Post by auntym on Aug 12, 2012 12:13:44 GMT -6
www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/08/10/ghost-busters-go-high-tech-in-harrisville-pub/
Ghost busters go high tech in pub
Kieran Banks
10th August 2012
LEGEND has it Harrisville's Royal Hotel is haunted, but a paranormal activity expert wants more proof than ghost stories before becoming a believer.
The rural pub is in the top 10 haunted sites in Australia, with most stories and sightings dating back to a devastating fire in the early 1900s.
The hotel has become internationally renowned for its reputed links with the spirit world, patrons claiming to have had glimpses of an existence beyond the grave.
The pub's history has intrigued Paranormal Paratek Queensland president Darren Davies, who will become the first to investigate the pub this weekend.
He hopes to find signs of paranormal activity within the pub's walls.
He is bringing his high-tech audio and visual equipment to detect any signs of ghosts, recording 100 hours of footage and audio clips.
"There are a lot of things that can explain paranormal activity. It can be dust or moisture in the air or other things. We are very analytical," he said.
"No one can prove beyond doubt. If they try to they are pushing boundaries of physics."
Mr Davies, 40, said he'd had his own paranormal experiences, the first when he was 14.
He said the Royal Hotel's links with paranormal activity were born of false accounts of seven deaths when the pub burnt to the ground in 1916.
Mr Davies said no lives were lost, scotching claims linking ghost sightings to the blaze.
But that doesn't mean the pub is free of paranormal presences.
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Ghost busters go high tech in pub
Kieran Banks
10th August 2012
LEGEND has it Harrisville's Royal Hotel is haunted, but a paranormal activity expert wants more proof than ghost stories before becoming a believer.
The rural pub is in the top 10 haunted sites in Australia, with most stories and sightings dating back to a devastating fire in the early 1900s.
The hotel has become internationally renowned for its reputed links with the spirit world, patrons claiming to have had glimpses of an existence beyond the grave.
The pub's history has intrigued Paranormal Paratek Queensland president Darren Davies, who will become the first to investigate the pub this weekend.
He hopes to find signs of paranormal activity within the pub's walls.
He is bringing his high-tech audio and visual equipment to detect any signs of ghosts, recording 100 hours of footage and audio clips.
"There are a lot of things that can explain paranormal activity. It can be dust or moisture in the air or other things. We are very analytical," he said.
"No one can prove beyond doubt. If they try to they are pushing boundaries of physics."
Mr Davies, 40, said he'd had his own paranormal experiences, the first when he was 14.
He said the Royal Hotel's links with paranormal activity were born of false accounts of seven deaths when the pub burnt to the ground in 1916.
Mr Davies said no lives were lost, scotching claims linking ghost sightings to the blaze.
But that doesn't mean the pub is free of paranormal presences.
CONTINUE READING: www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/08/10/ghost-busters-go-high-tech-in-harrisville-pub/