Our group just completed a ghost hunt at a residence where recently departed loved ones are now “making a stand” and showing themselves to other family members. An interesting case since the mother of the resident passed away about seven years ago and the father two years ago and now it seems that the evidence points to them being together again. Yes – dear, sweet Mother, and “the old goat” Dad, is back!

Mom doesn’t seem to be a problem but she does mark her presence with small drops of indigo blue dye or food-coloring in the strangest places. Dad just growls a bit, whispers, and sits in his old recliner when he’s not moving  items around.

But, at the same time there are also a couple of former residents who are unwilling to give up the old homestead and take their heavenly rewards. They have made themselves known to the residents in small, but interesting, ways.

There are shadows on the walls, with movement between the bathroom where one of them passed over and the living room where a set of handmade crows occasionally turn to look around the room - and light bulbs blow out – A LOT!

The family that lives in the home near Gosport, Indiana, has been there for many years and will continue to do so.

After all, it’s just family.

Speaking of family, check out the featured photo I have placed on the media page. This was taken about eight months ago by a concerned father who often heard his daughter speaking in baby-talk to someone in her room. She was saying “Grandpa” over and over and reaching toward the closed closet doors in her room. Previous to this picture she had, in her own special way, mentioned several times about playing with the “man” in her room, but since she wasn’t frightened by the presence there was no concern to the parents – after all her room was right next to theirs.

Now that she is older and talks in a more understandable manner, she still speaks of the man and has actually picked him out from among a box of old WW 2 war photos. It is her Great-grandfather and now he even brings a “friend” to see her, “Uncle Kenny”. Uncle Kenny was a great-uncle who passed away nine years ago. Confirming his identity, she picked his face out of a group of old family photos too.

Let me know what you think of the photo after looking at it carefully. Our group has taken an intense interest in this case, especially our mediums, because they think the little girl has a psychic talent for the paranormal herself and is starting to attract the spirits. This could be quite exciting!

We have several investigation locations lined up for the summer, and one could be a potentially huge project for us. If you have a location for us to investigate, just email me. We appreciate your feedback and look forward to discussing any of our cases with you if you have questions.

Shout-out to Leann in Osceola, Indiana! Thomas House is awesome anytime and every time!

Sincerely,

Carol Farrell

2013 is a new year for us, and the second annual Paragon Paranormal – Shadow Chasers ghost hunt for Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana. (Hopefully this will become a yearly event!) In a few days we will be entering the school for an evening to teach some of the older students how to hunt ghosts. Last year we had a fantastic time with only very few of the kids so this year we are opening it up to more of the secondary school students and making it a learning experience for them and their parents. Hopefully, some of the teachers will take part also in our endeavor.

Paragon Paranormal is setting up a group to return to The Whispers Estate in Mitchell, Indiana. We are limiting the group to only eight or nine individuals since the house is relatively small and we already have five of our regular investigators signed up to go with us. Since The Whispers charges ghost hunters for a night at the house there will be a small fee associated with this investigation. We’re not in this hobby to make money so it will be a fairly split cost among the eight who will be going. The amount will depend on the day of the week; it’s more costly on the weekends.  Please let us know if you want to join us.

Also on the paranormal front, I have a very good friend in Owen County, Indiana, who is in the process of starting a forum to discuss “Earth Changes“. This will include actual earth changes and astronomical events, Planet X information, Bigfoot  and other strange animal sightings in our area, thoughts on the current popular beliefs of the ”thinning of the veil”, ghost house locations and stories, crypto-blasts, ect. Again, please contact us if you would be interested in coming to such an event and participating in the conversations.

We just were informed that our closest neighbor thought he heard Mothman was in his tree last night when he went outside to check out some howling or weird calling noises. I heard some really strange calls (that I immediately knew were not coyote calls) around 3:00 a.m. a few nights ago, but…it has now been determined that the local neighborhood Barred Owl is back!  Lesson? It’s not always paranormal even though it’s strange!

Let us know through our website if you are interested in going with us to The Whispers or attending an “Earth Changes Forum” sometime. Both events will be great for anyone interested spirits and in the strange and unusual.

Sincerely,

Carol

The morning sun brightens up stately old house.

Spring is almost here and we are looking forward to it. We hate cold weather. Bob and I managed to get away and go south two times to visit the innkeepers and the spirits at the Thomas House Inn, but the weather was not much better there in Tennessee.

But, the short investigations were good and we did get some evidence to share with the rest of our group. Two photos of an unknown shadow taken in the dark lobby of the inn were the first successful photos taken of such an entity for quite a while. The Thomas House has a lot of shadows and a lot of spirits!

