The 'Ghost Hunters' Return to St. Augustine Lighthouse, One of Its Spookiest Locations

On the 3rd episode of the all-new 'Ghost Hunters', the team heads to two locations: the St. Augustine Lighthouse (again) and a house case with some sudden paranormal process.

Mustafa Gatollari is the paranormal historian and site analyst on the Ghost Hunters reboot, and he's going to be running a blog about the show's paranormal investigations each week completely for Distractify! Follow Mustafa on Instagram at @mgatollari. 

Before I get started, as always, I just want to say that any of these thoughts, commentaries, critiques, and musings on the third episode of Ghost Hunters are fully my very own, and in no way shape or shape replicate my staff, Pilgrim Studios, or A&E TV.

Episode 3 of Ghost Hunters was once a two-for-one particular that took our staff to the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Deanna's house in Hanover, PA. What isn't in reality reflected on display, then again, is that we spent the identical amount of time in these investigations as we did at our other locations.

In the international of paranormal investigating, especially once we're doing it for TV, we simplest have a restricted quantity of time at a location which steadily leaves us with more questions than we have solutions. That's what happened at St. Augustine. But with Deanna, it turns out that we had been able to get to the backside of what was occurring in her house rather temporarily. 

What I really like about this actual episode is that it in reality shows the breadth of how we conduct our investigations.

On the one hand we now have a location with a lot of history, now not simply in, you already know, the historic sense, but in addition with Ghost Hunters. It's now not each day that you simply get to discuss with an iconic location that has some of the gnarliest paranormal evidence ever with the man who captured it, Grant Wilson. 

On the different, we've got a more private home case that had some claims that appeared to be simply debunked, however ended up being a complete wonder to everybody on the group.

But first, the St. Augustine Lighthouse.

Going into this investigation, I went in with a selected mindset: it wasn't a query as to whether or not or no longer there used to be any paranormal process going on over there, nevertheless it used to be just a question of whether or no longer we'd be ready to find out just what or who was once there.

With the numerous shipwrecks that came about and the number of people who lived and died on the property, it had all the makings of a really perfect investigation.

Plus, you were given that determine Grant noticed on most sensible of the staircase. Personally, I wanted to move in there and notice if it used to be possible to see if there used to be some shadow play at work that, in the moment, may just've gave the impression of an entity. And there were a lot of spooky occurrences we were ready to debunk. The weird banging noises I heard with Brandon and Kristen? A unfastened windowpane. The figure that appeared like a head peering over the railing? I assumed it was a post, but then I went and reviewed the unique footage.

It clearly looks as if a head and shoulders poking in-between the posts over the railing. But then there was once the record of the "woman in white" that was observed in the woods, and a few guests reported seeing her on top of the lighthouse as well.

I for my part thought that we were going to easily debunk whatever was once occurring in the woods, as our cameras and movement detectors didn't pick out up the rest. But then I saw Brandon, our producer Mike Nichols, Brian, and a few of our different crew come into the solid conserving house afterwards.

To say they have been spooked would be an underestimation. They weren't looking ahead to going again into the ones woods and once they informed me that I used to be up, the only thing on my thoughts was to not get eaten through an alligator. I had two flashlights going and was once continuously checking in the back of and in front of me and Brandon and our digital camera man. 

While some owls and different flora and fauna showed up on our thermal camera, it seems that, whatever they have been coming into touch in the woods, didn't.

Convinced it was an alligator in the trees, Brian and Brandon visited a gator farm to see if the reptiles would even display up on the FLIR, because they are cold-blooded reptiles and all. And they did. I still don't know what they came across in the ones woods, all I do know is, it had our workforce shook.

Next, the case of Deanna and the Poltergeist.

When we first approached Deanna's area in Hanover, PA, I used to be very skeptical of so much of the evidence and the claims. I didn't suppose that there was once much occurring there and I had a very simple time disproving some of the myths surrounding the assets. No, it did not used to be a cemetery lot. No, no one died in the house either. 

The photograph she showed us of a shadow figure seemed suspiciously like a thumb, and we couldn't replicate the "uneasy" feeling that Deanna claimed to have experienced in the house.

However, Grant had the brilliant idea for night two of our investigation to see what would occur if we introduced Deanna into the area midway thru our session. And holy smokes did issues trade. Not most effective did the complete vibe in the house get palpably altered, but we had been ready to document exact environmental adjustments with our apparatus. 

Deanna's unresolved problems had been the root of the paranormal task she used to be experiencing.

While the word "poltergeist" is associated with some very scary imagery, thank you to Hollywood, it's not essentially at all times a foul thing. This energy, no matter it is, is following Deanna. Grant had a heart-to-heart together with her, and once she understood that it wasn't an "evil" entity in her home or some sort of pernicious demon, she felt way more relaxed. 

While a single consult with isn't a cure-all for any person's issues, it was nice to pay attention from Deanna after our investigation was once performed, she said she felt more comfortable and isn't experiencing anything else out of the unusual in her new house.

That used to be the largest "red flag" for me going into Deanna's case: is she any person who is having a look to be haunted? Is she any person who needs to imagine in demons and blame them for any problems which might be happening in her existence? Thankfully, she wasn't, and because of this, the task she used to be experiencing, which we caught a glimpse of in our investigation, ended.

I could not have asked for a greater conclusion, in my view. Often, the best demons which can be invading our lives are the private problems we ignore. It would possibly sound like a line out of a corny after-school particular, but it surely doesn't make it any much less true.

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