Marie
(SC Team)
1. In less than 100 words. How did you get interested and subsequentially involved in the paranormal.
I was about 10 or 11 and spending the weekend at my grandmothers house. I woke up about daybreak, the sun was just coming into the room. I saw a man dressed in a plaid suit standing in the door. The suit was too small for him and he wore a derby hat. I stuck my head under the covers of the bed and a few minutes later peeked out. He was still there and slowly he just faded out. I learned later that the house had been a sharecroppers home back in the 1800s and my uncle expanded it for my grandmother. This was the only full bodied apparition I have experienced and I remember not really being scared but fascinated. Since then I have read and done research on the paranormal in hopes of capturing these experiences in a scientific manner.
2. What is your field of expertise or interest (i.e. film/editing/ research/ sensitive work, etc)?
I don't really think that I have a field of expertise or interest. The whole paranormral world is so fascinating I enjoy all aspects.
3. What is your favorite ghost hunting gadget?
My favorite gadget is my digital recorder. I think that EVP's are just incredible. I mean you can always debunk photographs or temperature ranges but how you you explain a child's voice in an empty room asking "Come and play with me?"
4. What is your favorite book?
Deliverance by James Dickey. Its the classic man vs nature theme but in this case nature kicks some major butt. Its a warning to all us smug humans who think we have superiority over everything with our big brains. Yeah right.
5. If you could choose three dead people for a little chat, who would it be and why?
1. My great-great grandfather Epaprhditus Howle. He was at Petersberg during the Civil War and was captured by the northern army. He was imprisoned and after the war, walked home from Virginia to his home in South Carolina. I know he has some tales to tell.
2. Harry Price - the original ghost hunter.
3. Lizzie Borden - I'd like to clear up that mystery for good.
6. Three reasons why you believe in ghosts?
1. Evidence: I go back to the EVP's. So many are unexplainable.
2 We're all made up of energy and it has go somewhere. I think that certain locales are like batteries that feed on this energy.
3. Too many people have too many experiences just to think that there's no such thing. 90% of most paranormal incidents can be debunked, but there's the 10% that have no other explaination.
7. What would you consider the "Holy Grail" of potential ICPIR investigation sites?
I have to choose? Wow. Probably Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Kentucky but running a close second is Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania
8. Any other Hobbies?
I have an Egyptian Arabian stallion I race in endurance races (25-50 miles). I have two watergardens with Japanese koi.
9. What is your favorite type of music?
The Ramones, Flogging Molly, AC/DC
10. Paper or Plastic?
Paper. I know I'm killing trees but plastic will be in our city dumps until the earth explodes.
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