Alone

This last Saturday I had a most interesting experience. Warning: This post will be long and possibly disturbing.

A friend of a friend of a friend does a lot of "ghost hunting" and such, and he has a radio show about all sorts of paranormal activity. Well, he teamed up with another fellow of similar interests and together they are starting a series called "Alone." The pilot of the series was shot on Saturday night at a downtown Ogden building, and Felicia and I were their first participants. Initially they wanted us to complete the different "tasks" in the building alone (hence the title) but Felicia and I were barely comfortable enough to do it just the two of us.

We got there around 5pm and met everyone, but it wasn't until 9pm when it got completely dark that we could start our tasks. They didn't give us much information about the building until it was time to start the tasks. The first task they gave us was to carry a porceline doll upstairs to a room, sit on the couch in the room and place the doll between us. Keep in mind that while we did each task, Felicia carried the video camera, I carried the voice recorder, and we each had a lantern or a flash light. Everything else was dark. Each room we went in had camcorders all around and dim lights. As a side note, before we started the first task and all the lights in the building were turned off, a light upstairs mysteriously flipped on.

Back to the first task. We were left alone in the house with our gear and the doll. I was trying so hard to keep a level head and not psych myself out, and I wanted to be professional for the guys that really want this series to take off. As we made our way through the house and up the stairs, I started shaking from head to toe. I have never been so nervous or frightened in my life. Finally we found the room we needed to take the doll to, sat on the couch with it between us, introduced ourselve to whomever may be listening, and started asking questions as though someone was in the room with us and able to answer. To be honest, I can't recall the questions we asked, but after a couple minutes, Felicia and I both heard a little girl laughing, then singing or humming, and a piano playing. It wasn't so clear that it seemed like it was right in the room, but it was far off and distant. It was incredible. I couldn't believe that I was actually hearing "something."

Between each task we would do little interviews for the Denver and Brian (the creators) about what we had witnessed, they would set up the next room and then give us more information about the next task. To explain each task in detail would take so long, but let me just say that what Felicia and I experienced was unbelievable. I wouldn't believe what had happened to us if I wasn't there. When the first episode is completely put together I'll post a link to it and you all can see everything we did, and even the part where I was in a room by myself.

I will say that there were really cool things that happened, and really exciting, but I have to admit that it was so far out of my comfort zone that there were most definately times where I was pushing a line I didn't want to cross. Luckily I had prayed and prayed and prayed for days before that I would know when to back away, and that I would be warned not to cross any lines, and that I would be able to remain level headed when I went home and went to bed. There were a couple of times that night that Felicia and I couldn't finish a task and we rushed out of the house to where everyone else was. I so badly wanted to help these guys out but I had to know my limits too. I'm sure a lot of people think I'm crazy for doing something like this, but I'm glad I did it. Will I do it again? Not without major prayers or Xanax. I'm so excited to see it as a complete project.