You know, and, and it's a community, as you guys know,
there's I mean in. There's a lot of crazies though,
man, look, there's a lot of crazy people in this community.
So it's. John, what are you going to say
to that? He knows I'm crazy, he's one of
them. I'm crazy myself.
And and yeah, he's one of them. I do agree.
Welcome to Splendered Spirits. I'm your host Gary, and along
with my nephew John Santa from Santa Paranormal, we dive into
all things paranormal to ask the big question, what are spirits?
Our guest today brings a rare combination of journalistic
rigor and open minded curiosity to that question.
Christy Reeder is a long time News 12 anchor who has covered
everything from politics to parenting to consumer trends.
But this fall she stepped into the world of the supernatural as
the host of Haunted tri-state, a new series that takes viewers
inside some of the most notorious haunts across New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
You can find the link to News 12 in the Blink Tree in my bio.
From historic homesteads to haunted bakeries, Christie not
only explored the stories tied to these places, she also
connected with the people who live, work, and carry those
legends forward. And along the way, she's had her
own encounters enough that she admits to keeping holy water
close by. We're excited to talk with
Christie today about what she discovered on her journey, the
people she met, and how a journalist balances reporting
facts with facing the unexplained.
Let's dive into the conversation.
Christy, how are you? Thanks for being on Splinter
Spirits with us. Hello, I'm doing well.
How are you? Thank you.
Where? Where are you today?
Where does this podcast find you?
I am out on Long Island and Bethpage at our newsroom here at
News 12, so have a nice. 12 OK broadcast They broadcast Long
Island got. It yes, yes, we have various you
know, we have we're all in the tri-state.
You know, we have newsrooms in Bronx, Brooklyn, New Jersey,
Hudson Valley, and I'm at the Long Island location today.
So Christian Splinter Spirits where you know, I got into this
whole thing because of John here, who's a paranormal
influencer and creator and documentary.
He speaks to spirits. I'm like, what is going on you?
Know what the hell is going on? Much like what you're just what
you're about to do and we're going to dive into the series of
yours. But I like to ask all our guests
because I've been on a journey myself of talking to all
different peoples, people, getting a certain perspective of
it. So, but I like to ask this
question to begin just to get a baseline for where everyone's
coming, coming from. Christy, what do you think
spirits are? What do you think?
You get right into it. You get right into it.
Yeah. Well, I guess I've always
thought it's a sort of presence. I think, You know, initially I
thought a spirit is like, Boo, you know, you see something, I'm
picking up a bottle. But the older I get, and then
probably definitely after doing this project, I feel like some,
you know, it can be different things for a lot of people, and
especially the people I've met through this project, it can
feel really, you know, heavy at times, a spirit, a feeling,
maybe a touch, you know, so it means something to different
people. But what does it mean to you?
I guess a spirit, I would say a presence that you just can't
explain. That's how it OK.
So you think it's OK? So you just, you look at it,
it's like it is something, there's something there that
exudes off of a possibly off of a person once they're gone.
Yeah, nothing physical, you know, but yeah.
Yeah, a presence. That I just like to see like
where people's heads are as we, because we're talking about
ghosts. I just kind of want to know
where your head is with ghosts, right?
I mean, it's crazy. It's, it's, it's a crazy thing.
So, you know, as a journalist, you've covered everything, you
know, from politics to parenting.
I know these are big segments of yours, consumer news.
So what made you go down this road with both the tri-state?
Did a producer make you do it or did you come up with it?
What what happened here? How did you get into this?
You know, I've. Yeah, right.
I've done everything. I love consumer.
I love saving money. And now I'm like, you know,
getting to, you know, ghost hunting.
Yeah. No, it was just kind of an idea.
You know, we always like to come up with different ideas for, you
know, different times of the year.
Somebody pitched it and then it kind of, you know what, what can
we get in, you know, in in this realm?
And then a group, our originals team, which is a fabulous team
here on in News 12, they started investigating.
So one of our producers, Jenny, she actually started looking up
different paranormal investigators in the tri-state
area saying, OK, you know, if we were to do this, who would be
open to it? What places could we get into?
Cuz like we're going into places like we need access, you know,
And so usually it starts with an idea and then then we see how
much we can actually do it. And then they're like, OK, who's
going to be a part of it? And then they approached me this
summer, I think it was in July, and I had AI had a talk with the
team, and I was working pretty much in the Bronx and at that
time at our News 12 office. And I remember having to chat
with them. And I'm like driving across the
GW Bridge and, you know, we're talking about ghosts and, you
know, and we started to talk kind of about our own
experiences just because this project was just getting
underway. And I'm like, look, I'm game for
whatever, you know? And then I kind of got nervous.
