Question #2 (Kara)

Do you believe in ghosts or evil spirits? Would you be willing to spend a night alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted?

I do believe in ghosts and evil spirits. I used to live in an apartment that was more than likely inhabited by some kind of spirit. I wouldn't say it was haunted, because it wasn't ever really anything scary that happened, it was more of a feeling of a presence. I remember moving into the apartment and not really thinking anything of it, but Jodi helped us move, and when she was helping to put Chloe and Calli's clothes in their closet, she later stated that she thought it was a creepy closet.

I just spent a lot of time looking through old pictures, because once when I was cleaning Chloe and Calli's room, after I cleaned it, I took pics. In one of the pics, and orb showed up. I sent the pic to a group of ghost hunters, and they verified that it was a true orb, not a speck of dust or a light anomaly. We requested that if they could, that they do some research on the house, but we never heard back from them.

It was also at this house that Chloe was talking about the burned kids that lived in the closet. She told an elaborate story of how the kids were burned and died in the closet, which is the same closet that Jodi had initially said was creepy. I didn't really experience anything that out of the ordinary in the house. There were a couple of times that the doors to the entertainment center opened and closed on their own, latched and everything. There were a couple of spots in the basement that I didn't like going near. There was an old coal chamber near the washer and dryer, and I thought it was really cool, so one day I started poking around in there. I could only go so far in though, because I got creeped out by it.

I also had a dream about my grandpa on the night he died... but I don't know if it was just me processing things, or a message from him, but I was standing at the the edge of the lake that my grandpa and grandma used to live on, asking grandpa to take me with him. The sun was setting, and he was going out to go fishing. I kept saying "take me with you" and he just said "I have to go alone". I've always remembered that dream, because it was really vivid.

As far as spending the night in a remote haunted place, sure, I would do it. Doesn't mean that I would stay for the entire time, so if I were forced to leave all modes of transportation somewhere out of reach, I would have to say that I probably wouldn't agree to it. I'm actually open to it, because I believe that it would be an extremely enlightening experience, but I can't guarantee that if things got too creepy, I wouldn't want to leave. I've sat for hours watching the ghost cam at Willard Library, which I believe is in Evansville.

I've done all kind of research on pics of ghosts too, and there are some ones that are questionable, like are they photoshopped (I just had a sudden urge to see how easily I could photoshop myself into a pic and make me look like a ghost), but there are a lot of them, as well as EVPs that seem realistic.

I would actually like to go to a kind of "ghost hunt" and see what that's like. There's a museum in Valpo that's haunted that appeared on Ghost Hunters, and is on their DVD, but there wasn't anything that I saw when I took a group of clients there.