Carol taylor says she was just two years old when she started waking up in the middle of the night to talk to a female spirit. She said her parents never took it seriously until one day, when her father learned an older woman had died in the family's home before they lived there. "I remember my father said I called her a weird name," said Taylor. She doesn't remember clearly, but the woman's name could have been Enya. That's her earliest memory of communicating with spirits. Because of her deep interest and connection with the paranormal, Taylor started the Niagara Area Paranormal Society last July. The society is a group of six people from Niagara drawn together because they share a common interest in researching paranormal activity. The society's members investigate homes and old buildings, picking up sounds and signals, taking pictures -all a part of ghost hunting. "It's objective and scientific," said Taylor. Before the group is called to a house or an old building, Taylor said only she will research the history. The other five members will pick up sounds using recorders, with no knowledge of the building's history. She also said when they do house calls, which happens about twice a month, they'll first examine if the strange phenomena are happening for natural reasons. Taylor remembers one time the group was called to a house by somebody whose fridge door always opened mysteriously. Turned out the fridge door was just old, and the magnets didn't work anymore. "We always see if a natural explanation can be made first," said Taylor... For example, she said if someone feels like they're being watched the group will try and find an explanation for it before considering it a paranormal experience. Once, she said, the group visited a house that really spooked them out. It had been built in place of an older one that caught fire in the 1990s. "The smell (of charred wood) was so strong in the new house," Taylor said. The most common way she picks up energy is through her sense of smell...
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