Post by Joanna on Oct 29, 2013 19:39:17 GMT -5
Health Dept. employee reprimanded for bringing in paranormal team
BUTTE, Mont. – A government employee, convinced that otherworldly spirits had invaded her office, reportedly enlisted ghost hunters to catch the specters in action. The ghosts got away scot-free, but the employee had plenty of explaining to do.
The spooked city employee reportedly invited the Butte Paranormal Investigative Team to the county’s health department office at 25 W. Front Street after-hours. The ghost-busting nonprofit set up an infrared camera in one of the office rooms to monitor the energy flow allegedly created by ghosts. John DeMuary, the group’s co-founder, has been hunting ghosts for more than two years. He took up the case after the employee told him her building was haunted. “She said that a lot of strange things were happening and that she heard strange noises coming out of a certain part of the building,” the 34-year-old told The News. The woman allegedly told the team that people from that part of the building were angry all the time and acted aggressively toward other co-workers. “I felt that she was pretty serious about this and really wanted to know what was going on,” DeMuary added.
After doing a bit of research, DeMaury said he discovered that the office building was constructed in the 1970s. Before that, a lady had spent 80 years of her life in a house that stood at that same spot. “We don’t know if she passed away in the house,” DeMuary commented. “Maybe her spirit wasn’t able to move on.”
One night in August, the team slipped into the building with the help of the city employee. They saw lights flickering on and off, which DeMuary thought was “weird.” He said they got one good picture of an orb, which he claimed is a spirit’s way of trying to “manifest” itself. DeMuary also heard spirits trying to communicate through his Ovilus X, a digital ghost detecting device.
The health department’s leaders weren’t amused. “The public gives trust in us and we need to take that seriously, and setting up cameras in public buildings to catch paranormal activity I don’t think is gaining the public’s trust,” chief executive Matt Vincent told the MT Standard.
The employee who contacted the Butte Paranormal Team was given a written reprimand. Another employee who was aware of the ghost-hunting received an oral reprimand.
The police took DeMuary’s SD card. But he still thinks he “felt a presence” in the building. He said Butte, an old mining town, is filled with paranormal activity.
Source: Carol Kuruvilla, The New York Daily News, October 16, 2013.
BUTTE, Mont. – A government employee, convinced that otherworldly spirits had invaded her office, reportedly enlisted ghost hunters to catch the specters in action. The ghosts got away scot-free, but the employee had plenty of explaining to do.
The spooked city employee reportedly invited the Butte Paranormal Investigative Team to the county’s health department office at 25 W. Front Street after-hours. The ghost-busting nonprofit set up an infrared camera in one of the office rooms to monitor the energy flow allegedly created by ghosts. John DeMuary, the group’s co-founder, has been hunting ghosts for more than two years. He took up the case after the employee told him her building was haunted. “She said that a lot of strange things were happening and that she heard strange noises coming out of a certain part of the building,” the 34-year-old told The News. The woman allegedly told the team that people from that part of the building were angry all the time and acted aggressively toward other co-workers. “I felt that she was pretty serious about this and really wanted to know what was going on,” DeMuary added.
After doing a bit of research, DeMaury said he discovered that the office building was constructed in the 1970s. Before that, a lady had spent 80 years of her life in a house that stood at that same spot. “We don’t know if she passed away in the house,” DeMuary commented. “Maybe her spirit wasn’t able to move on.”
One night in August, the team slipped into the building with the help of the city employee. They saw lights flickering on and off, which DeMuary thought was “weird.” He said they got one good picture of an orb, which he claimed is a spirit’s way of trying to “manifest” itself. DeMuary also heard spirits trying to communicate through his Ovilus X, a digital ghost detecting device.
The health department’s leaders weren’t amused. “The public gives trust in us and we need to take that seriously, and setting up cameras in public buildings to catch paranormal activity I don’t think is gaining the public’s trust,” chief executive Matt Vincent told the MT Standard.
The employee who contacted the Butte Paranormal Team was given a written reprimand. Another employee who was aware of the ghost-hunting received an oral reprimand.
The police took DeMuary’s SD card. But he still thinks he “felt a presence” in the building. He said Butte, an old mining town, is filled with paranormal activity.
Source: Carol Kuruvilla, The New York Daily News, October 16, 2013.
