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Rialto, California 08-04-10
This is a unique and unusual place, not simply because it's a historical society, and not just because it happens to have regular visitors of the un-bodied kind, but also because the main building is the former "First Christian Church of Rialto."
We had the opportunity to visit this treasure with Brandon and Adam from the Group with No Name, now known as SIPA (Skeptical Inquiry of Paranormal Activity), two really great guys who prove that not all skeptical people are knuckleheads. The difference is that they WANT to believe, but their level of proof is much higher than most paranormal investigators. As a matter of fact, Brandon literally save our butts when we reviewed video evidence from this location.
There was a shot from a static camera stationed in the balcony at the back of the church watching the church below. In this shot there appeared to be a little blond girl in a blue dress who stepped out from the back hallway, stood in the doorway for a couple seconds, then vanished into thin air. We were flabbergasted! I immediately sent the video clip to Brandon. He called me back a couple of hours later with bad news. "I know what's in that shot, and you're not going to like it..." he said.
Pins and needles.
"What? What was it?" I nearly cried out.
"Well, here's the thing," Brandon continued, "the things that looks like the head of the little girl? It's my hand. At that level of light from that distance it looks like something else, but it is my hand. I brought a sack lunch with me, and I remember reaching just in front of that door was and dropping my lunch onto Adam's stuff. I came back later and got it. The low level of light and distance caused your camera to pixelate, using the arc of the dropped sack lunch and it's motion to sort of generate an image."
Talk about thunderstruck. No way, he's wrong I thought, After I got off the phone with Brandon, I played the video back time after time. On about the 5th replay it became apparent that Brandon was right, and I, and everyone else who saw that video was wrong. Thank goodness it was figured out before it was published!
Also with us was Claranormal, Yussi and Vanina from Yussi Paranormal.
There are stories about a little blond girl who inhabits the building, years after her death from leukemia, as well as that of vortices, and a "Victorian Lady on the Stairs."  The lady of the stairs was disproved by Yussi and Nick, almost by accident, but once they were on the right track, they never let up until they solved the mystery of the stairs lady. I didn't know it at the time, but another group had also disproived this "apparition" a couple of months earlier, showing, like we did, that it was an optical illusion.