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Here's what's happening around Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound today..
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Posted by Mike Archbold @ 02:22:24 pm

It’s Halloween Week and what better way to celebrate than a ghost hunt.

That’s what Paranormal Washington will be doing tonight from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. at the Pantages Theater in downtown Tacoma.

A night-time caretaker at the theater told the group he saw the apparition of a woman up in the balcony last week. He invited the team to check it out.

Along with their curiosity they are bringing technology to record what, if anything, they find.

The team will be haunting tonight with infra-red cameras, audio recorders and a KII Meter for possible communication with any spirits living there, according to Kim Varian of Port Orchard, one of the group’s investigators.

By day she works at Point Defiance Zoo. By night, she looks for spirits.

Varian said the TV reality show "Ghost Hunters" got her interested in the subject nine months ago. She admits to being somewhat skeptical about the spirit world but wanted to find out for herself.

“I’m still on the maybe side,” she said. “I think eventually I will believe. If something knocks me down I will believe.”

Besides the cameras, she said they will set up an electro-magnetic detector since spirits are known to have detectable electromagnetic fields.

Varian said they will also have the newest tool in paranormal investigation: the KII Electromagnetic Field Detector. It supposedly allows one to talk to ghosts in real time.

Here’s how it works, according to Varian.

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Categories: Tacoma, Downtown