2022 Memorial Day Issue

More Than a Feeling (cont’d)
UFO sightings near High Point State Park. She
was also contacted about several experiences at
Waterloo Village in Stanhope, a historic site that
Wagner describes as “very active, even in the
daytime.”
When Wagner isn’t investigating the
paranormal, she can be found producing podcasts,
including her flagship product, “Eleanor Wagner’s
Strange and Scary World,” available through the
Paranormal UK network. She has also been a
featured guest on other paranormal podcasts.
And when she is not communicating with the
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She will also explain to the spirit why the
residents are occupying what had been their
territory first. In turn, she will educate the current
other side, Wagner holds down a steady day job as residents about the importance of acknowledging
a kindergarten aide, which she’s had for the past the ghosts.
16 years.
“I might tell them [the residents] to say, ‘I know
“Not many people can say that they started a you’re not living here anymore but I am, and I
whole new life at 50 and the support of my family would love to make your home as happy and
makes it even better,” said Wagner, who lives with beautiful as when you were there,’” she said.
her husband, a self-described skeptic, and their In most cases, the spirit’s personality mirrors
23-year-old daughter.
who they were in life, she said. “If they were mean
Regarding her role as paranormal investigator, in life, they are mean as ghosts,” she said.
Wagner sees it as more of a mission: “I am there According to Sherry, a seance performed in
first for the spirit and then I let it know that the the early 1990s by a family friend confirmed the
team is there for them.”
spirits in the Lotta Crabtree house were happy to
have them, almost as much as her son, Nick, was
happy for the late-night company.
“One night we woke up at 3 a.m.—he was 3 at
the time and his room was right across from us,”
Sherry said. “We heard him laughing and talking
and went in. He said, ‘That guy up in the corner is
so funny. He’s so nice.’”
During Wagner and her team’s recent visit to the
O’Donnell home, the group felt the spirits were
indeed friendly. Having others confirm what had
long been experienced by the family was a relief.
“I feel like we were validated,” said Boehm after
listening to the investigators share their findings.
Wagner encourages anyone with a story or a
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