I'm going on a ghost hunt. Gonna Catch a big one.
So, last night I went to a class on ghost hunting with Erin Brad and Erica. At first I thought it was kinda cheesy but trust me, I was soon proven wrong. The guy who teaches the class is the only known person in the world who can actually catch a ghost and hold it in place. Yeah, that's right, a real life ghost buster. The class was about different equipment used, how to look for a ghost, some of the experiences he personally has had, and then he catches a ghost and lets everyone in the class feel it to learn how they react when they touch a ghost. Like I said, at first I though it was really cheesy. He had some amazing pictures of ghosts as well. The first few he showed us were just orbs and mist and such, but then he showed us one taken at the Lemp Mansion (a really haunted place in STL) in which you could see the face of Billy Lemp appear in a portrait on his second wife. Then there was a picture from the McPike Mansion where you could see a dark figure in the door way and a picture taken of a group where a dark sharp appeared in the middle of the room. The coolest one was a picture taken in the building we were in (The Piasa Masonic Lodge that was founded in like 1844). The picture is of four people but in front of them you can clearly see then legs (the images faded as they got higher) of three men in old uniforms standing in the room the way they did when they were recieving people into the room. It you so weird and I can't even describe it. You could see the color of their calves and the bottom of their coats.
After the class he took us on a tour of the building pointing out where different ghost sightings had been and when we were in the basement he caught the ghost for us to let us feel it. When he caught the ghost for the group and I tried to feel it I didn't really feel anything so again I was skeptical. The weird thing was, he gave the entire room dowsing rods (I don't think I spelled that right but it's those copper rods that can pint to ghosts) and in the basement I was just kind of playing with them. As soon as I held them up they moved (and I swear they moved on their own) to my right. I freaked out and put them down but then when everyone else noticed what had happened I put them up again. They crossed in front of me and then kept crossing more and more until the ghost must've been right in front of me or hugging me. The teacher's wife was there and she a took a picture so we'll see what shows up when she gets them back but she said he was very likely hugging me and that she was just happy because normally he attaches himself to her. (Gary the Ghostbuster later said there was a ghost in the basement who liked to hug girls). Anyway, we continued the tour throughout the house then broke up into teams and each team took a floor to do their own ghost hunting. Erica and I were totally terrified the entire time and kept joking around to make ourselves feel better. We started on the second floor and in one room our dowsing rods kept pointing to one corner. I mean three people held up rods and they all pointed to the same place at the same time. Erica just shouted out Hey, I'm engaged leave me alone" and later told me that when she said that she'd felt a hand on her lower back. Nothing else really exciting happened and next we went to the basement. We also had two other people in our group named Rhonda and Jason that I should mention. We got to the basement and at the bottom of the stairs you could either go to a room on the left, go straight down a long hallway into a room, or go left through a kind of winding hallway into the room where Gary caught the ghost. (in that room there a four known ghosts of confederate soldiers who probably died in the confederate jail that had been about a block away from the building and had a horrible smallpox epidemic, and Gary had caught one of those ghosts). Of course at first everyone decided to go down the long hallway (Erica had decided to stay on the first floor with Gary's wife where the ligths were on b/c she's afraid of basements). as we were walking down the hallway Gary came down stairs and scared us half to death b/c we hadn't expected to see him. He took us back to the room with the soldiers and let us look through his nightvision gogglers which was really neat. I asked him to catch another ghost so I could feel it again so him did. This time he said he caught a more powerful one so I went over to touch it and when I did there was a definate cold spot. It was cold as ice but when I took my hand away it was warmer again. It was the strangest sensation I've ever felt. Gary left and Jason and Rhonda decided it would be a good idea to turn off all our flashlight and stand in the dark for a little while. we did but I freaked out and we turned the lights back on. Everyone laughed at me and told me I was a wuss but I didn't care. I started using my dowsing rods again and found another ghost. I put my hands out and I found an ice cold spot again. everyone else came over and could feel it too (except Erin cause apparently she just can't feel ghosts). Anyway, it was cool then they kept laughing at e when I'd willingly touch a ghost after I'd been so scared earlier.
