Ostensible Cat

Nor am I much of a cinematographer but I stubbornly plow ahead with my mediocrity anyway.  I did take some video clips from Poveglia.  Here's some clips of my explorations of the island just to give you some ideas of what it is like there.  If you are looking for some spooky activity, I'm sorry to disappoint ;).  However, something more compelling is the digital audio that we took.  Check out the link here http://soundcloud.com/chad-t-scoggins/evp-3-1-01 .  You can hear the sound of voices over the insect sounds.  Definitely not definitive proof of anything by any means but I do know that there were only three of us in this building at the time of the recording.  We did not hear these sounds (well, other than the insect sounds) when we recorded these.  I've always wanted to play with EVP and this was a neat experiment.  If I had any idea what the hell I was doing, it'd be cool to clean up the audio and see if it was a voice and what it said.  Alas, that is beyond my

I went on my ghost hunting expedition yesterday and quite a bit of fun.  Here's a shot of me at St. Mark's Square in Venice awaiting our ride to Poveglia.  I'm pretty psyched at this point but it is due mainly to the fact that an Aperol Spritz in only 2.50 euro.  THAT'S CRAZY!  Is this really St. Mark's?!?! I'll have two please! It was a pleasant boat ride to the island and took maybe 25 minutes or so to reach it from St. Mark's.  Here's our first glimpse of the island from the boat. So the island is uninhabited.  I'm not going to go into detail because there are plenty of stories about the island online.  Here's a link to the wikipedia article .  Here's another random article with some good pics (and no, I didn't get to see the "plague" pits.  Here's an aerial view of the island (thanks Google image search!). Here's some more pictures from our initial landing on the island. As you can see from

I'm a dyed in the wool skeptic, but I have a deep and abiding interest in the paranormal.  I have never seen a ghost, an alien, nor have I encountered any other paranormal event.  I did grow up with my mother and grandmother's southern style ghost stories.  I loved them, but never experienced anything of the kind myself, and quite frankly I chalk it all up to some very vivid and impressive imaginations.  Having said that, I am very pleased to be invited on a ghost hunting trip to the supposedly very much haunted isle of Poveglia in the Ventian lagoon.  After all, how many times does such a thing get to come up?  I'm sure there is some gaming fodder in this trip for sure.  If nothing else, next Saturday, 11 August 2012 should make up for not getting to go to GenCon.  Me and my gaming group are going to be busy hunting ghosts :)!