The story is told of a janitor named Fred, a hard working no nonsense kind of guy who was a lifetime employee of the theater. One of his duties was to clean and reapir the rest rooms after the local high school dances that were held there were over. There was a constint flow of broken dispencers and days of painting over the graffiti and this always made him so angry.Then one day Fred died while doing his daily duties and after many, many years folks thought they had seen the last of old Fred. But Fred never left! The first sightings as far as we can tell, were less than a year after Fred died. His spirit is said to be the one today, who roams the back stage area of the theater turning lights off that have been left on and appearing to people from time to time. Also in the restrooms spooking young vandals. The Akron Civic Theater is a great place to go and see. It will amaze you, take my word on it you wont be sorry.
The theater was designed in 1929 by John Eberson and Thomas Lamb.Two of the foremost movie theater designers of the time, Their speciality was atmospheric theaters. The auditorium of Akron’s Loew’s Theatre (now the Civic Theater)was designed to resemble a night in a Moorish garden, with twinkling stars and drifting clouds traveling across the domed ceiling. Located on Main Street in beautiful Akron, Ohio the theater is said to be home to a ghost of a long ago employee.
The story is told of a janitor named Fred, a hard working no nonsense kind of guy who was a lifetime employee of the theater. One of his duties was to clean and reapir the rest rooms after the local high school dances that were held there were over. There was a constint flow of broken dispencers and days of painting over the graffiti and this always made him so angry.Then one day Fred died while doing his daily duties and after many, many years folks thought they had seen the last of old Fred. But Fred never left! The first sightings as far as we can tell, were less than a year after Fred died. His spirit is said to be the one today, who roams the back stage area of the theater turning lights off that have been left on and appearing to people from time to time. Also in the restrooms spooking young vandals. The Akron Civic Theater is a great place to go and see. It will amaze you, take my word on it you wont be sorry.
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Today I wanted to tell everyone about the investigation that took place Friday the 13th 2012. The house is thought to have been built in the late 1870’s. It’s called the Old Stone House because the builder used large stones and small rocks to build with, materials found at the river which is only 100 yards away through the thick back woods. The new owner is remolding the house as a winter hunting cabin. And since they started work strange things have been taking place such as, hearing noises in the walls at night, voices in the dark like two people carry on a conversation but you can never track where it’s coming from, lights turning on and off by themselves and these are just a few of the occurrences.
It was just getting dark when we arrived at the home and the owner was outside in the cold waiting on us. When we pulled close I could see she was upset by the look on her face. We got out and I wonder out loud why she was waiting out here in the freezing cold and she told us that as she was waiting inside until the lights started going off and on by themselves and she swears someone or something was walking around up stairs. And let me tell you, I saw fear in this poor ladies eyes, she was not going back inside this house. She told us that when the footsteps started upstairs, she started to walk up to investigate but as she near the top, the lights started going on and off really fast and she hear someone laughing. She ran down the steps, grab her coat on the move, hit the door at top speed and has been outside ever since and the she said, I’ve had it with this place, she was leaving for home and was never coming back, leaving it up to her husband to deal with it and she left. As I turned around towards the house after watching her leave down the long winding drive, I saw the lights go out, we grabbed our gear and headed in…..more later Ghost Hunting is the process of investigating locations that are
reported to be haunted by ghosts. Typically, a ghost hunting team will attempt to collect evidence claimed to be supportive of paranormal activity. Ghost hunters often utilize a variety of electronic equipment, such as the following types: the EMF meter; digital thermometer; handheld and static digital video cameras, such as thermographic (or infrared) and night vision; digital audio recorder; and computer. Traditional techniques such as conducting interviews and researching the history of a site are also employed. Some ghost hunters refer to themselves as a paranormal investigator. We strated something new tonight, we've been asked to explian terms that we've used in blog post. Well to help out we will post terms and thier meanings. This should keep everyone on the same page..Ok here we go..
Elementals Meaning of Term : Also known as “earth spirits,” elementals are spiritual beings which inhabit all aspects of nature. Nearly all early religions believed that some form of nature spirit was a part of all living things; this concept is widely known as animism. Exorcism Meaning of Term : A ritual (often religious in nature) which is used to banish a demon or evil spirit which has been haunting a human being, animal, or particular physical location. The exorcist typically calls on a higher power to remove the malevolent being Electric Voice Phenomenon (EVP) Meaning of Term : Similar to a direct voice phenomenon, an EVP is a recording of a paranormal voice on audio equipment. In this case, the spoken material is not necessarily heard by witnesses at the time of recording. Hope everyone enjoyed the lession today, more to come.. Happy Hauntings... I got a email today from a guy who seems to think, if we are ghost hunters we must not believe in god. He says if there was a god the people who are dead would be in heaven or below in hell. I wanted to go on the record as saying, I myself believe in god, I trust in god and have given my soul to the lord. With that said, I wanted to say that maybe these people as he says, are in thier own hell as ghost. Doomed to walk the earth un-noticed without companionship alone. Maybe thats where god intened them to be. Or maybe they just need someone to show them where to go, help them. I can't say for sure, this is the reason myself and the rest of API members all got into the paranormal research. I think maybe you sould lighten up and see other people have opinions too.
