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hey folks good evening and thanks for joining me on phants of monsters radio I
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Seer and story story tell her storytelling expertise stems from extensive research into the era of
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esoteric history including ghost witchcraft Cryptids and folklore now Arisa believes the most
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enduring stories teach us not only about Humanity's past but also give reasons to
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reflect on our own present beliefs and realities our approach to the Paranormal
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involves in-depth historical research layered with firsthand accounts now now inspired by her first
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ghost experience in York England at age8 and it happened after a tour Rissa
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Miller became a history guide when she was 15 her first gig was with at or the
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colonial complex still operated by York County History uh Center she went on to
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study at New York University's Tish school and was an award-winning editor at baltim at the Baltimore Sun earlier
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in her career so let's go ahead and get started and we'll be talking
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and you have a question please use all caps and I'll try to get to each of these uh after my
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presentation so my guest tonight is Rissa Miller and I just read the bio hi
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Risa how are you doing this evening hi Lon I'm doing very well thanks uh thanks for having me
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on yeah I wanted to get you on uh you know I I had mentioned a lot of this
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investigation at the Yorktown hotel to people who um riggers on the team and
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and as far as um in Facebook and other social media platforms so there were a lot of people
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interested even a lot of local people that are interested in this uh in this investigation so we're going to put you on the spot tonight and let you tell us
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a bit about the Yorktown hotel why you were there how you and I got together
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and did this investigation that sounds great so I'll I'll start at the beginning so the
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Yorktown hotel is a absolutely beautiful Landmark Hotel in York Pennsylvania in
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1925 the folks of York City decided that they wanted a grand hotel and the City of
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York was like sorry we don't have money for a Grand Hotel and uh as it turned
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out the community crowdsourced the money to create the Yorktown hotel uh back
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then it was the hotel Yorktown but either way uh basically that means that the community found their own in 1925 uh
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$1.75 million to build this it's stunning Grand hotel now why did they
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want it because Lancaster and Harrisburg both had Grand hotels and they could host conventions and York wanted to be
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able to host conventions as well so that they could bring Commerce into the city
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it's very practical and uh you had to have a grand hotel to do that so they built the grandest hotel that still
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exists in New York today and it was the tallest building in the city for most of
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its life I think if you include the flag po it is still the tallest building in New York city so that said um you know
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just as a quirky side note because there's so many quirky things about the York toown um there uh was a goat
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awarded a Taxidermy goat awarded to the crowdsourcing team that raised the most
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money back in 1925 and if you are local to the region of York PA or if you want to travel to York PA you can still see
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this Taxidermy pygmy goat in the Yorktown um it was lost to history for a
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little while but it was refound and placed in the lobby bar of the current Yorktown hotel during the last
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renovation so uh you can still see the pygmy goat sitting there uh smiling down on you while you enjoy your breakfast or
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cocktail so all of that said um the hotel has hosted um many many dozens of
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celebrities politicians sport Stars musicians uh it has been an
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absolutely uh a a beautiful success story for this small City and of course
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as all old hotels do it does have many stories of hauntings in fact it has
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hauntings that are kind of affectionately known by the staff um
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which is kind of a funny thing to say because you know when I say haunting most people think scary um that's not
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really true at the Yorktown um their oldest one no I'm sorry one of their oldest ghosts there uh it was called the
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spirit of hospitality because people liked seeing and experiencing him so much it was considered lucky when he
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would appear um it's probably not lucky for him uh that he ended up there but um
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it was his home he did live there so um I'm getting sidetracked let me finish answering your questions Lon um how did
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I end up there so after the pandemic I ended well I already knew the ytown hotel I was born and raised in
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Pennsylvania and um I knew of the story of the ghost of hospit the spirit of hospitality rather uh as a kid and um I
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moved away and I came back in 2020 uh during the pandemic and um 2022 I
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decided to start my own ghost tours in downtown York so of course I had to you
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know in addition to finding stories and finding firsthand accounts and doing many many many days and hours of
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research on buildings um I had to include the YK town because it was a just absolutely classic story uh it
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wasn't even open yet when I started my ghost tours uh it underwent a massive renovation for several years um and it
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only reopened I believe New Year's Eve of 2023 so um that it was it was close
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while while I was initially doing the first of the ghost tours yes there it is the absolute
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gorgeous Jewel of downtown York um if like I said if anybody is local and you
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can get there you can walk through the lobby any old day just walk right into the lobby you know have a cup of coffee
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look around it's definitely a a fantastic site to experience so and you know you can even
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have a ghost experience right there in the lobby and I'm not even kidding so
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um that said um the staff of the hotel has been absolutely fantastic in
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supporting my ghost horse and uh they've been incredibly um how do I say encouraging
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and when the renovation happened and they reopened the current general manager said that uh people who had
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worked there before and who knew the spirit of hospitality wanted to know where he was apparently he hasn't been
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around as much um and uh you know Finding and retrieving missing ghosts is
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is not actually part of my usual job but um they miss him they basically want to
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know did he hate the renovation did he leave like what was the story behind the
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missing uh spirit on the eighth floor so um Lon and I actually met through uh
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Beck Lawrence um isn't that right I think so you knew
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Beck somehow and I was in her one day yeah yep you were store and uh she