Last we went to the third floor where nothing exciting happened at first. Then I was playing with the rods and found a ghost. I felt him and felt this extremely cold spot, and everyone else felt it too even though Erin just accused me of bad circulation. I moved and used the rods again and the ghost had stayed right beside me. Everytime I moved the ghost followed me and the rods kept following him and I could feel the cold spot. I couldn't get away from in until I finally said "I like you but I'm freaked otu so please get away from me" and made Brad run across the room with me. Apparently after that the ghost went over and got right in Erica's face (her face suddenly got really cold) and she was like "Do you wanna go back downstaris" so the two of us ran downstairs as fast as we could. When we told Gary about it he just laughed (not because he didn't believe us but because we were so scared by the experience). It was crazy.
After the class he took us on a tour of the building pointing out where different ghost sightings had been and when we were in the basement he caught the ghost for us to let us feel it. When he caught the ghost for the group and I tried to feel it I didn't really feel anything so again I was skeptical. The weird thing was, he gave the entire room dowsing rods (I don't think I spelled that right but it's those copper rods that can pint to ghosts) and in the basement I was just kind of playing with them. As soon as I held them up they moved (and I swear they moved on their own) to my right. I freaked out and put them down but then when everyone else noticed what had happened I put them up again. They crossed in front of me and then kept crossing more and more until the ghost must've been right in front of me or hugging me. The teacher's wife was there and she a took a picture so we'll see what shows up when she gets them back but she said he was very likely hugging me and that she was just happy because normally he attaches himself to her. (Gary the Ghostbuster later said there was a ghost in the basement who liked to hug girls). Anyway, we continued the tour throughout the house then broke up into teams and each team took a floor to do their own ghost hunting. Erica and I were totally terrified the entire time and kept joking around to make ourselves feel better. We started on the second floor and in one room our dowsing rods kept pointing to one corner. I mean three people held up rods and they all pointed to the same place at the same time. Erica just shouted out Hey, I'm engaged leave me alone" and later told me that when she said that she'd felt a hand on her lower back. Nothing else really exciting happened and next we went to the basement. We also had two other people in our group named Rhonda and Jason that I should mention. We got to the basement and at the bottom of the stairs you could either go to a room on the left, go straight down a long hallway into a room, or go left through a kind of winding hallway into the room where Gary caught the ghost. (in that room there a four known ghosts of confederate soldiers who probably died in the confederate jail that had been about a block away from the building and had a horrible smallpox epidemic, and Gary had caught one of those ghosts). Of course at first everyone decided to go down the long hallway (Erica had decided to stay on the first floor with Gary's wife where the ligths were on b/c she's afraid of basements). as we were walking down the hallway Gary came down stairs and scared us half to death b/c we hadn't expected to see him. He took us back to the room with the soldiers and let us look through his nightvision gogglers which was really neat. I asked him to catch another ghost so I could feel it again so him did. This time he said he caught a more powerful one so I went over to touch it and when I did there was a definate cold spot. It was cold as ice but when I took my hand away it was warmer again. It was the strangest sensation I've ever felt. Gary left and Jason and Rhonda decided it would be a good idea to turn off all our flashlight and stand in the dark for a little while. we did but I freaked out and we turned the lights back on. Everyone laughed at me and told me I was a wuss but I didn't care. I started using my dowsing rods again and found another ghost. I put my hands out and I found an ice cold spot again. everyone else came over and could feel it too (except Erin cause apparently she just can't feel ghosts). Anyway, it was cool then they kept laughing at e when I'd willingly touch a ghost after I'd been so scared earlier.
Last we went to the third floor where nothing exciting happened at first. Then I was playing with the rods and found a ghost. I felt him and felt this extremely cold spot, and everyone else felt it too even though Erin just accused me of bad circulation. I moved and used the rods again and the ghost had stayed right beside me. Everytime I moved the ghost followed me and the rods kept following him and I could feel the cold spot. I couldn't get away from in until I finally said "I like you but I'm freaked otu so please get away from me" and made Brad run across the room with me. Apparently after that the ghost went over and got right in Erica's face (her face suddenly got really cold) and she was like "Do you wanna go back downstaris" so the two of us ran downstairs as fast as we could. When we told Gary about it he just laughed (not because he didn't believe us but because we were so scared by the experience). It was crazy.