Ghost hunter Zak Bagans wants you to join him on his next overnight stay inside Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder.

Bagans says he was scratched by evil spirits at the club while taping the October premiere of “Ghost Adventures” (8-11 p.m., Travel Channel).

He’s returning to our region Jan. 20-22 for a symposium, a private Mackey concert and a 3 a.m. ghost hunt inside the club. Tickets are $259.

Bagans’ sidekicks, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, will be there, along with Doug Hensely, author of “Hell’s Gate: The Terror at Bobby Mackey’s Music World,” about the murders and satanic rituals in the 1850s slaughterhouse beneath the club.

Bagans’ crew used high-tech night-vision cameras as they recorded strange sounds from the club bathroom. Over the years, all kinds of spooky things have happened - doors and lights coming on by themselves; an unplugged jukebox playing music; and people pushed down stairs, struck by trash cans and demonically possessed.

“It is haunted; that’s a fact. It’s one of the most haunted places I’ve ever been to in my life, and I’ve been to hundreds,” Bagans says.

“This is an opportunity for people to experience what they saw on the show. We’ll be there at the ‘witching hour,’ 3 a.m., when I got attacked. We’ll be there when it happens, whatever happens.”

Tickets are available at http://bobbymackey.com/LIVEGhostHunt-Orders.html

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BILLINGS - With the lights off at The Western Heritage Center mysterious things have been known to happen.

Karen Stevens, a Big Sky Paranormal Investigator said, “there have been a variety of different ghosts noticed here.” Some believe the historic building is haunted by several ghosts.

“The ghost of an older woman wearing clothing from a WW1 era has been observed floating across the floor here,” said Stevens. Josh Irving, a ghost hunting participant said, “I just felt like there was a child in the room with me, but I didn’t actually see anything.”

Big Sky Paranormal investigators have looked into the strange happenings at this building and others around Montana. “We just record whatever happens if anything. 95 percent of the time nothing at all, but five percent of the time, when something does, its worth waiting for” Stevens explains.

That 5% is captured using special ghost hunting tools like cameras, dousing rods and electromagnetic field detectors. But Stevens said tools are not always as effective as your own intuition. “Your best ghost hunting tool is your own 6th sense.”

Ghost hunters rely on feelings but some say there’s a point where you can over analyze. Ghost Hunter Rebecca Klein said, ‘if you keep looking for the face of Lincoln in the dirt you are going to see the face of Lincoln in dirt.”

Seeing may not always mean believing, but some ghost hunters say just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

For more information on ghost hunting you can contact The Big Sky Paranormal Investigators by email at kstevensp@cs.com.

Source: http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/33727919.html

WICHITA FALLS, Texas — Night is falling over farms along the Red River and, now, every October sunset feels like Halloween.

While other families gather closer to their hearths, the Military Paranormal Investigations group is getting ready to visit a graveyard.

Organized less than a year ago, this group of U.S. military members and their families is one of a growing community of men and women nationwide who are interested in looking at the supernatural through scientific eyes. No mediums or psychics are involved, and MPI members said they have approached each of their nearly 20 investigations as skeptics ready to disprove a myth.

Their first investigation was in what’s left of the town of Clara, Texas, which was battered by drought, a hurricane, an inadequate water supply and an exodus of residents during the 1920s oil boom. All that remains now of the Wichita County ghost town are a church, rectory and cemetery.

Through the years, reports swirled of paranormal events at the site: unexplained lighted, vortexes, crying children and a graveyard apparition of Pleasant Queen, the first person buried in the cemetery. The MPI investigators said they saw orb-like objects, but said they appeared to swirls of dust or bugs. They saw no vortexes, apparitions or unexplained lights. They heard no crying, but did “capture” so-called electronic voice phenomena, which some say is static heard on radios or electronic devices and others as the voices of spirits.

While many group members are in the Air Force, the group and its activities have no affiliation with that or any other armed service.

“We’re open to spiritual aspect but we’re strictly scientific in our approach,” said Joe Eversole, MPI lead investigator and an Air Force tech sergeant. “We don’t believe anything until it can be measured or recorded.”

Eversole and wife, Celeste; Rob Wirth and wife, Misty; Jeff Jones, his wife, Melissa, and son Kyle; Jamie Sampson; and Jeramiah Lewis said they will investigate any case.

Because of the Air Force connection however — Rob Wirth is a tech sergeant, Jeff Jones is a master sergeant, while Lewis and Sampson are staff sergeants — military sites are of particular interest. They travel to sites where paranormal occurrences have been reported and hunt for evidence to back up — or refute — the claims.

All agree their most exciting investigation to date was of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, Ark., built as a confederate arsenal in the 1840s. Ultimately converted to a U.S. Army installation, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was born there in 1880.

“It was just amazing. We captured a lot of great stuff and it was an intense experience,” said Wirth.

Closer to home, the group has gathered data at Fort Richardson in Jacksboro and is keen to do a thorough investigation of 10th Cavalry Creek, where it’s said Buffalo Soldiers killed in an Indian raid were buried in a mass grave with their horses.

“We’re curious whether this site has a paranormal connection to the ‘Screaming Sheila Bridge,’ ” said Eversole, referring to another “haunted” site nearby, where a woman was supposedly hanged long ago. “But the evidence is what tells the story.”

It’s easy to see why guys who spend their days working in instructional technologies for the Air Force would be drawn to paranormal investigation: The gear is way cool.

Eversole and Wirth are glad to show off their collection of LED surveillance cameras, digital voice recorders (sensitive enough to pick up EVPs — Electronic Voice Phenomenon — words the human ear cannot hear) and electromagnetic field meters (spirits are said to disturb normal magnetic fields.) The data is analyzed by an array of special computer programs.

Practical experience, however, has led them to use domestic tools like laser levels (even a shadow can break the light beam), compasses and, in case a surveillance proves uneventful, a deck of cards.

Everyone in MPI brings different skills to the table; while some focus on detection technology others focus on case management, historic research of sites and scheduling investigations. In the field everyone takes part in data gathering.

All say they share a common curiosity born of an experience or experiences that could not be explained. Once shows like the Sci-Fi Channel’s “Ghosthunters” and Bravo’s “Paranormal State” hit television, it became evident others were looking for answers too.

“I’ve wondered about this kind of thing since I was a kid,” said Eversole. “Now I can prove or disprove it for myself.”

On the Web: www.mpi-paranormal.com.

Source: http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/37389