In my weekly exploration of paranormal history, I look back to the first time I stepped into haunted locations as a journalism student in Edmonton, Alberta in 1992.
It's funny reflecting back on this first encounter with haunted locations and how I felt about it at the time. I had high expectations, and I think many people who go "ghost hunting" have high expectations - so when those high expectations are not met, some people invent the ghosts they actually see, or interpret shapes in photos that otherwise would not be interpreted as ghosts. Others retreat to extreme scepticism, where they can no longer enjoy the possibility that ghostly things do happen.
I didn't invent anything spectacular or retreat to cynicism. I remained very fascinated by the ghostly accounts I read about. And I feel very fortunate that my life has led me to pursuing a study of these phenomena! Everything that I have experienced since has only fortified my view that weird things happen in this wondrous world of ours.
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cheers,
Chris
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QUOTE(remoteplanet @ Jul 19 2007, 10:09 AM) 
In my weekly exploration of paranormal history, I look back to the first time I stepped into haunted locations as a journalism student in Edmonton, Alberta in 1992.
It's funny reflecting back on this first encounter with haunted locations and how I felt about it at the time. I had high expectations, and I think many people who go "ghost hunting" have high expectations - so when those high expectations are not met, some people invent the ghosts they actually see, or interpret shapes in photos that otherwise would not be interpreted as ghosts. Others retreat to extreme scepticism, where they can no longer enjoy the possibility that ghostly things do happen.
I didn't invent anything spectacular or retreat to cynicism. I remained very fascinated by the ghostly accounts I read about. And I feel very fortunate that my life has led me to pursuing a study of these phenomena! Everything that I have experienced since has only fortified my view that weird things happen in this wondrous world of ours.
Click here to read the full article.
cheers,
Chris
So there's nothing spectacular in the article either is what your saying? It's funny reflecting back on this first encounter with haunted locations and how I felt about it at the time. I had high expectations, and I think many people who go "ghost hunting" have high expectations - so when those high expectations are not met, some people invent the ghosts they actually see, or interpret shapes in photos that otherwise would not be interpreted as ghosts. Others retreat to extreme scepticism, where they can no longer enjoy the possibility that ghostly things do happen.
I didn't invent anything spectacular or retreat to cynicism. I remained very fascinated by the ghostly accounts I read about. And I feel very fortunate that my life has led me to pursuing a study of these phenomena! Everything that I have experienced since has only fortified my view that weird things happen in this wondrous world of ours.
Click here to read the full article.
cheers,
Chris
.....I can't wait to read it! 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olmlEaMf2wg
Ya know thats kind of a cool link actually 
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I ended up interviewing Ron Hlady, a preservation technician at the historic and haunted downtown McKay Avenue School. The school is now a museum and archives run by the Edmonton Public School Board. The building was actually the site of Alberta's first two legislative sessions in 1906 and 1907. The government rented the third floor assembly hall from the Protestant School Board for $400 per session, and it was in that room that politicians made the decision to make Edmonton Alberta's capital. After that, the young provincial government moved its sessions to cheaper digs until the current domed Legislature was built for it in 1911.
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Hlady told me about how objects mysteriously moved around and strange noises were heard at the school. In the late 1980s, Hlady and a co-worker were setting up chairs on the top floor of the building. They both left the room for a few minutes and returned to find the chairs scattered about, although no one else was in the building at the time. Hlady also recalled how lights had been turned on and off mysteriously, water taps have been found running when they should have been turned off, and the alarms in the building have been triggered without reasonable explanation.
Oh Barek - you're such a card! 
Chris
Chris
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