January 12, 2012
Walking Hose Hotel owner Joe Peters discusses the hauntings at his hotel on Dead Air Paranormal
Radio.
September-October 2011
Walking Horse Haunted HotelWe're back again for another year!
August 2011
Brandon goes on the SEPS Podcast to discuss just what happened behind the scenes while filming 'Paranormal Challenge'. Click on the SEPS Podcast logo below. Thanks go to Paul Cagle for having him on!
- Episode 82 -
August 2011
Team Member Brandon Boston was featured on the television program 'Paranormal Challenge' with Zak Bagans from 'Ghost Adventures'. Brandon did a fantastic job for our team and we send our congratulations out to him.
October 2010
SEPS (South Eastern Paranormal Society) Founder Paul Cagle and horror author Robert Freese have released the book 'PARANORMAL JOURNEYS'. O.P.S. Members and the Walking Horse Hotel make appearances in the book, so get your copy now! Click on the link below!
October 2010
O.P.S. will be lending a hand to Walking Horse Hotel owner Joe Peters with it's first ever annual haunted house ' The Wartrace Haunted Hotel'. Keep an eye out on Charter Cable for the commercial! Be sure to visit us and be prepared for one HELL of a time.
Meet the ones that put the Wartrace Haunted Hotel together!
August 28,2010
Walking Horse Hotel Celebrity Investigation
Thanks go out to Keith Age (Children of the Grave), Ken Sagoes (Nightmare on Elm Street 3 & 4), Jim O'Rear (Hollywood Ghost Hunters), Daniel Emery Taylor (Return of Swamp Thing, Road Trip), and magician Aron Houdini for their participation!
August 27-28, 2010
The Office of Paranormal Studies helped sponsor the Paranormal Scare Fest at the Clarion Hotel Convention Center in Murfreesboro ,Tennessee. Here are some pictures from the event.
Here's Brandon taking a picture with Filmmaker Thomas Berdinski
Here's a pic of Daniel Emery Taylor speaking to us at our table. A real cool guy.
A pic from inside the main room
The Ghostbuster poster was just too good not to photo
June 27, 2010
Here is the news story of our investigation at the Alexander Inn
June 19, 2010
Here is the video of our team member Brandon Boston's last fight. Enjoy!
June 15, 2010:
ARTICLE FROM THE KNOXVILLE SENTINEL: NEWSPAPER IN KNOXVILLE,TN
*you can also click on the link above to read the story*
Paranormal groups bring cutting-edge gear in their quest to unveil the supernatural.
"We'll be setting up electromagnetic field detectors and night-vision video cameras," said Clint Ferguson, state director of the Office of Paranormal Studies.
Rick Janzen, founder of the Knoxville Paranormal Research Society, said his group normally puts up several cameras and installs tape recorders throughout buildings under scrutiny.
Studies are done around midnight because "most people believe the spirits are most active during the night," Ferguson said.
Both he and Janzen say they're skeptics when it comes to reports of poltergeists.
"I won't believe until a ghost pops up right in front of my face and smacks me," Ferguson said.
But still, he said, "I've witnessed stuff I can't explain."
With paranormal groups promising to pay for their overnight stays at the Alexander Inn, the cash-strapped revitalization group isn't discouraging their interest.
June 9, 2010:
ARTICLE FROM THE OAK RIDGER: NEWSPAPER IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE
Ghost hunters to investigate ‘Guest House’Who you gonna call?
The Alexander Inn, also known as the Guest House, was used by notable figures during the Manhattan Project, as well as regular folks over the years.
Now two paranormal investigation groups want to find out whether any of those visitors ... stayed.
The Oak Ridge Revitalization Effort's board of directors and Executive Director Kate Groover, which purchased the old Alexander Inn, have given permission for two groups to investigate the old building and its grounds. And, in turn, those groups plan to donate to the nonprofit's efforts to restore the Inn to its glory days.
''I think it'll be interesting,'' Groover said, although indicating she's experienced nothing to suggest the place might be haunted. She said stories of the Alexander being haunted are ''all over the Internet.''
Indeed, a simple search on an Internet search engine using the keywords ''Alexander Inn'' and ''ghost'' produces links to sites where people list the Alexander as one of the haunted places in Tennessee, with reports of people hearing someone walking upstairs or on the stairs, and someone on the outside looking through a window.
There are also warnings that people will be prosecuted if they're found inside the Alexander. Kids going inside the vacant, rundown building have been a problem in the past, according to Martin Fischer, ORRE's board president. When presented with the requests to investigate at the Alexander, he said, the board ''laughed'' and agreed to allow them access, but the board also hopes the investigations don't lead to more problems with unauthorized visits.
Groover said no members of the board believe there are any ghosts, but the ORRE has been flooded with groups and individuals wanting to do tours and/or investigations at the Alexander and decided to allow these two groups.
