Saturday, July 18, 2009

Ghost Adventures Recap: Moon River Brewery

This weeks investigation brings the boys to the historic town of Savannah, Georgia, to the Moon River Brewery. Built in 1821, this place is notorious for its angry ghosts attacking the staff and patrons of the bar. Many fear entering the front doors after dark, so Zak and the boys can't wait to get locked down for an entire night and come face to face with the evil entities that are said to haunt the brewery. Savannah is known as the most haunted city in the United States. Murray Silver, an author and eyewitness to the ghostly activity and a fifth generation Savannah resident, has seen things since he was a small child that he could not ignore. They talk to a Gene Beeco, the owner of Moon River, who has seen so many things happen that he doesn't understand and can't explain. He tells them that Savannah has been a battlefield for every war including the bloodiest battle on American soil. This was where 1,100 men where killed in less than an hour and were buried where they fell. Savannah has survived 4 great fires, has a cemetery in the center of town, with 80 more burial grounds that have been paved over. They say that these are the right conditions for a city to be haunted. The Moon River Brewer Company is considered the most haunted place in Savannah. The building used to be the city hotel and started construction in 1821. Chris Lewis, General Manager of Moon River, tells them it was open for business in 1826, and had lots of drinking and gambling, which is usually a recipe for lots of bloodshed. In August of 1832 two men, one a doctor who was well respected and the other was James Stark, who was not so well respected, had a dispute. When Stark insulted the doctor, he was shot in his side; it went through his heart, out of his scapula, and in the kitchen door. Chris feels that Stark is one of the angry spirits hanging around. He then cautions Zak about taunting the ghosts because there have been some violent incidences that have happened to people there. On the 2nd floor is the office where Chris was finishing up some paperwork and he heard bottles rattling behind him. Shortly afterwards, a couple of bottles flew off the shelf and hit the desk. On the 3rd floor landing and looking down, many have seen the lady in white walking around. This spirit is known for pushing people around. They put an ‘X’ near that area for a camera where witnesses have seen footsteps. Now on the Restaurant level, Chris Parker a police officer, said that in the summer of 2007 he got up to go to the bar and get a pint. When he walked back and got by the phone booth, he saw a Union soldier, but it was only the upper torso of the apparition. When they tried to renovate the place, workman would get pushed off ladders, and power tools would go missing. In the 1990's the foreman’s wife was pushed down the stairs when she brought her husband lunch. While walking up the stairs, something came up behind her and pushed her down the stairs. She saw nothing. Murray tells Zak that he feels that this place is a vortex of energy because of all the activity. When hurricane David took the roof off the building it laid vacant for about 15 years but the ghosts were still around. The most commonly documented sightings in the place are of children spirits. One witness was walking across the main hallway and saw a little girl in a white dress, and in the basement things are moved by playful spirits near the pool table. Usually if you put all the balls on the table, about 10 minutes later you come back and a couple of balls will be gone. There is one rowdy spirit that at least every staff member has encountered, and they named him Toby. He is seen running around in the basement rooms, usually a shadowy figure running quickly by. The children spirits could be there because when Yellow Fever hit town many of the hotels were converted into hospitals especially for kids and older people. Because so many children died in that building, that could be the reason for the child ghosts that everyone keeps seeing. In the basement a publisher to their “Guide to Savannah” book, who is a good Catholic girl and doesn't believe in paranormal, was attacked. Christina is a local book publisher who was violently attacked while walking alone down a hallway. She felt the bad energy right before getting to the arch divider between two rooms near the pool table. She felt energy or physical presences grab her neck pushing her back, then she was choking and coughing and could not breath. She was not able to cross the threshold into the other room by this force. She didn’t believe in ghosts but believes now. While tending bar, a bartender witnessed something come out the wall, and kneel down and stare at her for about 5 minutes. She described it as a foggy black thing, not human and perhaps demonic. She saw it in the exact spot Christina was choked. Murray takes them down to the basement and tells them that what Christina is telling them is the gospel truth, she just doesn’t lie. The basement is rarely used only for private occasions. Zak immediately feels a jolt of electricity go through him and Nick sees something white walk by in another room. They go looking for it whatever Nick saw and Murray wonders if Zak will pick up on a couple of special places in the basement to prove that he is the real deal. Zak finds a tunnel, which happens to be a place where not many know exists. These tunnels run all through Savannah and the brewery and where some feel the ghost use to move from place to place. Zak finds an entrance on the outside to one of the tunnels goes inside and sees a cat which scares the crap out of him. They went back to the basement where Zak sees something and heads back to another hot spot. This spot is where Christina was attacked and bad energy is felt throughout.

