ARIZONA HUNTS – STANJANPARANORMAL

August 15, 2011

We did this paid-for hunt at the Birdcage Theatre in Tombstone and were not so impressed with the property's claims. The property made paranormal claims that we could not authenticate and at least one of the claims we felt we were able to disprove. Sitting in an all-dark room with some twenty folks was somewhat tedious. Every time someone cleared their throat or shifted about in their chair, they were supposed to announce that it was just them and not something paranormal. It was a setting for amateurs, as all of these paid guided tours are. I was running the IR on my video cam, and we did catch one possible EVP, but it was so poor that you had to read into what it may have said; other than that, we captured some impressive flying insect activity. It took about fifteen minutes for someone to notice and ask what the little red light in the room was (the IR emitter).

August 16, 2011

The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee AZ. was a terrific hunt. Occupancy was low and they let us have a full run of the third floor of the hotel with all of the rooms unlocked for us to enter. There was one other couple staying on the third floor which we spoke with but they were skeptics and turned in early which allowed us access to all of the rooms with supposed activity along with giving us the key to the Julia room on the 2nd floor. We encountered quite a bit of activity and captured on AVP (audible voice phenomena) in Billy's room that was quite impressive. Inside Room 208 Jan got a timed response to a question and answer period using a Cell Sensor EMF detector.

March 31, 2014

The Red Garter B & B in Williams Az is one of the original structures in Williams dating back to the period of railroads being the only transportation. We chose the room with the lady of the evening leaning out the window. The owner is not convinced that there is an activity on the property, but we did pick up a fair amount of EMF activity in our room. And then there is that odd picture hanging on the wall in the downstairs lobby of a woman in a mirror that does not show up at the same spot in the room.

Mar. 21, 2015

We spent the night in the Grand Canyon Caverns 180ft below the surface. During this investigation, we had to solicit another couple's help to lay the video BNC cables 50-100ft up the various channels of the cave. You can't begin to imagine how dark it was once we shut down all the lighting. The owners of the cavern were very gracious. They not only allowed us to stay in the Caverns with the use of the elevator so we could come and go to the surface as we needed but also gave us an entire run of the cafe and gift shop areas on the main level after hours. We were the only ones on the property for this night. There was a legend that a guitar would play a chord on its own if left unattended, and we captured it on audio and video doing just that. Before anyone ventures the oft-quoted fallacy that orbs are spirits in transit, look at all the dust orbs we captured by the cameras pointing up the channels that lead to the Grand Canyon and outside.

Nov. 15, 2015

The Vendome is the premier hunt for us, for it is in this hotel after we first started that I witnessed and followed an apparition down the hallway, believing that he was another guest of the hotel. I watched as he walked through a solid door, went onto a smoking veranda, and vanished. Even though I had a camera around my neck, I never took a photo because I perceived him to be a flesh and blood person. I got "skunked," and I reflect on it and regret my actions every day, every single day, since. This video is the soundtrack from an on-the-air podcast that I was asked to make about the incident that had occurred some years earlier at this point in our investigative career and gives the scientific parameters of what I witnessed.

March 27, 2017

The Grand Highland Hotel in Prescott, Arizona, is what is left of a much larger hotel that at one time stood on this spot and burned down during the great fire of July 14, 1900. It is believed that the fire started in this hotel when a miner hung a lit candle on a wall, and it caught the wall on fire while he slept. It then spread down the block, taking out all of what is called "Whiskey Row." We hadn't heard of any activity in this hotel, which you could describe as a "boutique hotel" with small upscale rooms, but we thought we would spend a night out of curiosity and enjoy the stay. No activity registered during the stay, though.

March 29, 2017

We finally stayed at the Hassayampa in Prescott. Previously we had declined because it is not a cheap hotel, and they charge a surcharge for the supposedly "haunted" room. We captured a lot of activity on a REM pod after we had vacated the quarters to travel about Prescott. This video has extensive research of the hotel and the "haunted" room as discovered through the use of Coroner's death certificates and researching the family trees of those persons who died on the property through available genealogy resources.

Oct 25, 2018

The Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, Arizona, was at one time the location of a hidden speakeasy concealed in the basement and frequented by all Flagstaff locals who could get in. This hotel has a lengthy history of hauntings, and the hotel website boasts of it. One of the sightings supposedly was by "The Duke," ol' John Wayne himself. By far, this is one of the most important videos that we have ever done. Through the access to coroner's death certificates on file with the state of Arizona, we believe we uncovered an unsolved homicide of an African-American porter during the age of prohibition. This death was probably concealed by Federal or local law enforcement. We also determined through historical research the identity of the apparition of an older woman that has been seen through the window sitting in a chair in the hotel's famous haunted room. Regarding activity: we picked up hits on the REM pod and an errant unidentifiable source odor in the room. Hotel employees shared one of their paranormal captured videos with us.

The history research sets this video apart from all the other videos we have created as we reviewed 20,000 death certificates and isolated all that applied to the property.

