Personal Experiences
Marathon Paranormal Broadcast Completed at Castle Warden
Unconventional radio show returned to unconventional museum
ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (April , 2010) – For the second straight year a 24-hour marathon internet broadcast was completed at the original Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. At the stroke of midnight Friday April 16, Jeremiah Greer (above) launched a full day of his internationally renowned Shadows in the Dark Radio show by broadcasting worldwide at www.shadows24.com. Greer’s show also dabbles into the realm of the paranormal and focused on the haunted history of St. Augustine.
Greer’s guest list included Charlie Carlson, who’s recent PBS documentary “Weird Florida” (co-hosted by Charlie’s dog Miss Scarlett) has drawn rave reviews throughout the state. Greer was also joined by Ripley Radio Odd-cast host Ralf “with an F” Ingwersen (interviewing Carlson at left), Mentalist & Illusionist Slim King and performance artist Karl Miranda and his drum circles.
Last year’s marathon was also successfully broadcast from Ripley’s Castle Warden, an historic 1880’s castle infamous for its various ghosts, with employees and paranormal investigators alike claiming to see and sense numerous spirits inside. The castle was visited by Robert Ripley himself in the 1940’s when it served as the home of Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It became the first-ever permanent Ripley’s Odditorium in 1950.
At the completion of the 24-hour broadcast, Greer and many of his guests boarded the award-winning Ghost Train Adventure at the stroke of midnight for a ghost tour of the Nation’s Oldest City.
Austin,
Sorry it took so long…didn’t see the Q ’til today. Nearly every one of our guides is either a reformed cynic or is doing the tours because they have had a paranormal experience. I personally got interested in the Ghost Train Adventure years ago to make a little extra money and because I’ve always liked being “on the mic”, but many strange occurrences, experiences, and bizarre photographs have turned me from indifferent to intrigued. The closest thing to a paranormal “experience” for me would have been a few years ago, as I was conducting a very late tour of the Fountain of Youth grounds, a very tall, very dark man was suddenly standing behind me, then just as quickly vanished. Had the jaws of my 15 guests not all dropped at once, and had their meters not begun lighting up, and had one person’s photo not revealed a bright orb floating over my shoulder, I might have blown it off as too much coffee too late at night. He was there, but he was just a glimpse. Do any of us have all the answers? Certainly not, but to me it’s obvious there are things happening beyond our senses, beyond our abilities to detect clearly. This is the core of our tour; the mystery of what might be behind the claims, behind the stories of hauntings. We support with facts and real history and juxtapose the facts with our theories and our paranormal “evidence” obtained through personal experiences, videos, photographs, etc. Come see us!
Ralf Ingwersen
Ghost Tours Director – Ripley’s St. Augustine
(904) 824-1606 – office
(904) 377-8437 – mobile
Posted on June 24th, 2010 at 12:47pm
paranormal stuffs are usually for those persons who are very very supersitious.:-,
Posted on July 27th, 2010 at 12:09pm