MacDonough Train Wreck of 1900 "Eye Witness Acount"

MacDonough, GA Train Wreck, Jun 1900
Posted November 19th, 2007 by Linda Horton
AWFUL DISASTER ON THE RAIL.

ATALNTA, GA., June 24.----A passenger train on the Macon branch of the Southern railroad ran into a washout one and a half miles north of Macdonough, last night, and was totally destroyed. The wreck caught fire and all the persons on the train, except those in the Pullman car, perished. The dead number thirty five in all. Not a single one of the train crew escaped. Ten people, none seriously injured, were rescued. Overwhelming rains of the past two weeks have swollen all the streams in this vicinity. Camp creek, which is over its banks, runs alongside the railroad near Macdonough and finally goes under the roadway through a stone culvert. A cloudburst occurred over that point early last evening and a stretch of track one hundred feet long was washed out. When the train went down, the storm was still raging and all the car windows were shut. The passengers met death without an instants warning.

Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH 25 Jun 1900
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

Grandpa's DollHouse!

Here is Holly's and her husband's Dollhouse from Grandpa! From what I understand he made the whole house himself inside and outside. It has a rap around front porch and Kitchen, Dining room, living room on the bottom floor. It has two bedrooms on the middle floor and two bedrooms in the attic! It even lights up!
It is completely beautiful!
Thank you Holly!
Melissa

Miniature Dollhouses!

Amy Goss is my new Dollhouse Queen! She has been helping me with doing my first dollhouse. I noticed her dollhouse in flicker site and now she is making a new one! Get this a Barn! I just can't wait until I see what the artist will come up with! I looked around some areas and I think I found the barn she is doing take a look! Let me know what you think!
Melissa
Meanwhile, Holly a friend of mine at work has one that her husband's grandfather made by hand. She is making it to look like a country farm around Christmas time! Take a look at it!
Melissa

Dollhouse miniatures! Take A set By Raine

Take a set by Raine is a artist of Dollhouse Miniatures of chairs! This was a great artist that I admire who has brought life into their work. Below are some great examples of fine miniature art. This was brought to me by my FL Artist Amy Gross on ETSY and Flicker site. Thanks Amy your artwork and love for you Dollhouse Miniatures are outstanding!
Melissa
As you might have guess it my favorite is the Animal Print chair! MEOW!

world in a match box! By Amy Gross

Hey everyone!
I wanted to tell you that I found around January of 2009 a artist from FL named Amy Gross! She does Dollhouses, miniatures and photography, she even makes her own jewelry. She has several sites to go to. Flicker, ETSY, and she is on the web.
I started my own dollhouse and I have been admiring her wonderful dollhouse on flicker.
I will keep you posted but there is some pictures of her house that you will like.
Melissa from GA

Ghost in America

I have seen, felt, and heard of four ghost walking around and getting my attention in my mobile home for the past seven years now. Two men one female and a little girl roams around my home frequently. They are walking around and trying to get my attention by EVP'S to closing doors, and evening touching me. I think that they are passing through. They seems
not to stay very long. Sometimes I can even smell bacon burning and smoke in the kitchen area.
Submitted by anonymous

Ghost of America

I have been living in the McDonough Ga area for at least nine years. I have experienced paranormal activity in my home with smells and EVPS. One is a little girl that sneezed and said, ''Dusty'' and also heard conversations that involved two men and one woman speaking. I can't seem to understand their conversation. I have investigated at last count at least twelve homes so far in my neighborhood. They have some kind of paranormal activity in their homes and also outside of their property. Local residents that live near the McDonough Square area claim that it might be related to the ''Camp Creek Train Wreck'' that occurred in June 23, 1900. I also believe that the town has a beautiful and rich history to it. That might be the reason that visitors that come to town stay a little longer than they want
to.
Submitted by Melissa