April 22-24, 2018

The Connor Hotel. We had been through Jerome many times and had stayed once before at the Ghost City Inn (no video made of this one) and did not have a desire to stay in Jerome again. Running out of easy driving distances to reach from our home base in Las Vegas, we decided to try out the Connor Hotel, which has alleged activity. As we guessed, it wasn't much of a hunt. You check into the hotel through an adjoining gift shop entrance. The front desk clerk acted somewhat distant, like we weren't their kind of guests. The Spirt Bar on the ground level is a vast biker hangout on the weekends, which could explain it. The final insult was when we arrived back home, and I found that the hotel had tacked on an extra $100 to our bill, and I had to call and argue it out. They refunded it, but it left me a little perplexed about the customer service. Of all the hotels we have stayed in, this one was by far the least friendly.

Regarding activity, we picked up some EMF activity in Rm 7, but nothing made us proud. The hotel admittedly claims that Rms 1 & 2 are the active rooms, which are the ones over the bar area, but we chose against the potential noise level and declined. Perhaps those rooms would be highly dynamic because of the EMF from the band's amplifiers downstairs. Unfortunately, a records search of this hotel was impossible due to fires in the miner's days which burned all official documents.

[If you go to Jerome, be aware that there is no food anywhere in town after 9 pm]

April 24, 2018

While in Jerome, whether staying the night in one of the "upscale hotels" or just passing through a "must-see" is the Liberty Theatre, just around the corner from the Connor Hotel Spirit Room Bar. For just $5 (2018 price) admission, you can walk through the two stories of stored antiques and Hollywood props. The owner also does a ghost hunt on the property, but we haven't had a chance to take it ourselves as of this posting, so we cannot give a review. Instead, call the Theatre for the prices and dates for the night hunt. It lasts about two hours. According to the owner, you can bring your equipment.

[Update: The theatre ghost hunt ended at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Call to see if they have reinstated it before going.]

July 2-4, 2020

We jumped at an inducement offer and took a shot against getting Covid-19 right when it was just beginning to get severe and later regretted doing so. We had the opportunity to investigate some of the areas of the hotel that are closed to the public and compare historical newspaper articles about possible paranormal attachments. We also had to put up with the fact that our hotel was one of only two places to eat in the entire park and the angry crowds competing for space. We captured a significant capture in that we could determine through surveillance footage how long it took an invading EMF field to drain a REM pod of a fresh battery, something that I don't believe anyone else has ever been able to capture. The activity drained a new 9-volt battery in three minutes and ten seconds. We also had a cute visitor who came to us in our sleep, a pinyon mouse who roamed our quarters looking for water while we slept. There was no extra charge for the mouse visitor., but because of Covid-19, we did leave a day earlier than we had planned.

OCTOBER 25-26, 2020

Probably our last visit to this old hotel where I had my second apparition sighting and have been trying to get it to repeat ever since. We checked into Room 16, "Abby's" room, and found that the owner had redecorated the room. I believe that the owner would call it an "upgrade," but it was pretty tacky for us. I could understand why the owner had removed the older furniture, but now the room has a super large King Sized bed that dwarfs the whole room, along with a vast overhead ceiling fan. I think that "too much" was what my description was to Jan upon entering it. Between our last and this visit, I believe that I have been able to identify the cowboy that I followed down the hall and watched walk through a solid door. Due to a new historical search engine, I located the obituary of a death by suicide that occurred in the hotel in 1971. This suicide was loosely written about in one of the books on the hotel. This video contains the entire history of that incident. We brought in trigger objects and tried to lure the cowboy out, but to no avail . We captured many errant and unidentifiable noises and caught a lot of EMF activity on the cell sensors and REM pod. Our surveillance captured the sound of the old annunciator system emitting its send tone when we were out of the room. That system has previously been deactivated. During an early morning prowl, I also caught an EVP telling me to "get out" in the downstairs lobby. Not what I had hoped to achieve, but we did get something out of the deal.

Hotel St. Michael
June 18-20, 2022

The Hotel St. Michael sits on the corner of Montezuma and Gurley Streets in Prescott, Arizona. The original hotel built on this spot was the Burke, but that burned down in the 1900 fire. It was rebuilt in 1901 as the Burke and then changed to the Hotel St. Michael. This hotel does not let the frequent Prescott ghost tours proceed onto their property. We had considered staying here before and booked the hotel just a week before Covid 19 hit Arizona, and we had to cancel. Graciously, the hotel refunded all of our money. We finally got around to rebooking in June of 2022. Since there has never been a paranormal investigation conducted on this property (at least none have posted any results on social media or elsewhere), we figured there was nothing here to capture. We were wrong. After two hundred or more hotel investigations, we caught an apparition traveling through the room while we were elsewhere. We felt that we used state documents to support our belief as to who the victim was. [To view the apparition, proceed to the 9.0-minute marker]

Hunt at the Weatherford Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona, did not produce the captures we had hoped for, but we did include documentation on where such paranormal activity could come from. In addition, a video tour of some hotel rooms will help you decide which room to book.

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