Paranormal investigators visit Morton-James library June 29
“It’s me.” The voice, though barely more than a whisper, sounds clear enough. It was recorded in a pitch-dark basement by Fly By Night, a trio of paranormal investigators from Omaha. None of the three, Kevin Turner, Angela Bowing, and Stephen Gardner, knows for sure who the voice belongs to. Nobody else was in the room. Fly By Night came to the Morton-James Public Library on June 29 to talk about “things you can’t explain,” which is how Turner defines the term “paranormal.” A dozen tweens and a few parents listened in fascination as he and his colleagues related their experiences with the supernatural, playing videos and recordings and demonstrating some of the equipment they use in their explorations of unexplained phenomena. Turner asked the audience members about their own experiences with the paranormal. One boy described often glimpsing white-faced people hovering in the room. Another sees a floating brick every year on his birthday. One mom recalled battery-operated toys that turned themselves on when nobody was around. The trio has experienced some perplexing things while investigating reports of unexplained phenomena. Bowing described feeling a hand touch her backside as she and Gardner were leaving the basement of an abandoned asylum in Edinburgh, Iowa, one dark night. Gardner was several steps ahead of her ascending the stairs. “I definitely felt five digits squeeze me,” said Bowing—the five fingers of a hand. Another time, a video shows Turner bang once on a metal locker in a “haunted” school in Farrar, Iowa. “Can you do that?” Turner asks what he believes is an unseen spirit in the room. Almost immediately, there is an even louder thump on another locker five feet away.
