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A Conversation with Shawn Kelly


BY CHRIS YOUNG  City Paper, Pittsburgh, PA

Shawn Kelly is the 45-year-old founder of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society, a ghost-hunting group he began in 2006. Much like the popular A&E television show Paranormal State, Kelly's group of a dozen scientific and spiritual investigators visit haunted houses, hotels and graveyards in Southwestern Pennsylvania, "help[ing] spirits cross to the other side." Kelly, who works as a Giant Eagle meat-cutter by day, says he's been examining spirits in various ways, including multiple stints as a psychic, for more than 20 years. His team, which does not charge for its services, has investigated more than 100 cases, he says, gathering evidence that spirits -- both good and evil -- exist.

What is the fascination with the paranormal?

The attraction is not knowing what's out there. You know it's out there, you know spirits exist, but once you get a picture, or once you get evidence on an EVP [Electronic Voice Phenomena, an audio recording of paranormal voices or sounds], ... it just gives you a rush that is just so unbelievable.

Critics say you go into your investigations with the intent of proving your beliefs about the paranormal. Why should people believe you?

Say we went to your house, and you said your house was haunted. You would call me, and I would come out and interview you. At that time, I walk your house and see if there is something there or not. But you live in that house, you see shadows, you see things falling apart, furniture being rearranged. You live with it, so I believe what you see. Now, my scientific people don't give a shit what you think. They want to see it on film. They want to see a full-fledged spirit. Sometimes we get something, sometimes we don't.

Why are we sometimes haunted by spirits?

When you get killed, your spirit stays where it is because it's confused. ...You get shot, you're dead: "Oh my God, where am I?" The only safe place they know is right there where they got shot, so they stay there. When you die, your spirit hangs around to make sure your loved ones are OK, and that everything is peaceful. It's called "unfinished business." ... Say a child-molester got killed, and he was evil when he was alive. His body is dead, but his spirit is still there, and he still wreaks havoc on people.

Have you ever encountered a demonic spirit?

Oh my God, yes! The worst demonic spirit that I had was in Leechburg. One of my group members was getting harassed, and she felt very uneasy. This guy was pure evil. I saw [my group member], and I said, "What's wrong?" She was being pushed, pinched, shoved. They get into your brain.

If you show fear, they live off of that. She was freaking out. I said, "He's here, isn't he?" She said, "Can you please get rid of him?" And I did.

How do you get rid of spirits?

I use God. People would put me in Western Psych if I told you how I did it.

What do you hear most from skeptics?

"I need to see it on film." I let them do their spiel. Then I tell them, "I will respect what you believe in just as long as you respect what I believe in." That shuts them up.

On Paranormal State, the investigators sometimes find that clients are mentally ill ...

Oh yeah, tons of people.

If that's the case, do you abort the mission?

I'm not a doctor, I'm not a psychologist. But I can tell when you call me on the phone if there is something wrong with you or not. If I know that these people aren't right, I try to be as nice as I can and tell them, "No, we're not going to come. You need help."

What do you feel when dealing with spirits during an investigation?

A lot of anger. A lot of sadness. ... I can feel what they're feeling, and it's a lot of anger that they're still here.

WTAE TV  Team 4:

Pittsburgh Ghost Hunters Investigate Paranormal Possibilities

 
   Plenty of people do. A Gallup poll finds that 73 percent of Americans believe in the paranormal.

   Team 4 recently spent some time with investigators from Pittsburgh Paranormal Society. They are booked several nights a week and almost every weekend, with requests from homeowners and others to investigate strange happenings.

    "There are a lot of people out there who have things going on in their homes and they want to know what it is, why it's happening," investigator Andrea said.

   These investigators charge no fee for their services. They say they do the work because they believe -- and they use a lot of gadgets to try to hear a voice or see an image.

