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Commonwealth Paranormal is a team of experienced and dedicated paranormal investigators who use various types of equipment and scientific methods to document paranormal activity at alleged haunted locations. We will determine if a haunting is actually occurring and, if so, the type of haunting. If you have a suspected haunting and would like our group to investigate, you can contact us through this page or email us at commonwealthparanormal@yahoo.com . Once you have contacted us, a member will return your email as soon as possible. Commonwealth Paranormal does not charge our clients for our services. And, all information regarding the location of the haunting and the name of the client is kept confidential, unless we are given permission to release that information
If you are interested in joining us as an active paranormal investigator.
Contact Chris Dedman at chris@commonwealthparanormal.net
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| Ghost Hunters Investigate Coal Miner's Museum |
(courtesy of The Big Sandy News)
Ghost hunters investigate Coal Miner's Museum
by Shawna Howell
08/01/2008 - PAINTSVILLE — Every October, the Van Lear Coal Miner's Museum transforms into a haunted house for Halloween, but a group of paranormal investigators say the spooky goings-on don't have to be staged — the historic building really is haunted.
The Big Sandy News traveled with Commonwealth Paranormal, a group of ghost hunters, to investigate the building Monday.
At the onset of the investigation, Shell Gedeon, one of the members, interviewed an employee of the museum, Tina Webb, asking if she had any prior encounters of interest.
Webb said she had witnessed "shadow people," things had either gone missing or had been moved, heard someone walking and had been touched when no one was there.
She also said she had her hair played with, been pushed when no one was around, heard doorknobs rattle, seen objects float, and the radio would turn on and off by itself.
When asked if there had ever been an encounter during the annual Halloween haunted house, Webb said she had "complaints" from visitors.
Webb said during one of these occurrences, she saw a worker who had been setting up for the event huddled in a corner and appeared to be "scared to death."
She said she questioned the worker about what had happened, and the employee said he had seen a coal miner in one of the rooms when no one had been dressed as a coal miner for the event.
After gathering the information and reviewing photos of what appeared to be spirits captured on film by Webb, the ghost-hunting team began its work by saying a prayer.
Joe Clark, one of the group's co-founders, said prayer was necessary since another investigator had spirits in the past to "follow him home."
Following the prayer, the group — composed of Clark, Gideon, Chris Dedman, Tyler Holbrook, Nate McIntire, and Rick Roberts — gathered scientific equipment to begin the investigation.
While the building was still lit, the group toured the areas where Webb said she had seen the most activity.
Once the lights went out, the ghostly activity began.
Paranormal activity
With the use of dowsing rods, audio and visual recording devices, a K-2 meter, an Electromagnetic Field Detector (EMF), and a security system, the team began in the front area of the building by asking the ghost to appear.
When nothing happened, the group began asking questions, and the dowsing rods would cross or move in a direction to answer. For instance, one of the questions was, "Are you alone or are there other spirits here? Please cross the rods if you're alone and move just one rod if there are others." The dowsing rods made little movement until they were in the hands of Holbrook.
Throughout this line of questioning, the apparent spirit answered that she was 22 years old, had worked at the Van Lear Museum when it was a bank, and died in 1918 of influenza.
As the questions progressed, the purported ghost — who answered to the name of "Sally" — said she felt better communicating in the "vault" area of the building, where she could be away from the "evil beings who sometimes" are with her.
After speaking to her from inside the vault area, "Sally" said she would protect a "child" that had also crossed over to the supernatural world. As "Sally" appeared to answer more, investigators noticed the smell of the room changed into a musky aroma.
Both Roberts and Holbrook said they spontaneously felt a pain in the stomach area, for which "Sally" took credit for touching. Clark said he felt his neck being touched. Heather Grass, an observer of the night's events, said she felt something touch her on the hand, and even the BSN reporter felt a touch to her leg.
Also, Webb's camera began turning on and off. At times when the encounters happened, the K-2 meter registered a presence.
