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THE LOUISVILLE GHOST HUNTERS AND THE INVOLVEMENT
OF KEITH AGE AT WAVERLY HILLS
Bobby Zoeller of Louisville,
Ky., wants folks to know that
he believes that Keith Age is
nothing short of a quack. Once
a ghost hunter, Zoeller and
his wife worked with the society
for about three years until
they opted to leave the group
and expose Age and other ghost
hunters to the rest of the world.
--tmnews.com
By
Bobby Zoeller
The
Waverly Hills Sanatorium sits high
on a hill overlooking Dixie Highway
in Louisville, Kentucky and has a
local reputation as being "haunted."
The gothic, five story structure built
in 1926 has sat abandoned for the
last quarter of a century and vandals
have removed everything of value,
including the water pipes and scrap
metal, from the interior. It sits
derelict and oozes a spooky and ghostly
image for the visitors to it's grounds.
This image has provided an enormous
opportunity to some that have used
it's reputation to further their own
cause. Purchased by Charlie and Tina
Mattingly back around 2000, it has
provided untold hundred of thousands,
and some would say millions, of dollars,
all in the name of the non-profit
"Waverly Hills Historical Society."
Prior to discovering she could make
people stand in line to hand her $20
bills to tour the empty building,
Tina Mattingly claimed she never saw
a thing thing and never experienced
a paranormal incident within the confines
of Waverly Hills. Later, after she
was approached by Keith Age and a
guided tour program was established
for a set fee, Tina began seeing a
lot of things and she always made
it a note to tell the potential attendees.
The tours of Waverly Hills were originally
run by the Louisville Ghost Hunters
Society headed by President Keith
Age. It was he who developed the script
and the route, and it was he who would
garner all the fame that went with
the location. What started out early
on as a one month tour season centering
around Halloween, quickly developed
in a three and four month tour season
after a year or two, and by 2004 it
was nearly a year round enterprise
taking in untold thousands of dollars
in cash each week and treating everyone
who came a spooky and memorable time.
The most important aspect of Waverly
Hills was repeat customers, so the
owners and Keith Age always made sure
they got their money's worth.
What most people never realized is
that most, if not all of the stories,
associated with Waverly Hills are
fictional to say the least. The number
of "63,000 deaths" is over-exageratated
by about 56,000 or so, the actual
number being more like 6300 according
to historical accounts. The often
spoke of "suicide" of a
nurse in the infamous Room 502 is
a classic example. Keith always claimed
to have the death certificate of that
poor soul but refused to ever allow
anyone to see it. I asked him the
date of the supposed suicide once
and after he gave it to me I spend
three days downtown at the main library
combing through newspaper archives
trying to locate the information.
I never found it. We were later told
the entire story was concocted by
a local band, Incursion, and that
Keith had heard the story and thought
it sounded spooky and decided to embellish
it into the tours as a factual event.
The much talked about "shadow
people" of Waverly Hills is another
example of mind over matter. The LGHS
tour guides, Jay Gravatte and Dale
Clark in particular, would go out
of their way trying to out spook their
respective audiences. The "shadow
people" were used with the utmost
effectiveness to obtain this goal.
Standing in near total darkness with
only the outside light filtering through,
the tour participants were asked to
use their "peripheral vision"
to look down the darkened hallway
until they saw the "shadow people."
Needless to say, more often than not,
they made their appearance. Not an
actual appearance, but the appearance
in the minds of the people seeking
to find them. Those that didn't see
them were putting out "negative
vibes" according to Keith Age,
or they wore glasses which restricted
their ability to see them. (As I was
told) Whatever the case, the "shadow
people" made their nightly appearance
at Waverly Hills because that was
part of the script and it kept the
uninformed and more gullible members
of the general public coming back
for more. And, with them came their
money.
Keith Age built his career out of
his involvement at Waverly Hills.
The fact is between 2003 and 2005
he was hardly ever there unless a
television crew or live radio remote
happened to be on the site. The duty
of running the tours and spending
weeks and months at a time there fell
to his loyal members. He would show
up on occasion to lavish the attendees
with his ghostly stories, but this
was few and far between and mostly
centered around his meetings with
the Mattingly's to discuss the next,
and bigger, promotion.
