Haunted Wilkes video from NC HAGS

NC HAGS has put together a cool video of Haunted Wilkes conference events!

Interview with Eddie Howell of NC HAGS

Jeff and Eddie of HAGS in the old slave quarters at the Brown-Cowles House in Wilkesboro

Here's a nice piece on Eddie Howell, of NC HAGS, and one of the investigators at the Haunted Wilkes Conference. We're trying to firm up a May 2010 date for the next conference.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2399026/paranormal_investigation_my_interview.html

Dooley jail photo

Michael Potts took this photograph in the women's cell of the Old Wilkes Jail, where Ann Melton was held during Tom Dooley's trial for the murder of Laura Foster. Melton and Dooley reportedly whispered back and forth (the men's cell is right next door, separated by a wooden wall).

Courthouse spirit?

"This is my only picture from Wilkesboro with a possible something in it. I had been unable to walk anymore Friday night (Oct. 23, 2009) so I was waiting in the car. I took several pictures of the Courthouse while sitting there. This one has a light that looks like a human figure in the bushes on the right of the building.. The other pictures did not have the figure/light in them. I took this picture with a cell phone.

Donna Quan

Wraith Hunters Analysis Team

Fayetteville, NC

Article links for 2009 conference

Winston-Salem Journal
Go Blue Ridge
Wilkes Record (old article)

Bertha Bell in the Smithey Hotel

It's hard to hear, but after a photograph of Bertha Bell was held up on the second floor of the Smithey Hotel in Wilkesboro, the cross-talk program clearly says "Bertha Bell" at least twice. Bertha was a school nurse who allegedly haunts the site. This was gathered on the morning of Oct. 24, 2009, by R.G. Absher and Paranormal Scene Investigators.

Haunted Wilkes candlelight ghost tour

Video of the Haunted Wilkes candlelight ghost tour, footage by David Harrill of Paranormal Scene Investigators

Smithey Hotel and Bertha Bell

R.G. Absher, author of "Ghosts of the Yadkin Valley," listens to a cross-talk program in Wilkesboro's old Smithey Hotel. After a photograph of Nike Smithey's relative Bertha Bell as held up and shown around the room on the second floor, the program twice said "Bertha Bell." The session was part of the 2009 Haunted Wilkes Paranormal Conference.