Paranormal trip

St Augustine Lighthouse Investigation

St Augustine Lighthouse Investigation
Jan. 6th, 2008
I just returned from a amazing trip to investigate the lighthouse in St. Augustine, Fl. The organizer of the trip was none other then Todd Sheets, founder of the ever growing and popular virtual online investigation group called, “The Nightwatchers”. Check them out if you are not familiar with them. Just click here to go to their site: Nightwatchers

By the way, the Ghosthunters just returned last week from a second trip to this lighthouse and there is a rumor that they will discuss this topic on their new show that premiers this coming Wednesday. The new show is on the Sci-fi channel and it is called”Ghost Hunters International’. The time will be 9 PM EST and 8:00 Central time. So watch the show to find out the scoop. Here is the link to the show if you would like to know more: GhostHunters Show

Well, we started out Saturday by meeting for dinner at Scarlett O’Hara Restaurant in downtown St. Augustine. The dinner was just delicious and it was so wonderful meeting friends in person that I have only known on-line for a few years. It was also great re-connecting with on-line friends with whom I have previously attended other Ghost Hunting trips and events. Some of these people have remarkably become my closest friends.

We then arrived at the lighthouse entrance. I was so impressed with Tod’s organized and professional manner in handling this event. He took attendance and gave everyone on the registration list a sticker to wear on their clothing. I thought it was a great idea and a wonderful way to control non-registered members of the general public from joining in with our hunt.

He then divided us into two teams and named two team leaders. I felt privileged to be on Psychic Serenity Moore’s team. One team would investigate the lighthouse first while the other team investigated the Light-keeper’s home and ground area. After three hours the teams would switch.

While we were investigating the grounds, Serenity got a psychic message that someone named Steven used to work the grounds a long time ago. She decided to ask one of the staff available that night about this and found out that there really was man named Steve that worked there a long time ago. I thought it was so exciting to see her message validated as a historical fact by the lighthouse current employees.

I then went to the second floor of the light-keeper’s home. I took a few pictures but mostly, Lorrie from the Ghost Chicks and I worked with a AM/FM radio from Radio Shack that had been converted to work like Frank’s Box. If you are not familiar with this concept, check out this website here for an introduction: Frank’s Box

The method to convert the radio involved opening it up and cutting a wire. Lorrie and her partner, Tara completed this task during their road trip to Florida. The conversion seem to work while they were on the road as the radio did not pick up any radio stations when set to the scan setting.

However once we tried it in the lighthouse home, it did pick up bits and pieces of a few stations here and there while it was in scan mode. In any case, we did hear a few a voices. One said, what the —-? in response to one of our questions. I forget what the question was. Whether it was a radio show host or spirit remains a mystery at this point.

I then suggested to Lorrie that maybe the wires should have been cut and then tied. Also, that perhaps, the wires met and that was why the radio still picked up bits and pieces of the radio stations.

I made an analogy to tubal ligation surgeries that are done on females. In the old days, the tubes were just cut and unfortunately, sometimes the tubes touched and the procedure failed. Later on, they revised the procedure so that the tubes were cut first and then tied. This was proven a lot more effective. She thought, I had a good point and intends to work on the radio some more. Hopefully, it will work better on our next Ghost Hunting trip.

I spent the rest of the time during the first half of the investigation taking pictures of the lighthouse grounds and lighthouse home. I got a few pictures with orbs that may well be dust particles. I have posted them in an album called, “The St. Augustine Lighthouse”, in my picture section on this site.

I also spent a little time sitting on a bench outside the entrance to the lighthouse. While I was sitting there talking to other people on my team, I kept seeing a cat walk across the same bush over and over again. A couple people noticed that I kept looking at the same area, they also looked towards the same place however they did not see anything.

Maybe I was seeing an imprinted haunting. This is a special type of haunting where the event occurs over and over again. By the way, there is an actual black and white lighthouse cat that currently lives on the lighthouse grounds named Lucy. However, this was not the cat that I kept seeing.

Finally, the time came to rotate the two teams and I got to enter the lighthouse building itself. I entered and carefully took many pictures of the never ending spiral staircase. I thought it would never end. It was a real aerobic workout getting all the way to the top of the lighthouse. The view from the observation deck at the top was however, breathtaking!!

In a few pictures, I got a mystery mist. When I looked at it on my small camera screen, the mist looked like an apparition. I got excited because Paula from Parahub radio was also taking a picture of the same area and also got a similar mystery white mist.

However, after looking at my pictures at home and uploading them. I think the mist that appeared in most of my pictures may have been a reflection of my camera lens as I took these pictures in the dome area of the tower.

In contrast, Paula’s mist was looks like an apparition in nature as her mist is underneath one of the sides of a spiral staircase. In any case, the real source might just remain a mystery. In other pictures, I got orbs but these may be also just pictures of dust particles.

In all, it was a great trip and I encourage people to go to this lighthouse if you get an opportunity. Whether you experience any paranormal activity or not, I think it is worth the trip. It is a historical site and has a very haunted past. For more information about the history of the hauntings, check out this site:About St. Augustine’s lighthouse ghosts.