   "A K2 meter is used to pick up electromagnetic fields," lead technician Donnie Wagner said. "I can run all my night vision cameras hooked up with cables, but they run into the back of the computer. Voice recorders. We use microcassettes and the digital voice recorders."

   Last year, Wagner snapped photos of an antique store in Monongahela that has been rumored to be haunted for more than 100 years.

   "The story is there's a little girl trapped up on the second floor. She can't leave there," he said.

   In one photo of a second-floor window, there is what Wagner claims to be a 19th-century girls' nightgown.

   "You can pretty much make out pleats in what we think would be a nightgown," he said. "The very next photo, she's gone."

   Wagner and his crew snapped pictures in the dark at another supposedly haunted building -- R&R Station restaurant in Mount Pleasant.

   "These all came from the same window," Wagner said.

   Later, they looked closely at a photo of an empty hallway. At the end, in a mirror, was a bluish image.

   Zooming in closer, they saw the distorted image of what they claim is a man with a mustache who resembles John Polonosky, who owned the building 100 years ago when it was the East End Hotel. Polonosky also died there.

   "I think it's him, to be honest," Wagner said.

   "I just think it's so awesome that we caught these apparitions in this mirror," PPS said.

   Is it really an apparition, or something else?

   "It's the same as looking at the clouds and seeing elephants and whatnot," said Thomas McBurney, a psychology professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

   McBurney specializes in the science of perception. He has a dim view of paranormal investigators.

   "There is an explanation, but these people are not qualified to find it, because they don't have the scientific training to know how the mind works and how physics works and all the other things you need to know in order to do it," McBurney said.

   Last month, about 1,000 people attended a paranormal conference hosted by the Penn State University student organization Paranormal Research Society in State College, Pa.

   The society's founder, Ryan Buell, and other Penn State students will star in "Paranormal State," a new cable network reality series.

   "I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting, and I worked with a family," Buell said. "Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things."

   The public's recent fascination with the paranormal amuses McBurney.

   "There are always things we don't understand," he said. "Things fall off the wall. There are strange things that happen to everybody. But you don't make that into a science."

   But as long as clients come to Pittsburgh Paranormal Society with concerns about hauntings, these local ghost hunters say they will answer the call.

   "We just try to give them peace of mind, whether they have activity going on in their home or not," Pinigis said.

   Pittsburgh Paranormal Society said it captures paranormal evidence in about 30 percent of its cases, and investigators don't take a case until they interview a building's occupants and try to rule out physical and psychological explanations for a reported phenomenon.

   McBurney said Pittsburgh Paranormal Society is not qualified to make those kinds of judgment calls.

 
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH

By Donna Domin

Sunday, October 28, 2007
 
Everyone has a ghost story.
 
As soon as one person starts describing a strange occurrence in his or her home, others eagerly detail their own weird experiences. Try it at the water cooler, and soon, ghost tales will take over the conversation.
 
For those looking for verification that they are not the only ones hearing or seeing things, the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society serves as a ghost buster of sorts, with a team of investigators who will check out unusual "activity" in homes and businesses. The Society's John says his group does not "get rid of anything" or try to convince others of paranormal activity or
change the minds of skeptics. "We just document the activity if anything is there," he says.
 
The Society visits Allegheny Township.
 
After seven years of "hauntings," the McElwains of Allegheny Township hoped the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society would be able to offer some explanations for the strange noises, ghostly apparitions and unexplainable activity that their family and visitors have experienced.
 
It was a perfect night for a paranormal investigation. Gusts of wind sent autumn leaves spiraling into the drizzling rain. Halloween was just a few days away.
 
Strange occurrences began almost immediately after the family moved into their house in 2000. Cynthia and Perry McElwain Sr. said their son Thomas, who was 7 at the time, was the first one to experience the paranormal. Crying and hysterically afraid, Tommy told his parents of a strange man he
had seen on the back porch. The frightened child described the man in detail -- he was tall and wore a torn and ragged flannel shirt and blue jeans. Wounded, he was bleeding and had bandages wrapped around his forehead. Tommy  is the only one who ever has seen this figure, and he saw it 20 to 30 times. For this reason, the young man now refuses to set foot on the back porch when he is by himself. "It really creeped me out," he says.
 
