First Ghost Post!- Coming at ya from Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, Kentucky.

Lacie Armstrong,

I visited Bobby Mackey’s Music World as part of a Ghost Hunt Weekends Fan event!! I have long been fascinated by the history of this land, of the bar, and of its ghostly inhabitants. This was my first visit here and hope it’s not my last. Investigated along side Chris and Mike from the Tennessee Wraith Chasers. Chris is next to me in the posted video. The best part of our investigation was in the exorcism room, which is at the far side of the bar from the music stage.

This area of the bar is well known because it was the location where Carl Lawson had an exorcism by Archbishop James Long. Carl had been known as a gentle, easy going, and fun loving friend, patron, and employee who lived upstairs of the bar. But the longer he lived there, the more the bar played a toll on him. He felt that spirits were talking to him and said that a demon tried to drown him one night in his bath tub.

One spirit in particular, Johanna, reached out and continuously told him to dig in the basement. He finally dug where Johanna told him to and uncovered an old well that to this day is considered by many to be a portal. He reported that he found Johanna’s diary in the well, and it accounted her plan to commit suicide by poisoning. A measure she took after her father, a past owner of the bar, killed her boyfriend by hanging him in the bar after he found out Johanna was pregnant. She followed through with the plan she detailed in her journal and the self poisoning took her life as well as that of her unborn baby.

Although Carl did not keep the diary but instead said he burned it in a fit of rage, there are historical records indicating that a Johanna died in the bar by poisoning. Although skeptics certainly exist, many point out that if Carl’s contact with the spirit world was not real, how did he know about Johanna and how did he know where to dig to uncover the well???

Eventually, Carl’s personality changes caused enough people to become concerned that they called in an exorcist. His exorcism tapes are on YouTube and are quite disturbing yet remarkable. During the exorcism he (or whoever is talking through him) makes it clear that he is not Carl, he is Charlie.

Prior to the posted video, we played some of Carl’s exorcism tapes as a trigger to attempt to communicate with the spirits. We attempted contact with Carl but got another visitor instead !!!!

Ghostly Communications Exorcism Room

Explanation of equipment used during this video:

The machine with the light that keeps beeping at the center of the table is a REM pod. It beeps and lights up with changes in temperature and/or electromagnetic field. It really only goes off if something touches it (walkie talkies have been shown to make them go off, so it is important not to be active on those while conducting a session). You can see in the video that no one is touching it yet it is going off in coordination with some of our questions. The idea is, if you ask a question and it goes off, then something is using it to communicate. With most of our questions, we are using the machine going off as a “yes” answer and a failure to go off as a “no” answer.

The board is one that most people are familiar with- A ouija board. The idea behind this is that a spirit can move the planchet to give letters or numbers, spell out words, or give yes or no answers. **Caution! Never use a ouija board without appropriately opening and closing it out. It can be dangerous to leave communication with a spirit open. Close that out!! ***

Ovilus is the machine that said the words in the video. This device is a word generator and it is said that spirits can manipulate the device to generate words.

My favorite part of this session is that we were able to get the REM pod, ouija board, and ovilus to all coincide and interact with our questions appropriately. Getting multiple devices to interact together strengthens paranormal evidence obtained and suggests that we are interacting with an intelligent entity.

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