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First, I’d like to apologize for the delay. I honestly wanted to have this up and running on Thursday. The problem was hunting down something I could add to this post so you guys could “see” something. Add on technical difficulties and you can only imagine how this process went.

As I mentioned earlier, the decision to return to Tombstone occurred several years after my Thanksgiving trip. Life had moved on and things were different for me at the time. It was at this time, that I was living in Phoenix, AZ and exploring some of the so called haunted spots in the area.

My adventures were mostly those that could be done in a single day and I wasn’t focused on doing the long overnight journeys if I could avoid them. Sometimes it would be a simple venture out to Greenwood Cemetery, other times it would be trying to hunt down what was at the time, the legendary JoJo’s Alley.

I had recently purchased a digital camera at the time and wanted to see what I could do with it. Here is an example of a video I made at the time, which is really poorly crafted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ouaNzt_kw

The goal of the video was to try out the camera and to get a feeling for it. After filming the video, I figured a ghost hunting venture was in order and I wanted it to be something memorable. So, hoping into my Saturn Ion at the time, I made my journey down to Tombstone and decided to see what I could pick up at the time.

This time, my venture through the town was on my own. I was still naïve and didn’t realize that ghost hunting on your own wasn’t entirely the best decision a person could make. So, armed with my camera and a tape recorder, I was determined to get the video and sound I needed to make an impact on YouTube and finally get the naysayers to accept that the supernatural does exist.

It was at this time that I figured the best place to go, would be the place where I had success the first time. With that, I returned to the Tombstone Cemetery. My goal was to see if I couldn’t find anything to show up among the graves.

Now, I am almost certain that spending time in the graveyard at night taking pictures is probably frowned on, if you don’t have prior permission. But, my mind was focusing on the ghost hunting experience. Probably not the most sensible decision at the time, but I went ahead and decided to see where it would take me.

For about an hour, I sat among the graves and endlessly talked to the darkness. At the time I was trying to convince myself that I wanted to make some kind of communication with something on the other side. The truth is most likely the setting itself had me nervous and talking to myself helped to keep me from realizing just how freaked out I was.

Deciding I had spent enough time in the cemetery and since I was feeling a little beat, I decided to head on back home. All the time I was in my car, I wondered to myself, what I would end up finding on the tape. I probably drove a little faster than I should, but I raced home nonetheless to see what, if anything I had.

Turning up the volume on the tape recorder, I played back the hour long conversation and tried to see if I couldn’t catch anything interacting with me. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. It was heartbreaking to a point to find that I spent so much time trying to find something and walking away empty handed.

Hoping all was not lost, when I returned home, I connected the camera to the PC and began to download the images. For the most part, the images were too dark to make out much of anything. The few that I used flash on had what appeared to be orbs on them. At the time, I was certain that orbs had to be actual ghosts. Unfortunately, as my later experiences with the professionals, these were not orbs, but most likely dust.

That didn’t stop me from returning to Tombstone again in November with another friend. This would be the turning point in my ghost hunting ventures and will change the tone and information that grows on this blog.

Something I would like to show you guys, if you haven’t seen it before it a photograph taken by Ike Clanton. This is a rare photograph where you can see an apparition in the background.