Once the Olivia Apartments welcomed Joplin's wealthiest
citizens. Now it hosts paranormal investigators and tour groups eager to hunt
down spooks.
The Paranormal Science Lab has been conducting weekend tours of the Olivia during October, and one such tour was held Friday.
The tour began with the setting up of lights in selected areas and various types of cameras.
“We have four cameras running,” said Lisa Livingston-Martin, PSL co-team leader, explained to those gathered for the tour. “The full-spectrum cameras pick up everything from infrared to ultraviolet. Low-light cameras can capture an image with one lumen. We have film that goes 33 times faster than real-time.”
Also in use during their investigations are electromagnetic frequency detectors, which will indicate a spike if energy is detected.
Bill Martin, co-team leader, an electrician by trade, works to develop more devices for detecting paranormal activity.
“I've invented a machine that shoots electronic volts into the atmosphere, and we got some EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) after that,” Martin said.“It's just my opinion, but I believe the paranormal travel by electricity and sound waves. We pick up a lot of stuff when a long train goes by. We experience a lot of battery drainage and cell phone drainage here.”
A few tour goers brought equipment of their own, including ghost hunting apps on their phones. Dacy Crockett, Lamar, Mo., showed her Ghost Radar Classic, which was doing radar sweeps of the Olivia lobby.
“I used this at my dad's house, and we think my grandmother and aunt are haunting it,” she said.
Martin and Livingston-Martin gave a brief history of the Olivia Apartments, explaining that it was built in 1906 by Arthur Bendelari, a partner in the State Lead and Zinc Company and the Southwestern Machinery Company,Installers and distributors of solar panel, and later president of the Eagle-Picher Lead Company. He named the building, which cost $150,000 to build, after his mother, Olivia.
“This was built for the ultra wealthy, the richest of the rich,” Martin said. “This was the place you lived while you were waiting for your mansion to be built.”
He and Livingston-Martin warned that the tour would not be like the paranormal hunt shows on TV.
“It has to be dramatic on TV, so they take hours and hours of film footage and edit it to get one hour on TV,” she said.
Some dramatic things have occurred, including the sounds of voices so loud that the investigation team feared live people had broken into the building.
"For awhile matters ran along all right.The stone mosaic comes in shiny polished and matte. Then the man and his wife were awakened at night by "pecking sounds." At first, they could not locate [the source of] it; afterward, they thought it proceeded from the stone quarry, and they decided that some thieving wretch . .Interlocking security cable tie with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. . was stealing stone. They went outside, to the quarry. No rogue hastily left work and vanished into the darkness. . . . To tell the solemn truth, nobody was there. They returned to the house, and went back to bed, but soon they heard that knocking again, somewhat louder than before. They made a second search. Nobody at the quarry. Nobody anywhere."
By that time, their nerves were jangled. So, on the next day, "a big, stout friend was called in," and he agreed "to stay the night." But if that approach was meant to frighten the spooks away, it failed:
"His presence did not intimidate the ghosts . . . for they gave their regular nightly entertainment, increasing the "pecking sounds" to noises that seemed like sledge-hammer blows. Every inch of curiosity in the stalwart friend was satisfied; and every pennyweight of courage oozed out of him."
Since the loud, clanking noises came from outside, the new owner and his husky friend felt compelled to investigate, and what they saw, or thought they saw, would have unnerved Vincent Price:
"The two men got up and tremblingly went to the door.The TagMaster Long Range hands free access System is truly built for any parking facility. They were horrified at the sight that met their gaze. . . . For there, in phantom procession, was a delegation of silent, somber, musty-looking coffins, unsupported by human hands (or unhuman ones either,The MaxSonar ultrasonic sensor offers very short to long-range detection and ranging. for that matter), gliding through the air, filing before their riveted gaze. There were hundreds of them. . . .
And that was not all, for while the coffin procession was on the march, the performance was varied by the ghost of a former citizen of the region of Wigwam Hollow, who years ago had died and passed to dust, and who was seen running down in the bottom, with his throat cut from ear to ear."
