Recovery from this one has been slow for me. I didn’t arrive home until after 6:30 in the morning. We were running on adrenalin and coffee all night.
Smalley’s Inn Restaurant in Carmel, NY is a known haunted location. Many teams have investigated it, including Linda Zimmerman (a renowned local investigator and author of the Hudson Valley).
My team, IndyPara – Independent Paranormal, consisted of Co-founder Donna Parish-Bishcoff, Nathan Schoonover (from Extreme Paranormal and host of Ghost and Demon Radio), Tech guy Andrew Seidel, and investigator Kelly Leiberman. We were joined by Big Guy Media who filmed us for Valley Paranormal web TV.
I was unsure about the filming thing… I like to investigate for the sake of it, the only thing I care about filming is evidence. However, Big Guy’s team was professional staying out of our way and taking an honest account of what happened. Nothing was staged. We were not asked to set up any shots. This was an organic process that followed our natural instincts as investigators.
I brought along some unconventional tools. Paranormal investigation is about trial and error. We never know what is going to work, so often it’s fun to just punt. I showed up with a key chain version of an Etch-A-Sketch, a “Magic Drawing Slate”, a bunch of ghost hunter apps on my iPhone, AND my infamous Magic 8-ball. (Yes, I brought my camera, digital voice recorder, emf detector, etc.)
The toys would hopefully inspire the young ghost Elizabeth Smalley to play. Both Etch-A-Sketch and Magic Drawing Slate were a wash. These items were not from her era. Also, she might not be strong enough to operate them. I will try them again at the Shanley in July. The 8-ball however answered positively when I asked is Smalley’s was haunted it said “Yes, Definitely”… we all left and went home after that having our questions answered. YES I’M KIDDING! But it DID say it was haunted…
The phone apps were interesting. Ghost Radar works like an Ovilus tossing out words and purports to point out where ghosts are on “radar.” While it was interesting, we had no proof of whether these energy spots were existent. I also used an app created by a pal of mine from Twittered called Ghost Words. The theory is the ghost is supposed to press the words and make the phone speak. However, this didn’t work too well according to the spirits who said on EVP, “It doesn’t work.” I guess these folks were not strong enough to manipulate my phone. Good thing as they might use up my minutes. However, Ghost Words also has a motion detector that picks up vibrations. This is a really cool device. I didn’t delve too deeply in it, but I will in the future. I also have a couple EMF apps that I want to experiment with. Smalleys has a high concentration of EMF fields which makes it difficult to discern what is what. So, that will be another day… or evening.
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I wrote the above last week… So, excuse the lateness of the post.
Last night we went to Big Guy Media for our interviews. We wound up spending a considerable amount of time plucking through the myriad of EVPs for ones that would work on TV. You have no idea how difficult that is! Sheesh! We also were able to debunk one of them via camera footage of me growling at Nathan for turning a light on. You can see me on camera uttering my annoyance. It would have been a class A if I wasn’t alive! Ha!
I’ll keep you posted as to when this episode is up. Meanwhile, take a look at Big Guy Media’s other shows! http://www.yourbgm.tv/
Eat Cookies Hunt Ghosts!
Tj