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mentioned some program I think I had done there or something I was doing and we met online for the first time and it
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turned out we already both knew a lot of the same people so um yes it's it's ironic because you lived and worked in
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the elica city area for so long and I have worked there for I worked there for
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so long as well and AR paths never crossed um I was in fact a ghost tour guide there I still am I still work at
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the Museum in Howard County um and do presentations and research for them as well so all of that said um I wanted
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someone who I knew would do a fantastic job with a with an important building
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like the Yorktown hotel and I reached out to you to come with me to do the research on the space I you know I
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didn't want to just do it by myself I really wanted somebody with years of expertise to come into such an important
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old building in the city and uh on July 10th we we went and uh we explored every
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single floor we stopped every in every nook and cranny of the Yorktown hotel um
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and the Yorktown was great in supporting us through the entire process they connected us with their historian and uh
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she gave tons of data and other reports um I also use newspapers.com to try to
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verify and find obituaries and things like that as part of the research
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so um did I finally answer your whole question yeah you did
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well um you know yeah that was Wednesday July 10th this year that we we met up um
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where we did the on-site investigation and um you know it's funny because I I
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was born and raised here in Haner which is what 16 miles just west of York yes
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and I had never been to the hotel and I've been to York a lot over the years and of course even when I lived down in
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Baltimore and I was up here a lot too so uh but I had never been there and of
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course when you mentioned that it had been renovated and you you know I found out you were doing all these tours and
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such and um uh when you gave me the opportunity ask me to to help you or come in there
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and do the investigation I was more than willing to do so and uh you know I had you know it's it
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was nice and I I tell you I I was very impressed with you I I and what you you
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know your research and everything that you were all about and um I wanted to do
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this right so I contacted uh my colleague my friend
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Delise cook who is in the chat tonight uh she has a remote viewing team the B
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Beyond Horizon's remote viewing and I gave them the task of actually conducting the remote view
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session and I gave her the Target and uh she went through it and she did the you
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know her and her team did the reports sent them to me and I tell you I I
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thought that it really really gave a good perspective of what was going on
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there put us in the right frame of mind I I absolutely agree I think the
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thing that stuck out to me immediately because I had been in New Yorktown many times was the drawing uh from the
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rooftop and I recognized it immediately and I know that you can't see it from
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the ground and it's not an easy thing to get a photograph of even from the top so
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um the minute I saw it I was like yep that's the spot um even when uh there
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were descriptions of the curtains and um some of the other details of the rooms
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when we were in there and some of the rooms were open we saw them we saw the curtains we saw these exact details
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exactly as that team described them so um that was kind of uh phenomenal and
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really verifying yeah she did um she did a separate RV of the the location she
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started out with the roof and the bastrd around the the roof was exactly the same
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design that was there so she picked up one it well and other thing she was telling me and she even
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identified an an energy yes did met us when we got to the top floor indeed so
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you know the way I found out about Jane was um from the staff of the hotel and
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I'm still getting fascinating reports about Jane that you haven't even heard yet because yeah Jane um is a very busy
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uh Spirit uh resident of the Yorktown so you know I think the first thing to note about Jane is that she didn't die at the
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hotel um she's a walk-in and I she's
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very she has a very young playful energy and uh Jane met us in the the rooftop
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Lounge which uh the whole top floor of the Yorktown was um was originally an
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apartment for the general manager to live in but during the last renovation they switched it and made it into a bar
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that has both an indoor and an outdoor component it actually has a whole separate menu from the other bars um so
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it's kind of cool it's really its own unique entity and uh Jane apparently loves it I mean also the whole Community
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seems to really love it as well so I mean what not to love it's a bar on a rooftop on the highest rooftop in the
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city you has the amazing views it's absolutely gorgeous to be up there looking down onto Old downtown New York
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so that said um yes she immediately identified Jane who at that point I
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didn't have a name on but several of the staff members had reported uh some very
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curious activity um including uh a spirit that rang themselves out for 1,000
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Pepsis and um um I was like I guess they were
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thirsty I don't know but um and then did things like moving blls in the kitchen
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when the chef was trying to Plate soup or um glasses shattering and in the bars
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um they the Yorktown did everything to investigate these as best they could
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they called the manufacturers of the Bulls and the glasses to see like are is there some technical problem with these
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things um they they checked into all of those aspects and there were no problems
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um all they could keep coming back to is what is this ghost doing to to us in the
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hotel um I think one of my other uh stories collected about that had to was definitely it has Jane signature all
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over it uh was turning off all of the lights in the downstairs and there are lights on many different electrical
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switches down there it's not all on one switch uh but it all went off all at one time there was no blackout there was
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nothing else going on um I guess Jane just wanted to make herself known that
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um you know she was there well that doesn't surprise me because her energy she was very
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persistent with us I mean as asistent as soon as we got on the elevator I I guess
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we spent a half hour or so up there and uh the the bar itself is on Wheels and I
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think he went to the restroom and I came back and I saw that bar move and