The Paranormal Science Lab has been conducting weekend tours of the Olivia during October, and one such tour was held Friday.
The tour began with the setting up of lights in selected areas and various types of cameras.
“We have four cameras running,” said Lisa Livingston-Martin, PSL co-team leader, explained to those gathered for the tour. “The full-spectrum cameras pick up everything from infrared to ultraviolet. Low-light cameras can capture an image with one lumen. We have film that goes 33 times faster than real-time.”
Also in use during their investigations are electromagnetic frequency detectors, which will indicate a spike if energy is detected.
Bill Martin, co-team leader, an electrician by trade, works to develop more devices for detecting paranormal activity.
“I've invented a machine that shoots electronic volts into the atmosphere, and we got some EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) after that,” Martin said.“It's just my opinion, but I believe the paranormal travel by electricity and sound waves. We pick up a lot of stuff when a long train goes by. We experience a lot of battery drainage and cell phone drainage here.”
A few tour goers brought equipment of their own, including ghost hunting apps on their phones. Dacy Crockett, Lamar, Mo., showed her Ghost Radar Classic, which was doing radar sweeps of the Olivia lobby.
“I used this at my dad's house, and we think my grandmother and aunt are haunting it,” she said.
Martin and Livingston-Martin gave a brief history of the Olivia Apartments, explaining that it was built in 1906 by Arthur Bendelari, a partner in the State Lead and Zinc Company and the Southwestern Machinery Company,Installers and distributors of solar panel, and later president of the Eagle-Picher Lead Company. He named the building, which cost $150,000 to build, after his mother, Olivia.
“This was built for the ultra wealthy, the richest of the rich,” Martin said. “This was the place you lived while you were waiting for your mansion to be built.”
He and Livingston-Martin warned that the tour would not be like the paranormal hunt shows on TV.
“It has to be dramatic on TV, so they take hours and hours of film footage and edit it to get one hour on TV,” she said.
Some dramatic things have occurred, including the sounds of voices so loud that the investigation team feared live people had broken into the building.
"For awhile matters ran along all right.The stone mosaic comes in shiny polished and matte. Then the man and his wife were awakened at night by "pecking sounds." At first, they could not locate [the source of] it; afterward, they thought it proceeded from the stone quarry, and they decided that some thieving wretch . .Interlocking security cable tie with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. . was stealing stone. They went outside, to the quarry. No rogue hastily left work and vanished into the darkness. . . . To tell the solemn truth, nobody was there. They returned to the house, and went back to bed, but soon they heard that knocking again, somewhat louder than before. They made a second search. Nobody at the quarry. Nobody anywhere."
By that time, their nerves were jangled. So, on the next day, "a big, stout friend was called in," and he agreed "to stay the night." But if that approach was meant to frighten the spooks away, it failed:
"His presence did not intimidate the ghosts . . . for they gave their regular nightly entertainment, increasing the "pecking sounds" to noises that seemed like sledge-hammer blows. Every inch of curiosity in the stalwart friend was satisfied; and every pennyweight of courage oozed out of him."
Since the loud, clanking noises came from outside, the new owner and his husky friend felt compelled to investigate, and what they saw, or thought they saw, would have unnerved Vincent Price:
"The two men got up and tremblingly went to the door.The TagMaster Long Range hands free access System is truly built for any parking facility. They were horrified at the sight that met their gaze. . . . For there, in phantom procession, was a delegation of silent, somber, musty-looking coffins, unsupported by human hands (or unhuman ones either,The MaxSonar ultrasonic sensor offers very short to long-range detection and ranging. for that matter), gliding through the air, filing before their riveted gaze. There were hundreds of them. . . .
And that was not all, for while the coffin procession was on the march, the performance was varied by the ghost of a former citizen of the region of Wigwam Hollow, who years ago had died and passed to dust, and who was seen running down in the bottom, with his throat cut from ear to ear."
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