BRYNN DU MANSION  INVESTIGATION


 All right here is my first report on the events from the Brynn Du Investigation. I am even now going thru the pictures, video and audio eveidence to see what we managed to record or catch but here are our actuall expeirences there last night.


we had some interesting things happen, I was witness to only a couple of them personally. I heard a strange  human sounding cry down in the basement of the washhouse  an out building near the mansion and I saw some wierd lights shoot out of a closet in a room on the third floor of the mansion. Which I tried to debunk but couldnt show how the light was getting into the closet or where it was coming from.


  Some of the others actually saw a light ball fly out of the same closet and circle around a wooden support beam in the middle of the room and several more people at various times saw more of the same lights I did.

     One group of our investigators say they saw a woman shaped shadow down a hallway that appeared to get down onto the floor and crawl around which description creeps  me out to be honest. 
    Two ladies on my group heard whispering behind a shut door on and off for several minutes as we were on the second floor. 

   Several people in different groups  reported odd incidents out in the wash house including a shadow darting away from them and off the basement staires and a loud whistling sound swooping past one ladies ear as she was down there. As well as three people hearing a mans voice out of no-where in the upstares bedroom area. 

 So overall it was decently eventfull with more overt activity than the first time we were there. I am hoping we have simular activity/ evps caught in the audio as we did last time.  I will post another report once I get thru the evidence.    

 






 My elite panel of expert judges have sellected a Jack O Lantern winner
 after much deliberation and discussion.


  Lost and Found Ohio's     Jack O Lantern Contest  winner is.......



 

Michelle Crabbe's Jack in the Window  is this years winner and will be recieving 100 dolllars and all our admiration.   Thanks go out to all the contestants as well for actually entering our contest and adding to our enjoyment of Halloween. 

 




TGIF everyone today I have a couple really interesting articles on cemeteries in Europe and cemetery tourism being on the rise so check them out. 

  
 
 

 Brynn Du Mansion


 I am also waiting for my three judges to let me know their decisions on the Halloween Jack O Lantern carving contest and  I am gearing up for tonights Investigation of the Brynn Du Mansion near Granville Ohio. its an extraordinary lovely place that is tied into the local history of the area and has shown some promising paranormal activity on our previous investigation. So I cant wait to get in there and see what happens tonight.


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He's chipped his way through more than a foot of snow and ice to get to Ernest Hemingway. He's walked right up to Al Capone and Karl Marx. He's dragged his mom to visit the infamous cannibal Alferd Packer and just came back from seeing Farrah Fawcett.

"It's almost like church for me," she said. "It's a reminder that life is precious."

