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could hear the pain in his voice and when I saw him break down and cry, his emotions started hitting me as well. When he partially collapsed, I felt the hell that this guy had lived in to pay for his crimes. He was an inmate, but he was also a man who was treated like an animal in this medieval place. It was a punch to the gut for me. I felt sorry for him and got teared up. But the reason we did this is because it gave us a sense of not only what happened there, but what the spirits were going through, which set the stage for the evening’s encounters.
Ray Gaughenbaugh
When we want to find people who worked in a haunted building while it was still in operation, we do it the old-fashioned way—we go knocking on doors and asking around town. It can be nerve wracking because you never know when you’re going to find someone who wants to cooperate and someone who pulls out a shotgun and delivers a “get off my property” ultimatum (it’s happened).
In Moundsville, West Virginia, we got a little more than we bargained for when we knocked on the door of Ray Gaughenbaugh (at first I thought his name was Golfingball). We’d been told he worked at the prison, so we stopped by his house. Ray is old, so when the door opened and he immediately fell flat on his back, it really worried me. For a moment I seriously thought he saw the cameras, fainted from fright, and died. Lucky for us, he just had a bad case of imbalance and fell over from lack of equilibrium. He ended up being a great source of information on the prison, but not before putting a little fear into us . . . and comedy.
Sarah Knight
Sarah Knight, Sloss Venue Coordinator, was well versed on the inner workings of the Furnace. She knew all the weird stories and didn’t need any sort of map to get around, probably because she already had one tattooed on her lower back. It was a simple black skyline of the Furnace that was both creepy and cool at the same time. Oddly, this would not be the last time we saw something like that. For a moment I thought Sloss Furnace once manufactured humans, and she was branded with its logo. After all she was hot like the Furnace. Okay, bad joke.
Animal Hauntings
The possibility of animal spirits brings up many intriguing questions. Their very existence suggests that free will is not involved in hauntings and/or crossing over to the other side because animals do not have the consciousness to choose. If animals can stay in the physical world after death, then it would stand to reason that living beings do not have a choice when it comes to crossing over, that nature randomly chooses who will and will not remain in the physical plane.
Or it could mean that we’re completely wrong when we assume that animals are not conscious beings. Do animals actually have the ability to think and choose like us? Do they possess a soul just as we do? Could animals have unfinished business and need closure like humans? Let’s say for example that a loyal dog dies, but did not have the luxury of seeing its master one last time before it did. Would its spirit remain behind looking for him? Could the bond between human and animal be so strong as to keep its spirit from crossing over? The fact that most animal hauntings are of dogs, cats, and horses—the animals most associated with human relationships—suggest this might be true. It could also mean that only animals with higher brain functions become restless spirits, since stories of turtle, parakeet, and slug hauntings are virtually unheard of.
Another possibility is that we are causing the apparitions of animals ourselves. Telekinesis might not be a popular theory, but there have been a few documented cases of it. It’s very possible that we lead ourselves into believing a beloved pet is in our presence just by thinking very intently about it. People often say, “I loved that dog. I can still see him.” With a little emotional stress, it’s possible that we produce an image of a deceased
Ray Gaughenbaugh
When we want to find people who worked in a haunted building while it was still in operation, we do it the old-fashioned way—we go knocking on doors and asking around town. It can be nerve wracking because you never know when you’re going to find someone who wants to cooperate and someone who pulls out a shotgun and delivers a “get off my property” ultimatum (it’s happened).
In Moundsville, West Virginia, we got a little more than we bargained for when we knocked on the door of Ray Gaughenbaugh (at first I thought his name was Golfingball). We’d been told he worked at the prison, so we stopped by his house. Ray is old, so when the door opened and he immediately fell flat on his back, it really worried me. For a moment I seriously thought he saw the cameras, fainted from fright, and died. Lucky for us, he just had a bad case of imbalance and fell over from lack of equilibrium. He ended up being a great source of information on the prison, but not before putting a little fear into us . . . and comedy.
Sarah Knight
Sarah Knight, Sloss Venue Coordinator, was well versed on the inner workings of the Furnace. She knew all the weird stories and didn’t need any sort of map to get around, probably because she already had one tattooed on her lower back. It was a simple black skyline of the Furnace that was both creepy and cool at the same time. Oddly, this would not be the last time we saw something like that. For a moment I thought Sloss Furnace once manufactured humans, and she was branded with its logo. After all she was hot like the Furnace. Okay, bad joke.
Animal Hauntings
The possibility of animal spirits brings up many intriguing questions. Their very existence suggests that free will is not involved in hauntings and/or crossing over to the other side because animals do not have the consciousness to choose. If animals can stay in the physical world after death, then it would stand to reason that living beings do not have a choice when it comes to crossing over, that nature randomly chooses who will and will not remain in the physical plane.
Or it could mean that we’re completely wrong when we assume that animals are not conscious beings. Do animals actually have the ability to think and choose like us? Do they possess a soul just as we do? Could animals have unfinished business and need closure like humans? Let’s say for example that a loyal dog dies, but did not have the luxury of seeing its master one last time before it did. Would its spirit remain behind looking for him? Could the bond between human and animal be so strong as to keep its spirit from crossing over? The fact that most animal hauntings are of dogs, cats, and horses—the animals most associated with human relationships—suggest this might be true. It could also mean that only animals with higher brain functions become restless spirits, since stories of turtle, parakeet, and slug hauntings are virtually unheard of.
Another possibility is that we are causing the apparitions of animals ourselves. Telekinesis might not be a popular theory, but there have been a few documented cases of it. It’s very possible that we lead ourselves into believing a beloved pet is in our presence just by thinking very intently about it. People often say, “I loved that dog. I can still see him.” With a little emotional stress, it’s possible that we produce an image of a deceased
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