Methodist Cemetery investigation 5-14-09

this last Thursday our group was fortunate to investigate methodist cemetery up in beechGrove indiana, it gave our group a chance to test out some equipment that we have been in dire need to test and without much dismay we found out all of our equipment was in working order. i will post some of our equipment pics in the photo section later on today. When we were on our way to the cemetery We encounterd a few kids hiding in the woods who liked to throw rocks at vehicles but thats another story in itself.

As we arrived at the cemetery just before dark,it gave us a chance to set up a 4 camera wireless system, and as well all of the emf, evp and thermal thermometers which played a big part in this investigation.the weather was good, we were all ready.

The Story behind this cemetery was that a few people had trounced into this cemetery, and experienced a sensation of Being watched and when some of the people had stumbled, they had the feeling of being helped up after stumbling. So the History was not known to an extent, Needless to say, we were just starting


One of the first things we do is take an Emf- temperature sweep of the area... the Ambient temperature was 49.5 degrees with a base EMF reading of .1 which at that point on a cool night was pretty normal. as me and terri walked through the back of the cemetery, we kept hearing Footsteps in the woods behind us, so we snapped some Pics which revealed Nothing, dew falling off of the trees onto the leaves is what we accounted it for.

As we approached the upper part of the cemetery we noticed alot of Kids Graves Brushed back into the Mini-woods area, Un maintained and very un legible to read. We have seen this in alot of cemeterys when children are involved. One of the First activities we experienced was Temperature Fluctuation from the Ambient temperature of 45-49 degrees to a spike of 80+ degrees. this occuring in a matter of Moments and then dissipating just as quick as it came.

Ive heard of temperature Changes to the colder but not nearly as warmer Changes, if anyone can explain this please help me out here. We did catch a Phantom mist on film and i will post that pic here soon. we also caught a few what i like to label as "Digital Flares" i have no explanation for these and i hope someone can Give me a logical Explanation. Energy ribbons is the Paranormal term i think is used.

Other than the fact that this cemetery was next to a Amtrack Rail yard and a Police Station behind it, it was a very noisy area, so EVp's were very hard to distinguish in this area. We relied on pictures and video.

The group worked really well together and had a very interesting Adventure in this cemetery. Although What was claimed we did not experience and the Noise factor was an issue. we experienced a few unexplainable instances, I myself was drawn to a huge tree in the center of the Cemetery with no Known reason.... it was just My personal Experience that intrigued me.

is this Place haunted? No i don't think so, Does this place have Paranormal Activity? yes it does. each member in our group experienced something....all we can do is lay out the evidence and let you judge for your self...

Thanks for Listening

Anthony Keene
Case manager
South Indy Paranormal

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Angels and Demons film release causing expected uproar

The storyline for Angels & Demons, which stars Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor, centers on a plot by the Illuminati, a secret society of intellectuals, who are intent on gaining revenge for a brutal massacre of their predecessors by the Church centuries ago. Although the society once existed, there is no historical evidence that its members were butchered by Catholics.

The Rt Rev Malcolm McMahon, the Bishop of Nottingham, warned that the film could stir up anti-Catholic sentiment."This is so outlandish, it's total rubbish," said Bishop McMahon, who is one of the Church's most senior bishops. "It's mischievous to stir up this kind of anti-Catholic sentiment. It's a gratuitous knocking of the Church and I can't see any reason for it."

Ron Howard, the director of Angels & Demons - expected to become the first blockbuster film of the summer when it is released this month - has fired back that Catholics will enjoy the movie, which is based on a previous novel by The Da Vinci Code's author, Dan Brown.

His comments will intensify a feud between some prominent Catholic leaders and the Da Vinci Code team over claims that the film smears the Church.

The bishop, who chairs the Church's Department of Evangelisation and Catechesis, said that Catholics were "getting tired" of the sensational stories and plotlines contained in Brown's novels and subsequent film adaptations. "I don't think that Catholics will be interested in seeing this as it's so far removed from the truth," he added.

Brown's book includes a number of other episodes guaranteed to upset the faithful - including a Pope conceiving a child via artificial insemination, thereby circumventing celibacy rules. Sony Pictures has declined to say whether those incidents make it to the movie.

Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the US, accused Howard and Brown of "smearing the Catholic church with fabulously bogus tales".

The frenetically outlandish plot of Angels & Demons centers on a race against time by Harvard professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) to thwart a plot by the Illuminati to blow up the cradle of Catholicism with an anti-matter bomb during the conclave to elect a new pope.

But Mr Donahue is exasperated by the way that he says Brown and Howard blend fact, fiction and conspiracy theory.

"I have never dealt with two more disingenuous people," he told The Daily Telegraph. "They wouldn't dare treat any other religion like this."

Howard responded in forthright fashion, "Let me be clear: neither I nor Angels & Demons are anti-Catholic. And let me be a little controversial: I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church, will enjoy the movie for what it is - an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome."

