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Ghost hunters come to
southwest Missouri
10/28/03
Justin Baldwin
Have you ever had something happen that was unexplainable —walking through a cold spot in a warm room, the sound of footsteps in the darkness when no one was there or the faint strains of laughter in an empty room? If these kinds of occurrences happen to you, the Missouri Ghost Hunters Society says there could be an explanation and the group could be able to help. Last Friday night, people seeking help, or just those interested in the supernatural, the skeptical and the curious, gathered at the for a ghostly seminar hosted by the Missouri Ghost Hunters Society — a group whose activities and investigations to Nevada in the past. The Missouri Ghost Hunters Society, a nonprofit organization, have been investigating alleged hauntings, demonic possessions, U.F.O encounters and other unexplained phenomenon in the area for about 10 years now. Brian Lile, president of the Missouri Ghost Hunters Society, said, "We hate to see people suffer. There are people out there that are ready to lose their families or homes because they can't live there. Because it is haunted." Lile claims that there are several types of spirits and haunting. A residual haunting is where the same ghostly scene is played over and over again. The living may observe the events in this kind of manifestation but they will not be able to interact with it. Lile claims that that there is not a lot that can be done with this kind of haunt because it is more of an imprint in time than anything else and is not really dangerous. In a "classic" haunting, he claims there is interaction between the living and the restless dead. "In all honesty, spirits are everywhere, but you can't have a haunting unless they make themselves known," said Lile. According to Lile the most common kind of ghost sighting is what he called "dark shadows" — when a person sees a small flit of shadows with peripheral vision. It's Lile's theory that these shadows are the spirits of the dead moving around. "With peripheral vision what you see is what is really there. You don't have time to interpret it," said Lile. The crux of Lile's ghost theory is geomagnetic energy. Living beings produce a small but measurable amount of electromagnetic energy. Lile said he feels that since energy can not be destroyed that the electromagnetic power is changed into geomagnetic power upon death. This is evidenced, Lile claims, be strong fluxes, measured and recorded with an EMF meter, in haunted locations or when an apparition is seen. Lile said that researchers such as himself have noticed an increase in supernatural activity during certain phases of the moon or when sun storms increase geomagnetic energy on earth. As proof of the ghostly encounters that the MGHS have experienced, a slide show was offered. Most of the pictures featured an otherwise normal scene with a hazy spot or a floating, slightly translucent orb. However, one picture stood out as being particularly disturbing. The picture was fairly simple, depicting a middle-aged man in his kitchen in the background and what looked like a double exposure of a young boy in the foreground. At first glance it could have been any double-exposed film. However, Lile claimed the picture was taken with a disposable camera and the child had been murdered in the same kitchen several years before the photo was taken. When the Missouri Ghost Hunters Society decides to take on a case, the investigators first check out the site to confirm that there is a supernatural presence. Then, if there is a need to remove a troublesome entity, they bring in Jeff Watkins, an intuitive consultant who claims to have the ability to see and interact with the dead. Watkins claims that there are several reasons that spirits interact with the living. Some, he said, want to continue contact with the people they love and some simply may not realize that they are dead. "That's what I do. I assist with in those people going on towards the light, or moving on into the next life," said Watkins. While he believes there are some malevolent undead out there, most are just like people, said Lile — they don't want to hurt you, they just want to interact.
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