Butler County ghost hunters
CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS, Crawford County — Amid the Victorian glory of an historic, 250-room hotel in Crawford County, visitors for some time have been reporting uncomfortable energies.
There's a dark pull toward the nearby French Creek.
There's a playful energy resounding in the hallways.
And there's at least one shadowy apparition calling out for recognition.
Reportings at The Riverside Inn were enough to lure the ghost hunting team and production crew of the Travel Channel's “Dead Files Revisited.” And as part of the episode “Plagued and Lethal Waters,” two Butler County sisters were called in to assist.
Jean McKenzie Vincent and Suzanne Vincent spent four days filming parts of the episode, which will air at 10 p.m. Saturday.
“The Travel Channel contacted us because of our reputation of being expert ghost hunters, paranormal investigators, psychic mediums and paratherapists,” Suzanne Vincent said. “A paratherapist is a person who goes to a haunted location and tries to find out why a ghost is bothering people that are at the location.”
In this case, visitors to the circa 1880s hotel, which was originally a mineral spa, had for some time been reporting a handful of unexplained energies, Suzanne Vincent said.
The show's stars, homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan, during the episode meet with the site's owners and staff to feel out the problems.
“They show us solving the problem,” said Suzanne Vincent, noting that in one case they guide a dark spirit into the light. And in other cases, where the energy doesn't seem negative, they convince the entities to tone down the activity.
“We also give the hotel's owner the tools needed to keep the negative energy away,” she said.
The sisters, who have called Butler County home for more than 25 years, have appeared on television programs in the past. And they have been called in to assist on crime investigations, including the 2006 murder of Blairsville dentist John Yelenic.
“We are sort of a cross between ghost whisperers and the long island medium,” Suzanne Vincent said.
