian's desk on the third floor at 2
a.m. when Soltow covered her eyes and said, "We are going to see
something here, and I really don't want to see it." Tersavige then asked
what was wrong.

"I looked up - there was a girl standing about six to eight feet away
from me. She had her hair in a bun and a ruffled collar and was smiling
at me, but she had no lower torso," he stated.
As a ghost hunter with a camera in his hands for documentation of such
happenings, Tersavige froze. "It felt like half an hour, but it was only
maybe 10 seconds that she was there," he said.

Not only is Tersavige a ghost hunter, he is also a teacher to ghost
hunter wannabes. There is an American Legion outside of Danville that he
takes students to as a training tool, because it is ripe with paranormal
activity. The Legion had been a stagecoach stop in the 1850s and, during
the Civil War, it was a hospital and asylum.

"It's very playful," he said of the haunting nicknamed Captain Jack. The
Legion actually has four hauntings, but Jack is the dominant one - and
the Captain likes the ladies.
"If I take a class, there's always one woman that gets her rear-end
pinched or he strokes their hair," Tersavige said, adding Jack also
picks out the weakest link of the group. "He'll manifest something they
don't want to see just to scare them, almost like he gets the giggles
from it," he said.

While that might scare future hunters or anyone planning on visiting a
Legion anytime soon, Tersavige is quick to add that haunters can't
follow you home unless they are invited.
"It might tag along for a little while though, almost like a power
thing. But, our basic rule when we leave a house is to say 'Stay here,'"
he said.
Not a job, but a hobby
Most ghost hunters are not paid to do such – they all have day jobs
and/or families and any investigations or research they do are done on
their own time, using their own self-bought equipment. This includes
DVR's, low light surveillance cameras, and electro-magnetic field
detectors, which can cost hundreds of dollars.

And the thrill of the hunt stems from that basic curiosity of the
unknown.
Robin Luchko and her husband Tom Fritz, founding members of the Dickson
City based Society for Paranormal Research and Investigation (SPRI),
have been interested in the paranormal for the last 15 years, though
SPRI came into existence in July 2005. SPRI has 53 active members, 10 of
which are actual investigators. One doesn't have to be an investigator
to be involved.

"It became a thing we were both kind of interested in," said Fritz, when
talking about how he and Luchko got started. The two have been
interested enough to even have their hobby influence their vacation
plans for the last 10 years.
"Instead of going to the beach, we decided to pick a historical
destination to go to that has a history of a paranormal past and see
what was there," Fritz said, rattling off such impressive locales as the
vaults under Edinburgh, Scotland; Loch Ness; Salem, Massachusetts; New
Orleans and his personal favorite, Stonehenge.

"To me, it was great because even though you were outside around the
stones, it had the feel of a church. The very next day we went to
Westminster Abbey, and though it was a church, it felt like a
dancehall," Fritz said.
As for NEPA sites, Fritz doesn't have any favorite famous location
haunts (pun intended) or even those that have a haunted past, though
last year, they visited Andy Gavin's (Washington Ave., Scranton).
"It's said to have been haunted since at least '88 when the owner took
it over," Fritz said. "We got a little bit of what we thought might be a
resident ghost, not enough to say for sure. It's worth going back."

The investigation of Andy Gavin's, as well as other cases, are
documented on their website ( www.spriparanormal. com), which also
includes information on how to become a member, the equipment used and
member profiles.
Surprisingly, in all their years of interest in the unknown, Luchko and
Fritz do not have many pictures depicting paranormal activity.
"[As for] the famous 'orbs,' I would say that more than 999 out of a
thousand are just something normal - a reflection, water droplets,
something like that," Fritz said, adding that though he is a skeptic, he
does leave room for a paranormal possibility. "Robin's opinion differs
from mine, which is good, because we have a lot of different backgrounds
and opinions. The more people you have thinking about it, the better. A
lot is your own belief. We are just looking to prove it."

Fritz does believe in the concept of their longtime hobby, but he has
not had a paranormal experience, while Luchko has had a few occurrences.
"I've had a few odd things happen, not that I could say that they were
actually paranormal, they were abnormal, but no definitive proof
unfortunately, " she said.
Part of fact finding for proof is researching past deeds, lot numbers,
or owners of the houses or businesses SPRI investigates, which Luchko
loves to do. "I could spend days just researching, " she laughed. As for
demons, SPRI has not been involved in any infestations, but Fritz
explained that a demonic haunting is a non-human spirit, not someone who
has died, but a spirit who is attached to hell or the devil that has
never existed in this plane - another thing Fritz said is up to personal
belief.