Like, what did I disagree to? So yeah, it was kind of an
evolving thing, you know, ideas. They, you know, a lot of people
have a lot of ideas. But then it's like, OK, well,
what can we actually do with this?
What? What story can we tell?
Can we make up 1 episode? Can we do multiple?
And it went from there. So and that, well, that leads me
to my next question for you is someone who's trained to seek
out facts and verify stories, how did you approach these ghost
stories and legends that can't be fact checked in a traditional
way? What how do you do from a
journalist, A journalistic perspective?
What? What is?
How did that look like for you? Yeah, You know, you're like, OK,
I I had a lot of questions like what are we doing?
I'm going into the house. I'm going to be stay.
And John, you probably are know all about this.
You're like, yeah, I'm doing it. But I'm like, I honestly, I'm
not going to lie, I was scared definitely for our first one.
All of them. I was, you know, I was a little
bit intimidated, scared going into it.
I had a rosary in my pocket. I would even carry it there.
I'm like, I don't, I don't know, you know, whatever you believe.
I'm a little tough. But but back to your question,
you go into it, it was more so and how they kind of wanted me
to approach it is I'm just, you know, an average person also
happen to be, you know, a journalist.
And I'm going into this like, explain to me first the history
of this place. I want to know all about this,
this, you know, place. Then I want to know about the
paranormal groups. We worked with different
paranormal groups for each episode.
So, you know, explain to me how you got into this.
So I ask all those questions. Then we go through like the
equipment that they have, you know, show what does this reader
do and why does it go off? So I guess.
It was, it was all the same shit, right?
I mean, they've got the SB-57, they got the phone apps, they've
got their EVP thing. I mean, it's all the same stuff,
right? For.
Sure. Yeah, there were the the meters
that would go off. There was one group that had and
they do the digital seance experience and they use white
noise to kind of. So that was kind of something
different that we got to experience.
So it was on different types of equipment, even the the rods
like the old school. The witch.
The witch sticks. The witch sticks.
I was like, what's happening? And then, yeah, it was each
group I think had a little like twist on their equipment, I
would say. So that was interesting.
And then one of the episodes, there's a medium who, and I
would say this is a tool who sketches what's coming to him.
So like sketches it like pen and paper.
Oh, that's fun. Right.
So that's good. For TV.
Yeah, well, yeah. And that's what I liked about
the news approach to it. It's like we want to see, we
don't want the same group and the same house and this let's go
to all these people and try with different groups to see, you
know, what's different and you know what can be told.
So that was all that part of it. And then we actually go to the
places and the places were great.
You know, they would. And that that's kind of like
what the producer, what I talked about, she had went out and
connected with these groups to see, OK, where have you worked
before? What would be a good place to do
this show? And and then they had the
relationships of these places, most of them just one, they
hadn't been there yet. And then, you know, we would
come in. And so it was like, kind of
like, here are the keys, have fun tonight.
And we would just go off and do our thing, which was wild.
I'm like, what? We get the whole, you know, Elks
Lodge or this Historical Society.
So, you know, so that was the, you know, so yeah, the news side
was kind of like, OK, let's go through the different teams with
let's explain all the equipment in case a viewer would be like,
I don't know what that that reader does.
So we would explain that. And then the last part of the
show is we take all of what we find.
You know, you know what we think we experienced and we show it to
a group of skeptics and like in a studio, we show them what we
find. So, you know, really getting all
sides of it. And, you know, it wasn't like
the they weren't, they were respectfully challenging what,
you know, we experienced, you know, they weren't, you know,
these, you know, 'cause everyone's working together.
And but it was neat to hear their take too.
And I would kind of be like, but I heard, you know, we'd go.
Before, you know, it's interesting, it's debunking is
something we avoid debunking. We don't talk about it too much
here at all, really. I mean, look, there's 1000
different 'cause I know what the answer is to that.
You know, it's, it's, it's, it's uninteresting.
It's an unfun story, right? To just say no, you know, it's
like, I know it, you know, it's like it could be this, it could
be that it could be that, you know, electrical waves, or it
could be this static frequency or it could be like, you know,
there's a glitch in the cloud. There's a whole slew of things
that it could that it might be, but we, the, the human
experience is far more fun, right.
And was there a moment for you when you got into this where it
really did? Can you can you point to any
specific moment when you first started where it's like, wait a
minute, I was here. I was as a neutral journalist
and now I'm, yeah, now I'm experiencing something
potentially paranormal. What was that?
