Tulpas, Ghost Polaroids and Interactive Parapsychology Experiments at the Glen Tavern Inn…

Our friends Bill and Anita Murphy (GhostTown.tv) have kindly invited us to speak at an upcoming event they are hosting at the historic Glen Tavern Inn March 23-25th – and it should prove to be a uniquely fun and fascinating weekend. Bill is one of the hosts of the SyFy Channel’s “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,” and he’s a geek (in a good way) for new technology – especially of the paranormal investigation variety, so no doubt there will be some cool new gadgets to check out. Attendees will of course have the opportunity to investigate the historically haunted inn during the course of the weekend-long event. But one of the coolest and most unique aspects of this event is that attendees and speakers will also be participating in a new “mind/matter” experiment, as well as exploring the theory of Thought Form Manifestation.

Hold up – what exactly is a “Thought Form?” Well, according to Wikipedia, “A thoughtform is a manifestation of mental energy, also known as a tulpa in Tibetan mysticism. Its concept is related to the Western philosophy and practice of magic.” Hmmm…well that explains everything. Not. But never fear because not only is Bill going to present the results of a previous thoughtform manifestation experiment conducted at the Glen Tavern, but author/researcher David Weatherly is going to give a presentation on tulpas and the history of thoughtforms. David has written numerous books about all kinds of topics from hauntings to UFO’s, but get this – he’s also studied Shamanic and magical traditions with elders from a number of cultures including Tibet, Native America, Europe and Africa.

Other guest speakers include paranormal author and historian Richard Senate (Research Methods for Paranormal Investigators), LiveSciFi.tv’s Tim Wood (Adapting Technology for Paranormal Investigation) and Patrick Langdon (Forensic Photography), Keith Engel of SpecterCam LLC; and Jim Spann (Spirit Photography). In a rare appearance, John Huckert, the occupant of the home of the mysterious “Ghost Writer / Ghost Polaroids” case will be presenting his experiences and rare video of some of the unusual events that surround this case. As mentioned earlier, Los Angeles Paranormal Association will also be presenting at the event, on the topic of Investigation Techniques, and LiveScifi.tv will be live broadcasting portions of the event throughout the weekend.

Oh and one other cool thing – the Glen Tavern Inn will be open for event ticket holders only for the weekend, so we will have the entire hotel to ourselves. Hope you all will join us for this unique experience.

For a detailed itinerary, ticket and accommodation information, click on the flyer below:

Pico House: A Paranormal Investigation II – Jan 28, 2012

Join us for a rare opportunity for a nighttime exploration of the buildings of the Old Los Angeles Plaza on our second paranormal investigation of the Pico House at the El Pueblo De Los Angeles National Monument.

The Pico House was once the most lavish hotel in Southern California and is now a California and National Historic Landmark. Long closed and now part of the El Pueblo De Los Angeles National Monument, the Pico House has had numerous reports of paranormal activity ranging from mysterious footsteps on the upper floors to shadow figures in the inner courtyard.

The investigation is limited to 35 registrants (broken into 4 teams) and will run from 8:00pm-2:00am. Locations include the main Pico House (3 floors plus inner courtyard), the basement and tunnels underneath the Pico House, the Masonic Hall and the Merced Theater (the oldest surviving theater in Los Angeles). We will also have access to explore the courtyard of the Avila Adobe, the oldest house in Los Angeles. Whether you are an armchair paranormal enthusiast, a seasoned paranormal investigator or simply a history buff, you won’t want to miss this rare opportunity to delve into Los Angeles’ history from a different point of view, during a 6-hour paranormal investigation of some of the oldest buildings in the city.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Ticket price is $85.00 per person and covers site fees, security and insurance. Event is 6 hours, 8:00pm-2:00am the evening of January 28, 2012. Tickets are non-refundable except in the case of event cancellation. This event is open to adults 18+ only and tickets are being sold in advance on a first come, first served basis. You will receive a confirmation email within 7 days of purchase. No actual ticket will be mailed out – please bring your receipt and confirmation printout for entry.

Email info@losangelesparanormal.org for current status on availability.