Ghost hunters inspect 180-year-old NM hotel site

By HEATHER CLARK, Associated Press Writer Heather Clark, Associated Press Writer – Mon May 11, 4:44 am ET
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there.
Mysterious whispers echo in the current owner's ear. Things fall off shelves for no apparent reason.
These are just a few of the strange goings-on that artist Josh Bond, owner of the Old Cuchillo Bar in the southern New Mexico ghost town of the same name, has asked the West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society to investigate on his property.
"The creepiest I had was a voice whisper in my ear," Bond said. "When things fall in the house, I just sort of write it off."
When he saw an advertisement about WCGAPS, a Phoenix-based nonprofit organization, Bond thought the group could at least explain what was occurring.
Andy Rice, who started WCGAPS about two years ago after investigating more than 200 supposed hauntings and ghosts over more than 13 years, said the group tries to explain the mysteries their clients relate to them using science or common sense.
Only about 5 percent of the group's investigations can't be explained by electromagnetic radiation, thin walls, faulty wiring, lights from passing cars or other normal explanations, said Rice, who called his investigators not ghost hunters, but ghost debunkers.
WCGAPS is booked through July with investigations, mainly in the Southwest. Rice said the historical value of the Cuchillo property made it stand out among the places requesting the group's services.
The Old Cuchillo Bar dates to 1830 when it was a stagecoach stop. At one time, freight was unloaded and taken by wagon to nearby mines in Winston or Chloride.
The 5,000-square-foot complex has housed a trading post, stables, mercantile, post office, hotel and saloon over the years.
"It just has a lot of history, that place does," said Gayle Shepperd, who owned the property with her husband, Harold, from 1978 to 2006. "I've heard tales of poker parties and a lot things like that going on."
In recent years, the facility was used for wedding and baby showers and the general store was where visitors stopped to ask which residents were still among the town's dwindling population.
Once home to 2,000 people and the hub of the county, Cuchillo has about 35 residents, Bond said.
Like Bond, Shepperd also recalled odd things, like hearing the sound of someone starting the wood stove.
"I distinctly heard somebody putting wood into the fire. I looked in there and there was nobody," she said. "We said, 'Well, our ghosts are at play.' We just discounted it."
Shepperd put to rest at least one mystery: a trio of guns Bond had found wrapped in a sack in an empty grain bin.
"My mother put those there," she said, explaining that her mother used the empty bins for storage.
Bond, 36, an artist who makes metal sculptures and home furnishings, bought the complex in 2006 and has finished renovating the old hotel into a 3-bedroom vacation rental or artist retreat. He hopes to open a microbrewery in the old saloon.
Bond seemed ambivalent about whether the property is haunted.
"These people claim to debunk it scientifically. I write it off to coincidence many times in my mind, but I'd like to see it proved scientifically," he said.
Rice said he's not out to persuade people to believe in the paranormal.
"Until they have a personal experience, I cannot change someone's belief," he said. "I don't take the time to try to convince them, because it is a useless argument."
Rice, a business analyst, said he became interested in investigating reports of hauntings after exploring an abandoned house with friends.
At the top of a staircase while his friends were on the steps below him, he said, someone or something pushed him down the stairs, lifting him off the floor and leaving scratch marks on his back.
The experience led Rice to work about 40 to 60 hours per week for WCGAPS, investigating for free and seeking donations. He hopes in many cases he can put clients' anxiety to rest.
"I'm hoping to go out and calm their fears. Other than my first experience, I have never experienced anything that's harmful. I want to explain what's there, whether there's something or nothing," Rice said.
For the investigation at Cuchillo, Rice says he'll research area building codes and the site's history, talk with residents, review the property's title history and look at photographs of the original buildings.
He and seven other investigators will bring cameras and video and audio equipment to record noises or anything found in the buildings. Unlike some other "ghost hunters," Rice said he doesn't use psychics to find ghosts.
WCGAPS's Web site contains audio links to alleged paranormal phenomena, like voices, which Rice says don't fall into the normal frequency for human voices.
Other than the push down the stairs, Rice said he's heard or seen a few strange things, like the "full-body apparition" of a woman he saw move across Monti's La Casa Vieja restaurant in Tempe, Ariz., which is housed in the city's original pioneer home.
Did he capture the image?
"It was exactly where we didn't have a camera placed," Rice said, but a camera did record his and the other investigator's reactions to the figure.
Often hotels or restaurants hope WCGAPS will confirm something paranormal because it's good for business, but owners of private homes usually are relieved when their haunting is explained, Rice said.
As for Bond, "I've really kind of lived in denial of the fact, but I'm curious to know."

