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Guyandotte West Virginia Historic & Ghost Tours 2010!

Posted in Uncategorized by HPIR on the February 5th, 2010

Even though fall is still months away, we are getting started on plans for this year’s latest Historic & Haunted Tours of Guyandotte, WV.

This year Guyandotte is celebrating 200 years of History by hosting a community celebration with lots of fun family events and many historical displays. We are lucky enough to be a part of this historic celebration by hosting Historic & Haunted Tours of Guyandotte during this event. The event is scheduled to take place July 1-4, 2010 and we are working on two unique tours for the Friday and Saturday evenings of the celebration.

More tour information will be announced closer to the event dates, but as right now our plans are to offer a Historic Guyandotte Walking Tour and an after-dark Ghosts of Guyandotte Walking Tour! 

Huntington Paranormal proudly operates the ONLY Ghost Tours of Guyandotte West Virginia. We have created this unique  experience to not only teach the history of the area but also to tell some of the stories of ghostly happenings over it’s past 200 years.

We hope you will join us this year on one of our Historic and/or Haunted Tours of the Historic Town of Guyandotte West Virginia (1810-2010)

www.HuntingtonParanormal.com/guyandotte_tour

or

www.guyandotteghosts.com

HPIR Founder – Melissa

Historic Guyandotte Walking Tour 2009

Posted in Uncategorized by HPIR on the October 6th, 2009

 

HISTORIC GUYANDOTTE WALKING TOUR

Presented by: Huntington Paranormal

WHEN: Friday, November 6th & Saturday, November 7th

TIME: Tours Will begin at 6:30pm and continue until 10:30pm each night. 

LOCATION: Departing from the Guyandotte Branch Library, 203 Richmond Street. 

**The Guyandotte Library will also be offering a book sale on Friday night only from 6:30pm until 9:00pm they will also be serving hot chocolate and refreshments.** 

ADMISSION: Tours are FREE and open to the public.

 

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Huntington Paranormal has been given the opportunity to participate in Guyandotte’s Annual Civil War Days Festival!

We’ll be giving guided walking tours throughout the historical section of downtown Guyandotte, lecturing on the various homes and places of historical significance.  

This guided lantern tour will lead you through the historic streets of Guyandotte to experience the stories of it’s historic past.

 The tour features many of the homes and buildings that played a role in the Civil War raid on Guyandotte on November 10th 1861.

Your tour guides will be Huntington Paranormal’s very own members, complete in period attire!

The tours are sponsored by Huntington Paranormal and with full support and permission from the Guyandotte Civil War Days committee 

The tours will last approximately 1 hour, and the round trip is under a mile in length on flat ground, but walking shoes would probably be preferable. The route is also wheelchair accessible.
An informational and sign-in booth will be located in the library parking lot.
 

**PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NOT BE ENTERING INTO ANY OF THE BUILDINGS ON THE TOUR* 

 

www.huntingtonparanormal.com           www.guyadottecivilwardays.com

We are looking for new members!!

Posted in Uncategorized by HPIR on the August 31st, 2009

We are looking for new members!

 

HPIR is announcing that we are seeking to add several new members to our team this fall!!!

 

We are looking for people with a passion for the paranormal and a passion for history!

 

We do more than just paranormal investigations; we are actively involved in our community and several local historic organizations.

 

We need people who want to get involved!

 

In between paranormal investigating, in the fall we offer Historic Walking Tours and Ghost Tours, we attend the Mothman Festival each year, we even do lectures on the paranormal, and from time to time radio and TV appearances.

 

So if you feel we are the group for you, please send us an e-mail telling us why you would like to join our team. Please check out our website for additional information.

 

 

E-mail: contact@huntingtonparanormal.com

 

Website: www.HuntingtonParanormal.com

Seeking Ghost Stories

Posted in Research, Stories by HPIR on the May 27th, 2009

We are currently seeking stories of hauntings and ghosts from the Guyandotte neighborhood of Huntington, West Virginia.

We are always looking for new stories and haunted places for our Haunted WV listing on our website, but we are specifically looking for personal stories from historic Guyandotte.

If you have a story you would like to share with us please e-mail us at: investigations@huntingtonparan ormal.com

As always keep sending in your haunted locations from all over West Virginia so we may continue to add more listings.