More on the Pico House and its hauntings:

Pico House: Ghosts of Old Los Angeles

Travel Channel / Ghost Adventures – Pico House

PICO HOUSE, 1870

Built by wealthy businessman and one-time governor Don Pio Pico, the Pico House was once the most lavish hotel in the young city of Los Angeles. It opened in 1870 – a transitional time in Los Angeles’ history, when wild-west lawlessness still prevailed. The streets around the plaza were filled with not only businesses and elite members of society, but also brothels, saloons and gambling halls. Many different cultures co-existed within an area of a few blocks, under an atmosphere of racial tension. Vigilance committees or “lynch mobs” were still known to take the law into their own hands, as happened on October 24, 1871, in a riot that become known as the “Chinese Massacre.” On that day, somewhere between 18-23 Chinese men and boys were brutally murdered in and around the Plaza by an angry mob of whites and Mexicans after an Anglo resident was killed in the cross fire between two rival Chinese Tongs.
The area around the Pico House continued to decline, as did Pio Pico’s fortune, and he lost the hotel in 1876. Today, staff have reported unusual activity ranging from mysterious footsteps from the 3rd floor to shadow figures in the inner courtyard.
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MERCED THEATER, 1871

The Merced is the oldest surviving theatre in Los Angeles. Ticket prices ranged from 50 cents in the balcony to $1.00 for main floor seats. The opening attraction was “Fanchon The Little Cricket.”
William Abbott named the venue after his wife Maria Merced (or Mercedes) Garcia. The building had retail on the ground floor (Abbott’s furniture store), the theatre on the second and living space for the Abbott family on the top floor. It was also known as the Teatro Merced and Mercedes Theatre.

The Merced was the center of Los Angeles theatrical activity from 1871 until 1876. The Merced declined after 1876 when the Wood’s Opera House opened four doors south. The Merced closed New Year’s Day 1877 due to the Woods competition as well as a smallpox epidemic.
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THE AVILA ADOBE, 1818

The Avila Adobe was constructed in 1818 by a prominent ranchero, Francisco José Avila, a native of Sinaloa, who was alcalde, or mayor of Los Angeles in 1810. Following Francisco Avila’s death in 1832, his second wife, Encarnación Avila continued to live in the house with her two daughters. The Los Angeles Census of 1844 lists Encarnación Avila, age 40, as a widow living in the house with one daughter. For a brief time, from January 10-19, 1847, the adobe was commandeered as a military headquarters by the invading North American army under Robert Stockton. After Encarnación Avila died in 1855, the home passed to her two daughters, Luisa and Francisca and their husbands, Manuel Garfias and Theodore Rimpau. Francisca and Theodore Rimpau and their nine children continued to live in the adobe from 1855 to 1868 until they moved to Anaheim, California where Theodore served as the first mayor. From 1868 to the early 1920s, the adobe was rented and used as a restaurant, rooming house for transients, or was frequently vacant. The condition of the building deteriorated and was finally condemned in 1926 by the City Health Department, which caught the attention of Christine Sterling, who began a public campaign to save the adobe. Today, the Avila Adobe is open to the public as a museum and is furnished as it might have appeared in the late 1840s.
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Giving Up the Ghost: Goldfield High School

The town of Goldfield, Nevada sprang up rather quickly upon the discovery of gold there in 1902. It soon became the largest town in Nevada; a thriving mecca for adventurous miners, rowdy cowboys and old west entrepreneurs alike. During Goldfield’s boomtown heyday, several grand buildings were erected, including the now notoriously haunted Goldfield Hotel and the less famous but equally as imposing (and reportedly haunted) Goldfield High School. While many of Goldfield’s buildings were destroyed in a series of fires in 1923 and 1924, both the Goldfield Hotel and the Goldfield High School survived and remained operational for some time after the boom.

Built in 1907, the Goldfield High School remains an impressive stone and brick structure that sits virtually in the shadow of its infamously haunted cousin. The last graduating class there was the class of 1952. The school was abandoned in 1953 due to structural issues and has been standing empty ever since. And while one might marvel today at the buildings endurance over all these years, it’s impossible to miss the warping and bowing of the wooden staircase leading to the front doors, the crumbling brick and plaster and the sagging of the right hand side of the building. There are entire walls missing, covered only with plasterboard and wooden support beams. Because of an odd architectural flaw that diverted rainwater under the building, rather than away from it, if left to its own devices, the Goldfield High School will soon collapse upon itself.

