Month: February 2007

The Lady’s Room Ghost: My Amazing True story

The Lady’s Room Ghost: My Amazing True story
2-15-2007

Since I published my last blog about the Paranormal part of my trip, I have had several private messages from you guys asking me to write about some of my personal encounters with Ghosts.

Here is my most interesting one. I first posted it on my favorite Ghost forum on Nov. 12, 2005 which is located here: Ghost Place Forum

I then submitted it to the Paranormal about site for possible publication. It was published on the About Paranormal site on Dec. 1st, 2005 here: Paranormal About site

The Lady’s Room Ghost

Your True Tales
December 2005

Lady’s Room Ghost
by nycrican

In 1981, I had just moved to a new area and went out to eat at a restaurant in town with my boyfriend at the time. I got up to go to the lady’s room. It looked like it was completely empty to me. I used the restroom and was washing my hands at the sink. In front of the sink was a mirror. All of a sudden, the image of a lady appeared in the mirror and was apparently standing in back of me. I did not hear the door open and I could have sworn I was the only one in the restroom. I thought, well, I may have been wrong.

When I saw the lady, she was dressed in old fashion clothing and was wearing a long dress. I immediately thought to myself, gee, that lady needs some fashion advice. Maybe she is in a strange religion where they dressed like that. I smiled at her reflection in the mirror and was quickly trying to finish washing my hands since it was a small bathroom with only two stalls and one sink.

I finally got done and turned around, and there was no one there. I was dumbfounded. I went back to the dinner table and told my boyfriend at the time about my experience. He said that the lady probably left and I did not hear the door close.

I did not think very much about it until later when I was reading a newspaper article in which this restaurant was mentioned. It stated that a long time ago, a train derailed right in back of the restaurant and that many people died. That many people have reported seeing ghosts at the restaurant and that one lady reported the exact same incident that happened to me also happened to her.

The restaurant is still in the same place and is called Ashley’s. It used to be called Gentleman Jim’s when I saw the image in the mirror. The Florida Today newspaper reported the story on it.

Epilogue:

Since this story was published, there has been several things which have happened to help explain the mystery of the Lady’s Room Ghost.

1. One of the members of Ghost Place Forum
responded to my original November post right after my story was published on the Paranormal About site. He informed me that if I wanted to know what really happened to that lady, I needed to read a new book just published by Charlie Carlson. The book is a fictional story based on the true life story of this lady before she became a ghost. The name of the book is, “Ashley’s Shadow”. Here is a picture of the cover of the book.

Note:The picture of the lady on the cover of the book is not the actual lady that was murdered.

I ordered the book and read it in one day. It turns out this lady was murdered in 1934 in that restaurant in the lady’s room. At the time of the murder, the restroom used to be a storage closet. Her killer was never caught and the author of this book believes that the killer was the son of a local judge at the time and that the judge used his power to close out the murder case before a proper murder investigation couid take place.

2. By coincidence, someone at the same paranormal forum posted a link to, “the Florida Paranormal Research Foundation”. The thread is shown here: Ghost Place I was checking out this site and when I when I read about their investigation called, ” Case Synopsis Rockledge, FL Apartment “, my blood ran cold because this story was about the same ghost I saw. Here is a link to The Paranormal site, just click on the last link of this page to read the story about the same ghost I saw: Florida Paranormal Research Foundation

In this investigation, the ghost I saw had followed one of the customers home from the restaurant. Details about the restaurant were not mentioned on this site. I however knew immediately who the Ghost in question was. The name of the Ghost in this apartment was revealed to a medium from the Florida group. It was the same name as in the book written by Charlie Carlson.

I emailed one of the contact people shown on the site. I told them I have personally seen the Ghost and that everything the Ghost revealed to the medium in the apartment investigation was correct. I also mentioned that a book was written about this Ghost. Tim, the person I emailed at the site had no idea that a book had been published. He said he would check out the book. I have not heard from him since. I invite comments from everyone on this story.

Ghostock 4: A Hair Raising Experience

Ghostock 4: A Hair Raising Experience
2-7-2007

As many of you know, last weekend I attended Ghostock 4 in Savannah, GA. It was the most fantastic event I have ever had the pleasure of attending. The main event of the weekend was going on a Ghosthunt investigation. This occurred last Friday night.There were 14 different places to explore. After everyone got assigned to a specific location and team leaders were selected, the fun began.

