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Post by sadie1263 on Apr 9, 2011 23:45:36 GMT
GRANVILLE -- Sally Jones Sexton is haunting the Bryn Du Mansion. At least that's the belief of Eric Glosser, the director of the United Paranormal Project.
Glosser and Marty Myers, the public relations manager for UPP, spoke to a couple dozen people at the mansion Tuesday night as part of its Life/Local lecture series.
"She said her name," Glosser said, recalling the time he had an encounter with Sexton. "We asked her, 'What is your name?' We couldn't hear it, but we could play it back, and she said, 'Sally' in a woman's voice. It's pretty crazy stuff. But it's something. What is it that's communicating with us?"
Difficult to say, Myers said. "We believe they're mostly energy."
The United Paranormal Project, formerly known as the Central Ohio Ghost Squad and a member of the American Ghost Society, was formed Feb. 22. According to its website, UPP "is devoted to the scientific and rational exploration of the paranormal. Our mission is to investigate the paranormal and help those in need ... of answers."
The group is armed with electronic devices such as infrared video equipment, sensitive listening equipment and a seismograph to register footsteps. The members perform private home investigations; they looked for paranormal activity in about two dozen homes in 2010.
But their enthusiasm really perks up when they talk about their trips to places such as the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Ky.; the Moundsville State Penitentiary outside Wheeling, W.Va.; the Mansfield Reformatory in Mansfield; and the Twin City Opera House in McConnelsville.
"That, and the Mansfield prison, are probably the two most haunted places in the state," Glosser said. He also thinks the Bryn Du Mansion is more haunted than the Buxton Inn, a place long reputed to have paranormal activity.
Glosser said he's had a fascination with the paranormal for as long as he can remember. After retiring from the Newark police force after 30 years, he asked himself, "What am I going to do now?"
"So I decided I was going to get into this and pursue it further, and that's what I've done for the last four years," he said.
What is a ghost, according to Glosser? Well, like Myers, he said it's difficult to define.
"What it is, I can't tell you for sure, but they're something else. Some people believe it's human spirits; some people believe it's angelic, which would include the demonic. From what I've seen, I think there are human spirits or something that's portraying to be them."
Which brings him back to the Bryn Du Mansion.
"This place here, we've gotten hundreds of electronic voice phenomena," he said. "We pick up voices we can't hear with our own ears responding to our questions. And we believe it's the main person of this house, Sally Jones (Sexton), who lived here for more than 64 years."
One time Glosser said he was on the third floor when he saw a little ball of light traveling around.
"I was getting frustrated, and I started provoking it a little bit," Glosser recalled. "I told it, 'You're a coward, you're weak.' And it was like someone shot my hat off my head. What would have done that?"
The Bryn Du Mansion manager, Bruce Cramer, said he doesn't know. He also said he has more than a little skepticism.
"Do I believe it? I don't think so," Cramer said. "I'm here late at night and early in the morning, and no one's ever tapped me on the shoulder yet. But whatever they want to think is fine with me."
Either way, Cramer has given the UPP team permission to search for paranormal activity at the mansion from 8 p.m. April 29 until about 4 a.m. the next day.
The cost is $30, and "anybody can come," Glosser said. "The only thing they need to bring is a flashlight."
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Post by alanseago on Apr 10, 2011 12:22:18 GMT
I get the same result with a few post-prandial glasses of Calvados. Much cheaper!
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Post by sadie1263 on Apr 10, 2011 13:25:54 GMT
Ok....it makes you think you are a woman named Sally.......or makes you want to become a Ghostbuster? lol
I'm thinking I may need to look that stuff up for my next party!!!!
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