There have been efforts by the Goldfield Historical Society to save this beautifully decaying relic of the past. They have received grants from the National Park Service Save America’s Treasure’s program as well as the National Trust for Historic Preservation. These funds, along with private donations, helped to provide initial emergency stabilization for the building. However, further stabilization and restoration are needed to save it. To learn more about the current status of the Goldfield High School, and to find out how you can help, visit the website for the Goldfield Historical Society.

Rumors of ghosts residing within the walls of the Goldfield High School have centered around the spirit of a young girl. This past summer, we were able to tour and photograph the school, and we found the building to be a beautiful time capsule of Nevada and American history. It is our plan to hold a fundraiser and ghost hunt for the high school in the spring of 2012. Tours of the school can be arranged by contacting Dominic Pappalardo at Dominicp@frontier.com

~LMH

See also: Golden Ghost: The Goldfield Hotel

Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, NV – Old Haunt, New Life.

Two years ago, while on a road trip through the Nevada desert, we stopped in at the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada and peeked inside through the beveled glass of a side door. Built during the early 20th Century boom years of Nevada’s mining industry, back when Tonopah was known as “The Queen of the Silver Camps,” the old hotel and saloon had long been closed and was, at the time, for sale.

A Peek Inside the Mizpah, 2009

The hotel having long been rumored to be haunted, my traveling companions (Grant and Brian) and I had heard about the “lady in red” who reportedly haunts the 5th floor. The accounts of who she was in life range from her having been a prostitute murdered in a jealous rage to a stage girl who collapsed during a performance, never to awaken. Other ghostly stories revolve around a pair of miners who are said to haunt the basement.

Standing outside the shuttered Mizpah Hotel that day in 2009, peeking in through any available crevice and gazing up beyond the windows of the 5th floor to the distinctive red sign on the roof, we wanted in… and we wanted in bad. But, it was not to be at that time. We had tried contacting the real estate agent handling the sale but were not able to obtain permission to go inside.

Fast-forward two years. We once again arrive in Tonopah, Nevada, this time as guests of a special pre-opening event of the Mizpah Hotel. We’d be spending two nights inside the hotel, with access to roam freely throughout the entire building for as long as we wanted. This was quite the turnaround from our first visit and needless to say, we were stoked!

The event was organized by Virginia Ridgway, along with author Janice Oberding and it was made possible by the gracious new owners of the hotel, Fred and Nancy Cline, who are in the final stages of renovations to the property as I type this. Guests of the event included paranormal and history enthusiasts from around the country.

Upon arrival, we were given room keys to our well-appointed (although not quite finished) hotel rooms and so the weekend began. We had plenty of time to explore the hotel during both daylight and nighttime hours. The hotel staff shared stories with us of their own experiences with ghostly phenomena at the Mizpah, including one story about the ghost of a young girl being spotted in the elevator.

Our investigations focused mainly on the 5th floor and basement areas. We did have some interesting experiences in the basement. One investigator was overcome by a feeling of being “rushed” by an unseen force and a few minutes later we heard an unexplained breathy voice(?). See the video here: Mizpah Hotel Investigation – Los Angeles Paranormal

During the course of the weekend, we ventured to another part of the Mizpah property – the annex building across the parking lot. As we learned, this building formerly housed a bowling alley and a saloon – and is also home to reports of paranormal activity. A worker there told us that he often hears unexplained noises from the basement at night. He also shared with us a story of another employee who quit his post there after being “pushed” by an unseen force. We briefly investigated the basement of this annex building and at one point we thought we could hear children’s voices, but we determined that the noise was likely from the street. Otherwise, we didn’t experience anything out of the ordinary during our short visit there, pending review of our audio/video recordings.

A fascinating highlight of the weekend came when Central Nevada Museum director Allen Metscher gave us a private tour of Tonopah’s abandoned and “cursed” Army Air Field and its decaying hangars. The Tonopah air base was once one of the Army Air Force’s largest World War II training bases. Sadly, during it’s operation from 1942-1945, 110 servicemen lost their lives there – mostly due to P-39 and B-24 plane crashes. This particularly high number of casualties and accidents led to the Air Field’s reputation as being cursed.

