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The Shanley Hotel
Investigations "The Spirits are Inn"
Napanoch, NY
April 4, 2009; April
16, 2009;May 2, 2009 & August 15, 2009 |
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April 4, 2009 - Saturday |
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Mass
Paranormal (live web cast) and
Brian Harnois were
hosts of the event with
Sal and Cindy Nicosia.
Approximately 24 guests attended this event and spent one of two nights at
the gathering. |
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NPI equipment: Sony Digital Voice Recorder, 2 ea
K-2 meters with modified switch, night vision Sony mini DV camcorder with
two supplemental IR light sources and an Olympus digital still camera. |
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Session 1- Gentleman's Quarters 10:00 PM to 10:50 PM with
guests. Annie, a local medium hosted, the session. EVP, K-2 and divining
rods. NPI attempted the rods with no success. Others showed a
'response.' |
No activity or evidence. NPI is very skeptical
of the use
of divining rods. |
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Session 2- Bordello 10:55 to 11:15. This area
consisted of four rooms. NPI were sole occupants of the main room.
Four females in Rosie's Room. 5-6 individuals in corner room and two in
right side room. EVP, K-2 and video. |
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NPI captured an EVP. A question from the corner
room asked: "What year is this". A voice close to NPI's voice recorder
responded "This year." There is a woman in the next room talking during the
EVP session which appears at the muffled voice throughout the clip, however,
about one second after the question you can hear a low man's voice with a
response. From the digital voice recorder-Listen here.
Audio taken from the mini DV camcorder-
Listen here
(note, the miniDV was closer to anyone else in the area yet the response
sounds more distant). We have finally contacted the person
who asked the question, they believe they also said "this year" as a
follow-up to their question. We can discount this as an EVP. |
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Session 3- Third floor 11:25 to 11:55. NPI checked
out a few rooms before the group settled in Joe's Room. EVP and K-2
session. Brian H. entered after about 10 minutes and it was his claim
that a demonic or
evil spirit entered the hotel. A few minutes later Annie was summoned
to help. The group broke up about midnight as the live feed ended.
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No activity or evidence. NPI did witness four
individuals who believed they were ridding the hotel of the bad spirit from room
13 on the third
floor. |
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Break- everyone in the hotel regrouped in the
Great Room
for a prayer circle conducted by Brian H. |
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Session 4- after 1AM- NPI and Mass Paranormal (great
bunch, thanks Tom, Matt, Don and Chip) went to the third floor. We
started in Joe's Room. EVP and K-2. We started getting activity
on the K-2 but it seemed too cyclical. We checked Sal and Cindy's apartment
below and there was an electric heater or oven throwing a large EMF to most
of that side of the third floor. We moved to the room across the hall
for K-2 and EVP. |
No personal activity or video/audio
evidence. |
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Session 5- approximately 3AM- NPI and Mass Paranormal in
the Gentleman's Quarters for EVP and K-2. |
Iteresting K-2 session with many responses. A brief
interpretation of the audio from the K-2 session
HERE |
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End investigation at approximately 4AM |
Conclusion: Interesting evening with many
people with personal experiences. Our EVP and K-2 were impressive,
however, still not definitive proof of paranormal activity. |
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April 16, 2009 - Thursday |
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NPI were the only guests this night of Sal and Cindy.
Kevin and Mitch investigated most of the areas showing activity from the
last visit. |
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NPI equipment: Olympus Digital Voice Recorder
(thanks Sal), 2 ea K-2 meters with modified switch, night vision Sony mini
DV camcorder with two supplemental IR light sources, Olympus digital still
camera, Extech digital EMF meter, laser thermometer and a k-probe digital
ambient thermometer. We also employed a DVR system with
4
IR cameras.
Camera 1= Hallway off the Great
Room
leading to Bordello and Gentleman's Parlor;
Camera 2=
Third Floor Hallway toward room 13;
Camera 3=
Gentleman's Parlor; Camera 4= Marguerite's Room on
the second floor. |
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Session 1- Bordello- 8:30 PM- Air temp=64.8F;
walls/floor/ceiling 62-65F; EMF background 0.0-0.3G; - EMF, K-2, Mini DV and
voice recorder. |
No personal activity or video/audio
evidence. |
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Session 2- Gentleman's Parlor- 9:45 PM- Air temp=56F;
walls/floor/ceiling 51-56F; EMF background 0.0-0.7G (small fridge 1.7 within
1.5 feet) ; EMF, K-2, Mini DV, voice recorder, static DVR cam |
No personal activity or video
evidence.
Upon review of the audio there is one possible EVP at the 10M52S mark of the
original recording, midway through the clip there appears to be a female
voice in the back ground at the 1.5 second mark of this clip.
Listen here.
We believe she is saying "Thank you" after I said we like to visit.
