Episode 10: The Stone House
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Amazing Ghost Story: Their office is Haunted! (Reprinted with permission
from Woman's World Magazine)
When creepy things kept happening at her office, Evon Simon called the
only place she could - (New England Ghost Project) Ghostline..
Creaks, groans, things that go bump in the night. Everyone gets spooked
sometimes. But we always come up with a logical explanation to ease our
fear. After all, there are no such things as ghosts. Right?
The amazing tale of a New Hampshire woman who suspected her office was
haunted is enough to make anyone tingle...and wonder.
"It's not squirrels. And I'm not nuts".
From her first day on the job, Evon Simon got the creeps from the
government building where she works. The rickety, century-old two-story
structure looked eerie.
And inside, Evon, a 44-year old mother of three, sometimes felt like
someone was staring at her, even when no one else was in the room.
Often, she'd suddenly feel air whoosh around her legs, as if something
had run by.
Other workers reported finding objects on their desks disturbed. Heavy
binders would somehow have made their way out of file cabinets. Strange
odors wafted from the air vents. And then, there were the noises in the
walls-heavy, rhythmic thumps... It's not squirrels. And I'm not
nuts", Evon insisted to her husband.
"You've got ghosts!"
When she heard about the New England Ghost Project--a non-profit group
that investigates reports of paranormal activity--Evon called founder
Ron Kolek. "Could this place be...haunted? she asked. Late one night,
Ron and his team of ghostbusters, armed with infrared cameras and
high-tech monitoring devices, set up camp in Evon's office building.
And, the next morning... "You've got ghosts!" Ron informed Evon and her
anxious co-workers.
They'd no sooner set up their equipment, he told them, when psychic
Maureen Wood whispered, "We've got company! A little boy!"
Ron said his electro-magnetic field meter, a device that picks up
energy disturbances, "was going wild!"
The little boy led them to two other ghosts; a sad woman wandering the
halls and a floating skull.
Ron produced photos, which showed shadowy presences and orbs, roundish
flashes of light. He also played tape recordings of strange whisperings.
"I knew it was ghosts!" Evon cried.
But what do the experts think?
Experts who study otherworldly reports agree that Ron's evidence points
to the presence of ghosts in Evon's office--especially tied to
historical information Ron dug up.
The office buildings, he discovered, had served as a retreat for wives
of servicemen lost during WWI and, later, as a camp for difficult
children, where a boy died accidentally. "That could certainly explain
both the sad lady and the boy ghosts," says veteran Cleveland paranormal
investigator May Ann.
And that's okay with Evon and her co-workers, who, now take occasional
ghostly disruptions in stride. "It's a relief to have it cleared up,"
she grins. "We may have ghosts in our office, but at least we know we
don't have bats in our belfries."
Article by Steve Baal
Photograph by Jeff Dachowski
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