Ghostly figure caught on video on the 4th floor of Moon River Brewing Company in Savannah, Georgia!

The building that now houses the Moon River Brewing Company has quite an extensive history and a plethora of ghostly experiences. I had the pleasure of doing a paranormal investigation there Halloween weekend of 2023, and it did not disappoint. For a more thorough history, visit my blog post (link below) on the history of Moon River Brewing.

The 4th floor of the building, in particular, was part of the building in it’s original form as a hotel. It would have served to lodge the wealthy and elite, but it also was said to have hosted “ladies of the night” to provide hush hush prostitution services. During the civil war, it served as a make shift military hospital for wounded soldiers. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1876, it transformed into a hospital again and contained the nursing beds that became death beds for people suffering from that excruciating and torturous disease. The 4th floor is said to have held the children patients, where the 3rd floor was for the adults. The building became Moon River Brewing Company in 1999 after sitting vacant for two decades following a hurricane that blew the roof off in 1979. This floor of the building contained a brick circle in more recent years that conjectured rumors of its purpose, including a seance circle designed to banish negative spirits to a demon summoning circle.

Typically, the 3rd and 4th floors of the building are closed off to the public. A warning sign alerts patrons of the bar that they are not allowed up the stairs and even warns them against attack ghosts. Caution tape also crosses a eerily squeaky swinging door that prevents access to the 3rd floor. The only people that are allowed to venture into the warning zones are staff members (most of whom refuse to go up there) and those granted special permission to perform paranormal investigations (Ghost Brothers, Ghost Adventures, Sam and Colby, and Paranormal Quest have all filmed there). The only tour company permitted to take people on these floors is Truth In Evidence Haunted Tours based in downtown Savannah, Georgia. This is who I did my paranormal investigation with.

The 4th floor is left unrenovated, mostly due to apparent other worldly attempts to stop any renovations on the 3rd or 4th floors. These include the disappearance of tools, workers reporting they were pushed off of their ladders, and a job foreman’s wife being shoved down the 3rd floor stairs by an unseen force. The building in general has been reported to host an array of types of hauntings including poltergeist activity, shadow figures, physical contact, full bodied apparitions, and suspected temporary possessions.

During my investigation of the 4th floor we encountered a lot of REM pod activity. A geoport positioned on a table served to deal out some verbal communications, and it also oddly issued a repeated high pitched screeching noise that I had never experienced from a geoport before (the tour guide leading the investigation also commented on the sound being odd, so it seemed new to him from that particular device as well). Toward the end of the investigation, I was fortunate enough to catch a ghostly figure materialize out of the dark, descend towards the floor, and seemingly float across the room and into a corner. (!!!!) – yes, you have to see this! The video is posted below.

For even more of my Moon River Brewing investigation, visit my post from the 3rd floor.

Explanation of equipment used in this investigation video:

REM pod: Circular device with an antenna. 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 them but yet they continue to go off. 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.

Geoport/Geobox: Speaker looking device (sitting on the table in this video) that spirits can manipulate to speak through. It’s believed that spirits are able to change or influence bursts of audio in order to form their own words or even sentences. It’s similar to a spirit box in the fact that it quickly scans AM/FM radio frequencies at a rapid rate. It is different from the spirit box in the feature that it cuts out the “white noise” from the shuffling frequencies to allow for more definite words or sounds to come through. With the Geo- the radio and EMF signals are fed into a reverb device which allows modulation of the noise. That is what gives the boxes their distinct echoey sound.

Audio recorder: Often referred to in ghost hunting as an EVP recorder as it is used to capture Electronic Voice Phenomena. EVPs are sounds or voices that can not be heard with the human ear but get recorded onto the electronic recording device and can be heard during playback. I was carrying one of these with me during the investigation. EVPs can be audibly differentiated from words coming from the geoport as the geoport has that distinct echo sound whereas EVPs do not.

Phasm camera: The video camera I used for this investigation came from GhostStop. It is a small go pro looking video camera that has night vision and full spectrum filming capabilities, meaning it can film lighting not visible to the human eye (infrared/IR). A full spectrum video camera is a powerful tool that can be used to capture images in both the visible and invisible light spectrum. This means that you are able to see things that are normally not visible to the naked eye, including objects in the infrared and ultraviolet ranges (it is believed that spirits may be able to manifest themselves in these parts of the light spectrum). I also used the full spectrum phasm light from GhostStop to enhance the lighting. In this video, myself and my tour guide are actually discussing my camera and it’s lighting when the ghostly form appears, it’s almost as though it heard us and wanted to put on a show!

Flashlights: Don’t let the camera view fool you- it was pretty much pitch black on the 4th floor!

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