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Ghost hunter attempts interview with Fielding Hurst By Jeff Whitten
light up. Carol Pipkins’ cell phone camera was on, shooting the video. However, it would seem that any constant source of an EMF An interview with Col. Fielding would cause a constant Hurst?...Well, maybe. lighting up of the meter, I’ll let you decide. not a fluctuation, as McNairy County has its was observed on the own group of ghost hunters, video. G.H.O.S.T., which stands for The meter norGhost Hunters of Southern mally has one light Tennessee. on, but up to five They spent the night at lights can come on, the Hurst Mansion, which is indicating the largreputedly haunted. est EMF it can meaThey conducted the “insure.. terview” with a K-II meter. The video begins This is a device that detects when Pipkins’ camera electromagnetic fields, which seems to go off by itself. cause it to light up. “Did you turn my The theory is that if the mecamera off? I didn’t turn ter lights up and there is no HURST it off?” she asked. other explanation for its fluctuFive lights of the K-II’s lights then ation, then possibly ghosts are causing come on. the fluctuations. There is no electricity at the manSee HURST, 3A sion. Cell phones can cause the meter to Head News Writer
MICHIE REMAINS UNBEATEN, 7-0 Lady Blue Devils extend winning streak to 25 PAGE 5B
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MRA’s Annual Banquet is “Coming Home”
AiM brings nationally renowned troop to Latta PAGE 2A
By Christen Coulon
CHRISTMAS PARADES The town of Adamsville will hold their annual Christmas parade in downtown Adamsville this Thursday at 7 p.m. Lineup for the parade will begin at 6 p.m. The City of Selmer will hold their annual Christmas parade in downtown Selmer this Saturday at 6 p.m. Lineup for this event will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Independent Appeal holiday schedule PAGE 10A
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A local ghost hunter recently attempts an interview with Col. Fielding Hurst at his Mansion in Purdy.
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One of McNairy County’s premier events is coming home. The McNairy Regional Alliance Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony has been held out of county the last few years. Scheduling conflicts and lack of size of local venues prompted MRA leadership to temporarily hold the event at the Pickwick Inn in Hardin County. While the event has seen record attendance, an opportunity has presented itself that will enable the MRA to move its signature event back to McNairy County. Thanks to a partnership with Sammy and Sherry Kiser, the MRA Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony will be hosted at the Crazy K Ranch in Michie Jan. 26, 2013. “(The Kiser’s) had been asking us to come out for a while
McNairy Regional Alliance
McNairy Regional Alliance has unveiled their new logo I Love MC. The MRA will provide further details on this new program at their annual banquet Jan. 26, 2013. and take a look at their facilities there, and I had an opportunity to go out in October to see the new facility they are building there,” Ingle said. “Its close enough in size that it merited us making the change.
Ingle said that moving the banquet back to McNairy County was an important step. “It was not only an opportunity to move the event itself back in the county but an opportunity to spend the money
on it locally. The money spent on the banquet on catering and facilities will go back into the local economy,” Ingle said. The Crazy K Ranch is a work-
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