Haunted Recording Studio!

[dwlb]

Several years ago a woman burned to death here in the building I work in. There were no sprinklers in her office because the building was old enough to "grandfather" out of the requirement I guess...anyway, every year on or about the anniversary of the fire there's some sort of water thing that happens--a reservoir bursts, flooding the upper floors, the basement floods, etc. And I work here late quite a few nights and get that creepy "someone's here" feeling from time to time.

I also had a ghost in my apartment for awhile but she's been real quiet lately.

Back when I was in college, I was recording my brother's band in my folks' house. We had the gear up in a bedroom, and the wires running down to the basement through a laundry chute. Song ends, my buddy and I wait for the band to stop chatting and come upstairs to hear playback. A few minutes go by and we're still hearing talking through the open mics. We walk out into the kitchen and the whole band is standing there--and had been for several minutes while we listened to conversations from a completely unoccupied basement!
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[SirDonut]

How do you like to mic a ghost? I prefer a blumlein setup.

[tenaciousjay]

[inverseroom]

[ericswan]

My studio is located in a very old Catholic cathedral building which is no longer used as a church. There is a very heavy vibe to the place; lots of baptisms, wedding, funerals and prayers in there for over a 100 years. Often late at night I will get chills walking through certain parts of the sanctuary.

One evening I came in to start a session and thought I saw out of the corner of my eye a figure sitting in a chair. I didn't think too much of it until the band's singer came in a few minutes later and told me he just thought he saw someone sitting in the sanctuary. When I asked him where, he pointed to the exact same spot i had noticed something.There was no one else in the building.

We also have bats in the space. They like to come out late at night and fly around during sessions. They are particularly attracted to the sound of organs.

I have considered setting up mics and leaving them recording all night just to see if I can capture anything.

[andrew embassy]

[smojo]

I am right now pulling a late night/probably all night in a haunted studio... I'm used to it by now, but I'm all stoked about having a story to add to the list that I'm gonna tell it.
When I first started assisting here, I worked a couple of late nights by myself, and would be in cont.room A doing edits or something, with both sets of sliding glass doors shut. There's motion sensor lights all over this place, and there's one in the airlock between the doors. I'd keep hearing the doors sliding and the light would come on. but the doors would remain closed, with no one in the airlock. Eventually other folks here started asking me if anything wierd had happened, telling me that they all think there's a ghost.
After assisting for ages they offered for me to take over the old and currently unused foley studio upstairs and make it into my own project studio. So now I've spent tonnes of time up there, many overnights. During that time I'd always hear footsteps coming from behind the control room walls. Not knowing the layout of the building I didn't think anything of it, assuming it was someone in the attached offices also pulling an all nighter. Then one day I realized that the only thing behind those walls is the great outdoors, and a three storey drop.
So just last night I'm behind a rack, next to one of the outer walls, and the lamp behind the rack goes out and someone knocks on the wall behind me.
I'd like the ghost more if he didn't unarm tracks in the middle of sessions.

[dwlb]

>>>I have considered setting up mics and leaving them recording all night just to see if I can capture anything.>>>>

That pretty much describes my first recording session, at the age of twelve!
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"Jeweller, you've failed. Jeweller."

"Lots of people are nostalgic for analog. I suspect they're people who never had to work with it." – Brian Eno

All the DWLB music is at http://dwlb.bandcamp.com/

[clamp]

Who joked about miking ghosts?
At my friend's house I tracked the noise in a room including a space heater and the standard ambience. After noise redux again and again I swear I can hear a female voice whispering.
So here's a crazy idea put up a mic or pair in the quietest space you know and crank the gain and compress the shit out of it. Track it for eight hours. (or as long as you can). I guarantee the results will freak you out.
For fun I'm going to do this in a building from the thirties I work in.

[Al]

Wow! this is a good thread, some of the storys here sends shivers down my spine!, i like this kind o stuff a lot, never been in a haunted studio that i know off, but one or two i've recorded in had a strange vibe!.



My friend used to live in an apartment block which was part of a private school for boys just over the way from a small village where i'm from, his dad was the chef there.

Anyway years ago in the late 50's- 60's it used to be a home for young offenders!. The chef who worked there at the time was smitten by one of the maids who worked there he wanted her really badly, she was seeing someone, so one night in a jealous rage he went up the stairs to her room with a freshly sharpened meat cleever and hacked the poor women into a million bits, and then nonchalantly walked back down the stairs with the cleever soaked in blood and met the head of the department at the bottom of the stairs and admitted his crime to a very nervous "as you can imagine" manager.

So needless to say her ghost haunts that place with a passion, and many people have seen her floating around doing her thing!.

A ghost hunter actually went up there to check out the on goings and had some fancy infra red eqiupment, he said that you could still see stains on the walls through the new decor!...YUK! and found some interesting happenings, and concluded, yes there deffo is hauntings!.

We used to go up there during the summer breaks when no one was around with a torch, never seen anything but there was a lot of dubious sounding noises etc., enough alone to merit a change of pants!.

This place has now all been built into flats, i wonder if all the filthy rich people who bought these apartments know their local history?, i doubt it!...pass the shit roll please, and how much do you think we'll get for this place!!

[PatrickBrown]

Great thread!
I have no haunted studio stuff to report, but if you do a Google search for EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomena, you'll come up with scads of WAV files, etc. on any number of different sites.

The Episcopal Church here in town creeps me out, after dark, with no lights on in the place, and it takes alot to creep me out.

I was in the presence of a very definite poltergeist phenomonen in Ireland, County Mayo, when there in '98. Me and a whole bar full of people in Kiltimagh. Middle of the afternoon, too. Nothing new to them. Seems it misbehaves on a regular basis.

[SirDonut]

[j.hall]

[psychicoctopus]

[squinchy]