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Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader known for his steamrolling straight-talk, strutted into a modern art show at one of Moscow's famous exhibition halls in 1962 and explained, without mincing words, that the avant-garde art on display looked like dog droppings. "Why do you disfigure the faces of the Soviet people?" the excitable Khrushchev cried, rebuking the artists for their abstractions. He hurled a particularly offensive epithet at sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, who responded -- in a perilous display of public candor -- that Khrushchev, though he was Soviet premier, didn't know a single thing about art. A heated face-off ensued. More than a decade later, long after the two men reached a truce, Neizvestny sculpted Khrushchev's tombstone. The monument, commissioned by Khrushchev's family and erected in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, features black granite colliding with white marble in cubist formations that bracket Khrushchev's bronze head. The design represents the conflicted ying-and-yang of Khrushchev's character -- the bright, progressive reformer who denounced Josef Stalin and closed the Gulag, intertwined painfully with the dark, shoe-banging man who stuck to retrograde tactics and encouraged building the Berlin Wall. Visitors took to the candid monument, which became, so to speak, dog-doo de rigueur. The Soviet authorities closed Novodevichy Cemetery to the public in the 1970s soon after Khrushchev was interred there, only reopening it in 1987 during Perestroika.   Standing at Khrushchev's grave, one need only look around the graveyard, in the shadow of the dark salmon cupolas of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, to unearth an intriguing, tortured history. There's the grave of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, found dead in an apparent suicide after a spat with her husband, Stalin; there's the tomb of Nikolai Gogol, whose remains arrived at the cemetery from Danilov Monastery, which the secret police converted to a detention center in the 1930s; and there's the grave of Anton Chekhov, whose tubercular body was reportedly transported back to Moscow from Western Europe in 1904 in a railcar reserved for fresh oysters. The Russian cemetery, like its grand European counterparts, is a tapestry of cultural history that brings to bear the idiosyncrasies and paradoxes of individual personalities. But it also illustrates, in shades of stone grey, a vexed social topography of the past. Across Europe, historically minded tourists are increasingly appreciating the allure of grand cemeteries like Novodevichy. Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, with over three million graves, including those of the twice-exhumed Ludwig van Beethoven and musical modernist Arnold Schönberg, has seen an increase in visitors recently. So has Venice's Isola di San Michele, the crowded, cypress-speckled funerary Isle of the Dead, a former prison island that was transformed into a cemetery at the behest of Napoleon and now houses the graves of Ezra Pound and Sergei Diaghilev. It is easy to understand the appeal. As Mark Twain noted after seeing the eerily expressive funerary sculptures of Genoa's Staglieno Cemetery, "To us these far-reaching ranks of bewitching forms are a hundredfold more lovely than the damaged and dingy statuary they have saved from the wreck of ancient art and set up in the galleries of Paris for the worship of the world." Compared to dingy museums, Europe's landscapes of the dead are infinitely more alive.   Perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than at Paris's Père Lachaise -- the majestic rural burial ground with snaking avenues and hilltop views, which set off the 19th-century drive to fashion suburban neighborhoods for the deceased. Opened in 1804, at the beginning of Napoleon's reign, it was the first of its kind in Europe, the product of a late-1700s French public-health policy of removing the dead from central city graveyards. Père Lachaise is a dense Riviera of repose. Marcel Proust, Honoré de Balzac and Frédéric Chopin line the meticulously cobbled avenues alongside more flashy residents, whose graves attract cult obsessives. Groupies serenade Jim Morrison's modest memorial, for instance, while the grave of Victor Noir, the French journalist shot dead by Napoleon's nephew Pierre, has become an idol of fertility and love, with women kissing Noir's lips and placing flowers in his hat, not to mention rubbing the oxidized green figure's more intimate parts. Equally defiled is Oscar Wilde's grave, a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein based on Wilde's poem "The Sphinx," which has been castrated long since it was unveiled in 1914 and is festooned, on a daily basis, with lipstick kisses.   But despite the attention that such tawdry antics receive, most of the graves in Père Lachaise fit with the cemetery's somber mood. Tucked in the back of the cemetery, for instance, is a poignant memorial on the wall where 147 final combatants of the 1871 Paris Commune died in a fire-squad execution. The rebels, having failed to create a working-class utopia, met their deaths in what Frederick Brown, a professor emeritus at the State University of New York, calls a "bourgeois necropolis." Indeed, Père Lachaise ascended to prominence in French history alongside the rise of the French bourgeoisie. Whether one could buy a perpetual care or a 10-year lease at Père Lachaise depended entirely on the amount of cash on hand, because otherworldly repose -- in an era when the church's power and authority were declining and burial was growing more secular -- had become a prize to be won by the highest bidder. The invisible hand, so to speak, had begun burying the dead. "There's always that profound insecurity that many who rise fall," Dr. Brown says. "It's a solidified place in the afterlife -- forever -- in a neighborhood where you'll never be evicted." He argues that Père Lachaise is a reflection of the society that created it, or, as his book reiterates in a line from Proust, "another consequence of the mind's inability, when it ponders death, to picture something other than life."   It is no coincidence that Gérard de Villefort, the public prosecutor from Alexandre Dumas's "Count of Monte Cristo," sees Père Lachaise as the only Parisian cemetery worthy of his family's remains. "The others seemed to him mere country cemeteries, mere lodging-houses for corpses," Dumas writes. "At Père Lachaise alone a corpse of quality could have a home." In London, the equivalent was Highgate. If Père Lachaise is the polished grand dame of European cemeteries, London's Highgate is the majestically dishevelled, long-lost sister -- a cemetery constructed in 1839 in part as an answer to Père Lachaise, but then subjected to years of abandonment, particularly in the post-World War II era. By the 1960s and 1970s, Highgate had fallen into a tragic state of disrepair, with monuments falling off their pedestals and vandals breaking into the cemetery to exhume graves. Eventually it was purchased from its private owners and entrusted to a group of neighbors who have been struggling to keep it up since the early 1980s. Today, it remains an enchanted Victorian jungle of managed neglect -- the archetypal haunted cemetery that has captured, by sheer accident, the aesthetic of ruined splendor. The cemetery is divided into two parts. In the west is the most noted recent arrival, poisoned ex-KGB operative Alexander Litvinenko; in the east is, appropriately enough, Karl Marx. Built into a hillside at the top of London, the cemetery slopes blindly around corners into the Egyptian Avenue and Circle of Lebanon -- a deep-set street and cul-de-sac of vaults, each of which houses an above-ground family crypt. "It's a theater of mourning," said Audrey Niffenegger, the author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," who has set her new novel, "Her Fearful Symmetry," in Highgate. "But it's also a place where the past and present get all mingled together." Ms. Niffenegger, who volunteered as a tour-guide at the cemetery to do research for her most recent book, noted that Highgate's Victorian proprietors sold the plots in perpetuity, believing there would always be someone there to clip the grass. But the sense of lost civilization one encounters at Highgate these days is, if anything, a testament to nature's power over any measure of human perpetuity. "I find it incredibly beautiful," Ms. Niffenegger said. "But it's not what they signed up for." For Ms. Niffenegger and others, the wonder of the cemetery is not only about beauty, but also about witnessing memento mori writ large. "The most serious thing is that one of these days that's going to be you and me," she said. "You can't necessarily make the distinction between yourself and those poor folks who are dead, because you, in your turn, will be a body. That's part of the power."

