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Old Town Emporium
Date:
April
5, 2008
History: The Old Town Emporium has a long historical history. In 1901, J.H. Spurlock, of Woodward, a district clerk of Woodward county built the J.H. SPURLOCK building at 105-107 W. Oklahoma Ave. in Guthrie, Oklahoma. It is a two-story classical revival brick building that is two lots wide. The first floor featured two altered storefronts. The second story at some point or another had a seamstress, dentist, psychologist, bank, and electrical service company inside its walls. Below is a list of companies that the Old Town Emporium used to be.
The owners of the Emporium have experienced noises, such as foot steps
upstairs in their living quarters and in the main store. Also Ed has seen a charcoal gray to black ghost cat walking around in the hallways and kitchen, they do not own a cat of that color. They have seen and heard a man walking checking doors and making sure that they are locked. He seems to be like a caretaker of the building. Near Easter, Teresa has seen two little girls dancing around in dresses, playing what looks like to be ring around a rosy in the upstairs storage room. Customers have also reported seeing a little boy or girl playing in the muezzin upstairs or they have been seen sitting on the stairs. A woman has at times appeared, and then disappears. We
were contacted by the owners of the Emporium and asked to conduct an
investigation to verify some of the strange happenings taking place
there. We arrived at a set date and time and began our walk-thru
of the location. Upon our walk through, one of our investigators
noticed a glass shaker that had fallen off it's shelf on its own.
Thinking that our walking past it had caused enough vibration to cause
it to fall, we tried to recreate the circumstance by
Our
team also saw shadows moving back and forth on the mezzanine during the
walk-thru and also during our sweeps. There was even shadows
noticed during the back part of the store and strangely enough one of
our team members named Tammy, took a photograph of what appears to be a
man's image and then the face of a man in white. This is
also an area of the store that the owners have reported seeing shadows
and at times feeling uneasy. The Emporium is known for revealing a
man's figure in photographs by those who come there to investigate it.
For a closer up look of this photo, click on One of the weirdest things that happened to us was when we were getting ready to start our sweeps. It was during this time that we heard footsteps and knocking on the mezzanine. During this same time we also continued to see shadows walking back and forth, sometimes with the shadow stopping to lean over the rail as if to look down at us. We all stopped to listen to them odd sounds and we began to ask questions and asked for them to knock twice for yes and once for no. With each question, we were given a response with a specific number of knocks. We were surprised at the amount of responses we got from the entity who appeared to be on the mezzanine. Here are a couple of audio clips from the short sit-down. Audio Clip 1 - Audio Clip 2 The business owners suspected that perhaps the man that was there was a former maintenance man who worked there, but when we asked the question, the man's response was "No." Here's the audio clip of that evp. Audio Clip 3 When the two teams conducted their sweeps, team 2 did not experience much activity other than seeing the shadow movement. Team 2 on the other hand was quite the opposite and experienced a very active sweep and some of what they experienced was captured in their photographs. There were 2 of our investigators on Team 2 who had unusual experiences. These 2 investigators were Joe and Lisa P. Both of these teams were on different floors and in different areas when they experienced the following strange things.
This was a very interesting investigation for all of us and we truly feel that the Old Town Emporium has some activity taking place within it's walls. From our evidence review, we can say that we feel like there is at least a man that is present there and we know that he complained about being cold as our audio recorder picked up 3 different evp's of this man's voice saying, "Cold" and then "Fire, I'm cold" and then "I'm cold." Strangely enough, our investigation here was conducted in April and the weather was not that cold so this intrigued us a bit. The business owners also report the strange activity taking place during the new moon cycle and this proved true for us the night that we investigated here.
This investigation was a neat one although I was on team 2 and did not experience as much activity as team 1 did. I did however pick up on a man who seemed to follow the team around but he refused to give his name or why he was there. He seemed to enjoy playing games with the team and I found him several times coming up behind us, letting us know he was there and then he would disappear. The business owners thought that perhaps this man's name was Ivan who used to be a local barber and who is seen in and out of some of the buildings there. I did not feel like this man's name was Ivan however I did feel like he had decided to take up residency in the old Emporium.
Evidence Collected
Photographs: There were 3 positive photographs from this location
Video: No confirmed positive video from this location Evp: There were 6 evps recorded from this investigation.
"Cold"
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talking and doors shutting and opening by themselves.
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