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um you know it it was and you know we were sensing her the whole time we were I I sensed her as soon as I walked out
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of out of the elevator so I also had an EMF meter I don't know if you remember and um it was going off like crazy not
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just around like the electronics or anything but it was going it was definitely hit
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and um she didn't she never did show up though on my visual imaging software
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just the EMF meter for her so when we um we got off the top
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floor and uh we got on the elevator we went down to the next floor yes and
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um it it it was it was it was interesting because I and I didn't really expect her to follow us down
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there quite Frank with you but um you know uh let's
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see I'm I'm looking at my notes Here
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Yeah I I I think we were we went on the eighth we went on the eighth floor you talked about um a Mr Abrams and the
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cigar because you and I both picked up on that cigar odor when we were walking
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and look the the hotel the hotel floors they're set up like like a a
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venerable Hotel H Hotel floor plan you know you got one long hallway that
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goes uh past all the rooms and you go into a shorter one and that's about it
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until you get into the areas where you get into the um on the elevator but the
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floor plans are all the same on all the floors until you get down to um you know to the hospitality floors or into the uh
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the ball room or into the the lobby but uh it's it it it really has a
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lot of energy to it and um you know I I picked up on several things you know it
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was like that odor of burning wood like there was there may have been something to do with a fire I was feeling portal
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activity on descending floors and I think Jane was using this portal to move
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back up and down from floor to floor I I can't be positive of that but uh you
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know one thing that that that theise had mentioned to me uh and you read and she
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had it in the report was you know we we did kind of feel a
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heightened sense of the past while we were there and and you know Delise had mentioned in her report that the number
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507 was significant to Jane and she had named Jane and um you know I believe then it
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would probably referred to a room number so but I mean you know I'm I'm skipping
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on things if there's something you want to add in there go ahead well I can always Circle back um if you I'm happy
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to talk more about um the cigar salesman and his story too yeah go ahead and talk about that
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since that was on the eighth floor we had okay so yeah I think one of the things that struck me is when I we got
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to the eighth floor and I could smell the cigar smoke it first of all I was I was so happy to know that he was there
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that I could report back to the hotel staff that their famous ghost that he had not indeed left during the
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renovation um that for whatever reason the day that we were there he decided to show up um I I don't know if he was
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expecting us or I I don't know but he decided to show up that day and uh I was
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absolutely delighted to be able to report back to them that the go the spirit of hospitality was still with them so um because he has even been
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cited through the the decades as well so um the story behind him um I was able to
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find and verify him with a u oh my brain
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an obituary um he was a cigar salesman in life uh he was unmarried and he lived
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at the hotel in the 1950s so um he he thought of the hotel
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staff as his family um because he he was always there when he wasn't on the go selling cigars and uh he was known as
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Eugene his name was Herman Abrams uh ejim was his middle name and um sadly he had a heart attack
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in the lobby and he was taken to one one of the hospitals here in town in York uh
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and uh he he died at the hospital so unfortunately um he he did pass away
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tragically but uh it wasn't long after his death that he started appearing back
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in the hospital so uh I'm sorry I'm sorry back at the hotel my my mistake
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and um it was fascinating because he was seen coming and going from the room that
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he'd always lived in he was seen coming and going in the elevator that he normally used uh to this day they have
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they have three elevators in the Yorktown now two of them are the old original elevators that have been updated to Modern code and then they had
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to install a third one to be um compliant with the modern walls so the
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third one if you ever get to ride in it is way bigger uh I was told it had to be big enough to fit a modern hospital
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stretcher in case of an emergency okay so um that said he rides in the old ones
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and there are folks to this day who still get into the elevator and they don't press the number eight but the number eight lights up um as if someone
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was going back to the eighth floor so I guess when Eugene's coming and going he
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uses the elevator still to this day um
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yeah uh I I actually kind of love that he uh doesn't he doesn't uh walk he he
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doesn't use portal energy he takes the elevator to go back and forth to his
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place so the eth floor has since been redone as sweets so his original room
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would whatever it looked like would not look like what it looks like now uh because the old hotel rooms were a lot
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smaller so um they I would imagine if you see him
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coming and going on the eighth floor it's going to be right through wall if he's going back into his old room
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because that is not the same as it would have been historically the floor plans up there are completely different
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now okay well you you were and I I you know we were talking about uh that Jane
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never showed up on any of your software or any of your imaging software on your phone but we were picking up some some
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energy we were we were absolutely you know the one that really stuck out to me was this the spirit that was standing
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right next to them one ma um I've thought about that so so many times I I
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remember thinking like I guess that's someone who's just here with her or for for her so um I thought that was really
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interesting because there were others that we saw walking around but um that
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one maid has someone who was right next to her working with her following her in other rooms as she was cleaning I don't
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know if like she had a a family member or or something but I thought that one was super fascinating and it's the only
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time using that software I have ever experienced something quite like that oh
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really interesting well you know at you know we went down we got down to the fifth floor
