Paranormal Cops – Stirring Up The Dead – S01E03
As another group that claims they need hard evidence before they’ll label a place haunted, Paranormal Cops is sure handing out the Paranormal card pretty regularly.
The Stag’s Head certainly has the background for some interesting happenings; a former brothel where a patron may have been shot and killed to multiple claims of footsteps, cold spots, shadow figures and the sound of someone crying.
As Ron and the team investigate the claim to hear loud footsteps on the stairs. And multiple times during the night they claim to hear a woman’s voice. The voice is either mumbling or perhaps humming.
While investigating near the women’s restroom upstairs they get hits on their EMF meter which tells the story that someone did get shot and killed up there. Yes, the EMF meter goes off, but it really doesn’t seem to go off with enough certainty to match what they’re asking. And as for all the other sounds, is it going to come as a shock when I say I don’t hear them? Seriously, does anyone else actually hear the voices and footsteps when they’re watching? I never hear the noise that comes before the question, "Did you hear that?"
As you might expect, the EVPs sound like garbled static. Certainly nothing that would come across as solid evidence to me. Like so many other cases, I just don’t feel their evidence supports the paranormal claim. There’s nothing in there that can’t be explained by some other means.
But what about the EMF? A blinking light that shuts itself off as quickly as it turns on doesn’t mean much to me.
I also have an issue with the phrase “A grove of trees”. That simply isn’t a phrase someone from Chicago would use. Comes across as a little too convenient for my liking.
I like these guys, but I really think it should be harder to convince people there is something paranormal going on. What happened to being skeptical and debunking? Seems like every sound and every bump is flagged as a haunting.
Other Articles of Interest:
- Paranormal Challenge – Ohio State Reformatory – S01E04
- Paranormal Lockdown – Old Chatham County Jail – S02E12
- Ghost Adventures – Bannack Ghost Town – S09E04
- Ghost Adventures – Gettysburg – S04E01
- Paranormal Challenge – Western Virginia Penitentiary – S01E05
- Ghost Adventures – The National Hotel – S06E04
- Ghost Adventures – Clovis Wolfe Manor
- Ghost Adventures – Lizzie Borden House – S05E05
- Ghost Adventures – Salem Witch House – S04E19
- Ghost Adventures – The Queen Mary – S10E01
GHI – Tasmania/Malaysia – Tasmanian Death Sentence
When faced with the total lack of evidence even Robb has to admit there is no paranormal activity. The team strikes out twice with their final stop in Tasmania at the Supreme Courthouse and again at the castle in Malaysia.
It wasn’t for a lack of trying though. Robb was trying to make something happen by trying to build up some tension when photographing the noose in the courthouse. As is so often the case when working with a flash, he was just seeing a reflection he created. And back in courtroom 1 they were trying to turn those couple of bangs into something. I’m surprised Robb didn’t say they were footsteps.
Dustin and Barry holding court really made me laugh! That was some funny role playing.
And not much happened in the Malaysian castle. Dustin and Barry got a strong smell of incense but little else. Plus, that scent could have just drifted in from somewhere so it really wasn’t that big a deal.
Once again, some really neat places to visit and I’m amused by both "clients" complete dismissal of GHI not finding any evidence. They firmly stand by the place regardless. I guess they hoping for better results so as to increase their tourism revenue.
Other Articles of Interest:
- Ghost Hunters International – Quarantine Station
- Ghost Hunters International – Port Arthur Penitentiary – S02E10
- Ghost Hunters International – San Lucas Island – S02E12
- Independent investigation of the Spalding Inn
- Ghost Hunters International – Argentina/Australia S02E08
- Ghost Adventures – Double Eagle Restaurant – S14E04
- Destination Truth – Ghosts of Masada/The Leprechaun S03E10
- Ghost Hunters International – Hitler’s Ghost
- Paranormal State – Bedroom Eyes – S05E13
- Paranormal Challenge – Eastern State Penitentiary – S01E02
Paranormal Cops – Victims Revenge – S01E02
Ron and the Chicago Paranormal Detectives are called in by a former student of a women’s college to bring some closure to some of the events she felt when she attended school there. The school is scheduled to be torn down and she wants some answers about her experiences before it’s gone.
While she was a student, Danni felt and experienced some odd activity. When she was in the school after hours she felt like she was being watched. Danni also says that when she would play in the music room, she would hear a bang, go to investigate it, and find her sheet music arranged differently.
There is also the story of a young girl who died and her body was left on the front lawn of the school.
As soon as Ron and team begin their investigation they start to see shadows and see someone moving. Not to discount what these guys are doing, but it’s an abandoned building, how do they know it’s not just kids vandalizing the place or a homeless person trying to keep from getting caught? Bangs, bumps and other noises like that would be pretty common in an abandoned building.
Moriah, the medium, begins to feel a very strange presence as she’s walking around. A male begins to taunt her and make some odd comments about how she should be on the lawn – a reference to the previous victim. There is also the comment about hydrochloric acid and apple seeds. Kind of an odd combination but the connection seems to be about how the girl was murdered. She was poisoned.
