Of course, it was Friday the 13th, so the newspaper in our region just
had to post a
ghost story!!!
Here it is...
(Read on for an explanation of 'ghost'.)
I do not claim to own anything; I have written this story out from the Coeur d'Alene Press, by David Gunter, Feature Correspondent. I did not change anything or rewrite anything in quotation marks.
"Sandpoint --- There is a nightly show at the Panida Theater, one that is acted out long after everyone else goes home and the place is locked up for the night. When stage lights dim and the marquee blinks its last, ghosts that lurk in dark corners and at the top of narrow flights of stars are free at last to roam around in the inky blackness of the old theater. At least, that's the official finding of a paranormal research team who spend the night in the Panida on Sept. 9. Four investigators devoted the early evening hours to wiring the Panida with ghost-hunting technology. Once the equipment was in place, they were locked in to spend the next eight hours combing every corner of the building in hope of an otherworldly encounter."
(And by the way, it's not suppose to say, '
another worldly', it's suppose to say what it says!)
"...It was sometime around midnight when the first spectral visitor appeared, according to Jenn Deer, who operates Inland Northwest Paranormal Research with her husband, Mike. 'There was an apparition in the audience - a guy,' she said. 'He was standing in the far corner of the auditorium. He was a larger gentleman with a round face. It was almost like he had a beard of a mustache. He just stood there and watched, like he was taking an interest in what we were doing.' With digital recorders in hand, the researchers attempted to make verbal contact with the mysterious man in the corner, but to no avail. When anyone came to close, they said, he simply faded to black. Another recorder, however, did pick up audio that was later analyzed and transcribed by the team. Stationed in the upstairs office, this digital device captured a conversation that, apparently, has been going on for a very long time. ... For years, theater management and staff have spoken of hearing voices as they climbed the steps to the theater office. At first, these individuals would open the door, expecting to find someone on the phone or in the middle of a meeting. The rattle of the doorknob and the creak of a hinge, they soon learned, always stopped the conversation short. 'So we put a digital recorder in the office as part of the investigation and we caught the conversation,' Mike Deer said. 'We got audio where the first voice says, 'Get out of here' and a second voice says, 'Fine - just let her have it then.' It's two women's voices in what sounds like a heated discussion,' he added. the agitated words might have been hissed back and forth at the top of these stairs for much of the theater's 80-plus-year history. Given that this is a disembodied disagreement, the exchange could well go on forever. 'It's what we call a 'residual,'' Mike explained. 'It's something that happened in the past that just plays itself over and over again. ... 'There are both 'intelligent and residual hauntings at the Panida,' Jenn said. 'An intelligent haunting interacts with the visitor. A residual prepeats itself like a tape loop.' She had her own brush with the intelligent aspect of the other side while attempting to make contact during a sweep through the theater's second-floor meeting room. 'I had dropped my pen in the dark and said, 'Where'd my pen go?'' the paranormal investigator said. 'I didn't hear anything at the time, but when we reviewed our recording, there was a lady's voice - fairly loud - the replied, 'On the floor.' 'We actually saw a couple of apparitions,' she went on. 'Along with the one in the audience, there as one in the dressing room.' ... If Mike Deer had been alone, it would have been understandable if descending into the theater basement in the wee hours of the morning played tricks on his mind. But he was accompanied by another team member who, sitting with him in the windowless dressing room, shared a 'What was that?' moment in the dark. 'We both thought we saw movement,' Mike said, 'It would be there and then it was gone, in regular intervals.' The night visitor appeared to be stepping in and out of the doorway that separated the dressing room from an adjoining restroom. When Mike crept over to have a loser look, he got an eyeful. 'There was a woman with dark hair standing there dressed in something like bloomers.' he said. 'She looked at me for a couple of seconds and then dissapeared. I asked, 'Where are you? Where did you go?' After that, I felt something push on my flashlight from behind. 'I turned around and nothing was there.' ... The team from Inland Northwest Paranormal Research came loaded for, well, ghosts, when in showed up to investigate the Panida Theater. A total of six cameras - four of them infrared - were set up in hot spots around the building. 