 





  Good Morning everyone, well I just havent managed to get the second half of my Halloween investigation report up in the blog yet, I am going to try to finish the evidence review tonight and get it all up here for everyone. Tomorow night we head back to Brynn Du Mansion for a second investigation of a fascinating and beautifull house full of history and possibly ghosts.  In the mean time I have todays blog article.

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   here is a link to the first batch of pics from the Halloween investigation of the Twin City Opera House. I will have the second part  of the report up tonight In the meantime check out the pics.  

http://tmbroadwater.com/lostandfoundohio/Gallery/album376

 





 Good Morning everyone today I have an update on the Green Lawn Abbey gate thefts.
 as well as other disheartening vandalism news. 
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 Good Morning, I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend. If anyone had a paranormal experience or did a paranormal investigation that went really well I would love to hear about their experience.

   This evening I will bring the second part of the  my own Halloween Investigation report from the Twin City Opera House to the blog but for now here is Mondays blog article.


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From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Good Lord deliver us. — Old Scottish prayer.
 

  

There are rooms in the Perkins Stone Mansion that visitors refuse to enter — thresholds that stop people dead in their tracks.

''Through the years, we've been gathering information about different occurrences and noticed there are some rooms that people just won't go into,'' said Leianne Neff Heppner, interim director of the Summit County Historical Society.

Many times, people have avoided the first-floor bedroom of Col. Simon Perkins Jr., who built the Greek Revival mansion in 1837, and his wife, Grace Tod Perkins.

Perhaps it is the feather bed that people try to avoid — the birthing site for nine of the couple's 11 children. It is known to show deep divots that look as if made by an angry fist or the outline of buttocks from people siting on its edges — something Heppner and her staff would never allow human visitors to do.

Like a proper curator, Heppner dons white cotton gloves before she touches the counterpane to demonstrate.

Until last year, the mansion was shown only as a museum, but the paranormal activity, which became more apparent during the 2006 Designer ShowHouse, a fundraiser for the Junior League of Akron, led the Historical Society to open the house for ghost tours in the fall of 2008.

