Episode 4: Mission San Fernando ~ Ghosts Wanted

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Episode 4: Mission San Fernando

FOR A MAP OF THIS HAUNTED LOCATION PRESS HERE

In this exciting GHOSTS WANTED episode, Lee Barron meets the guardians at the gate...the legendary "Indian" at the door...plus five more souls! Our crew also discovers mysterious small blue spirits at the second gate, possibly the souls of children who have found peace and comfort among the walls of the oldest mission in Los Angeles.

The Mission San Fernando, Rey de Espana, was established in 1797 as one of a chain of missions which were built to convert the native peoples (Tongva) to Christianity and to consolidate Spanish power along the coast of California. The establishment of the missions in California was traumatic for the Native Indians, as they were forced to change their lifestyle, beliefs and culture.

The Mission was utilized in a number of ways during the late 1800s; it was a station for the Butterfield Stage Lines; it served as a warehouse for the Porter Land and Water Company; and in 1896, the quadrangle was used as a hog farm. San Fernando's church became a working church again in 1923 when the Oblate priests arrived.

WATER LEVEL: HIGH (ACTIVE FOUNTAIN)

UPDATE 5/21/08

GHOSTS WANTED returned to this location to follow up on another ghost.

TO SEE THE "VANISING HITCHHIKER" EPISODE PRESS HERE

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The Skeleton Crew

LEE BARRON is a sketch comedy actor with a special gift. Born into a family with a genetic disposition for psychic receptivity, Lee can consciously small-talk with spirits and uses etheric humor to break the ice and help them along their path through the after-life. His grandfather used to do energy healing on the livestock on their Texas ranch, an ability that has been passed down through the generations.

His first shuddersome experience in tinseltown occurred while working behind the scenes on In Search of Haunted Hollywood with Max Maven and John Davidson. One morning on the Alcatraz set in GMT Studios, he heard tapping on the prison bars when no one was there. Set managers confirmed that they had heard, “strange sh*t, too.” Lee later discovered that the studio lot was built on top of the old Culver City Cemetery.

Since he has accepted his gifts, he has experienced ghosts in many unusual situations, such as haunting an apartment heater, attending a funeral, and possessing a laundry room. Lee’s advice to other ghost hunters; “Keep it Ethe-real, but don’t be a white-light wanker about it.”

RICHARD CARRADINE's passion for spooky subject matter was ignited when he came face to face with a “woman in white” that haunts a 19th century mansion in Pasadena, CA. Since that experience, he has had many unexplainable encounters with the other side, from full-bodied apparitions to heavy furniture sliding back and forth across a room.

In almost two decades of hunting, he has investigated ghosts from all over the world, (Canada, Scotland, England, Wales, Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovenia) and throughout the United States (Florida, California, New York, Louisiana, Virginia, and Montana). In California alone, he has investigated over 200 haunted locations (including all 23 missions).

His approach to each case is academic. Proving or disproving the spiritual activity of a certain spot isn’t what motivates this ghost hunter. Instead, he is more interested in collecting the stories and eyewitness accounts, and archiving them, not only as a means of getting a glimpse into that place’s past, but also as a means of recording them for future studies into these unusual phenomena that clearly affect so many seemingly unconnected people.

Sunday, February 17, 2008