Ron and team continue to see shadows and figures move around the building. They aren’t able to catch up with anything, but they’re convinced something is going on.
As they do more research they find the girl that was found on the lawn was poisoned with cyanide and the main suspect was her boyfriend. He claims she committed suicide after they broke up, but there is strong suspicion he was behind it.
So did the CPD team meet up with this murderer in the old school? It’s a really interesting story, I’m sure someone will make a movie about it, but I can’t say the evidence supports it all. The actual captured evidence doesn’t seem that strong. Again, the EVPs are pretty weak, and the thermal images aren’t too solid. They have quite a few personal experiences and the medium gets some interesting information, but when all is said and done, I don’t really feel they walked away with anything tangible. They feel there is paranormal activity, but I’m not really sure the evidence supports that.
As you would expect, Danni feels that everything they’ve found supports what she’s believed all along. It’s a wild story and certainly worth more investigation, too bad the actual location may soon be gone. But if it does get turned into housing we might be back to investigate what the new residents experience.
Other Articles of Interest:
- Paranormal Cops – Dead Man Walking – S01E04
- Ghost Adventures – Crazy Town – S07E13
- Ghost Adventures – Idaho State Reform School – S17E01
- Ghost Stalkers – Farrar School – S01E06
- Ghost Adventures – Chinese Town of Locke – S12E05
- 432 Abercorn, Savannah GA
- The Awakening – The early ghost hunting adventures of Florence Cathcart
- Ghost Adventures – Vulture Mine – S04E07
- Paranormal Cops – Stirring Up The Dead – S01E03
- Ghost Adventures – Pennhurst State School and Hospital
Ghost Hunters International – Port Arthur Penitentiary – S02E10
GHI continues with more investigations in Australia with a stop at the Port Arthur Penitentiary, a prison for British and Irish inmates. (As an aside you have to laugh at Barry and Paul’s reaction when they hear about the British and Irish ties) Apparently the paranormal activity here extends back to the 1870s. People see apparitions, have been touched, hear footsteps and have encounters on a regular basis.
When Robb, Ashley and Brandy are in the room of Reverend George they hear distinct footsteps above them. Of course there is nothing up there. Good thing it’s a calm night, no wait, it’s windy so that noise could be just about anything.
Paul is doing an investigation and the door keeps opening on him. We know it’s windy so there really isn’t much to that occurrence.
In the cell of John Gould, Brandy asks for John to come and make his presence known. She then feels something touch her and the word "Okay" later shows up on the recorder. Quick grab the thermometer! Oh wait, you left it in your other ghost hunting pants.
Again in the surgeon’s quarters, Barry hears a very loud bang. Again, it’s just the wind, but it does prove that people can hear and feel things that are nothing more than the wind. And when you already have it in your mind that a place is haunted you can really begin to believe anything.
In the same place, Barry is lying on the slab where the doctor perhaps did some unorthodox dissections. Joe says he is recording wild temperature fluctuations, but again, we don’t see the meter to confirm that. Additionally, as Barry is getting ready to leave he feels someone touch him across the shoulder blades.
Another piece of evidence is in the Commandants room where the bed curtains move suddenly. They only move once, but this could easily be a draft caused by someone opening a door in another part of the prison. A slight fabric flutter is nothing to get too excited about.
The big piece of evidence is the figure Barry caught on camera. While doing a 30 second exposure Barry captures a rather clear looking figure standing next to the building. I do agree that under normal circumstances a moving object won’t show up on an exposure that long. If anything the camera would record a blur in that area or something that might look like a haze. I’m not saying they did, but it wouldn’t be hard to artificially create a photo like this. However, it is pretty cool.
The final two pieces are the "Get Out" that is supposedly spoken as they’re talking to the inmates and the words "Payback" as Robb is talking in the surgeons quarters.
A lot of the evidence is pretty easy to debunk. We clearly know it’s windy so things moving, rattling and even the sound of footsteps could easily be attributed to that. Brandy feeling light headed when talking to John Gould can be the power of suggestion since he was convicted of doing some bad things to children. That can easily play on the mind. The temperature fluctuations weren’t actually shown to us and I always discount the EVPs now days. Those just don’t sound like anything and are too easy to recreate artificially. And shouldn’t these EVPs have accents? 
The picture Barry took is really the only impressive thing they got. Personally I feel it would be very easy to recreate a picture like that, but if we go out on a limb and believe in it, it’s pretty interesting.
Robb of course says the place is haunted so I’m sure that’ll help tourism.
Other Articles of Interest:
- Ghost Hunters International – Quarantine Station
- Ghost Hunters International – San Lucas Island – S02E12
- GHI – Tasmania/Malaysia – Tasmanian Death Sentence
- Haunted Collector – Spirits of Gettysburg and Headless Horseman – S03E06
- Ghost Adventures – Upper Fruitland Curse – S14E08
- Ghost Adventures – Poveglia Island
- Ghost Stalkers – Holmesburg Prison – S01E04
- Ghost Adventures – Old Fort Erie – S04E12
- Ghost Stalkers – Springfield State Hospital – S01E02
- Ghost Hunters International – Duran Sanatorium/Rose Hall – S02E13
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