Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ghost Adventures Recap: Ohio Reformatory

"OHIO REFORMATORY", MANSFIELD, OHIO

“The facility was built between 1886 and 1910. The Reformatory remained in full operation until 1972, at which time the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility was opened. The facility was completely closed down in 1990. Part of the grounds and support buildings however, including the outer wall have been demolished since the closing. In 1995, the "Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society" was formed. They have turned the prison into a museum and conduct tours to help fund grounds rehabilitation projects and currently work to stabilize the buildings against further deterioration. The facility still holds the largest free standing cell block in the world at six tiers high.


OSR is supposedly haunted with several paranormal "hotspots" such as the two chapels, the area around the warden's office, the infirmary and solitary confinement. Over 200 people died at the OSR, including a few guards who were killed during escape attempts.”

This 120 year old prison is infested with the trapped souls of those most harden criminals once held there. Many appear to be still serving time in the Ohio State Reformatory. This place once held over 155,000 criminals and had the tallest free standing cell blocks in the world. Zak talks to D.J. Fly, who was an inmate from 1950 to 1962, and tells him that he indeed saw murders inside the prison. He tells Zak that he believes the place to be haunted by those souls still trapped inside the prison. He takes them inside and tells them that once imprisoned there, you became just a number and lost your identity. Zak also talks with Ike Webb, a guard from 1954 to 1966. Ike tells him that there were many things that went on inside that were very disturbing. There was lots of violence and you had to be alert or it could be the death of you. In the West cell block is were there are 5 stories of cells with just a handrail on each level where you can look below. The is where some were thrown over or other simply used bed sheets to hang themselves on the rails. Another prisoner set himself on fire and burned to death in cell 13. This is where D.J. had a bad experience and many feel that his spirit is still hanging around that cell. His body was buried in a cemetery on the grounds which has about 218 graves with the inmate's numbers on the headstones. A woman, Susan, tells Zak about hearing a loud bang at the end of the East cell block and saw a black shadow figure there. Another person talks about seeing a black mass dart across the cell block and into a cell. He looked into the cell and asked "did you just run in here" and a voice replied "fucker". (Pardon my French) He tells Zak you will see shadows in that area. Zak did say he thought he saw one earlier while conducting an interview and thought it was a person. He went over to the place where that figure was standing and no one was there. Now they are in the hospital where lots of activity was reported in there. Most of the aggression has been directed towards the female staff at the place. Tina Webb tells them that something smacked her in the head and pulled her hair. In the toilet room a shadow person was seen there and another person got sick and felt her head hurt. Zak thought that Tiny would make good bait to draw out the ghosts.

In solitary confinement all the prisoners wore was a white cotton jumpsuit. The cells were pitch black causing the prisoners to go crazy and insane. Mike, a tour guide, was telling the boys that one time when he got to the end of the hall and asked if anyone was over there. He felt a negative presence rush in his face. He took a step back and told the presence that he wasn't afraid of him, which was a lie, and he captured a voice on his recorder saying "outstanding..." They also saw a black shadow and he captured another voice saying "I'll kill this freak". He told them that they prey on anyone who is afraid. They head to "the dark side" in the prison and all their battery packs were drain, only Nick's camera was working. Mike felt something touch the back of his head and then Nick's camera's audio went out after a loud jolt. They split up to see if they can capture anything and Aaron hears a "hey" while walking by a cell.

LOCKDOWN: Mike give Zak a discipline bar for protection. Zak yells out to the ghosts and his batteries died. They experience goosebumps on their arms, so Zak does more taunting. They sit down and map out all the places where the "X's" are at and where night vision cameras will be placed. They move from the front entrance to the cellblocks where the taunting begins. Nick captured a white mist on his camera along with an unexplained noise. Zak sees a silhouette of a head in the level right above them. They went up there to investigate and go to cell 13 where D.J. had a bad experience earlier. This cell is where the man burned himself to death. Nick does an EVP while in there and he feels is whole body go numb and the hairs on his arm standing up. Zak uses the EMF detector but gets nothing and Nicks recorder picks up a faint voice saying "I'll chew you..." Zak steps out of the cell and behind him the capture what appears to be a free floating white figure walking out of a jail cell. They brought out the scientific piece of equipment (this is what Zak called it) to validate what they have been hearing and seeing. It has a word database inside of it along with infrared vision. It picks up the word "drag" and they get chills. They go up another level and get interference on the equipment.

They head back down to the ground level and pick up the word "pass", then the word "fly. They set up the night vision cameras and left the area to see if they pick up anything. Exactly 26 minutes after they left the area, the camera capture unexplained footprints. Another camera captured a sound like a cell door shutting.

