Heritage Inn 2
2007-2008
Could be flash-produced orb.   However, two other shots taken afterward show no orbs.  I took images of the three lights that flickered on and off for us.
<Orb
This is another of our long-running cases.  We spent a year studying this hotel and concluded our investigations with a paranormal conference.  As this is heavy in documentation, we'll keep the article short.  Read, enjoy, and form your own opinions!

HERITAGE INN – UPDATE
01-05-2008
Debbie’s Report

On the evening of January 4th,  one of our Sprits’ member who currently works for the Heritage Inn received a report from one of the hotel guests stating the television in their 1st floor room had suddenly quit working.  These guests were then moved up to a suite on the 2nd floor at which time the same thing occurred with the TV in that room also breaking down.  As the husband went downstairs to report this, the wife called down to the front desk.  With the wife on the phone with our SPIRITS member and with the husband standing at the front desk to the hotel, the wife said, “My coat just flew off the floor and hit me in the back” Is this place haunted?” 

The next day I was able to arrange to meet up with Jesse at the hotel to investigate the reported phenomena with hopes of documenting additional phenomena.  When I arrived the couple that were the eyewitnesses were at the front desk and I was able to speak with them both.  They did not deviate from the report given by our member onsite.

Jesse and I went to the suite and setup IR cameras and recording devices. My camera was set up in the bedroom while his was in the living room of the suite.  We arrived at about 11:30 p.m. and stayed until around 2:30 a.m.  We investigated both the 1st floor room but focused on the 2nd floor suite.

During an evp session in the living room of the 2nd floor suite, we turned on the TV in that room.  There was no cable signal and all we had was a screen displaying that message.  During the evp session I requested that the entity do something to let us know it was with us.  The last question I asked was for the entity to turn off the TV.  Within a few moments, the TV shut off.  Jesse’s first response was to chuckle and my first response was to ask if Jesse’s camera had the TV in its frame.  Sure enough, we had captured the event.  However, though impressed by the event, it was important that we apply proper investigation techniques so we attempted to again try and get the entity to turn off the TV.  Jesse noted the start time and we left the room advising the entity that if he wanted the TV off to go ahead and turn it off.  Shortly after leaving the living room for the bedroom the TV again turned off.  There was approximately 15 minutes between the start time and when the TV was turned off.  We again turned the TV on, said nothing this time and went back to the bedroom.  Within 15 minutes the TV shut off again.  Clearly, this was a case of an automatic shut off timer on the TV and not paranormal phenomena. 

The couple that reported the initial event continued to enjoy their stay at the Heritage Inn stating it was a really wonderful place, even with the occasional ghostly activity.

Review of audio and video presented no additional evidence except to say there was an extreme lack of dust orbs for our cameras.  I give the Heritage Inn a 5-Star Dust Free rating!!

To: tbspirits@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:19 pm

Good afternoon

I stayed at the Heritage inn last week and my family and I had a really interesting experience. I have always felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up at some places that I have not been able to explain and the moment I walked in the front door of the Heritage I felt this way and my wife was able to tell and asked me about it.

I did not see anything that would be considered a ghost this weekend but my family and I did hear things throughout the weekend and had the lights turning on and off on the second floor hallway late on Saturday evening 1-19. My son even recorded on his cell phone what sounded like the elevator and door opening and closing at around 3:30am Saturday morning after not being able to sleep. When I opened the door nothing was there. We were in room 223.

In addition while I was looking at your website I saw the pictures that you have taken and spots labeled as Orbs and in a few of my pictures I have the same images. However on pictures taken in the same room with the same camera at the same time the images are not there.

I would be willing to e-mail you a few of these pictures and discuss my experiences with you if you like. Just let me know if you are interested. I have never written or talked to anyone outside of my family about the feelings I get when I am in a building that has had strange experiences and had NO ideal about the history of this hotel but from the moment I walked in I could tell there was something there and only later did I hear the stories of this hotel.


Sincerely
F.S.


April 9:  These three images were taken by the same camera.  The young ladies have given permission to post these images.  The pictures were taken on Brandy's ghost tour, which stops inside the Heritage Inn.  Note:  the 6-sided orb shapes.  The only other place I have ever seen orbs as such is in the book "The Orb Project".  A SPIRITS sensitive, and hotel staff, reported the couch had an individual ("Charles") who had been sensed and witnessed in the spot where the young ladies sit.  Another member of the tour took the images.  The woman claimed to be a sensitive.

The third picture, at bottom, is taken with the same camera but outside.  The only difference is the inside vs. outside hots.  Any ideas on these images?

Ed note:  The orbs appear to be light refractions from the lens; the light hit it at just the right angle.
Orb images from Heritage, ghost tour, January.  Sent by:  Lori
Heritage Inn: Ghost Investigation document (May 10, 2008)
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Response
PercentResponse
Count
Sensitive/Psy 25.0%1
Technical 0.0%0
Researcher 0.0%0
Investigator (general) 25.0%1
Other 50.0%2
Other (please specify)2



2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Response
PercentResponse
Count
Thermometer 50.0%2
Thermometer IR 0.0%0
Barometer 0.0%0
Digital camera 75.0%3
Film camera 0.0%0
Video camera 0.0%0
IR video camera 25.0%1
Polaroid camera 0.0%0
Computer 0.0%0
Audio recording devices 25.0%1
Electro Magnetic Field Meter (EMF meter) 50.0%2
Compass 0.0%0
DC gauss meter 0.0%0
Other (please specify) 0.0%0
Other (please specify)0