"There are evil humans who have haunted, but there are also demonic
haunts," he said, adding that one of his clients was actually having an
issue with one of those situations, but they have not been able to prove
it yet. "Through her testimony and what has happened to her, including
physical attacks, that's what we believe has been going on," he said.
If that doesn't induce goose bumps, anyone interested in ghost hunting
should know that SPRI is a strict believer in the buddy system. No one
is ever alone on an investigation, partly so they don't get spooked and
partly to make sure that there is a witness to whatever might or might
not happen.

"Once you actually go on an investigation, it's more scientific, more
than anything else," Luchko said. "Once you actually get into it and are
watching the equipment, reading the numbers and paying attention to
things, it kind of changes it for you."
When asked where they would love to be able to investigate, Fritz was
quick with is reply: the White House.

"Past leaders of the world have spent the most influential years of
their lives in that building," he said, adding that a popular theory of
ghost hunters, with the exception of a tragic death, is that most haunts
occur at a place and time people felt the most happy or connected.
"So I can see, for presidents, the White House being the place to be."
w
go:

• Central PA Paranormal Research
Association: Contact Kevin Tersavige for more information on seminars
or to request an investigation, visit www.pa-paranormal. com
or email him at kevters@hotmail. com

• Society for Paranormal Research & Investigation: Contact Robin
Luchko
and Tom Fritz for information about becoming a member or to request and
investigation at www.spriparanormal. com or
email info@spriparanormal.com
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Poltergeist may haunt

Poltergeist may haunt city bar
10/4/06

A BAR in York's city centre is to be investigated for ghostly goings-on,
which may be malevolent, before Halloween.
Preparations are well under way for the city's annual festival of the
paranormal.
The highlight of this year's spine-chilling festival will be a
paranormal investigation of Thomas's Bar, in Museum Street, York.

Rachel Lacy, York's Ghost Finder General, said: "We have had reports of
hauntings about this property, but to our knowledge it has never been
investigated, so our overnight investigation will be the first one ever
done.
"It's a place that has regularly had strange goings-on for the last 30
or 40 years - nothing spectacular, but things moving around, which could
indicate poltergeist activity."

The psychically- attuned may already know it - but if not, the third York
Ghost Festival will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28.
Spirit-ridden York can be a pretty frightening place - lurking in its
snickets lie hundreds of spooky inhabitants, according to research
conducted in 2002.

The Ghost Research Foundational International recorded 504 hauntings
when it inspected the city.
Other fright-filled events are in the pipeline - but still remain
shrouded in mystery.
Last year's festival lasted an entire week in celebration of the 400th
anniversary of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot.

This time round, though, the organisers have cut the festival down to
two days of concentrated ectoplasmic activities.
Ghost Finder General Lacy added: "We get a good mix of people in every
year. Many are locals, wanting to know more about the hauntings of the
city - after all, how can you live in such a haunted city and not want
to know more? But we also get visitors from further afield.

Last year people came from across the Pennines and even as far away as
Portsmouth - obviously ghosts are big business!"

For more information, the festival's website has just gone live at
www.yorkghostfestiv al.co.uk.
Tickets for all the events will be on sale there tomorrow.

7:35am Wednesday 4th October 2006

By Tom Stirling
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Baltimore Ghosts... Look Out
It's Halloween all year long for some local ghost-hunters!
GhostStoryHere

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) October 4, 2006 -- It's that time of year again.
Although the Christmas decorations are already displayed to some degree,
the prominent locations in the stores for the month of October are
reserved for the spookiest time of year – Halloween! Monsters,
jack-o'-lanterns and ghosts are everywhere you look and the 31st is
still weeks away. The average person may feel a bit overwhelmed by All
Hollow's Eve but some think it may not be enough.

"Ghosts do not just come out on Halloween," claims author and ghost
hunter Vince Wilson. "This may be the time the media gives it the most
attention, but we get reports on hauntings and paranormal phenomena all
year long."
Vince Wilson has dedicated his life to the world of the strange and the
unusual. Not only is the founder of the Baltimore Society for Paranormal
Research (www.bsprnet. com) he is the president of the Paranormal
Investigators Coalition (www.marylandparano rmal.com) and the owner of
the Mysterious Maryland Tour Company (www.mysteriousmd. com). Somewhere
along the line he even managed to write two books.

