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Hotel Lawrence (part 2) |
12.09.06 - Background Information
Testimony: New information in BOLD. Internet rumors:
Other stories:
Witness accounts:
Friday March 16, 2007: Investigation of 10th floor: rooms #1007 (base camp), 1009, 1015 (Presidential Suite), 807, and 2nd floor: conference rooms and hallways The entire investigation took place between 8:30 PM-2 AM. The activity reported by hotel staff, rumors, and witnesses seemed to take place during all times during the day and night. Baseline Tests: Rooms #1007, 1009, 1015, and 807 EMF detectors (devices that measure Electromagnetic Field) were basically useless in the hotel rooms due to the wiring of the building. *Some say spirits give off magnetic energy fields. Regardless, we still tried to use them anyway comparing our base camp findings of room #1007 to that of the over rooms. We tried the (3) different EMFs and all of them constantly went off pretty much no matter how high or low you held them. If there was going to be any spiritual activity – the EMFs weren’t going to help us in these hotel rooms. *Generally a reading of a 2-7 could mean you have spiritual activity. Our temperature gauges were constant for the most part depending on where you were. All batteries were replaced before the investigation. The batteries were then tested by a multi-meter to make sure they were acceptable. We would go in to use the multi-meter if there were any battery drains during the investigation. *Some say that when spirits are trying to make contact that they “suck” all the energy out from anything it can to try and form and this why you see the orb and the drain on your batteries or energy from you. Room #1009: *During our last investigation this room seemed to be a major hotspot: orbs captured in photos, the door handle moving on the outside when the inner handle is not connected to the outside handle, and a questionable Class “C” EVP of what we think is a person moaning. The paranormal activity also includes the orbs captured on camera from the hallway and a questionable unseen female voice from just outside the door. At one point the card key locks stopped working when the “activity” began. Much of the “activity” began around the 10:00 PM time period. **On this night’s current investigation Dave initially installed an infra red cam in the hall directly across from #1009 to see if we could catch the door handle moving. However, some guests ended up checking into this room and the camera had to be removed from their door handle. Also, we weren’t able to use another one of our infra red cams due to technical difficulties. Blame the cable. First we set up a base camp in room #1007 with computer equipment to monitor the activity in room #1009. Dark and mysterious locations do not phase Jimmy (nothing ever does), so of course we sent him in first for a solo/call and response session. Bart and Dave were base commanders. Our trigger object for this room was a set of chimes. *If ghosts are energy then they should be able to cause something as simple of chimes to move. Or so we think. We used a video camera, (2) infra red cams, digital cams, a barometer, laser thermometer, walkie-talkies, EMF detectors, flashlights with infra red lenses, and EVP recorders (Electronic Voice Phenomena – this recording device can record sound at frequencies humans can’t hear. You could be in a location and not hear the activity when it actually occurs, but go back and listen and the sound will be there on the recording).
*The activity in this room occurred once again during the 10:00 PM time frame which was similar to our last investigation. Presidential Suite (room #1015): *During our last investigation Dave thought he heard voices in the Presidential Suite, but he’s a skeptic and chalked this up to people on the street below. But he was way up on the 10th floor and he said they were quite loud. But, Dave is a big skeptic. Also, it was during this time that his walkie-talkie decided not to work. Jimmy and I tried several times to reach him. And when we couldn’t reach him we went to get him. He had no clue that we tried to contact him during this time and thought we were having radio silence. **An employee explained that they will get calls from the Presidential Suite down to their office when no one has checked into the room and the hotel staff are accounted for. And when they do they receive a call they get a strange static. This “phenomena” began happening after our last investigation at the hotel. We used video, digital cameras, EMFs, laser thermometer, barometer, chimes, and flashlights with infra red lenses. Once again the chimes were the trigger object. Dave, Bart, and Jimmy all investigated this room together. Dave was quick to point out that the red light on the phone lighting up saying we got a message. This was not blinking when we entered the room. We would have noticed it. Pretty bright. We also realized that the phone wasn’t even plugged in. And on top of that – the hand-held receiver didn’t even work. The only way the phone would even work was by speaker phone. So – we guess ghosts prefer speaker phone when they make their calls. Room #807: *Some hotel staff members report that they get strange feelings from this room. And often times when they go to use their card key they will get resistance from the other side of the door when they try to open it. One staff member says they have to say “Move” in order for whatever it is on the other side of the door to get out of the way and for the door to open. Bart and Jimmy investigated this room while Dave prepared the gear for the 2nd level. We had no problems with the door’s key card system. However, we did notice part of the door frame edging needed some slight repair and it affected the door when opening thus causing some resistance. We also noticed how heavy the door was and it closed on its own as soon as you take your hand off the door handle. We did this several times to show that the door is a heavy door. We did the usual baseline tests, but we also used (2) trigger objects this time: chimes and a large notepad and pen. We figured that if something was in fact in this room that it could try and move the chimes, write something on the pad or move the pen. The feeling in this room felt normal to us. We left one of our EVP recorders in this room while we went on to investigate the 2nd level. No EVPs were recorded. The CPS team by no means denies that they could be something going on in this room, but it seemed “normal” to us.