One night, Cindy and Perry were awakened by the sound of breaking glass. Cindy thought their cat had knocked over canning jars sitting on a back-porch shelf. The next morning, when the couple awoke, they found shards and slivers of glass on the floor all around their bed. Two glass bowls that had been holding candles on the bedroom nightstand had been broken into smithereens.
 
On another occasion, they were awakened by the sound of metal pipes banging, like the sound of a radiator when the heat first goes on. The noise lasted only about a minute. Only problem is, the McElwains have no metal pipes in their house.
 
On the day of the investigation, Cindy and a friend were visiting in the living room while the radio played. Noises began coming out of the computer room in the back of the house. When Cindy entered, she saw clothes being flung from the closet and assorted papers and other objects being tossed out of the storage space. Somehow she "knew" it was the music that was causing this reaction. "I went into the living room and changed the station and told my friend that apparently 'he' didn't like the music I had on." The protest in the computer room stopped.
 
When members of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society arrived that evening, case manager Andrea Pinigis made a beeline for the computer room. When she walked in, she saw a man dressed all in black, wearing a white cap or hat sitting on the chair in front of the computer. When she turned to look at Perry McElwain Jr., who was with her, the "man" disappeared. Perry witnessed the apparition.
 
The McElwain home was a hotbed of activity on the night of the investigation.
 
Pittsburgh Paranormal Society founder and spiritual investigator Shawn Kelly discovered two "spirits" or "beings" a short distance from the house, on the site where an old barn had once stood.
 
Kelly identified one as "a nasty old dude who's not happy we're here" and the other as a black slave named James. When Cindy reported this information to her mother, Cindy was told that an underground railroad runs through their property, which the McElwains had not known. Cindy and her husband had agreed not to tell the paranormal group everything they knew or had experienced as a way to test the veracity and credibility of the society's members.
 
The society passed the test with flying colors ... and orbs. Orbs are unexplainable circles of color many believe are spirit or energy based. Society members photographed orbs of various sizes and colors all around the McElwain house and property when it was not raining.
 
The most amazing photo might be one of the McElwain house, taken from the back of the property. In the picture are figures of people visible in two upstairs windows. The McElwain house, however, is only a one-story home.
 
Sophisticated equipment is required
 
Kelly says each investigation takes at least four to five hours. Equipment used is the property of society members, all of whom are unpaid volunteers. Investigators use hand-held video cameras, digital cameras and software, which makes it possible to view video-camera surveillance; IR illuminators, which are infrared cameras that allow one to photograph in complete
darkness, digital voice recorders, wireless microphones and K-2 EMF detectors, which record electromagnetic fields. These paranormal investigators are serious about what they do, says Kelly, who points out that the equipment costs more than $10,000. The group would like to purchase a thermo heater, which detects body heat and cold, and records the presence of masses, but one costs $24,000.
 
Case manager Pinigis says reviewing each case is the toughest part of the job, as it takes days to go over evidence that has been recorded. It's not unusual, he says, to have from 16 to 30 night-vision cameras running from six to eight hours, looking to record any possible activity.
 
At the McElwain house, investigators detected activity in the basement, as well. The recorded sound of laughter and children playing were attributed to "two kids" who, through investigators, identified themselves as Sarah and James.
 
Cindy has seen walking across her living room a girl of about 6 or 7 with blond hair and pigtails, who is wearing a long, blue dress with a white apron. "They're not scary; they're just here," says Cindy, who says that all these apparitions and voices don't bother her. "I just want to know why they're here."
 
