Artist Date, Week Seven ~ Ghostbusters at the Scottsdale Library

Are the Scottsdale Libraries haunted?  Well today I found out.  The Scottsdale Public Library called on ghost hunters Sonoran Paranormal Investigations, Inc. to investigate the Arabian and Civic Center Libraries to see whether they are haunted.  The Arabian Library in particular had some of the strangest occurances like books flying off the shelf at poor librarians just like in the original film Ghostbusters.  Even patrons of the Arabian Library saw strange things that they reported.  At the Civic Center Library Kachina dolls locked in a display case kept falling over.

The ghostbusters from Sonoran Paranormal Investigations spent the night of September 25th investigating the Arabian Library, and the night of October 2nd at the Civic Center Library.  Today I attended the two hour lecture on what they have detected.

The ghost hunters did not capture anything at either library on film, but at the Arabian Library one of their tri-pod cameras fell over on the floor for no apparent reason when nobody was around.  They did capture at both libraries audio recordings which they played for us of men, woman and children saying simple phrases such as "hello," "it's a boy," "get out," and funny but at both libraries you could hear these voices saying, "whore."



Also, on the recordings the investigators would purposely make a knocking sound and ask the ghosts to make the same sound, and you could hear the same knocking sound being made.  The paranormal investigators took questions from the audience for over an hour.  To my surprise there were many very young children in attendance and they were the ones who kept asking over and over again some very thoughtful and probing questions.  They were actually the most fearless amongst the audience members.

I have to say it was a very interesting lecture, and the audience also provided much insight with their questions and tales of their own ghost experiences.  I myself am a bit smitten with ghostbusting because I have been in the company of one of the most famous ghostbusters of all time. :-)

Bill Murray and me in Chicago, March 1993
at Mad Dog and Glory screening.

We cannot escape fear.  We can only transform

 it into a companion that accompanies us on all

our exciting adventures...Take a risk a day-one

small or bold stroke that will make you feel great

once you have done it.

SUSAN JEFERS