Investigation Number:
08202005

1896 Crescent Hotel

Number of 35mm picture taken: 
24 with two positives

Number of digital photos taken: 
479

Minutes of Audio used: 
15 minutes

Minutes of Video taken: 
120 minutes

Number of Positive Photos: 
18

Number of EVP recorded: 
At the time of this report unknown

Phenomena captured on film: 
Orbs in motion and orbs at rest. The orbs captured were mostly bright and well formed in nature. 

We also photographed the image of a man in the mirror of room 218. There is a picture of what appears to be a woman hovering above the floor in the conservatory and another of what may be a Native American in the same room. 

Most of the phenomena gathered was scattered throughout the hotel but the most convincing was in the Conservatory.

Summation: 
There were seventeen of us on this investigation. Three of those present were psychics or spirit mediums. We met in the Conservatory at 10 o’clock pm to review and check equipment. It was here and at this time that we had our first paranormal experience. 

Lori from Rogers, Arkansas, was standing quietly waiting on her assignment when she felt a tug at her shirttail. At first she thought it was her husband, Ted, trying to scare her. When she turned to tell him to quit, he wasn’t behind her. As a matter of fact no one was behind her. Because of this, we assigned the Conservatory to her and her husband. Their team captured the most compelling evidence of spirit activity that evening. 

The rest were divided into teams of four and were sent to what were considered hot spots of spirit activity. We sent a team to the basement, another team to the second floor and yet another to the area where mental patients were once housed. The psychics and spirit mediums were allowed to roam freely. They were to report back if they picked up any spirit energy. 

All of the teams managed to record some sort of paranormal activity before the evening concluded at 2 o’clock am.

What was most exciting to us was the fact that we managed to pick up some new activity along with the old activity that was been reported many times. The pictures of the spirit and the physical contact in the Conservatory are new to the Crescent. This could be because the Conservatory is not used very often and when it is used it is used for wedding receptions and dinners.

We had some encounters with the spirit world while working throughout the various areas of the Crescent Hotel. Some of the more vivid ones can be seen listed below.

Ghost stories form the Spirit Seekers Investigation on August 20, 2005