While I have been back to visit the Grand Midway Hotel since our investigation there, it has always been to visit the friends I had made, never in an official capacity. That is, until I returned with John and the Haunted Collector team. My first time investigating there changed the SCARED! Crew forever and I wondered what the second helping would reveal. It did not disappoint. While the place is by no means, “cleared”, I feel I’ve clarified some things for myself about what was there, and what still remains.
Watch the episode tonight on the SyFy Channel at 9PM EST and then come back here to see what the SCARED! Crew found when we were there in 2009.
5 thoughts on “Return to the Grand Midway Hotel”
Pretty nice post. I simply stumbled upon your weblog and wished to mention that I’ve really loved surfing around your blog posts. After all I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I’m hoping you write once more soon!
Hi Brian, I have to say that I found Scared’s episode far more compelling not to mention more interesting and well-put-together than HC, but I’m also figuring it wasn’t as subject to corporate editing. I found LisaAnn’s handling of the escalating situation very interesting. Too personal to ask what was clarified and what remained? The feel of the place on HC was very different than 2009, but it seemed to me the owners didn’t appear to be too concerned with evicting their nasty, manipulative tenant(?). Your thoughts?
SCARED! is an independent series of paranormal documentaries, produced 100% by us. So, we take 100% of the blame as well as the praise.
While there, John got an EVP on the actual second floor (the third floor was mislabeled as the second on HC) in the same voice as the one we got in 2009. At least that’s what it sounded like to me. Here is what concerned me: since the EVP was captured on the second floor this time, did that mean the entity had freed itself from that room, or did it expand it’s territory, or what? Then I looked at our original EVP a different way. It had asked, “Can you break out of the circle? The circle of fire?Die.” That, “die” always seemed odd to me since it was so out of place. What with this new EVP to go with it, I thought, maybe the first one was not the voice of the demon, but of another spirit, perhaps angelic or guardian in nature making sure the walls were secure. Like a prison guard asking the prisoner if his cell was comfy – to which the demon said, “Die.” as a rebuke to the question. THAT being the case, I felt better about the second EVP being in the voice of the original one, because the malevolent spirit was still confined to the third floor.
Of course, this is just speculation on my part, but it does make me feel better and it does raise even more Big Picture questions in my mind…but that’s a discussion for another time.
Ah, you never forget your first nasty entity-twists the axis of your perception of the world, god, good, evil, your place in all of it. (Which isn’t a bad thing). Some observations/ponderances from waaay over here in my tangent of the peanut gallery: Comment, correct, or just delete…
Don’t know what to make of the room and the binding on it or how permanent it is. I don’t hold a lot of trust in the binding thing (see Mummy I and II, Ghostbusters I);) On one hand, is the entity really that powerful if it can be trapped in a dingy room, waiting for its invoker? I assume lots of people (and their various intentions) are visiting that room. My concern- only a matter of time before it finds the right host. When to bind, when to banish? Better in prison than running amok? Why is it being allowed to stay there? Might as well keep a hungry alligator in your guest bathroom.
So what exactly is it? What does the scientist say? Is it an energy conglomeration of the lower base emotions of human nature, a manifestation of that young man’s severe emotional and spiritual troubles, just another annoying manipulative bully? Kind of a bummer to know these petty tyrant a-holes exist and torment others on other planes of existence too. They really need to get a life (or a major ass kicking) once and for all.
So, for the crew, did the experience produce a renewal, adjustment, change of faith or none of the above? Personally, I think faith is always in flux depending on what life throws at you-but the basic things that give you strength when you need it are there no matter the label put on them. M.
Pretty nice post. I simply stumbled upon your weblog and wished to mention that I’ve really loved surfing around your blog posts. After all I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I’m hoping you write once more soon!
Hi Brian, I have to say that I found Scared’s episode far more compelling not to mention more interesting and well-put-together than HC, but I’m also figuring it wasn’t as subject to corporate editing. I found LisaAnn’s handling of the escalating situation very interesting. Too personal to ask what was clarified and what remained? The feel of the place on HC was very different than 2009, but it seemed to me the owners didn’t appear to be too concerned with evicting their nasty, manipulative tenant(?). Your thoughts?
SCARED! is an independent series of paranormal documentaries, produced 100% by us. So, we take 100% of the blame as well as the praise.
While there, John got an EVP on the actual second floor (the third floor was mislabeled as the second on HC) in the same voice as the one we got in 2009. At least that’s what it sounded like to me. Here is what concerned me: since the EVP was captured on the second floor this time, did that mean the entity had freed itself from that room, or did it expand it’s territory, or what? Then I looked at our original EVP a different way. It had asked, “Can you break out of the circle? The circle of fire? Die.” That, “die” always seemed odd to me since it was so out of place. What with this new EVP to go with it, I thought, maybe the first one was not the voice of the demon, but of another spirit, perhaps angelic or guardian in nature making sure the walls were secure. Like a prison guard asking the prisoner if his cell was comfy – to which the demon said, “Die.” as a rebuke to the question. THAT being the case, I felt better about the second EVP being in the voice of the original one, because the malevolent spirit was still confined to the third floor.
Of course, this is just speculation on my part, but it does make me feel better and it does raise even more Big Picture questions in my mind…but that’s a discussion for another time.
Ah, you never forget your first nasty entity-twists the axis of your perception of the world, god, good, evil, your place in all of it. (Which isn’t a bad thing). Some observations/ponderances from waaay over here in my tangent of the peanut gallery: Comment, correct, or just delete…
Don’t know what to make of the room and the binding on it or how permanent it is. I don’t hold a lot of trust in the binding thing (see Mummy I and II, Ghostbusters I);) On one hand, is the entity really that powerful if it can be trapped in a dingy room, waiting for its invoker? I assume lots of people (and their various intentions) are visiting that room. My concern- only a matter of time before it finds the right host. When to bind, when to banish? Better in prison than running amok? Why is it being allowed to stay there? Might as well keep a hungry alligator in your guest bathroom.
So what exactly is it? What does the scientist say? Is it an energy conglomeration of the lower base emotions of human nature, a manifestation of that young man’s severe emotional and spiritual troubles, just another annoying manipulative bully? Kind of a bummer to know these petty tyrant a-holes exist and torment others on other planes of existence too. They really need to get a life (or a major ass kicking) once and for all.
So, for the crew, did the experience produce a renewal, adjustment, change of faith or none of the above? Personally, I think faith is always in flux depending on what life throws at you-but the basic things that give you strength when you need it are there no matter the label put on them. M.
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