GHOST SOLDIERS SCRANTON SQUAD |
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PAT, MARIANNE, AND JERRY |
GEORGE TALKS 1
ANDY GAVIN'S TAVERN, SCRANTON PA.
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THANKS TO ED LENIHAN, MARIANNE'S BROTHER FOR HELPING SET THIS ONE UP! ALSO THANKS
TO DONNIE SURACE, THE OWNER OF ANDY GAVIN'S TAVERN FOR ALLOWING US TO INVESTIGATE THIS HISTORIC SCRANTON LANDMARK. BUILT
IN 1903 BY GEORGE CALPIN, WHO FIRST USED THE SITE AS "CALPIN'S BAR". IT WAS THEN SOLD TO THE KELLY'S WHO ALSO
USED IT AS A PUB. YEARS AGO, THE BACK HALF OF THE BAR WAS A DRESS SHOP, AND THE THIRD FLOOR WAS A BOARDING HOUSE FOR
MANY YEARS. A LAKE WINOLA RESIDENT, ANDY GAVIN PURCHASED THE PROPERTY IN 1960 AND IT BECAME ANDY GAVIN'S BAR UP
TO 1979. IN 1988, CURRENT OWNER DONNIE SURACE PURCHASED THE PLACE AND HAS KEPT IT ANDY GAVIN'S TAVERN EVER SINCE!
HE WILL BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU THAT THIS PLACE OF HIS IS HAUNTED. HAUNTED BY A GHOST NAMED "GEORGE", WHO
PLAYS WITH PEOPLE, TURNS ON LIGHTS, AND HAS EVEN TURNED THE JUKEBOX ON, WHILE IT WAS UNPLUGGED! SO IT WAS WITH THIS
IN MIND THAT WE CAME TO INVESTIGATE ON A SUNDAY MORNING, THE ONLY TIME IN WHICH THIS POPULAR BAR IS ALMOST QUIET!
IS GEORGE YOUR NAME?
ADAM
BAEMENT UNKNOWN ONE
SOLDIERS SOLDIERS HERE
WE MET AT THE BAR AT 8AM AND DONNIE HAD COFFEE ALREADY WAITING! WE LISTENED TO
DONNIE'S STORIES OF WHAT HE HAD EXPERIENCED OVER THE YEARS AND HE HAD SOME GREAT STORIES TO TELL! WE TALKED FOR OVER
AN HOUR AND GOT ENOUGH INFORMATION ABOUT "GEORGE" AND THE BAR, SO WE STARTED DOING A BASELINE SWEEP AND RIGHT THERE
AT THE BAR, I GOT HIGH EMF SPIKES! THE SPIKES WERE NOT CONSISTANT, WHICH MEANT IT WAS NOT ELECTRICAL IN NATURE.
THEN WE WENT DOWN INTO THE BASEMENT.
THE BASEMENT IS DARK AND CRAMPED AND MARIANNE'S FLASHLIGHT LOST POWER RIGHT OFF THE BAT! BRAND NEW BATTERIES
HAD JUST BEEN PUT INTO THE FLASHLIGHT AND SOMETHING GRABBED THE POWER AND DRAINED IT VERY QUICKLY! i HAVE SEEN
THIS SO MUCH IT DID NOT PHASE ME. MARIANNE GOT NEW BATTERIES AND WE WENT ON WITH OUR EVP SEARCH. USING MY NEW
PX BOX ALONG WITH A DR-60 PANASONIC RECORDER, WE WENT TO THE BACK STAIRS AND ASKED SOME QUESTIONS. I WAS GETTING HITS
ON THE EVP RECORDER AND THEN THE PX BOX WOULD SAY A WORD. A PX BOX IS A NEW RESEARCH DEVICE THAT USES A DIGITAL DICTIONARY
COMBINED WITH AN ENERGY SENSOR TO ALLOW GHOSTS TO USE THE WORDS FOUND IN THE BOX TO PRODUCE SPEECH THRU A SPEECH SYNTHESIZER.
BY ITSELF, IT IS NOT CONCLUSIVE, BUT PAIRING IT WITH A EVP RECORDER, HELPS US FIND AND TALK TO SPIRITS. WE GOT SOME
INTERESTING WORDS FROM SOMEONE IN THE BASEMENT. HERE ARE SOME OF THE EVPS AND PX BOX AUDIO THAT WE HEARD:
CLICK ON ANY OF THE BLACK UNDERLINED TEXT THAT YOU SEE TO HEAR THE EVP OR PX BOX PLAYBACK.
BASEMENT VOICE
HERE WE ARE
CAPATIN WILLIAM DEAD
TELL US ROUND TABLE
WE WENT UP TO THE KITCHEN AND GOT EMF SPIKES IN THE KITCHEN NEAR THE BUTCHERS BLOCK.
NOW THE INTERESTING THING HERE IS THAT WHEN YOU MOVED THE EMF DETECTOR TOWARD THE ELECTRICAL OUTLET, THE EMF READINGS WENT
DOWN, AS YOU CAME AWAY, THEY WENT UP AND WERE VERY STRONG. A POSSIBLE DEBUNKING OF THIS MAY BE THE OLD GAS-LINE COMING
INTO THE KITCHEN, AS THIS CAN PRODUCE THE SAME RESULT. UNTIL FURTHER TESTING CAN BE DONE, I MUST ASSUME THAT IT WAS
DRIECTLY TIED TO A POSSIBLE GAS LINE.
A CAMERA I HAD SET UP N THE KITCHEN LATER CAUGHT AN ORB FLYING PAST AND SO I STILL BELIEVE THAT THE KITCHEN IS A
"HOT-SPOT". ONE OF THE WORDS WE GOT FROM THE PX BOX WAS "ROUND-TABLE". WHEN WE ASKED DONNIE
WHAT THAT MIGHT MEAN, HE SAID THE ONLY ROUND TABLE WE HAVE IS ON THE THIRD FLOOR, WHERE SOME PEOPLE HAD USED A "OUIJA-BAORD".