"Ghost Tech is about the technology that ghost researchers use to find
the disturbances that ghosts create in a given environment. Ghost
Science explores the theories behind what ghosts or spirits are. For
years skeptics have used science against the existence of life after
death. My colleagues and I are asking the question, 'If ghosts exist,
how.' To us, the evidence is overwhelming, " he said.

According to Wilson reports of ghostly happenings shouldn't be anymore
scrutinized than Francis Scott Key's observation of the Battle of Fort
McHenry. "What is history after all," asks Wilson, "than eyewitness
accounts? Why do we take it for granted that certain historical events
actually happened based on eyewitness, but someone says they see a ghost
and they get labeled a liar or a nut."

Vince Wilson and his colleagues, fellow author Rosemary Ellen Guiley,
vice-president of the Paranormal Investigators Coalition Jaime Lee
Henkin and video/photography expert and Director of Operations Robbin
Van Pelt have been investigating reports of the paranormal together
since 2001. Each has had an interest in the supernatural long before
that.

When he's not hosting ghost tours at Edgar Allan Poe's gravesite or
doing haunted overnight excursions Wilson is out with Guiley, Henkin and
Van Pelt investigating homes and businesses. With dozens of
investigations under their belts they are without doubt the most
experienced and professional group of ghost investigators in Maryland.

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Contact Information
Vince Wilson
http://www.maryland paranormal. com
410-558-6224





Mysterious news spooks group of ghost hunters
10/04/06

Mystery surrounds an announcement that a group of ghostbusters who
investigate spooky happenings in the Sudbury area are about to disband.
Founding members of North East Essex Ghost Hunters were shocked when
people called them to say they were sad to hear the club was closing. A
call from Great Waldingfield village hall to say they were sorry the
club would not be meeting there anymore further added to the group's
concerns.The final nail in the coffin came when David Turner and wife
Tina heard letters in their name had been sent out saying the club was
closing."We are categorically not disbanding the group â€" in fact
we are going from strength to strength."The source of the rumour remains
a mystery, although ghostly-goings- on have been ruled out."It seems,
especially with the letters sent out, that someone is maliciously trying
to undermine the group," said Mr Turner.

"The world of paranormal research is a small one and things can get
competitive, but I do not know who started this rumour."In a letter seen
by the Free Press, someone, claiming to be Mr and Mrs Turner, said the
club was closing due to unforeseen circumstances and because of
scepticism within the group.In the past the group have investigated the
Olde Bull in Sudbury, St Mary's Church in Chilton, Little Hallingbury
Mill in Stansted, the Swan Hotel in Lavenham and the King's Head in
Great Cornard. Ade Rose-Belcher, landlord of the King's Head, said:
"They were very professional, had all the right kit and presented me
with a report after their investigation. "They said the pub was
definitely worth further investigation, although on the night they found
no evidence of paranormal activity. But there was a lot of evidence of
orbs, which they said could be pre-manifestations of a spirit."Mr
Rose-Belcher added two mediums had experienced paranormal events and he
and previous landlords had felt the presence of ghostly forms."

Glasses have been smashed without anyone near them, tables have been
lifted when mediums are here and I have felt someone walk past when
no-one was there."He added it was thought the spectres might be the
owners of the pub before it became a Greene King property."They owned it
for over 100 years. The feeling you get is a very positive one and the
place it is strongest is in the restaurant which used to be the family's
private lounge."He added one landlady had even come downstairs once to
ask when the children were going to bed as she had heard voices coming
from the (totally empty) restaurant area.paul.holland@ sudburytoday. co.uk

04 October 2006

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Mystery of a missing sub

Posted on Tue, Sep. 05, 2006
Mystery of a missing sub
WWII sailor lost at sea, but residents feel spirit By Jim Carney
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Sixty-four years after sailor Paul Patrick Sullivan was lost at sea, new
chapters in his story continue to be written. Sullivan's tale is not
simply a war story about an Akron man who left home to join the Navy and
died when his submarine disappeared in World War II.