I’m still waiting for someone to send us their Bigfoot encounters or UFO experiences. I know there have been such happenings in central Indiana, but experiences from anywhere in the nation would be great too.

We will be returning to Harmony School this spring to share an investigation with some of the older students. A large building, it takes more than a few of us to cover all the open hallways and classrooms.

There are several other locations in the planning book, but most people are waiting till warmer weather to have their investigations performed.

Please stay in touch. We love the emails and photos you send us and as stated before, we will keep them confidential if requested.

Sincerely,

Carol

Looking carefully, one can see the spirit image of the side of a man moving through the room at this residence.

It’s a new year and it’s a good time to make some changes.

We have decided to expand our research into areas other than just ghost hunting. Spirits and ghosts will always be our primary research subjects, but there are paranormal areas which we are fond of which can bring almost as much excitement to the “hunt and chase”.

Between ghost hunts Bob and I and a couple of our other members, read, study and sometimes  actually search for the elusive, large and hairy, primate most call Bigfoot or Sasquatch. He has been spotted by some very reliable individuals in Morgan-Monroe Forestry, Yellow Wood State Forest ( Brown County) and in the area around Beechgrove Road and Little Hurricane Road in Morgan County. Bob has had his own sightings and in fact had contacted Larry Batson, local Bigfoot expert during the summer his experience occurred. BFRO on the Animal Planet channel recently presented a show of their investigations at the Morgan-Monroe Forestry.

If  any of you have a “Bigfoot” incident you would like to tell us about, let us know. All names will be kept confidential as will exact locations, if requested.

If you have any incidents with other strange creatures, we would also be interested in hearing about that too. I’m requesting this myself since I am intrigued by the “Mothman” of Point Pleasant, West Virginia and the “Bell Witch” of Adams County, Tennessee.  We know there are many strange creatures out there that need to be talked about.

The next paranormal subject we would like to delve into more would be the subject of UFOs and any creatures associated with them. A couple of us are members of MUFON, (Mutual UFO Network) a national organization interested in learning and investigating possible UFO sightings and encounters.

(All of us think the U.S. Air Force was lying to the public  about the existence of UFOs with the piece of printed fiction they called Project Bluebook. Even their chief investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynak, became a believer while doing the study!)

Again, if you have any incidents about unidentified flying objects to report, please let us know.

We’re really excited about expanding our studies to these other areas. After all, you must be open to ideas and willing to listen to others experiences to be a good paranormal investigator.

Carol

Honor Our Veterans and Our Heros

Really? Did you really expect some global changes or disasters to occur on 12/21/12?  Maybe a secret government experiment to go horribly wrong? Or galactic invaders or our sun to hit us with a kill shot? Maybe you thought that riots would break out or everyone would wake up with horrible boils all over their bodies from radiation poisoning?

It’s over – but if you check with the WebBots, we’ve entered a black hole of being able to predict future events at least until the middle of May 2013.

The past few months have brought about a change in the field of physics, specifically on July 4th, when the very expensive Swiss Hadron Collider (the large one!) discovered the elusive, but much-anticipated,  “Higgs Boson”.  An important part of our atomic existence, it has been called the final piece in standard physics which accounts for our very existence and all the material things around us.

This discovery has taken us into a new  understanding of the physics we were taught in school but it also opens up the door to more elusive realms, including the realm where spirits may roam – the area of dark matter? Could the spirit world hide in the areas where everyday science has been unable to tread, and unwilling to admit to, until now?

We can only hope.

Happy New Year!!!

Carol

Just a quick reminder that the ancient calender of the now defunct Aztec civilization (or is that Mayan?) has predicted great changes for our world starting the week of December 21st, 2012. They calculated and predicted the end of an age, but not the end of the world so the changes probably will not be too challanging for all of us.

But, if you are a worry wort and truly think ancient Indians of the New World can predict our demise, then start saying your good-byes now, max out your credit cards for a spectacular Christmas blow-out (because you wll not have to pay them off), cuss out the in-laws you don’t like right after you borrow money from them, and restart the old habits that  you had previously given up because they were not healthy for you.

Live big, love life, eat anything you want, smoke and HAVE FUN!

HAVE A NICE THANKGIVING – WE REALLY DO HAVE A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR IN THIS COUNTRY.

BUT-if the world does end in a giant solar flare or a mighty comet strike, it was nice knowing everyone.

Carol

Although they don’t actually go together like peas and carrots, Paragon Paranormal’s founder presented the program for the Martinsville Rotary Club on October 30th. Our Rotary hostess, Jenna Bennett, introduced us as we prepare to scare.

Halloween is finally passed and All Saints Day is over – time to start the winter holiday season.

