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Ghost Hunter
explores Auburn Chapel, shares personal ghost stories - 20081107
BY BRITTANY COSBY / Staff
Writer
To get in the Halloween spirit, UPC presented Darren Thompson,
who spoke to students about his past experiences as a professional
ghost hunter Oct. 30.
Ashley Sisk, director of special projects
for UPC, said she got the idea from the University of Alabama.
Thompson is the president of the Washington
State Paranormal Investigations and Research (WSPIR), which
was founded in 2005 and has 60 members.
Thompson began with a PowerPoint, highlighting
some of his past ghost hunts and paranormal sightings.
He then led students on a ghost hunt through
the historic University Chapel.
The Auburn University Chapel is one of the
oldest buildings on campus and once served as a Civil War
hospital for wounded soldiers.
Thompson’s presentation included videos,
photos and audio of the scariest locations he has visited.
Thompson uses several devices to record paranormal
activity.
“The EMI meter picks up on electromagnetic
energy and is thought to record when ghosts interact,”
Thompson said.
Thompson mentioned his stay at the Castle
Inn, a bed and breakfast located in New Orleans.
“The top floor was closed, and we heard
furniture moving above us,” Thompson said. “When
we checked it out, all the mattresses had been stuffed in
one room.”
“Starvation Heights,” in Olla, Wash.,
was another one of Thompson’s visits.
Here Linda Hazzard, a doctor in 1911, cured
people through starvation. More than 30 people were believed
to have died under her “care.”
“We pulled up to the house, and two of
our crew members were talking,” Thompson said. “When
we played back the tape, you could hear someone saying ‘help
me’ but no one heard it before that.”
Auburn graduate student Jonathan Lucas commented
on his experience with the paranormal.
“My wife and I moved into a new house
in Birmingham, and on three separate occasions I saw an old
woman with long hair,” Lucas said. “I believe that
spirits do live among us.”
Freshman Bethany Burke disagrees.
“No, I don’t really believe in ghosts,”
Burke said. “I feel like if you are in the mindset that
you are going to see something already like ghost hunters
are, you probably will.”
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