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head get tingly. When the energy gets really strong, and I’m letting them trance channel through me, I open a part of me up that lets them come through. But when they do, sometimes the energy is so strong that my arms go numb. My legs go numb. Because the energy is just so intense. It’s almost as if they have a chance to be alive again. So whenever they can, they love to go into a body.”
    I chimed in, “Imagine if you couldn’t talk for a hundred and fifty years and you had the opportunity, wouldn’t you be all over it?”
    Melissa thumbed on her digital camera, and started scrolling through shots of the night.
    “So what are you going to do with this stuff?” Maureen asked.
    “We’re going to put together an audio slide show which will permanently be on Boston.com.”
    “Cool,” I said, excited that it would be so widely available, and then I saw the look of shock on Maureen’s face. “Oh. Did I forget to tell you that?”
    “It’ll be up forever? Great,” Maureen replied. Her reaction reminded me, once again, of her sensitivity about what she does. While an article on the Internet meant “forever” coverage for me, for Maureen it unearthed a host of concerns in terms of her name and reputation being “out there.”
    “You two sound like an old married couple,” Melissa said.
    “I don’t
think
so,” we blurted out in unison.
    The corners of Melissa’s mouth twisted up in a smile. “Yeah,” she laughed. “Anyway, let’s get serious. How did you guys meet?”
    As if in response to Melissa’s question, the EMF meter I had left lying on the bar began to blink and beep wildly. I couldn’t help but notice Vess out of the corner of my eye as he fumbled for his shot glass and threw down another one. I looked to Maureen and she to me. We didn’t need words—Jacob had joined us again.
    Melissa’s voice quaked over the incessant beeping of the meter. “Is this normal?”
    “Define normal.” I placed my hand on my chin, like Sherlock Holmes in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
. “Actually, let me tell you about the first time Maureen joined the New England Ghost Project on an investigation and the first time we met the spirit named Jacob. It was right here at the Windham Restaurant…”
    RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION
    Maureen’s trance channeling of the spirit referred to as Jacob revealed that he had papers buried in the basement. Now that the floor is concrete, there is little chance of ever finding them. Additional investigations of the Windham would be required to learn more about Jacob and his papers. But Boston.com got what they were after, their Halloween story.
    You can see and hear Melissa’s slideshow presentation of
Channeling the Dead
on Boston. com by going to: http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/halloween/newenglandghostproject/ or by going to the New England Ghost Project site at www.neghostproject.com and clicking on the photo of the Windham Restaurant.

episode two
FIRST CONTACT
    CASE FILE: 6231963
WINDHAM RESTAURANT
    Location: Windham, New Hampshire.
    History: An 1812 farmhouse, once owned by the Dinsmore family, has been occupied by several businesses and now houses the Windham Restaurant.
    Reported Paranormal Activity: Ghostly apparitions, glasses shattering, objects moving and disappearing, and unexplained noises.
    Clients: Lula (owner), Vess (owner).
    Investigators: Ron (lead investigator), Maureen (trance medium), Leo (photographer), Ron Jr. (investigator), Bob (investigator/videographer), Gay (Bob’s wife/investigator).
    Press: Brian Bates (news reporter from WNDS television), Tom (Brian’s cameraman).
     
    I t was late at night when we arrived at the Windham for our first Ghost Project investigation with Maureen. We were accompanied by Brian Bates, a reporter for WNDS in Derry, New Hampshire, who wanted to do a four-part series on haunted places in New England. Because I had worked with WNDS television in the past, he asked if he could accompany us on an