Mr. Metscher has a wealth of knowledge about Nevada history, including the history of Tonopah and the neighboring town of Goldfield. In fact, in speaking with him after the tour, he was able to shed some light on a few documented deaths that occurred within the Mizpah Hotel throughout its history. These included multiple documented suicides within the hotel.

Also during the weekend, we took a quick tour of a historic home known colloquially as “The Castle,” where past owners were known for conducting seances and where another miner’s ghost is thought to reside.

The overall experience of the weekend in Tonopah was fantastic. We felt very lucky to have had the opportunity to explore these historic locations and learn as much as we did about their history. Did we document the ghost of Lady in Red or the miners in the basement or perhaps one of their lesser known counterparts?

We can’t say with certainty. But we did visit with them for awhile… and we enjoyed their company.

-LMH

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To book the Mizpah Hotel, visit: http://mizpahhotel.net

For more information on the Army Air Field, visit the Central Nevada Museum: Central Nevada Museum Website

Golden Ghost: The Goldfield Hotel

There is a hotel in the Nevada desert that has stood guest-less for over 60 years, looming over the once prosperous and bustling boom-town of Goldfield. Aptly named the Goldfield Hotel, this stone and brick behemoth of the desert happens to be very haunted.

It was built on the site where two previous incarnations had burned to the ground. Phoenix rising from the dust in gleaming granite and brick glory during a gold-fueled, wild-west heyday. But no sooner than the hotel was built did the gold start to dry up and the town begin to die. And the once-lavish hotel began to fade away. Still, despite a series of fires and floods that have ravaged the town over time, the Goldfield Hotel remains; a little rough around the edges, but virtually unscathed after all these years. The strong, silent type with a mysterious past.

Many ghosts are said to haunt the Goldfield, including a young woman named Elizabeth, who, as the story goes, was a prostitute that became pregnant with the hotel owner’s child and was subsequently chained to a radiator in Room 109 and left for dead – her baby reportedly thrown into the mine shaft that runs underneath the hotel. But Elizabeth is only one of many spirits suspected to roam the long, dark hallways of this stone oasis of sorts. In fact, the hotel is claimed by psychics to be one of 7 portals to the other side. In addition, its haunted reputation has been fueled by TV and film coverage from shows like FOX’s “Scariest Places on Earth” and the “Ghost Adventures” documentary and series.

To enter the Goldfield Hotel is to be swallowed up by a living, breathing entity. Gulp. Smack. And there you are, in the belly of the beast. Inside, the air is thick with ancient dust, creating an otherworldly lens through which the outside world disappears. An initial calm gives way almost immediately to an uneasy certainty that you are being watched by a host of unidentified eyes. Eyes that have known this place for a very long time. And you know that not only are they watching you, but they knew you were coming. The quiet air of the lobby is filled with an awkward politeness and you are keenly aware of your own presence – a stranger in a strange land.

Walking the long, empty hallways of the upper floors and poking into what were once elegant guest rooms, you can almost hear music from a long gone era and almost see the members of the old west elite who once leisured here. Your eyes can’t help but flitter back and forth on the lookout for a shadowy figure that you half expect to see duck into a doorway. Even a skeptic of the supernatural might find themselves quickening their pace back to the central staircase, having caught an unshakeable feeling that someone is behind them.

~LMH

To see our findings from the Goldfield Hotel, visit our previous post: Goldfield Hotel – EVPs
and our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/losangelesparanormal

*Note – The Goldfield Hotel does not allow visitors without prior permission and attempted trespassers will be prosecuted.

Why Do I Do This? (or, The Essence of Ghost Hunting.)

Recently, I was asked the question,  “What is your goal with all of this?” The person asking me the question was referring to my hobby of “ghost hunting” – or, in other words, why the heck do I spend my spare time in dark, abandoned places asking questions into thin air?

“Well,” I said, “it started out as a curiosity…”

Ultimately, I explained, it turned into a project, a hobby. I joined up with some like-minded folk, we started traveling to haunted locations on weekends, taking pictures, recording our adventures. A website was born.  We make videos, we write about our experiences. It’s become as much of a creative outlet as a spiritual journey of sorts.