DONNIE HAD BURNED THE BOARD AFTER HAVING SOME TROUBLE AT THE BAR AND AT HOME, BUT I KNEW THAT THE DAMAGE HAD BEEN DONE AND
THAT THEY HAD MADE A "HOTSPOT" ON THE THIRD FLOOR. I ASKED IF WE COULD GET ACCESS TO THE THIRD FLOOR,
BUT THE TENANT WHO RENTS THE SECOND FLOOR WAS NOT UP YET. LATER WHEN DONNIE HEARD HIM AWAKE, HE ASKED IF WE COULD GO
THRU THE APARTMENT TO THE THIRD FLOOR AND THE NICE GENTLEMAN ALLOWED US TO GO UP THERE.
COME CLOSER GEORGE
COFFIN THIRD GEORGE BOURBON
DANGER
HELP ME GET HOME HELP ME
ONCE ON THE THIRD FLOOR, WE FOUND THE ROUND-TABLE AND BEGAN OUR WORK OF COMMUNICATING
WITH WHOEVER WANTED US UP THERE. I SET UP THE PX BOX ON THE TABLE AND STARTED MY DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDER, WHILE MY HD
VIDEOCAMERA WAS ROLLING. DONNIE WAS WITH US AND WHEN WE ASKED FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE A NOISE, WE ALL HEARD SOMETHING IN
THE OTHER ROOM. WE ASKED AGAIN AND WE HEARD THE FLOOR BOARDS SQUEAK AS THO SOMEONE HAD WALKED ON THEM, WHILE WE ALL
LOOKED AT EACH OTHER IN ASTONISHMENT. NONE OF US HAD MOVED.
THEN THE PX
BOX STARTED GOING "READY", "LIGHT", "READY", "HAPPIER"....AND IT TOOK ME
AWHILE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS GUY WANTED. LATER WHEN I REVIEWED MY EVP RECORDER, I WOULD HEAR HELP ME SEVERAL
TIMES. I FINALLY FIGURED OUT THAT THIS GUY WANTED TO GO INTO THE LIGHT AND HAD BEEN WAITING FOR US TO COME AND
HELP HIM. WE FIND THIS ALOT, SOMEONE TELLS THE GHOST THAT WE ARE COMING AND THEY ARE THERE WAITING FOR US.
YOU CAN EVEN HEAR HIM SAY ON THE PX BOX, "SOLDIERS", WHICH MAY BE A REFERENCE TO "GHOST SOLDIERS".
MISS YOUR FAMILY...YES A LOT
HEY PAT SOLDIERS YES
GO TO FAMILY
WHEN DID YOU DIE
WE GOT SOME INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE PX BOX WHILE ON THE THIRD FLOOR. ONE WORD
THAT CAME UP OVER AND OVER WAS "BURGLARY" AND "REGRET", "TRAITOR". DONNIE TOLD US THAT
THERE HAD INDEED BEEN A BURGLARY AND IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB. LATER GOING OVER THE EVIDENCE, I WOULD FIND AN EVP THAT SAID
"OUR COOK" IN REFERENCE TO THE TRAITOR. INDEED I FELT THAT GEORGE CALPIN, THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE BAR, WAS
TRYING TO LET US KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED. HOWEVER, I AM NOT SURE IF IT WAS GEORGE THAT WE EVENTUALLY CROSSED OVER, AND
IN FACT I THINK IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAD DIED IN THE BOARDING HOUSE AT SOME POINT. I GOT A NAME OF ADAM AND A CAPTAIN
WILLIAM IS DEAD, SO IT COULD BE ONE OF THEM THAT WE ACTUALLY CROSSED OVER. IN THE END WE GOT SOMEONE ACROSS BY ASKING
FOR THEIR PARENTS TO COME THRU THE PORTAL AND THE GREAT THING IS ON MY DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDER, I GOT AN EVP THAT SAYS "HI
MOM!".
THIS PLACE WE WOULD LATER FIND OUT HAS NOT ONE BUT 7 GHOSTS.
I USED A PENDULUM TO ASK GEORGE CALPIN(WHO RESPONDED YES TO ARE YOU GEORGE) IF HE WAS STILL THERE AND HE SAID YES. THEN
I ASKED HOW MANY LIKE HIM WERE IN THE BUIDLING AND THE ANSWER WAS 7. WE CAN ACCOUNT FOR 5 OF THE GHOSTS BUT
HAVE YET TO IDENTIFY THE OTHER TWO. THIS WAS THE RESULT OF A "RECON" DONE DURING SUNDAY MORNING
AND WE WILL HAVE TO COME BACK AND DO AN OVERNIGHT TO FURTHER THIS INVESTIGATION. ANDY GAVIN'S TAVERN IS A
GREAT PLACE TO HAVE A DRINK OR GET SOME FOOD AND MAYBE EVEN GET TOUCHED BY GEORGE!
WHO DID THE BURGLARY...OUR COOK
I CANT TALK
CAN YOU MAKE NOISE
GATHER ROUND BOZO WHAT WAS THAT
GOD
TIME TO GO READY
ITS WARM...WARM
DO YOU SEE YOUR FAMILY...HI MOM
SCRANTON IS A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT AND BESIDES BEING THE HOME OF THE FICTIONAL "DUNDER
MIFLIN PAPER COMPANY", IT IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED CITIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. IF YOU TRAVEL THERE, STOP IN
AT ANDY GAVIN'S TAVERN AND TELL DONNIE THAT GHOST SOLDIERS SENT YOU!