The two groups are the Tennessee Division Office of Paranormal Studies, which is based out of Crossville and Chattanooga, and Secret City Paranormal, headed by area residents Scott McGill and Greg Murr.
In a letter to Groover, Christy Canny, case manager for the Office of Paranormal Studies, states that the first thing its team will do is tour the Alexander Inn and determine the best places to set up equipment, which includes ''a four-camera stationary digital video recorder'' that will be set up in four different areas, as well as night-vision video cameras, infrared light enhancers and flashlights, digital audio recorders, sound amplifiers, digital cameras, infrared temperature guns and several electro-magnetic field detectors.
''We do not participate in any sort of seance or Ouija board activity," states Canny, who is based in Knoxville. ''We are a professional paranormal investigation team and use scientific methods.''
She said after the investigation the team will review the evidence collected, contact the ORRE and inform them of any ''unexplained phenomenon captured.'' Only with the board and Groover's consent would any of this information be posted on the group's website at www.officeofparanormalstudies.com.
''The team is gathering a donation for the ORRE as well, and hope that your goal will be reached to keep the Alexander Inn a part of history and the future,'' she concludes.
Likewise, McGill said his group will also be making a donation to the ORRE for the Inn's restoration. He said in some instances the owners of some such facilities charge paranormal investigative groups because of some financial resources being used, such as hiring someone to open and lock up the buildings, or the use of electricity.
Secret City Paranormal consists of about five members from the Kingston, West Knoxville, and Powell areas. McGill, who lives in Kingston, is a former Oak Ridger and the group meets in Oak Ridge. He said they've been together about a year and a half and done investigations at the old Roane County Courthouse in Kingston, where they recorded "voice phenomenon," Red Boiling Springs and other locations in Tennessee. During the day, he said, the group members work for the Department of Energy, Tennessee Department of Transportation, as a project manager, and as a caretaker for an autistic child.
Living in the Bible Belt, McGill said he knows some people have problems with paranormal groups but he volunteered assurance that "We are all Christian-based investigators ... no Ouija boards or seances," but simply investigations of what might ... or might not be there.
The Office of Paranormal Studies will do its investigation at the end of this month, the Secret City group at the end of July.
Donna Smith can be contacted at (865) 220-5502.
March 17, 2010:
O.P.S. is happy to welcome our newest member to the team. Kalie Daddario will be taking over duties as the Virginia Chapter's Case Manager.Glad to have you!
October 2009:
Owner Joe Peters and his hotel Walking Horse Hotel is placed on The Tennessee Magazine front cover.Click on magazine to read story.
October 31, 2009:
The Office of Paranormal Studies is holding a haunt tour at the Walking Horse Hotel Halloween night.Contact us if interested in going, or if more information is needed.
*The Following Story Is From News Album. The Banner And Website Both Are Links.Be Sure To Check Them Out!*
Historic Walking Horse Hotel offers guests a haunted Halloween Ghost Hunt
AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN AddThis Bookmark Button END Wartrace, TN ' The historic Walking Horse Hotel, constructed in 1917, has been rumored to be haunted for decades. Current proprietor Joe Peters and his staff began experiencing unexplained occurrences shortly after he purchased the hotel in July 2007.
However, it wasn’t until February 2008 that he welcomed the first professional paranormal group to conduct a scientific investigations inside the three story brick icon. Clint Ferguson, Tennessee State Director with the Office of Paranormal Studies (O.P.S.) commented, 'I have personally witnessed things I believed were not possible inside the Walking Horse Hotel. It is definitely a paranormal researchers dream.' Brandon Boston, also with O.P.S. laughed, 'We could make a movie about our experiences inside the Walking Horse Hotel. It is definitely a very active and amazing place!' http://www.officeofparanormalstudies.com
Halloween night, the hotel will host a costume party and dance inside their state-of-the-art music venue, Chais Music Hall, named in honor of Peters late wife. The event will feature The Midnight Special Band and overnight guests will be invited to partake in an authentic professional ghost hunt with the O.P.S. investigation team members.
The Walking Horse Hotel is located in downtown Wartrace on state highway 64 ten miles from I-24 exit #97. From I-65 North take exit #22 onto highway 31-A north through Lewisburg then right on state route 64 East through Shelbyville to Wartrace.
March 15, 2009:
Article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press about the William Rankin House that was the focus point of one of our investigations
July 19-20, 2008
TAPSCON in Tampa,Florida
Robert The Doll
This famous doll is said to be possessed. Supposedly, if you do not ask to take his picture, bad things can occur to the picture taker. Also, the picture may not come out clear, but this may be due to the glass enclosing he is in.
O.P.S. member Clint Ferguson shaking hands with current NEAR founder and former TAPS demonologist Keith Johnson
Clint meets famous demonologist John Zaffis
Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson from TAPS