“No, that’s not exactly what I meant,” said the asker. “I want to know why – I mean, is there a specific thing you’re looking for, something you’re trying to prove or achieve by the act of ghost-hunting. Did you lose someone in your life or…”

Oh, I see – he was wondering if I’m trying to prove the existence of life after death, a survival of consciousness, maybe the existence of another plane of existence, or a wrinkle in time, or even God. Am I trying to contact a lost love one? Did some specific instance or tragedy in my life compel me to seek hard answers to age old questions?

The answer is no.

I think most people have lost someone, or known someone who has died, and I’m no different. But for me there’s no one specific goal relating to that or to anything else. Nor do I expect to find any hard answers.

Ghost hunting, at it’s essence, is really just a way of paying homage to the dead, while at the same time confronting your own mortality. It’s a spiritual journey. It’s about being in the moment. It’s about taking a trip back in time, immersing yourself in the history of a location and paying homage to the people who lived and died there. It’s about facing your fears, confronting your demons. It’s paying a visit to those things that live in the darkest corners of your psyche, the monster under the bed. It’s a psychological, astrophysical, quantum mechanical, biological, metaphysical, spiritual, religious, historical, cultural, sociological, journalistic, humanistic exploratory romp. It’s about story, atmosphere, legend and myth. Time and space. Love and loss. Life and death. It’s interesting. It’s different. It’s fun. And as with life itself, it’s not about the destination, but rather the journey itself.

~LMH

Virginia City, NV: Mackay Mansion & the Girl in White

The Mackay Mansion was originally built in 1860 and housed the offices of the Gould and Curry Mining Company. At the time, George Hearst, the father of William Randolph Hearst, worked as the Company Mine superintendent and was the first occupant of the home. Later, the home would become the residence of John Mackay, one of the most rich and powerful figures in the Comstock. Today, there are several spirits said to haunt the mansion, the most famous of which is that of a young girl in a white gown.

Actor Johnny Depp stayed in the home during the filming of his movie, “Dead Man” and he reported that he was visited by the girl in white during his stay. During our visit, the caretaker mentioned that the young girl whose spirit is said to roam the upstairs bedrooms had reportedly fallen down the staircase to her untimely demise.

This is an interesting clip from our last trip to Virginia City in October 2010 with “A Paranormal Interest Retreat.” We were on the 3rd floor of the Mackay Mansion & we had just heard what sounded like a child in one of the bedrooms. Look at the bedroom door on the right when the investigator walks by at around :23 seconds and then when he walks by again at around:30-:31 seconds. There appears to be a figure behind the gate that appears and then disappears, most visible at the :30-:31 seconds mark.

A few seconds later, there is some kind of movement at the end of the hall that moves across from right to left (at around:43-:44) (look towards the bottom of the door). Right before that at approx :39 seconds, we hear an unexplained whispery voice saying something like “who’s there.”

For more information on the Mackay Mansion, visit: Mackay Mansion
For more information on A Paranormal Interest Retreat, visit: APIR

Pico House – Ghosts of Old Los Angeles

 

Earlier this year, we spent several weekends exploring some of the neighborhoods and buildings around “old” Los Angeles – the area in and around which the city of Los Angeles was founded. Some amazing locations with a rich history can be found in this area, including Union Station, the Hall of Justice, the Sepulveda House and the oldest house in Los Angeles, the Avila Adobe. It was during this time, one building in particular across from Olvera Street caught our eye – the Pico House, located at 430 N. Main St, which is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles National Monument. We decided to arrange for a tour of the location to see if we could learn more about its history and perhaps, its hauntings.

When the Pico House (Casa de Pico) opened in 1870, it was the most luxurious hotel not only in Los Angeles, but also south of San Francisco. Built on the southwest corner of the Los Angeles Plaza (currently known as the “Old Plaza”), the Italianate style hotel designed by architect Ezra Keysor boasted indoor plumbing, opulent gas-powered chandeliers, a fountained courtyard, an aviary and a French restaurant. At that time, Los Angeles was a relatively small but growing city and the Plaza was the epicenter. Los Angeles was still in a transitional phase, 20 years after its incorporation as an American city after the ending of the Mexican-American war.

The streets around the Plaza were not only filled with businesses and elite members of society but they were also subject to a certain “wild west” lawlessness. Brothels, gambling halls and saloons were prevalent and many different cultures co-existed within a few blocks of each other under an atmosphere of racial tension. Vigilantism was not uncommon as vigilance committees or “lynch mobs” took to the streets, taking the law into their own hands.

