My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera airs on the Lifetime Movie
Network. I recently watched the episode “Disturbing
the Peace,” which aired in March 2013 and tells five true paranormal stories.
-“Lavinia’s Lair”: Pamela Nance and Ashley Field decide to
visit the Old City Jail in Charleston, SC because they’re curious about the
paranormal, and there have been many claims of paranormal activity there. Lavinia Fisher was America’s first female
serial killer, and she is said to haunt the jail. When Pamela and Ashley arrive at the jail,
they begin taking pictures; Pamela sees a black shadow coming from the ceiling
in one of her pictures, and Ashley sees a green face in one of hers. They go to the floor where Lavinia was held,
and the EVP captures a voice saying “I bribed ‘em.” The women take more photos, some of them
showing orbs and “light anomalies.” At
one point, Ashley asks if there is anyone there who wants to say something, and
Pamela hears footsteps running toward Ashley, then Ashley goes flying “through
the air at least four or five feet,” landing on top of Pamela. When they listen to the EVP recording, they
hear a man’s voice say “That shook ‘em.”
I live in Charleston, but I’ve never been to the Old City Jail because
it sounds really creepy; Pamela and Ashley’s story makes me confident that
avoiding the jail is a good decision.
-“Dark n’ Donuts”: Steffani Dauch says that twenty-two years
ago, she was sleeping when a voice woke her up by screaming “Hey, you, wake up!” She felt like she should go check on her baby,
and when she went in his room, he wasn’t breathing, so she gave him CPR and
saved him. Steffani has seen an apparition
of a little boy, and now she’s a paranormal investigator. The owner of the House of Donuts in Sandusky,
Ohio hires Steffani to investigate paranormal activity (growling sounds,
employees being hit) that has happened there, and her son Codey comes
along. In the basement, something throws
a screw at Steffani. Codey sees some
orbs moving through the air on the video feed.
In the kitchen, Steffani asks, “Can you tell us what you died from?” On the EVP recording, they clearly hear a
woman’s voice say “lung cancer,” so they think it is the wife of the former
owner since they know she had emphysema.
Codey’s cousin Dylan and friend Brock show up and accompany him to the
basement, and Codey asks Dylan to light a cigarette, assuming that the spirit
won’t like that since she died of lung cancer; when Dylan lights the cigarette,
something leaves a huge scratch on his arm.
In the kitchen, Steffani hears a noise, so she takes a picture and sees
a shadowy figure in the shot. Steffani
believes that the House of Donuts is haunted by the former owners and “some
dark force.”
-“Disturbing the Peace”: Paul Ollivierre and his wife Johanne
Lebouef are paranormal investigators in Montreal, Canada. A peace officer asks them for help, saying that
he feels a presence in his house and doors open by themselves, so Paul and
Johanne pay him a visit. Paul feels like
something is watching him as soon as he enters the house, and Johanne feels a “negativity
in the air.” The officer has told Paul
and Johanne that every night around 2 or 3 a.m., the basement door slams; when
it happens this time, Johanne approaches the door and feels it vibrating, then
it opens by itself, and Paul hears a voice telling him to go downstairs. As they walk down the stairs, Paul feels like
he is being choked. Johanne takes a
picture in the basement, which turns out to be full of orbs. They do an EVP session and hear a voice on
the recording saying “I think that’s yours.”
When they watch the videos that they have recorded, they see a chair move
on its own, a door opening with no one there, and something throw a shoe at the
homeowner’s dog. Paul performs a “spiritual
cleaning” and tells the spirit to leave; the spirit doesn’t listen, so Paul
traps it in his hands and removes it from the house (I was not aware that it
was possible to trap spirits in your hands and physically throw them out…).
-“Freshly Squeezed Terror” (love the title): Mary Ann McKeon
believes that her home in Brooklyn, New York is haunted by her late husband; he
always said that he would die when he was fifty years old, and he was
right. Since his death, Mary Ann often
feels like she is being watched, sees shadows, and smells smoke. Sometimes she is woken up by her bed
shaking. After Stephanie McKeon, one of
Mary Ann’s daughters, sees the cap on the orange juice open and close by itself
while she’s eating breakfast, she decides to do a paranormal investigation with
her boyfriend. They start an EVP session
in Mary Ann’s bedroom, and Stephanie’s boyfriend sees an orb; in another room,
they see orbs “flying out of [Mary Ann’s] hands into the air” while filming
with night vision cameras. Mary Ann goes
to a psychic, who tells her that the spirit doesn’t like the changes she has
made to the house, and that’s when Mary Ann knows that her husband is haunting
the house since he smoked, drank orange juice with breakfast, and always tried
to talk her out of making home improvements.
-“Spirit Inn-festation”: Terri Brown owns the Farmer’s Hope
Inn in Manheim, Pennsylvania. One night
she hears a chair drag across the dining room floor downstairs when she is the
only person there. Psychic Jamie Woods
decides to check out the inn and sees a spirit as soon as she enters. Terri and Jamie go to the dining room, and
Jamie says that she sees “a woman running through here with a man chasing her,”
which is also what Terri’s server has described seeing; Terri calls the server
in, and both Jamie and the server say that the woman is wearing a blue
dress. Terri calls in a team of
paranormal investigators, and they see a shadowy figure in one of the
rooms. The team does an EVP session in
the bar area; they leave a flashlight on the bar and tell the spirit to “feel
free to play with that device,” then the flashlight turns on. Next they set up a camera and catch the male
and female spirit running through the dining room.
I really liked this show, and I wish I had more than one
episode still on my DVR since there are no episodes scheduled right now. All of the stories were interesting, and I’m
glad they’re someone else’s ghost stories instead of mine!
My rating: 8.5/10
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