A photo taken before the event by Historical Society board member Janis Worley, who is also a member of the Junior League, distinctly shows an otherworldly image of a woman ascending the winding staircase. No one had noticed the ghostly image until Heppner was pulling together a pictorial of the event.

''I thought, 'Oh my goodness, I'm in the picture.' Except that it wasn't me,'' she said.

An arm and a pair of legs extending from under a white dress are visible on the 13th step.

Ten years ago, a volunteer who was with Heppner at the bottom of the staircase looked up to see the images of a woman and a boy on the stairway.

''They like you,'' she told Heppner, who said she has never felt uncomfortable in the house.

Former Historical Society Director Paula Moran, who left the agency last summer, recently spoke about her experiences from her home in Maryland. She said she never shared Heppner's love of the three-story stone structure and eventually came to understand that it was because Grace Perkins' spirit felt threatened by her presence.

''Since the very first day I've always been creeped out by the house,'' Moran said.

In early December 1997, her first year as director, Moran remembers leaving St. Paul's Episcopal Church alone, where she was working at a madrigal dinner, to close up the house following tours ''at 10:30 at night during a blinding snowstorm.''

''At that time, I wasn't a believer,'' she said.

''I had to turn off lights on three floors. I parked between the buildings, took a deep breath and went in. I don't remember a time in my life when I was so frightened. When I got back to the car, I noticed I had left on one of the lights on the third floor. Nothing could have made me go back in there to turn it off,'' she said.

Healer and reiki master Lisa Deckert of Copley Township helped Moran understand that her feelings of trepidation were valid, she said.

''Lisa's explanation is that there were family secrets Grace was afraid I would expose,'' Moran said.

''That's exactly right,'' Deckert said.

Deckert said she has been sensitive to spirits ''as long as I can remember'' and recalls a feeling of dread every time her parents drove past the mansion when she was a child.

Deckert, who was asked to the mansion for a healing four years ago, said she didn't know any of the names of the Perkins family members who lived there until the 1930s, when George Tod Perkins' daughter died.

Deckert said she met Grace's spirit during the healing.

''I told [Moran], 'Grace really hates you.'

''Grace told me, 'If this woman is not careful, I'm going to push her down the stairs,' '' Deckert remembers.

''Paula came in as a strong-willed woman. Grace didn't want to relinquish her standing as head of the household.''

Other stories of the home's spirits abound. From the visage of a man that sometimes appears in a painting, to a doll in an antique high chair that changes positions, to a mannequin that lost her head, night after night.

Then there is the mysterious rocking chair in a room frequented by the spirit of a woman named Martha.

Historical Society researchers discovered that the furniture in a second-story bedroom originally came from the West Market Street home of J. Park Alexander, an early pottery baron. The room is rife with paranormal activity, which has escalated in the past year, Heppner said.

Visitors detected the faint smell of baby powder as a rocking chair in the room started to rock on its own during a tour.

''They laughed when I said the tour was over, but I meant the tour was over,'' Heppner said.

Martha, while she never lived in the house, could be Alexander's wife or daughter — both were named Martha — and probably is connected to the room because of the furniture, Heppner said.

Psychics who have identified Martha's spirit said she doesn't like children running about. And she's not complaining about human children, they say.

Interior designer Joel Wolfgang, owner of Studio W Interior Design Group, said he saw a boy and girl playing with a ball while he was working on one of the second-floor bedrooms during the 2006 ShowHouse.

''We were standing there when a ball came down the steps,'' he said.

Wolfgang, who moved to Palm Springs, Calif., in July but still maintains an office in Akron, described the ball to Heppner.

''We had that same ball in storage at the John Brown House,'' she said.

''Oh, there are ghosts there, but they are friendly. I definitely heard the children playing and I saw two shapes,'' Wolfgang said last week while awaiting a plane to return to California.

Visitors can view the white ball with red alphabet letters on the second-floor landing.

As a reporter and photographer were winding up a tour last week, Heppner, who was headed for a final photo on the 13th step of the stairway, heard a crash in the back of the house and rushed to the kitchen.

A plate, standing in a drying rack, had fallen over.

Was it a coincidence or a warning from Grace Perkins?

