Web Site And The Connecticut Ghosts It Tracks
Way Of The Ray
Ansonia man's Web site tracks ghosts
By MEG BARONE Correspondent It was after midnight
and a shiver rode up Matthew Fabian's spine as he and a friend stood in
a darkened Naugatuck Valley cemetery. Suddenly the twosome heard what
they thought were barking dogs
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cemeteries, historic theaters, homes
many in the Valley. Pine Grove Cemetery in Ansonia, East Village
Cemetery in Shelton, a firehouse, and several other Valley locations
have their own ghosts.
The Web site also contains his editorials, first-person accounts, still
photographs, video images and audio. "I have a lot of video footage on
the Web site so people can see what we do. And there is an audio clip of
a voice that says, 'please help me,' from a historic home in East
Hartford," Fabian said.
Of the visual images Fabian says, "The photos I post on my Web site are
for your personal viewing pleasure, not to prove anything to anyone."
He, however, is a true believer. Fabian was introduced to the paranormal
as a child when a friend of his mother's shared tales of her ghostly
encounters. "The way she told them, especially with her Irish accent
fascinated me. I started reading and researching and investigating on my
own," Fabian said. "I was always a bit skeptical, but after I had a few
experiences of my own that was the frosting on the cake," he said.
Among his most vivid experiences was seeing a toaster move across a
shelf in the kitchen of a Meriden house and make a popping noise as if
someone had just toasted a piece of bread. At a cemetery in Winsted he
was talking with a group of teenagers when one boy's face went white.
Fabian turned to see a bright green glow coming from the trees.
Fabian works full time as a security guard, but on his own time he
investigates hauntings. There are many reasons for hauntings, he said,
and ghostly visions are not just those of people who have died. In one
case, Fabian said, a family reported seeing a woman pace in a room of
their home once a year on a particular date. In the course of his
research Fabian learned that the woman they saw was very much alive. She
had once lived in the home but moved away after her son had been killed
in a car accident. The mother had been awaiting his return one night,
pacing anxiously before learning of his fate. The people who occupied
the home learned that the date on which they reported seeing the vision
each year was actually the anniversary of his death.
"Most incidents are residual hauntings, an imprint of a traumatic
event," Fabian said, as in the above case. Others involve people who
have died tragically and are either unable to believe or accept that
they have passed to another realm or they want to stay near a loved one
until that person joins the deceased, he said. Fabian and several people
he works with on the investigations impart a message to the deceased
that it's time to move on.
Fabian said he is unable to tell the difference between benign spirits
that linger in this world and demonic beings bent on real haunting or
evil deeds. He brings to the sites people able to communicate with
spirits who can sense the difference.
The newly designed Ghosthound Web site was unveiled Saturday. Fabian
said it is easier to navigate than his original Web site and brings
people to haunted places without having to leave the safety and comfort
of their own homes.
To learn about haunted locations in Connecticut or to contact Fabian
visit his Web site at http://www.ghosthound.com