Column Chronicles: Ghost Hunter; packed house

Ghost Hunter: packed house

Frank Cotolo
January 26, 2023

Recently, if not sooner, a report surfaced about a particular house in Europe, if not elsewhere, which has accumulated hundreds of ghost sightings in the past few months. Zach Lupard, Ghost Hunter, went to the house and explained his findings.

"It smelled of elderberries," he said. "Being in the Adoxaceae plant family, the eldberberry is a favorite of ghosts. Because I know this, I searched other parts of the house."

Lupard started upstairs and in each of the four bedrooms he found sheets with holes.

"Playful ghosts use white bedsheets when they want to be seen by live people. They get under a sheet and poke holes so they can see where they are walking. Since most spirits are commonly obsessive-compulsive, the ghosts put the sheets back where they found them after they finish walking around. Oddly enough, they do not mend the holes. Thirty claims of ghosts in sheets came from this house."

Lupard talked with the current owner of the house, Rolly Stork, who said, "One night, six ghosts in sheets did traditional Irish dancing in the parlor. But since I could not see their feet move I don't know if they made the dancing sounds with their spirit feet or if they faked the sounds."

Lupard does not subscribe to the theory that ghosts can fake sounds. He does subscribe to "Spiritual Times" magazine.

Lupard concluded that not all of the ghosts in the house died there. He found tattered suitcases with stickers on them that read Purgatory Or Bust, and theorizes that some ghosts moved in from other ghost houses. "This happens often," he said, "because the haunted house market shrinks now and then and some ghosts are left homeless. They then pack their bags and find other houses to haunt."

Ultimately, Lupard identified seven ghosts, all of them immigrants from a neighboring country. "It's a long walk but the ghosts have lots of time to do walking in vast capacities. They could travel faster on planes but ghosts are afraid of flying."

After a month of study, Lupard verified the house as haunted.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.