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yes and as we got closer to the area where possibly a room 507 would have
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been located mhm uh it was pretty obvious that by that time it was now a
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housekeeping storage room or closet yeah it is now a storage closet and
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um so you know now to me and now you know I was
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picking up things you were picking up things but there was just a deep sense of dread and pain when I got up to that
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door and basically I I was standing there in front of the door and I was
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literally touching the door and the original molding and I'm sure that was the
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original molding uh around the door and I got the sense or the word
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violence which was interesting because at the exact same time I said that Rissa
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said violet Violet now we both received that message
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though I believe that both Violet and violence were Rel relative terms in
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those circumstances um as I stood there and I
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was telling RIS of this as we were going through as it was coming to me I instantly
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sensed a female figure um short ke
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stature wearing a one piece dresser uniform she was
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africanamerican and had very short black shiny hair and she was in
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distress and pain and I saw a stream a blood of blood flowing down her left leg
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now I then saw her lying on her right side with her legs extended out of the
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room into the hallway
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so I and I told r i felt her pain and I felt shock as
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well and I I I guess I literally felt her
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dying um I think this was the nanny that you had talked about uh earlier on and I
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I truly believe that Jane was trying to tell us the nanny story or Violet story
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and her demise I mean I think that's why she was so insistent on getting us down
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there on that fifth floor so so I did go and try to research
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obituaries and any historic records I could but there was nothing um to be
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found so one of the things that we had discussed was that um if a woman was raped in 1920s especially if she was a
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single woman it would probably never have been reported to the police um to this day uh sexual assaults often are
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not reported to the police but back then for it to happen to a single
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woman Ely historically speaking very unlikely that that would have been
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reported um so no matter no matter where it happened or the nature of the crime uh it's unfortunate but this is a
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reality so um the story that we match this with was a story that is only ever
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a haunting that has only ever been reported by children so um VI I I've
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been calling her violet Violet only appears to kids and and um what we kind
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of sort of sensed was that she was never she was never married but she loved children and that she'd always wanted
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her own family so um in New York toown when children are distressed or upset or
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there's a baby that won't go to sleep and it's fussy it has been noted that a nanny ghost will appear and sooe them
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and they will go to sleep and you know I always think it's interesting because I had my first uh
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full spectral Apparition experience as a kid and I I didn't know to be afraid I had never been taught to be afraid so I
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just thought it was a thing that happened and I I rolled with it um because my parents had told me the
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ghosts were real and when they come along it that's just a thing um that nothing to be afraid of um and so I
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think that when the kids do see violets they don't know it's a ghost they just
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think oh it's it's an something that's here someone that's here to help me and
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indeed I I think that is what Violet how Violet appears to people she to kids
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she's a helper she's a a a kind Spirit um and it's it's very sad to think that
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she had a terrible ending to her life um whatever the nature of that might have looked like whether it was a miscarriage
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or some kind of violent crime or some kind of illness any of the above is a terrible ending um any of the above is a
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possible scenario and um what struck me about the
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imagery you were getting was that in the history of of women in general it has
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always been that horrible crimes committed against women are generally not uh reported and
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never receive what's the word I want to say the uh the retribution they deserve
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and if that was violet story that's genuinely heartbreaking and it would also kind of make sense that Jane who is
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a saucy Spirit would uh want us to know what happened to Violet while we were there that she would bring us to that
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place and show us that story so I have an add-on to Violet's story for you uh
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she only appears on the fourth and fifth floors to children just in those areas those are the only reports that I have
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personally and um uh Paran um first dat
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paranormal uh came to York PA uh they took my ghost tour and they stayed at the Yorktown and uh the minute they
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walked in off of the elevator on the first uh sorry fourth floor which is
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where they requested um to be put they they were especially interested in Violet um this was after un and I's
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investigation um their equipment turned on in their bags and started going a
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Spirit Box started talking um their cameras came on their EMF meters everything came on on on the fourth
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floor the minute they stepped off the elevator um now they they had been to
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another haunted location in New York and their their stuff picked up nothing but in New Yorktown the minute they hit the
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fourth floor everything came on um so I did ask them for an update before this
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interview but they they didn't get back to me yet um so I don't know what they found on those recordings yet but I'll
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definitely update you when I have any information well I'm glad GL you told me all this cuz that kind of verifies a lot
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of what we experienced and yes you know I make these assumptions based on my
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intuition and ability to interpret Spirit energy so you know at the time of our
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investigation you know I hadn't been able to gather any other intuitive evidence for the location even remotely
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uh other than what you know that Delise and her team had given um you know that
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instant connection with a terrible Act just then subtly turned off because
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since that investigation I haven't felt anything which is for me is kind of
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unusual there's several people in the chat who I know know me and know that a
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lot of times I will continue to pick up on things but I haven't picked up on anything since our
