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5-7-07

Present:  Channel 8 "Daytime"

Brandy, Debbie

Tara (Tampa Theatre)

Time:  1:00 - 4:30

Areas of activity:  Flux near stairs (constant and consistent)

Only one image showed up for my camera....at the start.  I asked "Jezzie" to come out and be in our images.  I took multiple shots, but only the one after my inquiry showed the image.

Toward the end of our time there, Tara asked to use the meter.  She took it to the 2nd floor balcony in the theater.  She asked me what it meant when the meter spiked; we determined that there was some potential paranormal activity being detected.  Meter was set to 0 - 3 scale; most spikes went from .2 - .6/.8; the largest spike we had went to 1.2.

We asked a series of questions:

Did you live near downtown?  Yes

Female:  Yes

Will you spike the meter one time for yes?  SPike

Repeated, spike.

Repeated, spike

Repeated, spike.

Did you used to go to the theater? None.

Did you have a boyfriend?  Yes

Do you have decendants?  None

Mother?  None

Did you marry your boyfriend?  Yes

Children?  None

Did you die in an accident? None

Do you know how you died? None

Are you waiting for someone here?  spike

Can you show us a no response?  Can you make the meter spike twice for no?  No response.

What was your age? None

Did you live in the 1920's?  None

1910's? None

1890s?  None.

Can you make the meter spike for yes?  Spike.

Repeated question:  spike

What did you think of Dave and his pants?  spike

Are you tired?  spike

(I felt heat coming from my hands; Deb felt a cold spot).

Do you want us to go away? None.

Do you want to rest?  spike

Repeated question 3 times, spikes.

After this investigation, I was exhausted.  I'm not sure if it was the theatre or the interview, but I haven't felt this fatigued in a while.  It is sometimes common after an active ghost hunt to feel this tired.

Of all of my images, only one appeared to me to be  possibly paranormal.  It was one of the first series I took, when I asked Jezzie to come and be in my image; Debbie said that the meter was fluctuating, but the meter had just spiked.  Images before and after did not show any images; dust shows up as considerably lighter.

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Tampa Theatre

May 7, 2007

Present: Brandy, Tara, Manager for Tampa Theatre, two members of Channel 8 and myself.

Equipment used:  Sony Digital Recorder, Fujitsu Lifebook Tablet PC with WavePro recording software, Casio Exilim 6.0 digital, Sony Video camera with IR capability and Extech IR thermometer with probe.

One of those rare “being in the right place at the right time” developed as I went to drop off my equipment for Brandy to use for an interview she had been requested to give for Channel 8.  A quick invite to help “lug” all the equipment over to the historic Tampa Theatre and you didn’t have to ask me twice!

Brandy and I met with Tara, who manages the Tampa Theatre, a very pleasant woman who has her own stories to tell about the magnificent historic Theatre and it’s relation with the paranormal.

The Tampa Theatre most certainly has a personality of it own. Embedded in the grandeur and opulence of this landmark building is an energy that is uniquely its own.  With 81 years of active history and with the multitudes of performing artists who have each added their own energies to the Tampa Theatre along with the patrons, it is no wonder at all that a few “folks” have decided to spend a little extra eternal time within its walls.

Though these remaining few, Jezzie, Fink Foster and a past theatre manager, where not overly active during our visit, I was able to capture a few orb shots during times when Tara was with us.  During one filming episode, I saw through a stage light beam, that the air was filled with normal daily dust and it did surprise me that I did not capture more dust-orb shots.  The orbs that did appear in my pictures all took place accompanied either by an energy shift and more so whenever Tara was present with us.   A large orb was captured in her presence by the Men’s Bathroom, which is Jezzie’s known haunt.  Again an orb is found when Tara used the EMF detector and was receiving positive responses to her questioning.  What spirits may reside in the Tampa Theatre seem especially appreciative of Tara’s efforts in tending to the needs of this structure.

I am still reviewing all recordings for EVPs and will add an addendum to this report if any are found.  It was an honor to visit the Tampa Theatre and I do hope that the SPIRITS may return there for further investigations.  

Brandy's digital:  Of all of the pictures I took while at the Theatre, this is the only one with any form of orb.  I took a picture of the stairwell, asked any entities to be in the next picture, snapped a shot and got a small orb.,  I replicated the image (below) without getting another orb.  What I find odd about this is that Debbie and I alternated taking photos of the area; her camera also caught the same orb at around the same time mine did, and no other orb shots appeared on her camera in this area after this.  (Her picture is below mine).

Tara and I were discussing art; Debbie snapped this shot and got a nice orb behind us.  A minute later, after discovering the orb, she took a replicated shot; no image.

This is the area where we had originally begun our efforts, and where we had gotten phenomena before.

As we were finishing up, Tara asked to borrow the meter.  She went into the Theatre, coming out a few minutes later asking what it meant when the needle jumped.  We followed her back inside (see transcript below) and Debbie caught this image with orb.