The Vatican, which was predictably offended by the Da Vinci Code plot that involved Jesus fathering a child with Mary Magdalene, did not allow Howard to film in its churches or property. "Normally we read the script," a Vatican spokesman said. "But this time it was not necessary - the name Dan Brown was enough."

There has also been high-level discussion within the Holy See about whether to urge a boycott of the film, according to Italian media reports. It took that step with The Da Vinci Code, but the film enjoyed staggering box office takings of $758 million and some Vatican insiders fear their high-profile opposition backfired.

"Let's be careful not to play their game... by giving them free publicity," said Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, the Vatican economics minister, who still made clear his derision for the book as a "manipulation in anti-Christian key of people, events and history".

But Sony Pictures is not backing away from the controversy and will stage the film's world premier on the Vatican's doorstep in Rome on May 4, 10 days before it opens in British cinemas.

"We do not believe the film is anti-Catholic, and we don't believe the nearly 40 million people worldwide who purchased the novel were confused by the fact that this is a fictional mystery thriller," said Steve Elzer, the studio's senior vice-president.

Jack Valero, a spokesman for Opus Dei UK, which is portrayed as a secretive, all-powerful sect in the Da Vinci Code, criticized the new film's central plot.

"It's bizarre and a total fabrication," he said. "I find it offensive, as will other Catholics, but I'm not going to bother spending too much time thinking about it."

But he found some agreement with Sony Pictures. "If anything, this will give us a chance to talk about the Catholic Church and the real things which happen within it," he said.

The furor can be doing no harm to the prospects for Brown's eagerly-awaited follow up The Da Vinci Code. His publishers announced this month that the first print run for the September launch of The Lost Symbol will be five million copies - arguably a modest initial total for a sequel to the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time, with 81 million copies in print worldwide.

NOTE: first off...it's a novel. It's fiction. It's more than dogma vs. science. For those who have read the book and who try to stay impartial, it's a very good blend of intrigue, wit and history. The basic question, who is good or evil...or is there no real distinction? I'm looking forward to the film, though, I hope it is not edited as much as 'The Da Vinci Code'. If you read 'Angels and Demons', please post your comments...Lon

(information from: Phantoms and Monsters)

Ghost hunters raise funds for preservation - ILL

Story Created: May 5, 2009 at 10:11 AM EDT

SHELBYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Scaring up money these days isn't easy.The Chautauqua Auditorium in Shelbyville needs about $1.7 million to restore it to its 1903 splendor and prevent leaks and dry rot from becoming the grand old structure's final act.

So who ya gonna call?

One answer has turned out to be a bunch of ghost hunters who relish things that go bump in the night and who have friends who study cryptozoology, which is the field of Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster and so on.

They are gathering at the Chautauqua on Sept. 19 for "Chautauqua-Con 2009," a one-day conference to explore and celebrate the quest for the strange and scary that will be used as a fundraiser for the building.

It won't be cheap to get in tickets go for $40, renting booth space will cost another $15 but the organizers say visitors are due to get a lot of ethereal bang for their buck. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the huge round auditorium, which measures 150 feet across with perfect acoustics, and the conference will feature at least 10 speakers.

The lineup includes some of the leading names in the twilight world of the bizarre. Michael Kleen, for example, has written books with titles like "Legends and Lore of Illinois: Case Files" and "Six Tales of Terror," and his work ranges over almost every aspect of the paranormal.

Chris Dedman (that really is his name) had his first paranormal experience after being shot in the head with an errant firework as a boy and has been probing the supernatural ever since. His talk will include a presentation on the darker side of ghost hunting and detail something very nasty that happened in Quincy in 2008.

Other speakers have backgrounds in the area of spiritual mediums, hunting Big Foot and even the development of computer systems designed to probe for evidence of a haunting.

It's a heady lineup, and the organizers, such as Shelbyville paranormal researcher Brian Hendrian, are hoping for a good response for both the Chautauqua's sake and the wider effort to explain that paranormal research is a serious issue.

No one knows if the Chautauqua Auditorium is haunted, but a 106-year history throws up some interesting possibilities. Built at the turn-of-the-century height of the Chautauqua movement, it played host to once-popular traveling road shows featuring everything from opera to variety acts and hosted fire and thunder Biblical speakers such as William Jennings Bryan and temperance crusader Carrie Nation.

When the Chautauqua movement faded, the places built to house it faded away, too, and now the Shelbyville structure, built like a giant drum with no interior columns supporting its vast, cathedral-like roof, is the last of its kind left in the nation. The building's owner, the city of Shelbyville, appointed a Chautauqua Auditorium Preservation Committee to raise the $1.7 million needed to save it, and the committee has welcomed the assistance of the paranormal investigators.

"Now, I may or may not believe what they believe, but I think what they are doing for us is great," said Wayne Gray, chairman of the preservation committee. "We've got to find a tremendous amount of money and we need donations, a lot of them."