Paragon Paranormal – Shadow Chasers’ founder Carol Farrell (that would be me!) was invited to be the guest speaker for the Martinsville Rotary Club on October 30th. Medium Trisha came along to help answer questions. As a result of the presentation the Martinsville Reporter-Times newspaper wrote a nice article about us and the Martinsville City Hall investigation. Check out the article sometime if you can.

Our only regret about the presentation is that we were limited by time in the amount of evidence we could show. There were also several photos which needed to be shown on a larger, more vibrant colored flat screen that had defined spirit shadows. But, we still very much appreciated Jenna and her fellow Rotarians for the chance to explain what we do.

Members of Paragon Paranormal - Shadow Chasers are preparing for investigations at two very different locations in the next few weeks. The first will be a private residence north of Martinsville and the second one in the Edinburg area. Both have a long history of paranormal activity, but neither have ever been investigated by a group trained specifically to sniff out spirit activity. Hopefully, both should result in a multitude of new data for our continuing research of the paranormal.

Several people have contacted me about the possible chance of participating in a ghost hunt with us sometime. I would love to take untrained  ”visitors” but the attempt to include others in prior investigation has not been good, and resulted in contaminated data if the visitors are not continuously accompanied by one of our trained investigators. Talking, moving around in front of cameras and not sitting still can ruin data and most newcomers are too excited to be good data gatherers. We do train individuals to hunt when needed, but it takes at least seven investigations before Bob and I consider them to be in-training members of our group. Right now, we have only 5 fully trained individuals, 1 almost ready, and 4 who need to attend and train in more hunts.( Most of the last 5 are usually restricted by their work or school schedules and/or family matters.)

We encourage individuals to start in their own home with a digital camera, a digital recorder with headphones and lots of time, and to try to find nearby spirits or maybe even go to a nearby cemetery (Stepp?) or a relative’s house. After all, the spirits are everywhere!

Happy Hunting!

Carol

October! 

This is the month when summer finally ends and nature prepares for winter. Most of the friends we have love October for the colorful fall leaves, crisp apples, festivals, cool days, bonfires and all the decorations for the final event - Halloween.

Paragon Paranormal team members prepare for the night’s investigation in the Martinsville City Hall Chamber Room.

The last day of September we completed the our fourth investigation in our paranormal research at Martinsville City Hall. It will most likely not be our last either. Every returning visit we encountered new spirits and had plenty of experiences, especially in the gallery or balcony area of the massive Chamber Room on the second floor.

The sensitive individuals who work with our group all observed shadows moving throughout the gallery, from one side to the other and occasionally moving onto the floor of the main seating area. Our still cameras, some using infrared lighting, captured many “orbs” although not all were considered spiritual in nature. One consistent problem from night to-night was that we could not keep our motion detection cameras on; they would shut down after a few minutes. We finally gave up on them and concentrated on taking an increased number of stills for comparison later. There were a couple of times when even the still cameras would not work and would shut down on their own, or the batteries would be completely drained in a matter of minutes. We had hoped to capture a few of the shadows, but only a couple of pictures had any questionable anomalies.

Luckily, the spirits were a talkative group and we recorded several really nice EVPs. One female spirit let me know she knew my name in an EVP taken in the aisle of the main chamber. There was a very distinctive whistle, almost birdlike, on our second investigation and various whispers and a distinct “sweetie cake” on our last visit.

The investigation of the building’s basement turned up little else but a couple of orbs which seemed to lead us down the stairs, then follow us around. We were expecting high EMF’s also because of the multitude of wires and utilities in the small area, but there were only very weak amounts detected with our meters.

Another attempt, although a short one, to capture something in the old firehouse produced nothing we could call paranormal. We still plan a long evening there sometime in the future.

To sum up our experiences at the Martinsville City Hall; Several good EVPs and many good photos of spirit orbs combined with personal experiences taking place at the same time  made the MCH a haunted location in our estimate. We must also include the facts that our medium Trisha was pushed by something and was left with finger marks on her upper arm while in the upper gallery. Trisha had several spirits giving her names, a couple which were checked out in historical records and most of us heard whispers and smelled flowers. All of our investigators saw shadows moving around, but because we could not keep our camcorders running (something kept turning them off!), we unfortunately did not record them.

All we can say is that the Martinsville City Hall is Haunted!!

Thank-you Mayor Deckard!

Our next adventure is shaping up, and is either one of two restaurants or an old farmhouse near Hyndsdale.

Happy Halloween!

