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To those who are open to it and who seek out the company of ghosts, it is always thrilling to record evidence of a haunting on film. This euphoric feeling is multiplied when the site in which this evidence is captured is as lovely and haunted as St. Albans Sanatorium.
It was during a photo session on November 1, 2014 for which Pat Bussard O’Keefe was shooting for After Dark Magazine, that two of the Ghost Writers’ team members recorded a most unusual anomaly. Pat and Ken O’Keefe photographed a mist forming from a nondescript shape into a very distinct humanoid-looking head. Sections from two of these photos are featured later in this chapter. Keep in mind that as a photographer, Pat O’Keefe is the first to say that any visual images captured by a device with multiple pieces of glass making up the whole, can be due to light happily bouncing in a crazy manner throughout the lens. What she can also say is that after taking literally tens of thousands of photos at reportedly haunted locations across America, she has never shot another anomaly quite like this curious formation of what might be a ghost or entity forming right in front of
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Albans for Ghost Voices Magazine and she interviewed a member of the paranormal investigation team, MRPRS, whose story is told in the second chapter of the book. He told Pat a story about standing beneath a tree right outside and to the left side of St. Albans. From this vantage one can see the beautiful New River. This ancient water source provides a steady source of power for the denizens hiding behind the doors and windows of the old sanatorium. The power that phantoms can pull from this hydro-energy source also allows them to roam its grounds, as this unfortunate individual found out. Standing beneath the tree, Chuck Thornton heard his name called and when he turned around in response, he was slapped soundly across his face. Not a pleasant greeting from this grand old

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