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investigation so uh that's kind of unusual one thing I did want to mention I I did I did pick up at the time it was
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either 1927 or 1928 M that Violet's death occurred it
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would be right after the hotel opened um and in and in 1928 it's interesting to
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note that is when the hex Hollow murder happened and everybody would have been
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crowded around downtown around New Yorktown when that um trial was going on just a interesting I never even thought
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about that but that's you're right well the history pieces together very nicely you know the um the Strand Theater which
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is part of the hson and now also went up in 1925 just like the Yorktown and they also have some very interesting ghosts
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there too wow yeah uh Delise put in there she
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wants to hear the updates when they come in and I will definitely send them to her oh yeah as soon as I know anything
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because I know they left all their equipment on all night long and they said it was active so um yeah I I'm
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super eager to hear what they what they said as well
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so uh well you know now we we did go down to
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the other floors after the fifth floor and uh we I don't know how much we really picked up on I you know we were
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kind of looking through the W at the windows and everything you were giving me the history of the area around the hotel and yep I was taking all that in
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but the place has a lot of energy um it does it really does it's um it's
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palpable uh it comes in waves I feel so
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um but what what's your assessment of the investigation itself mine I thought
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it was very successful we answered the question that they had and we were able to put a name to both Jane and violet
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and the staff was delighted to be able to name their their main Spirits they
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Jane is very interactive um when I was last at the Yorktown about a month ago I
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stopped by just to check in say hello um I'll stop and get like and chat with the staff uh I had more
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reports from Jane um apparently uh there was a young lady uh getting ready to
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stock some plastic uh cups that people were going to drink out of and uh they were coming up off of the pile and Bing
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Bing like flying across the counter at the young lady who was trying to stock
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them behind the counter so um where was that at in the lobby uh it was it was in
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a the area right behind the lobby bar where like behind the scenes area okay
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but uh yep she J and and they she knew to call her Jane and she was like Jane
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stop and then it stopped so yeah um and then I spoke to
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another um I spoke to another member of the staff who works in The Upstairs Lounge and uh she said that she was up
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there by herself getting ready for service and she said that she suddenly knew there was somebody else there she
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knew it she had the strongest sense of being watched and uh she said it wasn't
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bad but she was for a minute a little jangled because she hadn't heard anybody come and the elevators hadn't opened and
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um she uh said is it Jane and apparently like something like rattled around
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behind the bar and she just took that to mean yes that it was Jane and so she was kind of like okay well Jane I'm just
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gonna keep doing my work and nothing else happened with Jane at that time but
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um evidently Jane is getting to be known by the staff there and um answers to her
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wow you know it it it really feels good when you do an investigation like that
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and then things start falling into place with Witnesses and such um yeah
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that's and folks I didn't know much of this at all I mean red didn't tell me
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about it she was saving it for the show I imagine uh but uh yeah I feel very encouraged by that in fact I think you
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and I are going to to go down her one time another time oh I would love to um
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I I would actually love to take a Spirit Box in and see if Jane will talk to us um or if Violet would like to talk um I
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feel like I you and I were trying to figure out Jan's connection to the hotel I
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remember um us wondering how did she choose to come there like it was it was
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like a thing that we were really really stretching to figure out because she seems contemporary like she knows what Pepsi is and I realize that Pepsi goes
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back about a hundred years but you know most of the ghosts and in and spirit
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interactions I have they they don't ask for things like that so the fact that Jane rung herself up for Pepsis it it
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means to me that she lived in a much more modern time so yeah that's what I figured I you
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know I did go back and and try to do some research with the name itself and anything related to York the only thing
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I really got was a woman who had probably been married there uh at the
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hotel that's a possibility it could have been a link to a happy memory exactly
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and and she enjoyed the place and and went possibly went back definitely went back after death uh but I think I I
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think she may have actually lived uh west west of York I mean into
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there were two areas that I concentrated on one was not far from Pittsburgh and the other was somewhat near but um I I
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really couldn't pinpoint any information so uh maybe one day we'll get some information about that yeah I you know I
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did also search on obituaries on the name Jane and I I would like slotted off by like fiveyear time spans trying to
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find her but nothing and the yorktown's historian also checked into the name for
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me couldn't find that either um like I said of of the three of them the only one who name we can confirm for sure is
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Eugene's um like I said we we found him we found his obituary we found like information about his life but um as far
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as Violet if indeed she's who we think she was and um she was an
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African-American woman who worked at the Yorktown in the 1920s when they first opened there might not even be
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employment records of her anymore um unfortunately the Yorktown does have
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some history where um in their early years like in the 1920s and 30s uh
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African-American um employees were not treated the same and they had to use separate stairways separate bathrooms um
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this is just part of the history of America let's be honest but it was also
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the part of the history of the Yorktown um and if Jane was a Walkin that makes
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it way harder to pin on who she was abut um it makes it very difficult um but I
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like that she reacts to her name I like that uh when the staff call her Jane she
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responds so you know one of my ghostes towards law you're gonna think this is funny I told Violet's story and um a
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gentleman looked at me he goes I have a really fussy three-year-old can I just drop him off for
