My latest paranormal investigation at The Crescent Hotel & Spa

[Sgt. Pepper]

This thread is solely for the purpose of documenting my latest paranormal investigation at The Crescent Hotel & Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. I documented my previous investigation at the Crescent in this thread: My Paranormal Investigation-The Crescent Hotel & Spa. For those who aren't familiar with who I am, I'm a firm believer in the paranormal, first as a sensitive and a medium, second as a paranormal investigator and researcher, and third as an eyewitness to poltergeist activity and other paranormal phenomena. I guess it's well known by now that investigating and researching the paranormal is a passion of mine.

Please note that my thread is not a debate thread for skeptics determined to prove that the paranormal is not real. My thread is not a preaching soapbox for Christians (and other Abrahamic theists) to fervently insist that it's wrong to believe that earthbound human spirits (a.k.a. ghosts) exist because it's demonic in nature and goes against what's taught in the Bible or some other holy book.

I repeat, my thread isn't a debate thread or a soapbox to preach on. Also, debate and mocking members isn't allowed in this forum. My thread is for documenting my investigations and it's for paranormal enthusiasts who are genuinely interested in the paranormal.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Here's a recap of the terms that I often use in my posts relating to the paranormal.

EMF - Electromagnetic Fields

An EMF meter (detector) measures fluctuations in electromagnetic fields. It's a common theory among paranormal investigators that spirits have the ability to manipulate these fields. Unexplained EMF readings often indicate something paranormal.

EVP - Electronic Voice Phenomena

An EVP is the voice of a spirit interacting with living people through an EVP recorder or a digital recorder. A spirit box (or ghost box) gives spirits the chance to speak in comprehensive sentences. A Class-A EVP is an intelligent answer to a question that everyone present can hear, whether it's a disembodied voice or it's heard through a spirit box, an EVP recorder, or a digital recorder.

SLS - Structured Light Sensor
An SLS camera can detect human shapes in absolute darkness or full light. It allows paranormal investigators to detect spirits that can't be seen with the naked eye, unless a spirit manifests. It gives paranormal investigators the ability to see a 3D image (like a skeleton) of a spirit. The green lines and white dots are spirits that have been mapped out by the camera through an infrared grid.

Before I share the details of my latest investigation at the Crescent, I thought I'd share a background story of how I learned about the hotel and why I've investigated this location more than once. I first heard of the hotel while watching the Ghost Adventures episode of their investigation at the hotel in June 2019. You can watch this episode for yourself on Discovery Plus. It's season 21, episode 7. My first investigation at the hotel was in late August 2020. I've gone back and conducted four paranormal investigations since then, for a total of five. The Crescent has a lot of poltergeist activity both inside and outside the hotel, and I've interacted with multiple spirits both inside and outside the hotel, which is why I keep going back there. It has rightfully earned a well-deserved reputation for being America's most haunted hotel. I have stayed overnight at the hotel once with my husband in early July 2021. It was during this visit that my cautious husband became a true believer in the paranormal after he had his first exposure to paranormal phenomena after witnessing poltergeist activity for himself. He has always believed me when I shared my experiences with him, but he had never had a personal experience with the paranormal before our overnight stay at the Crescent. He believes it, but he's reluctant to seek it out.

Now here are the details of my latest paranormal investigation at the hotel yesterday morning. I arrived at the hotel around 9:30 and started taking pictures of all the front windows. I slowly walked around to the back of the hotel, taking pictures of the side windows and a few of the yard around me. I also took pictures of all the windows and the balconies once I got to the back of the hotel. Taking pictures of the outside of a location that I'm investigating is part of the process I use to find tangible evidence of the paranormal. I haven't finished reviewing all of my pictures yet, but I've already seen something in one of my pictures that caught my eye, and I'm still examining it. It was hard for me to focus on my task because of all the commotion around me. Not only is the Crescent quite active with spirits, it is also active with living people who are staying at the hotel to personally experience something paranormal.

After I finished taking pictures of the back of the hotel, I walked up the stairs and entered the hotel. I stepped inside and began my investigation by taking pictures of the lobby. There was no need for me to use my spirit box because I could hear the spirits without it, and there was no point in using my EVP recorder because there was no way I could record a decent EVP with the amount of noise in the lobby from both the dead and the living. As I was walking around taking pictures, I was recognized by a hotel docent, whom I had talked to during a couple of my previous investigations. I call him my "inside source," because during my last investigation, he let me into the most active room in the hotel that was vacated that morning, so I had the opportunity to investigate the room before it was cleaned and locked for the next guest. He also asks me how my investigation is going and what I've experienced so far. Well, this time at the hotel, he invited me to come along for the historical tour, and he gave me permission to use my spirit box, EMF meter, and SLS camera. The other guests didn't mind that I was using my equipment during the tour. We were in a very haunted hotel after all.

