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BISBEE - On all hallows eve, we turn our thoughts to ghosts, the day of the dead, hauntings, etc.
In Bisbee, talk of such things may be more than just pumpkins and trick or treat.
Many Bisbee residents have felt that certain something or the heebie geebies in one of its old buildings or down Main Street at night the sense that he or she is not alone.
And there are some people from Tucson who say that feeling is real. A group of five came down to Bisbee on Oct. 16 to investigate a few of Bisbees other residents, namely, the dead ones at The Bisbee Inn.
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The investigators came from two separate teams: Lost Souls, a nonprofit organization that helps people communicate with the dead in their residence or business, and the investigation team of parapsychology professor William Everist, who investigated the Oliver House in 1996.
Amy Radovanovic and Jen OMalley, the two women from Lost Souls, say they have had the ability to sense the ghosts since they were young. Through time, they have fine-tuned that ability to the extent that they can see them and speak with them, they claim.
Tom Miller, who has a Ph.D. in psychology and is studying the psychology of dead people, and JJ Berry, the medium for Everist and a student of forensic psychology, also were present. Each of them would say he or she has some degree of psychic ability.
Walking into The Bisbee Inn, anyone can sense it is an old building. It was once two boarding houses that were then converted into its present state in the early 1900s.
When the investigation team walked in to The Bisbee Inn, many of them commented, Wow, this place is really active.
Maids and guests at the inn have seen, felt and heard this activity in the past. The staff wanted to know who was messing up the beds, making all the noises, giving them that sense of someone else in the room. For their investigation, the team used video cameras, photography, tape recorders and an electromagnetic sensor.
Radovanovic, OMalley and Berry performed walk-throughs of the building separately. In a walk-through, the medium says what she sees and either writes it down or is filmed. She is not allowed to discuss what she saw with the others until the debriefing.
At the debriefing, there were striking similarities between what each person saw. The ghosts they saw in common were three women and a man. Two of them saw children. The most prevalent ghost is a woman who thinks she is in charge of the building. She loves men and resents women. Radovanovic said, she doesnt want to leave because she feels like she owns it, and shes not going anywhere.
All three mediums picked up her commanding personality and that she was a brunette. All three also picked up on a blonde woman and a redhead. These two are different from the brunette in that they haunt the building because something so traumatic happened to them that they are stuck in the moment, Radovanovic explained.
The blonde cant really comprehend what happened to her, she said.
The man that Radovanovic, OMalley and Berry identified may have been involved with the brunette in a difficult relationship. They may have had problems and he just wont let go, Radovanovic posited. He also was dark haired and may have done some sort of business there.
So why are they still here? Why havent these people moved on? Do we all just wander the Earth when we die?
When you die, you are the judge of yourself, Radovanovic answered, you can stay here, maybe live another life, or go to another place where you feel a lot of happiness.
The dead are everywhere, Radovanovic added, but that doesnt happen to all of us and there is a place that wonderful.
According to Radovanovic and Everist, there are several reasons that some people dont go elsewhere when they die.
The most common reasons are guilt issues and sudden deaths.
If a person was raised to believe that killing someone will make them go to hell, they see the light and choose not to go because they would rather stay here than risk going to hell. But then they relive their crime everyday, and in a way, that is their hell, Radovanovic explained.
In the case of sudden deaths, most of them arent aware that they are dead. There are people doing business here who think theyre still alive, Everist said of the inn.
Other reasons for people to stay among the living is the safety of the known.
They choose to stay here because its safe. They are so attached to the life force that they dont want to leave life, Radovanovic said.
Some of them are just afraid to travel, Everist explained.
We know they want to tell their story and so thats what were here for, OMalley, who spends her time between school and work with Lost Souls, said, if they need help and want to move on, we can help them.
Helping them move on involves explaining to the ghosts that they are deceased, there is a better place for them to go and they are not trapped here, Radovanovic said. The hardest are the ones who died suddenly and dont know they are dead, she explained.
How would you react if everyone was ignoring you and then suddenly someone sees you and tells you you are dead? she asked.
Walking through Main Street, the team couldnt believe how active Bisbee really is, and plan on coming back to investigate other hotels and buildings. They looked into the windows of the post office and saw postal workers still doing their job. They came into the Bisbee Daily Review building and met the man murdered there years ago.
Hes hyper, he wants to do everyone elses job! exclaimed Radovanovic.
On a previous visit to Bisbee, Radovanovic walked up to City Park and had to leave. She was overwhelmed there. Later, the reporter told her it had once been a cemetery. She said that made sense, but why did they build a park over a cemetery?
The team then went into the Copper Queen with their video camera in tow, and all of them were overwhelmed by the activity there as well. Later, watching the video, one could see the screen suddenly blur and get clear again while Everist was walking with it, as though he had just passed through someone. Using 400 speed film, the team captures the energies of these ghosts, which appear as light with spirals in it on the photos.
#Some have called Bisbee a living ghost town, which one would believe after walking through it with this investigative team. That doesnt mean that Bisbees living residents have to fear, or at least not too far beyond the heebie geebies.
The living have the power, Radovanovic assured. This is our space and our time, and when anyones not welcome, theyre going to leave. We are the living.
If bothered by a certain presence in a room, a living person has only to ask firmly that the presence leave.
You have to believe that you can get them out, Radovanovic explained.
But if they arent bothering anybody, the best bet is just to let them be, maybe strike up a conversation. It gives a whole new meaning to the saying if these walls could talk.Back to Top
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