There is a reason for paranormal activity
 
Kelly, who has been involved with the paranormal for more than 20 years, has his theories. He believes that when the body is dead, the spirit can be alive. "They can go to the light, but some stay here," he says. "They remain because they have unfinished business, or still-grieving family members hold them here. But, they want to leave. As a result, they show themselves for one of these reasons."
 
Investigators "talk" to the entities by asking a series of questions aimed at determining identity and other facts. Responses are recorded on K-2 EMF detectors, dousing rods and other equipment.
 
The Society encourages homeowners to participate in the investigative process. Kelly says, "We respect what you believe in and ask you to respect what we believe in."
 
When the group investigated Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville recently, they recorded plenty of paranormal activity. Their investigation of the Pittsburgh Aviary on the North Side, on the other hand, resulted in logical explanations for everything reported at that site.
 
Whether results are positive or negative for paranormal activity, people are pleased to have their claims validated, Kelly says. "We give people ease of mind."
 
About the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society
 
The Pittsburgh Paranormal Society comprises unpaid volunteers who are experienced in paranormal investigation and research. According to founder and spiritual investigator Shawn Kelly, the group conducts about 50 paranormal investigations each year. These investigations are free, but requests are pre-screened to determine whether they are sincere and legitimate, says PPS.
 
Investigators first look for logical explanations to determine the cause of the activity. "We try to debunk the phony and the false," Pinigis says.
 
Widespread interest in the paranormal is reflected in the number of television shows dealing with the topic, shows like "Ghost Hunters," "America's Most Haunted" and the "Lisa Williams Show, Life Among the Dead." These shows also have familiarized the public with paranormal investigations.
 
Pinigis and Kelly say paranormal investigative groups continue to form, as more people are willing to discuss and explore paranormal activity.
 
Kelly calls fellow society members "passionate, dedicated and committed." "I am really proud of this group. They put in a great deal of time and effort into all aspects of their investigations. They have proven their credibility."
 
The all-volunteer group, formed in 2006, has a team of 13 technicians and spiritual interpreters who visit sites all over Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. They use up-to-date electronic and digital equipment, which they've paid for.
 
For more about the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society, visit www.pittsburghparanormalsociety.com

 

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Hometown Hauntings:
"Ghost Hunters Check Out Spooky South Hills Spots"