''It wouldn't be the first time we had cups and saucers fly off the table,'' Moran said.

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Kathy Antoniotti can be reached at 330-996-3565 or kantoniotti@thebeaconjournal.com.

Ghost tours and angel readings

The Summit County Historical Society will host one-hour ghost tours at the Perkins Stone Mansion, 550 Copley Road, from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and Nov. 13.

Price is $15 per person; $13 for society members.

The tour is for people 16 and older only.

There are limited reservations per tour.

Parking is behind the mansion at 465 S. Portage Path.

The Historical Society will also hold angel readings in its Realm to Realm sessions conducted by angel reader and psychic Laura Lyn.

Lyn, who has worked in the paranormal field for 20 years, will give individual messages from spirit guides, angels and loved ones in a group setting from 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 15 and April 28. A session will be held at the John Brown House, 550 Copley Road, from 7 to 9 p.m. March 25.

Price is $30 per person; $25 for members.

For more information or for reservations, call 330-535-1120.

There are rooms in the Perkins Stone Mansion that visitors refuse to enter — thresholds that stop people dead in their tracks.

''Through the years, we've been gathering information about different occurrences and noticed there are some rooms that people just won't go into,'' said Leianne Neff Heppner, interim director of the Summit County Historical Society.

Many times, people have avoided the first-floor bedroom of Col. Simon Perkins Jr., who built the Greek Revival mansion in 1837, and his wife, Grace Tod Perkins.

Perhaps it is the feather bed that people try to avoid — the birthing site for nine of the couple's 11 children. It is known to show deep divots that look as if made by an angry fist or the outline of buttocks from people siting on its edges — something Heppner and her staff would never allow human visitors to do.

Like a proper curator, Heppner dons white cotton gloves before she touches the counterpane to demonstrate.

Until last year, the mansion was shown only as a museum, but the paranormal activity, which became more apparent during the 2006 Designer ShowHouse, a fundraiser for the Junior League of Akron, led the Historical Society to open the house for ghost tours in the fall of 2008.

A photo taken before the event by Historical Society board member Janis Worley, who is also a member of the Junior League, distinctly shows an otherworldly image of a woman ascending the winding staircase. No one had noticed the ghostly image until Heppner was pulling together a pictorial of the event.

''I thought, 'Oh my goodness, I'm in the picture.' Except that it wasn't me,'' she said.

An arm and a pair of legs extending from under a white dress are visible on the 13th step.

Ten years ago, a volunteer who was with Heppner at the bottom of the staircase looked up to see the images of a woman and a boy on the stairway.

''They like you,'' she told Heppner, who said she has never felt uncomfortable in the house.

Former Historical Society Director Paula Moran, who left the agency last summer, recently spoke about her experiences from her home in Maryland. She said she never shared Heppner's love of the three-story stone structure and eventually came to understand that it was because Grace Perkins' spirit felt threatened by her presence.

''Since the very first day I've always been creeped out by the house,'' Moran said.

In early December 1997, her first year as director, Moran remembers leaving St. Paul's Episcopal Church alone, where she was working at a madrigal dinner, to close up the house following tours ''at 10:30 at night during a blinding snowstorm.''

''At that time, I wasn't a believer,'' she said.

''I had to turn off lights on three floors. I parked between the buildings, took a deep breath and went in. I don't remember a time in my life when I was so frightened. When I got back to the car, I noticed I had left on one of the lights on the third floor. Nothing could have made me go back in there to turn it off,'' she said.

Healer and reiki master Lisa Deckert of Copley Township helped Moran understand that her feelings of trepidation were valid, she said.

''Lisa's explanation is that there were family secrets Grace was afraid I would expose,'' Moran said.

''That's exactly right,'' Deckert said.

Deckert said she has been sensitive to spirits ''as long as I can remember'' and recalls a feeling of dread every time her parents drove past the mansion when she was a child.

Deckert, who was asked to the mansion for a healing four years ago, said she didn't know any of the names of the Perkins family members who lived there until the 1930s, when George Tod Perkins' daughter died.

Deckert said she met Grace's spirit during the healing.