'We paced them anywhere people had told us they might have felt something or experienced something in the past,' said Mike. 'The infrared camera system is kind of like a home security system that sees in the dark.' Along with several digital audio recorders, the researchers swept the theater with a hand held electromagnetic field detector, looking for spikes in electromagnetic activity. A digital ambient thermometer monitored the main auditorium to determine whether there were any sudden changes in the room temperature. Two years earlier, a psych's was asked to visit the theater and share any images and impressions that arose. That individual same equipped with only the natural instincts and heightened awareness that helped her on the job. 'We're not alone,' she said after several minutes of stand silently in the dark. 'There is an entity here that associated so much of what they did with who they are that even death could not break that.' She sensed the presence of a younger woman, the psychics revealed, but there was a much bolder spirit in attendance. 'There is a very definite male energy here,' she said. 'Very strong. My sense is that in life, he was a good sized man. Hardy. He loved to play act and he became the character he played.' A big guy who loves to play act. A larger gentleman who looked like he might have3 had a beard. Old-timers around Sandpoint would tell you those descriptions sound an awful lot like the former Panida manger, and , eventually, theater owner Floyd Gray, who played to packed houses when he climbed into overalls and glued on a fake beard to entertain them as variety show host Farmer Gray. Jenn Deer was only vaguely familiar with the Farmer Gray years and hadn't heard that someone else preciously had registered the psyches reverberations of both male and female spirits in the classic downtown movie house. 'But if that's what she experienced, she was pretty much right on,' the researcher said. ... Paranormal researchers and psyches investigators alike agree that the Panida is populated with genial ghosts. The big guy in the corner of the theater seems to have a special fondness for visitors. 'He co7uld fell like a threatening presence, but truth is, never hurt a soul,' the psyches report in 2007.' He has fun with people who come here now.' ' It was very welcoming - they seemed to enjoy having us there,' said Jenn Deer. 'It felt like they were friendly,' her husband added. 'They were still hanging around the theater, just like they did in life.' Inland Northwest Paranormal Research finally left the theater a little before dawn on Sept. 10th, carrying out a load of equipment and taking home hours of audio and video material to review. This past week, the team closed the book on this ghostly sojourn and made its findings public. 'My report states that the Panida Theater does have paranormal activity,' Mike said. 'that was our final conclusion,' Jenn agreed. 'We wrote: 'This place is definitely haunted.''"
I'm sorry to report this, but the only reason Jenn and Mike felt comfortable with those spirits is because Jenn and Mike
are those spirits. No, they aren't the same spirits, but they have the same spirits inside of them. If a christian, who has Jesus Christ inside their heart and is living sin-free, went into that theater on the same night as Jenn and Mike did, their spirits would be miserable. Well, just the fact that they were in a theater would make them miserable, but you get the gist. The Panida Theater is swimming with witchcraft. Most likely, the owner was in the occult. The book,
The Haunting will well describe witchcraft for you. Google books says,
"The occult is a very real influence for today's youth--and the world is only too eager to exploit their curiosity about the supernatural. Tyndale and Bill Myers, cocreator of McGee and Me!, counteract the deceptions presented by immensely popular titles with an innovative approach to juvenile fiction--the Forbidden Doors series. Insightful and straightforward, each volume tackles spiritual warfare by presenting biblical truths through realistic situations and characters.
#4 The Haunting--Scott and Rebecca's greatest enemy, the Ascension Lady, has come to Becka for help! She wants to hold a seance to free the spirit of a little girl that has been haunting an old mansion in town. Then a series of eerie experiences lead Becka and Scott to wonder if what is haunting the old mansion in town is a ghost--or demons.
Soon they are caught up in their most dangerous encounter yet--and it will take a miracle to bring them through safely." I encourage you to read the Christian book.
What I'm saying is, ghost's aren't real.
At all. Ghost: the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons. Demon: an evil spirit, devil, or fiend. You have to understand that people's ghost's don't wander around haunting other people. Spirits take the form of ghosts, and deceive you into thinking they are ghosts, and play act. Just like in theater.
There's my belief.
