AMERICAN PARANORMAL MAGAZINE

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

HOTEL CONGRESS SUICIDE ROOM HALLOWEEN SPECIAL OCTOBER 31ST 2012 T.F.P.


TUCSON'S FINEST PARANORMAL WOULD LIKE TO GREET ALL OF OUR FOLLOWERS AND TELL YOU ABOUT A VERY INTRIGUING HALLOWEEN EVENT! TONIGHT WE WILL BE DOING A LOCK DOWN INVESTIGATION IN ROOM 242 AT THE HOTEL CONGRESS. WE HOPE TO COME IN CONTACT WITH THE SPIRIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO TRAGICALLY COMMITTED SUICIDE IN THE BATHROOM AFTER BEING SURROUNDED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR APPARENT CRIMES SHE HAD COMMITTED. THE BULLET HOLE FROM THE LARGE CALIBER GUN USED TO FINISH THE JOB STILL REMAINS VISIBLE INSIDE THE CLOSET IN ROOM 242. TONIGHT THE MOON PHASE IS AT 95% AND WE BELIEVE THERE IS NO BETTER TIME THAN NOW FOR A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION. THE LOCATION WAS CHOSEN AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED REGARDING THE LOCATION. THE BUILDING WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1919 ON 311 E. CONGRESS ST IN TUCSON, ARIZONA. THE HOTEL IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE AMTRAK STATION, BUILT BY SOUTHERN PACIFIC IN 1907. THE HOTEL SUFFERED A FIRE ON JANUARY 22ND 1934, LEADING TO THE CAPTURE OF AMERICAN HERO AND BANK ROBBER JOHN DILLINGER. HOTEL CONGRESS HAS HAD ITS SHARE OF HISTORIC EVENTS, BUT MANY MAY NOT BE AWARE THAT IT ALSO HAS ITS SHARE OF RESIDENT SPIRITS. A GHOSTLY FIGURE WEARING A FEDORA HAS BEEN SEEN PEEKING OUT OF ROOM 214. A GHOSTLY RESIDENT CAUGHT LINGERING IN ROOM 220 HOARDS CUTLERY AND OTHER ITEMS IN THE CLOSET. CARETAKERS OF THE HOTEL HAVE REPORTED WITNESSING DOORS SLAMMING, VACUUMS UNPLUGGING. THE MANAGER'S WIFE WITNESSED A YOUNG GIRL ENTER HER HOTEL ROOM, GIGGLE, THEN RUN THROUGH HER BODY! THESE TYPES OF EVENTS ARE WHAT WE ARE IN THE BUSINESS TO CAPTURE! WE WILL BE POSTING ANY FINDINGS IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.




