We did an exhaustive investigation (twice) on the Granada Theater, and an meticulous review of the evidence, and though we dismissed a boat load of evidence, we were still left with quite a bit.
Though we dismissed more than 90% of our EVP evidence due to contamination from terrestrial sources, we were still left with a large volume of unexplainable sounds. Most of these are displayed at http://claranormal.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhIjLWpNCfc.
The disregarded terrestrial sources are things such as aircraft, loud cars passing by, trains in the distance, investigators whispering without identifying themselves (we're working on fixing that) and team members and guides making sounds. This is in additions to odd acoustics of this theater and the office building's hallways that surround it. At one point on the ground floor of the theater I thought I was onto something important: Strange noises coming from the stage. Nope, it was at least one guide asleep and snoring.
On the video evidence, almost all of Steve's video from the initial investigation was worthless (camera set wrong) and Justin's video is stuck in his camera (oops!). The exception to this is the Ovilus video/audio recording at the first investigation. See this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9K5offGMLQ
However, on the second investigation Steve left two cameras rolling in two separate locations. The first was in Emma's Hallway, which watched over a gaggle of candy suckers we left behind to see if they moved. They did not. However, the camera did move. See this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7r7azWblKk. The second camera was set up in the small basement of the theater. On the first investigation, we caught an EVP (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRNXGti5iQ) in the basement which, when played backwards, tells us to "Get Out" twice, so it was a natural place to set up our old video 8 analog camera (if it fell over and broke, no great loss...). This video captured taps on the camera, weird ghostly music, a flying orb, something blowing into the camera mic (lost footage) but most disturbing is that the camera's recording shut off for no explainable reason, with at least a half an hour of tape left, and more than an hour of battery left. Some of the tapping sounds we hear sound like water dripping, and in fact in a one frames we actually saw a drop of water fall, but there was no water on the floor when we left the camera, nor when we retrieved it. See video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST5W4LkGIeI.
Image evidence. This is a topic that we have to deal with very carefully, because it's very easy in a dark setting, especially, to make faces out of pixelation, and for the mind to see shapes that are not there. We studied the photos very carefully, and after initially coming to the conclusion that we'd captured a lot of amazing images of ghosts, we winnowed it down considerably. For instance, the pictures of the sound booth lady from the 2nd investigation we invalidated, but the image of her from the first investigation could not be invalidated. Likewise the robo looking guy in the balcony. We found that most of his features were caused by the background and ceiling of the theater, but not all of them. He does in fact move, from frame to frame. The visages who look like, and we call, "Rasta Man," "Ben Franklin," 'Light Man," "Andrew Jackson," "Big Ear Guy," and "Uncle Fester" we can not eliminate either, though Fester, Light man, Ben and Rasta could very well be pixelation interpretations.
On orbs, yes, we did include a lot of images of orbs, even though most of them, if not all, were created by dust in the air. We included these for a couple of reasons. One was that some of the orb images also have other interesting things in them, and the other is that there are some people who are orb fans, and these are presented for them. Our official stance on orbs is that they are usually dust or bugs, but now and again, you catch gold.
My last official word on Granada is copied from an email I sent one of our investigators:
"I did get a definite feeling, and I really want to say it was from THE BUILDING ITSELF although I know that's crazy because a structure can not have a memory, feelings and such, that the Granada is ashamed. Ashamed of it's current condition. Angry at it's neglect and mis-use. Sad and pining for it's glory days, when the people came in excited and happy to be there, rather than quite and reflective in it's use as a church. People inquisitive, scared, sometimes horrified, like entering a "House of Horrors" with all the ghost investigations, rather than in happy expectation that a night (or matinee) away at the movie brings. The building feels that it can still be put to good, wholesome use, possibly hosting the school districts plays, regularly scheduled old movie nights, etc.
I know it's not the building projecting this, but rather those who left their indelible imprint, and those who stayed behind, as well as those who come back to visit. And many they are."
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