Post by Tomspy77 on Feb 23, 2015 17:45:17 GMT -6
Ghost hunters search for phantoms at Old Jail Museum
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The Old Jail Museum in Coldspring, Texas, is known for having its share of ghosts, but a group of ghost hunters known as the South Texas Afterlife Researchers stayed in the jail Feb. 21 to look for real ghosts.
The South Texas Afterlife Researchers (STAR) consists of John Danmier, Debbie Fawcett, Jennifer Dobyns and Phillip Alvarez. They seek to provide evidence of the afterlife and share a common interest in the paranormal.
STAR was allowed to stay in the Old Jail Museum for one night on Feb. 21, courtesy of the Historical Commission. They set up their equipment later that afternoon and prepared to look for any spirits that potentially haunted the grounds of the jail.
The group uses a variety of tools to allegedly communicate with the undead. Danmier demonstrated a set of dowsing rods, which are a type of divination tool used for finding water and other objects below ground.
In this scenario, Danmier explained that the dowsing rods, a set of L-shaped bars, turned in the user’s hands when a ghost was communicating.
“They won’t work for some people,” he said, with Fawcett clarifying that a person’s negative energy can interfere with their function.
Other equipment used by the team include a grid setup for detecting electromagnetic energy, a box used to scan FM radio stations that ghosts allegedly communicate through and even flashlights.
The team set two different flashlights on a display case in the museum and requested that the ghosts turn them on. Though the lights initially remained off, one of them came on after a while for a brief moment before flickering off.
STAR also placed four video cameras around the jail to monitor the different rooms. Occasionally, orbs floated around the screens, which STAR claimed to be something paranormal.
“They’re supposed to be like some kind of spirit,” said Alvarez.
STAR came to the Old Jail Museum without any prior knowledge of its history, preferring to discover it on their own.
“Sometimes it’s fun to not know [the background],” said Dobyns.
Fawcett later identified the names of two alleged ghosts. One she said told her that his name was James Long and the other merely went by Diane. Fawcett claimed to have detected at least seven spirits with their equipment.
Rebecca Hammond of the Historical Commission noted that records of the jail were destroyed in a fire of unknown incident in 1911, preventing official confirmation of the names of the spirits.
The South Texas Afterlife Researchers (STAR) consists of John Danmier, Debbie Fawcett, Jennifer Dobyns and Phillip Alvarez. They seek to provide evidence of the afterlife and share a common interest in the paranormal.
STAR was allowed to stay in the Old Jail Museum for one night on Feb. 21, courtesy of the Historical Commission. They set up their equipment later that afternoon and prepared to look for any spirits that potentially haunted the grounds of the jail.
The group uses a variety of tools to allegedly communicate with the undead. Danmier demonstrated a set of dowsing rods, which are a type of divination tool used for finding water and other objects below ground.
In this scenario, Danmier explained that the dowsing rods, a set of L-shaped bars, turned in the user’s hands when a ghost was communicating.
“They won’t work for some people,” he said, with Fawcett clarifying that a person’s negative energy can interfere with their function.
Other equipment used by the team include a grid setup for detecting electromagnetic energy, a box used to scan FM radio stations that ghosts allegedly communicate through and even flashlights.
The team set two different flashlights on a display case in the museum and requested that the ghosts turn them on. Though the lights initially remained off, one of them came on after a while for a brief moment before flickering off.
STAR also placed four video cameras around the jail to monitor the different rooms. Occasionally, orbs floated around the screens, which STAR claimed to be something paranormal.
“They’re supposed to be like some kind of spirit,” said Alvarez.
STAR came to the Old Jail Museum without any prior knowledge of its history, preferring to discover it on their own.
“Sometimes it’s fun to not know [the background],” said Dobyns.
Fawcett later identified the names of two alleged ghosts. One she said told her that his name was James Long and the other merely went by Diane. Fawcett claimed to have detected at least seven spirits with their equipment.
Rebecca Hammond of the Historical Commission noted that records of the jail were destroyed in a fire of unknown incident in 1911, preventing official confirmation of the names of the spirits.