DISCOVERING
A Paranormal MSU’s Paranormal Club is more than just ghost hunting By Lacee Shepard
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f you’re looking for a club to get involved in, you’re at the right university. Michigan State is home to more than 550 registered student organizations. Crazy, right? A club that is especially unique is the Paranormal Club. The MSU Paranormal Club was founded in December 2009. Members of the club are responsible for capturing frightening and inexplicable things on camera to share with the world as both proof and possibility that there might be something out there beyond human existence.
One of the investigations was held at Mary Mayo Hall, after age-old myths that Mary Mayo herself haunted the hall. English junior Andrew Koch, a second-year member of the club, was at this investigation. His job was to place a camera in the crawl space of Mary Mayo Hall, hoping to capture something out of the ordinary on film. While there was no documented paranormal
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activity found, Koch said the process was still “creepy.” Things that have been caught on tape in other investigations include doors mysteriously closing, footsteps and voices coming from an empty house, taps, thuds and other various noises. Although investigations are 8 October 2011
exciting and no doubt the major appeal of the group, they are not the main focus of the club this fall. President Dane Dario, a senior majoring in social relations and policy, religious studies, and psychology, said they would like to build their core membership during the first semester. There were more than 20 students at the first meeting this year, and Dario said he would
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During their first year on campus, the group was busy forming the club framework and did not participate in many activities or investigations. They began doing actual paranormal investigations during the 2010-2011 school year. In that year, the club went on eight different adventures, trying to witness paranormal activity around MSU and the Lansing area.