HOTEL CONGRESS ROOM 242 (SUICIDE ROOM) INVESTIGATION RESULTS:
WE ARRIVED AT THE HOTEL AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30 P.M. ON OCTOBER 31ST. THE LOBBY WAS PACKED WITH COSTUMED VISITORS TO THE HOTELS BAR AND NIGHTCLUB. AFTER CHECKING IN, WE GATHERED OUR EQUIPMENT AND HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE ROOM, LOCATED DIRECTLY AT THE BASE OF THE STAIRWELL ON THE SECOND FLOOR. MUSIC FROM THE D.J. FILLED THE HALLWAYS AND NOISE FROM OUTSIDE CONTAMINATED EVERY ROOM IN THE HOTEL. WE BEGAN BY DOING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SWEEP OF THE ENTIRE AREA AND REALIZED THERE WERE EXTREME LEVELS OF NATURAL E.M.F. SATURATING THE ROOM. THIS IS TYPICAL IN BUILDINGS BUILT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY THAT HAD POOR WIRING INSULATION. HIGH LEVELS OF E.M.F. CAN CAUSE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE HEADACHE, NAUSEA, ANXIETY, ETC. WHILE SOME ARE MORE VULNERABLE THAN OTHERS GENERALLY ANYONE CAN FEEL THE UNHARNESSED ENERGY EFFECT THEIR BODY IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THIS ENERGY ALSO HELPS FUEL PARANORMAL  ACTIVITY WHEN GHOST HUNTING, PROVIDING LARGE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY TO HELP THE SPIRIT MANIFEST. WE ALSO DID AN INFRARED TEMPERATURE SWEEP AND BLACK LIGHT EXPERIMENT IN THE BATHROOM WHERE THE SUICIDE OCCURRED. WE TURNED ON OUR LIGHTING TO REVEAL BLOOD STAINS ON THE WALLS AND CEILING OF THE BATHROOM FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. YOU COULD CLEARLY SEE WHERE BLOOD HAD POOLED AND DRIPPED FROM THE DOOR FRAME THEN EMBEDDED DEEPLY INTO THE GROUT OF THE TILE ON THE FLOORS.  I WILL ADMIT IT WAS VERY UNSETTLING LOOKING AROUND AT THE REMINISCE OF BLOOD SOAKED WALLS AND IMAGINING WHAT WENT THROUGH THE VICTIMS MIND BEFORE SHE TOOK HER OWN LIFE. BASED ON THE LOCATION OF THE BULLET HOLE IN THE BATHROOM IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE VICTIM WAS CROUCHING BETWEEN THE TOILET AND SINK WHEN SHE PULLED THE TRIGGER. SENDING THE BULLET THROUGH THE BATHROOM WALL AND INTO THE CLOSET, THEN EXITING THE CLOSET THROUGH THE CEILING. THE BULLET HOLES IN THE BATHROOM AND CLOSET ARE PATCHED BUT THE  CEILING OF THE CLOSET  STILL REVEALS A LARGE CALIBER BULLET HOLE  BURNED INTO THE WOODEN FRAMING, PROVIDING A HARSH REMINDER OF THE TRAGEDY THAT OCCURRED IN ROOM 242. BECAUSE THE ROOM WAS SMALL WE OPTED TO TAKE TURNS DOING SOLO INVESTIGATING IN THE ROOM. THEN WE ENDED THE NIGHT AT AROUND 3:30 A.M. WITH ALL 3 OF US DOING A GROUP INVESTIGATION. WHEN WE FIRST ARRIVED IN THE ROOM WE SET UP OUR INFRARED MOTION LIGHTING IN THE BATHROOM AND CONTINUED TO SET UP OUR CAMERAS AND EQUIPMENT. AFTER A FEW MINUTES ONE OF THE  LIGHTS WAS UNEXPECTEDLY TURNED ON WITHOUT ANY OF US NEAR IT. WE THEN STOPPED WHAT WE WERE DOING AND DID A SERIES OF TESTS ON THE LIGHT TO RECREATE THIS EVENT BUT WERE UNSUCCESSFUL, WHICH LEADS US TO BELIEVE THIS WAS PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. WE ALSO CAPTURED ON TWO SEPARATE DEVICES VERY STRANGE LIGHT ANOMALIES SHOOTING OUT FROM THE BED AND MOVING VERY DIRECTLY TOWARD THE BATHROOM AREA . IN ONE OF THE VIDEOS YOU SEE THE LIGHT SHOOT FROM THE EDGE OF THE BED AND BEGIN PULSATING, THEN DISAPPEAR ALL WITHIN THE SAME FIELD OF VISION. IN THE SECOND VIDEO A LIGHT ANOMALY SHOOTS FROM NEAR OUR EQUIPMENT ON THE BED AND HEADS DIRECTLY TOWARD MYSELF FILMING FROM THE BATHROOM. BOTH VIDEOS WE BELIEVE ARE PARANORMAL IN CONTENT AND MADE THE WHOLE TRIP WORTH IT FOR US! THERE WAS AN ABUNDANCE OF NOISE CONTAMINATION RENDERING MOST OF OUR AUDIO WORTHLESS SO NO E.V.P.'s APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED. OVERALL BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND THE VIDEO EVIDENCE MY TEAM CAPTURED WE CONCLUDE IT IS VERY LIKELY THERE ARE LINGERING SPIRITS STILL ROAMING THE CONGRESS HOTEL. WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND OUR GREAT APPRECIATION TO THE STAFF OF THE HOTEL CONGRESS FOR ACCOMMODATING TUCSON'S FINEST PARANORMAL, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO INVESTIGATING THE HOTEL CONGRESS AGAIN IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THE VIDEOS FROM THE INVESTIGATION ARE BEING PROCESSED AND WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR REVIEW.