Investigation Number 08192005

1905 Basin Park Hotel

Number of 35mm picture taken: 
24 with one positive

Number of digital photos taken: 
432

Minutes of Audio used:
15 minutes

Minutes of Video taken: 
60 minutes

Number of Positive Photos: 
12

Number of EVP recorded: 
Unknown

Phenomena captured on film: 
Orbs in motion and orbs at rest. The orbs captured were a mixture of bright; well-formed orbs and dim; irregular orbs. Most of the phenomena gathered was centered on the sixth floor in the Barefoot Ballroom and the Lucky Seven Bar and Billiards Club.

Summation: 
There were eleven of us on this investigation. We all met in the Hotel Lobby at 9 o’clock pm. After giving out the assignment locations the investigation teams went out into the hotel. By 10:30 pm we had all gathered in the Barefoot Ballroom. The two spirit mediums that we had in the group felt very little until they came to the Ballroom. 

They felt a sense of heaviness in two or three areas on other floors but nothing that they could honestly say was a contact with an entity. They felt that something had happened in the Spa but it was locked and we could not try to make contact. 

In the ballroom, the spirit mediums made contact with three different spirits. One was named Henry. He said he was there to help us. Some of the employees claim to see the spirit of a man dressed in a suit and smoking a cigar. The employees call him Smokin' George. This spirit made it known to one of our mediums that that was not his name. The third and final spirit did not reveal his name but claims to have started a fire in the hotel. He said that he did it because he was angry at the management and wanted to pay them back for the problems that they had caused him.

Once we reviewed the evidence gathered, we found that we were not very successful in capturing any spirit activity on video. With the 35mm camera we captured what looked like one orb. The digital camera picked up several more. I managed to capture one orb in motion in room 313 and ¾ of an orb on the top floor. These are significant in that only energy or spirit orbs show motion. The ¾ orb shows depth and generally only energy or spirit orbs can be seen with dimension. 

The data gathered is enough to say that the Basin Park Hotel is probably haunted but without more definitive proof we cannot say that it is definitely haunted.