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T Vance wrote:
Overtaxed wrote:
I'm visiting Waverly Hills next Friday... combining that with a trip to the Knob Creek Shoot!
How did your Waverly Hills visit go? Did you do the overnight tour? I went there a few years ago and saw something I could not explain. That place is so cool!
I went on the two-hour tour. I would have *liked* an overnight, but I didn't have time (Knob Creek was the next day), and I also don't have good late-night endurance (I hit a brick wall of tiredness about 9:30 - 10:30 pm or so.)
Nothing strange happened to me personally, even when I volunteered to walk down the hallway so the "shadow people" could be seen moving around me. People claimed they saw them - I neither saw nor felt anything, but on the "skeptical" side of things, the lighting conditions were perfect in that corridor for imaginary shadows to start springing up.
Someone in my group took some photos in the "body chute" and one or two of those shots had those odd white streaks of light that are common to alleged ghost pics. I neither saw nor felt anything weird in there.
The tour was led by a lively, competent and assertive guide, plus some "security" people to keep us corralled.
I think that helped dispel the spookiness of the place - truth be told, I've felt more creeped out by myself down in the abandoned floors of a company I used to work at.
It also didn't help that there was way too much talking in the group, plus excessive use of flash photography and flashlights, which was frustrating - every time I felt that my pupils were adapting, an errant camera flash or swing of a torch ruined my low-light vision.
They took up the first 30 mins out of two hours with a mandatory compilation film - some archival footage of Waverly, plus some edited together ghost hunting stuff - Ghost Hunters, plus some goofy MTV thing. The Ghost Hunters segment was cool because their cameras seemed to capture a piece of tile materialize on the left hand side, fly straight across a hallway, and dematerialize.
The goofy MTV thing had an interesting scene - one of the starlets, followed by a camera, walks past a mortuary slab. A second later (no apparent edit), they hear a loud grating sound, and walked back to the slab which appeared to have been violently pulled out.
Our group walked past the same place, and the tour guide pulled on the same slab depicted in the film - it was clear that it was taking a tremendous amount of effort to pull it even an inch or two.
All told, I'm glad I went. Knob Creek is one of those "I've wanted to do it for most of my life" kind of things, as is "tour a place that's supposed to be haunted." It was great to do both within a short distance and time frame of one another.
The strangest thing to happen to me was at my hotel, the Seelbach Hilton in downtown Louisville. I chose that place by googling "haunted hotel in Louisville." The morning I was supposed to leave, my cell phone alarm unexpectedly woke me up at 3:30am or so. I was freaked out, until my sleep-addled brain realized it was already Monday (It didn't go off on Sat or Sun because it has a "weekday only" setting). After calming down, I turned off the bedside lamp, and went back into bed. After closing my eyes, I heard the sound of fabric sliding against fabric. After a moment or two of wondering what it could have been, I turned the lamp back on and saw that the duster has fallen off the bed. Not remembering its default position, I called housekeeping, and they showed me how it's supposed to be laid out. He and I tried to figure out how it could have fallen away - we could not reproduce either the distance, symmetry or sound with which this item had come away. Fully clothed, I tried several times to do a "toe poke" and see if I could make the thing slide off. I couldn't.
I'm not saying that I encountered a ghost or that a supernatural force was playing Martha Stewart with the bedding. But it was definitely one of the oddest things that has happened to me while sleeping anywhere.
SO... tell me more about what happened to you??
