Paranormal dinner benefits park
ZELIENOPLE — Lights dimmed around a crystal chandelier in a room packed with people as silence swept the tables. Wall candelabras, fall bouquets above a fireplace and drawn curtains surrounded guests as they sampled wine and shrimp.
Black-and-white footage cast a ghost-hunting team on screen in a pallid blaze before the room. The gleaming eyes of the investigators on screen mimicked those of their real-life counterparts hosting the Wine and Ghost Dinner Wednesday evening at Kaufman Tavern in Zelienople. All proceeds from the event benefit the Zelienople Community Park.
Then a few people gasped audibly as something dark in the background behind a team member moved.
“For us, we do fixate a lot on residential and small businesses,” paranormal investigator Josh Fries told guests before the lights dimmed.
“Everybody wants to do the big stuff. Everybody wants the penitentiaries ... because they think there’s a lot of activity,” he said, referring to paranormal activity. “What they don’t realize is that smaller places have just as much, if not more.”
Fries and other members of the Allegheny Paranormal Investigators began their group seven years ago.
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