TV ghost investigators to examine Roxy Theater in Muskogee

by Leif Wright on 2012-05-18

The Society of the Haunted will be investigating the historic Roxy Theater in Muskogee, Oklahoma at 7 p.m. on June 2.

The Society, whose members have been featured on Animal Planet’s “The Haunted” will be the first team to investigate this historic location and will be conducting EVP investigations, ghost box sessions and spirit photography.  The team is expecting to find activity in the Roxy due to the building’s age and long history.

“We were told that there were some stories of things that have gone on inside the building,” said Cathy Nance, case manager with the society. “We operate from scientific principle…..

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Society of the Haunted coming to Muskogee

The Society of the Haunted will be investigating the historic Roxy Theater in Muskogee, Oklahoma at 7p.m. on Saturday, June 2.

The Society, whose members have been featured on Animal Planet’s “The Haunted”, will be the first team to investigate this historic location and will be conducting EVP investigations, ghost box sessions and spirit photography.

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Paranormal Investigation of the Frederick Army Airfield by Mick Ross

This is my second trip with the paranormal investigation team called the Society of the Haunted. This time the team was called to Frederick OK to look into claims of mysterious shadows and distant voices at an old air force hanger built during WWII. Are the shadows the spirits of pilots and paratroopers haunting the hanger and barracks?

The Frederick Army Airfield Hanger opened in September of 1942 during WWII and was inactivated in October of 1945 when the Army Air Forces were reorganized. The base was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers in September of 1946. Eventually the base became a civilian airport.

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The Society of the Haunted was featured in the Norman Transcript

Who You Gonna Call?
Oct 28, 2011
by Kendall Brown

Read the article on pages 13 and 14 of the viewer but was actually printed on pages 14 and 15 of the paper

http://normantranscript.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma’ showcases haunted history
By Mick Ross
For The Oklahoman
Published: October 25, 2011

The jury is still out for me. I’ve searched many places for ghosts. I’ve felt chills from being in the dark as my mind played tricks on me. But so far, no ghosts, no moving objects and no disembodied voices.

It’s not that I don’t want to believe; I am waiting to believe.

That’s why I so enjoyed “Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma” by Mike Ricksecker, 37, of Yukon.

I met Ricksecker when he came to work with me as a programmer. I was surprised when he mentioned he investigated hauntings with his team, Society of the Haunted.

I found myself asking him likely the same questions he’s heard 100 times before: What have you seen? Scariest incident? He happily answered with a knowing look in his eyes.

A recent transplant to Oklahoma, I know little about the state. That’s why some of my favorite parts of Ricksecker’s book are about Oklahoma’s history. The author includes a history lesson for each place the team researched.

The stories in “Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma” illustrate Oklahoma’s distinct times of prosperity, periods of decline and some of its darker days. Many of those dark times led to the stories and legends of the supernatural that Ricksecker writes about in his book.

Whether you believe is your choice.

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http://mood.newsok.com/ghosts-and-legends-of-oklahoma-showcases-haunted-history/article/3616875

Haunted tour of OU tonight and Saturday
Transcript staff The Norman Transcript

NORMAN — An adjunct instructor at the University of Oklahoma plans to lead tours of spooky haunts on the Norman campus, just in time for Halloween………

Angela Startz, media specialist for the College of Arts and Sciences, issued a news release Thursday with information on Ellison Hall from Chris Borthick, an OU Gaylord College academic counselor and member of Society of the Haunted.

