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GhoshFrom Page Clghosthunter’s task - trying to find any reasonable explanation to discount ghost activity.“We’re very skeptical of any evidence,” said Caton. “We don’t want to be frauds. I want to come across something that’s so concrete that the average skeptic will have to say, ‘ Yeah, that’s right.*”Exposed wires can cause EMF readings, said Caton, while rodents can make noises in the walls. In those cases, Caton said, he figures they help out the homeowner either way.“If people have something weird going on and they want to have it explained or looked at, we’re willing to do that,” said Caton. “We’re there to help people.”Mira Celikkol, owner of Central Wave, was certainly grateful for that help. Her general manager wouldn’t stay at the bar alone at night and she and her staff were frightened to go into the basement, she said -all had uncomfortable feelings about the place. The manager called the Seacoast group to conduct an investigation and Celikkol said they were “very professional.”In addition to the lights in the mirror, the group caught an EVP of a woman calling for help - the voice, they believe, of a woman murdered in the basement many years ago.“It’s interesting,” said Celikkol, who said the group’s mediums cleared the basement of spirits and she now feels comfortable going there. One spirit remains, she said - that of a former owner who she said is friendly. One day, the former owner's daughter visited and said that her father had always wanted to turn one of the rooms into a game room - something Celikkol had recently done.She believes that the man’s spirit somehow influenced her to do it.McKechnie and Lewis' most profound interaction experience with a spirit was at the“They really do want to interact ”Kolhy McKechnie, gnoslhunterKenniston Hill Inn inBoothbay, they said.“We would ask it, ‘Can you knock on the wall?’ and there would be a clear knock,” said McKechnie. “They really do want to interact. It’s exciting.”Both groups acknowledge that there is some inherent 'danger in dealing with the spirit world and said they have been taught how to protect themselves by the spiritualists with whom they work.But Kitt said he’s more wary of some of the living who request investigations, than the dead. The locations can be hazardous as well, in run-down old buildings, for example.Some businesses “like the idea of having their own resident ghost, said Kitt, but ghosthunting groups don’t charge for their services, which allows them to remain objective.“If people pay, you have an obligation to provide something and we don’t want to be put in that situation,” agreed Lewis,Batteries, recording equipment and other gear can get expensive, said Kitt, but for him, it’s an investment worth making, to keep seeking the ultimate answer.“If we’re implying that we have more than just a physical presence after we’re dead, we have it while we’re alive too,” said Kitt.— Associate Editor Kristen Schulze Muszynski can be contacted at 282-1535, Ext, 322 or kristenm@gwi.net. Check out EVPs, photographs and video clips online atmaineghosthunters.net or visit seacoastparanormal.net for more information about the NH group.
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Biddeford, Maine, US
Sat, Oct 25, 2008
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