Bardstown Ghost Hunting Trip Part 3

Bardstown Ghost Hunting Trip Part 3
10-23-2007

To quickly review, when I finished part 2 of the Bardstown’s blog, we had just been notified that people which were viewing the live web cast had heard a woman screaming and I had noted that no one else was in the building.

At this point I decided to go to another part of the inn to investigate some other areas. I did not witness any other paranormal events. However, the people that stayed in the first room I had just left, reported what happened next.

They said that Patti Starr had called out to Jessie Jame’s spirit and asked him to make himself known by opening the door that I described in part 2 of my blog. To everyone’s surprise, the door did open and there was no one to be seen anywhere near the door. I am kind of sorry I left and missed this event which seemed to be the highlight of the investigation and the live web cast. I must note that the rest of the trip was not web cast live. Only the main investigation at the Talbott Tavern was.

The next day, our group went Ghost hunting to a small museum and a restaurant in the area. We got a few EVP’s. That night, I was so tired that I went to sleep early. However, a lot of the people in my group decided to stay up till 4:00 AM in the morning to Ghost Hunt in the Tavern we were staying in. In the morning, they reported seeing a shadow ghost peering around the corner near the room I was staying in of all places. For those of you not familiar with Shadow Ghosts, here are two web sites that explain what they are:

Shadow Ghosts 1

Shadow Ghosts 2

The last night we were there, we again went Ghost Hunting at an opera house in town. We again got a few EVP’s. There was several interpretations of what one EVP said. We all listened to it. This spirit seemed to have an attitude. Some people thought, it said, “Help, stupid bitch”. Others thought it said, “Help Bitch”. In any case, this spirit did seem to be lacking in manners. 🙂

Later on, I went to the room where some of the girls in my group were staying. I was sitting in a nice comfortable chair in the room and telling them about my experience with my wedding rings that I described in the first part of this blog. Two other girls were laying down on a bed near me listening to my story. I just got through telling them that I thought the spirit was a woman.

Susan Rushing, one of the hosts of the live web cast during the first night and who is also a psychic, said that she thought it really was a woman because woman’s wedding rings were topics that ladies liked to discuss.. She then asked me if I had just kicked her bed. I told her I had not and remarked that I was sitting way to far from the bed to even reach the bed with my feet. She then sat upright and noticed I was right. I then stated that the kicking could have been the spirit validating my story and our conclusion. She then said she felt another kick. I said, “See, I think I am right”

She then stated that she felt that the woman spirit had a guitar shape type of figure. As soon as she finished saying that, she felt someone hit her butt and said, “ouch”. I started to laugh and told her that it was apparent that the spirit did not like the remark about her body type.

Well, these are the details of the entire trip in a nutshell. In all, it was the most fun I have had in a very long time. By the way, if you have not heard of the other hosts of our live web cast, Bob Hunnicutt and Jason Lewis, hanging out with them is like watching the comedy channel live. I really enjoyed being with them so much and don’t think I have ever laughed so much in three days.

I must also mention how much fun it was to hang out with the other two web cast hosts, Lorrie Jones and Tara Deters. collectively known as the Ghost Chicks. They are such sweet hospital southern ladies.

As a matter of fact, everyone in our group had so much fun that we decided to make GhostHunting in Bardstown an annual event. I am already looking forward to doing this again. Hope you enjoyed hearing about my adventure.

Bardstown Ghost Hunting Trip: Part 2

Bardstown Ghost Hunting Trip: Part 2
Jul 27. 2007

The next day everyone slowly arrived from all over the US. The event was attended by about 17 people. I had a great time seeing some of my Myspace friends that I had already met on other occasions and meeting some Myspace friends for the first time.

Everyone was so excited to be in Bardstown and were looking forward to the main event of the trip. This would happen on Tuesday, July 17th in which our group would investigate the Talbott Tavern. The event was webcast live on the Internet by this site: Paranormal Underworld Here is the banner announcing the event:

Well the investigation started promptly at 7:00 PM. The event took place in the meeting room of the tavern on the second floor.The main host of this event,” Patti Starr”, started out by telling everyone that the tavern is haunted by the Ghost of Jessie James and the spirit of a little girl.

Patti used to be the manager of the Talbott tavern in her single days. Here is a newspaper article about her early days as manager of this tavern. Newspaper Article In this newspaper article, it states that Patti captured an EVP of a women welcoming people to the tavern and she believes it was the voice of Ms. Talbott. For those of you who are not familiar with EVP’s, it stands for Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Evp’s are based on the belief that tape recorders capture voices of spirits that are normally not heard by human ears. Other web pages have stories that will back up the allegation that this tavern is haunted by the late Ms.Talbott which is always seen wearing a white dress. Check out the third story on this site: Ghost Story

Patti then talked about one of the doors of the room we were in. It was a door that was really hard for people to open without pulling on it extra hard. I even tested the door to see if she was right. Normally I am extra strong because I lift weights as part of my fitness routine. I had a real hard time opening this door. She said that she has had other Ghost investigations in the same room in which the door had opened by itself after mentioning Jessie Jackson’s name. She then talked about the two sets of chandeliers in the room. She explained that during other ghost investigations in the same room, the lights have gotten dimmer and had even been turned off upon requesting that the spirits do this.