After being told by "Sally," there were evil spirits in an area of the building where a model of Van Lear is constructed, the team moved into that location. While in that room, no beings made their presence known, but "Sally" revealed that Holbrook reminded her of her boyfriend, who had been killed in a mining accident.
As members of the team exited the room near a mural of miners, Holbrook's beaded necklace got torn from his neck. Scratch marks were all that remained where the necklace had been.
Voices
The team then settled around a table and activated its "ghost box," which scans AM/FM and low band frequencies to create a noise matrix from which the spirits or other entities can use to modulate for messages, Clark said.
Below is an excerpt of what was heard from the ghost box:
"Are you there?" one of the members asked.
"F*** you!" a male voice said from the "ghost box."
"Are you angry because we are here?" a member asked.
"Yeah. Sure," the male voice replied.
"What do you want us to do?" a member asked.
"Get out!" the male voice demanded.
"How many spirits are here?" the member asked.
"Four," the voice responded.
"Is there something you would like to tell us," the member asked.
"Help!" the voice said.
At that moment, both Clark and Holbrook said they felt something touch them on the leg.
Jokingly, Clark asked if the purported spirit liked playing with his leg, and it responded "No!"
Findings
As of Wednesday, a review of some of the audio recordings of disembodied voices on tape revealed singing and "another one that was evil sounding but couldn't make out what it was," Clark said.
Also, a review of the security system downstairs documented several orbs that appeared to be floating in mid air, members said.
The group plans to continue their investigation Monday, Aug. 4.
(view this article at www.BigSandyNews.com) |
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| Area Paranormal Organization Investigates Unusual Happenings |
(courtesy of The Big Sandy News)
Area Paranormal Organization Investigates Unusual Happenings
by Shawna Howell
07/02/2008 - PAINTSVILLE — Walk the line.
That's what Commonwealth Paranormal, a new group of paranormal investigators, does — tread the thin line separating the mortal world from that of the supernatural.
The group recently emerged in Eastern and Central Kentucky and is already getting requests from people all across the state who are allegedly experiencing paranormal activity in their homes and businesses.
"The response has been overwhelming," co-founder Joe Clark of Salyersville says. "We have been an official group now for less than a week, and we have already received several cases, ranging from private residences to a family business in Central Kentucky."
Although Commonwealth Paranormal is new, its members are no strangers to the paranormal field. Co-founders Clark, Chris Dedman, Eric Willis, along with investigators Mike and Sherryl Higdon, Karen Miles and investigator-in-training Tyler Holbrook, were previously members of an area TAPS family group. In fact, Dedman and Clark were in leadership positions with the other group before resigning to pursue Commonwealth Paranormal, a press release from the group says.
"I've been involved in paranormal investigations for six years now, and I love it more today than ever," Clark says. "There is no greater feeling in the world than the feeling you receive after you have helped a client through what is often times a frightening or terrifying experience. Some would say it's the thrill of hunt. It's exciting. But my goal is to help the client and get them through what often times is a bad experience."
Clark says on the average, about 80 percent of all alleged paranormal activity can be attributed to natural causes.
"We go in using scientific methods," Clark explained. "We use voice recorders, electronic detectors, video recorders, and other equipment in examining the area to rule out any natural factors that could explain the occurrence."
Clark said when all factors have been ruled out, the activity is then declared "paranormal."
He said there are two types of paranormal activity. One is a residual event, in which the same events will occur repeatedly. For example, Clark says an apparition may appear at the same time every day.
A second paranormal occurrence is an intelligent haunting, which Clark says is when a spirit will attempt to communicate.
When asked what the group does to remove the spirit, Clark said they would have the house or business blessed with anointing oils, prayer or holy water.
"We try to go with the client's faith," he said. "If they're Catholic, we may bring in a clergy."
Clark, who has had his own experiences with the afterlife, says he became interested in the unexplained almost two decades ago after one of his own encounters.