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Dom DeLuise, Comic Actor, Dies at 75

Dom DeLuise, a pudgy actor whose manic grin and air of desperation added comic bounce to films like “The Twelve Chairs,” “Blazing Saddles” and “The Cannonball Run,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 75 and lived in Pacific Palisades.

The Associated Press reported that his son Michael had told a television and radio station in Los Angeles that his father had died after a long illness.


Mr. DeLuise first made his mark on television in the early 1960’s as Dominick the Great, an inept but determined magician trying desperately to maintain his poise as one trick after another failed. He created the character for “The Garry Moore Show” and brought it to the CBS variety series “The Entertainers,” where the ensemble cast included Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett, and “The Dean Martin Summer Show.”

Before long Mr. DeLuise was appearing in films, usually in broad comedies as a nervous sidekick, a schmo or a preposterous fraud.


He was a favorite of Mel Brooks, who cast him as the greedy Father Fyodor in “The Twelve Chairs” (1970), the director’s silly assistant in “Silent Movie” (1976), the Emperor Nero in “History of the World — Part I” (1981), the voice of Pizza the Hutt in “Spaceballs” (1987) and the Godfather-like Don Giovanni in “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” (1993).


Burt Reynolds, another fan, teamed up with Mr. DeLuise in several films, including “Smokey and the Bandit II” (1980), “The Cannonball Run” (1981) and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” (1982).


Dominick DeLuise was born in Brooklyn and, after graduating from the High School for Performing Arts in Manhattan, attended Tufts. He broke into show business in the late 1950’s in parts like Tinker the Toymaker in the daytime television show “Tinker’s Workshop.” (The show’s creator and first host, Bob Keeshan, had gone on to create and star in “Captain Kangaroo.”) He then made regular appearances on “The Shari Lewis Show” as a bumbling private eye.

After making his Broadway debut in 1963 as the cheerfully nervous mountebank Muffin T. Ragamuffin in “The Student Gypsy,” he appeared as a nervous flier in the cold-war thriller “Fail-Safe” (1964). This serious role was atypical. His chubby face and hysterical laugh made him a natural for comic roles, like the dimwitted spy in the Doris Day film “The Glass Bottom Boat” (1966). These parts he attacked over the ensuing decades with scene-stealing abandon.


Working with Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Brooks, Mr. DeLuise went on a tear in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gene Wilder cast him as a hammy opera star in “The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother” (1975) and as the mad studio chief Adolf Zitz in “The World’s Greatest Lover” (1977). He made a cameo appearance as a wild-eyed agent in “The Muppet Movie” (1979), took on a tragicomic role as a compulsive eater in “Fatso” (1980), and directed his first film, “Hot Stuff” (1979), in which he also took a starring role opposite Suzanne Pleshette.

Mr. DeLuise’s performances, never marked by restraint, stuck at fortissimo as time went on. Films like “Loose Cannons” (1990), in which he played the obese pornographer Harry (the Hippo) Gutterman, did him no favors, and he reached a nadir in “The Silence of the Hams” (1994), a horror spoof, in which he played Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza.


As his film career declined, Mr. DeLuise found a creative outlet in food. A talented amateur chef, he began doing cooking demonstrations on television and wrote several cookbooks, including, “Eat This . . . It’ll Make You Feel Better!” (1988) and “Eat This Too!: It’ll Also Make You Feel Better” (1997). He also wrote “Charlie the Caterpillar,” “The Pouch Potato” and other books for children.

In 1965 he married the actress Carol Arthur, who survives him. In addition to his son Michael, he is survived by two other sons. Peter and David, and three grandchildren.
His toughest acting assignment was his first, he told the writer Ronald L. Smith in 1992 for the book “Who’s Who in Comedy.” He was handed the role of a penny in a school play. “The part called for me to roll under a bed as soon as the curtain went up and stay there until I was found in the very last scene,” he said. “It was my hardest role to date. I detested having to be quiet and out of the action for so long.”

New York Times

Month of May!

I want to first start off with welcoming Lana our new investigator to the group. She has, if you have checked out her story on our website been through alot of paranormal growing up in a home. We took her out for her first training over the weekend, had a blast! We look forward to working with her more an having her apart of our family!

May is also the month of Mothers Day! We want to wish all those mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers etc a WONDERFUL MOTHERS DAY! Take this day ( May 10,2009) an tell your mom how much you love an appreciate her.

Now back to the group, this month we are planning a few items, along with getting ready for a week investigation in the southern part of Indiana. We are all very excited about this an cannot wait till its time to pack up an head south!

Lastnight on our blogtalk radio show, we had a special guest Justin from L.C.G.H. (lakecountyghosthunters) on our show. You can check out our archives to listen if you missed it. He shared alot of great information with us an our listeners. We are looking forward to him returning in the near future to let us know what him and his team has been up to.

We have updated our website and added a new page. Our Friends! We love talking with other groups out there, learning new information and exchanging stories, photos, evps an such. If you would like to post our banner on your site an let us post either your banner or your site name, please send Terri an email. She is our Co/founder and Web Master. terri@southindyparanormalinvestigators.org



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