You can find all of our haunted places listings on our website www.HuntingtonParanormal.com

Be sure to mark your calendars for the weekend of Nov 6-7 2009, as we will be hosting a Historical Walking Tour through the historic streets of Guyandotte WV during Guyandotte Civil War Days.(www.GuyandotteCivilWarDays.com ) See you there!

October Events

Posted in Events, News by HPIR on the October 21st, 2008

HAUNTED HUNTINGTON: HUNTINGTON’S TRUE GHOST STORIES!

Come join Huntington Paranormal at the Guyandotte Branch Library on Saturday, October 25 at 12:30 pm as we prepare to get in the Halloween spirit with Haunted Huntington: Huntington’s True Ghost Stories!Join us for an afternoon of spooky stories and terrifying tales straight from Huntington, WV and surrounding areas. Lecture is free and open to the public and will be presented in a family-friendly atmosphere.
Please visit us at www. huntingtonparanormal. com for more information!Guyandotte Branch Library:
http://cabell. lib. wv. us/pages/aa-guyandotte. html

203 Richmond Street
Huntington, WV 25702

Tel: (304) 528-5698 

      

HISTORIC GUYANDOTTE CANDLELIGHT WALKING TOUR     Huntington Paranormal has been given the opportunity to participate in Guyandotte’s Annual Civil War Days Festival!We’ll be giving guided walking tours throughout the historical section of downtown Guyandotte, lecturing on the various homes and places of historical significance. Please come out and join us! What: Historic Guyandotte Walking Tour

When: October 31st and November 1st. Tours leave at 7:15pm, 8:00pm, 8:45pm, and 9:30pm each evening.

Where: Tours meet and will depart from the lot of the Guyandotte Branch Public Library, located at

203 Richmond Street

.

Who: Your tour guides will be Huntington Paranormal’s very own members, complete in period costume! The tours are sponsored by Huntington Paranormal and with full support and permission from the Guyandotte Civil War Days committee.

Admission: Tours are free and open to the public. An informational and sign-in booth will be located in the library parking lot.

Additional Info: The tours will last approximately 45 minutes, and the round trip is well under a mile in length on flat ground, but walking shoes would probably be preferable. The route is also wheelchair accessible.

More information:

Huntington Paranormal
http://www. huntingtonparanormal. com/Guyandotte_Tour

Civil War Days
http://www. guyandottecivilwardays. org/

Guyandotte Branch Library
http://cabell. lib. wv. us/pages/aa-guyandotte. html

 

 

Originally posted by Theresa, HPIR.

What’s been going on

Posted in News by HPIR on the May 22nd, 2008

Hey everyone, it’s been a long time since any of us have posted on here so I thought I’d take a few minutes to update everyone on what’s been going on with the group.


Things have been relatively slow in the past few months. We have only done a few private investigations this year, we also did a lecture at the Cabell County Library in March and several of our members were interviewed on the Marshall University produced talk show Up Late. Be sure to check out the video, we have it up on our Video page.

Over the past few months I have gotten many e-mails from people hoping to become members of HPIR, for all of you who are interested please hang on a little longer. I hope to hold a recruitment meeting sometime this summer to allow those interested in joining HPIR to meet us and learn about what we do. I expect by fall things will once again pick up (investigation wise) and we will need to add more people to our team.


We have a few ideas for this summer such as offering a class or lecture of our own to the public. We of course will announce any plans we have on our website, so check back regularly. We do plan on attending the Mothman Festival once again this year, so if you are out and about in Pt. Pleasant during the festival come say hi!

This summer we will be celebrating our 2nd year as a group! We have investigated many locations throughout the Tri-State in the past two years, and we hope to continue finding new and interesting places to research.


At the end of last year we had the great privilege to investigate one of Huntington’s most famous buildings….The Keith Albee Theater. Exploring every nook and cranny of the Keith’s interior was quite unlike any other investigation we have done to date.  The Keith Albee is indeed an impressive structure; however we were disappointed to find no evidence of paranormal activity while we were there.

Keep an eye open in the next few weeks for a new section I plan on adding to the website about the History of Huntington.


