Sunday, July 16, 2006

Children Learn to Detect the Paranormal

During the summer, some children will spend their time in a swimming pool, others will play baseball, and some will perhaps tinker with science experiments at home.

But for a select few, this summer is all about ghost hunting.

A group of children learned how to detect ghosts the old-fashioned way in one of Brownsville’s oldest buildings, the stable of the old Charles Stillman House in downtown.

“An old way to detect ghosts is to place a recorder on the faucet,” said Victor Lopez, of the Rio Grande Valley Paranormal Investigators who taught the course Wednesday.

“Sometimes, the faucet will turn on, toilets will flush, doors open and close, showers will go on, the mirror will have hand marks on it, and sometimes you can see their steps,” said the paranormal investigator, the chief instructor for the Shades of History program by the Brownsville Historical Society.

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