That's the emotion that I'm. I'm interested in.
You know where? Was I the 1st place we went to?
I just walked in. It was the Mesir homestead
that's in Wappingers Falls in, in New York.
And it was just, it's like 1700s, you know, the history
there. And it just, it just gave a
feeling, you know, when you walk in and I did not want to be
anywhere in that house alone. Like they would say, can you go
over there? I'm like, who's coming with?
Is somebody coming with me? You know, at one point they,
they blindfolded me and put me in another room.
And I was like, I cannot believe I'm agreeing to this.
And I listened to the, you know, the so I couldn't hear what.
Oh, she did the Estes method. She did the Estes method.
Yeah, yeah. We know, but I was like, a
photographer's going to be in here, right?
You know? I guess I have, I guess you know
how I feel like either way, whatever you believe, I don't
want to bring anything home. I've got 2 little girls at home
and so I'm going to be respectful.
So I would always be like, tell me what I need to do to make
sure they stay here. I don't want it to be that I'm
chancing anything. And you know, so we were always
like I said I would, I had the rosary in my pocket, whatever
they would say. There were a couple encounters
and I think, you know, the the first episode that we have where
we're we were at the homestead, there was like all of a sudden
everyone's feeling something in this corner.
And so they're like, we'll come over here if you want to.
And when I went over there, it was like, it was, it was like
static electricity, like on my finger, you know, it was, it was
weird. See what was that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was perfect time.
We didn't plan that. That's we.
Didn't plan that I'm in. So I'm in a haunted building as
we speak and my cat is super sensitive so she is just
constantly seeing things and hearing things.
So you're going to hear that quite a bit.
Well, maybe she sensed that I really did sense something.
I like when you, you know, I, I respond to what you said about
you had a feeling right, Because I, I do believe in intuition.
I think we all have a fight, a fight or flight sense for
something, right? It doesn't matter.
You've been in a bar and someone walks in, you get a bad vibe or
so there's people in a room. We whatever that is.
And I think it might be heightened for some and and not
for others. And John, you know, you talk
about that feeling you get, which is like being inside, you
know, a jello mold when you feel it, like your Viber in a
weirdness. I don't, I don't like sense
energy. You know, to me, it's more
atmospheric. Like just as Gary described,
you're at a bar and then also you get a weird feeling and it's
like, oh, wait a minute, you know, who's this guy that just
walked in? Who's this chick that just
walked in, you know, or like, you know, or anything.
You could be at the supermarket, you know, picking out your
groceries and all of a sudden you get a weird feeling, like
what's going on here, You know, it's more of an atmospheric
feeling to me, you know, not like random energies and
whatnot. So I can only imagine, you know,
being a journalist from that perspective, going into a place
that's haunted and like, you know, as a journalist, you know,
you do have intuition, you know, when you think about it, I bet
I, you know, I mean, I don't want to speak for you, but it's
pretty much, pretty much it, right?
You know, when you're doing your thing, you know, you're going
with some gut feelings on certain things, right?
So I mean, I could only imagine what you were like going into a
place like this and, and, and doing the Estes method.
I mean, that's just wild. That was like your first swore
away into anything paranormal. Right.
Yeah, They drove her right in. They got her.
Right in, right in. I guess that kind of helped me.
It kind of helped me too because I guess I like, aside from the
journalist, I'm a scaredy cat. Like this stuff does freak me
out so. But I like to be a good worker.
So when someone's like this is your assignment, I'm like, OK,
if it, if it'll make the shot look good, if we can take the
viewer to another place, I will do.
It, by the way, there's nothing weird about being scared about
walking into a haunted place at night and then, you know, being
blindfolded. If you said to me I wasn't
scared, that's weird, right? Right.
That would be the weird. Yeah, yeah.
So when you walked, when you saw these places, Christy, you know,
from, you know, whether that's the Miser Homestead or the
Boomtown Elks Lodge, when you looked at it from the outside
versus once you went in, which location surprised you the most?
You know, like if some of them you look at you're like, yeah,
that place probably haunted, I'm sure.
But then what? What?
What were some of? The things, the one that
surprised me the most, where I was like, you know, I got the
notes for it. It was a bakery out on Long
Island in Huntington Fiorello. Fiorello Fiorello, Dolce Bakery
and. Like a bakery.
And then I'm like, oh, maybe it's like an old house.
No, it's like a strip mall. I'm like, what?
What? What could be wrong, you know,
going on here? And that one got intense.