Intrepid Reporter said...
Dear Mr. Quinn,I do not appreciate your ways of spreading false information about the area in which I grew up. I also don't appreciate you stealing research that I did and put online and claiming it as your own. Do tell, how did you first come to know the Camp Creek Trestle? Did you know that the only reports of hauntings in that area came from a now deceased lady named Mrs. Marian Paulk? And even she had no real evidence that the spirit she encountered in her home was a ghost from that train wreck. Did you know that I wrote a real and researched (meaning I talked to the people with the knowledge before I put it out for the public) article on the train wreck and also interviewed Mrs. Paulk AND the REAL county historian, Gene Morris? I looked up articles written at the time about the wreck and made sure my facts were straight. See, I did the responsible thing in making sure I had my facts before I put my name to them.Did you also know that I put that little listing on TheShadowLands.net about places in Henry County that were claimed to be haunted?Also, a real writer cites his sources. Where did you find that the bodies of the poor souls who died in that train wreck of 1900 laid out in the Square? Upon speaking with the REAL county historian, Gene Morris Jr, even he says you are mistaken in this fact. An example of your facts being wrong is that The Seasons Bistro was never Carmichael's Furniture Store, that was across the street in what is now a parking lot.How is it that you feel you can make such claims when you are not even a native of this area? Believe me, there are several people who are not happy with you. I took your ghost tour last year and listened to you with great amusement as you made claims that various buildings on the Square were once funeral homes. I also made sure the people around me knew how full of it you were. I myself believe in ghosts, but your tactics of trying to gain whatever little fame you can by telling your little stories is doing nothing to enhance the paranormal research field. It is people like you who dress up in undertakers costume and falsify information that make the rest of us appear as insane as you present yourself as being.You take it too far when you tell a television crew you are the authority on the history of this county. Stop acting like a puffed up peacock. Others might fall for your stories, but they are gullible and you know it. Find a better hobby in your retirement years.

THIS IS COMMET FOUND ON THE WEB SHOW IN YOU SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHEN SPEAKING ABOUT THE FACTS OF HISTORY AND THE FAMILIES INVOLVED!

The Hungry Ghost of McDonough
I have lived in the city of McDonough now for about 20 years. And it is odd how when a new restaurant opens in town we suddenly have a ghost to contend with.

I saw a news story on 11 Alive about the McDonough ghost hunter who is investigating another restaurant in the city. It is the same old story in that he is using the train wreck of 1900 a mile or so North of town as the basis of the alleged haunting. I see some problems with this story. First they talk of pots and pans falling in the kitchen, well my daughter has worked in a lot of kitchens in her life and pots and pans falling are just part of a kitchen. A heavy truck going down the old concrete street in front of the building could have shaken those things from the shelf. Just some common everyday occurrences.


I have seen a few of the ghost hunting shows on TV and they use an EMF meter to measure the electric magnetic field. Again my work experience as an electrician will tell me that around all of the appliances and lighting you will have a high EMF. With all of this explained away lets look at the broader aspect of all this supposed ghost activity in McDonough.


I talked to my grandfather and he has lived in McDonough all his life.

He said there has never been a problem with ghost around the square because there are none. One key issue my grandfather spoke of is the fact that the buildings in question were not there during the time of the train wreck. His father helped with the searches at the Camp Creek Train Wreck. If you will remember most all of the other ghost hauntings that have taken place around the square were restaurants that were newly opened. Being new they would not be well known, what better way to get noticed than having a ghost and getting some free advertisements about it.

THIS WAS A COMMIT ON A ARTICLE FOUND ON THE WEB! PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL DEALING WITH THE FAIMLIES OF THE PARANORMAL AND THEIR HOMES AND BUSINESS!

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Ghost Hunter Investigates Popular Atlanta Diner
in McDonough for one of the best burgers in metro Atlanta. But there is something else attracting a lot of attention at Chevy 27s that you won find on the menu.Chevy27s diner has a reputation for oversized hamburgers and hand-dipped ice cream. And now it has a reputation for something else. It's a friendly spirit says Erica Daniell co-owner with her husband Neil of Chevy. Nobody seems to be afraid.Neil and Erica Daniell say they and their staff have seen evidence of paranormal activity. Being in the kitchen and then you know the door opening all of a sudden Erica describes and nobody there to open it.Neil Daniell has a degree in geo-chemistry. He deals in facts and proof and science. Having people say call your name Neil Daniell recalls and then you go to the kitchen and they go no we didn't call you you've got paranormal activity in your kitchen.Who you gonna call the ghost hunter of McDonough. John Quinn has been hunting ghosts for forty four years. He believes there is a good reason why there is paranormal activity in Chevy 27s and McDonough square. My belief IS says Quinn is on the nineteen hundred train wreck here in McDonough.More than thirty people died on that June night in nineteen hundred. Some believe their spirits still roam through the buildings on the square. Scott Evans is not one of them. We've never seen anything Evans says.We've never heard stuff happening. You know doors close it's the wind. Lights turn on and off it 27s because of the way they re wired. John Quinn has made a preliminary check of Chevy27s kitchen.He says his numbers were off the chart. He will make a full inspection on Sunday April 19th.Whether or not we actually believe in paranormal activity, we have to admit that there might have been times in our lives when things happened that we just couldn't explain.So perhaps the real value in doing a story like this is understanding the importance of keeping an open mind.