3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Response
PercentResponse
Count
Temperature related phenomena (hot or cold spots) 100.0%4
Sensation of energy 0.0%0
Sensation of being watched 0.0%0
Peripheral vision manifestation 0.0%0
Full manifestation 0.0%0
Physical contact 0.0%0
Odd behavior of equipment 25.0%1
Battery drainage or power outage 0.0%0
Electrical phenomena (lights, equipment acting up) 0.0%0
Observed odd behavior of animals 0.0%0
The detection of aromas (olfactory) 50.0%2
Hearing/auditory 0.0%0
Other (please specify below)  chest pressure and tightness25.0%1



4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
Response
PercentResponse
Count
EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on video 0.0%0
Rod images (video) 0.0%0
Mist images (video) 0.0%0
Shadow images (video) 0.0%0
Full apparition (video) 0.0%0
EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on audio/recording 0.0%0
Orb images (digital) 0.0%0
Mist images (digital) 0.0%0
Shadow images (digital) 0.0%0
Full apparition (digital) 0.0%0
Orb images (film) 0.0%0
Mist images (film) 0.0%0
Shadow images (film) 0.0%0
Full apparition (film) 0.0%0
Nothing that cannot be explained naturally 0.0%0
No unusual occurrences at all 66.7%2
Other (please specify below) 33.3%1
Only the temperature flux and the one spike on the natural EM meter.

5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.




1.Brandy: This was a very interesting investigation, though very few results manifest for our group. I am not sure if it was the mixing of teams, the discomfort of being ill, or the lateness of the event, but the only thing that was observed was the fluctuation of the thermometer. This is fairly unusual for the thermometer, but the temperature flux was not enough (really ranging mostly between 1 degree; only twice did it drop down further to 3 - 4 degrees) for it to be of viable resources. The Natural EM meter went off only one time on the question "Did you travel with us?". It was a short spike, barely registering. Otherwise, neither meter was very useful that night.
2.Beth I noted unusual, rapid, temperature fluctuations of 1 to 4 degrees in the guest room. Sun, 5/11/08 4:44 PM
3.Kimberly: None.
4.Mary: There was none of my own, however, the team did experience temperature fluctuations while in rm 211 as well as one brief EMF tone during an EVP questioning session

6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Brandy: None. Again, I felt very uncomfortable that night and was not really with the investigation. Had we started on time, without the 2 hour delay, I might have had more observations. The only other information that was new that night was the "US soldier", though that is going to be hard to verify and really could be just suggestion or guesswork. At that time, I think the whole group was rather on edge and tired. The fluctuations of temperature were the only real sensation. At one point, I felt as if I were sitting in an a/c draft. Even after another participant turned off the a/c, the sensation continued so that I had to ask again if they had turned off the a/c. Another participant suggested that I was feeling air from the door. That was most certainly not the case. I know the difference between a breeze coming from a door crack and feeling as if I were sitting in a full blown breeze from the a/c. I did get up to test air currents by the door (nothing) and climbed upon a chair to test the a/c coming from the vents. Neither were emitting air. When I returned to my section of the bed, however, the cold breeze sensation was gone.
2.Beth Feeling of pressure in my chest during the evp session in the 2nd floor hall/stairwell. There was a sensation of a breeze and a chill (goose bumps) on my left arm in the guest room during an evp session. No changes in temperature were shown on the thermometer at this time.
3.Kimberly: Smell of bergamon at the west end of the second floor hallway. During the evp session in room 211, when the question was asked if the WWII soldier was sent there to convalesce, I got such extreme tightness in my chest that I had to leave the room.
4.Mary: While the team was investigating the 2nd floor hallway, I began to get tightness through my shoulders followed soon after by a cold sensation on my right arm and across my back. This happened just before 10 pm and lasted for most of the time we remained in the hall near the stairs. Also I could smell, only by taking deep breaths, a faint scent which only lasted about 60 seconds. Returning to rm 211, I began to get chills while sitting on the bed near to the window. The air conditioning was off, but I could feel a definite cold breeze around my right arm and again across my shoulders.




7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
1.Brandy: See prior investigations. The only new information for me was the advent of the US soldiers.
2.Beth The hotel was originally a private residence. At one time it also served as barracks for World War II soldiers.
3.Kimberly: No research.
4.Mary: The hotel began as a boardinghouse and was purchased approximately 1928 by Charles Helt and his wife Elizabeth. It was named Hotel Martha Washington shortly afterward. The hotel underwent several renovations with a major one in 1937. Some years later the hotel was sold and financial troubles began. The hotel went through several owners including the Holiday Inn chain. It is now privately owned. During WWII the hotel was occupied by trainees from the Army Air Corps as were almost all hotels in St Petersburg.




8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
Response
PercentResponse
Count
1 0.0%0
2 0.0%0
3 25.0%1
4 0.0%0
5 50.0%2
6 0.0%0
7 0.0%0
8 0.0%0
9 25.0%1
10 0.0%0


9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?

1. I have been to the Heritage several times over the year. The most active I've seen it was in August. However, again, with the late arrival of part of the participants and my own sense of illness (I was sick to my stomach for 3 or 4 days after the investigation) I do not think that it was truly a valid investigation. The EVPs have to be dismissed as there was walking and talking in the hall by other participants and nonparticipants alike. Noises came from above us from other rooms. Video revealed nothing.
2.Research WWII soldiers that may have died at the hotel.
3.The hotel's use during WWII.
4.There is another room reported to be haunted where the team should also try for EVPs.




