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St George Hotel - Carlinville IL

St George Hotel - photo by Debbie Lowery

Investigation Report

By Philip and Howard Huston
SGS Charter Members


This report added to the website November 28, 2003.

Date:
June 7, 2003

Time: 10:00 PM

Equipment: Still Shot Digital Camera

Members Present:
Debbie, Ken, John, Diane, Barb, Philip, Howard, Barb L

10:10 PM
We arrived at the St. George Hotel. Upon arrival at the St. George Hotel, we met the other SGS members outside of the hotel. We decided to start the investigation in the basement of the hotel. Howard agreed to be the photographer so I could concentrate on picking up energy in the hotel.

10:28 PM
Assuming the hotel faces west, I started my investigation by moving though the corridor immediately to the north of the basement entrance. While in the basement, I started to hear a woman's voice from right behind me. It was speaking very quickly as if it were coming from a tape recorder playing very fast. I turned to look to see if there was anyone else down there in the basement with me, but the only other person in the basement was Howard and he was on the other end of the basement. After assessing my surroundings I turned to walk to the corridor of the basement farthest north, as I turned I saw a bright light about the size of a dime move from the upper right of my sight to the lower left of my sight and pass into the wall.

10:35 PM
While in far south corridor I felt a strange sensation. I lost all balance and felt as if I were falling. This sensation lasted for several seconds. I later asked the owner of the hotel if there were anyone that had died from falling down the stairs in the hotel. She noted that there was a woman that had fallen down the stairs leading to the street from the second floor, the woman did in fact die from the incident.

10:45 PM
I had made my way to the third floor of the hotel. While on the third floor I felt a strong sensation of being stood over while on this floor. Specifically in the narrow hallway that runs to the back of the hotel.

11:15 PM
On either the 3rd or 4th floor I visited a room labeled "3". This room drew my attention very much. I tried several times to open the door unsuccessfully before moving to an adjacent room to the left. After entering the adjacent room I noticed that the wall was mostly missing between room 3 and the room I was standing in. I felt an uneasy feeling coming from room 3. I never entered this room.

1:00 AM
I concluded my investigation after 2 hours of no activity


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