{"id":391,"date":"2008-10-22T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-10-22T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T21:27:12","slug":"nnyprs-post-investigation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"NNYPRS Post Investigation Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, another actual final report from a real paranormal investigation group!  This one is particularly fun because it\u2019s from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyprs.com\"target=\"_blank\">Northern New York Paranormal Research Society\u2019s <\/a>investigation of the Plattsburgh, NY Air Force Base gymnasium.  That\u2019s right folks, the same investigation I went with them on, the same one I wrote about just the other day.  I thought you guys might enjoy a little compare and contrast, so refresh your memories by <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2008\/10\/15\/rebecca%e2%80%99s-first-paranormal-investigation\/\"target=\"_blank\">reading my write up about the investigation<\/a>.  Then continue on to the NNYPRS final report.<\/p>\n<p>Northern New York Paranormal Research Society<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyprs.com\"target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nnyprs.com<\/a><br \/>\n(518) 651-4315<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Investigative Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Client<\/strong>:  Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Old Gym, Plattsburgh, NY<br \/>\n<strong>Date<\/strong>:  10\/11\/08<br \/>\n<strong>Referred by<\/strong>: Erin Connors, WPTZ Channel 5 News<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong>:  The Gym was built in 1933 and opened in 1934.  At the time it was the largest building in all of Plattsburgh.  It had two sections, the main gym and a theater.  The gym had bleachers and a basketball court upstairs with changing rooms, a weight room and a bowling alley in the basement.  The theater section, although attached, technically had a separate entrance.  Under the stage, was a holding area for actors and actresses that would get to the stage by a spiral staircase in the back corner of stage left.  Sometime in the 1950\u2019s, 2 handball courts were put in where the theater seats were.  Then, it is believed that in the 70\u2019s or 80\u2019s 2 more racquetball courts were installed in the rest of the theater\u2019s seating area.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Reported Activity<\/strong>:  People claim that the area under the stage was a morgue for mangled body parts at one time.  People have claimed to hear banging and screaming coming from this area.  Workers have reported hearing many sounds throughout the building when they believed they were alone.  Sounds include whistling, conversations, banging, weights clanging, and footsteps.  There are two reported visual phenomenon.  The first was a report of seeing what was believed to be a soldier walking on the indoor track on the second floor.  The other visual report happened in the weight room.  A former employee that we spoke to claimed to see a man walk past the weight room in the hallway.  He saw this in a mirror.  He said later it happened again, the opposite way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<strong>Members Present<\/strong>:<br \/>\nMerrill, Dave, Randy, Sarah, Brian Le., Todd J., Rebecca, Jim, Sean<br \/>\nOthers Present:  Steve the City of Plattsburgh Rec. Director, Erin Connors, and Jamie, the WPTZ Cameraman <\/p>\n<p><strong>Equipment Used<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<strong>Video<\/strong>: CCTV DVR with 4 IR capable cameras, 2 Sony HandyCam Hi8 camcorders,<br \/>\n<strong>Photo<\/strong>: Multiple Digital Cameras, one 35 MM camera<br \/>\n<strong>Audio<\/strong>: 4 Digital Voice Recorders (3 Olympus, 1 RCA)<br \/>\n<strong>EMF<\/strong>: 1 Extech EMF Detector, 1 Natural Tri-field Meter, 1 CellSensor, 1 generic CellSensor, 1 Magnetic Shield Corp ef-401<br \/>\n<strong>Temp<\/strong>.: 2 Raytek Mini-temp Non-contact IR Surface Thermometers, 1 Fluke Non-contact IR Therm., 1 Temp\/Humidity Data Logger, 1 Ambient Temp. Thermometer<br \/>\n<strong>Other<\/strong>:  Laptop Computer, notebooks and pens, 2-way radios<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Started<\/strong>:<br \/>\n6:10 PM: Initial Walkthrough<br \/>\n6:45 PM: Equipment Setup (Base EMF, Surface Temps., Ambient Temps. taken at this time as well)<br \/>\n7:30 PM: Split into three teams to initiate investigation<br \/>\n10:45 PM: Equipment pack up begun<br \/>\n11:15 PM: Left Gym, Begun brief investigation of the Base Cemetery<br \/>\n11:45 PM: De-briefing<br \/>\n12:00 AM: On-site investigation completed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal Experiences<\/strong>:<br \/>\nBrian heard what sounded like voices coming through a door, from an office that was unoccupied. However, with the acoustics and other various factors, it is very possible it was not paranormal. Other than this, no other personal experiences occurred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Debunked<\/strong>:<br \/>\nThis building never housed a morgue of any type.  We were able to debunk almost every audible report. The acoustics of the building were incredible. Someone can be outside whistling, talking in a normal voice, and it could be heard clearly up on the track and on the basketball court, even with all windows closed. Also, the sounds of voices, heating duct &#8220;bangs&#8221;, lockers closing, weights slamming from downstairs would all carry extremely well to the main floor area, as well as in the main office. The number of reflective surfaces in the areas where apparitions have been spotted could very easily create an image that, in an old, supposedly haunted building would appear to be ghosts. In the weight room area, the report of looking at the mirror and seeing someone pass in the hallway could very easily be explained by the distortion of the particular mirror, the witness admitting there were people in the room across the hallway, and reflections of other mirrors in that general vicinity. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Initial Conclusion<\/strong>:  It is the general consensus of NNYPRS that all stories surrounding this property are of an &#8220;urban legend&#8221; variety, or the result of the minds ability to perceive a sound to be paranormal when in a large, &#8220;spooky&#8221;, supposedly haunted building when you are relatively alone.  No data was acquired that could be considered paranormal in nature.  Only one reliable source could be found that had claimed to experience a paranormal event.  NNYPRS was able to find natural explanations to all of his reports.  Any other report of activity is of the \u201cfriend of a friend\u201d variety, and not able to be substantiated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey folks, if you enjoyed their report, come out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyprs.com\/p3.htm\"target=\"_blank\">P3<\/a> and meet the team!  P3 is on Sunday October 26, 2008 from 1-6 p.m. in Plattsburgh, NY.  It\u2019s free to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, another actual final report from a real paranormal investigation group!  This one is particularly fun because it&#8217;s from the Northern New York Paranormal Research Society&#8217;s investigation of the Plattsburgh, NY Air Force Base gymnasium.  That&#8217;s right folks, the same investigation I went with them on, the same one I wrote about just the other day.  I thought you guys might enjoy a little compare and contrast, so refresh your memories by reading my write up about the investigation.  Then continue on to the NNYPRS final report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}