Professional ghost hunter Chris Moon came to Keene for the end of the Halloweekend events on Oct. 31.
The event took place in the Mabel Brown room, where Moon spoke to students about his history in the business, past paranormal experiences and how to find ghosts. The second half of the event was when Moon brought students around campus, stopping at various “haunted” locations and trying to find ghosts with a variety of equipment. The group was brought to Huntress, Fiske and Elliot and experienced multiple paranormal encounters including reaching out to student’s dead loved ones.
Moon explained his non-traditional career path, stating, “This is kind of a bizarre profession to have… I actually had my first paranormal experience when I was seven years old.” He described his house and explained, “I opened up my eyes to see what was in my room, as I opened my eyes… at the end of the bed there was a three-dimensional shadow of a little boy standing there, staring at me.”
Moon described his father as “a devout catholic [and] devout skeptic…I had to prove to him that these things were real. At the age of seven I became an amateur ghost hunter…I went out to prove to him that these things were happening.”
Jessica Gagne Cloutier explained the decision-making process for Halloweekend, “With Halloween, we… get to have a little bit of fun and do things that are a little out of the ordinary, like bringing a ghost hunter.”
Gagne Cloutier spoke about student involvement’s previous ghost hunting event. “It’s been a few years… last time we did it was… maybe 2020 with chairs six feet apart in the Mabel Brown Room. It was very odd… so we’ve put some distance in between that so that, again, folks who are new to campus are seeing something that they haven’t necessarily seen,” she said.
Gagne Cloutier explained why student involvement likes to bring ghost hunters. “The common things I think people are accustomed to… are comedians, musical performances, those kinds of things, pretty standard… [a] ghost hunter is definitely a little bit more of a novelty…you tend to bring in people who might already believe in…a spiritual afterlife of some sort. And then you might bring in people who also are just kind of looking for something fun and interesting and different…I think…the beauty of a ghost hunter on Halloween is that… it feels like a good time… that might pull in some different folks.”
Gagne Cloutier continued, “Folks who…have a deep belief and can connect with him on that level [or] who are maybe going more for fun, or just to…check it out. I think…he can talk to both and he can engage both.”
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