Spend the Night with Ghosts of Ohio - October 2008

INSIDE THE DENNISON DEPOT RAILROAD MUSEUM: WENDY’S REVIEW

On October 11th, the Dennison Depot Railroad Museum was the final ‘Spend a Night with the Ghosts of Ohio’ event for 2008.   If you have never been to the Museum, it consists of the Depot itself, along with a string of train cars that have been wonderfully renovated back to the 1940’s, representing the time when Dennison, or Dreamville as it was then called, was a stop off point for our troops that were headed overseas during World War II.  Here the troops were treated to a sandwich, cookie, piece of fruit and coffee by the Canteen, who provided 24 hour service to them.  There is amazing detail in the work put into renovating these cars….right down to hanging nurses’ stockings in the hospital car, and trays of food in the passenger car.

We split into teams that were a mix of Ghosts of Ohio members, guests and contest winners.  By the time our winners joined us (and with the help of 2 early guests) we had already set up all of our equipment in the location hotspots.  After a brief tour of the areas and some pizza and cookie refreshers, we set off into our assigned spots where we gave a mini training session to our guests on how to use the handheld equipment.

Once the investigation got underway, we found several spots that gave a high EMF reading, with no identifiable reason.  In the baggage area one particular spot saw the EMF meters climbing, holding steady, then declining back to a flat 00.0.  Going up into the train cars, a spot by the old manual cash register also gave a high EMF reading.  The first high EMF reading of the night was discovered by a contest winner in the Sports Room.  One of the team members was Eric from the Ghosts of Ohio, and he immediately did a thorough inspection of the area.  The culprit was found... a television monitor on the opposite side of the wall.  Darn.  But it definitely had everyone’s heart pumping!

Everyone had a turn at each of the 4 stations, and the investigation wrapped up at around 1 am.  The evidence is still in the process of being reviewed, but I can tell you one thing.  That darn K-II meter is going to be the bane of our investigative lives.  We asked, cajoled, pleaded and threatened, trying to get any resident ghost to make those lights flash, but no one wanted to play. Siiiiiggggghhh…..well, there’s always the next investigation!

Visit the museum online at  www.dennisondepot.org

“I wanted to let you know that we really enjoyed the investigation on Saturday at the Dennison Train Museum.  Everything was done very professionally, The Ghost's of Ohio is a really great group with great people.  I would love to join you guys again any time you would have us.  Thanks again, I'm so glad I went!”
—Laura Beres