Thursday October 25, 2007

   Halloween is when most people's fascinations with the paranormal spike, but for members of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society, it's a way of life.
   Husband and wife John and Andrea have always been firm believers in the supernatural. Their involvement in the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society has led them to conduct paranormal investigations with the society of about 13 people.
   Andrea and John are case managers and investigators and have worked on more than 20 cases since starting with the society in May, doing investigations every weekend.
   "I have experienced things since I was little and anywhere I've worked or lived, I've always experienced some sort of activity," Andrea said.
   "I wanted to prove there is something out there amongst us. I've always wanted to get to the bottom of it to see why they're with us and if I can capture something, and we've been very successful."
   In July, their work with the society took them to South Park's Hundred Acres Manor, a working haunted house more famous for its living spooks than supernatural ones.
   "It's interesting because most of the stuff you hear and see is over the summer, during the time the pool would have been open," said Ethan Turon, prop designer at Hundred Acres Manor. "When we're open for the haunted house, there's not too much going on. It's just a generally creepy place."
   Andrea said, according to an urban legend, in the '40s, a segregated pool used to be on the site of Hundred Acres Manor, with a dance hall nearby. She said there were a couple of drownings in the pool and police constantly visited the site due to violence.
Though there is little written about the site, Turon said the pool remained segregated until the '60s and was permanently shut down in the '70s.
   "Things may have happened there, you never know with an urban legend," Andrea said.
    The majority of supernatural activity reports came from the Manor's pump room. Turon said employees always reported seeing things move around and heard noises.
   During one incident, Turon said an employee saw a man running through the house. When the employee caught up with him, the employee noticed his ankles were sunken into the floorboards before he disappeared.
Turon said the staff and volunteers suspected former pool workers haunted the manor. One worker, who worked in the pump house, seemed to be a regular.
   "He's an older gentleman that comes into work every day and does his lunch break sitting on the edge of the pool," Turon said. "Usually people see someone at the end of the maze, where the pool used to sit."
   Many of the actors at the Manor told the society they felt they were being watched when in the room, especially the females. The sensations got so intense employees refused to go into the room.
   "I've heard noises and, for sure, it's not just animals," said Turon. "The sounds are doors opening and shutting when nobody is around and there are sounds like people talking."
   On the night of investigations, members set up digital and video cameras and other monitoring equipment at the hot spots. A main station is set up, while smaller teams wander the site.
During these walks, Andrea said investigators take pictures and try to record incidents of electronic voice phenomenon, referred to as EVPs in the ghost hunting industry.
   Andrea conducted an investigation of the pump room using dowsing rods, which are traditionally used to find water to dig wells. But the two sticks also pick up fields of energy, which Andrea used to detect supernatural activities.
Right away, Andrea sensed activity, with the rods crossing, signifying a presence in the room. She used the rods and a series of yes-or-no questions to communicate with the supposed spook.
   "It seems as though a man that worked in the pump room and didn't like women communicated with me," Andrea said. "Most of the activity happened when women were there."
   Even with the supposed supernatural contact in the pump room, there wasn't enough evidence to prove the attraction was haunted.
"We had some personal experiences, but only found mist," Andrea said. "The problem is that a lot of people smoke, but we were told that nobody was smoking in that area."
   Although she is not a firm believer in mist, Andrea said many consider mist as an entity's attempt at physically forming. Mist could be attributed to anything from temperature changes to gases coming out of the ground.
Even the dowsing rods weren't convincing enough for the society to proclaim the pump room haunted.
   "The problem is that you have so much there is a lot of this non-functioning equipment that could have manipulated the rods," said Andrea. "There are also a lot of sounds and critters, like mice, that could lead to sounds. I'm on the fence."
Andrea said the investigation was a success, and there is a possibility it is haunted.
"The room itself is creepy and, if there is anything in there, it wasn't there that night," said Andrea. "Ghosts don't come out on cue."
When the site investigation is done, members of the society review all of the footage, seeking any supernatural incidences. Reviews take about a week and are presented at a reveal.
   "Normally, when we investigate places, 60 percent of the time (paranormal activity) calms down," said Andrea. "Sometimes it just stays the same, but we've never had anybody complain it's gotten worse."
Although they may not have had any findings at the Manor's pump room, they have had significant findings at other places.
   The most interesting investigation came at Mount Pleasant's R&R Station Hotel and Restaurant, where the group snapped some of their most compelling evidence photos.
   "We happened to catch four full body apparitions and a partial body apparition," John said. "We actually caught all four in the same mirror, same hallway, with three different photographers."
   Another investigation took the society to a home in Monongahela, where a young girl said there was something in her closet. The investigation gave the society pictures of a shadowy figure with horns.
   "It had a human-like form, but it wasn't a human," said John. "With the other apparitions we caught, you can distinctly tell their features, such as male or female and specific period clothing. It appeared to be something we would consider demonic."
   One of the investigators brushed into it, which felt like cobwebs, said John. People may not know how to handle a paranormal situation, said John.
   "We try to not just prove what they see, but come up with legitimate normal reasons these things occur," said John. "Even though we're open-minded about it, we've got to be skeptical at the same time."
   "A lot of people don't want to look at the possibility and if it's not in front of you, it doesn't exist. We need to see the evidence ourselves before we say something is haunted. That's what we do."

