Phantoms and Monsters

Michigan Inn Haunted By Past Residents
When the FBI Comes Knocking....
'Imp' Reported in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:12 AM PDT

GHT - Using "state-of-the-art" equipment such as split screen monitors, infrared cameras and high-tech audio recorders, the The Mid-Michigan Paranormal Investigators team works to capture the sights and sounds of apparitions at locations reported to be haunted.

According to Matt Moyer, lead investigator, if they can't record it, it didn't happen.

"We probably have the most equipment of any investigators in the state," said Moyer. "We don't talk to each other during an investigation. If we hear or see something we write it down and discuss it after as a group. That's to avoid the power of suggestion or mass hysteria. Sometimes we hear or see the same things but if we don't capture it on the equipment, we don't consider it proven."

The most recent haunting they've investigated is at the old historic Otsego Lake Inn, 7441 1st Court St., one block off Old 27 South. The inn was once the Otsego County Courthouse when the Village of Otsego Lake was the county seat. Research suggests the building also has been a community center, dance hall, restaurant, tavern, funeral home and brothel at different periods.

Rumors have circulated among neighbors for years about the ghosts at the old inn. One of the most prevalent is that an influenza epidemic swept the county when it was a brothel and some of the girls died. The speculation is that it is those young women who haunt the inn.

"I have a very good researcher and he could find no record of the epidemic," said Moyer. "He did locate information that the Inn had been a brothel twice, during World War I and again during World War II."

Moyer, and his wife, Melanie, co-founder and also a lead investigator for the team, have been in the paranormal business for seven years. Their interest in haunting was motivated by frightening phenomena they experienced in a home they'd bought downstate nine years ago.

"The lights and stereo kept coming on and going off by themselves," Moyer said. "The motors on appliances kept exploding. I'm an electrician and I had new transformers installed outside and the entire house rewired because I thought it was an electrical problem. It still kept happening. A washer motor spun out and it was empty; we weren't running it. Then the children started to be affected. Their sliding windows would shake and start to open and close. They saw shadows outside their windows that scared them. We loved that house, but we had to give it up."

The team that investigated the Otsego Lake Inn were composed of Moyer, his wife; Steve Allen of Vanderbilt, investigator and cameraman; Lynn Hays, an investigator from Holly; and psychic Tammey Schuster of Traverse City. Herald Times photographer, Bill Serveny, was invited along to document the investigation.

"A few things happened in the upstairs that we can't explain," Moyer reported. "We heard the voices of two different women. One of them chuckled, like she was laughing at us, but in a calm, friendly way. Another said 'Yeah,' when I asked a question. But we didn't capture it on our equipment so, as far as we're concerned, it hasn't been proven. I'd like to go back and try again to see if we can capture it."

The voices were confirmed by one of the other investigators. Allen, a stained-glass artist and postal worker, was upstairs with Moyer at the time.

"We were on the second floor, which has multiple rooms," Allen said. "Matt did a 'call and response,' where you call out a question to see if you get a response. Everybody in the hall heard the voices. We all said, 'Did you hear that?'"

One mysterious occurrence which, no doubt, has a logical technical explanation, is a photograph taken by the Herald Times photographer that day. Serveny took three photos of Moyer sitting in the dark, recording something on his laptop. Two of the photos turned out fine, but one looked like a double exposure of Moyer with a strange swirl of light connecting the two images.

A professional photographer for 40 years, Serveny is adamant he did not take a double exposure, which can't be done accidentally on a digital camera, but requires the changing of settings. Although he can't explain what did happen, he insisted it wasn't anything he'd done on purpose.

The Otsego Lake Inn is owned by Tracy and Charles Booth. They live downstate but spend extensive time at the inn with their extended family.

Tracy and her husband were outside the inn during the investigation. She found the idea of having the paranormal team there to be "fun," but thinks many of the old rumors about the inn are exaggerated.

"Do I think the house is haunted?" Tracy asked, rhetorically. "No. But I certainly have had spiritual experiences there with loved ones who've passed; my mother, my father, my grandparents — the sort of things that happen to a lot of people — you're thinking or praying about someone who is gone and suddenly a bulb burns out or something and you think it might be a sign from them.

