
Now, debunkers will tell you there’s a reason for every creek and sound in alleged haunted abodes, that it’s an old house settling with time, that a person’s imagination gets fired up under the right circumstances.įor me? It’s Halloween season, so let me believe in ghosts and spirits and things that go bump in the night. Someone - or something - picked it up and breathed heavily into it, before dropping it on the ground. The next day, I played it back – and heard footsteps enter the room where the tape recorder had been left. I had left a brand-new tape recorder in the hospital’s ghastly first floor morgue, and kept it there all night. It’s believed that some people possess the ability to see and talk to spirits. We tramped around all night, in the dark, chasing strange orbs and watching rocking chairs mysteriously move by themselves. Ask a psychic medium to attend the séance and act as a conduit. Years ago, I, along with a handful of other journalists, spent a night in the infamous Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, considered the most haunted institute in America. I’ve always been curious about the afterlife, of hauntings and spirits. What the ghosts didn’t eat that night, my dad finished off in the morning.

During our visit, we were all given a chance to explore the building, and get introduced to the resident ghosts, including a woman who is alleged to have killed some children more than a century earlier. Louis Paranormal Research Society and participate in a real Ouija Board Seance in our very own seance parlor located in the Lemp Brewery. There’s usually around 16 to 18 people from all walks of life. 10PM - 12AM Book Now Marketed since its beginning as a game, the Ouija Board has gained a dangerous reputation that's made it taboo in our society. This interactive experience evolves in its own unique way, and it’s basically based on the energy of the people who attend. I noticed one earnest young man came with a rosary around his neck.
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The Howland Seance Experience – supplied Photo by suppliedĭuring the visit, the group was good-natured, albeit full of nervous laughter along with a few terrified reactions - and one guy suddenly squealing with fright over something he saw. But I loved every minute of the experience, if only to challenge my own beliefs. Was it for me? Well, tramping around a big old building – in the dark, with only tiny, electric candles scattered throughout – is unnerving, to say the least. Before the Ouija board, before spirit bells and electronic voice phenomenon, there was table turning. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

