More than thirty police officers attempted to untangle the strange web of events that took place in the Fall of 1960 in Lynwood. It concerned a car lot owned by a Mr Claude Mock. He’d employed Anthony Angelo–not realizing just what amount of problems were around the corner.

At first it seemed to be mindless vandalism. Nuts, bolts, sticks, stones and rocks flying across the air and crashing onto the vehicles and the building where both men worked. Then, the attacks continued at alarming frequency; the abnormal trajectory of the items thrown was noted, as was the fact that the missiles had begun to appear at exactly the same time Angelo was hired. Of course, the police put two and two together and somehow made five–they prosecuted Angelo, because they had, allegedly, on one incident seen Anthony holding an object and throwing it at a car.

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While there is no direct correlation between religion and belief in the paranormal, there has been a realization inside and outside of the religious community that there are certain factors that may lead a person of faith to believe in the paranormal.

According to Austin Cline, author and regional director for the Council for Secular Humanism, there are two different views on the paranormal by people who are involved with religion.

The first viewpoint is that the paranormal is somewhat less credible and rational than people’s religious beliefs. When people of faith view the paranormal in this manner, they are more likely to renounce their belief in the paranormal.

The second stance on belief in the paranormal, which is more likely to fit with fundamentalist or conservative religious views, is that the paranormal has something to do with the wicked or evil forces in the world. Of course, this would make these religious believers not want to associate with the paranormal.

Dave Greear, campus pastor for Campus Light Ministries at Marshall University, said Christians are less likely to believe in the paranormal, unless paranormal is used more as a broad definition that includes the supernatural in general.

“Most Christians, for instance, would believe in the supernatural, both divine and demonic, but would be much less inclined than the average person to believe in UFOs and other non-Biblical paranormal phenomena,” Greear said.

While people within the religious community tend to distance themselves from paranormal beliefs, it has been noticed by people outside faith that there are many similarities between the paranormal and religion.

One of these similarities is that religion and the paranormal are both used to bestow some sort of meaning to things that are somewhat seen as arbitrary or random. Secondly, they both deal with the immaterial forces that may take some sort of control over our lives.

Sarah Lane, a member of the Marshall University Pagan Association, said she thinks it depends on how one defines religious beliefs. She went on to say that the study would also depend on how the lack of religious beliefs was included. She said that if there was a lack of a belief system then there would obviously be no effect on paranormal belief.

“Simply by stating that one has religious beliefs tends to imply a belief in the paranormal,” Lane said. “After all, paranormal is defined as anything that cannot be explained scientifically, therefore any religion would require some acceptance of the paranormal.”

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Doors were open. Lights were off. The thermometer recorded a temperature of 69 degrees. The electromagnetic field meter beeped and flashed as Becca Warren carried it around the second floor of Prentis House.

Her team gathered in a room with a fireplace and large desk jutting from the wall. The teen scientists placed a compass and a Geiger counter - a metal box that detects radiation - on a rug and waited.

Then they got their cue: “Let’s party like it’s 1899,” Marcus Daniels, their teacher at Lakeland High School, called over the radio, signaling it was time to start the investigation.

Since September, members of the Lakeland Skeptics Society have pitted science against the supernatural. Daniels, an earth science and oceanography teacher, formed the club to boost students’ problem-solving skills. Twenty-five students signed up.

Using the scientific method, the students meet after school and on weekends to investigate myths, urban legends and paranormal activity.

“It’s strictly science and I like to keep it that way,” Daniels said. “These kids have all kinds of different beliefs.”

Early on, the group tested the question: “Is a Ouija board guided by the paranormal or is it just a piece of compressed cardboard and plastic?” They formed a hypothesis - that the board works by subconscious human error - and conducted the experiment. Ten students decided paranormal activity couldn’t be ruled out, while six others agreed with the hypothesis.

Something of a novelty in high schools, the club is scheduled to be featured next year in an issue of Colorado-based Haunted Times magazine.

Last month, students met on two Saturday nights for evidence-gathering sessions at Prentis House, a more than 200-year-old structure that’s home to the city’s visitors center.

Several students sported black shirts with the “Ghostbusters” logo. They carried plenty of gear, including a Ouija board, tarot cards and a $5,000 thermal imaging camera on loan from Southeastern Environmental & Construction.

The room where Becca’s team sat was quiet, save for a couple of whispered questions and Civil War-era music blasting on the floor below. Daniels, who described it as “Lil Wayne of the 1800s,” figured the music might stir up paranormal activity, if any existed.

“We’d really like to talk to you if anyone’s here with us,” Becca said.

“Can you just give us a sign of your presence?” freshman Kayla Culbertson asked in the same quiet tone.

The sign never came.

Or did it?

Anyone on the second floor knock? Daniels asked over the radio. Nope, they responded.

But somebody heard a knock.

Students on the third floor thought they heard a scream. Then Daniels said he heard another knock on the second floor. Becca’s team heard nothing.

A minute later, they did hear a knock - a loud one. Their bodies stiffened. Becca immediately reached for the radio.

“There’s somebody at the front door,” Daniels said.

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After patrolling Bridgeport for 11 years, Police Officer James Myers has found another calling: the spiritual realm.

Break-ins at the downtown complex of the shuttered Savoy Hotel and the Poli Palace/Majestic theaters got him inside the rundown buildings, where he took photos, an old hobby for the 38-year-old father of three.

But these photos were different from other abandoned buildings he’s shot.