NEWS ARTICLE FOUND ON THE WEB WITH A VIDEO! ALSO ON GA NEWS TV

UPDATE: John and Holly are scheduled to appear in the second series of a new ghost hunter show. John says they received a call from a Sci Fi producer Monday night.
Georgia native John Quinn and his wife Holly, of McDonough, are convinced they live in a haunted mobile home. Farshores first carried their story in October, 2003 (see: Georgia Man's Haunted Home, and since then John has kept me informed of any developments through regular email updates. His journal of paranormal events for July and August last year included these observations taken from the news story, that also mentioned "Mysterious flashing lights, disembodied voices and unexplained movements of objects.”:
"Clanking chains and grandfather clock ticking real loud. Little girl made very wicked laugh in office all in daylight hours," says an entry dated July 4.
"2:30 a.m. Bed shook and levitated," reads one from July 11. "Shadow ran to front office bedroom," says Aug. 19's entry.
In August this year the couple had their latest visit by a paranormal investigation team. Carol and Lane Wooten were at the home and emailed this initial report regarding their findings:
"Just wanted to let you know that we just finished viewing our pictures, plus the Video. We captured many various anomalies, plus EVP's on the video camera. There is no doubt that you have several presences there. Do not worry; it did not scare us off! We will be back and spend the night as soon as possible and try to help you both out. We were not scared away, as this is what we love to do. Please take care and keep in touch, as we will with you. Cannot wait to come back! Write back and let us know how your night went tonight. "
On August 16, John sent the following image [cropped by FS and including an enlargement of the 'green globe'], accompanied by these comments: "Notice green globe over refrigerator, then line on ceiling, then through picture. Blood was on our front porch early this a.m.".
This was followed the same day by another picture [again cropped and subjected to color balance as it was a little washed out]. John's accompanying message reads in part:
"Please look right behind the right door you can see a transparent being. Then look at the end of our bed a transparent animal. This was taken by Sony digital camera 8-1-04...... Activity still going strong 3.30 p.m. [when] this was done..... p.s. MUFON of Georgia said these were not alien related but still paranormal nature."

Personally, I would not recommend pointing any camera at a mirror in this manner while seeking to record paranormal activity. The consequences of using strobe flash are obvious in such cases, as any reflection will have a detrimental affect on resulting pictures. Having subjected this photo to minor cropping and to improving a 'washed out' effect caused by the flash overloading John's digital camera electronics, I searched but failed to locate any kind of transparent animal in the frame. I did discover one human-like image in the general location of John's 'transparent being'. I highlighted it and also included an enlargement in the original photo. It's fair to say it does incorporate most, if not all, the characteristics of a human head but is it paranormal? I'll reserve judgment and also, perhaps it's no more than sheer coincidence that a beam of reflected bright light from the flash points almost likes a finger at this same anomaly?
Another image sent by John [below] was accompanied by these comments:
"You can see orb at ceiling, then look at the end of Kitchen Island, something going towards refrigerator. Mother-in-law fell asleep."
John and Holly sent this email, Aug 19:
"They have printed a face the size of a thumbnail on my upper right thigh area just above the knee, almost a tattoo and its not going anywhere. I Guess I have the mark of the ghost. What do you suppose this means?
"In my opinion with all the paranormal pictures showing all over the country, I feel we may be getting closer to the Second Coming of Jesus. That’s just a thought. Will keep you posted....."
fs webmaster

NEWS ARTICLE FOUND ON THE WEB!