Listen Here
for a short amplified version. There may be more to the EVP but we can't make it out over my voice... |
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Session 3- Marguerite's Room- Second floor
room #4-
11:35PM-Air temp=62.4F; walls/floor/ceiling 60-64F; EMF background 0.0-0.3G
(left rear side wall 3.2); EMF, K-2, voice recorder, static DVR cam |
No personal activity or video
evidence.
Upon review of the audio there is one possible EVP at the 6M14S mark of the
original recording. There is a strange sound in response to 'Can you tell us
your name?"
Listen here |
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Session 4- Third floor Jonathan's Room-12:10AM- Air
temp=64F; walls/floor/ceiling 60-64F; EMF background 0.0-0.4G; EMF,
K-2, voice recorder, Mini DV. We also ventured into the Hallway (DVR
cam) with Jonathan's toys at 12:45AM for a few minutes before we had a full
voice recorder and took a break to dump the audio. |
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No personal activity or video
evidence.
Upon review of the audio there are two possible EVP's. First one at the
43M05S mark of the original recording. 8 seconds after I say the word
"Toronto" there's a faint sound.
Listen here
The second is at the 56M46S mark of the original recording. A very faint
sound that is voice like at the 4.5 second mark of this clip-
Listen here |
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Session 5- Third Floor Joe's Room- 1:40AM- No background
readings (assumed the same as earlier). K-2, voice recorder, Mini DV.
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Session 6- 2:00AM- Ten minutes in the room across the hall on the third
floor with no activity. |
No personal activity or video
evidence.
Upon review of the audio there are three interesting events in Joe's Room.
At the 01M57S mark, 04M01S mark and the 09M56S mark of the original
recording of this session, there is a "plink" sound. It seems to be in
response to questions and also seems to be occurring close to the recorder
based on the volume
An evaluation of the mini DV recorder showed the second two
plinks non-existent on the recording but the first one sounds like a low
click.
Could it be Joe giving
the recorder a little flick? We can not rule out the recorder itself
doing something funny, but this occurs three times in 8 minutes during this
session and twice in five minutes at a later session and at no other times
all night. Digital Voice Recorder=
Listen here to the first
plink. Listen here to the second
plink. Listen here to the third
plink. |
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Session 7- Gentleman's Parlor- 2:40AM- No background
readings (assumed the same as earlier). EMF, K-2, Mini DV, voice recorder,
static DVR cam. |
No personal activity or video
evidence.
Here we have two more plink sounds at the 02M43S and 07M56S marks of the
original recording.
Listen here
to the first plink. Listen closely and you'll hear a double click, almost
sounds like a push button flashlight being turned on. However, when we
review the audio from our camcorder at the same moment, you can hear only the
second click which may be our flashlight, our flashlights were at the table with us
with the camcorder and the voice recorder. The sound is generated close to
the voice recorder, not anywhere else based on the volume and lack of echo
(the flashlights echo on the recording).
Listen here to
the second plink. We also may have another interesting response. At the
12M52S mark on the original recording we have five knocks in response to the
question "Can anyone give us a sign of your presence?".
Listen here. We can't rule out that
the table or one of the chairs made the noise from our movements and we
didn't notice, but we are not sure. |
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Wrap up investigation at 3:25AM |
Conclusion: Further review of the plinking noises still seem to
indicate that the sound came from close vicinity of the digital voice
recorder, or from a hit to the recorder itself. We can not explain the
origin of these noises. In
Joe's Room the recorder was on the window sill away from us by at least 5-6
feet at all times.
Review of the DVR recordings were
completed April 24, 2009. The recorder ran from approximately 8:30 PM
through 6:30 AM. The review yielded no paranormal activity or evidence.
All in all it was a quiet night and
we still cannot say definitively that the source of any of the above
evidence is paranormal. What we can say is they are unexplained! What are your
thoughts? |
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May 2, 2009 - Saturday |
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NPI brought along our visiting psychic
Vincent J. Barra to
possibly shed some insight as to the residual spirits that may be present
throughout the hotel. |
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NPI equipment: Sony Digital Voice Recorder, 2 ea K-2 meters with modified switch, night vision Sony mini DV camcorder with two supplemental IR light sources, Olympus digital still
camera, Canon digital still camera. |
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A late afternoon tour found Vincent sensing many things.
What was interesting about his visit that was different from the usual visit
by a psychic to the hotel was that he claimed to sense spirits from the original
building or before almost exclusively. Capt. Cornel, Fannie, Claire (may be
the Claire from the current building), a Mr. Garrison or something with a
'G' (actually a previous owner of the hotel was
George
Gosselin), a child or infant named Eric, a woman that hanged
herself on the third floor in the original hotel, a Native American shaman
woman or medicine woman from before either hotel was on the third floor with
healing roots, James Morrow in the Gentelman's Quarters, Darlene Madison on
the third floor among others. |
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After dark we visited the Gentleman's Quarters, the
Bordello, second floor rooms and then on to the third floor.
