Commissioners say no to ghost hunters' visit

SPENCER, Ind. — Owen County commissioners have denied a request by paranormal researchers to check for ghosts in the former county home.

The Indiana Society for Paranormal Investigations asked permission this week to come in at night and search the dilapidated brick structure for traces of ghosts.

But commissioners in the southern Indiana county say there's already been enough research done at the former home for the old, infirm and mentally ill that was built in 1878 and abandoned in 2002.

Another group visited the home last year with equipment such as electromagnetic field detectors, voice recorders and laser beam motion detectors. The Herald-Times of Bloomington reports the group told commissioners they detected no ghosts but did encounter a number of low-flying bats.