As always, if you are have any information on haunted locations to share or a question to ask our team please e-mail us at investigations@huntingtonparanomal.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Melissa
HPIR Founder

 

Theresa’s Blog 9-5-07

Posted in Uncategorized by Theresa on the September 6th, 2007

The next two weekends are going to be extremely busy for myself and HPIR!

September 7-8

Flatwoods Monster convention at the Capitol Plaza Theater in Charleston, WV.

September 9

Ghost hunt at the Anchorage (Putnam House) in Marietta, OH.  Sponsored by MOVGH.

September 15-16

HPIR will have a table at the Mothman Festival in Pt. Pleasant, WV.  Stop by and say HI!

 

Theresa’s Blog 8-26-07

Posted in News, Uncategorized by Theresa on the August 26th, 2007

I have successfully survived my first week of school and even got a 100% on my first Spanish quiz!  Muy bien!

But ugh…things have been pretty strange around my house lately…in both the paranormal AND just plain abnormal sense.  A few days ago my iguana somehow unhinged her cage and went on a little journey.  Fearing that she had been eaten by one of the dogs, I panicked…and totally overlooked her just hanging out in my underwear drawer.  I think she was laughing at me as I was frantically taking my bed apart, fearful I’d find her lifeless corpse underneath.

We’re also having our bathrooms remodeled…and that has stirred up a LOT of activity.  Last Tuesday while I was at school, my mom was here alone.  She said she kept hearing footsteps coming down the hall, someone tapping on her headboard, and horrid crashes coming out of my bathroom, despite there being literally NOTHING in there, lol.

Just yesterday, I saw our “main” ghost come down the hallway and seemingly stop at the entrance to my bathroom and disappear.  He didn’t have a happy look on his face…probably wondering why the heck we’ve gutted HIS bathroom, lol.  A few weeks prior, my mom had another experience while I was away.  She witnessed the front door slowly opening and closing, and the dogs watching someone walk down the hallway.

Theresa’s Blog 8-14-07

Posted in About Me by Theresa on the August 14th, 2007

Hey everyone! I thought I’d start this first blog with a little about myself.  

I’m Theresa and I’m the Research Manager here at HPIR.  I’ve been a member since September, although I have about 6 years of experience in field research and investigation.

As Research Manager, it is my job to check into the background of the places we investigate, whether that be through newspaper articles, title searches, etc.  I am also working on a database of local haunted places and links to information regarding those places.  It is my goal for HPIR to be a central hub  for not only paranormal-related info, but for historical research on reported haunted places as well.

Unofficially, my research is a bit broader.  I maintain directories both on community referrals and resources, and also on resources for further research, lol.  If you ever need information about a historical society, library, courthouse, or genealogical society in the tri-state area, don’t hesitate to ask!

To satisfy my own curiosity, I also have several notebooks filled with articles and information on popular (and not so popular) paranormal concepts, and mundane causes that are mistaken for paranormal activity.  I usually post these on our message board, but again, feel free to drop me a message if you need more information. Right now, my interests are in sleep disorders and sleep-related phenomena.

I live in Winfield, WV, and in addition to serving as Research Manager and holding a board member position at HPIR, I’m also considered an “honorary” member at BSPHI, a group out of central Ohio.  Further, I’m a fixture on several paranormal message boards out there, as I love meeting and talking with people with similar interests to mine.

On a personal level, I’m 24 years old and have a degree as a paralegal.  I also go to Marshall, where I’m pursuing a psychology degree, with a concentration in research psychology. I’m also taking a genealogy class through WVU, and starting in October, will be taking a nine week course in astral projection. I have three puppies, a cat, a newt, and a mean little iguana, all whom I love dearly, lol.

So there’s the bio!  Feel free to drop me a line anytime at my email addy located on our Members page.

Oh, and MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN THIS THURSDAY TO BLOGTALK RADIO!!

-Theresa

HPIR on BlogTalk Radio

Posted in Media by HPIR on the August 13th, 2007

Join Theresa and Steve this Thursday August 16th at 10PM EST on BlogTalk Radio: The Open Mind hosted by Dave Francis of PRISM Paranormal. Be sure to call in with your questions and comments the call in number will be announced during the broadcast Thursday night so be sure to listen!

 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hostpage.aspx?show_id=12013