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Constantine welcomes ghost hunters

 By MATT CONLEY J-C COMMUNITY EDITOR

The Constantine Theater has plenty of history, and this past weekend, a group of paranormal investigators were in town looking to see if perhaps some of that history was still clinging to “life” at the venerable old theater.



The Oklahoma Society for Paranormal Investigations — with permission from the Constantine Board — set up equipment in the late hours of Friday night and into Saturday morning, running just about every test imaginable to detect paranormal activity.



“We have not had an opportunity to really pour over all of our data yet, but we did see indications of some unusual phenomenon that we will have to further scrutinize,” said Charles Koneman, co-founder of the organization. “We will present all of our findings to the Constantine Board when we come back in a couple weeks or so, and it will really be up to them to determine what they want to make public.”



A couple years ago, a similar investigation was held at the Constantine that did reveal substantial paranormal activity, much to the chagrin of several Constantine Board members. But the board agreed for another round of testing, much to the delight of Koneman.

“The Constantine is such a wonderful building, we all just fell in love with the place as soon as we stepped through the doors,” said Koneman. “We would love to come back and further investigate the Constantine, but that will really be up to the board members. After all, ghosts don’t always perform on demand.”



The OSPI crew sets up a variety of equipment, ranging from standard camcorders, digital voice recorders, infrared cameras, camcorders with night vision, all the way to the crew’s own eyes and ears. Remote temperature sensors are also used, which yielded no results Friday night.



“We did hear some audio in the background, but until we further analyze our data we won’t know what it is — sometimes old buildings just normally make noises,” said Koneman. “Just after our preliminary look, we did pick up some interesting anomalies, but we have to look at our data in much more detail than what we have at this time.”



Koneman and his crew have traveled across the state investigating “haunted” structures, and confidentiality agreements prevent him from talking about many of his exploits. He will abide by the same confidentiality agreements he has with the Constantine Board unless they allow him to release his findings.



“We want people to know that we will always honor our confidentiality agreements,” said Koneman. “We also want people to understand that we are a scientific-oriented organization. We use our scientific equipment, but do not use psychics, mediums, clairvoyants, or anything like that. That is not what we are about”