"Ghost Legends from Demonologists"

A massive eatery in an antebellum house near the University of West Georgia may have a history of ghosts. (Source: The Mansion).

Back in 1985 a couple named Bill and Laraine Warren conducted a lecture of ghosts, spirits, and apparitions filling conversations, leading a group through The Mansion Restaurant in Carrollton, Georgia, and showed slides of houses they had explored as demonologists. Calling themselves

"ghostbusters," they said they had conducted chilling exorcisms and supernatural encounters. (Source: Bill and Laraine Warren).

The Warrens, who had been in the business of demonology 40 years as of 1985, led a group of 13 through the restaurant to see if the myth that it was haunted was true. (Source: Nancy Moss).

Among those who went were myself, my friend Jayne Fuller, of the College Program Board, and Tim Evans of Student Activities.

When the group reached the top floor of the restaurant, Mrs. Warren, who said she had ESP, said she felt the spirits of a little girl who had lived there with her family: a boy, man, and woman dressed in a 1920s-style dress. Mrs. Warren said she was scared of the spirit of the man and wasn't sure where he fit in with the family, but she liked the lady. Although the others couldn't feel any presence in the room, Mrs. Warren could describe the apparition in detail, Fuller said.

At the lecture, Fuller introduced the couple as "Seekers of the supernatural" then showed slides portraying a magazine cover they had graced, houses explored, and celebrities posed with in pictures. After the slides, Mrs. Warren was introduced, addressing the audience by telling of her experience with a farmer who had bizarre things happen to him.

"We were contacted by an elderly priest who was concerned with the possession of a 46-year-old farmer," she began. "We visited him...He seemed like a hardworking man. He had been experiencing this phenomena for 20 years until finally he called on his priest to help him."

Among the occurences that happened to him was an incident when he was lighting the tree at Christmas and was thrown across the room.