In Search Of... Season 3 #21, GHOSTLY STAKEOUT

Ghost hunters believe they can communicate with spirits of the death. They believe they can transcend the barriers of space and time and see into the past, actually make contact with the ghost of a tormented person and relive the trauma of some long forgotten tragedy. Can a ghost be set free to move on to another world?

In Search Of cameras are ready to document appearances when Silvia Brown is set into trance. The camera picks up something moving.

Many people believe that a ghost is a disembodied spirit of a person who suffered an emotionally tragic death and who is imprisoned forever in that local.

One target of a ghostly stakeout is a shackled house 200 miles north of San Francisco overlooking the California coast. In the 1920ies a mysterious incident occurred and the house was abandoned. Neighbours swear they hear the voice of a woman and her footsteps.

Antoinette May, a freelance journalist provided residents for background information and In Search Of went there with a team of ghost hunters. The psychics, who were not informed about the history, and the In Search Of Team were allowed in by the new owners who do not believe in ghosts. Silvia Brown and Nick Nosereno have been practicing psychics for 20 years working on more than 200 ghost - investigations. Nick says that, if a ghost appears, it appears as a flash of light – too quick for the eye to see.

Using quick speed filming material the appearance of a ghost makes photo light up as if the house was on fire.

Antoinette and Nick put together what they find when walking from room to room: The year 1923 comes up clearly: Elegantly dressed ladies, lights, parties... a name comes up. Carmilla Carleda, beautiful brown eyes, brown hair, and various ladies, and only one man, of whom they get the impression of a ruler. They get the impression of someone running down to the cliffs, breathing hard. The story of a distressed young lady is confirmed by the neighbours.

At a country inn in the Sierra Nevada Mountains called "The Vineyard House" one guest does not stay in the house any more because she was awakened at 4:00 a.m. observing the opening and closing of doors without seeing anybody and hearing footsteps.

At night Nick begins to pick up psychic vibrations after he has heard footsteps, but contact remains illusive.

At the cemetery where the formers owners are buried they feel tragedy. A woman, Louise, has loved a man, his devise and her devastation from it. Out of pity, caring and certainly love she has chained the man in the basement. Her personality is still in the house, protecting everything, her guilt is too strong, so that contact cannot be made, the psychics say.