The Wells Township has become a haunted house attraction during the Halloween season, but now some ghost hunters have decided to investigate this 115-year old building.

It seems that member from T.O.P.S. conducted a recent search for paranormal activity at the Wells Township.

The ghost hunters had departed and Mark Miller and a friend were cleaning up when they heard footsteps on the second floor of the Wells Township Haunted House.

“Then I heard the sound of glass breaking but when we looked there wasn’t any broken glass. I asked my friend if there was anyone else still in the building and he said ‘no,’ it was just the two of us,” said Miller.

Miller was one of several volunteers at the commercial haunted house who joined the Ohio Paranormal Seekers during a recent search for ghosts or spirits at the 115-year-old building.

“I probably won’t go into the house alone. Well it would depend on where I have to go in there. If I have to go upstairs I probably won’t go alone,” noted the 26-year-old Miller.

“It was about 3 a.m. when the T.O.P.S. group and three of our volunteers went to a hot spot on the second floor. The leaders were asking questions and trying to provoke whatever was there in order to get a response. That’s when I heard someone walking down the hallway toward us. I could hear something dragging down the hallway but there wasn’t anyone there. That’s when I started feeling uncomfortable,” according to Miller.

“I never saw anything but we have had cases where doors will open and close by themselves and we have heard footsteps and noises from the attic area,” added Miller.

Sean Norman, a captain with the Wells Township Police Department and organizer of the annual haunted house event, laughed off the idea of ghosts earlier this year.

“We once had a paranormal society from Columbus visit the building. They stayed for several hours and determined there was an intelligent haunt here. I don’t believe in ghosts for a second but there have been people who insist they have seen someone appear in the rooms who were later gone,” Norman said with a smile during a July tour of the building.

But after the most recent visit by the Columbus-based ghost hunters and the Paranormal Haven of the Ohio Valley, the 14-year police veteran has a different opinion.

“When we are here we see things that make you wonder. In my line of work I need evidence. But seeing what I have seen, I have no other way to explain it,” remarked Norman.

What Norman heard was those same footsteps approaching him on the second floor.

“I pulled my flashlight out and was pointing it like my gun. But there was nothing there. But I could still hear those footsteps coming toward me. Yeah, it scared me,” admitted Norman.

Chad Houghes, owner and lead investigator for the ghost hunters, said he wasn’t surprised by the most recent visit to the building at the north end of Brilliant.

“It was right around 3 a.m. First we heard walking in the hallway and it was a repetitive type of footsteps. Then we could see something in the doorway of the room we were in. It was a smoky black mass that just stayed in the doorway. It finally went away around 3:30 a.m. We couldn’t have asked for a better end to the night. Everyone was excited by the events but exhausted,” stated Houghes.

He added he is not sure if an incident occurred in the building that left the structure haunted or it is the property.

“The West Virginia group will do some local research and try to determine what else was on that property,” said Houghes.

“We have made three visits to this site and there has been some pretty interesting activity each time. We have had flashlights turn off and on upon our commands and our recording devices have picked up voices on the tape that we can’t hear normal. We can hear a man and a woman talking and a little girl saying over and over again, ‘Help her. Help her,'” explained Houghes.

“I have been doing this work for close to 10 years, and nothing surprises me anymore,” said Houghes.

“It will be interesting how this affects our customers when we open the haunted house in October.

“I have seen people literally pee their pants. We do our best to scare our visitors. The fact there may actually be spirits in this building brings something new to the haunted house experience,” cited Norman.

The Wells Township Haunted House is open every Friday and Saturday during October.

“All I know is this whole experience has scared me. I wasn’t expecting this to be real,” Norman added.

Full Source: Herald Star

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