10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
1.Brandy: I would like to return before the conference with just SPIRITS members. I think that the group may work better earlier in the evening and without the stresses of other influences.
2.Kimberly: Morgan's team did get what appears to be an evp of a gentleman identifying himself as "Mike."  3.Mary: This investigation is one that the SPIRITS started almost a year ago. We have also investigated the adjoining restaurant over the same time frame. We did this investigation tonight with a team that we had invited to share hosting responsibility with us for the Florida Ghost Gathering to be held next month. We usually conduct hunts alone and so this was a rather unique situation.






From SPIRITS member, Evie:

Sent: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 1:26 am
Subject: Heritage Hotel

The spirits have really acted up tonight.  There was a noisy wedding party in the hotel that apparently the spirits did not appreciate.  Suddenly there are flees in 3 of the rooms, in one room they couldn't get any of the lights to work even though the plugs were ok and the TV would work, just not the lamps.  Finally a leak sprung in the bathroom ceiling in the 1st floor ladies room and made a big mess.  Had to call out Roto Rooter in the middle of the night. What a disaster.

I was also told that the restaurant has been really active since the remodeling.  It isn't opened to the public yet but will be open next week. 
As reported on 5-28-08

"Gary (night auditor) heard a little girl crying when he was working in conference room C."

From Hammerhead's:

Serated knife was put into holder; came out of holder and fell to the floor.  Was picked up and placed back in the holder and it came out again.  Staff simply left it behind.

Bar stools that were placed up on tables were found the next morning knocked down all over the floor.  Building was locked and manager was last one out and first one in -- he noted the phenomena.

On the night of 5 - 31- -08:

Room 207:
Guest reported to front desk clerk that everything in the bathroom was put on the floor; she reported that she was feeling very uncomfortable in the room.

The hotel is undergoing potential rennovation and new management.  Could this be altering the ghostly behavior?  (As asked by hotel staff). 
This was taken at the Florida Ghost Gathering Conference.  We had about 30 members of various ghost groups sitting in the darkened Hammerhead's haunted restaurant.  This is about 44 minutes into a 1 hour recording.  Everyone is sitting quietly; there is no whispering (I made note of voices when people were talking, or times of talking were announced).  I cannot make out what it says.... 6-7-08
June 6 - 8:
The conference was a lot of fun.  Hammerhead's only produced the one EVP for me (Brandy) -- see link above.  I am not sure what is being said.

I did lead the psychic round table.  A group of psy-oriented folks went to rooms 205, where they sensed a male entity.  He had bad breath or teeth issues (an odor).  He was well dressed and was looking for or waiting for someone.  He was in an affiar or a relationship with a woman and they spent time in the hotel.  He planned to marry her, but was too heavy-handed and she left him. 

At the end of the hall, the group ran into "Elizabeth", who is waiting for her family to cross over.  Elizabeth likes Patrick Burns (in ghost shirt).  He did reveal that the first night he was there he felt someone moving the bedcovers while he was lying on them, alone, in his room.

During the stairwell session, I did have the sensation of someone touching my hair, but I was so tired at that point that it's hard to say what was going on for certain.

There were numerous reports of phenomena in the hotel and I hope that others will report them to us to record on this page.
Orb images from Cheryl, SPIRITS of St. Petersburg.  This was from the Hammerhead's session Friday night.
Oct. 18, 2008: Refubishing Recheck
Paranormal Puck Sessions:

1:  Room 112

User: Who is with us?
ambition
User: Hoew many are there with us?
yours among
User: Is Cheryl correct?  Are ther 5 of us and the little pug in this room?

User: Are you the little girl?
Harry blow
User: Are you an adult?
soak
User: Do you like to play games?
deep rapture
User: Do you re,ember a few months ago we had Patrick Burns here?
unlock
User: Did you unlock the door?
empath
User: Did you like Patrick Burns?
behind
User: Did you unlock our door/
Robert problem
User: Who is Robert?
express
User: I don't understand.  Can you tell me more?
coast
User: Does Robert work at the hotel?
pet
User: Are you talkimg about Odyssey?  THE LITTLE DOG?
faith
User: Is Robert a male?
face seat
User: Are you the entity from the second floor?

User: Are you the lady from the lobby?

User: Are you a man?

User: Are you a child?
drift
User: Did you talk to us from the basement?
decided
User: Are you Claudia?
video
User: Are you going to show up on the video?
sand east
User: Are you in the sand?
kansas
User: Is your name Sarah?
blow relax
User: Who are you?

User: Are you a drifter?
express mine
User: You are homeless?
faith hurt
User: Is that a yes answer?
alter pounds
User: Do you mean to hit?
church .

User: St. Vincent du Paul?
sound
User: Can you make a sound?
behind
User: Who are you behind?
problem
User: Is it me?
relax
User: By pounds did you mean money?
opening
User: Where can we find it?

User: Do you mean pounding in the hotel?  the rennovations?
hidden tilt
User: So, do the rennovations bother you?

User: Are you telling us that they are altering the building?

User: What would you like us to do?

User: Can we help you in any way?

