Describing the "true and shocking tale of a soul-eating house," Rosemary Ellen Guiley, a self-described paranormal researcher and investigator, told the story of a haunted house at a ghost conference here on Saturday. "Everything we're going to learn about today is real," she told some 75 people at the third annual New Jersey Ghost Hunters Society conference at the Hackettstown Community Center. "It's a soul-eating house because, if you die in the home, you don't leave," Guiley said. Guiley described the stories of several people who died in the home and whose ghosts still occupy the building. Among them is a farmer who committed suicide in 1795 and "is probably buried on the property," she said. Guiley and Karl Petry, a psychic and a man who said he can see ghosts, both described their experiences with the Millburn home during the daylong conference. Petry would not provide the exact address of the building, but he did note that on his first trip there with another psychic colleague in 2001, "our minds started to spin." He could see ghosts as he spoke with the home's owner, who contacted him to examine the house, Petry said. It is not entirely clear why ghosts are tied to that particular home, both Guiley and Petry told the audience, though they offered several guesses. "These are purely speculatory paranormal hypotheses,"Guiley told the crowd, "but I think the energy of the place has a lot to do with it." The building also can "sit on an inter-dimensional doorway,"she said. "The spirit world, if you don't know it already, is a serious place," Kelly Weaver, who presented audio and video of various haunts at the conference, warned her audience. John Wilton, a member of the New Jersey Ghost Hunters Society since 2000, called Saturday's turnout "the best I've ever seen."
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