Some "paranormal investigators" want to check for ghosts in the former Owen County Home in Spencer, but they aren't being allowed to:
But commissioners in the southern Indiana county say there's already been enough research done at the former home for the old, infirm and mentally ill that was built in 1878 and abandoned in 2002.
Another group visited the home last year with equipment such as electromagnetic field detectors, voice recorders and laser beam motion detectors. The Herald-Times of Bloomington reports the group told commissioners they detected no ghosts but did encounter a number of low-flying bats.
If I were in charge of Owen County permission giving, I might have said something like, "Go away and stop wasting our time, you ghost-believing freaks," but I guess "already declared ghost free" works, too. But what if the ghosts had just stepped out for a bite to eat? Good grief, do you suppose they could have been abducted by UFOs?