The Henry County Times October 27, 2004
which I could not account for. A general nausea and headache gradually drew over me thought
the two hours I visited with the Quinn’s, and it stayed with me for several hours after I had taken
my leave of their house. In short, this reporter believes that there is something strange, upsetting
even, going on in the Quinn’s’ home. “It makes it worse when he brings the investigative teams,”
Holly Quinn said out of nowhere during the interview. For the most part, John answered questions
and proffered evidence and theory throughout the visit while Holly busied herself with
trolling the Internet. One could get the impression that she has seen and heard too much; that at
any moment her hands could fly up to cover her ears or her eyes. One gets the impression that she
did not only because company was visiting. “It’s negative energy and it feeds the negative energy,”
Holly continued. “If it’s not positive, it’s not from God.” John Quinn looks at his wife
pensively, sadly. The couple appear worn out, tired. For years now the two have endured a
parade of strange phenomena and it has taken its toll on them. John, who had a stroke while he
was driving in 2000, has been disabled ever since, and his health has not improved much.
He is a jovial fellow, and though he has been interested in the occult since he was a younger
man, he is quick to point out that he is not Satanic. Quite the contrary, he is rather a religious man,
as is his wife. It is Quinn’s interest in the occult which has been used to discredit him, as seems to be the
goal of most who come in contact with him. “Holly’s worried that you’re going to poke fun at
us,” he tells me. I assure him sincerely that I will not. “I don’t think you will,” he says. “You
believe in these things too, don’t you?” I tell him that is right. Quinn recounts endless encounters
with whatever lurks around his home. He takes it quite seriously, keeping a daily journal of
electromagnetic readings he takes at various points inside and outside his house, as well as brief
descriptions of any voices or sightings he experiences. He suggests that anyone who is
experiencing anything like he and Holly should do the same. “Document everything, no matter
how small,” he advises. Most of the documentation that Quinn shows appears at first to be minute,
or even the work of an overactive imagination, or possibly a suggestible personality. When
viewed on a whole, though, one is reminded that the sum total of the journals and the pictures, and
the audio recordings equal the last six years of the Quinn’s’ life. Quinn attributes the disturbance
surrounding his home to a graveyard. “I believe this place was built over a graveyard,” he says.
He takes me to two spots outside his home that are what can be described as sunken rectangular
areas, that do indeed resemble graves. I ask him why he doesn’t just dig them up and find out
once a for all. “I tried to. I called the County and asked them if they knew anything. Told
them I intended to dig up the spot and the man told me that if I did, they’d have me arrest for
disturbing a grave.” There are indeed at least two unmarked graves located somewhere
in the near vicinity of the Quinn’s’ home. In Henry County, Georgia Family Graveyards,
Vessie Thrasher Rainer mentions Allen Cleveland, a primitive Baptist minister who lived
“about two miles out off the Hampton Road and near the Bridges Road on Camp Creek.
His house was located on the place which is now that of Wade H. Pullin. The graves of Allen
Cleveland and his wife are in the pasture back of the Pullin home. There are no inscribed tombs, at
their graves” (p.29). This would place the graves somewhere in Land Lot 158 or 159 of Henry
County District 7, at the Quinn’s’ doorstep. The Quinn’s have had several investigative teams to their home
and they have had varying degrees of success. Adrew Calder of Georgia Paranormal
Research Team (GPRT) was one of the first to investigate the Quinn’s’ case. He found that the
Quinn’s were not the only ones in their neighborhood to experience strange things. “There seems to
be an abnormally high incidence of people reporting strange things [in the Quinn’s’ neighborhood],”
Calder told The Times. Calder believes that there are indeed paranormal circumstances surrounding
the Quinn’s’ residence. “I don’t doubt that there could be some kind of abnormal activity
connected to the property,” Calder said. After their investigation, Calder and the GPRT recommended the
Quinn’s move. So far, the Quinn’s have not. It is after all, their home. Instead, they will continue
to put up with the spirit world intruding into their own. It appears they have no choice in the matter.

NEWS ARTICLE FOUND ON THE WEB!

