RECAP: Ghost Hunters International – The Legend of Rose Hall

The GHI Team

The Duran Sanitorium

The GHI team travels to Cartago, Costa Rica to investigate Duran Sanatorium.  The facility is managed by Mardy Ocamp Villalobos.  Although the facility still has electricity, it is out of use.  The walls are covered with graffiti and unusual paintings.  Duran Sanatorium has a dark history.  It was once a hospital for people with tuberculosis, a prison, and a women & children’s hospital.  It is also a paranormal hotspot among the locals in Cartago.  There have been many claims of full body apparitions, and the team is going to focus on really trying to capture visual evidence.

Ashley notes strange activity on the EMF Reader.

Ashley Godwin and Robb Demarest open the night’s investigation by conducting an EVP session in the Women & Children’s Hospital.  There have been several reports of shadows jumping from room to room.  Robb opens up his questions with a little spanish.  He sets an EMF reader on the floor which indicates the magnetic fields in the room.  While Ashley and Robb are asking questions the EMF reader reacts almost as if some force walked right by it.  Robb began to hear the sounds of someone or something rocking back and forth on the floor.  Although the evidence wasn’t jumping out as being paranormal it was definitely an interesting way to open up the evening’s investigation.

The abandoned home of Carlos Duran is also on the estate.  On the rooftop there has been claimed sightings of an apparition on the rooftop.  Brandy Green and Joe Chin are there to investigate.  The two conduct an EVP session and try to get evidence of the paranormal activity.  Brandy hears a pop sound near the audio recorder.  Almost as if someone tapped or flicked the recorder.  Brandy and Joe wrap up the EVP session and hope that some type of evidence was captured on tape.

Robb notes the clothing hanging on the interior of the church.

Paul Bradford and Barry Fitzgerald are inside investigating the church.  They began to take photos of the church in hopes of capturing some visual phenomenon.  Paul suddenly has an idea of what people might be seeing.  The claim is that people have witnessed shadows moving in the windows of the church.  The church is now abandoned, but it is being used as a laundry facility.  Inside there are lines of clothes hanging from wall to wall.  Paul suspects that if a window was left open the clothes would then blow a bit in the wind thus causing some shadow play in the front windows of the church.  They test Paul’s theory, and come to the conclusion that this is probably what is going.

Joe investigates a room with strange paintings on the walls.

Joe and Brandy have moved on to investigate the administration building.  There have been claims of a woman in blue walking around, and then suddenly vanishing.  The two start an EVP session and it isn’t long before Brandy begins to hear a woman’s voice.  The two begin to walk around and investigate and suddenly they hear a footstep.  They step into a room where they heard the footstep.  The walls are covered in odd paintings.  The paintings begin to give Joe the chills, and Brandy wraps up the investigation in the building.

Just before the investigation wraps up Barry and Paul travel throughout the facility taking pictures of the outside.  They take a ton of photographs and hope that even the slightest imperfections will begin to show up.  Robb chimes in over the walkie and calls it a wrap.  The team will have to conduct a thorough analysis of all the evidence to see if they captured anything.

GHI sits down with Mardy to discuss the evidence.

The team finds some very compelling evidence during analysis.  Robb and Barry arrive to reveal their findings to Mardy.  They open up with the audible evidence.  While Brandy was asking a question she managed to capture the sound of a ghost saying “help” in a very low whisper.  This is compelling, but the team really went out in hopes of capturing some visual phenomenon.  Barry pulls out several photos to show Mardy.  The photos are the strongest piece of evidence that the team has received so far.  The first set of photos peak into the second floor windows of the Women & Children’s Hospital.  There is a set of photos that were taken a couple moments apart from one another.  In one photo there is a white piece of light that is present.  Just moments later the next photo shows nothing at all.  This begins to give Mardy the chills.  Team GHI has more evidence though.  There is claims of spirits walking on the grounds of the sanitorium.  Barry pulls out another photo of an unknown entity walking through the photo.  One final photo even shows a little girl sitting on the steps of a building.  The photos are some that partially frighten Mardy.  Robb tells her that the entities don’t seem to be troubled, and there isn’t anything that she should be afraid of.  Mardy smiles in complete shock of what she has just seen.  The investigation proves to be one of GHI’s best.  It’s definitely for the record books.

GHI arrives at Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica.

This week’s episode doesn’t stop there though.  The team moves onward to beautiful Montego Bay, Jamaica where there is a world famous haunted location known as Rose Hall Great House.  The location is one that is believed to be haunted by a woman by the name of Annie Palmer.  Annie was the widow of the man who built Rose Hall.  She was a practioner of voodoo and other dark sorcery.  She was known as the white witch among all her slaves on the plantation.  She was known for casting spells on her slaves, and she even had a dungeon under the house where she placed slaves that she could not control.

Joe investigates the bar in the dungeon.

Joe and Brandy conduct the nights investigation in the dungeon where there is now a full bar for tourists.  It is said that the bottle moves on their own and hit one another.  The two conduct an EVP to see if they can get the bottles to react while they are in the room.  Brandy hears the sound of fabric rubbing up against something.  Joe asks, “could an animal have been in here and rubbed the fabric?”  It’s one of those things that they will have to further investigate in analysis.

Barry conducts an EVP alone in the library.

Rose Hall is commonly known for haunting pictures that have been taken by tourists themselves.  Because of this Barry and Paul decide to take photos of the entire area in hopes of capturing something paranormal.  While Barry is taking photos in the library he begins to smell the scent of tobacco.  The scent is so strong that he decides to conduct an EVP.  He begins to ask questions about Annie Palmer and suddenly the scent goes away.  He asks the entity if it is upset by the mention of Annie Palmer.  A sound occurs in response.  Almost as if someone dropped a tennis ball on the floor of the library.  The happenings were unusual, but he hopes that some piece of evidence is captured on his audio recorder.

Ashley sits in Annie Palmer sewing room.

The last segment of the investigation is with Robb and Ashley conducting an EVP session in Annie Hall’s bedroom and sewing room.  Ashley suddenly smells a hint of floral perfume in the room, and Robb hears a woman’s voice.  The EMF reader suddenly jumps up as if some activity is in the room.  All these occurrences are noted and will have to be further reviewed during analysis.  Robb calls it a night and the team returns to the hotel to review the evidence.

Robb and Barry sit down to discuss the evidence with Kathy Marley.  Kathy is the property manager for the estate, and a firm believer that it is in fact haunted.  Barry talks about the smells that both Ashley and he smelled during the nights investigation.  Although there is no instrument to record the moments, Barry did note it as being something that was abnormal.  Robb discusses some of the photographic claims that Kathy presented to the team.  Kathy was kind enough to provide some photos with the team so that they could try and recreate those angles.  One photo is debunked as the flash reflecting off the headboard of the bed.  The other is of Annie’s mirror where it is said that a face has appeared in the mirror itself.  Robb debunks this photo as a reflection of a flower vase reflecting in the mirror.  When Kathy disbelieves Robb’s claims, he kindly walks her upstairs and shows her exactly what angle creates the reflection of the vase that closely resembles a face.  The final piece of evidence the team shows is of a rat walking in between the bottles on the bar in the dungeon.  Robb concludes that the clinking sounds were probably caused by the rodent infestation.  At the end of this investigation the team was unable to deem Rose Hall as haunted, but Kathy manages to hang onto her beliefs with or without the expert opinion of Ghost Hunters International.

GHI sits down with Kathy to reveal the evidence.

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