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Floor: *Many Internet rumors about the illegal gambling casino being on the basement level are not accurate. Our last investigation we investigated the basement thinking this was the case. The 2nd floor was the real location of the casino during the 1920’s and 30’s. This information was confirmed by hotel management and other sources. After speaking with one of the staff employees they said that all sales people are normally gone from this floor no later than 5 or 6 PM. And perhaps if they are working late - then 8 PM. They have never seen the so-called ghost gambler. However, many reports of the gambler the stories exist on the Internet from either past experiences from guests and former staff members. We set up (2) infra red cams to go along with our other baseline tests that we usually do. The EMF detectors seemed to work on this floor in some of the areas. The CPS Team decided that in order to truly get the gambler to come out that we would need to actually play some poker in order to spark his interest. Time for some Five Card. We used real chips, cards, and even went the extra mile of having green felt for the table. We picked a random conference room – The Darrell Jordan Conference Room to play the game. While setting up the gear both Dave and Bart both heard noises coming from the Darrell Jordan Conference Room that sparked their interest. Six minutes into the game when Bart called for the gambler to help him play he heard someone come right up to his ear and breathe into it. You can tell from his knee-jerk reaction on the video footage that it shook him for a second. The breath was caught both on the camera’s audio as well as the EVP recorder that we had on the table. After reviewing the footage, Jimmy nor Dave “exhaled” at this moment. And none of them were close enough to get up on his ear and breathe into it because they were holding their cards in their seats. While Dave was taking random pictures he caught a nice-sized orb in the hallway. The elusive gambler? This was also captured on our infra red cam as well.
Click Here to view and hear evidence from this investigation Gear Used: (see a complete description and picture of each item on the Equipment Page)
The last time we were here some of the evidence could have been thrown out by some skeptics and non-believers because:
However, we still stand by our findings and experiences. We feel that with this second investigation that you will find it even harder to dismiss our findings and what we experienced. How do you dismiss seeing someone react to having something or someone that isn’t there breathe in their ear when you can hear the breath on the camera’s audio as well as an EVP audio recording? You can’t. And Bart isn’t that good of an actor even though he starred in West Side Story for his high school. Orbs in a digital camera’s picture are one thing. But how do you dismiss balls of energy forming during a call/response session that move intelligently in room #1009 and the 2nd floor hallway? Another pic of an orb caught on digital cam as well. Sure we caught another EVP of a man saying “Hello,” – but our infra red cams don’t have audio. Coincidence that it happened in the so-called haunted room #1009? When you have a location that is rumored to be haunted it can do many things to you psychologically. One being that you now have expectations that the place is haunted and so you are looking for any little thing to happen to say it is a “ghost.” You also have your mind playing tricks on you in the dark if you heard a story about the particular place that you’re in being haunted. And more importantly, you can now have hotel staff and guests thinking their room is haunted when a door slightly creaks. This is why the whole paranormal field gets so much flack. Sometimes when something paranormal really does occur you second guess yourself because you don’t believe. Well, we believe something is going on at the Hotel Lawrence on the 10th floor, room #1009, the Presidential Suite (room #1015), and parts of the 2nd floor that we witnessed. Once again the hotel management and staff were absolutely delightful to work with. The Hotel Lawrence is in the process of working with us on setting up a paranormal package for the hotel for bookings and tours. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. |
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