Photo from Hotel Port www.hotelport.cz

Robb Demarest and the GHI gang were back in the Czech Republic to investigate paranormal activity in a remote castle known by the locals as the Gates of Hell.  Hell, it seems, has many gates nowadays….I thought it was at Bobby Mackeys    The castle is located in Blatce, Czech Republic, and sits atop a hillside in the country, a good distance from any other buildings.  The paranormal investigators weren’t without activity at this location.  Some of the claims of activity include:

• apparition of a woman in a white dress (again…this lady in white really gets around!!)
• flying demons
• dogs going stir crazy inside the castle
• voices, noises, etc…

According to the tour guide, the location was a spot where secret experiments were undertaken by German Nazi’s and was the location of the murder of some by their own kind.  The interesting thing about the castle is the fact that it was not built with any obvious intent, and it’s certainly not a King’s castle, for there are no defenses around it, it has no landview, and was seemingly built upon a hole of which the depths are not known.  Some believe the hole leads to inner earth.  Okay, for one, if it were that deep, it would provide a very plausible explanation for all the paranormal activity, as it probably is a source of magnetic fields and mineral deposits that are known to have effects like EMFs (hallucinations, feelings of eerieness, illness, paranoia, etc…).  At this point I would have said any further investigation is pretty much unnecessary.  But that’s why they don’t have TV shows like this with real skeptics.  There’d be no show!

The one really cool room of the castle, in the cellar, was lovingly called Satan’s Office.   Within the “office” were some gothic looking props; a throne embellished with horns and trident, large cauldrons, and devilish sculptures.  When Joe Chin sat on the throne, he and Ashley heard what they thought sounded like the hanging cauldrons move around.  They were also hearing what they interpreted as a female sounding voice.  This sound was audible even from the production camera.

The evidence they presented was all audio in nature, with the exception of the rock-toss in the attic.  The team even took a dog through the castle once and didn’t observe any strange behavior.

While in the attic, Dustin Pari and Ashley-I-use- science-Godwin were hearing noises and seeing shadow movement.  Dustin threw a stone in the direction of the movement.  Seconds later, they heard something onthe floor near where they stood.  They interpret this as stones being thrown back at them, although there was not a stone visible.  What I noticed, immediatley after Dustin’s toss was the dust that seemed to fall from the ceiling.  I think this stone could have caused some of that to fall  from the wall or rafters up there and was misinterpreted as someone throwing back.

Also in the attice, Barry Fitzgerald’s full spectrum camera seemed to have a mind of it’s own and started snapping photos without human manipulation.  Unfortunately, or no surprisingly, the photos revealed nothing.  Of course, if the shadow figure was doing the photographing, why would it?

I am more interested in the history of the castle.

What do you think of this investigation?  Post your thoughts!