 

Tribune Review

Ghost hunters scour R&R Station in Mt. Pleasant

By Marilyn Forbes
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, October 14, 2007


 
   Sherry Wingrove, owner of the R&R Station Restaurant and Hotel, has believed for many years that her Mt. Pleasant establishment is haunted.
   Specters apparently have been spotted in rooms and hallways, and loud thunks and whispering voices have been reported throughout the 17-room building. "I can't tell you how many stories we have heard over the years," Wingrove said. "People have seen things, heard things and felt things."
   The R&R has been the site of many séances and readings, with numerous investigators roaming its halls and reaching out to the spirits. But a new group with a new approach contacted Wingrove to test out the ghost theory.
"We heard of this place when one member of our group came here for dinner and saw a copy of the tape, 'Haunted R&R Station,'" Shawn Kelly said. "So we contacted Sherry about bringing our group here."
   Kelly is the president of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society, a research and investigative group that follows and documents ghost stories, sightings and supernatural sensations.
   A ghost hunter who has been at his trade for 20 years, Kelly formed the all-volunteer group in 2006 and has a team of 13 technicians and spiritual interpreters who visit sites all over Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
   Spending two days at the hotel revealed evidence, according to the paranormal society members.
   "We find something about 75 percent of the time," Andrea Pinigis said. "More times than not we catch something on film or on video or on the voice recorder."
   The group sets out to find the truth, whether it be to prove or disprove a reported entity.
   "They spent a lot of time working on this," Wingrove said. "And we were excited over what they found."
   Members of the group used recorders to register voices and electromagnetic fields using numerous digital camera and camcorders. 
   "We asked her (Wingrove) to show us different areas where people have reported something," said Donnie Wagner, one of the volunteers. "And we listened to the claims of activity. We then went to each hot spot and each room and set up. We divided into groups of two and started recording."
   Part of the procedure was the recording of activity, where one member would ask the spirits basic questions and wait for a period of five seconds, with hopes of hearing an answer when the tape is replayed. After gathering data, the group returned to Pittsburgh.
   "It takes us about one week to process each site," volunteer John Pinigis said. "We listen to the voice recorder very carefully. Sometimes I may not hear something that someone else does or they may hear something that I missed."
   After processing the data from the R&R, the paranormal society requested a second visit during which more photographs were taken.
   "We captured images from the top floor and you have to see them to believe them," Wagner said. "Come and listen to the stories of the personal experiences that we experienced."
   Wagner said the group does not visit sites for fun. "We take what we do very seriously," he said. "We're not just a bunch of kids running around with cameras."
   Wingrove and the volunteers will present what they found at 6 p.m. Saturday at the restaurant. "I'm really excited that they have provided different evidence on my paranormal activity, " Wingrove said.
   The event will include the presentation by the paranormal society, a buffet dinner and a tour of the hotel. For information call 724-547-7545. Regular ghost tours of the hotel are held 7-9 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the remainder of October.

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Ghostly spirits -- These paranormal investigators believe in they exist, and have proof

Shawn Kelly was a youngster when he saw something he had never seen before, but says he has seen a lot of since. He saw a ghost. Kelly was about 8 or 9 and was sleeping in his bedroom in Dormont. Something awoke him.  He looked to the foot of his single bed, and there was his recently-deceased grandmother. "She was just standing there, smiling," Kelly said. "You bet I was scared."

Fast forward more than three decades. Kelly, now 44, is one of the founders of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society, along with Carnegie native Don Wagner, 41. The two men, along with several others interested in spiritual activities, have been investigating paranormal activities together since they met accidentally in March.

The Pittsburgh Paranormal Society does not charge for its investigations. Its members have gone to houses, cemeteries, old hospitals and other places searching out spirits from beyond.

In the process, the society claims to have taken pictures of what it says are "orbs," or spirits. Also, they have on tape what is called electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) that they say are the voices of the spirits during investigations.

For anyone who might believe the members of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society are not of this earth themselves, their number one rule is this: no drugs or alcohol allowed whatsoever.

"The reason we do this is to help people understand, to help them believe that there is an afterlife," Kelly said. "I always believed in them. They are here among us. Some are here to do good, some are here to wreak havoc. It all depends what they were in life."