Haunting in our town
John and Holly Quinn have a big problem on their hands...
By Joshua Clark
Editor

John Quinn has good reason to believe his house is haunted. In addition to the numerous encounters with the ethereal,
like sounds, sightings, and physical attacks, the investigations by professional paranormal researchers, and video and audio
of inexplicable phenomena, his house is likely located atop a former gravesite. Quinn and his wife, Holly, have
lived in their home since 1999, and from the day they moved in strange things have befallen the couple. Indeed when one enters
their home, located just east of I-75 off Hwy. 20, there is a dismal quality to be felt. It lies not in the decor of the house, nor any state
of disarray, rather it seems to emanate from the home itself, or perhaps from the ground on which the home is situated. This
reporter can attest that during the interview with John and Holly Quinn at their home, I suffered from a deep state of malaise

NEWS ARTICLE FOUND ON THE WEB!

The Haunting of Henry County
The negative supernatural stuff that has been incessantly happening on and around his property since 1999 has caused one top paranormal investigator who came to check it all out to say he would never come back again. He strongly advised Quinn to move away before the entities do both he AND his wife in.
The local newspaper editor who visited got physically ill from a few hours stay and says he will never go back to that place.
The supernatural visited got physically ill from a few hours stay and says he will never go back to that place. horrors he has going at and around his home remind me of the infamous haunting that tormented the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee ca. 1821 (i.e. Bell Witch Haunting that went on for years).
AKA NEWS ARTICLE FOUND ON THE WEB!

Another article I found of the paranormal that had a great responce

Post a Comment On: 1900 Train Wreck Of Old Number Seven HC Times"Article Courtesy of Henry Times"1 Comment - Show Original PostIntrepid Reporter said... Dear Mr. Quinn,I do not appreciate your ways of spreading false information about the area in which I grew up. I also don't appreciate you stealing research that I did and put online and claiming it as your own. Do tell, how did you first come to know the Camp Creek Trestle? Did you know that the only reports of hauntings in that area came from a now deceased lady named Mrs. Marian Paulk? And even she had no real evidence that the spirit she encountered in her home was a ghost from that train wreck. Did you know that I wrote a real and researched (meaning I talked to the people with the knowledge before I put it out for the public) article on the train wreck and also interviewed Mrs. Paulk AND the REAL county historian, Gene Morris? I looked up articles written at the time about the wreck and made sure my facts were straight. See, I did the responsible thing in making sure I had my facts before I put my name to them.Did you also know that I put that little listing on TheShadowLands.net about places in Henry County that were claimed to be haunted?Also, a real writer cites his sources. Where did you find that the bodies of the poor souls who died in that train wreck of 1900 laid out in the Square? Upon speaking with the REAL county historian, Gene Morris Jr, even he says you are mistaken in this fact. An example of your facts being wrong is that The Seasons Bistro was never Carmichael's Furniture Store, that was across the street in what is now a parking lot.How is it that you feel you can make such claims when you are not even a native of this area? Believe me, there are several people who are not happy with you. I took your ghost tour last year and listened to you with great amusement as you made claims that various buildings on the Square were once funeral homes. I also made sure the people around me knew how full of it you were. I myself believe in ghosts, but your tactics of trying to gain whatever little fame you can by telling your little stories is doing nothing to enhance the paranormal research field. It is people like you who dress up in undertakers costume and falsify information that make the rest of us appear as insane as you present yourself as being.You take it too far when you tell a television crew you are the authority on the history of this county. Stop acting like a puffed up peacock. Others might fall for your stories, but they are gullible and you know it. Find a better hobby in your retirement years.October 4, 2007 6:05 PM

This is a very old blog response that I found on the web. It needed to be placed as a example of "people need to be careful when they do a complete check up on information before they post. Think about the families of the Train Wreak of 1900." Just think how they would feel?

Found articles of the paranormal

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I wanted to respond to the paragraph about "A mobile home haunting." Your information is incorrect on the date listed about the person or persons who said when they entered the Henry County area. It ... more » wasn't in 2003, it was in 1999, I know this because I moved into the same area in 2001 I have paperwork to show this. I wished that you had done your research before publican your book. Also, the above person or persons had AKA misquoted themselves for years now so that they can land a book deal and movie rights. These indivisible doesn't want help with the AKA haunting in their home, they want money. Please be careful when you are righting about someone. Haunted? No. GA
I found this on the web and it needed to be address as a good topic of someone being misquote in a book about the local Henry County GA.