Since they were getting so much action in the East cell block, they decided to get a trigger object to draw them out. They get Sarah to help with this. They head back to the darkest and most dangerous part of the prison. While standing there, the EVP device caught a mysterious breath at the same time they all felt something. Zak asked "who is here" and "we need more contact" and the digital recorder picked up a voice saying "...ya got more than me..." They split up with Aaron on one side, Zak and Sarah on another and Nick up one level. After Zak asked can you give us a sign, the recorder captured a voice saying "hang". This one was hard to make out. Zak continues to provoke the inmate's spirits and Sarah felt a breath on the back of her neck. At that exact time the digital recorder she was holding caught an unexplained breathing on it. Zak ask her if she was feeling alright and right afterwards Zak's camera captured a voice saying "run, Sarah..." Zak has Sarah walk down to the cell block below to do an EVP all by herself. Right before she left, they all heard a cell door shut on the floor where Nick was. They give Sarah a camera and she heads downstairs by herself with a digital recorder as well. She ask "was that you who brushed the back of my hair" the recorder captured a voice saying "sorry...Sarah...sorry". Meanwhile Aaron feels someone touching him in the back and thought Zak was behind him but he was not. Zak yells for Sarah to see if she was alright and she yells "Zak can you come down here". He, Aaron and Nick rush down where Sarah tells them that something or someone pulled on her hair. Then suddenly they all felt it get freezing cold and heard a loud growl.

It was time to let Sarah be released so they can continue with the investigation. They decided to set up the rest of the static night vision cameras in hopes of capturing evidence to support what they experienced earlier. 52 minutes later, the camera in the morgue captured unexplained noises while no one was in there. 16 minutes after that, the camera in the hospital captured a creepy disembodied voice.

After the investigation, they took their evidence to Lancaster, California to Masone Beltran, a paranormal researcher to get another opinion. He look at the video of the white mist they caught walking out of a cell, and could see a human shape to it. He said that the voice captured in the hospital could be something caused by weather or static electricity, he just didn't know.

This place seems to have the evil spirits of those for its past that continue to live out their eternal sentencing, day after day.

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Ohio Reformatory - Part 1

Ohio Reformatory - Part 2

Ohio Reformatory - Part 3

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Ghost Hunters Recap: Pensacola Lighthouse

“Pensacola Lighthouse” Pensacola, Florida


HISTORY: (from Wikipedia)
“The first Pensacola Light was the lightship Aurora Borealis. It was moved to Pensacola in 1823 from its previous post at the mouth of the Mississippi River after a lighthouse had been completed there. Because of frequent rough seas, the lightship had to be anchored inside the bay entrance, behind Santa Rosa Island, and could not reliably be seen from ships outside the bay.


In 1825 a 40 foot tower was built on a 40 foot bluff at the south entrance to Pensacola Bay. This light was also partially obscured by trees close to the tower and on Santa Rosa Island. In 1858 a new tower was built on the north side of the bay entrance, and was lit on January 1, 1859. The new, and current, tower is 150 feet tall, and also sits on a 40 foot bluff located on the Pensacola Naval Air Station, placing the light 190 feet above sea level.


The Pensacola Bar Beacon, with the Pensacola Lighthouse in the background.The new location allowed the tower to serve as the rear range light marking the passage across the Pensacola Bar. Little is known of the first front range light. In 1879 a new front range beacon was erected 448 feet southeast of the light tower. This light, known as the Pensacola Bar Beacon, was a square pyramidal wooden tower, 26 feet tall, sitting on a point 29 feet above sea level, so that the light was 55 feet above the water. It had a sixth order Fresnel lens, and showed a fixed white light visible for 11 miles. The Pensacola Bar Beacon was removed from service and demolished some time in the early 1900s.


At the start of the Civil War, Pensacola was controlled by Confederate forces, while Fort Pickens across the bay remained in Union hands. Confederate authorities removed the lens from the lighthouse, and most of the lighthouse supplies were requisitioned for the war effort. In November 1861 an artillery duel between the two forces damaged the lighthouse tower.


Confederate forces later evacuated Pensacola, and were replaced by Union forces. In 1863 the Pensacola Light was relit using a fourth-order Fresnel lens. A new first-order lens was placed in the tower in 1869. The tower was all white during the Civil War. Later, the upper two-thirds of the tower was painted black. Electricity was introduced to the lighthouse in 1939, eliminating the need to rewind the light rotation clockworks every 4 1/2 hours. the light was automated in 1965. The lighthouse tower and associated buildings were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”

Again, Dustin and Britt join TAPS as guest invesitgators while Steve and Tango concentrate on their show “Ghost Hunters Academy”.

