Join me this Monday night from 9-10PM as I am a guest on Beyond Smoke and Mirriors with Jessica and Eric on the Paraspeak Radio Network!
Yesterday was the first every Paracon as the Strand Theater in Shelbyville, Indiana. It was organized by Dan T. Hall, director and owner of Vizmo Films, and turned out to be a pretty neat little paracon. We’ve missed them in the Hoosier state this year with the loss of the huge Paranormal Meet and Greet at the Hannah House in Indianapolis which is usually in August. Being the first year of this paracon, there were a few familiar faces in the vendors room like Gail and the ladies of the Roads Hotel in Atlanta, IN and other alum of Dan’s documentaries: psychic-medium Marilene Isaacs and psychic-medium Cassidy Rae.
Attendees got to watch a number of Dan’s films at the paracon with the inbetween times being filled with trips to the vendors room. It was great talking to the variety of people about haunted locations in south-central Indiana, what’s haunting Cincinnati, and my work with Japanese sister-cities with the Mayor of Shelbyville who has visited their city’s sister-city in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Below are photo highlights of the event. You’ll notice that there are some fun filter colors going on with the photos, that’s because I was playing with color combinations with my new set of lens filters for my Canon T3.
Join me this Saturday 10.25.2014 from 4-11PM at the Strand Theater in Shelbyville, Indiana for the 2014 Paracon! There is an assortment of presenters, guests, and films going on all day, these include:
Films
Living Dead Paranormal
Ghostville Episode-Monroe House
Central State Asylum for the Insane
The Haunting of Fox Hollow Farms
Owen County Asylum
Haunted Hartford City Jail
Guest Include
Marilene Isaacs – Nationally Know Psychic Healer
Cassidy Rae – Intuitive – Ghostville
Joedy Cook – BigFoot Researcher/Investigator as seen on Monster Quest and Destination America Monsters and Mysteries
Jason Wilkerson – Living Dead Paranormal
Ghost Investigations
Special Showing
Asylum: The Lost Footage
Speakers, Vendors, Paranormal Meet and Greet
Ghost Hunt/Tours available st local site
317-421-ARTS
Advanced Tickets Available at Mickey’s T-Mart or brownpapertickets.com
215 S. Harrison St.
Shelbyville, IN 46176
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Comfort Inn
36 W. Rampart,
Shelbyville, IN US, 46176
+1 (317) 398-8044
Tickets $10.00 Advanced and $12.00 at door!
Tonight on the Paranormal View Radio Show we welcome story tellers Cindi, Sandy, Harry, and Gary from Sleepy Hallow Ghost Tours in Gettysburg, PA. Look forward to a spooky night of ghost stories from one of America’s most haunted places!
On a similar note, tonight is the Ghost Adventures season 9 finale which will feature the Old Licking County Jail in Newark, Ohio. I bring this up because the Old Licking County Jail is one of the jails featured in my second book, Ohio’s Haunted Crime. Check your local listings for the television show. For me, since it airs at the same time as the Paranormal View, I have it DVR’d.
Tonight on the Paranormal View Radio show we have guest Darrell Whisman, the caretaker of the haunted Poasttown Elementary School!
Poasttown is a location that I have come to be familiar with as a ghost hunter since moving to the Cincinnati area. It sits just 45 minutes away from me, in Middletown, Ohio (yeah, to a Midwesterner a 45 minute drive is considered “close”) and I have done both private and public ghost hunts there not to mention quite a few paranormal conventions.
I’m sure we’ll get to the topic tonight of personal experiences at Poasttown, which I have many! Though I will admit, most occurred during one particular public investigation turned private in 2012. To make a long story very short, I was a guest speaker at a {poorly} attended paranormal convention, with the special ghost hunt at Poasttown later that night. Well, later that night arrived and it turned out that I was on the only person who attended.
Teresa Lynch, one of the owners of Poasttown, gave me a private tour and we did a little ghost hunting in the mean time. Teresa is a lovely woman who knows the ins and outs of the building, especially since she and her family live on the property (as does Darrell in a different apartment). For me the most activity occurred while we were in the old principle’s office!
While there, we did the flashlight experiment wherein you have one (I prefer two) twist style flashlights twisted out to the point where the circuit connection to complete the electrical connection to turn on or off the light is just barely touching. Personally, I am not a fan of this technique, but tried it anyway with two Maglight flashlights, on the same self just four inches apart. Using these lights we communicated with what we believe to have been the ghost of Emma (if I remember correctly) a woman who died in the train accident in the early 1900s that occurred on the now Poasttown property. Teresa and I witnessed the spirit,ghost, whathave you, turn both lights on and off simultaneously, something that should not happen given normal circumstances. Meanwhile, we heard what sounded like kids running up and down the hallways slamming doors and moving furniture.
On a different trip I witnessed a shadow person walk, in broad daylight, across a hallway. This was in the “teachers hallway” from rooms 16 to 15, if memory serves me correctly. They are just standard school rooms with desks and such. I did have one witness to this, Sophie the para-pup! She followed the shadow person from room 16 where she was standing with her owner David, to room 15!
Sophie resting, you can see the equipment strapped to her harness: an EMF detector and digital voice recorder.
Sophie on the hunt for ghosts around Poasttown, she seems to bring out the spirits of children in the building.
I’ve always enjoyed going to Poasttown for investigations, all sorts of things occur there from doors closing on their own, to apparitions, and of course many EVPs. If interested, please visit their homepage to get more information about this very active location!
