Thursday, April 10, 2008

Ghost Hunters - Underground Railroad

The first investigation takes place in Norton, Mass. with a family who has been hearing footsteps, seeing fully body apparitions and their 5 year old daughter has been seen, on nanny cam, interacting with someone in her room although she is alone.
Jason and Grant start in the living room and right away, hear someone running up the front steps and the front door knob jiggle. When Grant goes to the door to see who it is, there is no one around.
Kris and Chris are in the son's room when they hear footsteps from above. Jason and Grant recreate the sounds on the stairs. While debunking Chris's footsteps on the stairs, Grant hears a man say "hello".
Jason & Grant go to the van to monitor the cameras while Steve & Tango go into the house to investigate. Now it's 5 degrees outside and Jason & Grant see Steve sitting next to the nice warm fire place and decide to pull rank and send Steve & Tango back to the van to monitor the cameras.
Jason goes to the daughter's room, finds a crawl space, goes in and sees a shadow. Later, in the basement, they hear more footsteps upstairs and verify that no one else is in the house.
Audio catches a lot of the sounds including the front door latch jiggling. Jason & Grant assure the owner that it doesn't appear anything bad is bothering them, but try not to encourage it. Spirit, sit, stay, don't scare!
The second case is in Trinway, OH at the Prospect Mansion which was built in 1856 to hide runaway slaves and thus becoming part of the underground railroad. The mansion is currently being restored as a historical site. Sounds and sightings have been reported in the mansion and in the barn which is nearby. After the team describes to Steve that the underground railroad had nothing to do with trains, they got down to business. After hearing the story of a bounty hunter who was hanged in the barn, Jason & Grant go there to investigate. As they are walking toward the barn with the thermal camera, a black shape appears on the camera in the second story window. They go directly to the second floor and find no one there.
Jason & Grant go to the mansion's attic where reports say a child is seen and heard. They find a ball and ask the child to move the ball. They hear footsteps right in front of them but the ball does not move. I guess the kid doesn't want to play!
Kris & Tango also go to the attic and get surprised by a rather large bat that keeps swooping down on them. So that should explain why everyone keeps thinking there is something watching them.
Aside from the image on the thermal cam, which was pretty eerie, nothing else was caught on audio or video. J & G feel they didn't find enough evidence to call the mansion haunted but did agree that there may be some paranormal activity. Now, let's go get that engineer's hat for Steve! Double D

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