'Ghostbusters' One words Kelly - and to a certain extent, Wagner - dislike is "ghost." They prefer "spirit."

So, what is a spirit, and why are they here?

"When people die, they have a choice," said Kelly, who once had a near-death experience himself. "They can go to the light, or stay here and be around something they knew. Most of the time they feel like they have something left to do."

Most spirits are here to do good, Wagner said. Others, however, are not.

"Some are here to do bad things. They are raising havoc." Kelly, for instance, said he has been kicked, smacked and pinched by spirits.

The Pittsburgh Paranormal Society include spiritual and scientific members. There is Kelly, who claims he can draw spirits to him; Wagner, who concentrates on recordings of EVP's, and Chris Houk, 21, and Devin Zugates, also of Brookline, who are more interested in the scientific aspect of paranormal activities.

"I'm interested in, if there are ghosts, then why are there ghosts?," Houk asked.

Zugates himself wants what he calls "physical contact."

"The EVP's and the photos are great," he said, "but I want (contact), so it is not in the realm of possibility that it could have been anything else but contact from beyond."

This does not mean the members do not believe in what they do. If anything, it only makes them want to work harder.  "We are working so that we can say, 'Look, they do exist.' We want people to believe."

And the term "Ghostbusters?" Don't bring it up.  "Oh, we hate that," Kelly said.

The investigations

Ever since Zugates and Houk met Kelly by accident at the Eat 'n Park on West Liberty Avenue in Dormont this past spring, the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society has conducted about 40 investigations.

These have included the EVP's, which they say are the most successful. On one, recorded at a house in New Kensington, you can clearly hear a voice say, 'Leave this house."

The members have visited and done investigations at numerous cemeteries, including Homewood Cemetery, Snyder Cemetery near Moraine State Park, Dravo Presbyterian Cemetery near White Oak and Restland Cemetery in Monroeville.

It was at the last site that the members took some interesting pictures of what they believe to be spirits from beyond.

At house investigations, Kelly will "draw" the spirits out once the cameras and voice recorders are set up. Some of the houses have turned out to be hoaxes, but the members say it all matters when you go.

Kelly, a meat cutter at Giant Eagle, said he is not in the business of chasing ghosts, but getting to know them. "For me, I want to blow scientists off the face of the earth and be able to say that they do exist."

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Pittsburgh Paranormal Society at R&R

21 September 2007 - News of the Paranormal

Move over TAPS you have competition. 

While on our recent  trip to the R&R bed and breakfast in Mount Pleasant PA we met PPS. A fledgling group of paranormal investigators. To say they were "loaded for bear" would be  an understatement. The group organized to the formal investigative team it is in 2006. The leader is Shawn Kelly and the tech master is one Don Wagner.

Armed with a 10 cam video surveillance system and digital voice recorders they cam into the R&R  ready to catch some activity. The R&R appears to be a favorite "haunt" (excuse the pun) of theirs.

The group is returning to the R&R.  At 6:00 PM on October 20th they will reveal their findings from investigations at the Bed and breakfast. Just like TAPS.

I was much impressed with this group. Being asthmatic I was unable to hang out in the dinning room with them. Every one smokes!! Our team had been investigating since early Saturday morning and at midnight we called it quits. 14 hours was enough for this old Banshee. LOL.  I was able to talk to them on the upper floors. They are  ambitious and willing to go the extra mile for evidence. A nice group of people.

If you can  get to the R&R on the 20th I think you will be as impressed as I was. Call first seating is limited.

http://www.therandrstation.com/

http://pittsburghparanormalsociety.com/main.htm

Well done PPS!! It was my great pleasure to meet you.

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I was very excited to hear that PPS was on site for the Asylum's visit! I would like to personally thank them for working with our team.
My only regret was I could not have been there to meet them myself.


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