TV-Reviewed

It’s rare that we (the audience) get to experience any actual on-camera (that is to say from the show’s camera crew’s equipment) paranormal happenings on Ghost Hunters. Yet, tonight we truly did, I think, experience something definitely outside the norm. Then again, the Carriage Inn was, indeed, a place that, just due to its historical factor, invoked that feeling of creepiness that most of us usually associate with hauntings.

Built in the 1760s, I had high hopes from the beginning for the Carriage Inn investigation. And I was not to be disappointed, either, as, almost immediately, things began to happen; evidence began to mount as soon as Jason and Grant entered the dinning room in search of the little boy’s spirit. However, before I get any further, I do want to mention that, later on, during their research on the property, TAPS learned that no deaths were ever recorded at the Inn, other than a slave who was said to be buried somewhere on the premises. So, the entire story about the man being hung upstairs and his young son still hanging around, pleading with a long dead executioner, is probably not true after all. Just like with many things, though, there’s probably some truth to the legend. It had to have originated from somewhere, right?

Maybe. But, Jason and Grant, of course, did catch something straightaway that did lend some credence to the story. When they were in the dinning room trying to get some sort of response from whatever might be present they got an actual voice! And it was a child’s voice, of course, as we all heard. Personally, I think both Jay and Grant’s reactions were genuine. I don’t believe there was any trickery involved. Now, the voice did happen twice. And to be caught on the camera crew’s audio equipment, it had to have been quite significant.

The Carriage Inn was definitely showing signs of being haunted. And the voice of what sounded like a little boy weren’t the only strange happenings. What about the footsteps? What about the thermal hit? When the footsteps were being made there was nobody upstairs!  The thermal hit, for what it’s worth, could have been Jason’s reflection, even though there shouldn’t have been anything in the basement to cause that. But, the possible entity did sort of resemble him, I think. It’s hard to say what could have caused the reflection, though, which does make it somewhat compelling. Perhaps, it was indeed an apparition.

But, back to the boys voice. I wanted to note that when the voice was played back later during the review process it sounded like, to me, it had an English accent to it, which would make since if it were from a person who lived during colonial times. I think that made it more of a believable EVP than anything else. And, again, let me say that that voice was caught not once but twice!

Anyway. One of the other stories was about a little girl was seen from outside through a window or simply inside one of the dinning rooms. Oh, and not to mention where people would see shadowy apparitions of the ladies of the night who used to work at the Inn. So, how did TAPS explain this? Well, for the prostitute-apparitions they said it could have been caused by people walking by outside, which did cause shadows. But, I think people are more discerning than that. However, both those apparitions and that of the little girl, Jay and Grant pulled out the old EMF card. And as of late, if I might say, they’re using it a…lot. In fact, they used at the Stitelers’s house when they didn’t pick up anything at all.

The fear cage theory, while it does have some weight, cannot explain away everything, even if there IS a high EMF field present. There might be something to it, but you can’t use it everywhere you don’t catch anything. Like the boys have said in the past, “ghosts don’t always come out on cue.”

The Carriage Inn, I thought, was a compelling investigation. The second investigation, though, didn’t yield any evidence. But, again, ghosts don’t come out on cue, and how could you not feel for a family dealing with such a thing?

Rating: 8.5