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Ghost Hunt Evidence - Chair Moves By Itself And More
Oct 24, 2008 - 10:10 am
The first of the evidence from the Paranormal Investigation at The Tavern in Abingdon has begun to reach us. The Haunt Masters set up several video surveillance points throughout the building during our investigation there, and review of the recordings has revealed a very strange and anomalous event.
This chair, on the first floor of the restaurant, appears to move by itself. According to accounts from the Haunt Masters, this event happened about 3 AM. At this time, no one was in the room that the event happened - a few members were at the base of the stairs on the first level, and our reporters and another member were upstairs. One of the team on the first floor did hear a sound about this time, but assumed it was coming from upstairs.
“We’ve gone through it again and again,” said Justin Guess, Co-Founder of the Haunt Masters Club, “We don’t know how the chair moved.”
The chair is located in the room called the “Poker Room”, a site of a murder over cheating in a card game. Strange events have been reported occurring there before.
Update
The Haunt Masters have sent me three EVPs they identified from the recordings made during the investigation. Click below to listen:
Rife’s Room: “Pretty upset when I saw that”
After Tammy completed on-camera interview about the ghost of Captain Rife: “Not gone yet.”
Cleaning up Poker Room before closing interview with Angie. “Go forth.” or “Go for it.”
Furthermore, a video from an EVP session in the room of a murdered prostitute contained a muffled voice.
Download the video in Flash format.
The Tavern Investigation - After Thoughts
Oct 21, 2008 - 03:10 pmLast night, I spent five hours inside The Tavern in Abingdon with Kelly Cales and members of the Haunt Masters Club. We ran a live video stream and blogged the happenings throughout the night - I hope you all had a chance to get in on some of the fun.
Now, with the sun out and the experience a few hours behind me, I think I can make some good, objective reflections on the previous night.
The Tavern is certainly a storied old building. It is hardly possible to step into any room and not feel the weight of more than a century of history upon you. Like an iceberg, what you see is only a tiny sliver of what has been there. I felt like the most temporary of visitors there; seeing the place, but certainly not a part of it.
At first, I was very skeptical whether we would get any kind of confirmation of paranormal activity. While the group performed their base temperature and EMF readings, everything seemed clear. During the first EVP session, nothing out of the ordinary was noticeable to my ears. As we moved through the house though, peculiar things did seem to happen.
During an EVP session on the second floor, members of the group heard whispering coming from the next room over, and a thumping downstairs. I believed I heard a scraping at the wall behind Kelly’s head - a sound reminiscent of wire bristles brushing something. When the EVP was repeated, the noises from downstairs grew more noticeable, and Justin, a member of the Haunt Masters, went down to investigate to make sure no one had entered the building. He found no one.
Later on, more whispering that was described as a muffled voice was heard by a member of the group.
The Haunt Masters Club are spending the next few days reviewing their evidence; searching the EVP tapes for sounds that we possibly missed and watching recordings of video cameras placed throughout the house. They will get their evidence to me to post here when it is collected. Keep an eye for that.
In my mind, it is hard to say whether I believe ghosts inhabit The Tavern. I did not hear a lot of the noises that some heard, and nothing so overt as to make an instant believer of me appeared. Also, the building is very old, with odd doors, creaky floors, and a puzzle box of rooms, hallways and stairs that could easily cause misleading sounds. Yet, the amount of anecdotal evidence to support hauntings is staggering, and there is no doubt some very heinous and violent events occurred within.
More evidence will be forthcoming, and Kelly Cales will be providing her own take on the events for the Bristol Herald Courier and News Channel 11. Stay tuned for that as well.
What do you think? Did you see anything on the live video feed? Hear a ghost during our EVP sessions? Have another story you’d like to tell? Let us know in the comments!
Paranormal Investigation - The Tavern in Abingdon
Oct 20, 2008 - 10:10 pmUPDATE 2:45 AM
Things have gotten lively. Whispers, jingling, knocks, a muffled woman’s voice - we have heard all of these. As the night wears on, we are finally starting to get some real activity.
During one EVP session in a room where a prostitute (though rumor has it she despises being called that) was killed, one member of the Haunt Masters had another check outside to make sure no one was around, so clear was the voice she heard. I asked later what the voice had said - she responded that she couldn’t tell, because the voice was muffled. I asked how the woman had died. Her answer? Her throat had been cut.
Kind of explains the muffled voice, eh?
This may be my last check-in for the night. Kelly Cales will continue to record video when she can, and she’s planning on spending the night as well. The webcam will remain running as long as Kelly is here.
We’ll get back in a couple of days after the Haunt Masters have had a chance to sift through all of the data and records and see what we have come up with.
Aaron Littleton, signing off.
UPDATE 1:50 AM
Doing some EVPs in a room supposedly the site of a murder of passion, we have picked up some whispers and thuds and perhaps jingles coming from other parts of the building. We have decided to move the EVP recordings, as we are not 100% sure that the room we were in was the actual site of the shooting.
Stay tuned! Keep refreshing the page for more updates!
UPDATE 12:53 AM
We have completed our first EVP session in the attic. Questions asked included “Are you a soldier?” “What keeps you here?” “Are we angering you?” and others.