Just got contacted about a house that might be built on top of indian burial grouns. The owners have seen the ghost of indians around their home now the faces of these indians seem to be appearing in picture taken inside the home also the owner has found arrow heads and other small artifacts in his basement floor as it was being dug up for water pipe service. He sent us pictures and they are pretty unbelieveable, we are looking forward to investigating this house and all the land surrounding it.
I got an email yesterday from a young lady living in Tampa Fl. She told be that she and her friends have been planing on going on a ghost hunt now for a few months. The place they are investigating is a cemetery founded in 1811, pretty old right, well she and her friends have been hearing stories for years about ghost that roam the grave yard at night. Theres one in particular about the ghost of a old slve women that sometimes follows visitors home. She was very affraid of this and ask if there was anything that she could do to help her. This is my responce to her. We believe this helps us when we enter any unknown cemetry and believe it can help you. We say this prayer aloud, "St. Michael the Archangle, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray." then after your investigation and before you leave say this closing prayer," In the name of Jesus Christ, I command all human spirits to be bound to the confines of this cemetery. I command all inhuman spirits to go where Jesus Christ tells you to go, for it is he who commands you, Amen." I hope this gives you a little comfort and helps ease things a bit. API as a whole is not a religious group but we do think if taking a few minutes of our time to say a prayer that will help us stay safe, then its worth it to us.
We just had debunked a recent call for help. We had a client living on the 5th floor of her building and she was complaing of voices, bangs in the walls and strange smells. We went to her apartment on three ocassions to investigate, we couldn't find a thing. Nothing on film, video or voice recorders. It seemed she was calling us every two or three days telling us this was going on and we knew we had already spent 13 hours in her apartment and found nothing. She called again yesterday but it just so happens that we were in her naborhood already cheeking on a past cliant. She told me on the phone that she can at that moment hear voices in the back bed room. We rushed over there to see if we could hear anything, when we got there she was waiting at the door. She rushed us up stairs and down the hall to her apartment which was on the end. Waiting for her to unlock the door I looked around the corner and saw there was a door marked maintenance. As we entered her apratment we to could hear faint voices coming from the back bedroom. We started to listen closer and realized they were voices, sounded as if two people were holding a conversation. I could hear them saying drain a number of times. This got me thinking about the maintenance room, wondering if there were other rooms such as this on other floors. We talked to the guys in maintenance and they confirmed my suspicions. It was the maintenance guys talking on the 2nd floor about the drian, which was traveling up the drain to the wet sink behind the wall in her bedroom which was in the maintenance room around the corner. She sleeps so much better now at night. It's so importent to follow all leads no matter how small..
As the clock rang 3am I begain to walk down the long center isle of the book shelves. As if in a time tunnle, the ends of the rows I passed seemed to zip by as just a blur, then I caught it, just out of the coner of my right eye, a shadow of a man, foloowing me keeping up with me as I passed each row I saw it more clearly. The hair on my neck and arms stood straight up. As I neared the end of the rows, I quickly ran to the end turning the corner I expected to see someone there. But the was nothing, nothing but the darkness that filled the room, this was my first encounter with the ghost that is said to roam this University library. The next encounter proved to be a little more unsettling. Down the elevator we slowly decended into the basement, the darkest most creepiest part of the building, where you can't even see your hand directly infront of your face with the ad of a good flashlight, with camers's rolling we unlaod at the bottom....
As we walked down the cold dark halls of the 3rd floor we could see shadows. They were short,maybe 4' we saw them dart out from one of the darken rooms, quickly dissapearing into another dark room across the hall. As we slowly walked , just as we came infront of door way into one of the old rooms, there was a loud screaming ! It sounded as if it were right beside us, we jumped 3' in the air. Both are flash lights swung around into the dirrection of the screams, as soon as our lights light up the dark room, the door across the hall slamed shut, hard! The echo was deafening. Shari screamed, grabed me so hard I nearly fell. As i looked in that direction my flash light started to flicker. I 'm telling you i was seriously considering turning and running out as fast as i could but instead i moved as fast as i could grabed the door riped it open and ran inside...more to come later.. Thanks for reading our blog and for your comments.
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AuthorMy name is Roger Wright, I am co-founder of Akron Paranormal Investigations, we have been investigationg claims of the paranormal since 2004 in Oh, Ky, & Pa. Archives
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