Wealthy businessman and one time Governor, Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor under Alta California, built the Pico House with funds he obtained from selling off a portion of his land grants. The lavish new hotel was a success, upstaging it’s rival hotel, the Bella Union. But the success did not last long.

Racial tensions in the city came to a head with the Chinese Massacre of 1871, which occurred in and around the Calle De Los Negros adjacent to the Plaza and spilled into the Plaza as, by varying accounts, 18 to 23 Chinese men and boys were brutally murdered by an angry mob of whites and Mexicans. An employee of the Pico House at the time later recalled the scene: “The street was a madhouse of frenzied, armed men and terrified, stampeding horses. From the entrance of the Pico House I could see a mass of men flocking toward the Aliso street opening of Nigger’s Alley [sic] and heard a steady roar of guns. I remember one fellow, big, hatless and coatless, with bulging maniacal eyes as he ran passed us, brandishing huge butcher’s axes.”- (Michael M. Rice, I Saw the Wild West Tamed!, Los Angeles Times, May 13 1934, G12).

After the riots, and with the influx of people brought in by the railway, the town’s business center began to move southward and the neighborhood degenerated into seediness over a period of years.

Pio Pico was known for throwing lavish parties and being a heavy gambler as well as having a penchant for the ladies. His signature cane displayed an ivory female leg poised in the air. In addition to his extravagant lifestyle, the financial strain of some bad investments along with his falling victim to the fraudulent dealings of other businessmen helped contribute to his eventual loss of wealth.

As the neighborhood and his fortune declined, Don Pio continued to entertain at the Pico House for 10 years until 1880, when he lost his hotel to foreclosure. The building became a flophouse and spent many years in decline before eventually passing into California State hands in 1953. Today, the Pico House belongs to El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Monument and is both a California and National Historic Landmark.

Given the rich history of the building and the surrounding neighborhood, it is not surprising that some believe the Pico House may be haunted. As we learned on our tour, which included the three main floors, the inner courtyard, the basement and tunnels and the adjacent old Merced Theater, security staff have reported hearing mysterious footsteps from the upper floors late at night and seeing shadow figures leaning over the balconies of the inner courtyard. Perhaps Don Pio Pico himself is still entertaining guests in his beloved hotel. With regard to the living, tours of the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District can be arranged here: El Pueblo de Los Angeles National Historic Monument .

-LMH

Additional Photos from our tour:

Advanced Screening of Eli Roth’s “The Last Exorcism” in LA – Enter-to-Win

Attention horror fans in Los Angeles!! Lionsgate is showing a special advanced screening of what could prove to be the scariest movie to be released in a long time – Eli Roth’s “The Last Exorcism” – and our readers have a chance to attend! For your chance to receive screening passes, log on to WWW.GOFOBO.COM/RSVP and enter RSVP Code: H9BZR5YF

The screening is Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in Burbank, CA

Good luck!

Haunted + TiltShift Generator

Brian and I both own iPhones (actually, Grant does too), and so we’ve been playing around a lot with some of the photo apps available – which led to the discovery of a cool app by Art&Mobile called TiltShift Generator or TiltShiftGen. The app basically allows you to take any existing photo and add varying degrees of blur (along with radial / linear blur shape control), saturation, brightness, contrast and vignetting to achieve a tilt shift or “fake miniature” effect. It’s a great app – not only for creating fake miniatures, but also for creating more subtle softening effects and vintage looks, and – in our case – helping to convey the creep factor of some of the haunted/abandoned/weird locations we’ve visited.

For the examples below (click each photo for a larger view), we pulled photos that we had taken with our standard digital cameras (Canon) and transferred them to our iPhones for editing in TiltShiftGen. You can see the difference in results between Brian and I —

I took a more subtle or subdued approach in the editing:

Former Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

Clown Motel, Tonopah, Nevada.

Linda Vista Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

Linda Vista Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

Old Washoe Club, Virginia City, Nevada.

Cemetery, Tonopah, Nevada.

Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada.

Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada.

On the other hand, Brian’s photos are brighter and more vibrant, with higher contrast:

Former Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

Gold Hill Hotel, Virginia City, Nevada.

Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles, California.

Linda Vista Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

Old Washoe Club, Virginia City, Nevada.

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-LMH