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http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/961452.asp?0dm=b17mt&cp1=1
Police call in the ghostbusters
Things go bump in the night at Kentucky town’s police HQ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHELBYVILLE, Ky., Sept. 4 — Stumped by mysterious sights and sounds in their own headquarters, who did police call? Ghostbusters.
Do you believe in ghosts?
* 7429 responses
Yes. 34%
Not ghosts, but maybe paranormal phenomena. 30%
No way. 24%
I just can't say. 11%
IN THE STILL of night, doors rattled and stairwells creaked in the city’s police department. In the light of day, a secretary’s desk drawer opened on its own. A city worker who toured the building late one night even reported feeling something grab her leg.
So the police took the probe to another dimension.
“The way I treat it is not that there is a ghost, there’s just things that I can’t explain,” said Officer John Wilson, who contacted the Scientific Investigative Ghost Hunting Team, based in Louisville.
The team of professional paranormal investigators gave the brick building a preliminary review and will return this fall for a thorough probe. The group will set up cameras and tape recorders as well as infrared thermometers to capture any temperature variations.
The goal is to try to prove the strange occurrences aren’t caused by paranormal forces, said Kay Owen, vice president of the nonprofit ghosting hunting team, which doesn’t charge for its services.
“We’ll go in and try to re-create everything that they are experiencing,” she said. “If they can re-create it, it’s not paranormal. It can be explained. It’s a process of elimination.”
The team already determined the doors are hung properly on hinges.
19TH-CENTURY STRUCTURE
In the spring, police in this town, about 20 miles east of Louisville, moved into the brick building, part of which was renovated and dates back to the 19th century. The rest of the headquarters was built new.
Wilson, a regular on the night shift, said Wednesday he started noticing unexplainable events soon after the headquarters opened.
One night, he was stuffing paperwork into a mail slot when he noticed a door to his left jiggling. “It was like someone was trying to get in but didn’t have the key,” Wilson said.
Wilson checked and no one was on the other side of the door.
The following nights, Wilson and other officers heard knocking on doors and walls. Sometimes, doors opened and closed on their own. Quick checks turned up no one responsible, he said. Other nights, officers heard what seemed to be footsteps on the stairs, but again no one was there, he said.
Once, officers and members of the ghost hunting team came across what seemed to be a strange column of heat in an upstairs hallway, Wilson said. He starting sweating in one part of the hallway where it was extremely hot, he said. A few steps away it turned cool, he said.
“We can’t explain that. It’s still under investigation,” Owen said.
‘A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS’
Wilson said a half-dozen officers have seen or heard strange things at the headquarters. He said they aren’t jumping to any conclusions.
“Nobody’s seen a big, shadowy figure walking around or anything like that,” Wilson said. “It’s just lots of little things that make you scratch your head and wonder what’s going on.
“I’m not making it out to be like ‘Poltergeist.’”
Police Chief Stewart Shirley said his officers haven’t been unnerved by the occurrences.
“When something happens, I think they kind of look at each other and their eyes open wide, they grin and say, ‘Let’s go see what this is,’” Shirley said. “And they kind of walk through and check things out and laugh about it and move on.”
Shirley said he has seen the desk drawer open on its own at an administrative assistant’s desk. Shirley said he has not seen any other strange occurrences but believes the accounts of Wilson and the others. “So I’m just kind of leaving it up in the air right now,” Shirley said.
‘The fear of the unknown is probably one of the biggest fears that humans have.’ — JOHN WILSON, Shelbyville police officer
Wendy Rutledge, a deputy city clerk, said once while touring the headquarters at night she felt something grab her right calf.
“It was warm at first and then after that it tingled,” she said. “It was a strange sensation.”
Rutledge placed a teddy bear on the second floor of the headquarters after she saw what she believed was the face of a young child.
Wilson, meanwhile, said he thinks the strange occurrences can be explained, which he hopes the ghost hunters will do. “Because the fear of the unknown is probably one of the biggest fears that humans have,” Wilson said.
