Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Guignol Theatre

I found an article online at kykernel.com called " Paranormal Club Investigates Spirits of Campus" by Corey Elam.

This artilce talks of a night when a group of about 20 students in a paranormal club on campus visits the Guignol Theatre to do some investigating. Before going they looked at public records and found out that in 1947 the theatre had burned down, and people had been killed. Knowing this, the students preformed a test, commonly known as " the flashlight test". They set a flashlight down on a center chair in the very back row of the theatre turned off, next they explained to any spirit that might have been there that when they ask a question to turn the flashlight on. One by one they started asking the spirit questions, at first nothing happened but then all of a sudden when asked a question the light turned on.  Things got interesting as the flashlight began to dim, and flicker, which none of the other students could reenact. Things like these are what they call personal experiences, but are things that can't actually be recorded, such as an EVP, also known as and electronic voice phenomenon.

When I Read this article I instantly began thinking of the idea of looking at public records to see who actually died in this fire. Every witness has said that the ghost they have seen has been a man. I wonder how many men died in that fire, I bet I could narrow it down and find out who the ghost might be. Also I really want to go to the theatre and try my own flashlight test and see if I could get a reaction out of this spirit.

1 comment:

  1. Autumn, your posts this week do a nice job summarizing and reflecting on how sources could lead you to further research, but how would you also use this source in a documentary? Would you try to meet with this Paranormal Club to interview them? And if you did your own flashlight test, how would you record that in a documentary?

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