I've been watching different ghost hunting/paranormal investigation shows for a little over a year now, and I absolutely love them. A lot of shows I have some problems with because I feel like a lot of the stuff they do are extremely faked by the crew and cast of the show. However, most of the time I am absolutely enthralled by the events that take place on these show. No matter how much I enjoy these shows I always had a little doubt that the stuff that happened on them aren't real. So when I got an email about a real, professional ghost hunter coming to Moravian College for a ghost hunt, I jumped at the opportunity.
Friday October 22nd, Ross Allison of Advanced Ghost Hunting Of Seattle-Tacoma (AGHOST) www.aghost.org came to Moravian College to talk about the art and psychology of paranormal investigation and to lead an actual ghost hunt with willing students at haunted sites throughout the college. The program started a little after 8, there were some technical difficulties so it got started a little late, and Mr. Allison began with a powerpoint. In this presentation he discussed how he got into the field, what type of work it entails, how to get into it, what to use, and things he has done with it. He also included evidence he and his team had collected from previous investigations, and I can even describe how creepy most of the clips were, both visual and audio.
At about 9:30 he finished his powerpoint and announced that we were gonna go out and do some investigating. He gathered up a team of 12 from the approximately 35 students who were participating to handle his equipment in pairs. I was on the team and handled one of the two thermometers. There were also 2 EMF detectors, specter wands and something else that I don't remember. We were originally going to go to a couple haunted buildings here on the north campus but they get locked up at night and campus security didn't know about the ghost hunt and wasn't allowed to open them for us. So we walked down to south campus to go in a said to be haunted dorm house/academic building.
It was the Brethren's House. This place used to be a civil war medical hospital in certain areas before it got taken over by the college. We started in the one main hallway with all the lights off. Nothing much happened at first but during the time Ross Allison took a picture that caught an orb on camera and I had some big temperature fluctuations at time. (76 F - 70 F). Then we moved over into a music practice room that used to be a hospital room and did an EVP session and there was a big EMF spike. Then we went upstairs to the 3rd floor music department hallway and Ross claimed to hear women whispering next to him (I didn't hear them and I was close) someone claimed to hear shuffling down the hallway, there were some temperature and EMF spikes and someone caught an EVP on their cell phone recorder. It was a very distinct female voice saying "Hello?" We went to two more rooms throughout the night but not much more happened after that.
I was blown away by this experience. It really got me more into it than I had ever been just watching the shows. It made me decide that I want to pursue this at least as a hobby. I'm gonna collect all the equipment I need to start at a beginner level for Christmas and read up on the science and workings of how to do things right. My best friend, Colleen, is going to join me and I'm gonna see if I can get some more people with me to form a team. Have a few places already in mind for easy availability to start things off to do some investigating. I already have a name picked out for our future group. FRIGHT: F(ph)antom Research, Investigation, & Ghost Hunting Team. I can't wait for this! I'm so pumped! I never thought of actually doing this stuff for myself. Thanks so much to Mr. Ross Allison for inspiring me!
Until next time, this is Lizzie
