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“The little girl started communicating with us, and I said, ‘Could you touch me?’ and I got a tingling running up one arm. Tears were just coming out of my eyes and I wanted to feel the vibrations, so I sat on the floor. I asked if she would touch me and I felt like hands were touching my face,” Krasel said.
Three people took photographs at the same time, and as the flashes went off, Krasel saw the “see-through, light-colored” image of a girl with long hair looking at her. Krasel had the impression of a girl between the ages of 4 and 5 about three feet in front of her. “We were excited,” Krasel said. “The energy around all of us was incredible. She’d come back and I’d say ‘Hi, sweetheart.’”
One group who hunted 318 had an audio recording of what sounded like a young girl’s cry or laugh, though no young children were in the hotel at the time. According to the inn’s “ghost register” where guests record their experiences, laughing and running children are one of the most common phenomena experienced in the halls.
Olivia Church of Boone, a member of Ghostly Appalachian Paranormal Society, made her fifth visit to the inn. She has been interested in the paranormal since she was 12 and though she found little new evidence, she enjoyed the opportunity to explore the metaphysical frontiers with like-minded people.
“It’s wonderful having this many people want to study the paranormal here, because it (paranormal activity) is here,” Church said, noting she believed the inn had supernatural activity. She didn’t discover anything she would consider “evidence,” but she planned to review her video footage, digital information on three audio recorders, and images on two digital cameras and a 35 mm camera. She expects it will take about four days to review all the material.
“I’m looking for shadowy figures,” Church said. “I’ll just be looking for something out of the ordinary.”
Sarah T. Harrison, the founder and lead investigator of Asheville Paranormal Society, said her group attends many paranormal conferences. “I’ve just always been interested in it,” she said. “I was raised in South Carolina and I grew up on ghost stories. There are a lot of ghost stories in Asheville.
“It’s a new place and a chance to learn new stories and maybe get some great photographs,” Harrison said. She rated the inn at about “medium” on the scale of supernatural activity, based on other supposedly haunted locations she has investigated.
Tina McSwain, founder of the Charlotte Area Paranormal Society, said it was her first conference.
“We actually got a good bit of paranormal evidence and we’ll definitely be back next year,” She said. She considers electromagnetic levels, thermometer readings, images and other material to be corroborating evidence of the supernatural.
McSwain said her roommate had the bed covers yanked off in the night, so they decided to investigate their room as well as the more notorious rooms at the inn. She said the dining room was where her group experienced the most phenomena, with visual and personal experiences as well as impressions of an entity the group dubbed “The Waiter,” though she felt there was another, smaller shadow present as well.
She said her camera turned on and off by itself twice while in Room 318, and she also experienced unusual electromagnetic readings in the room. “I can’t wait to come back,” she said.
Joe Wright, head of Paranormal Scene Investigators, had 16 video cameras recording non-stop during the conference and scheduled the hunting groups. PSI brought nine people to serve as crew, organizing the attendees into different hunting groups. He said it wasn’t an ideal hunting environment because of too much foot traffic and noise, but said solid evidence could appear in any situation.
Wright said it would be takes his crew weeks to sift through all of the video footage for anomalies or mysterious lights. “Class A evidence always stands out,” he said.
Like many investigators, he’s not necessarily seeking proof of spirits or the afterlife. Rather, he tries to scientifically explain the phenomena that some people may consider unusual.
“It’s more pieces to the puzzle,” Wright said. “Not that the puzzle will ever be complete, but the puzzle keeps getting bigger. It’s like working from the inside of a puzzle and you work out from the middle, but it never gets finished,” Wright said.
Chris Meeks, who drove from Gainesville, Fla. To attend the conference, said he’d conducted numerous investigations and was part of the Room 318 experiment. “I love ghost-hunting, obviously,” he said. “The inn’s definitely active, at least from the stuff I’ve captured. A couple of rooms, for certain.”
Meeks said he looked for any type of encounter, seeking out unusual places and pursuing the supernatural as a pastime and passion.
“I consider myself a skeptic, but I’m an open-minded skeptic,” he said. “If I never see it, how can I believe it? If I do see it, then I believe it.”
A 2007 paranormal investigation at the Green Park Inn
Conference promotional video at YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqArJiFDSYY
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