LOCKDOWN: They start out by mapping out where all the static night vision cameras are going to be placed. While talking about the camera setup they hear a dragging noise on the second floor. Zak starts yelling at the spirits while they run up the stairs to see where the noise is coming from. While running around, they also heard footsteps. This all happened before the sun has even gone down. Back down to base they finished mapping out the camera placements, and then went upstairs where they tried provoking the spirits with no success. They caught an eerie disembodied laugh on their video camera. Now Zak is upstairs, and Aaron is downstairs and felt coldness. They caught a female voice saying "don't do that" and heard another female voice say "I don't wanna", right after Zak dared the female spirit to push him down the stairs. A camera set up by the stairs where all the activity was, caught a male voice laughing. Zak has the goggles on where he can see the words they are hearing. They head upstairs where he not only hears, but sees the word “water”. Aaron puts them on and gets the words “gender” and “sister”. Zak has the EVP recorder on and he caught a strange knocking. Then Aaron experiences the video equipment messing up and catches on the recorder a male voice saying “it's the God". Aaron is still having equipment problems, but fixes it catches the words “remove”, and then “step”. Zak asked the spirit, “if we don't remove the step then what” and got a response “yell”. Now it is 2:57 am and Zak asked if there is a lady here with them that don’t like guys. Shortly afterwards they caught a disembodied voice yelling and then saying “they got” but couldn’t understand the rest of the sentence. Was that the voice who threatened to yell if they didn't move the ladder? After leaving the area they caught a strange light and footsteps on the static night vision camera. Now they are in the pool room area where Christina was attacked and taking pictures. Aaron felt cold and something big brush past him and totally freaked out. They start experiencing the cameras malfunctioning. Zak tells the spirit that he is going to smack “the spirit” like he did Christina and shortly afterwards caught an unexplained laugh. Zak starts suffering a bad headache then Nick. On their camera, they captured a strange ball of light that hit Zak, then immediately turned to Nick at the same time they experienced the headaches. While in the basement they experience heavy pressure on their bodies, and hear a knock, then another after asking the spirits to make their presence known. Nick started acting strange, almost like he was possessed by some unknown force. During this time their digital recorder caught a male voice saying "I know", and a dark shadow dart out from behind Nick that wasn't their shadows. Nick snapped out of it and was confused. He said it was like he blacked out for a second. This was the end of a very busy paranormal night for the boys. They had their footage analyze by experts who noticed the black figure expanding as it got further away from Nick. Nick told them that he kept hearing voices in his head saying 'kill them, kill them'. The experts felt there was a partial possession by Nick.

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And a side note: Next Friday, July 24 - Zak, Nick and Aaron are locked into the Ancient Ram Inn in England, a building heavily populated with centuries of humanity's darkest forces. It sits on a pagan burial ground and was the scene of numerous human sacrifices and murders.


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Thursday, July 16, 2009

VIDEOS: GHOST HUNTERS - HOUSE OF SPIRITS - FULL EPISODE


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Ghost Hunters International Recap: Skeleton in the Closet