I found this and it was a funny paranormal article on Atlanta Journal Constitution

Who's That Rattling The Pans At Chevy's Diner In McDonough?
By Marc Pickard on 11Alive News in ATL GA

MCDONOUGH Ga. -- You can come to Chevy 27s diner and ice cream parlor in McDonough for one of the best burgers in metro Atlanta. But there is something else attracting a lot of attention at Chevy 27s that you won find on the menu.
Chevy27s diner has a reputation for oversized hamburgers and hand-dipped ice cream. And now it has a reputation for something else. It's a friendly spirit says Erica Daniell co-owner with her husband Neil of Chevy. Nobody seems to be afraid.
Neil and Erica Daniell say they and their staff have seen evidence of paranormal activity. Being in the kitchen and then you know the door opening all of a sudden erica describes and nobody there to open it.
Neil Daniell has a degree in geo-chemistry. He deals in facts and proof and science. Having people say call your name Neil Daniell recalls and then you go to the kitchen and they go no we didn t call you you ve got paranormal activity in your kitchen.
Who you gonna call m the ghost hunter of McDonough. e eJohn Quinn has been hunting ghosts for forty four years. He believes there is a good reason why there is paranormal activity in Chevy 27s and McDonough square. My belief IS says Quinn is on the nineteen hundred train wreck here in McDonough.
More than thirty people died on that June night in nineteen hundred. eSome believe their spirits still roam through the buildings on the square. cbreScott Evans is not one of them. We' ve never seen anything Evans says.
Weve never heard stuff happening. You know doors close it's the wind. Lights turn on and off it 27s because of the way they re wired. John Quinn has made a preliminary check of Chevy27s kitchen.
He says his numbers were off the chart. eHe will make a full inspection on Sunday~2c April 19th.
Whether or not we actually believe in paranormal activit, we have to admit that there might have been times in our lives when things happened that we just couldn't explain.
So perhaps the real value in doing a story like this is understanding the importance of keeping an open mind.

How to select the right paranormal group:
There are several things to take into consideration when picking a paranormal investigation group:

Ask for their Experience : How long has your group been together?
How many years of experience do the group leaders have investigating? Can they show real proof like videos, EMF'S, EVPS Etc.
What kind of training has the group been involved in?

Remember: There is no “license” or “certificate” that qualifies a group for paranormal research.

Ask for their Philosophy In:
What is your ultimate goal for your group?
How does your group respond to the changing technologies and theories in the paranormal field?
Ask about their Scientific point of view:
How does your group approach the analysis of possible evidence?

Remember: Not everything and/or everyone is haunted but, there might be a situation that might acure.
A scientific approach to investigation includes the gathering and analysis of photographic, audio, and video evidence, as well as the careful observations of the investigators.

Ask about their Credibility:
Can you provide references from your previous clients?
Can you provide references from other experienced persons in the paranormal field?
Do they have a web site that you can look up their refrences? Does their case studies on a web site that you can get onto and not a restricted site?

Remember this: Being on television does not mean a team is credible. Such publicity should not be the ultimate goal of any group; instead, it should be a byproduct of having established credibility through continuous learning, hard work, and positive relationships with client:

Ask the Organization:
Does your group have regular meetings?
How do you manage updating equipment and knowledge?
How does a person become an investigator with your group?

Remember This: A team that is well-organized and has established protocols will conduct a more efficient and effective investigation for its clients.

Above are some examples of the types of information that are needed when ghost hunters use or need to use while they do any investigation.

To the above statements and information that was found on the Internet:
 I met up with the family that explained that they were the ones who contacted the Restaurant and also talked with the management about the, "Paranormal Investigation." I did a private investigation at their home and met up with the people involved with this AKA "Ghost Hunt." They found NO tangible prof but only hearsay. Until their is factional prof you can't make statements that the area in question is "Haunted." This group of paranormal Investigators did the investigations after a TV podcast and wasn't told about the investigation until after it aired. They also explained to me that the group leader at that time placed themselves in the paper and left the name of their group and also didn't acknowledge the names that conducted the investigation. I since have assisted with the employees and also the members of that paranormal group and explained how to conduct a real investigation showing everyone involved by their names, titles, and give them full credit!
I commend the restaurant for getting free press, also it did show that not only they have great service and food, they also show that even the employees are a great and wonderful staff. Now that I got the know everyone involved it does show that the examples that I did give in the above statement on doing your own research. Please Do Your Homework. Not All Of Us Want To Be On TV, we just want to get the truth out about the paranormal and assist people with the knowledge and understand that spirits were people once too.
Joust remember, "ghost were people too."
Melissa