I got assigned to a team investigating a local haunted restaurant called,” The Olde Pink House”. This restaurant was rumored to be haunted by the Ghost of James Habersham; a colonial statesman and the acting governor of Georgia from 1771-1773 and also other unknown entities. My specific investigation started at midnight and ended at 3:30 AM .

We started out by interviewing the management of the restaurant. Several employees had stayed at the restaurant overtime so they could talk to us and of course, let us in and lock up after woods.

They informed us that woman diners have been mysteriously locked in the ladies room on occasion. Also, that dishes have flown off counters, tables and chairs have moved by themselves and pictures on the wall have been moved upside down at times. Most of this activity occurred in a special dining area called, “The Purple Room”. They also stated that many of their employees refused to go into the wine cellar downstairs because of strange noises that they have heard and unexplained cold spots that appear suddenly. After we took notes, we started the investigation.

We split up into 3 smaller groups and part of the team got assigned to the ladies room, part to the wine cellar and the other part to the Purple room. . We rotated the groups until everyone got a chance to investigate each of the haunted areas.We used video cameras, digital cameras, EMF readers and voice activated tape recorders. Most of the members of my team were experienced investigators. I was happy about this since I felt that I could learn alot since this was my very first investigation.

During our first visit to the purple room, we set up a video camera and left the room to take random pictures of other parts of the restaurant. When we came back, the video camera had turned itself off stating that the tape was full when it really was not and had nothing on it. They explained that this frequently happens during Ghost Hunt investigations. Apparently, the entities cause the equipment to malfunction. We set up the camera again and this time, it recorded a video.

In the ladies room, we used the EMF readers and it went crazy in certain parts of the ladies room. It is believed by many that quick changes in electro-magnetic fields indicate spirit activity. We all got chills up and down our backs while there. We asked the entity questions hoping that the voice activated voice recorders would pick up the answers. Tape recorders can usually pick up voices that cannot be heard by the human ear. These are called EVP’s (electronic voice phenomenon).

In the wine cellar, we sat down, turned off the lights and used the activated voice recorder to ask the entity questions. One of the groups said they heard a whisper but could not make out what it said.My group leader said she felt something touch her head. I quickly pointed my camera at her to try to take a picture. It would not work. As soon as we left the cellar, the camera started working perfectly again. My leader explained that this frequently happens during Ghost Hunts especially when the entities are nearby. I guess the entities do not want to have their pictures taken.

After each group had investigated all of the locations, we all met in the Purple Room for a while. We set up the video camera again and tried to talk to the entity. We closed all of the curtains so no light would come in from outdoors. We noticed several small ball of lights come from the fireplace area and return quickly to the place they came from. The fireplace did not have a fire going at that time. We actually got these to appear on the video camera. The team members explained to me that sometimes entities appear to people in this form.

We left the restaurant around 3:30 AM and thanked the employees for their hospitality. The next day, everyone checked out their pictures, videos tapes and tape recordings. We found several voices on the tape recordings. One said, “GET OUT’. The investigators told me that this is a very common recording to get. Another said, “HELP ME”. A third one said, ” The Doctor is in.”.

We played these recording for the people attending the conference on Sunday morning. We also had several orbs in our pictures that showed clear movement and a clear rings around them. Usually these kinds of orbs are positive orbs however they may also have been dust particles. We also projected these pictures for the audience.Lastly, we also showed the audience the video tapes with the moving ball of lights.

On Sunday morning, all of the investigation groups also presented their findings. It was so amazing listening to what each group found. One of the other teams actually got a video of an entity going up the stairs of a basement. Patrick Burns, show host of Haunted Evidence, was blown away by this video. He had never seen one this clear. Everyone was just astounded. Some of the others groups got great EVP’s. One of the female investigators got a full face in a picture that she took while investigating the Haunted Lighthouse in Savannah.

In addition to the investigations, we also got to listen to some great speakers. Some of them have also authored books on Ghosthunting. They gave us some great tips and shared a lot of great stories with us.

One of the speakers was Dr. Hans Holzer who has had over 40 years experience in GhostHunting. Another set of speakers were the Ghost Chicks which have a profile on MYSPACE and other social network sites. They gave a great presentation of Poltergeists.

Here are a few pictures. Here is a picture of Patrick Burns and I:

Here is a picture of Steve from Ghosthunters and I:

Here is a picture of the Ghost chicks and I

Lastly, here is a picture of Patrick’s wife, Pamela and my roommate, Tracy.(Moonlight Poetess)

In all, I had a blast last weekend and can hardly wait to attend the next Ghostock in Sept. 07.