At the Columbia Ghost Tour

On Saturday evening, over two dozen people attended a dinner and Ghost Tour conducted by Chris Vera, president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society, and Rick Fisher, noted paranormal investigator and owner of the National Museum of Mysteries in Columbia.

After a dinner at Prudhomme's on Fourth, courtesy of David and Sharon Prudhomme, Rick Fisher delivered a lecture and slideshow on unexplained phenomena and hauntings in Marietta and Columbia.  Afterwards, Chris Vera and Rick led attendees on a ghost tour of Columbia's haunted sites and regaled the crowd with accounts of their own encounters with the supernatural, as well as significant events in Columbia's history.

 Chris relates his experiences at the Historical Society building

 Rick tells of hauntings at Columbia's Bank Museum as an apparition appears at his right shoulder

 Tales of more close encounters

 Chris sees something in the dark

Rick talks outside his Museum of Mysteries at 3rd & Locust

Showing one of his collectible artifacts

Also inside the shop, a collection of T-shirts, books, and DVDs

And, of course, Bigfoot

A few video clips from the evening's tour . . . 

Man found dead in Susquehanna

Early Sunday afternoon, a body was extracted from a submerged car that had been raised by emergency personnel.  The body was determined to be that of a 20-something black male from York.  Boaters embarking from shore discovered the car mid-morning and placed a call to authorities.

UPDATE

Body recovered from submerged car.

White Buick Le Sabre license no. HZL-8434

Car underwater

At this time rescue crews are working to pull a submerged car from the Susquehanna River. Details to follow.

Glenn Banner at CHiPS

Today at the Columbia Historic Preservation Society, Glenn Banner, author of Flames Across the Susquehanna, led a presentation of Columbia's history and its pivotal role in the Civil War.  He is pictured here with a photo of his great-grandfather, Jacob Miller, a Union soldier assigned to guard Confederate President Jefferson Davis after his capture.

Happy Halloween

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