"I was sitting in my office alone and I made a phone call to my mom," Clark recalled. "I heard the door open, footsteps of someone walking around, and two female voices. I quickly hung up the phone and walked up front. No one was there. I walked onto the sidewalk. No one was even in the vicinity of the building. I walked all around the office. No one was there. This is what sparked my interest."
When asked of any other experiences, Clark said while he was working with another paranormal group at a residence in Somerset, he felt something touch him on the back of the neck and then later on the leg.
"It wasn't scary or bad," Clark said. "It was kind of a shock."
The most severe case Clark and his team have experienced is currently under investigation, he said.
"The clients, particularly one member of the family, are being physically attacked by what appears to be a demonic force on a daily basis. She (the client whose name is being withheld by the paranormal team) has actually had words and symbols scratched into her body right before their eyes," a press release says. "The severity of this case prompted the two to contact Ryan Buell, a renown investigator with the Paranormal Research Society and the television series Paranormal State for assistance. We didn't want to take any chances with this case, and thankfully Ryan and his group was gracious enough to lend us a hand."
Clark, who was not present for that incident, said in an interview the other investigating staff had audio recordings of the demonic being saying, "I will kill her. Get out!"
Clark says the team has captured other communications on tape.
"We caught an apparition on film," Clark acknowledged. "While at Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, we captured a picture of a shadowy boy in a hall. Several thousand died in the tuberculosis hospital. The building is known to be haunted by a boy named Timmy. We don't know if that was the boy we captured in the picture."
The haunted hospital has even caught the eye of the Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters series, which devoted an episode to the facility.
When Clark was asked why a spirit may linger, he said "they may have unfinished business, or want to remain with a loved one. I just read an article that suggests that some spirits may be afraid of God's judgment."
"I hadn't thought of that one, but it makes sense."
Members of the Commonwealth Paranormal are scattered across the state, with some members in Morehead, Louisville, Scottsville, and one member from Virginia, a press release notes.
"We will go anywhere we are needed, and if for some reason we can't, we will do our best to find the client another group closer to them, " Clark says.
The investigations are free of charge and any information obtained through an investigation is kept confidential, unless the client permits the release of the information, Clark says.
Anyone wishing to contact the Commonwealth Paranormal team may e-mail the group at commonwealthparanormal@yahoo.com or contact Clark at 606-207-1613.
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JoeCP on August 01 2008 09:32:46
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| Commonwealth Paranormal Helping Families Deal with The Unknown |
(Taken from American Profile Magazine)
Commonwealth Paranormal, a new group of paranormal investigators, recently emerged in Eastern and Central Kentucky. And, they are already are getting requests from people all across the region allegedly experiencing paranormal activity in their homes and businesses. "The response has been overwhelming" says Co-Founder Joe Clark of Salyersville. "We have been an official group now for just a short time, and we have already received several cases, ranging from private residences to businesses."
Although the group Commonwealth Paranormal is new, it's members are no strangers to the paranormal field. Co-Founders Chris Dedman, Joe Clark, and Eric Willis, along with several other members of the group were previously members of an area TAPS family group. TAPS, short for The Atlantic Paranormal Society, is a paranormal group that is featured on the Sci-Fi Channel series "Ghost Hunters". They have affiliate groups around the world. In fact, Dedman and Clark were in leadership positions with the affiliate group before resigning to pursue Commonwealth Paranormal.
"I've been involved in paranormal investigations for six years now, and I love it more today than ever", says Clark. "There is no greater feeling in the world than the feeling you receive after you have helped a client through what is often times a frightening or terrifying experience."
According to Co-Founder Chris Dedman of Louisville, eighty percent of all alleged paranormal activity can be attributed to natural causes. "We investigate using scientific methods, and most of the time, we are able to debunk the activity. However there are times you can't. And it is then, when you rule out all the possibilities, that you can declare the activity as being "paranormal."