I mean, the owner, he's even, you know, put out a book on it
and you know, just hearing him talk and talking to multiple
times and then he would tell another story like after we got
an interview and I'm like, Oh my gosh, you know, we got to let's
get that on camera. You know, that was pretty, you
know, it's a it's a bakery and this bakery is like you packed.
Like people are going in and out as we're waiting to start
filming. You know, people are coming like
it's an average, you know, like everyday.
They're not like they don't claim to be like witches making
like love Donuts or something. This is.
Like a. Real.
This is like a real bakery. So happens to be haunted.
Yeah. And So what did they tell?
Like, what? What did they?
Why do they think it's haunted? Unexplained things happening
knives falling down off of you know you know you know a rack
buckets coming down from you know like a storage place.
The creepiest part I, I almost want to save this, but I'll,
it'll be a little tease was when he was telling us a story about
how they walked into the bakery one day and it was, you know, it
was an early morning. They got to make all the, you
know, pastries for the day and the music was blaring and
they're like, who left it on? You know, okay, yeah, somebody
maybe left it on, whatever. Well, they, he has all these
cameras set up because so much has happened.
So they review the footage and you see it's just like the
bakery is closed, no one's there, lights are off.
And then all of a sudden the iPad that's on the counter just
like lights up. OK, maybe technology.
And then it's like, you see like the code going in.
Then all of a sudden music just starts playing and you can hear
it and it's switching the songs like Dancing Queen and going
through. Are we gonna get to see this on
the episode? I don't know 'cause.
I'm, you know, all right, we'll definitely check it out.
Told me so and that one in particular too, several
different mediums have gone into that bakery and they experienced
like different things. They had been there before you
know, we had come there that night.
So he's had several different people come through the owner of
that bakery and they would all come up with the same name of
someone that maybe died or something in the back alley of
this bakery. So it's like different people
coming in. And then when we came in, that
was the one time we came with a crew that had not been at the
location. And then they started hearing
the same name that the owner had heard.
And the other thing, you know, other, you know, I guess you
could say, so that was what. Do we think is this like a mob
run bakery once? Is that what we?
Think no, no is this. Where they used to start.
I mean, you know, I think it's been a couple different things.
He's had it for a while. It's yeah, it's, it was, that
was, that was the most unexpected.
I was like a bakery and it's small, you know, I mean, it's
just, you know, like your standard, like the front area,
maybe like a couple tables and then the back is, you know, the
bakery And I, I of course the teams like get in that alley,
Christy. Yeah, thanks.
Yeah. Christy, did you find a
difference when you were investigating, when you started
to do the research into these places between talk for the
people like talking to the weather, was the historian
versus the owner or any of the everyday locals and how they how
they each viewed a location? Did everybody look at it?
Did you sort of say like, OK, they'll in order to decipher
your own opinion or make your own opinion?
What, what was that like, that human experience of these places
as you were investigating it and.
Who? And who's carried the most
weight for you? That's tough.
It was, it was a great like variety of people that we had.
It was funny how open a lot of these places were to like, come
on in, you know what I mean? Like a Historical Society in New
or in Connecticut? They were like the Tuttle House.
We went there and yeah, it was like one of those things like,
oh, have fun. And they kind of looked at it
like, this is good for, you know, like, hey, talk about this
place having ghosts. And then while you're in town,
go to our, go to our downtown and eat it at the restaurants.
Like, they looked at it more as a tourism thing.
So, you know, different community members stopped by
before we filmed the woman that came with us for that, the
paranormal expert, that was Rose, and she is Connecticut
Spirit investigators. She's a part of that.
But she worked at and still does exorcisms and worked, you know,
with the Catholic Church in doing so.
And that place when you were talking to her, you know, like
when I was doing the interview. That place is this the Tuttle
House? This is the Tuttle house.
Yeah. It wasn't like she was, you
know, like, oh, and then they were, you know, spinning around
or, you know, she was very serious about her work, like
not, you know, you know, like, oh, well, exorcist are those
like, you know, she was very serious about it and not just
saying anything because I think it's so real, you know, to her.
And before we went in that one, she blessed us all with holy
water and we said a prayer and I think some holy oil too.
I'm like, I'll put it all, give me everything.
What are we getting done to Jesus?
Crystal, salt and sage. That's it.
Jesus, crystal, salt and sage. So I was like, what are we?
But so yeah, she and what she was doing was it we weren't
doing an exorcism there. It this is kind of like the fun
thing she does on the side because her work is so heavy.
She said, sure that, you know, every once in a while they're
like, where are some fun spirits to to go to?
So that was, you know, I'm like first I'm like, Oh my goodness,
is this like, you know, no, no, this is a fun house.
Like, you know. Got it.