They listened to my friend give his speech on the history of the hotel and a few stories of the paranormal activity documented in the building. He didn't mind that the other guests were also watching me and asking me questions when he wasn't talking. He basically incorporated my investigation into his tour. After the tour was over, a few of the guests stayed with me and watched me use my equipment. They asked me questions, and we stood around and talked for awhile. They were excited to see the images appear and disappear on my SLS camera and hear the spirits speak to us through the spirit box. I was kind of relieved when they had to leave, because I wanted some time to investigate on my own. I walked around each floor and interacted with a few spirits, but I didn't use my equipment that much. There were a lot of curious living guests around, so I didn't have much time alone to conduct a thorough investigation. I did manage to capture a few SLS images from the stairs in the lobby, but that was it. I couldn't find a quiet area to record EVPs, so I gave up on it. I was at the hotel for only two hours this time because I had plans to meet my daughters and in-laws for lunch, but I'm glad I had the chance to return to the hotel. I'd like to stay overnight the next time I plan a trip to Eureka Springs.

Well, this is the end of my OP. I'll post the SLS images in subsequent posts. I must ask everyone reading my OP to please respect the boundaries I've set for my thread, and that means no debating and challenging other people's beliefs in the paranormal or preaching about how it's wrong for people to believe in ghosts. A friendly reminder that my thread isn't a debate thread or a preaching soapbox.

 

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Most of the SLS images that I captured were at the bottom of the stairs in the lobby. I did manage to capture one other spirit on the second floor. I tried to capture images in other areas of the hotel, but sometimes it doesn't work out because either the spirits don't want to cooperate or because they appear and disappear so quickly and I can't react that fast. I'm happy with the images I captured.

 

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And here is the SLS image of a spirit that I captured on the second floor. The next image I will post is of the same spirit.

 

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I decided to post a photo of the exact same spot right after the spirit disappeared to show how the SLS camera can detect and map out a human shape. I'm including SLS images I took a couple of weeks ago of people to also demonstrate how the SLS camera works.

 

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If anyone is interested, here are a couple of links to sites with pictures that were taken by other guests in the hotel. For the record, I don't publicly post the paranormal digital pictures that I've taken at the Crescent Hotel & Spa or at any other haunted location.

Ghost Sightings at the Crescent Hotel

The Crescent Hotel Ghost Tours Facebook group

 

[Sedim Haba]

Glad to see you got there, I imagine it's open more now that covid isn't so bad?

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Glad to see you got there, I imagine it's open more now that covid isn't so bad?

Yes, the Crescent is fully open to the public now. It was closed between mid-April and mid-June 2020, and there were quite a few strict COVID-19 related restrictions during the earlier stages of the pandemic. The only restriction I encountered the first couple of times I was there in 2020 was that I had to either be staying at the hotel or I was required to have another valid reason for being there. I told the employee who told me about this restriction that I was going to eat at the hotel restaurant, which was my original plan in the first place. He didn't have a problem with that, and he didn't talk to me again. I don't remember being required to wear a mask, but I put one on when other people were standing closer to me than they should have been. There aren't any restrictions at the hotel now.

 

[The Crimson Universe]

Here's a recap of the terms that I often use in my posts relating to the paranormal.

EMF - Electromagnetic Fields

An EMF meter (detector) measures fluctuations in electromagnetic fields. It's a common theory among paranormal investigators that spirits have the ability to manipulate these fields. Unexplained EMF readings often indicate something paranormal.

EVP - Electronic Voice Phenomena

An EVP is the voice of a spirit interacting with living people through an EVP recorder or a digital recorder. A spirit box (or ghost box) gives spirits the chance to speak in comprehensive sentences. A Class-A EVP is an intelligent answer to a question that everyone present can hear, whether it's a disembodied voice or it's heard through a spirit box, an EVP recorder, or a digital recorder.

SLS - Structured Light Sensor
An SLS camera can detect human shapes in absolute darkness or full light. It allows paranormal investigators to detect spirits that can't be seen with the naked eye, unless a spirit manifests. It gives paranormal investigators the ability to see a 3D image (like a skeleton) of a spirit. The green lines and white dots are spirits that have been mapped out by the camera through an infrared grid.