It is a ghost story, and a saga of love, loss and reunion. Sullivan
joined the Navy after graduating from Garfield High School in 1933. In
1940, he married Norma Wolff, who grew up next door to him on Neptune
Avenue in Firestone Park.
He became a pharmacist's mate 1st class. On July 31, 1942, his
submarine, the USS Grunion, disappeared off the coast of a
Japanese-occupied island in the Aleutian chain of Alaska.
The sub had confronted a Japanese freighter before sinking, taking the
Grunion's 69 crew members with it.

After Sullivan's death, a wooden sea trunk containing his personal
belongings was shipped home to his parents, Basil and Florence Sullivan.
In 1969, when Patti and Fred Christ bought the old Sullivan home on
Neptune, the empty sea trunk was still in the basement.
Over the years, Patti and other members of her family said they had seen
the image of a man in their home, a man they believe to be the spirit of
Paul Sullivan, who died at 27.
The first time Patti Christ saw him, she was sleeping on a couch. She
said she saw Sullivan on a love seat.
She said she has seen a full-size body image of Sullivan once and other
times has seen only his legs.

When her daughter was in high school, she confessed to her mother that
she had seen something when she was a child.
``I want to know if anybody else has seen this besides me so I know
I´m not crazy,´´ she told her mother.
In the early 1990s, she said, her grandson said he saw a man in the
house who called him by his name.

After talking to neighbors, Christ, 59, who is retired from a trucking
company, learned that Paul Sullivan had lived in the house and had died
on the Grunion during World War II.
She said her family was never afraid of the man they often saw, and in
fact welcomed him into their home.
When Dawn Kmet, now 36, Christ's daughter, was a teenager, she said
everybody who knew her family knew that the spirit of Sullivan was
always present in their home.

One time, she said, she and her boyfriend even set up a video camera in
the house in hopes of taping an image of the lost sailor. Not knowing
who lived in the Sullivan house on Neptune Avenue, Linda Sullivan of
Castro Valley, Calif., the niece of Paul Sullivan, sent a letter to the
home four years ago. She wrote that she and her father, Stanley
Sullivan, and brother Arno and sister Kathy Nichols were coming to Akron
and would like to see the house again.

Linda Sullivan and her family moved from Akron to California in 1961.
When the Sullivans arrived at their old family home on Neptune that
year, they rang the doorbell and Christ answered. They hit it off
immediately.
Christ told them that she and her family felt they knew Paul.
While walking through the basement, the Sullivan clan spotted the sea
trunk.
Christ described the Paul Sullivan she and her family had gotten to know
to his family.

``What amazed my Dad was she was right on with his personality,´´
Linda Sullivan said. ``She described how he looked and what he was about
with no picture.´´
Christ and Linda Sullivan became friends and often spoke or wrote
e-mails to each other.
Stanley Sullivan, 79, now retired from the U.S. Postal Service and
American Can Co., said he was 12 years younger than Paul. Stanley had
polio as a child and Paul helped him deal with the disease. Paul often
would put him in a wagon and pull him around the neighborhood.

Search for sub
In late August, the Sullivans heard the news. A large underwater mass
believed to be the Grunion was found by an expedition led by Bruce, Brad
and John Abele, the sons of Mannert L. Abele, commander of the
submarine.
Bruce Abele, 76, of Newtonville, Mass., the oldest son, said the group,
using side sonar, detected an underwater image that is clearly not a
land mass.
He said the length and breadth of the image are consistent with what
would be expected from the Grunion and the location is in the area where
they figured the submarine would be.
He also said there is no evidence of other subs being sunk anywhere
close.

``It´s very encouraging,´´ he said.
He said the group would likely go back to the spot next summer to
attempt to get a better view of what he believes is his father's
submarine.
When word spread that the submarine may have been found, the Sullivans
and Christs were elated.
Linda Sullivan said the expected discovery of the Grunion ``doesn´t
take the pain of losing someone special away,´´ but does bring some
closure for the family.

She said it brings the family ``a step closer to what happened´´ and
that can bring some relief.
Her father said he is ``grateful´´ that the sub may have been found,
and said there now can be ``peace and closure.´´ In the backyard of
Christ´s house is a piece of a maple tree that was cut down several
years ago.
The tree was the one planted in Sullivan's memory by his mother after he
was killed.
``It feels like he is a member of the family,´´ she said.

