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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Article By: Phillip Brunelle
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PHILADELPHIA, PA --- Hundreds of paranormal investigation teams have been sprouting around the United States this year, but very few of these ghost hunters have police officers on their team, or have an entire paranormal investigation team of police officers.
Olde City Paranormal is a paranormal team co-founded by a police officer and a tattoo artist, and the ghost hunting team has become a small police force dedicated to investigating the paranormal.
Philadelphia Police Officer, John Levy, founded the paranormal team in 2009 with Steve Rotondi, and Olde City Paranormal grew their ghost hunting team with Philadelphia Police Officer Amanda Levy, who is John Levy's wife, and also Police Officer George Feinstein, an officer assigned to the city's Mayor detail.
Officer John Levy said he became interested in the paranormal from watching television shows such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, but it wasn't until he had a firsthand paranormal experience that he decided to investigate the paranormal himself.
John Levy stopped by his mother's empty house while on patrol one night to use the restroom, when he says out of the corner of his eye he saw a figure walk into a bedroom where his grandfather used to sleep. "It was my grandfather, but he has been dead since 1988," Levy said. "There was no doubt in my mind it was him - his height, his walk, his stature - it was him."
This is when police officer John Levy founded Olde City Paranormal with tattoo artist Steve Rotondi and his wife and colleagues from the Philadelphia Police Department, and since, the ghost hunting police officers have been investigating dozens of haunted places and claims of paranormal activity all over Pennsylvania.
Olde City Paranormal isn't the first team of ghost hunting police officers... In Chicago, police officer Rob Fabiani founded his police force of ghost hunters, which led to a paranormal series on the A&E Network called Paranormal Cops. Although the television show Paranormal Cops wasn't a success like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, Rob Fabiani and his team of ghost hunting police officers continue to investigate haunted places in Chicago.
Officer John Levy said "there isn't anything special about police officers investigating the paranormal", but Officer Rob Fabiani disagreed, saying "Being police officers, it raises the bar. If I was a plumber I could lie through my teeth and go back to work tomorrow. As policemen, we don't have the luxury of being reckless. We're held accountable for what we say." Perhaps Rob Fabiani's statement was a dig at Ghost Hunters stars Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson?
A few well known haunted places in Philadelphia include the Eastern State Penitentiary... the Library Hall, on 5th Street, which is said to be haunted by the ghost of Benjamin Franklin, and the Philadelphia Zoo, the oldest zoo in America, is said to have two haunted buildings, the Solitude House and Penrose Building.
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Comment by Richard Higgins on January 10, 2013 at 5:32pm I have personally investigated with this team and they have my utmost respect..they bring something to the table that a lot of teams out there may have lost while doing investigations...common sense ..they don't jump at every little thing they hear. or see ..they look for rational explanations and when they can't find one they get others to look at it and if they can't come up with something ..then it's paranormal...
Comment by Ed Tieman on November 27, 2012 at 10:50am Does it raise the bar I feel in a way it does, but still as I wrote before people are people no matter their occupation. Though they do have experience in their own way of investigations, because of their occupation.
Comment by Haunt Jaunts on November 27, 2012 at 8:58am I'm with Carl and everyone else who said they miss Paranormal Cops. I loved that show! They seemed more like true investigators. I sort of like Zak and crew for cheeky factor, but Paranormal Cops felt more real. Like watching paranormal detectives at work.
Comment by Ed Tieman on November 19, 2012 at 1:22pm That is a show I haven't seen. People are people no matter their occupation, but a interesting group name. I sure wished we counld get a Police person in our group.
I that would make a interesting show with different groups.
Comment by Carl Mullan on November 19, 2012 at 11:05am Yes, a bit more credible and also now as easy to fool. I thought the Paranormal Cops show was pretty good, we'd rather watch them than GAC.
Comment by Zed Mezcalhead on November 15, 2012 at 7:37pm Cop on the team or not, credible would be, for me, a specter in full view of the camera, answering questions clearly and intelligently before disappearing completely, and the footage cannot be debunked as the whole team can vouch for it and the evidence can only speak volumes.
I think they should bring Paranormal Cops back to TV and add the Philly team and perhaps others from different cities as well. Kind of a "First 48" of ghost hunting.
Comment by Steve Abrams on November 15, 2012 at 9:22am Hmm.. Was the "Perhaps Rob Fabiani's statement was a dig at Ghost Hunters stars Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson?" a comment from Fabiani or from the writer of the story. Also the author can't get his names straight. It's Ron, not Rob, Fabiani.
Heather, so by your statement you have to have a successful TV program in order to be credible? The funny thing is I consider Grant to be credible. Is that why he left the "reborn" Ghost Hunters? It wasn't that long ago that GH just about debunked everything. Now they are finding paranormal activity just about around every corner. Maybe Jason will get possessed on a investigation. Kinda like the other popular ghost hunting program.
Love Paranormal mentions police corruption. Yes, it happens and all police officers suffer BECAUSE THEY ARE held to a higher standard. Now if people would hold politicians to the same standards instead of electing the same corrupt people all the time. Oh well, that's a different rant.
Depending on how an investigation is run, I would fine a police officer slightly more credible than other people. Now if the officer was a detective I would probably think it was even more credible.
Comment by Ed Tieman on November 15, 2012 at 9:10am Does being a Cop give creditbility in what they find? Or is it one of those Dime a Dozen groups and in it for the Glory of saying, I AM A GHOST HUNTER. I am a Cop put us on TV so we can make money that way. Only they know who they are.
I have experienced a police force in the spirit world. A psychic friend summoned them for me when I needed help. I believe because of law enforcements work, they are in contact with people in negative social groups. That opens their energy to the darker side of the spirit world. But a person of knowledge with a Bachelor Degree is not any more prone to have spirit contact then a normal hard working human. As for credibility, that has to build with trust and experience.
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