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and the procedure was carried out. We have since heard that some activity has been noted, but Dillon is of the opinion that it is simply people’s imagination and nothing to be concerned about.
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    GRANT’S TAKE
    I have to admit that I was skeptical when I heard about the pitchfork. That just seemed like the product of an overactive imagination. But after experiencing what went on in that warehouse, I’m more inclined to believe the story.
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GHOSTS WITHOUT LEGS APRIL 2002
    O ne of our strangest cases took place in a New York City suburb, where two children were being scared to death by apparitions without legs. They were so distraught that they were actually poking their eyes to keep from seeing the things.
    Normally, Grant and I like to stay home with our families on Christmas Eve, just like anyone else. But when we heard what these children were going through, we knew we had to put our holiday aside. Keith Johnson and Heather Drolet must have felt the same way, because they agreed to go with us.
    When we arrived, Heather and I interviewed the homeowners, Amy and Gary Stanton, while Grant and Keith began setting up our equipment. We learned that Mindy Stanton, age seven, had seen a human figure move through her bedroom without noticing her. And for some strange reason, the figure seemed to be buried in the floor up to its hips.
    Twelve-year-old Marcus had seen an entity walking in the hallways, similarly sunken into the floor. He too said the entity hadn’t appeared to notice him. Alan, age fifteen, hadn’t seen anything out of the ordinary.
    But Mr. and Mrs. Stanton had seen a male figure walking down the stairs from the second-floor landing, its feet buried in the steps. When they confronted it, it had vanished. All three apparitions had recurred in the same locations.
    We explored the entire house and recorded both video and audio for several hours. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any results. When we left in the early hours of the morning, we had nothing to offer the family.
    However, our research turned up some interesting information. Apparently, the house was built on what used to be farmland, and the farmer’s house, which had been torn down long ago to make way for a suburban development, had stood on more or less the same spot. It occurred to us that the apparitions were the occupants of the farmhouse, tied to the place for reasons we couldn’t begin to imagine.
    But why would they appear to be sunken into the floor? Because the floors of the farmhouse had been lower than the floors in the Stanton house. The apparitions were still walking in the paths they had always walked, unaware that a second house had replaced their own.
    From all indications, this was a residual haunting—one that plays itself over and over again, like a broken record. The supernatural entity can’t interact with its environment. It’s just a pattern of energy left over from its earlier activities.
    We offered the family our theory. But even if it was accurate, they were too scared to let the situation continue. In the end, they had the house blessed, which reportedly eradicated the entities from their home.
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    GRANT’S TAKE
    T hose legless apparitions had to be a frightening sight. In some cases, knowing what’s causing the haunting makes it less chilling for the observer. But not in this case.
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THE BET JULY 2004
    T he best result we ever got from an investigation was at Race Rock Lighthouse on the west end of Fishers Island, a vicious-looking pile of rock that sits at the eastern entrance to the Long Island Sound. We were invited there by the Coast Guard, which had been frustrated in its attempts to prove or disprove rumors that the place was haunted.
    Race Rock had certainly seen its share of tragedies over the years. During the early 1800s, vessels struck the partially submerged formation with shocking regularity. The best-known ship to wreck itself on the reef was the steamer Atlantic, which went down in the