WHAT ASPECT INTERESTS YOU THE MOST?

[Lord Z]

I count 35 votes currently. That isn't bad participation for a forum poll like this.

[Gallahan]

I spent a year and a half as an editor/reporter for my hometown newspaper. LOL... I put as many ghost stories and "weird things" into it as I could manage. Of course, circulation went up. A local paranormal investigative group contacted me, and I went on several investigations with them. It was technical, professional... and FUN. We spent one night in the Civil War HQ of General Lee during the siege of Petersburg (VA), "Violet Bank." They captured EVP, some strange (unexplained to this day) camera movement, and a black "smudge" appearing in the "battery" room via infrared camera. It was very exciting. And, thus, I can see how this part of BTS gets people excited. It's like, you can play it, and if you *really* like it, you can go out into the world and try to *really* discover it.

[Lord Z]

What is a battery room?

[mrloucifer]

What is a battery room?

I think its an old term for "weapons locker"

[mrloucifer]

It was very exciting. And, thus, I can see how this part of BTS gets people excited. It's like, you can play it, and if you *really* like it, you can go out into the world and try to *really* discover it.

As a former general manager of a ghost hunting group, I can say its not as exciting after doing it regularly, especially on the boring nights that try even my patience (and I'm a pretty patient guy). There were night I started wishing BTS entities would start showing up. They may be lethal, but they're exciting!

[Gallahan]

Loucifer is right: battery room is a weapons locker underneath the center of the mansion. It was also a place of last resort, the final retreat.

Yeah, I agree, Loucifer. Ghost-hunting takes a LONG time, and can get "boring." I wasn't as bored because I was a reporter and could skip from location to location as I wished, while the ghost-hunters had to lay all the cable, calibrate the equipment, and man their assigned posts. I was able to do as I pleased and pick and choose which sub-investigations to join (they broke into several groups and took turns going into different locations within the place).

But, there was also a large amount of energy from my group, and the members kept things alive. Short of telling ghost stories by the campfire when you were a kid, this was like Halloween for grown ups. --But in a controlled, investigative kind of way. In the end, the EVP they/we captured... wow. Unnerving.

For those of you who find the quiet of a lonely location at midnight enticing, ghost-hunting is for you. There is the musty smell of Violet Bank I will always remember. The hushed suppression of its inner confines. The amber glow of nearby street lamps solemnly cascading in through windows nearly a century and a half in age. Bluish moonlight caressing the ancient oaks outside, one of which is the second oldest oak in America. And the silent dreams of over a thousand sleeping souls within the nearby area... All the while, the ghost hunters waited, watched and documented. Boy, was it fun.