Both Clark and Dedman have had their share of encounters with the paranormal. "I've been touched by an unseen presence on three separate occasions, I've seen a partial apparition, I've heard voices and other sounds with my natural ear when there is no other person around but me, as well as other things", says Clark. Dedman has had similar experiences, but has also had more violent encounters. "One night while investigating a business in Northern Kentucky I was slapped in the face by an unseen force. Another time at a business in Central Kentucky I was scratched on my back by an entity; and I have pictures to prove that one." he said.
However, both Dedman and Clark agree that the most severe case of paranormal activity they have ever dealt with is one they are currently working on in Illinois. "The clients, particularly one member of the family, are being physically attacked by what appears to be a demonic force on a daily basis. She has actually had words and symbols scratched into her body right before their eyes." says Dedman. The severity of this case prompted the two to contact Ryan Buell, a renown investigator with the Paranormal Research Society and the A & E television series Paranormal State for assistance.. "We didn't want to take any chances with this case, and thankfully Ryan and his group was gracious enough to lend us a hand", he said. This case is still pending.
Members of Commonwealth Paranormal are scattered all across the region, from Salyersville to Morehead to Louisville to Scottsville to Ludlow, KY. One member resides in Virginia. And their investigations cover an area just as broad. "We will go anywhere we are needed and if for some reason we can't, we will do our best to find the client another group closer to them" , says Clark.
Commonwealth Paranormal investigates all cases scientifically using various electronic and surveillance equipment, ranging from digital cameras and recorders to video recorders. "We are strictly scientific. We don't use Ouija boards, we don't conduct séances or anything like that", says Co-Founder Eric Willis of Louisville. "And, we do not charge to conduct investigations. And all information regarding our investigations is kept confidential. We don't release any information regarding the client or the location, unless they give us permission to do so", he said.
Commonwealth Paranormal has been featured in several regional newspapers and has an upcoming project with a regional radio station. And, they have already been asked to participate in one of the the nation's largest paranormal conventions in 2009. "We are flattered at the number of opportunities being presented to us", says Clark; "However, our goal is and will always be to help those families out there that are dealing with paranormal activity in their homes or businesses. Without them, we would not be here."
Those wanting more information on Commonwealth Paranormal can visit their website at www.CommonwealthParanormal.net
(This article can be found at : http://www.americanprofile.com/heroes/article/27574.html
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twisted on July 25 2008 12:59:43
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| Calling out all apparitions |
In June 28 issue, Russell County News
By Greg Wells
Managing Editor
A vaporous full floating torso apparition got you nervous about your library?
Commonwealth Paranormal wants to hear from you.
They are a group of paranormal investigators, recently coming to light in Kentucky.
“Our clients provide us information about what they are experiencing,” explained on of the group’s leaders. “Then we come in with scientific equipment to either justify or de-bunk.”
He explained that sometimes the feelings people get are related to high levels of stray electro-magnetic fields, or mold problems.
“Sometimes the older wiring in houses will put off stray fields and that can make people feel like someone is watching them,” Dedman said. “Mold and stuff like that can make you feel nauseous.”
He said that nauseous feeling and other physical effects such as that can be traced to mold spores or other problems in a home.
“Not everything we find is paranormal,” He explained. “We go in and help the homeowner.”
To do that they bring in digital recording equipment, night vision cameras and other tools of the trade to sort out why people feel like there is an other-worldly presence in their home.
In addition to those physical explanations they have found evidence of the paranormal, Dedman said.
“We have photographs of shadow people, apparitions,” he said, adding that they have also recorded Electric Voice Phenomena, which people believe are proof of the departed trying to reach back to the living.
Dedman said he and a few others started the group and they are already are getting requests from people all across the state allegedly experiencing paranormal activity in their homes and businesses.
“The response has been overwhelming” says Co-Founder Joe Clark of Salyersville. “We have been an official group now for less than a week, and we have already received several cases, ranging from private residences to a family business in Central Kentucky.”
Although the group Commonwealth Paranormal is new, it’s members are no strangers to the paranormal field.
Co-Founders Dedman, along with Joe Clark, and Eric Willis, and investigators Mike and Sherryl Higdon, Karen Miles, and Investigator-In-Training Tyler Holbrook, were previously members of an area TAPS family group.