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her I was like I don't think the Y would appreciate that no I doubt
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it so um folks if you do have questions uh for Rissa or about the investigation
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or me or whatever uh please put them up in the chat and uh Christina will uh
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will get them to us uh so kind of tell the folks a bit about what you do now
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Risa as far as your your uh presentations and like I told you you're the busiest person I know I mean you you
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seem to be doing something every other day or you know just about yeah yeah you
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live you live down in Howard County I mean you live close to Baltimore and you're up here all the time doing my
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family uh my family is still in York okay so um that's why that's my
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connection to York um so I live in York parttime I I hang out with my parents they're getting older um and I'm able to
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provide assistance for them and um yes I absolutely love Howard County there's
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some uh super f fascinating stuff down there so um yeah um I was for many years
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I've been a ghost tour guide in elate City Maryland um and talk about a haunted place that place is just like
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elbow to Elbow with ghosts it's off the charts I mean you you know I sent you
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investigations I've done all around the area and uh yeah and in fact we're going
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to do Risa is going to be back on in about three weeks I think that's about right and we're going to be talking
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about that area in particular Hell House Hell House is a fascinating spot it used
43:31
to be called St Mary's College and um if you know anything about Maryland you've heard of Hell House um AB Hell House has
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been um it's it was even mentioned on the show Supernatural um with Dean Dean and Sam and their car um yeah so it was
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really uh an amazing research project I spent a year doing it I worked with a
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lot of um historians I I actually had a research assistant because there was so
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much to Wade through about the region and about St Mary's College in particular so well you know I I saw one
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of your presentations that you did at the Howard County Historical Society yes and that was very interesting uh there
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was there was stuff I never even heard of before uh and it's funny because you know I worked across the river right
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directly across the river from Hell House from St Mary's for 20 years you work the mill right that has its own I
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work at simp and you know they're no longer there I mean they tore everything down it's you know it's part of the
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state park now and you sent me pictures you not long ago of the mill what's left
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there it's like yeah there's nothing there I mean it two concrete platforms to kind of like Branch out over the
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water and that's it and it's just it's covered in graffiti uh layers of graffiti so yeah I'm going to come down
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there one day you and are going to go around here and I'm going to tell you a few stories around I to do pistle Road
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and a few other places a lot of do that would be so much fun um I see how do you
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see them the software um let me look at the software I was using um so I have a
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page subscription to a program on my Google phone called ghost tube and I
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have that as imaging software they do have other things uh that they offer
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from Ghost tube but um it was suggested to me by some folks in Gettysburg who
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really love the technology and I have found it to be pretty useful we're gonna have to get to
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Gettysburg too that would be awfully fun I would enjoy that uh Jose Sanchez asked how did you
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see them on the software that's that's what I just yeah that was the software I used I do not have an infrared camera um
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I have used them in my life but I don't have one right now and Delise thanks for allowing my
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team to be part of this was also and look the lease has helped me out on several investigations and it was inv
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Val valuable information that she gave us and uh you know viewing is is pretty
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cool it is it's not it's not one of my like areas of expertise but it was it
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her and her team were right on the money at New Yorktown it was impressive oh you know I wanted to mention one other thing
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that I picked up from uh one of the staff members um I I just was peeking at my notes over
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here on the side so you and I walked past the ballroom and the ballroom is actually phenomenal um the windows
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themselves are worth driving to York to see because they are so amazing and um the ballroom was completely restored
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they had to this is going to be a funny thing to say uh one of the biggest parts of the restoration was stripping the
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walls of cigarette smoke so um remember you telling me that yep then so that was
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one of the big parts of the restoration that they did uh in the most recent one so all of that
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said um you and I both felt like there was some residual energy there but the the EMF meter wasn't picking it up my
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equipment wasn't picking it up uh and we both felt like it was dancing or celebrating or something turns out one
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of the staff members said that she was in New York town alone literally alone
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and uh right before they reopened and she said that she heard like dancing and
47:25
chattering in there and the minute she went and turned on the light it stopped and then when she turned her back to
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walk away it started again so there that's there what what we talked about
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it was there wow uh Delise said laon's imagery and
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emotional connection to her was strong well yeah I mean I it it it it is amazing how I picked we
47:53
picked up on it you picked up on it I picked up on it I mean it was just it we were drawn there and she was directing
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us right to it oh yeah oh Jane is very interactive
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um I usually when I walk into the lobby I just start talking out loud I'm sure people think I'm crazy and that that's
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fine um I'm just like hi Jane how's it going you know and then I walk in and say hello to like the living people but
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um yeah I I talk to all my ghosts so well Delise put up here I did ask and
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I didn't tell you this but Delise told me this before we did the investigation I did ask if we could go back and speak
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to Jane and she answered sure so that was encouraging and and
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look she met us as soon as we got up there yeah it was really it was quite
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evident yeah I saw that Christina coincidence about the Pepsis and I'm drinking Pepsi yeah oh yeah little
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product placement never hurts right H let's see um Delise did you find
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a grave listing line I I did find some grave listings but I don't know if it was her uh it
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could have been uh but there wasn't anything definitive I I know Rissa looked into it as well yeah I couldn't
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find anything that I was sure about yeah uh let's see Jose Sanchez is
