Page 43 - The Westerner Magazine Halloween 2018

Mabel, how you doing? Welcome experiences while on tour and
home!” discovered we both had an interest in
the paranormal. We founded Ghost
When I shut the door, this time, nothing
Hunters, Incorporated and then, after
happened. Every day the same thing
the conference in 1998, we founded New
would happen but if I recited the
Jersey Ghost Hunters Society.
welcome, the door would stay shut. I

came to realize that we lived with a
playful spirit but later on also
discovered a darker, more malevolent

presence.

One night when I was sleeping I was

awoken by footsteps coming up the
stairs. They sounded heavy, like my
father’s, and because we had this

hundred and forty year old house, the
ceilings were low. I waited to hear my Bruce: You told me you don’t believe in
father bump his head, like he did most ghosts.

times he came up those steps.
L’Aura: I don’t believe in ghosts. I know
But the heavy footsteps coming up the I’ve had these weird experiences but I

stairs stopped outside my door. I looked try to keep a healthy level of skepticism.
at the clock at it was 1AM. I thought to
Bruce: Have you ever investigated a
myself, hey, I didn’t hear him hit his head
situation where someone was harmed?
this time. Then the cat, sleeping at the
foot of the bed, just arched its back and L’Aura: We investigated an elemental in
began to hiss at the closed door. I got up a house in Metuchen. The story actually
and ran through my brother’s room to
started five years prior to when the
get to my parent’s room, dove in bed family reached out to us. They lived in a
and stayed the rest of the night.
split-level and had a son who was
seventeen, almost eighteen. He was
As an adult, my husband and I went on
sharing a bedroom with his brother and
a ghost tour at Spy House in Fort
asked his parents if he could move to
Monmouth, NJ. After the tour, we went
the room off the garage.
for coffee and discussed the ghostly