''I told [Moran], 'Grace really hates you.'

''Grace told me, 'If this woman is not careful, I'm going to push her down the stairs,' '' Deckert remembers.

''Paula came in as a strong-willed woman. Grace didn't want to relinquish her standing as head of the household.''

Other stories of the home's spirits abound. From the visage of a man that sometimes appears in a painting, to a doll in an antique high chair that changes positions, to a mannequin that lost her head, night after night.

Then there is the mysterious rocking chair in a room frequented by the spirit of a woman named Martha.

Historical Society researchers discovered that the furniture in a second-story bedroom originally came from the West Market Street home of J. Park Alexander, an early pottery baron. The room is rife with paranormal activity, which has escalated in the past year, Heppner said.

Visitors detected the faint smell of baby powder as a rocking chair in the room started to rock on its own during a tour.

''They laughed when I said the tour was over, but I meant the tour was over,'' Heppner said.

Martha, while she never lived in the house, could be Alexander's wife or daughter — both were named Martha — and probably is connected to the room because of the furniture, Heppner said.

Psychics who have identified Martha's spirit said she doesn't like children running about. And she's not complaining about human children, they say.

Interior designer Joel Wolfgang, owner of Studio W Interior Design Group, said he saw a boy and girl playing with a ball while he was working on one of the second-floor bedrooms during the 2006 ShowHouse.

''We were standing there when a ball came down the steps,'' he said.

Wolfgang, who moved to Palm Springs, Calif., in July but still maintains an office in Akron, described the ball to Heppner.

''We had that same ball in storage at the John Brown House,'' she said.

''Oh, there are ghosts there, but they are friendly. I definitely heard the children playing and I saw two shapes,'' Wolfgang said last week while awaiting a plane to return to California.

Visitors can view the white ball with red alphabet letters on the second-floor landing.

As a reporter and photographer were winding up a tour last week, Heppner, who was headed for a final photo on the 13th step of the stairway, heard a crash in the back of the house and rushed to the kitchen.

A plate, standing in a drying rack, had fallen over.

Was it a coincidence or a warning from Grace Perkins?

''It wouldn't be the first time we had cups and saucers fly off the table,'' Moran said.

---

Kathy Antoniotti can be reached at 330-996-3565 or kantoniotti@thebeaconjournal.com.

Ghost tours and angel readings

The Summit County Historical Society will host one-hour ghost tours at the Perkins Stone Mansion, 550 Copley Road, from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and Nov. 13.

Price is $15 per person; $13 for society members.

The tour is for people 16 and older only.

There are limited reservations per tour.

Parking is behind the mansion at 465 S. Portage Path.

The Historical Society will also hold angel readings in its Realm to Realm sessions conducted by angel reader and psychic Laura Lyn.

Lyn, who has worked in the paranormal field for 20 years, will give individual messages from spirit guides, angels and loved ones in a group setting from 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 15 and April 28. A session will be held at the John Brown House, 550 Copley Road, from 7 to 9 p.m. March 25.

Price is $30 per person; $25 for members.

For more information or for reservations, call 330-535-1120.

 

  www.twincityoperahouse.com 

 Good Morning everyone, Todays blog is about the Open to the public  Halloween Investigation of the Twin City Opera House COGS just got done with.  First off I would like to thank everyone who came out to explore the opera house with us, everyone was great and  enjoyed meeting and investigating with everyone.


 



    We started off as they all came in to sign in by directing them into seats in the theatre and while others were ariving and signing their waivers and signing in we showed clips of vieo evidence and chit chated with our guests and fellow ghost hunters for the night.  their was definitley some excitement in the air and it wasnt long before everyone had made it in and we gathered to start the tour of the opera house. I talked a bit about the theatres beig built in the 1890's and about some of the early history of it and McConellsville and then about the auditoriums resident spirit Everette Miller. Everette was an uher at the opera house for thirty years and was the first reported ghost sighting there.  Over 20 young people saw him one night as he apeared one night just beyound the entry way curtains to admonish them about running and being boisterous in his theatre. It wasn't long before other sightings of Everett occured along with such phenomona as the theatres stage curtains being partially closed during showings and playfull flushings of the womans toilett had some  at the opera house concerned and wondering what was going on. 