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infered technology used in detecting specters whenever you are on an
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investigation I this is the first time I've ever used it I the only technology
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that I have ever used because I'm kind of basic is um our our recordings or you
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know em em e EVP uh recordings and I've had some SE
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several EVP recordings which have a stound in me over the years but that's about the extent of what I use as far as
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uh any type of Technology you know I want to uh share with you right around the corner from
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New York town There's a store called House of Flowers and uh one of my ghost tour this year we brought do paranormal
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investigations along and we it was a different ghost tour because we stopped outside of four places and um we had
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they had their uh voice Spirit boxes right and which are the uh voice
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phenomenon outside of House of Flowers everybody started picking up there were several of these boxes going on a
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woman's voice now I knew the ghost story there and um I knew who she was and she
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started talking to everybody and then she was saying you know she was telling
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us how lonely she was she was asking what happened to the man who had been courting her um she was asking what year
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it was and then when we turned to leave like we spent a lot of time talking to her interacting with her and um when we
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turned to leave all the boxes rang out please don't go please don't leave me I'm so lonely don't go um and she was
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still hitting on those Spirit boxes a half a block away it was
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heartbreaking um in fact the owner of House of Flowers a woman named Katherine said you know I'm really s sad that
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she's that lonely I'm she bought a Spirit Box so that she can talk to her and they can have conversations during
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the day that's interesting Uh Kevin asked uh was there any extra activity while the changes
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took place you know as far as the construction um that's actually why we ended up in there um we ended up in
51:31
there because they couldn't find Eugene and nobody had seen him and he used to appear in spectral form regularly um as
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far as I know he has not started reappearing in spectral form but he has started reappearing as an aroma of
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cigarettes I'm sorry cigars and on the um the eight lighting up on the elevator
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but um for whatever reason he's not appearing in spectral form I I can't explain to you why he's chosen not to um
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but I can tell you what he looked like when he did appear in spectal form because i' I've had so many people tell me uh he was always wearing a suit and
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tie and a hat he was very well dressed he was very well groomed and manicured and he was always carrying his cases of
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cigars interesting well you know and that being
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said by you you know and I this is one thing I was had thought about before we went in there was you know they did the
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renov ation normally when people do R Renovations on a location the activity picks up but it did entirely the
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opposite on this location it was almost like it was suppressed somehow yeah it it was definitely
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interesting although it did somehow the renovation brought Jane in yeah and
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suddenly it got up his that's true that's true yeah uh who's a maybe she's
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like I like the Chic new rooftop Lounge I think I'll say it's pretty nice up there um Jose ass why do you think
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apparitions many time are missing either feet or a face well I can I can tell
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you uh full body operations are very rare it takes a lot of energy to
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manifest like that and quite frankly when I do see a manifestation it's it's
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very rarely anything beyond the head and shoulders uh and I have seen a few
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especially get his b i I've seen a lot there uh but it takes a lot of
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energy you have any comment on that sure you know my very first experience was with a full body Apparition and he
53:39
definitely had a face because I can still see it in my mind clear as day that was in England in England I was a
53:45
little girl um I was going upstairs in a restaurant to use the bathroom and a teenage boy appeared um I could see his
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pained expression on his face like I I could see exactly how he was feeling
53:57
from his body language and I actually ran downstairs to go get help because I
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thought oh well I need to get a parent or someone to help this this young man
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um and when of course I came back with my mom he was gone turns out his name was marmaduk buckle and he had um hanged
54:15
himself in that room oh so yeah he he was a special needs person but in the
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1600s that was mistaken for witchcraft and uh he was scheduled to be put to death and so instead he took his own
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life it was a super tragic story but it he had face I I saw all of him um how
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many times in my life has that happened very very very few I can tell you in elate City there are people who see
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faces and there are particular apparitions whose faces show up regularly I I can think of names so um
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it it does happen um but it's the least common in my experience paranormal
54:53
phenomenon as far as hauntings that I know it's much more common to be touched to
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smell to hear and to sense at least in my
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experience yeah and and when we do the next show we will be talking about full
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body apparitions as well because I had quite an experience also uh sir wolf ask
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hi Lon is there a way to move them on why are they still there you know that's
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a touchy subject quite honestly
55:28
unless they're causing a problem and look it's all free will if they don't want to move on they won't move on uh
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you can kind of assist them in doing it you know that's that's how why I learned
55:40
how to remote view because quite honestly that it it seemed to be a good
55:46
way or a good conduit to helping these energies move to another level uh but
55:53
just like anything else there is free will so if they don't want to go they won't
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go no that's I that's been my experience as well yeah uh Jose uh might murmuring behind
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the wall cases as if many people speaking in a cafeteria be linked to multiple Spirits or something else it
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could also just be a residual yeah it's probably mostly a residual I would imagine um you know I hear people or get
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reports of people hearing a lot of voices at one time and uh I I I do believe that is residual
56:31
just like when I had my first encounter at Gettysburg when I was nine years old I mean all that was residual in my
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estimation uh gbur has a ton of residual yeah even even in videos and stuff of
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spirits and apparitions and and manifestations it it's 99% of is
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residual uh just like the um up on hers rig
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people have taken so many videos of the uh the manifestation around the uh the
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the Cannons uh part of uh keer uh Brigade uh
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that same Apparition I've been seeing pictures of that for 50 years now it's
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the same thing it just shows up to different people or the right conditions
