Ghost Hunt of the Tombstone Marshal's Office

Investigation Report

Location: Tombstone Marshal's Office, Tombstone, AZ
Date: 13 October 2002
Personnel Participating: Cody Polston, Bob Carter, Team 1
Weather Conditions: Clear
Humidity: 28%
Geomagnetic Storm Activity: Geomagnetic K-index of 4
Temperature: 71
Number of Photos taken: 183
Number with possible targets: 3
Average EM Readings: 8 mg
Average M fields Readings: 2 nt
Average E Field Readings: 3 vpm
Cold Spots detected: None
Hot Spots Detected: None
Olfactory Phenomena: None
Visual Phenomena: None
Type of Investigation: Ghost Hunt

Location Description and History

The place was Tombstone, Arizona territory, the time was Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 1881 and the setting was a vacant lot in the vicinity of the stables and sheds of the O. K. Corral. But the frightened horses landed the O. K. corral as the name forever to be remembered by the showdown.

The showdown occurred with Morgan, Virgil and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday being on one side and on the other side were Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, Billy Claiborne, and Wes Fuller. The O. K. Corral Gun fight lasted 30 seconds, Frank McLaury was dead from a bullet wound to the stomach fired by Wyatt Earp's gun, Tom McLaury dead from Doc Holliday's shotgun, and Billy Clanton dying from chest wounds.

Wes Fuller wasn't present for the O. K. Corral Gun fight. Ike Clanton retreated into a shop the second the bullets started flying followed close behind by Billy Claiborne. Morgan Earp fell with a shoulder wound, Virgil with a leg wound, and Doc Holliday with a grazed left hip. Wyatt Earp remained unscathed by the gun fight.
At the time, these key players had no idea that they had just

been involved in the most famous gun fight in the history of the wild and wicked West.

However the gunfight was not actually fought at the OK corral. A historian once remarked that "The Gunfight at the OK Corral" sounds a lot better than "The Gunfight on the Vacant Half of Lot 2 of Tombstone City Block 17 Between Camillus Fly's Boarding House and Photography Shop and the House Owned by William Harwood." It fits the movie marquees a lot better too.
But that's where it really happened.

In present times the Tombstone Marshal's office is located over a large portion of the once former vacant half of Lot 2.

If the phenomena felt by the deputies there is ghost related, there could be a variety of possible suspects, including Billy Clanton. Billy didn't die immediately after the gunfight and was hauled indoors after the gunfight. When a guy gets plugged in the movies and "isn't going to make it", he'll still have plenty of time to deliver his lines. Oh, he may cough and gasp a bit, but he'll still say he's sorry for what he did and how he hopes his mother won't find out about what happened and to tell Nellie he won't be around to help on the ranch. And usually he asks to have his boots taken off. Then he lifts his head high enough so it can dramatically fall back to let the audience know he's finally dead.

"My parents always said I'd wind up here."

In reality things are quite different. So rather than giving long teary speeches, Billy was "hallooing" with the pain and "turning and twisting and kicking in every manner." You never see this in the movies, but you do see it if someone really gets gut shot.

One of the men told Billy he couldn't live.

"They have murdered me," Billy said. "I've been murdered. Chase the crowd away from the door and give me some air."

A doctor was called and Billy was given two doses of morphine. He lived less than fifteen minutes.

"Drive the crowd away," he said at the end.

Ironic, as the crowds still flock to Tombstone to watch the reenactment of his death hundreds of times each year. The dispute between whether the Earps or the Clanton's version of the story is correct is debated to this very day.

Reported Phenomena

Several law enforcement officer's have encountered unusual, uneasy feeling's at times while inside their offices and down in the basement. Could the intense emotions of yesteryear still be present at the location or is there something else responsible?

The Investigation

We were accompanied on this ghost hunt by Polo Cisernos (93.7 KRQ Producer) and Deputy Dave Nash of the Tombstone Marshall's Office. We began by sweeping the office and jail cells for unusual electromagnetic fields. The only ones we located were A/C fields associated with electrical equipment. the one exception was a strong D/C field (8 milligauss) that originated from the floor in the rear office. the origin of this field may be the old basement which lies beneath this part of the building.

From here we moved down into the basement. the section where we picked up the EM field in the room above was primarily used as a evidence locker. this area is flooded by other A/C fields coming from electrical wiring, making it more difficult to measure the D/C field with the equipment we had.

After performing an EM sweep of the rest of the basement, we turned off the lights and positioned the IR camera on the south end and a photographer on the north end. During the "blackout" we did pick up several unusual objects on the IR camera and the still camera, mixed in with lots of airborne dust particles.

Photographs
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Video
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Video shot in the basement of the Marshall's office.

While several of the glowing objects in this video clip may be dust, there are two in particular that we think are interesting because the same objects were photographed by an investigator on the opposite side of the room.

Video shot in the basement from the opposite side.

Globules are moving in a different directions, which is not common with dust or other air borne particles.

Initial Conclusions

The basement contained unusually high background electrical fields of 3 vpm.
The targets in the video (Globules?) move in one direction while on one side of the room, then they change direction completely when filmed from the other side of the room.

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