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Posted on 05/01/2005 3:21:48 PM PDT by CurlyBill
VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Maintenance workers have sworn for years that the Porter County Courthouse is haunted.
Sometimes they have heard voices yelling their names. Chairs inexplicably moved in dark courtrooms at night. The elevator operates unprompted some evenings. And some swear they have seen a shadowy, ghoulish figure wearing a black top hat.
So Friday night, at the urging of the county attorney and with permission of the County Commission, volunteer paranormalists combed the aged courthouse looking for signs of the netherworld.
"Someone is in here resisting us," said Julie Bodnar, a self-described clairvoyant, standing in a courtroom and feeling what she described as spiritual oppression. "I can feel the anger."
And for four hours, seven members of the Indiana Ghost Trackers tiptoed through the five-story courthouse armed with digital cameras, tape recorders, infrared thermometers, ion counters and electromagnetic-field detectors.
The aim: to listen, feel and gauge the presence of spirits, including that of a man who reportedly leaped to his death on these grounds in the 1800s.
And although the trackers said they won't know the results until analyzing their data for a week or so, they already have sure signs of unusual activity that they ultimately will relay to the commission, they said.
Bodnar, an office manager by day and psychic in her spare time, had feelings that someone once was beaten and bound on the courthouse steps. In a few of the courtrooms, she sensed restless spirits who, like many real-life defendants, are none too pleased about being there.
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So when was the last time "paranormalists" performed an investigation at a site, and found no signs of paranormal activity?
Seems they have a "paranormally" high success rate at finding paranormal activity.
They need to get someone like my boss on the case, a self-described ghost chaser.
My boss is otherwise pretty nice, but I find this stuff kind of wacky. Guess my hobby of being on FR as much as I am might seem wacky to many, too.
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Thanks for article & ping Bill... Never thought I would see the day when Ghosts were a refreshing addition to "news"..
:)
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