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No response from the K-2. No EVP's. |
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Jonathan's Room- Video recorder, two K-2 meters on a
chair and the voice recorder next to them. |
No EVP's on audio.
We did get a response on a K-2 meter. Although they were next to each other
only one showed a response. The K-2 meters were on a chair toward the south
side of the room, away from Joe's Room.
At 06:14 on Video Tape 8 we asked: "Can you make a noise? You got to get to
know us, we've been here before" Then we got a nice jump on the meter in
response. We then asked "Is that a sign? Please do it again?". We then had a
double jump on the meter as a second response. We then asked a series of questions: "Tell us your
name." "Do you live here at the hotel?" "Did you live at the original hotel,
the old hotel?"
At 07:23 on Video Tape 8 we had a small response on the meter to: "Is this
your room?"
Then the meter was quiet until 22:30 on Video Tape 8. There was
another small response to us saying "Let's move" ( we were getting ready to
go next door to Joe's Room).
We do not typically use K-2 responses as a basis for collecting data,
however, since many others use it, we incorporate them at times since we are
investigating the techiniques of others as well as the locale. |
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Joe's Room- Video recorder, two K-2 meters and the voice
recorder on the window sill. |
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We had something interesting happen during the last
investigation in Joe's Room- see above.
We placed our voice recorder in the same spot as last time, on the window
sill pointing in to the room. Within 30 seconds of us getting into Joe's
Room we got another click on the recorder! (01:25:38)
Listen Here.
We were unable to hear this click on the video when reviewed. Strange
indeed, last time we used Sal's Olympus recorder, this time it was our Sony
recorder.Fifty two
seconds later we had another click (01:26:30).
Listen Here.
This time we heard a faint click on the video but it still sounded like it
came from close to the recorder. The video camera was about three to
four feet from the audio recorder being held as Kevin sat in Joe's chair..
We had one other click on the recorder the whole evening see below,
Any similar sound had a tone or echo to it that sounded like it came from
within the room.
We still have no explanation for this. Sal stated his recorder never
made that noise and we state our recorder never did either. |
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Third floor room above Oscar's and
Grover's Room- Video recorder, two K-2 meters and the voice recorder. |
Although the hotel was feeling
'empty' or quiet, Vincent was sensing an older native American women in this
room. There was no video evidence or K-2 activity but we picked up
another click on the audio recorder (01:54:42)
Listen Here.
Again, it is not heard on the video but sounds very close to the audio
recorder. The recorder was set down on an inverted pail and was not
being held at the time. |
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Wrap up investigation around midnight. |
All in all, it was another quiet night at
the Shanley. A little K-2 activity and those out of place clicks.
We will be back... |
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August 15 2009 - Saturday |
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NPI attended a
Mass Paranormal
event.
There were many people and for the most part there wasn't a lot of very
quiet times throughout the evening. We still had a blast with great
friends and hosts.
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did capture a few interesting possible EVPs. |
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NPI equipment: Sony Digital Voice Recorder, 2 ea K-2 meters with modified switch, night vision Sony mini DV camcorder with two supplemental IR light sources,
modified stereo camera rig, IR still camera |
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Four of us in the Secret Room.
At approximately 10:52 PM or at 11 min 57 sec on audio file 3 we all heard
an audible sound and several seconds later another. There was background chatter coming from the front
porch from the opposite direction. Listen to an excerpt
HERE at the 8 second mark. You'll hear everyone
react and also at the very end of the clip you'll hear the people outside
for a split second. |
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Later in the evening, the
four of us, after a half hour or so in Jonathan's Room with the toys, went
into Joe's Room next door and found the following: At approximately 10:50 PM
on audio file 7 at the 35:35 mark we had what sounded like a tiny voice
saying 'Tom' (20 second mark on excerpt), after being asked if its Tom or
Joe? then we had a LOUD whisper at the 35:46 mark which sounds like "these
are Tom's" (31 second mark on excerpt).
Listen to
excerpt here. Then at the 37:08 mark we had another tiny 'Tom' (10
second mark on excerpt)
HERE. |
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If I were to attempt to
interpret the interactions as spirit voices, I may conclude that the small
child with the toys is actually named Tom. When asked if its Joe or
Tom we hear a possible Tom in a child's voice. Then we hear an adult
male whisper loudly "These are Tom's" which may be referring to the toys,
then we hear the same child like voice say Tom again. To clarify, we
do not whisper during an EVP session. If someone does we note it and usually
it is quite low in volume, not loud and clear like this recording. Further
analysis is warranted. |
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We enjoyed our visits to the
Shanley Hotel and will be going back when we have a chance. Please
contact us if you plan on visiting.
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