Carol Farrell

Spirits in Session at the Martinsville City Hall

All my life I have heard rumors of the ghostly residents of the 1917 structure which houses the Martinsville City Hall: unseen boots on wooden floors in the courtroom and trekking up and down the stairs, the sounds of shackles, groans, the smell of flowers and mysterious ethereal figures seen from the corners of the eyes of City Hall workers and visitors. Now, we finally have a general idea who and what is causing all the fuss.

PP-SC members have performed two short, preliminary investigations at the City Hall and the results were amazing to say the least, because so far, we have reason to believe that there are at least four spirits located in the Council Chamber and it’s gallery. To find out some of the spirits names and other facts we decided to use our group’s talented Clairvoyant to assist us -  we have not been disappointed.

So far, we have obtained two EVPS, not first class, but good data to show that something was talking to us and photos of a number of  bright, moving orbs which do not appear to be dust or water droplets. As a matter of fact, these particular large orbs seemed to follow our Clairvoyant as she moved around the building.

Did I mention that she was also pushed or “guided” out of a particular area by an unseen hand that left three “burn” marks on her upper arm?  Yes – it happened! Since this was the first time she had ever been man-handled by a ghost, it did unnerve her quite a bit as it did the rest of us who were with her and witnessed the event.

We also have photos of the three marks on her arm which stayed there for about two hours. The touch by the spirit did not appear to be scratches, no blood lost, but more like the firm pressure a parent might apply when guiding an unruly child out of the room; pressure enough to show the images of three fingers of a large hand. We’re not 100% sure, but she thinks the spirit who moved her was named “John”., who informed her throughout the evening that he wanted us out of there.

Other names of spirits who came through to her were the grumpy Hiram, unknown last name, who wanted us out of the building and told us to leave. The other was Uriah Hinson. Uriah M. Hinson (he insisted on the “M”)  identified himself as a two-time sheriff, (Yes – we checked! He was in office in 1892 through 1896!) and was somehow responsible for “getting the building built”.  The talkative Sheriff Hinson said he was looking for his wife and daughter. The fourth spirit is that of a shy female who makes her presence known as the smell of flowers, with the possible initials of M.R.

The rest of us? We enjoyed watching the dark spirits as they moved along the west walls from the council floor into the gallery/balcony area. We also smelled the occasional flower scents, heard the chinking of chains and groans and and even captured a couple of happy whistles on our recorders. 

All that occurred during our pre-investigations!!

And most definitely, we will be returning very soon for a longer, more complete investigation now that we know who will be greeting us and where they hang out.

A special thanks to Mayor Phil Deckard and his assistant Carol for giving us the opportunities to enter and perform our hunts., and to the other workers in the building for their cooperation.

Keep in touch for more information!

Good Hunting!

Carol

Whew!  What a hot summer it is!    

But, the heat has not slowed down the gang here at Paragon Paranormal – Shadow Chasers. Bob and I have been on the road touring through Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio looking for places that may have ghostly potential for future trips.

Closer to home here in Indiana we have been investigating private residences. The extreme heat and excess static electricity from the dry conditions seems to give the spirits extra energy to interact with their living homeowners.

In a neighborhood well north of the Martinsville, Indiana, city square, we were asked to assist a young family with their spirit questions and concerns and perform an investigation.    The investigation was a short one, only about three hours one hot evening, but that was all we needed to find paranormal activity in their century old house.

EVP data recorded during our stay revealed what we determined to be a small child and an older presence of unknown gender. (You can hear these on the media page.) The audio of the child giggling was heard at the time it was produced; this is also called a “Voice Phenomena”, or VP.  

While no still photos captured any evidence, there were a few seconds of video taken in the main floor bathroom that were suspicious in nature because of an old cat’s response to a well defined ”orb” of some type appearing to come out of the bathroom closet, toward the cat and then returning to the same location in the closet it originally came from. The cat’s reaction was a soft meow when the “orb” was at its closest proximity to the animal.  If the “orb” was paranormal activity, it would just be a guess to call it such on our part, but I think I must call it a dust particle since there was no additional data obtained to back it up as paranormal.       

    Just remember – Animals do see in slightly different light spectrums than humans. Cats see things!      

All I can say is that maybe we should schedule another hunt at this residence!! I will post the EVPs under Sarah’s House in the Media section.

We have also have a project still in progress at the home of a couple and their son who are all new members of Paragon Paranormal – Shadow Chasers. They are located on the west side of  Bloomington, Indiana.  So far we have audio and EVP evidence, but since it’s a project demanding more investigation there should be much more about it in later posts.

 A major hunt is planned within the next two weeks that I do not have the liberty to discuss at this time – so come back later for more information.

Remember, If you would like an investigation or just have questions you would like answered, we do not charge any for our paranormal activities.