User: Did you come into the hotel while it was vacant?
kansas
User: Are you from kansas?
hurt
User: Do you know Debbie?
pet take
User: What have you seen in this room?
history cents
User: Is this Charles Helt?
faith repeated
User: Is religions important to you?
wrong legion
User: Do you feel out of place?
object
User: Do you object to religion?

User: Do you think that you should not be here because of your religion?

User: Have you lost your faith?
sand
User: Are you a Muslim?

User: Were you a native of Florida?

User: Are you from another state?
unit woven
User: wizard of Oz
france
User: Why are you here?
crops nation hear
User: Did you come with the military?
dark
User: Were you a slave?

User: Did you hotbed farm?

User: Did you move here to grow crops?
score
User: Who is your family?
proton test wrong
User: What message do you have for us?
hear
User: Hear what?
blaze brown
User: Did you die in a fire?
neck
User: Did you suffocate?

User: Did you fall?

User: Did you hang?

User: Why are you here?

User: Okay, thank you for working with us.  We are going to move to another room.
sand happens

Puck 2:  Basement

Puck 2

User: Is there anyone here?
sound told
User: Are you Claudia?
Robert among cattle
User: Are you clalling us cows?
seat opening find
User: Were you the one talking to us in  the room?
faith fall
User: Are you following us?

User: did the stairs have anything to do with your fall?
world comfort
User: How did you die?
empath drift
User: Are you a drifter?

User: Did the cops find you>
would sand
User: Were you buried in the sand?

User: Were you on the beach>
coast east along
User: Are you upsetting the pug?
hidden
User: Do you know the little girl?
faith
User: Is her name faith?
erase
User: Why are you here?
jerk began
User: Did you fall down these stairs?

User: Are you new to the Heritage Hotel?>
lord
User: Were you part of a church rescue mission?

User: Are you upset?

User: Are you angry?
ask
User: Who are you angry at?
church
User: Why?

User: Is it because you are here?

User: Was someone in the church bad to you?

User: Did someone in the church hurt you?

User: Are you upset that you are not in Heaven:

User: Are you a pastor?

User: Are you man of the cloth?

User: Were you molseted by a priest?

User: Were you Jewish?

User: Muslim?

User: Hindi?
.
tilt
User: Native American?

User: Are you related to Billy Sunday?

User: Did you witness the revival sermons?
zero
User: Did you witness bully Sunday's sermons?
repeated .
User: How can we help you?
comfort months
User: Are you afraid of small spaces?
hidden toward
User: toward what?
soak take fall
User: were you here when the hotel was closed?
cattle began
User: Did you write the words on the stairs?

User: Did you want us to see those words?
rapture erase
User: Did you write those words?
ask drank
User: Did you have a drinking problem?
miss tilt
User: Did you get drunk?
zero
User: Do you want a drink?
Robert .

User: Ok.  how can we help you?
covered
User: Can you explain more?

User: Are you OK with us talking to you?
hidden
User: Where are you hidden?

User: Where were you hidden?
church
User: I don't understand.  can you tell us more?
drift
User: who are you hiding from?
erase
User: Are you a dybuk
began
User: If you are a dybuk then you are Jewish.
comfort toward
User: Are you looking for the angel?

User: WRONG QUESTION?

User: Should we try to talk to you in the ballroom?
repeated tilt
User: Is there something that is tilted?>

User: Don't go away.

User: We want to see if the little girl is here.  Then we are going to go up to the Ballroom.

User: Is the little girl here?

User: If you are here can you let us know:

User: We want to play with you.
drank
User: Are you thirsty:

User: DO YOU LIKE PUPPIES?

User: ring around gthe rosey.....


Paranormal Puck session 3:  Third floor (refurbishing)
Note:  Brandy felt very dizzy -- a lot of vertigo.  I asked the first three questions....then was asked to move as the opening to the attic looked as if it were loose (and above my head).  I moved, felt a hot spot (and mentioned it out loud), then settled in.  After I moved, the Puck didn't answer any more questions.


User: Is there is anyone here with us?
kept Robert
User: Is this the same entity from downstairs?
east movement
User: Are there more than of you?
jerk world
User: Are you upset because of the construction?

User: Are you angry at the changes to the hotel?

User: Why are you here?
kansas dr.
User: Are you trapped here?

User: Are you a male?

User: Are you a woman?

User: What do you want to tell us?

User: Have you left?

Tell me about your faith?
Paranormal Puck session 4:
Are yUser: Are you referring to the device on the ground?
settled about
User: Are you unhappy with the rennovations?
church built
User: Did you build a church?
stunt .

User: Did you move the can?
jerk
User: Is jerk a motion?  Did you "jerk" the can?
toward
User: toward what?
Sandra
User: Why did you move the can?
mine
User: Were you in the bathroom earlier?
represent
User: Who do you represent?
express
User: I don't understand.  Can you tell us more?
comfort
User: Do you want comfort?
Larry
User: Did you hit Charles with the door?
erase along
Group discussion:

Jeanne:  EMF in basement.  Random stuff. 
Charles:  Walked in -- strange feeling on walking in.  Felt that this place was creepy.  Onto the third floor, when we
first got to the side room that was under construction...I had taken the top off of my pen, had a headache on my head, pen cap hit the floor,
went to pick it up, no headache.  A bathroom, like breathing, bad feeling coming out of the dark.  Second room that went into; male entity in
the bathroom.  Third:  nothing.  Forth, couch.  Eerie feeling in crossspace.  Landing, nothing.  As looking back main hallway, a shadow moving along where the steps were.  When we came back down there, wanted to go into the room.
Went into the room, door shut very fast, told Jeanne, felt very sick, prickly, felt like I was going to pass out.  Was changing color (white, red, other colors). 
Hallway, 234, 239:  headache
Basement:  slight headache, laundry room
Manager's room, felt like a spider web touched him
Bald man, tan or white shirt, brown or dirty pants, not happy
Third floor

Denise:  Third floor, very strange feeling.  My biggest thing was that the EMF was strange.  Spikes, drops, spikes...
Felt that the metal stairs were very dizzy; stairs felt very unlevel.

