A Device to Sniff Out Spooks?
Margo Harakas
Sun-Sentinel.com
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Florida (US):
It was at least an hour before daylight would fade completely, but the shadows in historic Evergreen Cemetery were darkening rapidly.
Moving quietly among the tombstones and the trees were George Lechter, a Miami businessman, and a trio from the Palm Beach Paranormal Society.All carried digital cameras and ghost meters, which Lechter manufactures."Normally you want to wait till night," explains Desiré Kesselman, of Boca Raton, a schoolteacher and co-founder of the society.
She and her husband, Howard, a software designer, have been on 20 to 30 ghost hunts around the country.
"Truth is," she admits, "most times you don't detect anything."But the other times, omigosh! Like at the Castillo De San Marcos fort in St. Augustine and the Moon River pub in Savannah, Ga., where the couple witnessed several orbs or balls of light."You want to see?" asks Desiré, who has saved the shots on her digital camera.
There they are, glowing points of light piercing a shield of utter blackness.The group spreads out across Fort Lauderdale's oldest intact cemetery, pausing at the tombstones, eyes glued on their meters.
Lechter isn't the kind of guy to easily embrace the notion of ghosts.Unlike the stars of the popular cable reality show Ghost Hunters, he's not a plumber by day and a specter sleuth by night.
He's a mechanical engineer with a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and had you suggested a few short years ago that ghosts were in our midst, he would have smiled and shook his head in total disagreement.
Nov 07, 2005
Margo Harakas
Sun-Sentinel.com
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Florida (US):
It was at least an hour before daylight would fade completely, but the shadows in historic Evergreen Cemetery were darkening rapidly.
Moving quietly among the tombstones and the trees were George Lechter, a Miami businessman, and a trio from the Palm Beach Paranormal Society.All carried digital cameras and ghost meters, which Lechter manufactures."Normally you want to wait till night," explains Desiré Kesselman, of Boca Raton, a schoolteacher and co-founder of the society.
She and her husband, Howard, a software designer, have been on 20 to 30 ghost hunts around the country.
"Truth is," she admits, "most times you don't detect anything."But the other times, omigosh! Like at the Castillo De San Marcos fort in St. Augustine and the Moon River pub in Savannah, Ga., where the couple witnessed several orbs or balls of light."You want to see?" asks Desiré, who has saved the shots on her digital camera.
There they are, glowing points of light piercing a shield of utter blackness.The group spreads out across Fort Lauderdale's oldest intact cemetery, pausing at the tombstones, eyes glued on their meters.
Lechter isn't the kind of guy to easily embrace the notion of ghosts.Unlike the stars of the popular cable reality show Ghost Hunters, he's not a plumber by day and a specter sleuth by night.
He's a mechanical engineer with a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and had you suggested a few short years ago that ghosts were in our midst, he would have smiled and shook his head in total disagreement.
Nov 07, 2005
