| Paranormal researchers investigate 'real' haunted
house Staff Writer Last update: 13 October 2003 |
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Lights flickered on and a wooden gate swung open
-- as if beckoning toward the widow's walk atop the city's oldest
beachside home.
Four women stood at the foot of the stairs frozen for a millisecond.
"The light turned on by itself!" said Liz Stiles, 51, of Edgewater.
Another stunned pause followed. Gulps of air. Then Maureen Ferencz, 52,
of Ormond Beach, raised a rectangle-shaped instrument slightly larger than
a pack of cigarettes. Peppercorn-sized lights -- a red one, a green one
and an orange one -- lit up. Ferencz could hardly contain herself.
"I'm getting a reading," Ferencz said quickly.
The quartet ascended the spiral stairs -- for another set of intense
exclamations about how their instruments might be showing what they can't
see with their own eyes: Spirits inhabit this 119-year-old home known as
Lilian Place.
Ferencz and Stiles are part of a fledgling ghost-hunting group, Halifax
Hauntings, that, last week, spent from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. trying to measure
the amount of ghostly activity in the home that's being renovated into a
bed-and-breakfast inn.
The group, led by Ferencz's son, Scott, 34, has done the same at the
Live Oak Inn and the Halifax Historical Society. Armed with a night-vision
camera, electromagnetic field detectors and an electronic voice phenomena
recorder -- mostly donated by the Daytona Beach-based business, Spook Tech
-- the group also intends to record spectral activity at the Daytona
Playhouse and various local cemeteries, such as Pilgrim's
Rest. |
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