Verna: When we got to the room....I felt an energy.  When we went up to the third floor, the first room, the energy was
off the hook.  It was very dense and a lot of it.  It was not pleasant.  Then I felt that someone lived here, this was like
a house.  We went into a second room through an opening in the wall, something doesn't want us in here.  Stay out.  We
went back into the first room.  There was something in there.  I don't know what it was.  It was there.  I heard the same thing
that he heard (the breathing).  Down the steps, very bad energy in that room.  It was not good.  The bathroom too I was not picking
up very good energy.  Smell was bad (plumbing apoxy)  When we walked into the hallway, I could smell a leather wallet
really well, then I could hear a woman talking.  I'm not sure that it was a woman conducting through the floor. 
An old woman lives here (3rd floor); aftershave very strong.  Old lady in a wheel chair (third floor).  Basement, something wrong with
the basement, too.  Felt very startled in the washing machine room. Second floor 234 - 239 really bad energy.  First floor: nothing.

Kim:  I'm really tired so nothing works really well.  First time that I went into the room, very cape-like swirl of cold....When we walked
down the hallway, warm spot.  Really strange for me.  A really warm sensation.  EMF toward the back of the building, consistently at 3,
the closer to the front of the hotel that you got it would go down to nothing, there was no correlation, it was just everywhere.

Cheryl:  Many gadgets; very queasy at bottom of stairs.  Felt that I was going to throw up.  Kind of heavy on third floor.
Kept hearing "Jewish".

Evie:  I usually feel really good.  I didn't feel that same way today.  I almost had a headache from the time we came in.  It keeps coming.
I'm not prone to headaches.  I didn't really pick up anything bad.  It didn't have the same good feeling.  I did get an orb feeling.

Mary:  downstairs:  conference room:  older man, never had a problem with it.  This time was totally different.  I felt as if it was totally bad.
Going down the stairs to the basement.  We were down there for a while, and I had to get out from the bottom of the stairs.  There is something wrong
here.

When we were here before, I get the impression that there is a homeless guy here, a drifter.  If this is right, this is something new to me.  I wrote down
"the cops found me".  Right after that the Paranormal Puck came up with "found".  It was not a good energy.  It followed us.  I didn't have the same energy.
When we got off the elevator we walked down the hall and there was more of a feeling there -- could have just been the dust.  We turned down the hall...no
feeling. 

Group 1 had 4 open doors and group 2 had only 2 doors opened.  We need to double check.

Brandy:  Here on the first floor; computer trouble.  Odyssey didn't want to go through, and I noticed that conference room was stuffy and uncomfortable.
The basement:  Odyssey was nervous twice, settle down in between. Back to conference room; felt lighter Odyssey didn't want in. 

Very bad reaction to the third floor.  Dizzy, unwell.  Hot.  Felt a hot spot, commented on it. 


Paranormal Puck 4:  Group session

Are yUser: Are you referring to the device on the ground?
settled about
User: Are you unhappy with the rennovations?
church built
User: Did you build a church?
stunt .

User: Did you move the can?
jerk
User: Is jerk a motion?  Did you "jerk" the can?
toward
User: toward what?
Sandra
User: Why did you move the can?
mine
User: Were you in the bathroom earlier?
represent
User: Who do you represent?
express
User: I don't understand.  Can you tell us more?
comfort
User: Do you want comfort?
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One mystery for the group is that the can from the window was moved to the toilet. Neither the first nor the second group saw anyonme come into the area,and no one was spotted when the entire team returned to discover the can moved.  Additionally, some of the doors that were left open were found closed.  Management did say that vagrants liked to come into the hotel but no one was spotted during the team sessions in the area.  The insert (middle) is an enlargement of the window area.  Some say that they see a man's face, others a light refraction.  Picture above by Jeanne, picture to right by Cheryl.  Digital cameras.
Strange words under the stairs... (pic by Denise).
Brandy and Odyssey with Paranormal Puck and equipment.  Orb on shoulder.  Pic by Denise.
Odyssey has been on investigations before.  He has also stayed with me at hotels (and haunted hotels).  He seemed very uneasy and agitated through out this investigation. (Pic by Brandy)
As we passed through the Ballroom, Odyssey would not stop even when I called to him.  He went straight through the room and sat outside.  The room seemed hot and stuffy.  Mary felt uncomfortable there.  I took this image and, though I lightened this slightly, the orb over the door almost appears self illuminating.   (Pic by Brandy)
Cheryl's EVP:  Child's voice and music.
Notable events:
*Strange writing under basement stairs noted by two seperate teams.  Words quoted a Biblical passage, asked for help, then had the word "no" written by them.
*Two members (one on each team) felt very ill on the third floor.  One passed out, one had extreme vertigo.
*Odyssey the pug, who has been on other investigations, travelled, and sttayed at hotels, seemed very uncomfortable at the hotel.  He was restless in the Ballroom and the third floor.
*The third floor had a "moving soda can".  One team observed it on the window sill; when the group returned, it had been moved to a displaced toilet.  Several doors had also been closed on the 3rd floor between team visits as well.


