Investigation Report

Location: Bisbee Grand Hotel, Bisbee, AZ.
Date: 01 Sept 2001
Personnel Participating: Cody Polston, Jessica Irwin
Weather Conditions: Clear
Humidity: 15%
Geomagnetic Storm Activity: Unsettled
Temperature: 82
Number of Photos taken: 132
Number with possible targets: 0
Average EM Readings: 6 mg
Average M fields Readings: 1 nt
Average E Field Readings: 1 vpm
Cold Spots detected: None
Olfactory Phenomena: None
Visual Phenomena: None
Type of Investigation: Ghost Hunt

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Location Description and History

The Bisbee Grand Hotel is an elegant and romantic step back to the turn of the century. Each room is individually appointed with antiques and family heirlooms.

Constructed in 1906, the hotel originally housed traveling mining executives. In 1986 the entire hotel was renovated and restored in an Old West Victorian style. The hotel closed in 1987 and was re-opened in 1989.

Bill Thomas, in Bisbee on a two day visit, toured the closed hotel for fun and fell in love with it enough to exchange twenty years of banking and tennis coaching for the opportunity to own and operate this landmark.

Each room has its own distinctive style and ambiance. For guests desiring romance and roominess, the hotel offers several unique suites with separate sitting rooms and private baths.

Reported Phenomena

The Bisbee Grand Hotel is also the home for two resident ghosts, one of a man that resides downstairs and one of a female that stays upstairs. The spirits are mostly just visible as apparitions and do not move objects around. The latest sighting was in a downstairs suite called the Captain Room.

The Investigation

We arrived at 2:00pm and conducted EM sweeps of the hotel while conducting interviews with the staff. No unusual EM fields were found and the photographs contained nothing substantial. The "orbs" in all of our photographs[phs here contained diffraction rings that are consistent with air borne pollutants.

Photographs

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Initial Conclusions

Nothing of interest, paranormal wise, was found in the hotel during this visit.

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