Trunk to stay
She said anytime the Sullivans want the trunk back, she would be happy
to let them have it.
And Linda Sullivan said the family would like the trunk back some day,
knowing that Patti Christ would give it back to the family ``in a
heartbeat.´´
She said she believes the trunk is where Paul wants it to be.
For now, the trunk will remain in the house on Neptune. Linda Sullivan
said she regrets she never knew her uncle. The Sullivans will visit
Akron in mid-October and once again will stop by the Neptune Avenue home
to visit the Christs. That the Christs have gotten to know Paul
Sullivan, she said, is comforting.

``I have always believed that there is something to the other
side,´´ she said. ``It is not anything to fear.´´ And Dawn Kmet
said she feels her family´s home on Neptune has in a way been
``heaven´´ for Paul Sullivan, the sailor who died seven decades ago.
``To us, he is someone we care about,´´ she said. ``We love his
family. We want him to be found.´´

For more on the search for the USS Grunion, go to www.ussgrunion. com.
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or
jcarney@thebeaconjo urnal.com

Ghost hunters roam halls of sci-fi fest

Ghost hunters roam halls of sci-fi fest
By JOHN BLAKE
Cox News Service
Friday, September 01, 2006
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ATLANTA Jason Hawes says he's been attacked by a ghost, stalked by
another and even taped the whispers of dead people calling out from
beyond the grave.

But the co-star of the Sci Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" is more leery of
the people who summon his team to investigate hauntings. "We went to one
little old lady's home," he says, "and after 45 minutes she's chasing us
around with a frying pan. She had the beginnings of schizophrenia and
she thought we had broken into her home. She had forgotten that she had
invited us in."

Hawes will talk about uninvited guests of the paranormal kind in Atlanta
today when he and his colleagues appear at DragonCon, the four-day
science-fiction and fantasy convention at three downtown hotels. Hawes,
34, doesn't believe that ghosts are fantasy. He formed TAPS the Atlantic
Paranormal Society with his friend Grant Wilson in 1990 after a personal
paranormal experience. They've been chasing ghosts ever since.

TAPS started in a spare room in Hawes' apartment, but it took off after
The New York Times ran an article on it on Halloween in 2002. The
article featured some of the elements that would later make TAPS famous:
the scientific approach toward investigating hauntings and refusing to
charge people for their investigations ("the rich and the poor both need
help," Hawes told the Times).
"The next thing I know I had an agent, producers calling me and it just
steamrolled, " Hawes says.

The Sci Fi Channel picked up the series in October 2004 and a
spokeswoman says the show has enjoyed high ratings for the cable
network. The show returns for its third season on Oct. 11 when TAPS
travels to England and Ireland to investigate haunted castles. TAPS has
branches across the United States and affiliates in 12 countries.

A typical show unfolds with a TAPS team being summoned by an anxious
homeowner. TAPS members stay overnight at the location to gather
evidence using high-tech equipment they say is designed to capture
unusual sound waves and images. In each case, they try to disprove a
haunting but sometimes come up with harrowing results that appear to
defy explanation. In one show, for example, they filmed a cameraman
apparently being attacked by an entity that hurled him to the ground.
Hawes says he's never been afraid during an investigation.

"There are times that you get startled, but scared, no."
Not even during one show when some entity apparently attacked him and
left a red bruise on his back.
"That's all that happened," he says. "It would be different if I would
get slapped around the room."
Some wonder if the paranormal events that TAPS captures on tape and film
are staged, but Hawes says that "everything that happens is 100 percent
real." Most of their investigations debunk supernatural causes, he
points out.
"We might go on 30 cases and out of the 30 cases, we'll catch things on
two cases," he says.

Hawes says some of the show's appeal may be rooted in his demeanor. He's
not a tweedy scientist or a flamboyant psychic hotline television
character. He and his partner, Wilson, are Roto-Rooter plumbers and
family men.
Yet he admits they've become such celebrities that they no longer answer
residential calls for Roto-Rooter.
"We've had people break toilets trying to get me and Grant in their
houses," he says.

Hawes says he never worries about bringing his work or some uninvited
spirits home.
"I have faith in myself and a higher power," he says. "I think I'm
perfectly safe."

