Ghost Hunters - Florida

TAPS goes to the Sunshine State for this episode. First up is the Seven Sisters Inn in Ocala, FL. There are two buildings to the inn, the purple house and the pink house, and it is built on a Seminole Indian battle ground. Sounds like a hot spot to me! Reports are the usual full body apparitions along with shadow people and objects moving. One of the employees says she saw a man sitting in a chair and when she turned around he was gone but came back and picked up the chair and threw it over her head. Then she tells a story of when she tripped down the stairs when something grabbed her shirt and hauled her back up the stairs. I'm thinking she is hitting the bottle at work!

J & G are in the purple house for a couple of minutes when they hear footsteps and whispering. They have their trusty K2 meter and something keeps lighting it up in response to Jason asking it to light it up. They send in Kris & Tango who also hear the footsteps right away.

In the pink house, Jason takes off his flip flops at the bottom of the stairs to see if he can whatever it is to push him down the stairs. At the top of the stairs, he sees a shadow dart past him. There have been reports of a small child seen at the top of the stairs. Jason comes back down to put on his flip flops and finds one of them missing. J & G search the whole house and finally find the wayward flip flop in the middle of the last room they search. Looks like the shadow kid wanted to play hide and seek.

That was pretty much it at the inn. Nothing was found on audio or video but Jason still says there is "something" going on.

It's on to St. Petersburg, FL and the Renaissance Vinoy Resort. Built in 1925 this was the "in" place to stay for the stars. Now, major league baseball players who play the Tampa Bay Rays stay here. The ball players all refuse to stay on the fifth floor unless they buddy up. Some reports are full body apparitions and footsteps in the ballroom. The team is able to spend the night on the fifth floor without any other guests which will make their investigation much easier.

Jason takes a room that has had the most activity. As they are checking their camera hookups, Jason notices the closet door in his room is open. After rewinding the tape, they find that the ironing board had fallen opening the closet door. Now they couldn't leave it alone so J & G go to the room and test the ironing board. Grant gets in the closet and tips the board against the door, it doesn't open. Not until Grant gives the ironing board a good shove does it finally open the door. They both agree it could not have done that on it's own.

Jason's room continues to be active through the night. He hears voices which wake him up. The voices are caught on tape and Jason says it sound like "just leave here." That probably would have done it for me! The team says that whatever is there isn't dangerous but just wants it's presence known. Double D