Post by spriskeptic on Apr 13, 2006 9:51:00 GMT -5
Hey Guys,
Read though this and let me know what you think of PMPI. I'm going to see if I can find their website and if I do I'll post that too.
From philly.com
Posted on Mon, Apr. 10, 2006
Spirits at Eastern State Pen?Some real-life ghostbusters are on the case
By DAMON C. WILLIAMS
Who you gonna call?
Not Dr. Raymond Stanz, Dr. Peter Venkman or the other fictional Ghostbusters - at least not when you're trying to catch the spirits that apparently haunted Al Capone during his stay at the Eastern State Penitentiary.
Instead, call the very real Post Mortum Paranormal Investigators.
The PMPI, led by director and founder Lloyd Rajcommer, visited the storied Philadelphia penitentiary yesterday, taking a "psychic impression" of the place and gathering footage for a future episode of "Paranormal Investigators."
The show is now in its first season and airs on the Time Warner Cable network and the Religious News Network.
"There's a lot of stories about Capone's stay here," Rajcommer said yesterday before leading his staff of eight into the crumbling and eerie former jail, now a preserved historical site. "There's been hauntings, occupying spirits. The guard towers were all believed to be haunted."
For 142 years, Eastern State Penitentiary housed some of the nation's worst criminal masterminds, and when Capone was an inmate there, he was thought to be haunted by the ghosts of people he either killed or wronged. Capone served eight months of a one-year sentence there.
According to Rajcommer, the crew will enter what he called "a setup phase" after the initial psychic impression. If the data they have received thus far is compelling enough, he said they then will enter what he called "the scientific stage."
The equipment the PMPI staff uses certainly seems extensive. There's the electro-magnetic field meter, thermal scanner and a Glassman static field meter. "We are looking for abrupt fluctuations," Rajcommer said. "If there's mass fluctuations, we want to see where it's coming from."
The team also uses a hi-tech EVP - or electronic voice phenomenon. These, the crew believes, are the audible tidbits left by a visiting specter. "The EVP's pick up frequencies the human ear can't," Rajcommer said.
While it all may seem like so much hocus-pocus, Rajcommer and the PMPI staff take their work very seriously. They are very diligent about their work - and very much aware of the realm in which they practice. To that end, the crew gathers for a prayer circle before entering any site, and many wear spirit-guarding amulets and charms.
Eastern State isn't the first site the PMPI team has visited. They performed an exorcism on a haunted house in Newburgh, N.Y., that would have spooked the most seasoned ghost-chaser. Group medium Angel Parrilla said that the porcelain dolls in that house "looked right at him" before the objects' eyes returned to their normal position.
Read though this and let me know what you think of PMPI. I'm going to see if I can find their website and if I do I'll post that too.
From philly.com
Posted on Mon, Apr. 10, 2006
Spirits at Eastern State Pen?Some real-life ghostbusters are on the case
By DAMON C. WILLIAMS
Who you gonna call?
Not Dr. Raymond Stanz, Dr. Peter Venkman or the other fictional Ghostbusters - at least not when you're trying to catch the spirits that apparently haunted Al Capone during his stay at the Eastern State Penitentiary.
Instead, call the very real Post Mortum Paranormal Investigators.
The PMPI, led by director and founder Lloyd Rajcommer, visited the storied Philadelphia penitentiary yesterday, taking a "psychic impression" of the place and gathering footage for a future episode of "Paranormal Investigators."
The show is now in its first season and airs on the Time Warner Cable network and the Religious News Network.
"There's a lot of stories about Capone's stay here," Rajcommer said yesterday before leading his staff of eight into the crumbling and eerie former jail, now a preserved historical site. "There's been hauntings, occupying spirits. The guard towers were all believed to be haunted."
For 142 years, Eastern State Penitentiary housed some of the nation's worst criminal masterminds, and when Capone was an inmate there, he was thought to be haunted by the ghosts of people he either killed or wronged. Capone served eight months of a one-year sentence there.
According to Rajcommer, the crew will enter what he called "a setup phase" after the initial psychic impression. If the data they have received thus far is compelling enough, he said they then will enter what he called "the scientific stage."
The equipment the PMPI staff uses certainly seems extensive. There's the electro-magnetic field meter, thermal scanner and a Glassman static field meter. "We are looking for abrupt fluctuations," Rajcommer said. "If there's mass fluctuations, we want to see where it's coming from."
The team also uses a hi-tech EVP - or electronic voice phenomenon. These, the crew believes, are the audible tidbits left by a visiting specter. "The EVP's pick up frequencies the human ear can't," Rajcommer said.
While it all may seem like so much hocus-pocus, Rajcommer and the PMPI staff take their work very seriously. They are very diligent about their work - and very much aware of the realm in which they practice. To that end, the crew gathers for a prayer circle before entering any site, and many wear spirit-guarding amulets and charms.
Eastern State isn't the first site the PMPI team has visited. They performed an exorcism on a haunted house in Newburgh, N.Y., that would have spooked the most seasoned ghost-chaser. Group medium Angel Parrilla said that the porcelain dolls in that house "looked right at him" before the objects' eyes returned to their normal position.