“Things started to show up on my camera,” he said.

Not just anything: orbs, which indicate the presence of spiritual energy. And lots them.

Then a chance meeting in Bridgeport Hospital with famed psychic and Monroe resident Lorraine Warren set him on the path to becoming a paranormal researcher. While working there, he heard Warren, 81, was a patient and approached her. She knew his name before he introduced himself.

As Myers recalled: “She said, ‘Jimmy, how are you?’”

Since then, in his spare time, Myers has been assisting Warren and her son-in-law, Tony Spera, with investigations for the A&E network’s show “Paranormal State.” He helps interview people and collect data with recording equipment.

“They are pretty much calling me their psychic photographer,” Myers said. “[Warren] says I draw the energy.”

He’s not sure of that, but supernatural things seem to like his camera. While taking Warren and Tony and Judy Spera on a tour of the theater complex on Sept. 7, he took photos covered with orbs. They also appeared in photos he took of the Colonial Theater on Boston Avenue, where the Warrens had dates.

Sept. 7 is the birthday of Warren’s late husband, Ed Warren, the famed demonologist. He died on Aug. 29, 2006, and worked at the Poli as a teenager where they sometimes saw movies, Warren said.

Myers assembled his photos into a slide show dedicated to the Warrens, and Lorraine Warren is showing it during her lectures all over the United States. He goes by the handle 826 Paranormal and says he is “looking at the unknown through a cop’s eyes.”

He said considers himself “open-minded but skeptical.”

“I go in with the same attitude as at work. It’s just doing another form of investigation,” Myers said.

It’s also a hobby and stress reliever that has proven a little creepy sometimes. While he’s never seen anything with his naked eyes, he’s definitely felt things.

“The only time I ever felt something [in the Poli] was in the Savoy at the main desk,” he said. “It felt very, very cold, like an ice chill down my back.”

Warren said she thinks there may have been two homicides there in the 1940s. The team checked for drafts but found nothing.

Before he met Warren, he took photos at the former Norwich Psychiatric Hospital, where he experienced the most disturbing thing to date.”It felt like ice water being poured down the back of my shirt,” he said.

He also got blurred photographs at a house in Monroe he believed to be haunted. That house has since burned down.

But, he added, “I’ve been disappointed on many cases.”

Warren, who said she can see auras and can learn about a person from them, felt something special for Myers immediately upon their meeting.

“I was very impressed by him. He seemed very sincere. I could see a man who had a really deep interest,” she said. His job as a police officer makes him disciplined, a requirement for any paranormal researcher, according to Warren.

Myers is also wary, but not scared, in paranormal situations.

“He’s a guy that isn’t afraid,” she said, adding, “You’ve got to be leery. It’s stupid not to be leery” in haunted areas.

And the Savoy complex is still occupied. Warren said she had a vision of the past during a tour: a couple watching a movie in the Poli, as if time had stopped for them.

In Myers’ photos of her sitting in the theaters, Warren is surrounded by orbs. They float about the ceiling. They represent people attached to the building, some possibly actors who gave up family and personal lives to perform there, she said.

Still, Myers’ big test came Mischief Night, Oct. 30, when he and a Stamford police officer, who has been helping the Warrens for years, stayed overnight in the Occult Museum in the ghost hunters’ Monroe home. People who try to stay there overnight have fled in fear, Warren said. It contains artifacts from their investigations, some famous for reportedly leading to the death of anyone who touched them.

Myers didn’t touch, but looking through a video camera, he saw a moving orb. “It looked like there was a ping-pong ball bouncing around my camera,” Myers said.

Working with Lorraine and the Speras, visions like that could become a regular sight for the officer. But he maintains a professional attitude in his work.

“He’s taking photos, he’s taking recordings, he’s gaining knowledge,” Warren said. “He’s a good listener. He doesn’t go foolhardy into anything. He’s not in everybody’s face.”

“All in all, he’s really proven himself to us,” she said.

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WAVERLY - Members of AMVETS Post 58 are awaiting a report containing the results of a July 26 visit to the post by representatives of The Ohio Paranormal Seekers organization.

The post requested the paranormal investigation group’s visit to see if there was any “ghostly” activity in the 100-year-old Greenbaum building in which the post is housed.

Utilizing a large array of specialized equipment, the group spent more than six hours taking readings and observing throughout the building. Though they have not yet released any detailed findings from the visit, representatives did say they experienced several phenomena of interest and felt that when data on the machines was analyzed, it would reveal evidence of possible paranormal activity.

At least one post member who accompanied the team through the building said he heard the voice of his late daughter on sound recording equipment that was utilized by TOPS.

A special presentation to reveal the findings of the visit is expected to take place sometime in the next couple of weeks.

According to a release from the AMVETS post, “The findings promise to be of considerable interest to local historians as the building is a part of the founders of our community.

“We hope to keep the community involved and updated on any and all findings and will invite local historian Blaine Beekman and his wife, Francis, to attend and help sort through all findings.”

TOPS was established in January 2007 and offers investigations free of charge. It conducts a phone interview first with interested parties, then researches a property before bringing equipment down and touring a structure.

The group, on its Web site, indicates that “most of the time we find causes that are not paranormal. But there are those times we cannot (find a regular explanation for something), and what is left just might be paranormal.”

Among the equipment the group uses in its analysis are video cameras with night vision, four-camera digital video recording systems, digital recorders and cameras, EMF meters and others.

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