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Haunted or not? Psychics psyched
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Spirited offers pour in from ghost-busters who want to help a scared Church Street business.
Ghost-busters are ready to hit Church Street.
Since news went around the world that ghosts scared away the renter of a Church Street Station building, self-styled psychics, mediums and paranormal investigators have been clamoring to get inside and talk to the spirits.
“I’ve got people who want to spend the night there and communicate with the ghosts. I’ve got people who want to go in there and debunk it,” said attorney David Simmons, who represents the building’s owners. “They’re coming out of the woodwork, and some of them are a little off the wall.”
The building at 125 Church St., just east of the headquarters of its part-owner, boy-band magnate Lou Pearlman, is at the center of a $2.6 million legal dispute.
The husband-and-wife owners of Amura Japanese Restaurant planned to move into the historic building, which is across the street from their current downtown location, last November. But the couple backed out of the lease because of the reported presence of ghosts or apparitions, according to a letter from their attorney.
The owners of Church Street Station, Pearlman and Robert Kling, sued the couple last month, seeking damages for the broken lease.
After appearing in the Orlando Sentinel on Sept. 8, news of the case was carried widely, from The New York Times to the Irish Independent. Simmons said Inside Edition will be coming to Orlando to report a segment on the case.
It has also caught the attention of those who say they have experience communicating with the spirit world. Among them is Rosemary Altea, a “spirit medium.” Altea, who has written four books and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live, said she can’t be sure the Church Street building is haunted until she visits it.
“Nine times out of 10, it’s people’s imaginations. But my sense of this is there is something going on,” said Altea, who splits her time between homes in Venice, Fla., and Vermont. “My job would be to talk with them, find out what’s making them hang around and to help them to move on.”
So far, the landlords have refused to allow any of the ghost-busters access to the building, citing liability problems if anyone is injured.
During the tourism heyday of Church Street Station, the building housed Lili Marlene’s Aviator’s Pub & Restaurant. A man who leads ghost tours through downtown Orlando says workers and visitors have reported hearing the cries of murdered children and seeing a slender man clad in black playing a piano or reflected in a mirror.
An attorney for Amura restaurant owners Christopher and Yoko Chung said they have rejected offers to settle the lawsuit and will fight it in court.
“We do plan to bring in experts who have studied in the fields of parapsychology and paranormal activity,” Orlando attorney Lynn Franklin said. “Any kind of expertise we can find would be useful — we’re all in unknown territory.”
Lloyd Rajcoomar, director of Post Mortum Paranormal Investigations in Middletown, N.Y., wants to bring in a team of researchers he says can detect spirits using psychic abilities and capture evidence using infrared cameras and sensitive parabolic microphones.
“If there’s something going on in there, I’m going to be able to find it,” Rajcoomar said.
Nanette Fenton, a filmmaker who recently produced a documentary about a house in Safety Harbor she thinks is haunted, said she offered to help in Orlando because she sympathizes with the Chungs.
“Some entities are benign, and some are malevolent,” she said. “Either way, they can still hurt a business.”
Fenton said her experts could prove the presence of spirits in the Church Street building if they’re allowed in for four hours.
Simmons said that isn’t likely to happen. Besides, he said, “There is no ghost clause in that lease.”
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