Brandy's Response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Investigator (general)
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
Audio recording devices
Electro Magnetic Field Meter (EMF meter)
Other (please specify)
Comment: Pug, Paranormal Puck
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Sensation of energy
Odd behavior of equipment
Observed odd behavior of animals
Other (please specify below)
Comment: Completely dizzy on 3rd floor
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
Orb images (digital)
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Brandy: Attempted the Paranormal Puck. It did pick up a church-themed series of words throughout the hotel. On the second trip to the third floor a soda can on the window sill that was observed by the first team was found moved to a toilet seat by the entire group. Two doors that were open were also found to be locked. I do not remember seeing the soda can when my team went through. There was a small lapse of time between the first and second teams, and the second team and the entire team going to the third floor. I do not feel as if we can say for certain that there was no one else up on the floor. The rooms can be closed and opened from the inside. Someone could have slipped upstairs between team visits and moved the can. However, that needs to be counter-balanced that Charles nearly collapsed, Odyssey was uncomfortable and I felt miserable on the third floor. The physical affects were quite obviously present.
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Odyssey the pug was very very uneasy with parts of the hotel. He would not listen to me as we walked through the Ballroom C area and only stopped on the other side of the room. He was restless upstairs and in the basement area. I was also quite dizzy on the third floor, to the extent that I almost felt as if I was going to fall. I do not believe that it was the state of construction or any of the aromas associated with the construction area. I have no real idea as to why I felt as strangely as I did on the third floor.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
At this time, the hotel was undergoing massive construction.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
Verna, Mary and Evie did talk with Hotel staff already.
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
No Response


Evie's Response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Investigator (general)
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
Electro Magnetic Field Meter (EMF meter)
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Sensation of energy
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on video
Orb images (digital)
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Evie - The minute I walked in to the hotel, the feeling of the hotel was different. I got a headache almost immediately upon going to our room and I am not prone to headaches. The EMF was not abnormally high and I did have not an explanation for the headache.
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Evie - actually I didn't feel the energy that I usually feel in the hotel. I have always had a good feeling when ever I walked into the lobby of the hotel. That feeling was not there this time. I actually discussed that with other members who were present and we all agreed that the whole feeling of the hotel was different.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Evie - since we have all been researching and sharing the info for over 1 year, we have a good idea of the history of the hotel from it's start in 1928
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
No Response
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Evie - I worked at the hotel for many months and it was sad to me to have such a different feeling in the hotel now compared to when I worked there

Cheryl's Reponse:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Investigator (general)
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
Video camera
IR video camera
Audio recording devices
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Electrical phenomena (lights, equipment acting up)
Other (please specify below)
Comment: Felt sick to my stomach
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on video
EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on audio/recording
Other (please specify below)
Comment: Glimmering light anomaly before EVP on digital video
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Cheryl: A/C running at all times. Stuffiness on 3rd floor. Doors locked and unlocked intermittently.
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Cheryl: "Jewish" sensed in hotel room and in basement. Stomach ache in basement area. Heaviness on the 3rd floor.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Cheryl: Read of purported entities of little girl, old woman in wheel chair, older man in lobby.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
Cheryl: I feel an audio/video recorder should be left in the room on the 3rd floor with the travelling can.
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Cheryl: Nothing to add.
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Verna's Reponse:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Sensitive/Psy
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Sensation of energy
Sensation of being watched
The detection of aromas (olfactory)
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
Orb images (digital)
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
n/a
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Verna Peddi The group I was assigned to started the investigation on the third floor. We entered the third floor by the back stair well. I was drawn to the first room on the right. As a group we entered the room. There was a lot of energy circulating around that room. The energy I was picking up on was not exactly happy. Charles was in my group and had sensed the same type of energy as well. I was sensing that someone had lived there at one time. Some what like the third floor may have been living quarters for someone. We then entered the room right next to it from a hole in the wall. We felt a cold breeze and then realized it was from the air conditioning. We went back to the first room, something caused me to open the door to the bathroom and I could feel something in there. I had Charles follow behind me to investigate and he agreed that something was hiding in the bathroom. As we were walking down the hall I was getting the feeling that whatever it was, did not want us lurking around. We did enter one of the rooms on the third floor and found a soda can in the window. It appeared a workman left it. On the third floor I also experienced in certain parts of the hallway the smell of an old leather wallet. When we were walking towards the front of the hotel on the second floor, you could feel some sort of imbalance. I also thought I heard a womans voice. Later I did identify that there was a female resident on the second floor and it was her voice coming through the floor. I also got a feeling that an old woman used to live there, on the third floor. I believe that when we entered the second floor that I was picking up the scent of after shave. It only occurred in two different places. I also felt some really bad energy down the hallway with rooms 234-239. Then as a group we went down the back stair way to the basement and there was a lot of turbulent energy down there. We all agreed it was uncomfortable. As we were leaving the basement to go back up, written in dust on the stairs was "God helps those that help themselves." "Help me." "No." That was kinda of weird to read after the sensations in the basement. We climbed back up and went onto the first floor and found nothing unusual. We came back together as a group and we decided to take the paranormal "puck" back to the third floor. I went out with Mary and Brandy to let Ody out. When we got to the third floor, everyone was standing outside of the room where the soda can was found. When we approached the group, I was asked "where was the soda can, when we were up her earlier?" I answered, "in the window." The group then asked me to look inside and I saw the can sitting on the commode. When the second group went through they did not go into the rooms and had no idea that there was a soda can there. We also know that there was no one up there because the floor was closed for remodeling. We then had a paranormal "puck" question and answer session and then we met back at the room we checked out and we all prepared to go home. Cheryl was kind enough to stay and do some video and EVP recordings.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
n/a
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
I believe that the third floor should be a priority to recheck.
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
n/a