After tonight, the Haunt Masters will review the tape and let us know of any anomalous readings.
We will continue the EVP sessions in other rooms inside the building. I’ll go along and report back. Keep an eye on the camera and post in the comments if you see anything strange.
UPDATE 12:13 AM
We are about to conduct EVP readings. This will necessitate our turning off the lights and asking questions. An anecdotal report says that the number inscribed on the walls from the former hospital beds glowed once when the power went out.
If the camera is dark - please be aware that it must be so for this reading.
UPDATE 11:32 PM
We are nearly alone in the building now. Much of the wait staff is gone, but Max the owner is still around, giving us the full disclosure about what he knows.
The Haunt Masters are beginning their sweep now. They’ll be using a variety of tools; EVP detection, temperature gauges, cameras, EMF (electromagnetic field) detection and all of that.
I’m going to go along with them on their sweep and report back.
Stay tuned and keep your eyes on the feed.
UPDATE 10:47 PM
I have just spoken with Donna, the Haint Mistress of Abingdon. She gave me a detailed rundown of some of the stories in this building.
She does not believe that the house was a Civil War hospital, because it was owned for over one hundred years by a black family. Fearing capture during the turbulent years of the Civil War, the family would seek refuge in the cellar when soldiers and the like would come through town.
The family, to keep their children quiet, became adept storytellers, spinning yarns to keep the young ones happy. Many, over the years have heard the laughter of children coming from the cellar when no one was around.
Do the spirits of the children return to the cellar because they had happy times there?
Please continue to refresh the page as the night goes on for more information.
UPDATE 10:23 PM
The Haunt Masters are largely set up at this point - I’m just about done myself at this point.
We’ve got a couple of local storytellers swapping info behind us, and a solitary light bulb chasing away the darkness.
News Channel 11’s Kelly Cales will be going for the record tonight, staying in the attic until at least 7 AM. We’ll see if she makes it.
Please refresh the page often for more updates.
LIVE Ghost Hunt Tonight From The Tavern In Abingdon
Oct 20, 2008 - 12:10 pmJust in time for Halloween, I, as your host of the TriCitiesBlogs.com Paranormal blog, will be joining Kelly Cales from News Channel 11 and the Haunt Masters Club for a LIVE Ghost Hunt inside of The Tavern in Abingdon tonight starting at 10 PM.
The Haunt Masters Club is a noted Paranormal Research and Investigation society working in the Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina regions. They have investigated a number of intriguing locations around our area, and have an extensive website detailing their hunts, findings, and information. You can see them on the web at their official website. We’ll be following their investigation tonight and doing a little of our own as well.
I’ll be live blogging during the investigation right here on the Paranormal blog. In addition, I’ll be hosting a live, streaming webcam here as well. Please check back tonight and prepare to have a front-row seat for a live, ghost hunting expedition.
Recently, a member of the Haunt Masters Club sent me an audio file which is supposed to hold an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) of a woman speaking. This was from an unrelated interview, as the investigator was conducting research regarding a family who had died from poisoning from a peculiar hybrid tomato crop.
Listen to the EVP here.
The voice that appears in the background seems to be saying “Ione”, which is a Native American tribe from Texas. It is an odd thing to be saying, for sure, but the voice in the background is undeniably there.
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Update: 3:15 PM
Speaking with the Haunt Masters Club today, I have learned the stories of some of the ghosts that are reported to appear at The Tavern.
The first floor kitchen has an apparition that appears to be a woman in white. Also on the first floor is a poker room supposedly haunted by a murder that occurred there one hundred years ago - a shooting based on a cheating allegation.
The second floor has a spirit that is supposedly a prostitute that appears and tugs on the hair of girls that it deems too pretty. The third floor has a confederate soldier that visitors have reported.
The attic, well, let’s just say that no one has yet to stay a whole night there…
10-14-08: The Lightship Comes, Or Just Another Tuesday?
Oct 14, 2008 - 11:10 amA minor stir has rippled across the internet today - according to a website which your faithful moderator did not find until yesterday, a group of people believe that today, Oct. 14, 2008, a “Light Ship” will appear from the stars, probably in the morning. It is 11:30 AM now, at least Eastern Time, and the light ship has yet to appear.
It’s a little hard to get to the bottom of where this all came from - the main focus of the community, as far as I can tell, is a Blogspot (Seriously, a Blogspot webpage? The light ship of “pure love and light” is coming and you can’t afford to pony up $10 for domain registration?) which is viewable at:
10-14-08 Blogspot
As of this writing, the owner of the site, one Mr. Brad Johnson, has yet to chime in since the light ship’s failure to appear. His last communique to the faithful has been an audio comment from last night assuring people to just wait until at least sunrise. He is predicting a North American sighting, though giving himself enough wiggle room to be wrong. The three-minute message itself nearly made me believe the whole thing was a joke as he went on to describe how the love and light of the ship would not be defeated by chem trails in the sky. I think he nearly lost it on that line.
So check it out, decide for yourself, and keep your eyes on the sky for the rest of the day at least. Word on the street is that bookies for major gambling organizations have ceased taking bets on this, as they stood to lose a significant amount of money should the ship appear.
