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The city of Harriman, Tennessee is hopeful that ghosts, or to be more specific real life ghost hunters, can assist in raising enough revenue to restore an historical and reputedly haunted building in the town.

A ghost hunter would like to use the “dark entities” purportedly frequenting the one hundred and twentyone year-old Temperance Building, which is acually a former jail, to pull both tourists and paranormal enthusiasts to Harriman, which was founded by anti-alcohol crusaders in the nineteenth century.

This past week, by unanimous vote, the 6 person city council agreed to let Ghost Hunters of Southern Tennessee aka G.H.O.S.T. Paranormal show footage caught during a night spent inside the city owned building. It will be broadcast January twenty-seventh on the internet based Paranormal Network.

This Tuesday, a council workshop is slated to deliberate on ghost hunter Richard Ruland’s plan to begin conductin paid tours of the building, with one-half the proceeds going towards the buildins restoration.

The haunting is a part of local lore, said Mayor Chris Mason, who grew up in the town of about 7,000 occupants. Ghost enthusiasts often visit the Temperance Building, but G.H.O.S.T. Paranormal “found an exceptional amount of paranormal activity” there, said the mayor.

Mason said he doesn’t necessarily believe in ghosts, “but I don’t not believe in them either.”

As part of Ruland’s plan, ghost tourists would pay $299 for all-night visits by up to 6 people and $30 per person for 3 hour tours.

He said he has no doubt the ghost tours will be successful.

“It’s a gold mine to have a different place to hunt,” said Ruland.

The three-story brick and stone structure was constructed in 1891 by the Tennessee Land Co. when it began developing what was to be the “Utopia of Temperance,” about 40 miles west of Knoxville in eastern Tennessee.

The stately building later became Temperance University before serving time as city hall, with a jail in the basement. Now it holds a few offices and the city museum.

Councilman Buddy Holley said the city council’s session with G.H.O.S.T. was hardly normal.

“They showed us video that showed what appeared to be some apparitions, and they had some voices recorded,” Holley said.

Holley is not sure if he saw ghosts on the video, but he is sure the talk of paranormal guests could help in the ongoing restoration of the historic downtown, which includes the Temperance Building.

It will take about $1 million to finish renovations and upgrades to the building, Holley said.

He said he also hopes it will bring some publicity to Harriman and boost tourism. “We’re really interested in getting people to visit,” Holley said.

Ruland, whose group is based in Dayton, Tennessee, is sure of what he and other ghost hunters recorded on the night of December 17, 2011, when they used cameras and other gear, including the Ghost Meter Pro, which detects electromagnetic fields.

“We actually caught a photo of what I believe is a full-body apparition down in the basement,” he said. “We captured overall 50 voices… There were a lot of things in that building that were completely unexplained.”

One voice, he said, even confessed to murder. “That building, everything in it wants to talk, wants to say ‘hi,’ wants to have communication with somebody,” he said.

Most of the ghosts “aren’t your grandma walking up and down the hall,” he said. “Do I think I am dealing with human entities that are trapped there? Yes. But that’s only about 10 percent of what’s there.

“The other 90 percent would be the Wraiths, a term a lot of people wouldn’t know outside my industry,” Ruland said. “They are darker entities, once-human souls.

“In their death, they’ve been transformed into these mischievous, angry entities,” he said. “They live on electromagnetic fields from electricity in buildings, from batteries, from people.”

This particular crew in Harriman isn’t dangerous, he said. “They just like to screw with people.”

The Dormann Library will be holing a workshop presented by Phenomenon and Paranormal Investigations (P.P.I.) at 6 p.m. Thursday, January 12 at the library, 101 West Morris Street, in Bath, New York.
Banging doors, footsteps, faint voices, and sightings of ghostly apparitions; P.P.I. Realizes that hauntings are genuine. P.P.I,is a group of paranormal researchers founded by Christopher Pike that thoroughly investigate locations that are thought to have some form of paranormal activity. These paranormal locations could be areas such as churches, cemeteries, old battlefields, businesses and even private residences.
P.P.I. is a paranormal research and investigation team that looks for verifiable supporting evidence to deem a place or area haunted.
While the team attempts to disprove or “debunk” any site that is said to be haunted, if the team comes across enough evidence to support its case, they will will declare a location haunted.
This investigation team visits different locations around the Southern NY and Northern PA areas to seek the truth behind the rumors. Join the library for this unusual presentation.

In Russia a 4 year old boy died after his parents had a spiritual healer perform an exorcism on him. It turns out the boy wasn’t actually possessed by evil spirits but simple was ill and had pneumonia.  The boy’s parents took him to the “healer” and she performed a ceremony in which he was hypnotized and then kept in a room without food or water for 12 hours.

The child’s parents believed he was possessed by an evil spirit because he  was constantly crying and complaining and was unable to hold down food or water. Some people need common sense this is such a case of bad parenting. They should have took the kid to a doctor and he’d still be around today. I for one hope that the police in Russia find something to charge the parents and the “healer” with and I also hope none of them have any more children.