Patti then also showed everyone a box of crayons that she brought with her and set the crayons out in a playful pattern on one of the tables. She also put the crayon box in a upright position on the table. She said, she hoped that would entice the spirit of the little girl to come out and play with us.

She then started to ask the little girl to reveal herself and play with the crayons. We all waited breathlessly with the cameras going. After a little while, to our surprise and disbelief, the crayon boxed moved back and forth. Susan Rushing, which was also a host of the show, spoke very kindly to the girl’s spirit. She thanked her for revealing herself and coming out to play with us. I thought she did a great job as I myself would not have had the slightest clue on how to respond to this event. Patti then asked the little girl to dim the chandelier lights. To our surprise, the lights got dimmer. She then asked the spirit to make them normal and the lights got back to normal. The little girl delighted everyone by doing this several more times. She also moved the crayon box a few more times for us.

All of a sudden, one of the people that were handling the equipment for the live web cast came into the room. The webcast also included a feature where people whom were viewing the investigation from their homes could capture EVP’s and chat inside a chat room in real time. The person wanted to know whether a person has been screaming in the room we were in? We told her, that no one was screaming. The person informed us that the people in the chat room were reporting that they heard a woman screaming. I should note that no one else was in the hotel during this investigation.

To be continued:

Bardstown Ghost Hunting Trip: Part 1

Bardstown Ghost Hunting Trip: Part 1
Jul 25. 2007

As some of you know, on July 17th, 18th and 19th, I attended a three day Ghost Hunting trip in Bardstown, Kentucky. Wow, what an experience that was. I can tell you all that without a doubt, this was the most fun I have ever had on a Paranormal related trip.

For starters, we stayed at the very haunted Talbott Tavern Bed and Breakfast. Here is a picture of it. It is described on this site: Talbott’s Tavern It is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Jessie James and other entities.

I arrived one night before everyone else. I checked into the inn just in time for the staff to lock up and go home for the night. All guests are issued two keys. One for their rooms and one to lock the building if they leave while the staff is gone for the night. The Tavern has a total of five rooms and the night I arrived, only two other rooms were occupied..

Well, the spirits at this inn did not disappoint. The first night I was there, I took off my diamond anniversary ring and wedding ring set and put them on a little desk that was in front of the wall that faces the restroom. This restroom then faces the street so therefore, they were no rooms in front of it. The minute I finished putting down the rings, I heard a series of 6 or 7 loud knocks right on that table. It was as though a spirit was letting me know that the table was private and I was not to put any of my property on it. Well, needless to say, I was a little spooked but I figured I knew what I was in for when I voluntarily checked into this haunted inn. I then showered and had a quiet uneventful night’s sleep.

In the morning, I began to think about other likely reasons a spirit would knock like this and I have come to the conclusion that in this case, the spirit was a woman. She could have still been angry at the many men during her lifetime and might have been protesting the fact that I was happily married. What do you guys think?

To be continued…

My Trip to the Eastern State Penitentiary

My Trip to the Eastern State Penitentiary
jun 14th, 2007

As some of you know, I just came back from a trip to Philly and NYC. I did not send a bulletin about this because my specific purpose for going to NYC was to attend a mini reunion with three newly found friends from my sixth grade class. I was there for only a few days and therefore did not have time to do any other type of socializing. I therefore apologize if some of you would have liked to hook up with me while I was there. I will write another blog about the mini reunion soon, so stay tuned.

One of the highlights of my Philly trip was visiting the Eastern State Penitentiary. It is a fascinating and historic place to visit and many people have reported seeing both shadow and full body apparitions while touring the place. Former inmates and guards have also reported having the same paranormal experiences.

One of the most famous former inmates at this prison was Al Capone. While he was a prisoner there, he sworn the Ghost of a man was haunting him in retaliation for ordering the mob to murder him. Capone would be found in his cell many nights screaming at the man to leave him alone. When the prison guards responded to his screams, they would find no one.

One of the most interesting stories about Al Capone is that this prison treated him as a celebrity while he was there. He actually had a real bed to sleep in, a radio, a desk to write on and a lamp. These were luxuries not available to other inmates. If you visit the prison today, his cell is still furnished the way it was then. You will recognize the picture of Al Capone cell because it will have a red bed spread.

While I was there, I noticed that cell rooms 6 and 12 were only open to special groups. I wondered why that was so. Well, when I got home, I did some research into the matter and found out that most of the sighting reports have occurred in cell rooms 6 and 12, the Death Row area, the Infirmary and the Central Guard tower. It is unfortunate that these rooms were not available to the public because I would have loved to visit the cells and take pictures. I did go the Death row area. Unfortunately, I did not visit the infirmary or the Central guard tower.

I did not see anything out of the ordinary while I was there but it sure was an amazing place to visit. Here is a slide show of the pictures I took. Some of the pictures contain sculptures that local artists from Philly have created and put into the cells.

You can see the pictures on my photobucket account here: (Maybe some of you might see something that I missed.)

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