Thriller Thursday

Hi All,

Let’s jump right into the ghost story!

This past weekend I sat in on a Ghost Investigations class out at the Enchanted Boutique and was talked into going to the Real Ghost tours on Saint Anthony’s Main in Minneapolis, MN.

We arrived for the 9:30 tour. The staff gives you a backpack to use for the night with a flashlight, an EMF detector and rods. Then you set off on a 90 minute walking tour. We started by going outside to the bridge across the street. I suggest dressing for the weather. I always dress in layers because you never know how cold basements and what not can be. Anyway, under the overpass for the bridge the group was given a chance to use EMF detectors. Now I warned the tour guides that I am a medium and that I would stay to the back of the group so I could pick up on things. The guide was awesome and she really knew her history. She said that afterwards she wanted to compare notes. Jenny Davis and I started to conduct our own investigations with the equipment that she brought. I was armed with my flashlight and voice recorder, along with my notebook.

After a little time under the bridge and some pictures, we took off with the group to the buildings. The most active area was the basement. Now it is hard to get EVP’s down there as the next day there was a lot of background noise to get through to hear any whispers from the residents that haunted the building, however I did catch a few.

We entered an area where a little boy Jimmy hangs out. The guide was able to get Jimmy to play with the groups’ EMF detectors. Jenny set up her high-tech spirit box which also takes temps. The spirit around us can manipulate the box and the sound it gives off and then the lights also go off. I had the flashlight down and Jenny had her box on. The guide asked if Jimmy could manipulate the box and a few seconds after she asked, the box went wild with making noise and the temp dropping. The group continued off down a hallway that was an area used as a brothel. I lingered behind. My legs got chilled the height of a child, as if a child was holding on to me around my knees. The two men that were helping with the tour asked what I was feeling. I said Jimmy is telling me that I am not allowed to go down the hallway. He isn’t allowed to go any further than this entryway. As I crossed the door way the coldness went away so I backed up and crossed back to Jimmy’s side of the hall. Again my legs became cold. I told him I would be “okay” and then I continued with the two men on staff from the tour.

We entered the hallway where the brothel was located and the group had already started to communicate with the ghosts there. The ghosts were lighting up all the EMF detectors when asked questions. I was given a vision of a woman being strangled with a white scarf. She also said her name was Emily. I called out to the woman guiding our tour, “Do you know if there was a murder here?” All the EMF detectors went off. Then I asked, “Is there an Emily here?”  and again all the detectors went off. I then asked, “Emily were you strangled with a white scarf?”  and yet again all the EMF detectors went off. The tour guide took a moment and had the group surround the area with white light and happy memories. I began to help Emily cross over into the light. I simply asked an angel to come down and then asked Emily to think of her parents or a loved one who would appear to her to help her into the light. As far as I know she went. 

After all of this we continued to walk the building and then went down into an area of the basement where they were doing some remodeling and putting in new bathrooms.

In the hallway before the bathrooms Jenny and I were able to get some activity with the flashlight being turned on and off. Before going down the hallway I was looking toward the far wall and I kept seeing a shadow of the outline of a person walking across the hallway. I said to Jenny, “Do you see that?” We both looked down the hall. She’s like, “Well let’s go down there… you first.” 

Great. Me first! I was carrying a voice recorder and when I played it back the next day, at this point you can hear a voice whisper, “Go this way.”  That was said as I started down the hall.

More was caught on the voice recorder and we did have a good flashlight session. The ghosts in the hall were not real keen on the idea of having me around so I ended up leaving the group so the ghosts would communicate more with the tour. For some reason they didn’t like me being there as a medium. Which is all good, not everyone likes you in life, therefore not everyone wants to talk to you when they are dead.

If you want a great interactive tour I highly recommend going to the Real Ghost Tour. It will cost you about $25 and there is a lot of good history of the area given as well.

If you are in the Saint Paul area, Becca and I will be hosting a haunted picnic on Halloween from 11am to 1pm at Swede Hallow Park. We are taking donations of  $2.00 to help cover the cost of water and snacks.

Have a great rest of the week and as always Blessings All!

Wendy