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uh any other qu oh Lon what's your favorite cocktail I can't I can't drink
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anymore because of surgery I had but my favorite my favorite cocktail was
57:39
actually what I called a snake bite and that was a Yukon Jack and and lime juice so there you go take it for what it
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is um Matthew I believe that the half manifestations have to do with
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reconstruction so seeing a half Spirit might be something to do with the floor that no longer there if you could see
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below the floor maybe we'll see a pair of feet I I guess it's possible maybe
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yeah sure yeah uh Delise uh I think I wrote in a
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report I thought Jane was a model for clothing she would have been very
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chic you know I I I did associate her with style the period where she was in um
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she just seemed like that that she was stylish and New Yorktown is honestly an upscale place and it always was ever
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since day one so if she was married there or dined there or whatever she
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would have been a person of some privilege so that makes sense sir wolf but so many of them seem
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lost or unaware of their situation well yeah it does turn out like that
58:52
occasionally if you if you're lucky enough to get some type of communication with
58:58
them um with me intuitively or through remote viewing
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somehow um many times they don't even know they're dead they don't even know
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they're in another period of time and um the energy that's that's what I have found to Lon yeah you know it's you know
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hauntings are basically an energy trying to communicate with the living and it kind
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of turns out to where you're scaring the hell out the living and they don't know what's going on so that's what causes
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the investigation to be conducted um but I I I think they're in
59:34
in some cases they just have a lot of questions and they just don't realize that they have passed on and that can
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last for hundreds of years and uh you know you know I've done a lot of
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Investigations and Del this I've done a lot of Investigations in England I mean
59:52
though distant investigations and it was all done by you know by uh computer or
59:58
laptop or but the RVs were done you know and um a lot of the energy that we have
1:00:06
gotten in investigations in that old world setting are just like that they don't realize
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they passed on and that's when you're talking about the intelligent Spirits the interactive
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ex yeah I don't I don't think residuals have a feeling about it I I I
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feel to me like they're somebody once explained it to me as a uh scar on time
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space and I thought that was one of the most articulate ways to describe a residual I've ever heard of um so if you
1:00:36
think of time space as an entity around us just like you know I always say I have this scar in my hand for my curling
1:00:41
iron you can look at it and it'll look different from different angles but same with a scar on time space that's why
1:00:47
they tend to sink or they always do the same thing or you know they're always standing next to the same Cannon um it's
1:00:54
just a scar on time space yeah yeah that is a good that is a good
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description I have to steal that one uh JY Sanchez do you think the ghost might
1:01:05
be capable of traveling to other dimensions and back uh what do you think me I mean I
1:01:14
honestly have I have no idea I mean anything's possible um it's it's definitely possible in terms of physics
1:01:21
for there to be multiple Dimensions um I'm not a physicist I'm not going to claim to know a lot about that but um I
1:01:28
think anything is possible unless you can rule it out yeah you know and people know I you
1:01:35
know I've been involved with this thing in Chicago and I I think there's dimensional travel involved with that so
1:01:41
I I I believe more and more as we do these type of Investigations either with
1:01:48
Cryptids or energies or alien beings or
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or whatever I I I think for the most part there's some type of interdimensional some type of um portal
1:02:01
type uh thing involved with these of course we can't definitively prove that
1:02:08
at this point but maybe one day we will but it it's you know a lot of people
1:02:13
talk about it people talk about it more and more as time has gone on uh they they can't really come up with a
1:02:20
plausible explanation as to why these things show up and disappear and you
1:02:26
know quickly I mean most people can't come up with explanations of why they do the things they do every day never mind
1:02:32
why exactly somebody else is doing something so it it just stands to reason
1:02:37
that there are certain things beyond our comprehension for now yeah yep I agree
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with you okay folks got any more questions somebody said they like the
1:02:49
movie The Others it's one of my favorites I love it I that movie too it's one of the best ways to explain
1:02:55
ghosts that I ever seen talking about the Nicole Kidman movie Nicole Kidman movie yeah that you know I was kind of
1:03:02
hanging on the edge a thinking that might be what happens at the end and of course it did but it was uh yeah it was
1:03:09
a very good explanation of of uh energies and one of my very favorites I
1:03:15
love that movie yeah yeah so Rissa why don't you tell the folks how they can
1:03:22
contact you uh some of the things you're involved with sure oh my God we'll be
1:03:27
here for half an hour oh I'll keep it I'll keep it I promise so um you can find I have two
1:03:35
different websites one is called tea andm smoke.com so te like the beverage and smoke um that is my divination
1:03:42
website and um so I do te Leaf reading uh smoke reading tarot and that's how
1:03:49
you can find me there and that also has matching social media on Instagram and YouTube and then I have it called
1:03:56
Haunted pa. online and uh that's my GH store site so um that has a matching
1:04:03
Instagram and YouTube as well and on that YouTube I just tell stories um condensed into one minute reels about um
1:04:12
other people's ghostly experiences in the state of Pennsylvania so as far as where to catch me live and in person um
1:04:18
I'm mostly done for the year or and or sold out I have two more events coming up that are not sold out um they are
1:04:25
both my unmar Monsters of uh Christmas so I talk about the spooky side of the U
1:04:31
tide uh things like Krampus and the marude and uat and I have one coming up
1:04:37
tomorrow night in Lancaster at the nine Collective that there's still tickets for as well as on Friday December 20th
1:04:44
at the haunted orphanage in Gettysburg which is a wonderful place to give presentations uh last time the ghosts
1:04:51
were so active I was giving a talk there they were jingling bells and you could hear po steps and there was so much
1:04:58
activity it was like two shows for the price of one so it was my January is not
1:05:04
super busy I am doing an Edgar Allan Poe poetry day on Po's birthday at the uh
1:05:10
Handover Serpent's key in their new location they are moving to a bigger place as a line you'll have to check it
1:05:15
out but um yes she's she's expanding and so I'll be doing a dark
1:05:22
poetry workshop and then an open M Night the open M Night portion is free um my ghost tours don't start up again in
1:05:29
Maryland or Pennsylvania until April um but until then I will be doing various
1:05:34
presentations inside for um the months of um February and March but you can
1:05:40
check my websites or my social media I do have a Facebook account that if you just send me a friend request I will let
1:05:46
you follow um or I do post stuff on my websites and on the Instagram Pages as
1:05:53
well and Russ's also now part of the Phantoms of monsters 14 Research team
1:05:59
and we're very glad to have her I need someone else to with me around the area
1:06:05
who can look into things like this so uh yeah and I I I really enjoyed us working
1:06:12
together and I you know I I want to do it again so I'm looking forward to it
1:06:18
and I can't wait till our next talk in a few weeks about St Mary's College also known as hell house it's going to be a
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good one um I I have so much to say about it it's it was such a great
1:06:29
project and you know honestly I think it's going to be something I'll eventually write a book about because it's such a rich rich topic and there's
1:06:35
still so many questions and gaps even after a full year of me and an assistant researching it there are questions I
1:06:42
still can't answer about that property so uh Rissa hang on and uh I'm
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going to go ahead and and close the show out and then we can talk a little bit afterwards
1:06:56
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