"The psychic told me that she picked up a lot of happy feelings as she went through the inn," Tracy continued. "My family has been connected to Otsego Lake for seven generations. My great-grandmother played piano everyday until she died, back when the inn was a community center. We've owned it for 21 years, and we've been very, very happy there."

Michigan Inn Haunted By Past Residents

When the FBI Comes Knocking....

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 06:47 AM PDT

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Statement with video: June 11, 2010 — I wonder who ordered this?? The Joint Terrorism Task Force Division of the FBI Visits an Austin Peace Activist to Question About Pre-Crimes On April 21, 2010. I quote- Two agents of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) came to my house to talk to me, a part time peace volunteer. After verifying that they really were with the FBI, I asked them to wait. I shut my door, took a deep breath, and grabbed my video camera. I want to thank Jeffry Zavala for:
* Helping me remain anonymous in this video
* For creating something to help you if the FBI ever knocks on your door to question you about pre-crimes.

For more information about what to do if you FBI knocks on your door go to What to Do if the FBI Comes to Your Door

NOTE: I'm not going to say if I agree with this woman's political beliefs or not...that's not the point. The fact that the Feds are questioning a citizen for peacefully protesting is ridiculous and basically BS. Not a very good example of freedom and democracy for those other countries who we feel need to follow our same Constitutional doctrine, IMO...Lon

When the FBI Comes Knocking....

'Imp' Reported in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 06:09 AM PDT

This strange post comes from Scott Corrales at Inexplicata

Source: La Republica
Date: 06.10.10

Uruguay: An "Imp" Over Nueva Palmira

COLONIA – It is the talk of the town in Nueva Palmira. Several local residents claim having seen an imp or an alien – opinions vary – over an electric power line. After repeated complaints, police officers and agents of the local Prefecture visited the site. [Witnesses] claim it measured 25 centimeters. It arrived flying and and would move around, bothered by flashlight beams

A colorful imp appeared in Nueva Palmira this weekend, suspended over a high voltage line leading to the port. The phenomenon was reported by several locals, who saw the phenomenon moving some four feet over the surface of the wire. Police and Prefecture personnel visited the area. The [figure] shrank until it vanished around four in the morning.

The phenomenon has caused a sensation in Nueva Palmira, after word spread that an alleged "imp" or extraterrestrial being had arrived, flying, to the corner of Calle Ultramar in the general direction of the port zone.

This is how journalist Roberto Tatto told the story on Tuesday on Nueva Palmira's Cono Sur radio station, and how it was repeated to LA REPUBLICA, according to eyewitness accounts. "The event occurred last Saturday night at the traffic distributor that leads to the port," he explained. "A shop owner came outside and saw a light. He was startled to see it at a given altitude. It remained suspended from one of the wires. He summoned his wife and some of his shop's patrons to come out for a look. They approached and saw from below that the figure changed colors. It had the shape of a doll. They pointed a flashlight at it, and it started to move around, as if bothered by the light. It was a 25 centimeter long "doll" moving over the cable. Later on, the Police arrived with high powered beams and it began moving more, as if becoming nervous. It moved its head and shuddered."

According to this story, the phenomenon was witnessed by several locals, who according to the fellow journalist " were afraid to come any closer, because (the being) seemed be annoyed by the beams" as it stood over the high-voltage wires.

Hours went by and efforts were made to photograph with a cellphone, "but we later saw that it didn't come out right," they explained. The phenomenon lasted until around 4:00 a.m., when the figure contracted slowly until it vanished. A pearl-colored "goo" was left behind as the only tangible evidence, the local journalist told La Republica. He claims that the eyewitness accounts hint at something with characteristics that were "less than mundane."

Discussion over whether it was an "imp" or an extraterrestrial manifestation continues to dominate the daily agenda among the residents of Nueva Palmira.

NOTE: not the first time I have seen or heard an alien referred to as an 'imp'. I hope someone can grab an image of this being...Lon

'Imp' Reported in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay

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