Paranormal Researchers Investigate 'Real' Haunting

[Althalus]

Lights flickered on and a wooden gate swung open -- as if beckoning toward the widow's walk atop the city's oldest beachside home. Four women stood at the foot of the stairs frozen for a millisecond. "The light turned on by itself!" said Liz Stiles, 51, of Edgewater. Another stunned pause followed. Gulps of air. Then Maureen Ferencz, 52, of Ormond Beach, raised a rectangle-shaped instrument slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes. Peppercorn-sized lights -- a red one, a green one and an orange one -- lit up. Ferencz could hardly contain herself. "I'm getting a reading," Ferencz said quickly. The quartet ascended the spiral stairs -- for another set of intense exclamations about how their instruments might be showing what they can't see with their own eyes: Spirits inhabit this 119-year-old home known as Lilian Place. Ferencz and Stiles are part of a fledgling ghost-hunting group, Halifax Hauntings, that, last week, spent from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. trying to measure the amount of ghostly activity in the home that's being renovated into a bed-and-breakfast inn. The group, led by Ferencz's son, Scott, 34, has done the same at the Live Oak Inn and the Halifax Historical Society.

Armed with a night-vision camera, electromagnetic field detectors and an electronic voice phenomena recorder -- mostly donated by the Daytona Beach-based business, Spook Tech -- the group also intends to record spectral activity at the Daytona Playhouse and various local cemeteries, such as Pilgrim's Rest.

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[soulfire78]

Imagine, someday technology may allow us to utterly prove or disprove the existence of ghosts.

[thepsychoticseaotter]

It's amazing how much respesct the hunters are finally getting. Like soulfire I believe the day is coming where we can finally get behind the phenominon.

[Kismit]

Personally I can't work out wether it's a book deal or a television show they'll do next .

Great article Al ...

Another thing that interests me is why do you think sairways have such an influence over the way we feel . It's allways the place a presence is most felt . Is it an area that builds up electromagnetic energy ? Or is it a more benign reptiillian sector of the mind response . Where the person on the steps responds to a level of fear induced by the inner knowlege that your escape roots are lessened . Basic self preservation . Stair wells are terrible feung-shui you know...

[soulfire78]

Where the person on the steps responds to a level of fear induced by the inner knowlege that your escape roots are lessened . Basic self preservation . Stair wells are terrible feung-shui you know...

It could be this and the the fact that people's depth perception isn't perfect, wich may create a heightened sense of anxiety for some, when it comes to stairs. Our minds are powerful, and unfortunately don't always work FOR us.