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Gosh, this is a very long article so forgive me if I don’t do justice to the whole thing at  one sitting.  One section that jumped out at me was “Efforts to Prove or Debunk”.  Er, where does the “debunking” part come in?  You’re talking about TAPS, which is a group of amateur “investigators” who are embarrassingly gullible about the existence of the paranormal.  The fact that even THEY couldn’t find any orbs or anything paranormal amazed me, honestly.  And even when they don’t find anything, they always find some way to leave the door open for the possibility.  And the other group was called PROOF?  Gee, I wonder what their stance is on the existence of ghosts.

Much more interesting to me is your opinion, as a clinical psychologist yourself, that there is no psychological theory to account for it.  What about the “fantasy-prone” personality theory?  I have read that in places like this which are reputedly haunted, people who believe in spirits are much more likely to report “incidents” of this nature than skeptics are.  In fact skeptics rarely if ever seem to experience ghostly phenomena.

One last question — when you were staying at the Pettibone, did you have a ghostly experience you’d like to tell us about?  (I promise I won’t scoff.)