Kimberly's response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Sensitive/Psy
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
Electro Magnetic Field Meter (EMF meter)
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Temperature related phenomena (hot or cold spots)
Other (please specify below)
Comment: movement of objects
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
No Response
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Kimberly: Very high EMF fluctuating with lower EMF, but unable to correlate location to reason for readings.
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Kimberly: In the room by the landing on the third floor on the west side, I experienced a sensation of a cape-like wrap of cold while standing in the northeast corner of that room.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Kimberly: N/A.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
No comment.
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Kimberly: In the same room that I experienced the cold, on first inspection there was a soda can on the windowsill. This was observed and commented upon by all members of the group on the first walk through. When the entire group returned to that room for an EVP/Puck session, the can had moved to the uninstalled toilet in the middle of the room. The other group indicated that they were not previously in this room, nor was there any staff that would have been in this room in between the time of first visit and the time of the EVP/Puck session.

Mary's response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Sensitive/Psy
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Other (please specify)
Comment: KII Meter
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Sensation of energy
Observed odd behavior of animals
Other (please specify below)
Comment: Some chest tightness and strong feeling of unease
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
Orb images (film)
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
No Response
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Mary: There were 2 new entities that I believe we encountered during this investigation of the Heritage. The one on the 3rd floor is male and I feel very angry. The other was also a male. My impression of him is that he was a drifter, transient or perhaps even a seasonal visitor with a connection to the hotel. We first encountered him in the suite that we were using as our base. He followed us down to the basement. It was here that I felt tightness in my chest and that I had to get out of the area at the bottom of the stairs. Also the conference room that we walked through had a very angry feeling to it. Our team has investigated this hotel for well over a year and I have actually envisioned an older man here before. Never, however, have I experienced the anger that I did in this room. It was quiet unpleasant even just passing through it. This may have been the sense of the angry entity that we later encountered on the 3rd floor. Odyssey also balked at entering the room. This was the first time that he had exhibited this behavior.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Mary: Researched info is already posted to earlier Heritage investigations
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
Have there been reports of any paranormal activities since the renovations began and if so, what are they? I would like to propose that a comprehensive police report be obtained on the property (this is not for the review team, but for the investigation as a whole).
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Mary: This new series of investigations is to see what affect massive renovations will have on the entities known to be in the hotel. On this trip, the feeling of the hotel was much different and entities previously encountered were not there.


Charles' response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Investigator (general)
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Thermometer
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Sensation of being watched
Full manifestation
Other (please specify below)
Comment: whole body tingled like it was asleep....then I fainted
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
No Response
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
No Response
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
In the mainhallway when I arrived I had a creepy or uneasy feeling. Upstairs on the third floor I had a headache in my left temple. The cap to my pen fell? out of my hand and when I picked it up my headache was gone. Room #2 ( which I think was 306) on the third floor I saw an image of a bald man in a tan or dirty white shirt and brown pants in the bathroom. Later while we were looking down the main hallway I saw a moving shadow by the door of room 306. We decided on a second look at the room. While coming out of the room the door slammed into my elbow. I turned back and looked at the door and then felt a tingle all over my body. I told the group I was going to pass out and then I sank to the floor. After I was back on my feet I had a head ache as we past back by room #1. I also felt dizzy at the bottom of the steps in the base ment. I felt a little dizzy and a light headache in the laundry. vending machine room.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
No Response
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
No Response
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Charles I was pretty scared by this investigation. I have not had anything like this happen to me on other hunts

Denise's response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Investigator (general)
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
Audio recording devices
Electro Magnetic Field Meter (EMF meter)
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Sensation of energy
Odd behavior of equipment
The detection of aromas (olfactory)
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on audio/recording
Orb images (digital)
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Denise - EMF - The EMF here is very strange, hard to determine if it is normal or paranormal. Some of the EMF detected could be tracked to the lights or to the wiring in the walls. I did get one spike near the vending machines on the second floor that seemed to be there one second and not there the next second. I tried to get it back and could not. It almost seemed like something passed by me and then vanished. I was the last one in the room, I felt the door lock to make sure that the dead bolt was set so the door would not shut and lock the other group out, the door slammed shut When the others came to the door the dead bolt was not set and the door was locked.
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Denise, I felt very alert, on the 3rd floor and in the basement as if I was expecting something to happen. When we went to the 3rd floor the second time 3 of us went into the first room at the top of the stairs.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
No Response
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
Denise, This place is amazing and full of acitvity. The traveling soda can still has me baffeled. It does seem that there is something on the third floor that is not to happy about something that is going on there right now.
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Denise-The first walk through we had left the first room on the 3rd floor and were checking the other rooms to see if the doors were locked. Charles opened a crawl space in the hallway and I had a sudden strong smell of perfume hit me for only a couple of seconds. I thought it might have come from the crawl space I bent down and smelled in the area and there was no sign of the fragrance. It was a very sweet fragrance. Then we went into the next unlocked room and there was a soda can sitting in the window. I made a comment about it. When we returned on the second walk through the can was sitting on the toilet in the corner. Even with the amount of activity in the Hotel it is still a comfortable location. With the exception of the room with the traveling soda can. That is the same room that caused Charles to feel ill. That room also had a strange odor to it when you walk in the odor was very strong. But not the same as the sweet smell in the hallway. I look forward to SPIRITS next investigation there.