 

  
 I then led the tour up onto the stage where we talked about the white Lady who has been seen numerous times crossing the stage and heading up the catwalk staires towards an old dressing room. First seen by the owner and manager Galen Finley years ago when he  lived on the stage beore it was renovated and reopened. She h so far thwarted all effors to video tape or photograph her.

 We then went up onto the catwalk that at least two spirits call home and have been very active intereacting with us recently.  Elizabeth is a ten year old girl and thru evps and an amazing amount of evp/emf question and anser sessions we have been getting to know her and  a 30 something year old stagehand named Robert who share the space and keep each other company.  


 


 Then it was back downstaires and into the basement below the stage where dssing rooms quickly givy to the deeper and creepier section of the basement where dirt floors, old hand quarried stone walls and walled off tunnels are the resting place of moveing shadows, growls and a Black Mass that has tried to elude being photographed while enjoying slipping up behind obsevers.



 


 Lastely we headed up staires to tour the ballroom where John Leezer was fataly stabed around the turn of the century at a dance and to go te very top of the opera ouse to the clock tower that has never had its clock due to hting amongst the republiand democrats who built the opera house.

  Lastly before the investigation I had everyone head down to the auditorm again so I could hand out equiptment and split into smaller groups as well as get a group shot.  Even as I was counting heads and coming up short.
   And as anyone who has given tours can tell you their is always one guest who lags behind or wanders off.  The missing lady apears at the balcony staires and says in a shocked and loud voice. " I saw him!" ,  saw who? I ask, the black shadowy man! she says, still sounding shaken.   And  their we are off to another great start for a paranormal Investigation.   


  I will get part two of this blog up here either today or tomorow  

 


 







 Good Morning and Happy Halloween everyone.

   Lots going on today, tonight is the Twin City Opera House's Open Public Investigation starting at 9:30 you can sign in and get your ticket to join us on a halloween investigation from 10 pm to after 3am  of my favorite haunted spot in Ohio the Twin City Opera House  you can see all the details and hear about the hauntings at   www.twincityoperahouse.com  

 Then their is also our Lost and Found Ohio jack O Lantern contest, today is the last day to get those entries in. I found one more sent to me last night so that gives us three entries, come on people more than a dozen of my friends  clamoured for me to run the contest this year so lets see those Jacks!

 send them to  www.grimshawl1972@yahoo.com 



 





 We also have plans for many upcoming investigations being finalised we were just on the phone last night with DaShane Watkins and were working out a couple investigations with his Spiritual Hope Society in November. In fact I believe every weekend in November is now full of hostings and investigations already.

  Now onto fridays blog article   The Dead of Pinion Park.....

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 Sparks Nevada....

 

 




 Good Morning everyone,  well we are getting right down to the last days before Halloween, a spooky holiday I love and I hope I will be seeing more Jack O Lantern entries here soon guys! you have untill friday night to send them to me. www.grimshawl1972@yahoo.com 

  today i have an interesting little article on a skeptics take on selling a haunted house as well, haunted. see what you think.

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  Good Morning everyone, today I have an article on a housing project trying to do the right thing once they find an old cemetery beneath their proposed buildings.

 I also have the link to yesterdays tv add for the Twin City Opera House I did as part of COGS     http://www.whiznews.com/content/video/52153
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Old Miami cemetery site to be park

Developers who unwittingly built part of an affordable-housing project atop a long-forgotten ..colored' cemetery have revised their plans to turn what's left of the site into a memorial park.

BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI

aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com

 




  Check it out I was interviewed by a local tv station and it should air tonight at 11pm  on WHIZ  out of Zanesville.  here is a link to the article about it on their website so check it out.  


http://www.whiznews.com/content/news/local/2009/10/25/ghosts-dwell-in-the-twin-city-opera-house


 video link   http://www.whiznews.com/content/video/52153

People say they have experienced something other wordly with in the Twin City Opera House in McConnelsville.