WARSAW — Around a dozen people turned out at the Warsaw Community Public Library Tuesday,  Oct. 24, to hear about the paranormal experiences of local ghost hunters Laurie Voss and Greg Steffe. The pair put on a nearly two hour presentation demonstrating common ghost hunting tools, as well as showing pictures, sound bites and video clips of paranormal evidence they have captured.

Steffe spent 36 years in the haunted attraction business, including Warsaw’s Soul Taker Acres. After retiring from haunted attractions, Steffe started Spirits of Warsaw ghost tours which focuses on local history and ghost lore. Steffe got into ghost hunting around 10 years ago. “I seemed to have stumbled into this field,” he said.

Voss, too, got her start in ghost hunting around 10 years ago. She and her husband now visit Gettysburg, Pa. every year to ghost hunt.

Equipment varies between the ghost hunters, with Steffe utilizing some higher-tech equipment, including a $150 teddy bear rigged to evoke responses from child spirits. Voss on the other hand prefers a basic quick-shot digital camera and voice recorder. Voss also employs pendulums to communicate with spirits.

Steffe stated that a lot of local groups ask him to participate in their ghost hunts, joking that it’s because he is easy to outrun.

The majority of Voss’s evidence came in the form of unidentifiable mists in pictures taken during hunts. Voss stated that her go-to method of capturing evidence is to have her husband trail several feet behind her and take pictures of her as she asks spirits questions. “They [spirits] seem to attach to me,” Voss said.

Steffe, short on time, quickly presented several video clips he had edited together showing orbs, movement of objects and electronic voice phenomenon.

One of the clips Steffe showed was footage from a hunt at Randolph County Asylum in Winchester. The important aspect of the clip was the unusual sound of a child’s giggle and hum, sounding almost like a jingle. Local ghost hunter Evelyn Rake was in the audience and immediately spoke up saying she had captured the same phenomenon at that location during a hunt.

Steffe and Voss ended their presentation informing the crowd that if they are interested in getting ghost hunter training they can contact Rake who organizes ghost hunts at the Old Jail Museum, 121 N. Indiana St., Warsaw. Proceeds from the hunts go toward the Kosciusko County Historical Society. If interested contact the Old Jail at (574) 269-1078.