Group will check out your spooky stuff
BY JIM SCHAEFER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Patricia Lidster of White Lake Township discovered that she had something in common with a coworker at Home Depot. Then the pair found four other like-minded people.
Now they are an official group with a fancy title: Scientific Paranormal Investigations of Michigan, or SPI for short.
They're ghost chasers. And Lidster, 47, says they'll check out your otherworldly beasties -- for free.
Look them up at www.paranormalmichiganspi.com.
QUESTION: You guys take yourselves seriously.
ANSWER: Oh, very seriously. I mean, we have tons of money invested. Tons of time invested, and basically, people need help.
Q: Who asks for your help?
A: Wherever we go we try to drop off cards. And so we get calls mostly from homeowners. The other places, cemeteries, they're just fun to do so we go out. ... It's cool being in a cemetery at night, just walking around and trying to catch stuff on EVPs and videos.
Q: What's an EVP?
A: That is an electronic voice phenomenon. And that's basically just a voice you would get on your tape recorder, but you didn't necessarily hear it.
Q: What kinds of cool things have you heard on tape?
A: Well, we were sitting in a part of a cemetery where everybody was kind of getting an eerie feeling, so we took some chairs out, and set 'em up in a circle and just sat and asked questions. And when we were reviewing the evidence later, one of the girls in the group had, like, a horse whinny in it. ... It was weird, I went back to the cemetery during the day ... just out of the area where we were sittin', there's a headstone of a man with a picture of his horse on it.
Q: You're startin' to freak me out.
A: Yeah. So that was kind of cool.
Q: Or terrifying, depending on your perspective. ... Where does all this come from?
A: Since I was a little kid, in my house, there have been things happening. Noises, things moving. I'd tell my parents about it, and they'd tell me I was crazy, I was imagining things. I'm 47 now. My mom's 85, so I'm living with her. And there's still things happening in this house.
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