The 'Ghost Hunters' examine an previous Seminary in Madison, Ohio, after an acquaintance of Daryl's reached out for help — is it haunted?
Mustafa Gatollari is the paranormal historian and web site analyst on the Ghost Hunters reboot, and he's going to be running a blog about the display's paranormal investigations each week solely for Distractify! Follow Mustafa on Instagram at @mgatollari.
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Before I get into the entire behind-the-scenes main points relating to our investigation of the Madison Seminary, I have to say that any of the ideas, evaluations, and commentaries presented certainly not shape or form echo or mirror the views of my different Ghost Hunters team contributors, Pilgrim Studios, or A&E television.
Now let's get to it: the Madison Seminary. This case was once a captivating one as a result of we did not have the standard quantity of prep time that we generally would for one in all our instances. (You're going to look some bizarre symbols right through this text, which can be defined on the end — just keep that during thoughts.)
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Daryl Marston, the swole, bearded member of our group and an all-around superior man (when you watch the show that's lovely glaring) had investigated there up to now. His pal, Adam, reached out because the staffers he'd get to paintings events and paranormal investigations on the Seminary have been getting so freaked out that they did not want to paintings there anymore.
Adam instructed us he put his blood, sweat, tears, and most significantly, money, into purchasing the development and bringing it up to code for to be a ancient ghost site that locals and guests to the realm could tour.
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The first thing that popped up in regards to the seminary was once some historical past, that, on the outside, gave the impression very, very, very gnarly. There have been over 2 hundred deaths on the premises, lots of them ladies. The Seminary itself wore a large number of hats: it used to be called a Seminary as it used to be, obviously a school, however it was also a house for Civil War widows, some of them famous, with a loopy historical past all their own.
It didn't just serve as a convalescent home for the elderly, however Madison Seminary also served individuals who were mentally in poor health and provided deal with them. When you consider asylums in American history, the imagery is never just right. There are many a sordid story of patients being abused and/or exploited, and Adam had told us that his research indicated many of the feminine sufferers had been no strangers to attack by the hands of docs.
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There have been additionally claims of other people being choked, driven, and treated aggressively, and experiencing a common uneasiness on the premises once they were there — which is for sure something I felt upon getting into one segment of the Seminary grounds. The building was once divided into two portions: the "Asylum" and the "Civil War Building."
Brandon and I captured some superb FLIR pictures in the Civil War development: the determine just out of doors of an exit door that results in the fireplace break out.
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In case it did not come through in the episode: there is NO WAY there was any person up there on the hearth escape, and if there used to be, they might have had the next heat signature on the FLIR. All of our production team have been grounded on the time, and there was once nowhere for somebody to head previous the door — where that figure headed used to be nothing however a railing and a three-flight-of-stairs drop.
Then there was the "Asylum" construction and the experiences Brian, Richel, and Brandon had inside of that building.
I've to admit that while I used to be taking my very own tour of the premises, I felt very uneasy. I didn't like being up on the 3rd flooring of the asylum by myself, and a room within the basement that wasn't shown within the episode, in particular freaked me out. I asked other people to only join me on a brief excursion, both on the workforce and our crew, and everyone stated they did not like being in that one particular room.
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It turns out that one of the most claims in that basement room used to be that someone used to be both murdered and buried underneath the ground, so we went and got two corpse sniffing canine to come and test it out. Both dogs thought they found something, so we dug a hollow within the floor to peer what lets find... and there was once nothing.
After digging more into the history of the construction and assembly with the native ancient society of Madison between Night 1 and Night 2 of our investigation, however, I found out that there used to be numerous city legends surrounding the Madison Seminary.
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There weren't any documented instances of abuse. The information that Adam gained contradicted with what the local historian — who has been a native of Madison, Ohio for decades — instructed me. She stated that the native belief of the Seminary used to be person who used to be certain: it was once a pillar of the neighborhood that served a lot of people.
So why have been our reviews between Night 1 and Night 2 so different? There are a few theories, the first being that we went in with a different mindset.
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Perhaps the entities that have been there were fed up with people going in and trying to pressure a narrative of doom and gloom?
Or possibly it had something to do with the strange sigils the team found throughout the building, that have been lifted straight from Simon's Necronomicon. We took these photos as we were making our rounds of the campus and throughout our investigation, and they had been situated in the sort of method, on each and every floor, that all of them hit East, West, North, and South points.
The set up is something instantly out of the occult — it appeared like someone was once seeking to conjure something inhuman to seem in the "Asylum" building. None of those sigils seemed within the Civil War section of the campus, which, to the workforce, defined why so many folks felt uneasy and jumpy whilst touring the "Asylum" grounds. When we asked Adam about the symbols, he said that his girlfriend had put them up as a way of coverage.
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I'm not pronouncing that anything else demonic used to be within the "Asylum" development, however possibly whatever entities had been there have been unsatisfied with sigils for whatever reason? I will't even pretend to understand, but it surely used to be something that raised more than a few eyebrows from not simply the staff, however everyone on production as well.
Especially when one of our cameramen, out of nowhere, started feeling in poor health and needed to take off for the remainder of the night after he experienced sensations very similar to what Brandon, Brian, and Richel had been going through.
It's certainly one of the "spookiest" places we've been to, and prefer Landoll's, I in point of fact wish to get back to Madison Seminary to check out and unravel who or what is there, despite the fact that Night 2 of our investigation had an entirely different vibe.
We had skilled process (which wasn't featured in the episode), nevertheless it wasn't aggressive, it seemed extra like an acknowledgment of our presence, rather than a challenge, or possibly even a warning.
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