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provoking style came later; what went down at the Silver Queen was just an early glimpse. Provoking was really Zak’s thing. It was obvious in those early shoots for the documentary that Zak was going to be our main guy—the host, the lead investigator. With his provoking, his bravado, he was the guy.
Provocation is controversial in the paranormal community because some feel it’s disrespectful to the spirits, while others feel it’s dangerous and can lead to spirit possession. But we were getting results with it, and we wanted our documentary to push the envelope. We couldn’t look like the other ghost shows.
THOUGHTS ON PROVOKING
Have you ever walked into a room where people have just been having a heated argument? Even though everyone in the room may be acting perfectly normal, there’s a resonance to the room that’s different. You can feel that the environment has been charged with energy. There’s been an energy transfer—two people have built up rage inside of themselves and expelled it at each other. That energy will take some time to dissipate. When you’re provoking spirits, you’re charging the environment with your own energy. You’re using words and actions that might mean something to the spirits present. That combination
will
stir paranormal events.
After we finished filming, Zak, Aaron, and I were sitting on a bench on C Street, just chilling and shooting some shots in which I’m walking down the middle of the street at night. These were basically B-roll shots—those camera shots you use under voice-overs or as transitions from one scene to another.
As we were sitting on the bench, all the drunks came pouring out of the bars, stumbling, tripping on the wood-plank sidewalk, and limping over to their cars. One drunk felt his way up to his motorcycle. I was thinking,
Oh, God, here we go
. I rolled the camera on him as he started off down the street, his motorcycle wobbling all over the place. Then—bam!—he drove right into the side of a parked car. An ambulance and the cops came to pick him up and take him off. After that, the street was quiet. Really quiet.
When a town is that quiet, you start to understand why it’s a cliché that ghosts come out at night. Maybe the ghosts are around all day long too, but only when it’s
that
quiet can you hear and see them without confusing the phenomenon for something else.
I then went back up to room 11 to try to get some sleep. Zak would take a shift sleeping in the bathtub, and I would get the bed. Aaron would sleep in the car, because we didn’t have enough money for two hotel rooms.
Room 11 in the Silver Queen turned up some incredible evidence for us, which we showed in the documentary. Zak and I heard the sound of water filling the bathtub. It was the strangest thing. Were we hearing some phantom sound of the past, or did we get temporarily transported to the moment just before this prostitute took her own life?
The water sounds weren’t the only thing we experienced. Just after four a.m. I was awoken by the sound of something at the foot of the bed. I turned my night vision camera in that direction and captured a strange mist forming right by the door just as we heard this faint knocking sound. Looking at this mist through my LCD screen, I was freaked—It’s
right there, right now!
I didn’t sleep the rest of the night.
The second night of our investigation was going to focus on the Miner’s Lodge. The three of us set up the room with an audio recorder. Our plan was to come back and spend the night here after we’d investigated the cemetery.
Emotions and thoughts are electrical impulses in the brain, energy that radiates out from us. I believe it can get recorded right into the land. That’s what I was going to look for that first night in the Miner’s Lodge. Touching the spirit world, or even just the past, would be a huge adventure. I was ready for it.
ABOUT THE MINER’S LODGE
The Miner’s Lodge is part of the Gold Hill
Provocation is controversial in the paranormal community because some feel it’s disrespectful to the spirits, while others feel it’s dangerous and can lead to spirit possession. But we were getting results with it, and we wanted our documentary to push the envelope. We couldn’t look like the other ghost shows.
THOUGHTS ON PROVOKING
Have you ever walked into a room where people have just been having a heated argument? Even though everyone in the room may be acting perfectly normal, there’s a resonance to the room that’s different. You can feel that the environment has been charged with energy. There’s been an energy transfer—two people have built up rage inside of themselves and expelled it at each other. That energy will take some time to dissipate. When you’re provoking spirits, you’re charging the environment with your own energy. You’re using words and actions that might mean something to the spirits present. That combination
will
stir paranormal events.
After we finished filming, Zak, Aaron, and I were sitting on a bench on C Street, just chilling and shooting some shots in which I’m walking down the middle of the street at night. These were basically B-roll shots—those camera shots you use under voice-overs or as transitions from one scene to another.
As we were sitting on the bench, all the drunks came pouring out of the bars, stumbling, tripping on the wood-plank sidewalk, and limping over to their cars. One drunk felt his way up to his motorcycle. I was thinking,
Oh, God, here we go
. I rolled the camera on him as he started off down the street, his motorcycle wobbling all over the place. Then—bam!—he drove right into the side of a parked car. An ambulance and the cops came to pick him up and take him off. After that, the street was quiet. Really quiet.
When a town is that quiet, you start to understand why it’s a cliché that ghosts come out at night. Maybe the ghosts are around all day long too, but only when it’s
that
quiet can you hear and see them without confusing the phenomenon for something else.
I then went back up to room 11 to try to get some sleep. Zak would take a shift sleeping in the bathtub, and I would get the bed. Aaron would sleep in the car, because we didn’t have enough money for two hotel rooms.
Room 11 in the Silver Queen turned up some incredible evidence for us, which we showed in the documentary. Zak and I heard the sound of water filling the bathtub. It was the strangest thing. Were we hearing some phantom sound of the past, or did we get temporarily transported to the moment just before this prostitute took her own life?
The water sounds weren’t the only thing we experienced. Just after four a.m. I was awoken by the sound of something at the foot of the bed. I turned my night vision camera in that direction and captured a strange mist forming right by the door just as we heard this faint knocking sound. Looking at this mist through my LCD screen, I was freaked—It’s
right there, right now!
I didn’t sleep the rest of the night.
The second night of our investigation was going to focus on the Miner’s Lodge. The three of us set up the room with an audio recorder. Our plan was to come back and spend the night here after we’d investigated the cemetery.
Emotions and thoughts are electrical impulses in the brain, energy that radiates out from us. I believe it can get recorded right into the land. That’s what I was going to look for that first night in the Miner’s Lodge. Touching the spirit world, or even just the past, would be a huge adventure. I was ready for it.
ABOUT THE MINER’S LODGE
The Miner’s Lodge is part of the Gold Hill
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