FIRST INVESTIGATION:
BOHEMIA, CZECH REPUBLIC
CESKY KRUMLOV

The team starts their first investigation in the Czech Republic. They are there to investigate the reported paranormal activity of an 800 year old gothic compound. This particular investigation falls on Brandy’s 25th birthday. Some of the reports of activity are of a suicidal actress who may still be repeating her final performance, a Baroness that still makes an appearance whenever there is a party, and full body apparitions. Hana McGee is their guide, and tells them that Cesky Krumlov is one of the largest complexes in Europe and contains 5 courtyards, and 43 buildings with some of the buildings built as early as the 13th century. The Castle Theatre is the oldest still functioning theatre in Europe and where a beautiful actress fell in love with another actor. When he did not love her back, she pulled out a dagger and stabbed herself at the end of the play, and died on the stage. While on the stage some cleaning people have reported hearing a female voice. The Depository is where a skeleton of a woman dressed in clothes of the 9th century lay in a closet. There is lots of mystery surrounding the bones, such as it could possibly be the saint Reparata because the skeleton was presented to the castle by the Pope himself. They will be doing further studies to find out more on the bones. Next place she took them was Summer House Bellarie. It was built in 1690 and was the place that hosted many beautiful parties. During one of the parties, a Baroness complained of a headache, so someone recommended her to drink strawberry wine. After drinking the wine she fell to the ground and died. They say that every time there is a party in the summer house, she makes an appearance. The Castle tower courtyard dates back to 13th century and has had lots of paranormal reporting. One day a witness was walking across the courtyard near the entrance of the old tower and heard some footsteps behind her. She felt some force stopping her from looking around. When the footsteps got close it felt like someone was breathing down her back. When it finally released her, she could turn around and saw a dark shape that suddenly disappeared. The castle tower dungeon is where all prisoners were thrown down in a hole, which would break their legs, then the hole was covered, and they died. At the end of the 16th century, one of the alchemists was practicing in the dungeon and he died of unexplained reasons. His ghost has been seen in the dungeon and walking up the stairs. At the top of the tower you can see the entire city, and where Hana tells them of a white lady who has been seen all over the castle. They are very excited to get started on this enormous place.
INVESTIGATION: Robb and Ashley begin the investigation in the theatre. Robb is asking for the woman actress to come forward and the actor for whom she killed herself for. Robb heard a woman's voice, and Ashley heard shuffling behind her while in the balcony. After asking more questions, they had no more activity. We now see Joe and Brandy in the depository with the bones and asking many questions, but got no response. Joe and Robb are now in the castle tower, where Joe hears a voice right away. Then Robb also hears a woman's voice along with more noises in another room. They followed the disembodied voices, and then things got quiet. Dustin and Brandy are in the wine cellar where apparitions have been seen. They are using the thermal camera, asking questions such as “show yourself to us”, and on the thermal they caught what looked like a person. But the excitement quickly died down when the figure turned out to be the lights overhead. They now head inside the tower where Robb and Joe heard voices earlier, and they immediately heard a voice. Barry asked Dustin and Brandy to come back to the Summer House because they keep hearing so many voices and needed their help. It really was a surprise for Brandy's birthday, which ended the investigation. RESULTS: Robb and Dustin in the dungeon left the recorder running and it sounded like someone turned it off. They got 4 minutes of recording time, and then the batteries went dead. Right before that, they caught an unexplained sound, and then it turned off. In the Summer House while setting up for Brandy's party they caught a quick flash of light on video they couldn’t explain. Dustin and Brandy in the tower caught a female voice, but it was hard to pick it out what she was saying. Robb concluded that there was not enough evidence to say it is haunted.

SECOND INVESTIGATION:
RATHLIN ISLAND, N. IRELAND
MANOR HOUSE
To get to the Manor House on Rathlin Island, they had to drive the vehicles onto a water taxi and go 6 miles out to the island. Ksenia is the caretaker and their guide. In 1716 the original manor house was built and was used for the landlords of the island. At that time the English government would have taken the land away from the Irish, so they dispersed it amongst the people where the Gauge family had the house built. There are many stories for generations of hauntings and exorcisms in the house. She takes them to the Dining Room first, which used to be the daycare for the house. A woman saw a gray shadow outside the glass door, and thought someone was there. When she looked again, there was nobody at the door. In Bedroom 1 a guest that was staying there came down stairs and told Ksenia that she had seen a dark figure of a woman and then it quickly disappeared. In Bedroom 6 is where an exorcism took place. Through the years there have been claims of things flying off the shelves, moving around the room, doors slamming, so much so that the Gauge family had an exorcism done one the house. The priest went through the house trying to get rid of the spirits and when he got to that room, he pushed the evil spirits out the window. The poltergeist activity stopped until 30 or 40 years ago, when people started hearing children or seeing a man in that room. While in the main floor, a man heard noises in the upstairs. He went upstairs to investigate to see if any windows were open and the wind was causing the noises. While in that room, he heard footsteps like someone was walking across the room. The whole island has a deep and dark history and was the sight of the first Viking reign in the 700's. In the 15 & 1600's there were massacres and hundreds of people died.
INVESTIGATION: Dustin and Barry start out in room 6 with the full spectrum camera, mini DVD, and other types of equipment. Barry kept seeing something on the other side of the room, so he put coins on the floor to entice the spirits. Barry then sees something move across the room and also hears the coins move. Dustin opened the bathroom and smelt a musty smell which quickly went away. Dustin is now with Robb in the dining room hallway investigating, and back to Bedroom 1 with Barry. Dustin was very busy that night. Barry hears a woman's voice talking from a distance, and Dustin heard it the second time. Doing an EVP session was Ashley and Robb in room 1. Ashley heard a very soft woman's voice, and then used the audio amplify headset to magnify any voices or noises. She did hear what sounded like a breath. Robb was having trouble focusing on Ashley and it looked like a mist was in front of the camera. RESULTS: They debunked the Mini DVD and noted that the mist was the auto focus on the camera malfunctioning. The woman's voice Ashley heard on the headset ended up being a bird, and they didn't catch the sound of the coins moving. Robb concluded that they had no evidence of the place being haunted.

Two great places, and interesting personal experiences, but there was no hard core evidence of these places being haunted. Until next week…..
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