I first heard about the Celebrity Paranormal Project a year ago, when they first announced that it was going to be aired on VH1. Thinking it was going to be another gimmicky reality show, I didn’t bother watching it. Today, as I was looking for a topic to write about, I saw a plug from the Montreal Gazette but couldn’t access the article because it was subscription-based only. A quick search brought me to the VH1 website, where I was able to watch the videos of past episodes.

I wound up watching Episode 8: Dead Men Walking first because that link was a the top of the list. The beginning was a short and interesting documentary of the former Tennessee State Penitentiary. Then the video cuts to aging actors Christopher Knight (Peter Brady), Danny Bonaduce (Danny of the Partridge Family) and their wives. They spent so much time talking that I barely heard what was going on (if anything) in the infamous Cell 3.

I was ready to pan this show when I saw the link for Episode 7: Cult Commune. This piqued my interest, so I watched the show, expecting more talking, vulgarity and drama. There was no background information about what cult this was or its exact location. The producers jumped right in with the actors, who were more interested in the paranormal than themselves.

Nikki Ziering got freaked out in the beginning and spent the rest of the episode inside the control room. Debra Wilson was perhaps the most eager to find the spirits inside the commune because she wanted to get away from there. What happened to her after she came back to the control room gave me the chills. This was the original, never-before-aired pilot episode.

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Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a surgeon who founded the Missouri Medical College, liked to perform grisly and questionable science experiments. He conducted these experiments in what is now called the Mark Twain Cave.

McDowell was trying to discover how to petrify a human body when his 14 year-old daughter died of pneumonia. Rumor has it that the doctor filled a glass-lined copper cylinder with an alcohol mixture. He put his daughter into the cylinder, and then hung it from the ceiling in a cave room.

The citizens of Hannibal were horrified. Yet some would go to the cave to drag the poor girl’s body into view so they could gawk at it. Eventually McDowell was forced to remove his daughter’s body from the cave, but her spirit still haunts the cave.

The Sci Fi Channel has announced its plans to launch a new series, called UFO Hunters. Similar to Ghost Hunters, this show will feature New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI). Led by co-founders Oliver Kemenczky and Ted Davis, and supported by researcher/investigator Dennis Anderson, this team will set out to investigate claims of UFO sightings and otherworldly experiences. They will legitimize the examination of evidence by using cutting-edge technology to determine whether claims are fact or fiction.

Stay tuned.

The Hotel Del Coronado’s most longstanding and internationally famous guest was believed to be Kate Morgan. According to legend, Kate checked into the hotel under the assumed name of Lottie A. Bernard on the afternoon of November 24th, 1892. She is accused of being a swindler and a cheat, charming men out of their money. She was married to a gambler, pregnant, and riding the rails.

Her death was ruled as a suicide after she was found on the steps leading to the beach on the morning of November 29, 1892. That is the legend. The truth, uncovered by researchers who used a new process called “Interdimensional Communication”, reveals a shocking case of mistaken identity.

Bonnie Vent (Research Medium located in San Diego, California) interviewed the spirit, who identified herself as Mrs. Lottie A. Bernard. Physical research into the case revealed that Bernard had taken a train from Denver to Coronado on December 2, 1892. Kate Morgan was living in Los Angeles under the assumed name of Katie Logan. She had left her employer’s house the day before Thanksgiving, promising to return the next day to make dinner. She never returned.

Several books were written about this case, although no one thought to question the story of Joseph E. Jones, who checked into the hotel on Thanksgiving day and told the bell boy that he had ridden in the same train car as Lottie. His name was listed in the registry directly below hers. Is that significant? It might be because he had refused to testify before the coroner’s jury.

Whatever the case, we know that the true identity of the ghost of the Hotel Del Coronado is not Kate Morgan.

Listen to sample footage of Interdimensional Communication from the documentary Conversations with the Dead at: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid959009698