John Blake writes for The Atlanta

NWA Ghost Connection

http://www.thnews.com/article.php?id=30


NWA Ghost Connection releases official report Published: August 04, 2006
Alan Smith, T-H Staff Writer

The Northwest Arkansas Ghost Connection, the non-profit organization
that spent two nights in mid-July at the St. Francis County Museum, has
released its official report on the ghostly activity at the facility.
Lori Arhangelsky, the case manager, director and founder of the
Northwest Arkansas Ghost Connection, recently discussed the time they
spent in an earlier story, but wanted to wait until several hours of
both audio and video tapes were analyzed before filing a final report.
"On the 13th and 14th of July, the Northwest Arkansas Ghost Connection
was invited to conduct an investigation of the paranormal activity at
the St. Francis County Museum,"
Arhangelsky wrote in the report. "Prior to our investigation, we
conducted extensive research on the history of the museum using
materials provided by Harvey Hanna, the museum's manager, information
provided by the Internet, local newspaper articles and personal
experiences of locals."

The report explains what the research found before entering the museum.
"Reported hauntings include, but are not limited to, relocation of
objects, strange unexplained noises and sightings of both a woman in a
blue dress and a man wearing overalls. The woman in the blue dress has
often been witnessed standing in the south bedroom window, while the man
in overalls has occasionally been seen standing on the front porch,
There is a trophy case in the main hallway of the museum where trophies
reportedly move around inside the showcase by themselves."
In the report, Arhangelsky thanks the local community for information
provided to them. "It greatly aided our research and investigation," she
said.

The report then outlines the group's observations during their two
nights at the museum.
"During the first night of the investigation, we had many encounters
with the spirits that dwell within the walls of the museum. One of our
team members heard a woman talking to her while she was in the upstairs
hallway. Another witnessed a visage of a woman in a white dress manifest
before
him in the same hallway. Downstairs, two members walked around the
corner and came to an immediate halt as a six-foot tall man with a
mustache and wearing a dark suit stood before them in the artifact room.
"The team's EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) captured the distinct
voices of two different females as well as two different males. One
member saw a shadow walk across the floor before her and was lucky
enough to capture that very apparition on video," continues the report.
It also mentions that several different light anomalies were witnessed
throughout the night by several different team members.

According to the report, on the second night of the investigation, the
spirits became more "physical" with some of the team. "Two members
followed a shadow into the parlor only to be pushed through with such
force that one member received a bruise on her arm while another had his
glasses knocked crooked on his face. We don't feel that the spirit
intended any harm, it just reacted like an animal would if it was
cornered and scared. Spirits can be dangerous if they feel threatened.
"Later that night, one of our members was 'attacked' in the artifact
room. She was feeling pin pricks on her cheek and when another member
told the spirit to leave her alone, she was clawed across the face,
resulting in scratch marks on her cheek."

In previous stories, Arhangelsky stated that she felt that the spirits
were not malevolent, but would not know for sure until after the
investigation. She said that she holds to her initial feelings, despite
what happened.
"I believe the spirit reacted that way because it was cornered," said
Arhangelsky in an interview this morning. "The scratches actually
happened to me. I think that they got more physical on the second night
because we were there doing the same things. This is not a residual
haunting where the spirits don't know where they are and are doing the
same things over and over. This is an intelligent haunting, they are
there because they want to be there. I think they saw us with our
equipment and the first night just wanted to check us out, but the
second night, they felt threatened."

But should people be afraid to go to the museum because they might be
attacked? Arhangelsky says no.
"They felt threatened by us because we were trying to call them out,"
explained Arhangelsky. "I do not believe that on any given day or week
anyone will be attacked. Visiting the museum is not going to threaten
them. People shouldn't be scared to go to the museum." She also
commented on those wanting to go to the museum to see "ghosts." " Ghosts
do not perform for people," stated Arhangelsky. "If you want to know
about the history of St. Francis County, go to the museum. If you want
to see ghosts, it probably will not happen, but that does not mean that
they are not there, they just do not perform."
According to Arhangelsky, the group has plans to visit the museum again,
possibly as early as this December.

The report states that the St. Francis County Museum is "Rich with
history and legend," and thanks both Hanna and his wife Caroline, a man
named Charles, for whom Arhangelsky did not know his last name but
provided help with the location's history, and the citizens of Forrest
City for inviting them in and making them feel welcome.

For more information about the Northwest Arkansas Ghost Connection,
visit their website at www.nwaghostconnection.net