A ghostly meeting at Middleborough Town Hall
(Tom Herde for The Boston Globe)
Len Anderson and Ed Beaulieu spent the night searching for ghosts in Middleborough Town Hall with a hand-held laser that monitors sudden drops in temperature.
By Christine Legere, Globe Correspondent
MIDDLEBOROUGH -- The ghost trackers who spent the night at Town Hall investigating eerie footsteps that echo upstairs said they found something that may indicate a paranormal presence.
The two-member team from Paranormal Institute of New England said their laser thermal detector -- which measures dramatic drops in temperature that some say indicate the presence of spirits -- went temporarily haywire, soaring up, not down. A digital camera Len Anderson was using also went on the fritz.
“That’s usually an indication of a presence,” he said.
Anderson and his fellow ghost tracker, Ed Beaulieu, are busy this week reviewing the film and audiotapes they obtained Monday night. Spirits are not visible to the naked eye, they say, but do register in photos, videotape, and recordings. The pair does not intend to release the full results of their excursion into the paranormal until next week, when they meet with selectmen, who allowed them to investigate rumors of the otherworldly in the 135-year-old building.
Beaulieu said he didn’t sense an unearthly presence in the cavernous room during the investigation, as he has in other locations, but that doesn’t mean there were no spirits present. It's also possible, he said, that spirits were scared off by the many members of the media who accompanied them on the exploration
Depending on what they find in their photos and on the tape, the pair may return, by themselves, for another check.
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