Before I share the details of my latest investigation at the Crescent, I thought I'd share a background story of how I learned about the hotel and why I've investigated this location more than once. I first heard of the hotel while watching the Ghost Adventures episode of their investigation at the hotel in June 2019. You can watch this episode for yourself on Discovery Plus. It's season 21, episode 7. My first investigation at the hotel was in late August 2020. I've gone back and conducted four paranormal investigations since then, for a total of five. The Crescent has a lot of poltergeist activity both inside and outside the hotel, and I've interacted with multiple spirits both inside and outside the hotel, which is why I keep going back there. It has rightfully earned a well-deserved reputation for being America's most haunted hotel. I have stayed overnight at the hotel once with my husband in early July 2021. It was during this visit that my cautious husband became a true believer in the paranormal after he had his first exposure to paranormal phenomena after witnessing poltergeist activity for himself. He has always believed me when I shared my experiences with him, but he had never had a personal experience with the paranormal before our overnight stay at the Crescent. He believes it, but he's reluctant to seek it out.

Now here are the details of my latest paranormal investigation at the hotel yesterday morning. I arrived at the hotel around 9:30 and started taking pictures of all the front windows. I slowly walked around to the back of the hotel, taking pictures of the side windows and a few of the yard around me. I also took pictures of all the windows and the balconies once I got to the back of the hotel. Taking pictures of the outside of a location that I'm investigating is part of the process I use to find tangible evidence of the paranormal. I haven't finished reviewing all of my pictures yet, but I've already seen something in one of my pictures that caught my eye, and I'm still examining it. It was hard for me to focus on my task because of all the commotion around me. Not only is the Crescent quite active with spirits, it is also active with living people who are staying at the hotel to personally experience something paranormal.

After I finished taking pictures of the back of the hotel, I walked up the stairs and entered the hotel. I stepped inside and began my investigation by taking pictures of the lobby. There was no need for me to use my spirit box because I could hear the spirits without it, and there was no point in using my EVP recorder because there was no way I could record a decent EVP with the amount of noise in the lobby from both the dead and the living. As I was walking around taking pictures, I was recognized by a hotel docent, whom I had talked to during a couple of my previous investigations. I call him my "inside source," because during my last investigation, he let me into the most active room in the hotel that was vacated that morning, so I had the opportunity to investigate the room before it was cleaned and locked for the next guest. He also asks me how my investigation is going and what I've experienced so far. Well, this time at the hotel, he invited me to come along for the historical tour, and he gave me permission to use my spirit box, EMF meter, and SLS camera. The other guests didn't mind that I was using my equipment during the tour. We were in a very haunted hotel after all.

They listened to my friend give his speech on the history of the hotel and a few stories of the paranormal activity documented in the building. He didn't mind that the other guests were also watching me and asking me questions when he wasn't talking. He basically incorporated my investigation into his tour. After the tour was over, a few of the guests stayed with me and watched me use my equipment. They asked me questions, and we stood around and talked for awhile. They were excited to see the images appear and disappear on my SLS camera and hear the spirits speak to us through the spirit box. I was kind of relieved when they had to leave, because I wanted some time to investigate on my own. I walked around each floor and interacted with a few spirits, but I didn't use my equipment that much. There were a lot of curious living guests around, so I didn't have much time alone to conduct a thorough investigation. I did manage to capture a few SLS images from the stairs in the lobby, but that was it. I couldn't find a quiet area to record EVPs, so I gave up on it. I was at the hotel for only two hours this time because I had plans to meet my daughters and in-laws for lunch, but I'm glad I had the chance to return to the hotel. I'd like to stay overnight the next time I plan a trip to Eureka Springs.

Well, this is the end of my OP. I'll post the SLS images in subsequent posts. I must ask everyone reading my OP to please respect the boundaries I've set for my thread, and that means no debating and challenging other people's beliefs in the paranormal or preaching about how it's wrong for people to believe in ghosts. A friendly reminder that my thread isn't a debate thread or a preaching soapbox.

Very informative.
I'm planning to dive into paranormal studies (probably late this year) and since I'm a beginner in this field, all the basic information posted by you here will be of use to me. :=)

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Very informative.
I'm planning to dive into paranormal studies (probably late this year) and since I'm a beginner in this field, all the basic information posted by you here will be of use to me. :=)

Hello, my friend. You can PM me anytime if you have questions about studying the paranormal. My inbox is always open.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Yes, the Crescent is fully open to the public now. It was closed between mid-April and mid-June 2020, and there were quite a few strict COVID-19 related restrictions during the earlier stages of the pandemic. The only restriction I encountered the first couple of times I was there in 2020 was that I had to either be staying at the hotel or I was required to have another valid reason for being there. I told the employee who told me about this restriction that I was going to eat at the hotel restaurant, which was my original plan in the first place. He didn't have a problem with that, and he didn't talk to me again. I don't remember being required to wear a mask, but I put one on when other people were standing closer to me than they should have been. There aren't any restrictions at the hotel now.

Ya, when I was in town early last year about half of the shops were still closed but most of the dining was open but outdoors. I think that the hotel was open for guests but there were no tours. We strolled around the grounds where we could.