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Last night, Mrs. Bart and I spent the night in a haunted house.
Remember Teri the Ghost Chaser?
In Vol 636 - The Vault of History,
Teri offered to take us "ghost-chasing,"
so we finally took her up on it and spent the night with some
spooks.
We were guests of Paranormal
Investigation Team of Tulsa, or P.I.T.T. for short
One of Tulsa's founding fathers was Thomas Gilcrease.
His Gilcrease
Museum is Tulsa's finest, and one of four (count 'em)
tourist attractions that anybody would ever come
to Tulsa to see.
Gilcrease bought the mansion in 1913 and lived in the bottom half
while
upstairs, (don't ask me why) there was an orphanage for Indian
children.
Somehow, Teri got permission (we didn't break in or anything)
for us to
occupy the house from 9 PM until 5 AM. A security guard
sat outside
in his car to notify our next of kin in case it turned all The
Shining on us.
Sidebar:
If you click on the Haunted Places
graphic, they list the Gilcrease Mansion as
an official spooky place,
but I wish there was more info on the web. Since we've
been in K-Drag, we've heard lots of stories
about the place being haunted.
Rumor has it they have to pay the night
watchmen extra because they go thru
more security guards than a normal building
- too many people quit after reporting
that they saw something that appeared to
be Mr. Gilcrease walking around.
I guess that's why our guard stayed in
his car.
The ghost-buster team was:
Teri - Video / EVP/ EMF / Photos
Tina - Notes / Records / Photos / EVP
Darren - Photos / Temp.
Craig - EVP / Photos / Temp
Cindy - EVP / EMF / Photos
Valerie - Dowsing Rods / Photos
Mrs. Bart manned another - EMF
Definitions: EVP - Electronic Voice Phenomena
EMF - Electromagnetic Field (EMF Detector)
They started by getting temperature and EMF readings from each
room.
Then they re-visited each room to get the "feel" for any paranormal
stuff.
(BTW, there was no liquor and no drugs, so I knew they were serious.
Me? Whenever I contact beings from the other dimension
I get all lit up.)
So we killed all the lights, put cardboard over the few windows
that weren't
boarded up and they turned on all their equipment and waited
for Mr Gilcrease.
The more finely-attuned ghost-chasers seemed to feel and sense
certain things.
I could testify under oath that unexplained noises were heard.
They would call
out to the entities with questions and we would hear something
afterwards,
but while I was there we were unable to get any of the noises
to repeat.
Teri would make some exxaggerated step-climbing noises, and we'd
all be
very silent and we could hear a noise from upstairs, but again,
no repeats.
Teri had a killer new digital camera that recorded what they
called "orbs,"
which are tiny dots of light on the recorded image. Some members
said
they felt sudden cold drafts or possible brush ups against something,
but
while I was there no hard evidence beyond the photos was obtained.
For our last hour, we sat or lied down on the floor so as to be
totally motionless.
Some members heard individual things, and once or twice we ALL
heard some
kind of noise and said, "I heard that" simultaneously.
We bailed about 2:30, shortly after I was accused of snoring.
It was a blatantly false accusation, as I was not
snoring.
Teri e-mailed me this report of what we missed:
Hey!
It was so great having you and Mrs. Bart
with us last night! It got pretty hairy after you left.
We roamed around the house for a little
bit then came back downstairs and did another
"sit down" in that hall area. Around
3:30am we heard voices of what sounded like 2 men arguing.
The air got really thick. I went to
check and see if it was the guard talking to anyone outside,
but saw him in his car through the kitchen
window. As I headed back going through the butler's
pantry area, *something* (not Mr Gilcrease
or one of the kids, an adult male) came right up
behind me with a rather frightening feel.
It really startled me. I told him not to sneak up on me
like that and he stayed right on my back,
very eiree. He told me we wore out our welcome.
All the other members got very uneasy,
too. (Some before told of my experience.)
We were all feeling it, it was uncomfortable
and so we packed up and left early.
For their official report Click
Here