Jeanne's response:
1. What was your role in this investigation? (Please check one)
Investigator (general)
2. What equipment did you use on this investigation?
Digital camera
Electro Magnetic Field Meter (EMF meter)
3. What phenomena did you experience on this investigation? (Please check all that apply)
Odd behavior of equipment
Other (please specify below)
Comment: Item possibly moved- Soda can was on window ledge on our first walk through, then was somewhere else when we returned.
4. In review of the footage, recording, or photographs taken at the location, which of the following did you find? (Please check all that apply)
Orb images (digital)
5. What technical observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Jeanne - EMF fluctuating wildly in basement.
6. What sensitive observations did you note during the investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Jeanne - None for me personally.
7. What researched/historical information did you learn about this location? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Jeanne - We had historical information from previous investigations of this hotel.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the haunting of this location? Note on scale: 1 represents "no haunting", 5 "moderate haunting" and 10 "extremely haunted"?
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9. What issues does the review team need to address with the occupant (homeowner, business owner, resident)? What aspects of the investigation need to be re-addressed, retested, or clarified?
Jeanne- We need to follow up on the moving soda can question. Did an employee enter the room after we left the first time?
10. Is there any other information that you would like to add about this investigation? For purposes of categorizing data, please post your first name, followed by your response.
Jeanne- According to our sensitives, there seemed to be a lot of energy on the third floor. I'd like to investigate it again and take some video, and try for some EVP recordings. My time on this investigation was limited due to work.
Submitted by Evie and Mary, 2 -28-09
The Heritage Hotel (now a Hotel Indigo property)

Evie and I went to visit the former Heritage Hotel, the site of our first paranormal conference, the Florida Ghost Gathering, in June 2008 and the subject of a year-long investigation by the SPIRITS of St Petersburg.  A recent change of ownership has resulted in an entire new look for the hotel.  The transformation was overwhelming as the color scheme and decor had changed it from a classic interior to a much more modern one.  The only remnants of the old lobby are the fireplace and the doors facing 3rd Avenue.

We spoke to Sherri Richards, the sales manager, about the changes and any reported phenomena since the renovation. She told us that there were no reports by the workmen or from guests of any paranormal activity since the remodeling.  One of the three conference rooms (the one with the most paranormal "feel" ) has been transformed into a kitchen and laundry room.  There has also been a change in the General Manager.  Lynda, who had been very cooperative with the SPIRTS, is no longer there. Whether or not the new management will allow a follow-up investigation is unknown at this time.

Hammerheads Restaurant next door, also investigated by the SPIRITS' team on several occasions, is no longer run by the former owner, Skip, who had also shared his personal experiences of ghostly activities.  Sherri told us that there will probably not be another chance for the SPIRITS to investigate the restaurant again as there are now two prospective tenants for the property who may not be amenable to investigations.

Remodeling can either increase or decrease spiritual phemonema. In the case of the Heritage, it seems that the entities that inhabited the hotel have left, perhaps overwhelmed by the radical changes, no longer recognizing their beloved hotel.
Reported from the Ghost Tour, Oct. 25, 2009:

In the Sunrise (maybe Sunshine) meeting room, one of the guests had taken a photo in the far right corner which showed an orb and a strange marking, like an arrow tip, pointing into a nook in the wall.  He zoomed into the orb with his camera, and showed me a definite, leering face of a man within the orb.  The strange marking had shown up on three photos in a row, moving position every time.  The "arrow" was in close proximity to the orb.  We decided to enter the room to inspect the wall to see if there was a physical explanation for the marking.  There was only the two of us in the room, the young man who took the picture standing to my right, when I ran my hand along the wall to check for undulations.  Finding nothing unusual, I said, "There's nothing here."  The moment I finished speaking, I felt my hair being gently pulled back from the left side of my neck.  There was no one standing to my left (that I could see).  I stood transfixed, when suddenly something grabbed the left side of my neck, a little roughly.  I jumped, very startled, and became angry, stomping out of the room telling the ghost that what it did was not very nice, and to not do that to me or my guests.  

When I entered the lobby, most of the guests were huddled around a young woman who had visited the same meeting room shortly before my encounter.  She said that something brushed her cheek, but not roughly.  Where she had been touched, her cheek was bright red, and there were visible finger marks.  I asked for someone to inspect my neck, where a red welt was discovered in the spot where I, too, had been touched.  The welt was gone by the next day.

There was something else I didn't mention to you, Tim.  One of the guests showed me a picture of what he thought was a paranormal occurrence in the meeting room next to the Sunrise room, but all I could see was a vacuum cleaner up against the wall.  One group who had been in that room earlier mentioned that when they were in that room, the vacuum was in the center of the room.  We asked the desk clerk where the vacuum cleaner normally would be, and she said that the hotel never leaves that vacuum in the meeting room.  She wondered what it was doing in there, at all.