GHOSTBUSTER DOWNTURN
Halloween is usually boom time for spooks but one
ghost buster
complains business is slow this year. “It’s definitely not like the
movies where ghosts are popping out everywhere,” said Dom Villella, who
operates Paranormal Investigation of NYC out of the finished basement
of his Williamsburg, Brooklyn, home. The bespectacled, 39-year-old,
stay-at-home dad and hypnotherapist offers his services free. His
shelves look more like those of an electrician or handyman than the
arsenal of a ghost hunter; one of the temperature gauges used to
measure ghostly chill in the air was actually retailed for use with
barbecues. Last week, Villella was packing electromagnetic field
detectors and hand-held video recorders into a backpack and carry bag
for an investigation of a three-room apartment in Chelsea, where
inhabitants reported doors opening by themselves, gusts of cold wind,
and the dog’s tendency to hunker down in the same place and growl.
Villella says only five percent of his investigations yield anything
paranormal. (One sighting he’s sure of was behind David Letterman’s
desk, where he spotted a bouncing ball of red light he thinks was a
manifestation of energy coursing through the Ed Sullivan Theater after
his team taped a segment for the show.) “When people hear bangs and
creaks and moans, they automatically are assuming it’s evil,” he said.
“I’ve never come across anything that I perceived as a demon." —Cotton
Delo
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