© 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/961452.asp?0dm=b17mt&cp1=1
Police call in the ghostbusters
Things go bump in the night at Kentucky town’s police HQ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHELBYVILLE, Ky., Sept. 4 — Stumped by mysterious sights and sounds in their own headquarters, who did police call? Ghostbusters.
Do you believe in ghosts?
* 7429 responses
Yes. 34%
Not ghosts, but maybe paranormal phenomena. 30%
No way. 24%
I just can't say. 11%
IN THE STILL of night, doors rattled and stairwells creaked in the city’s police department. In the light of day, a secretary’s desk drawer opened on its own. A city worker who toured the building late one night even reported feeling something grab her leg.
So the police took the probe to another dimension.
“The way I treat it is not that there is a ghost, there’s just things that I can’t explain,” said Officer John Wilson, who contacted the Scientific Investigative Ghost Hunting Team, based in Louisville.
The team of professional paranormal investigators gave the brick building a preliminary review and will return this fall for a thorough probe. The group will set up cameras and tape recorders as well as infrared thermometers to capture any temperature variations.
The goal is to try to prove the strange occurrences aren’t caused by paranormal forces, said Kay Owen, vice president of the nonprofit ghosting hunting team, which doesn’t charge for its services.
“We’ll go in and try to re-create everything that they are experiencing,” she said. “If they can re-create it, it’s not paranormal. It can be explained. It’s a process of elimination.”
The team already determined the doors are hung properly on hinges.
19TH-CENTURY STRUCTURE
In the spring, police in this town, about 20 miles east of Louisville, moved into the brick building, part of which was renovated and dates back to the 19th century. The rest of the headquarters was built new.
Wilson, a regular on the night shift, said Wednesday he started noticing unexplainable events soon after the headquarters opened.
One night, he was stuffing paperwork into a mail slot when he noticed a door to his left jiggling. “It was like someone was trying to get in but didn’t have the key,” Wilson said.
Wilson checked and no one was on the other side of the door.
The following nights, Wilson and other officers heard knocking on doors and walls. Sometimes, doors opened and closed on their own. Quick checks turned up no one responsible, he said. Other nights, officers heard what seemed to be footsteps on the stairs, but again no one was there, he said.
Once, officers and members of the ghost hunting team came across what seemed to be a strange column of heat in an upstairs hallway, Wilson said. He starting sweating in one part of the hallway where it was extremely hot, he said. A few steps away it turned cool, he said.
“We can’t explain that. It’s still under investigation,” Owen said.
‘A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS’
Wilson said a half-dozen officers have seen or heard strange things at the headquarters. He said they aren’t jumping to any conclusions.
“Nobody’s seen a big, shadowy figure walking around or anything like that,” Wilson said. “It’s just lots of little things that make you scratch your head and wonder what’s going on.
“I’m not making it out to be like ‘Poltergeist.’”
Police Chief Stewart Shirley said his officers haven’t been unnerved by the occurrences.
“When something happens, I think they kind of look at each other and their eyes open wide, they grin and say, ‘Let’s go see what this is,’” Shirley said. “And they kind of walk through and check things out and laugh about it and move on.”
Shirley said he has seen the desk drawer open on its own at an administrative assistant’s desk. Shirley said he has not seen any other strange occurrences but believes the accounts of Wilson and the others. “So I’m just kind of leaving it up in the air right now,” Shirley said.
‘The fear of the unknown is probably one of the biggest fears that humans have.’ — JOHN WILSON, Shelbyville police officer
Wendy Rutledge, a deputy city clerk, said once while touring the headquarters at night she felt something grab her right calf.
“It was warm at first and then after that it tingled,” she said. “It was a strange sensation.”
Rutledge placed a teddy bear on the second floor of the headquarters after she saw what she believed was the face of a young child.
Wilson, meanwhile, said he thinks the strange occurrences can be explained, which he hopes the ghost hunters will do. “Because the fear of the unknown is probably one of the biggest fears that humans have,” Wilson said.
© 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I'm not entirely sure what to think about ghosts, but I think I believe in them. Never had any kind of paranormal experiences, though...
