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They're hunting
ghosts - 20081103
Downtown tour seeks paranormal
activity
By ASHLEY PHILLIPS
Gazette Staff Writer
Chillicothe residents received an informational
and ghostly tour through downtown Sunday afternoon.
The League of Women Voters hosted a ghost
walk through downtown businesses such as the Majestic Performing
Arts Center and other sites on Water Street.
A popular attraction on the tour was the haunting
of the upstairs area of Lloyd's Sweet Shoppe.
In the late 1800s, Lloyd's Sweet Shoppe was
a grocery store until an 1852 fire destroyed the structure.
It was rebuilt into a music store. In the early 1900s, it
transformed into a restaurant/ saloon and then a brothel.
While taking a tour through an upstairs apartment
above the store that is reportedly haunted, curious residents
had mixed feelings as to whether ghosts are real.
Could ghosts be real? Resident Susan Robertston
believes so. After the tour of upstairs apartment, Robertson
said she enjoyed the tour but had mixed feelings about the
paranormal.
"I think it was interesting meeting the
guy who studies the paranormal," she said.
Robertson listened as Neal Parks, research
and paranormal investigator, described his odd feelings and
sensations in the apartment.
Using an energy device to track the unknown,
Parks explained when he first entered the apartment, he knew
their was some type of paranormal activity going on.
"I could feel something and smell food
cooking in this apartment when I got up here," he said.
Parks has been studying the paranormal since
the age of 11 and currently is in charge of the Southern Ohio
Paranormal Society (SCOPS).
Marcia Cox did the tour last year and said
she believes in ghosts and the paranormal.
"Sometimes, I kind of feel them,"
she said.
Some people believe life exist beyond what
we can see, but one resident said he has to see it to believe
it.
Jerry Cox said he doesn't believe in any ghosts
because he has not seen any to make him a believer.
"I participated in the tour because I'm
interested in old architecture of the buildings here in Chillicothe,"
he said.
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