WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK MATT FLYNN AND STEPHANIE FOR BEING SUCH GREAT HOSTS.  ALSO THANKS TO JIM STEWART, WHO CAME ALONG AND HELPED OUT ON OUR CREW THAT DAY!  WE HAD MANY EXPERIENCES HERE AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE AND GOT A GOOD BIT OF EVIDENCE.  WITH ITS LONG HISTORY, THIS PLACE HAS MANY GHOSTLY VISITORS.  BATTERY DRAIN OCCURED TO ALL OF US AT VARIOUS POINTS, TAKING WHAT WAS 5 HOURS DOWN TO 4 MINS IN AN INSTANT!  THE GHOSTS HERE WERE HUNGRY FOR ENERGY AND WE FED THEM! HAVING 2 MASONS WITH US AND A THIRD WHO IS JOINING, I SENT TEAM 1 UP TO THE TOP TO WORK THEIR WAY DOWN.  MY LOGIC HERE WAS THAT WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE MASONIC HALLS, THEY WOULD NOT SCARE AWAY ANY SPIRITS WHO MIGHT BE DEFENSIVE ABOUT THEIR SECRET ROOMS.  THIS WORKED TO A POINT.  WHILE IN ONE OF THE LODGE ROOMS, MATT GOT A CLASS A EVP SAYING "LEAVE".  DOUG FOLLOWED IT UP BY ASKING IF HE UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY WANTED US TO LEAVE AND HIS RESPONSE WAS "YOU HEARD ME..."!!!!  NOT A BAD START!

WHILE ALMOST EVERY INITIAL CONTACT SAYS "LEAVE" OR "GET OUT", YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, TO THEM IT IS LIKE EVERY SALESMAN YOU EVER SAW WALKING UP TO YOUR HOUSE, WALKING IN AND HELPING THEMSELVES. SO YOU'RE INITIAL RESPONSE WOULD BE "GET OUT".  ONCE THEY SEE THAT WE ARE NOT THERE TO HURT THEM OR DAMAGE THE PLACE, THEY OFTEN COME AROUND AND TALK TO US.  SO WHILE TEAM 1 IS UPSTAIRS, JULIE AND I WENT TO THE BASEMENT/SUBBASEMENT WITH MATT FLYNN.  MATT TOOK US THROUGH THE 2 LEVELS BELOW GROUND AND SHOWED US AROUND.  WHILE WE WERE GETTING THE TOUR, WE GOT  EMF SPIKES WHERE THERE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY, SO WE KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP.  AFTER MATT FINISHED THE TOUR, JULIE AND I WENT BACK DOWN TO THE SUB-BASEMENT TO TRY TO MAKE CONTACT, WHICH WE DID.

THERE ARE SOME ROOMS IN THE SUB-BASEMENT THAT USED TO HOUSE THE "FIREMEN"(GUYS WHO WOULD STOKE THE STEAM BOILERS WITH COAL).  THESE GUYS WOULD ACTUALLY LIVE DOWN THERE AND IT IS A DARK SCARY PLACE TO MOST PEOPLE.  IN ONE OF THE ROOMS WHERE WE HAD GOTTEN ENF SPIKES, WE MADE CONTACT WITH A DEEP VOICED MAN WHO TOLD US HIS NAME WAS ROBERT OR BOB.  THIS WAS CONFIRMED LATER WHEN WE COULD CLEARLY HEAR "BOB, I AM BOB".  WE TALKED TO BOB FOR AWHILE AND WHEN HE DID NOT ASK FOR HELP, WE WENT ON OUR WAY TO INVESTIGATE OTHER AREAS IN THE DARK DEPTHS!

AFTER AN INITIAL RECON, THE TWO TEAMS MET TO DISCUSS WHAT WE HAD FOUND AND SHARE EVPS.  IT WAS AGREED THAT MATT HAD A CLASS A AND WE SHOULD FOLLOW UP ON THE 3RD FLOOR FIRST, WHERE THE LODGE ROOMS ARE.  WE WENT INTO SNYDER HALL FIRST AND HAD SOME CONTACTS ON THE VIDEO, BUT DID NOT GET ANY EVPS.  SO WE WENT INTO THE OTHER HALL(GASDEN?) AND SET UP TO DO AN EVP SESSION.  THEY WOULD NOT TALK TO ME(NOT A MASON), BUT WHEN DOUG ASKED WHY THEY WOULD NOT TALK TO ME YOU HEAR ONE WORD VERY CLEARLY..."MASON", MEANING THEY WERE MASONS AND I WAS NOT!  MATT'S GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A MASON DID REPLY TO OUR QUESTIONS AND WE HAD AN UNEXPLAINED SNIFFLE ON PLAYBACK THAT WAS NOT ANY OF US!  AFTER AWHILE WE DECIDED TO CONTINUE ON TO THE SECOND FLOOR.