“Ellison Hall originally was named Hygeia Hall, after the Greek goddess of health and wellness, and served as the infirmary for the campus,” Startz wrote in a news release. ”The first floor served as a clinic to OU students, the second floor held patient rooms and the third floor was filled with operating rooms. The same windows where students checked into the clinic now serve as check-in windows for students waiting to be advised in the college. ”

“Legend has it that a boy roller skating on Elm Avenue was struck by a car,” she continued. ”Carried into Hygeia Hall, he died. Since that time, the sounds of his skates are heard along the hallways of the second and third floors. Most members of the dean’s staff have experienced other occurrences that happen in the quiet after-hours: motion-sensitive lights turning on for no reason, noises coming from the empty end of the hall, knocks on the wall of empty and locked offices. Other staff members have reported hearing voices and dishes clinking on the first floor.”

 
http://normantranscript.com/headlines/x2010687192/Haunted-tour-of-OU-tonight-and-Saturday

The group was featured in the The Hennessey Clipper

Three Okla. City paranormal visual analysis inspectors were in town Saturday night. They were here for the night life, and the hereafter life, at the Ranch Room recreation center located in the 100 block of North Main. Ranch Room owner Scotty Hajek said he let them into the building at about 8:30 p.m. and then went to the benefit dance, and they called him at about 1:30 a.m. to say they’d finished. “But they want to come back,” Hajek said.
The three inspectors are members of the Society of the Haunted and have a web site where they discuss and show videos of their paranormal discoveries. “We need to do some further scientific research in Hennessey,” said Kenneth Melton, one of the inspectors, in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “We definitely got some spikes on our meters.” He said in their preliminary visit they first “swept the building” to make sure there wasn’t anyone there who would “mess with us and try to fool us.”

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http://hennesseyclipper.com/ghost-busters-come-to-hennessey-p3451-1.htm

Featured in the book “Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma” by Mike Ricksecker. He is a friend and the author of Ghosts of Maryland as well.

Here is a description of the book

Explore the paranormal history of Oklahoma through its colorful ghost stories and legends, as well as through the eyes of a renowned paranormal team. Have drinks with outlaw ghosts in an old saloon and tip your hat to the lady spirits upstairs in the bordello. Discover why several professional basketball players fear a hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. Learn about an alternate ending to the life of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Follow the atlas and investigate the famous Stone Lion Inn, the 101 Ranch, Overholser Mansion, and other historic haunted locales throughout the state. This spine-tingling cross-section of Oklahoma’s history includes dozens of tales of Native Americans, the Civil War, famous outlaws, Wild West shows, oil boom towns, railroad legends, deadly tornadoes, and historic Route 66. Haunted Oklahoma awaits you!

Buy an autographed copy from Mike on his personal website

http://www.rrdevelopments.com/mike/

or buy the book on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764339435/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=mikericksecke-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0764339435&adid=0GTNNER310JHNXSNTKFQ

We were featured in the Lawton Constitution. I will be posting an article on this investigation later

9/17/2011Who you gonna call? Paranormal investigators try to capture spirits at Ramona

ZEKE CAMPFIELD FREDERICK  There’s nothing eerie about the Ramona Theater, but whoever said ghosts had to be spooky anyway? Partly on a hunch and partly for history’s sake, a group of Oklahoma City-based paranormal investigators has targeted the downtown Frederick theater as the site of its next project. Beginning at sunset tonight, members of the Society of the Haunted will use their experience and some expensive, high-tech recording equipment to try to capture any spirits that may or may not exist within the theater’s antique walls. They’re not saying the Ramona is haunted, but members of the Frederick Arts and Humanities Council say the building is definitely a living beast. “You always feel a presence  not scary, not bad, but a presence,” said the council’s president, Dana Greer. “Not this winter but last winter I spent a great deal of time through the winter painting rooms upstairs, painting the downstairs bathrooms. You hear noises, but is it the old building creaking or what?” The Ramona Theater opened as the “Showplace of the Southwest” in 1929, the day before the stock market crash kicked off the Great Depression. For years it was the social centerpiece of town, from its opening night feature  “Gold Diggers on Broadway”  to a series of vaudeville acts during World War II. The theater was closed after “The Sound of Music” premiered in 1965, but the Frederick Arts and Humanities Council has continued to keep it maintained and hosts events there several times throughout the year

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http://www.swoknews.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=37621&SectionID=11&SubSectionID=99&S=1

Posted on August 4th, 2011 at 3:34 pm Wimgo Staff

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