TAPS is a show on the Sci-Fi channel. In it investigators work to prove or disprove reported ghosts.
Dedman said he and Clark were in leadership positions with the other group before resigning to pursue Commonwealth Paranormal.
According Dedman, who lives in Louisville, eighty percent of all alleged paranormal activity can be attributed to natural causes. “We investigate using scientific methods, and most of the time, we are able to debunk the activity. However there are times you can’t.
And it is then, when you rule out all the possibilities, that you can declare the activity as being “paranormal.” But he said the group has yet to find any fakers or hoaxers among those who call them in.
He said his interest in the supernatural goes back to his childhood. “When I was 15 I was at Gettysburg when I saw a unit of Civil War soldiers at dusk.
They walked not 10 feet from me. We thought at first it was re-enactors, but as we got closer I realized what we were seeing we could see through,” Dedman said. “I wanted to know why me and what was going on. Later I came to understand I was not the only person this sort of thing happened to.”
Both Clark and Dedman say they have had their share of encounters with the paranormal.
“I’ve been touched by an unseen presence on three separate occasions, I’ve seen a partial apparition, I’ve heard voices and other sounds with my natural ear when there is no other person around but me, as well as other things”, says Clark.
Dedman has had similar experiences, but has also had more violent encounters. “One night while investigating a business in Northern Kentucky I was slapped in the face by an unseen force.
“Another time at a business in Central Kentucky I was scratched on my back by an entity; and I have pictures to prove that one.” he said. “Things have been taken out of team members pockets people have had their hair pulled. Some of it is playfulness, some aggressive.
“But I’ve never feared for my safety,” Dedman added. “I have always felt the man above was with me.”
“We will go anywhere we are needed and if for some reason we can’t, we will do our best to find another group closer to them,” says Clark.
They said that Commonwealth Paranormal investigates all cases scientifically using various electronic and surveillance equipment, ranging from digital cameras and recorders to video recorders.
“We are strictly scientific. We don’t use Ouija boards, we don’t conduct séances or anything like that,” said Co-Founder Eric Willis of Louisville. “And, we do not charge to conduct investigations.
“All information regarding our investigations is kept confidential. We don’t release any information regarding the client or the location, unless they give us permission to do so,” he said.
Dedman said they have investigated over 100 locations, including Waverly Hills in Louisville, the old sanitarium where there were over 6,500 deaths.
“Where we found the apparition of a little boy,” Dedman said. “They call him Peter. He likes to play with toys and balls.”
He said they would leave toys in rooms and come back to find them in different locations. Dedman added that they also took photos of what he called “shadow people” at that location.
They say they will soon have a Web site. For now those wanting more information can email them at commonwealthparanormal@yahoo.com or see them on MySpace at myspace.com/commonwealthparanormal
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twisted on July 25 2008 12:59:14
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| Commonwealth Paranormal Now An Offical Member of the GAC Family |
Commonwealth Paranormal is now an Official Member of the GAC (Ghost Adventures Crew) Family. We are one of only 500 member groups worldwide. We are very honored to be a part of the GAC family of investigators and look forward to working with them.
Mentioning GAC, don't forget their New TV Series Premiere’s 10/08/08 on the Travel Channel!
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twisted on July 25 2008 12:58:35
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| Commonwealth Paranormal Joins Anamoly Response Network |
| Commonwealth Paranormal has accepted an invitation from the Anomaly Response Network to become an affiliate of their organization. Based in the Northern Kentucky area, The ARN is dedicated to the objective study of all forms of unusual phenomena including crop circles, ghosts, UFOs, bigfoot, abductions and mutilations. The ARN has affiliate groups in numerous states throughout the United States, and works similar to that of other "family" groups in that, when a claim of unusual phenomena comes into their office, it is passed to the affiliate group in that area. For more information visit: http://www.anomalyresponse.org |
twisted on January 08 2008 00:00:00
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