"The Rock N'
Roll Ghost Man Of Kentucky, Keith
Age"
The allure of Waverly Hills began
to weigh on the members of LGHS by
the fall of 2005 and the people who
had devoted the most and sacrificed
the most in order to make Keith Age
and Waverly Hills famous begin to
tire of the place. Many of these members
spent weeks at a time working totally
free of charge running tours there
and participating in the events and
began to resent the treatment they
were receiving from the owners. Keith
felt Waverly was "his ticket,"
as he later told one former LGHS member,
and the thought of leaving Waverly
was not all that appealing. He knew
that many of his members joined LGHS
specifically because of Waverly Hills
and his access to it, and leaving
there would present him with some
unpleasant decisions he would have
to consider.
After a near revolt by his members
in the fall of 2005, Keith decided
LGHS would leave Waverly on October
31, 2005. But before that, he wanted
his members to stay at least until
then because he heard T.A.P.S. was
coming to Waverly sometime in the
near future and he wanted LGHS to
be part of it, in particular he wanted
to be part of it. He talked his LGHS
members into staying on another six
weeks in the hopes T.A.P.S. would
arrive and the publicity associated
with Waverly Hills would propel him
even further. Well, such was not the
case. T.A.P.S. arrived in mid-November
of 2005, approximately ten days after
Keith and LGHS had left Waverly and
they stayed for a week. Keith never
even knew they were there. After they
left, they claimed on their own public
message board they never even heard
of Keith Age or of the LGHS.
Keith and LGHS left Waverly Hills
after five years. Keith turned his
time there into a full time career.
Little do people on the outside realize
how that career was formulated.
About Bobby Zoeller
Bobby Zoeller is a
former member of Louisville Ghost
Hunters Society. At one time he was
the Case Manager of LGHS.
Born in 1959 in Louisville,
Kentucky Bobby Zoeller has been interested
in the paranormal his entire life.
Never having experienced what he would
term a "supernatural event"
with one minor exception, that nonetheless
hasn't stopped him from seeking out
and trying to answer questions that
have always fascinated him. Raised
as a Roman Catholic, his interest
in demonic possession has always been
foremost in this field of study, but
unfortunately reliable documentation
regarding those events are few and
far between. Researching prior cases
that have come to light in recent
years has not convinced him to date
that the phenomena actually exists
to any great degree, and looking over
some of the more well publicized cases
he tends to doubt most of what he
has read and seen from the so-called
experts that comment on the events.
He joined a local paranormal group
based in Louisville back in January
of 2003 known as the Louisville Ghost
Hunters Society headed by Founder
and President Keith Age. He later
met his future wife there and they
married in May of 2004. While a member
of the organization, he became a lead
investigator with the group and was
appointed the group's Case Manager
in the fall of 2004. Both he and his
wife participated in close to two
dozen on-site investigations during
their time there, and the high profile
2004 investigation of the Willard
Library in Evansville, Indiana was
his opportunity to showcase the LGHS.
Following several questionable accounts
involving the group's president, he
resigned as Case Manager on February
28, 2006 and within a week quit the
group altogether. His wife was removed
from the group by the actions of the
president. Upon leaving LGHS and discovering
much of what he had been told in the
past and been led to believe to be
facts turned out to be mostly misinformation
or outright lies on the behalf of
the group's leader, both he and his
wife undertook a campaign to expose
what they considered fraud and the
scamming of the general public all
in the name of making the group's
leader famous. Documented evidence
was gathered from sources around the
country to prove their case and the
information was first displayed publicly
on an independent web site and later
on two Yahoo message groups. The web
site was taken down by the actions
of the former group's leader and the
first Yahoo group disappeared after
complaints were lodged against it
by the very people it was designed
to expose.
He has been fighting what he see's
as corruption and fraud within the
paranormal field now for the past
two-and-a-half years, and has had
a very difficult time when it comes
to the "experts" in the
field as it seems no one wishes to
speak ill of the others. In short,
he has discovered more deception and
more media manipulation over the past
two years than most people will witness
in an entire lifetime. The "experts"
refuse to answer direct questions
put forth to them, they in many cases
continue to con the public out of
both their money and their common
sense, and the only reason he continues
on at this point is because he does
not want the uninformed or the more
gullible members of the public and
the media conned like he was for three
years.
He currently work as the shipping
and receiving manager for a large
sheet metal fabrication plant in Louisville,
Kentucky and spends his spare time
researching and exposing what he considers
fraud and deception within the paranormal
field.