The Pensacola Lighthouse is still an active lighthouse and is run by the coast guard. Some of the claims are hearing footsteps, people’s names being called, and a man heard something fly across the floor, land in front of him, but there was nothing there to make the noise. Brian Day, a coast guard and Richard Callaway, president of the pensacola lighthouse association are the ones who gave TAPS the history and haunts. They start the tour in the Keeper's Quarters basement. While a woman was walking down the stairs, she felt someone touch her shoulder. She looked around and nothing was there. Another person felt her hair pulled. Also, during a tour a witness tells about a piece of metal flying off the wall, bounced off the back wall and landed in the middle of the room. There was no body else in the room. During the Civil War a runaway slave hid in that room. His apparition has been seen in there. Now it is upstairs to the Keeper's Quarters on the 2nd floor. For many years, stories were circulating in town about an abused wife who became angry and killed her husband. They tell of a big spot of blood on the floor, surrounding the bed. When the floors were redone 13 years ago, the blood stains were seen. That room was where the keeper and his wife sleep with their two sons sleeping in the next room. The boys heard footsteps going down the stairs. The youngest son got up and looked down the stairs but could not see anyone. He heard the door opening, then shutting below. Now they go to the tower where the Original Keeper's room is located. There, witnesses have reported hearing voices, usually a women's voice and you can make out clearly what she is saying. The feeling of a strange sensation has been reported there as well as a cold feeling at night. One time on a very hot day a man was climbing the stairs to the tower. As he got next to the entrance of the Keeper's Quarters, he felt a cold chill, and the tower is not air conditioned. They head next to the top of the tower, having to climb 177 steps to the top. While climbing up there, some have claimed hearing banging from above with no one there. At the top of the tower is a trap door which is very heavy. This door is known to close on its own when left open. Some have seen a woman in a long white dress. She was transparent because the light was seen through her.

INVESTIGATION: Jason and Grant start in the lighthouse climbing the stairs. The KII meter started going crazy, lighting up to the max. They head up to see if it continues to light up and it does. They started hearing sounds light someone was above and heard the latch door close. Grant checks the bottom to see if someone was there but no one was. They hear walking from above and head up. They continued to climb up the stairs and hearing noises above them. They get to the top and circle around the outside and found nothing. Grant climbs to the very top but sees nothing up there either.

Britt and Amy start in the Keeper's Quarters. They split up to see if they hear any noises or voices in the area. Amy asked questions and Britt hears a faint chair dragging sound. They find nothing that would cause that noise.

Britt is now with Dustin in the tower sitting on the stairs asking questions. They decide to climb higher to check out the trap door and felt that it really had to be pushed hard to close. They check out the place with the thermal but seen nothing.

Amy and Kris head down to the Keeper's Quarters basement checking it out. Amy said that when she was setting up the equipment down there, it felt creepy. While walking around, Kris feels something touch her head while Amy felt a breeze brush by her. Then she feels a breeze on her hand. They grab the thermometer and it showed the temperature getting colder.

Jason and Grant in the Keeper's Quarters room, 2nd floor. They kept hearing strange sounds and voices that appear to be answering their questions. They go in the office, then hallway and the stairs where most of the noise was coming from but find no source for the noises.

Amy and Britt are now in the second floor Keeper's Quarters. As they were coming up the stairs they heard a voice like a child or female. While walking around they heard footsteps. Amy said that after talking with some locals, the real story is that a woman gave birth and the blood on the floor was from the birth of the baby. Ella was the woman's name, and ended up dying a couple of months later. They get a tapping sound and footsteps around them while Amy told the story. Amy stays in the room asking questions while Britt sits in the hallway. Britt hears footsteps walk right by him and he also felt the impact of the footsteps on the floor. They hear the footsteps again but this time they sound further away.

Jason and Grant in the Keeper's Quarters basement where they hear female voices. They check to see if it was Kris and Amy but they were not near that building. They move up the the Keeper's Quarter main house where Grant’s camera light turned off and he had to hit the switch to turn it back on. Then the switch kept turning off and then back on. Afte that, behind them they hear a squeaking door sound and Grant's camera kept turning on and off again. He changed out the light and the new one kept doing the same thing.

Dustin and Kris are in the basement to see if they get the same action Kris and Amy got earlier but nothing happen. They wrapped up the investigation.

RESULTS: Britt's camera picked up the footsteps he and Amy were hearing. Jason and Grant in bedroom of main house caught a voice after Grant asked “were you attacked in here”. The voice whispered "no". No documents were found to back up the claims of the murder in the 2nd floor room or about the child birth. They felt that they did get enough evidence to back up the claims of paranormal activity.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

VIDEOS: GHOST HUNTERS - BOTTLED SPIRITS - FULL EPISODE



Jason and Grant travel to Dayville, CT to help a frantic mother and her terrified son. Then it's over to New York state to explore a haunted winery.

Tracy House and The Winery - Part 1 Tracy House and The Winery - Part 2 Tracy House and The Winery - Part 3


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Pensacola Lighthouse - Part 1

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Pensacola Lighthouse - Part 3

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TAPS travels to Louisiana to investigate stories of floating candles and invisible coaches at the Oak Alley sugar plantation.

Oak Alley Plantation - Part 1

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