The Pink Lady
She looks pretty in pink. Or should we say, pretty scary in pink. Many have reported seeing "The Pink Lady," an apparition in dense pink smoke at the Grove Park Inn, a posh hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. Joshua Warren was hired by the hotel to conduct a scientific investigation into the sightings in 1995.
Speculation has it that a young woman wearing a pink gown jumped (or was thrown) to her death from the hotel's inner balcony sometime around 1920. Odd though fairly benign encounters with the pink phantom began being reported in 1940 and included bellmen being pushed by an unseen force and typewriters typing by themselves.
Warren's team of investigators found a number of unexplainable electromagnetic readings that seemed to correlate with the sightings along with some photographic evidence. One such photo showed an unusual orange glow coming from behind the door of Room 545. Investigating further, the room was found to have peculiar fluctuating energy fields. "An unexplainable feeling of weight pressed down on my hand and the hair on my knuckles stood up. The force felt full of static but neutral in temperature," Warren wrote in
Fate magazine of the strange encounter he had in Room 545. Since then, Room 545 has become a popular attraction at the hotel, with many guests requesting to stay in it. Hey, it beats HBO!
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Recap
Ghostly Science
“All science is really paranormal research,” in that it seeks to solve the unexplained, Joshua Warren said on his appearance on Coast on Monday night. As head of L.E.M.U.R., a paranormal investigative team, Warren offered many interesting case studies and theories that arise from his interesting line of work. Warren and his team bring a scientific approach to their investigations using a variety of testing equipment.
As to why so many unusual events and hauntings such as the Pink Lady occur around the Asheville, North Carolina area, he conjectured that the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains are heavy in quartz, which could be tied into paranormal effects. And after all, he pointed out with a touch of humor-- the word “evil” is contained in Asheville.
Warren believes that ghostly phenomena have a physical component. In fact he described a rare case where a ghost was sexually molesting a woman who said she had bruises in her groin area from the attacks. In another incident a person actually called 911 to report an intruder, as the entity was so fully realized. Warren also discussed his interest in other unusual physical phenomena in the area such as the extremely bright lights seen in the Brown Mountains which he suspects may be a type of energy plasma.
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Joshua P. Warren