If you have any questions you would
like answered or have information
regarding any high profile "paranormal
experts" that you find troubling,
you can contact him at
r_zoeller@bellsouth.net.
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Have
The Dead Spoken To You Lately?
Lisa Lee Harp Waugh
The American Necromancer
The first lady of conjuring the Dead.
The ancient art pf Necromancy is still
alive today with Waugh at it's main
investigator. LISA LEE HARP WAUGH
Is a necromancer in the 21st century.
She is by what may call a real conduit
to the world of the dead. She dressers
in ceremonial robes, draws magical
circles on the floor and commands
spirits from Heaven, Hell and all
places in between to appear before
her and communicate with the living.
As a teenager she studied heavily
The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
and The Grand Grimoire by A.E Waite,
the Malleus Maleficarum and anything
she could get her hands on by the
great by Eliphas Levi, John Dee and
the great beast, Aleister Crowley.
www.ghosthuntersofamerica.com
A professional Necromancer and founder
of the Sorcerers and Necomaner Guild
of greater Houston, Texas. Waugh has
been practicing and conducting rituals
for many paranormal investigators
for over 20 years. Waugh also paints
many spiritual and common murals and
lives in a small Texas town with her
three dogs. She also over the years
makes ceremonial candles and is active
in ghost hunting in the deep South.
Summoning the dead to communicate
with the living is a natural daily
occurrence for Waugh. "I have
been doing this since I was a child."
" When I lived in Galveston,
Texas about 15 years ago, I was introduced
to the ancient rights of ceremonial
Necromancy as a ritual by a great
shaman called Freebird, and because
of him and his diligence to the art,
I still practice it until this day."
"However, if a spirit has something
vital to impart to you, they will
call upon you, not vice-versa and
no ritual is needed".
She then Got involved with the local
Hoodoo Voodoo's of the area and new
doors where opened to her concerning
communicating with the dead.
Waugh was baptized and trained in
the secret dark religion by Bianca
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Waugh
lived in New Orleans for 3 years until
she learned all about spells, hex's
and how to hoodoo voodoo people as
she says.
Waugh also owned and managed the
fantastic Candle Making Company in
Galveston, Texas for many years that
catered to the eclectic patrons taste
of many of the states visitors and
just curious. She then moved to Houston's
Famous Vodoun area 5th ward. This
now where she resides to this day.
Her home today is a testimony to Necromancy
and her new found religion of Voodoo
Hoodoo.
Necromantic practitioners such as
Waugh conducts, and entails respect
and reverence not only for the spirits
of the dead, but for the spirits of
Hell, Heaven and all places in between.
Waugh has a large home one room she
has painted black where she calls
the good spirits. Another painted
all black where she calls the infernal
spirits.
The
American Ghost Hunters Society is
currently accepting new members all
across the country for our network
of ghost hunters, ghost writers and
ghost enthusiasts.
We
Investigate all types of Paranormal
and Unexplained Phenomena through
Research and Documentation.
Waugh is often compared today in
her facial features and many similar
practices as being a modern Dr. John
Dee. He of course was one of the most
fascinating characters of the Elizabethan
period just as Waugh is recognized
as such in modern times. The events
of Dee's life are filled with science,
experiments, astrology and mathematics
which he aligned with magic, the supernatural
and alchemy! All of which is Waugh's
personal passion and driven honest
beliefs. These are also stead fast
traditions she does and true in practicing
openly. A few of her select followers
say she is the actual reincarnation
of John Dee. Waugh also practices
astrology, and is very continuously
studying the Black Arts.
Waugh, a real big hearted Texas gal
does not comment on any of this privately
or publicly ... for she is humble
in her paranormal studies and research
to the core. Gina Lanier a close friend
of her's relates: "Waugh is a
very outgoing friendly, charming and
a downright loveable person, and gets
along equally well with the living
and the dead." Lanier and Waugh
once investigated a real Haunted Texas
Federal Prison together for close
to two years in the early 1990's and
had many startling paranormal adventures
while there.
Lisa Lee Harp Waugh's accomplishments
have been achieved through hard work,
persistence, and a goal-oriented attitude
required to overcome obstacles and
reach difficult goals. Waugh shares
her approach to communicating with
the dead's success in this motivational
performance that's sure to inspire
Paranormal Investigators to excel
in their life.
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