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Oct 29, 2008 6:48 pm US/Central
Ghost Investigation TV Show Filmed In Minnesota
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The group claims to see spirits, hear voices and even talk to the dead. The show's called "Dead Reckoning" and right now it's in the shooting stage. (File)
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With Halloween just a couple days away, one Minnesota ghost hunting group is hoping its supernatural interactions can get some national attention.
They claim to see spirits, hear voices and even talk to the dead. The show's called "Dead Reckoning" and right now it's in the shooting stage.
WCCO-TV talked with the group and found out that there was plenty of material inside one Twin Cities theater for the first episode.
Built on St. Paul's East Side in 1922, the Mounds Theater's been a place for live shows, silent movies and the kind of stories that will send a shiver down your spine.
Most people come to the theater for the food and the treats, little do these people know they're not just here to watch a ghost story -- they're in one.
Scott Roberts is the lead ghost investigator in his group.
Their paranormal probe settled on this place because of its history: deserted in the 1960s and finally reopened more than 30 years later.
"When you start doing renovations in a place and your changing things around that have been established for a long time, you raise activity," said Roberts.
Kids went the theater in the early years and there are rumors that some never left. The tools of the ghost hunting trade picked up high activity on stage when the investigating team sang.
There's talk the man who ran the projection room is still there in spirit, too.
"We want to be able to quantify what we're hearing and find out -- put it through as much scientific measure as we're capable of doing to see what's really there," said Roberts.
Dead Reckoning hopes to raise history from the dead, testing the tales and they'll do it all over the upper Midwest if they can sell their show.
"What's important for me is ... to show that there's something else out there than maybe what we realize, or what we're taught, or what we're comfortable with," said Roberts.
The group will shoot two more episodes this week in Sauk Centre at the Palmer House Hotel.
They plan to pitch the show at the end of the year to several cable channels.
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