Yeah, It's always fun. Well, yeah.
So that apparently she comes at it.
She comes at it from a very religious almost, you know,
evil, demonic sort of presence, you know, like that's so that's
an interesting way to look at all these places.
But it's funny, you know, no one, no one ever said don't go
in there, Christy, you're never going to make it out again.
Like that's right. That's the that's the dad side.
Of the thing, there would be a few places where one of the
people on the team would say this is too heavy, like I can't
go in that back corner. And so I'm like, well, I'm not
going there. You know, there were a few
places, the one place I went up to that they were like, like a
lot of people didn't like going up to was like a lofted area in
this gymnasium inside the Elks Lodge, you know?
Did someone tell you something that gave you chills?
Yeah, when we went up there, well, we were doing one of
those, you know, you know, the the process in the night and and
I'm trying to be an observer, you know, but it's a long night,
a lot of filming. And, you know, you're kind of as
a journalist asking questions and asking questions to ghosts.
I guess that's the first time I've ever done that.
And they, you know, you would say we were asking questions
like, OK, you want us to go to go back or, you know, what's in
the back of the place. And then, you know, it was like
turn around. Like everything was basically
correlating with the words we were seeing to like, turn
around. Like, you want us to go up to
this area. And then all of a sudden it's
like, you know, essentially. Yeah, we do.
And then we walked up to this area where there had been
different strange occurrences happen.
And I, I, I could have sworn I heard like a humming like a
choir. I thought, well, surely there is
the, because when I drove out to Boon, I was like, there's a
highway that's got to be that. And then they're like, no, the
highway is like further into town.
And sure enough, when I was driving home, I'm like, oh, it
is, you know, so that's. That's wild.
Did you ever feel anybody you were talking to was like holding
back? Like keeping secrets or
something they didn't want to tell you.
Not holding back, but I feel like I feel like, you know, Rose
has such she's dealt with people, you know that you know,
she's the woman who does exorcisms.
I feel like she's, you know, how she's done a lot of, she
explained people come to her, you know, when they're at their
worst. And so I think she's very
private in some of their experiences.
So but you know, as a journalist too, I feel like that kind of
makes it more, you know, believable when you're like, oh,
wow, you know, you know, you're not just saying, oh, this and
that happened. You know, she, she really took
to her work and what she does and the respect she has for, you
know, the clients. What about your crew?
Did they experience anything? I've seen things where crew
members are like, you know, they don't come back, they've quit.
They're not into it. How did they, how did they, did
they experience anything? Yes, our photographer, yeah,
almost all our crew did. Our photographer, Chris, he, one
of our photographers, he definitely like every location.
And it was weird. It was like, you know, the
boxes, it would say like, you know, the the Phasma boxes.
It would be like Chris, Chris, you know, weird, you know, like
why him? You know, and he's like, I'm
getting freaked out. And then a few times like Jenny
would have like she would just get really like, you know, she
was one of the producers who kind of scouted all this out.
She would get like a feeling of just like, not feeling good,
like almost, you know, just I'll.
We've heard that before. Yeah.
And she, as soon as we would leave the area, she's fine, you
know. And so that was, that was odd,
you know, and, you know, I work with these people every day.
So it's like, you know. It's weird.
So do you feel after after visiting all these, these spots,
these four spots, do you feel paranormal is more about the
place or the people who are carrying these stories and
legends forward? It's a.
Good question. The people are the places.
I don't know. I mean, I feel like, I feel like
a lot of them is what you're open to that can kind of change
your experience, you know, if you're quiet and listening and,
you know, respectful. And, you know, what I liked
about, you know, the show and I think there's something for
everyone is, you know, like there's a lot of history.
So, you know, in a lot of towns you hear, oh, that place is
haunted. So it's like, OK, well, let's
why do people think it is? And then let's go in.
So I think it's kind of, you know, kind of, I guess looking
into a hot topic in town of what everyone you know, is talking
about and then kind of letting people make their own.
You know, we got that's the whole show is we want people to
try to figure out what they think at the end of it.
And we try to give all sides. We're not trying to push, you
know, OK, ghosts here or there or that's what you think.
So. And is that so?
What? Is this is this did did this
change your perspective from when you know you started this
to, you know, after you, you filmed everything and you
experienced everything, did your perspective change with the
paranormal? Yeah, I I definitely think so.
I think that I didn't know there was all this, these type, these
different ways that the groups go about communicating.
I you know, there's a lot of time that goes into it.
It's not just like you go into a house and it's like, what was
that? You know, it's like a lot of
waiting and sitting around and and piercing together things
like some of these groups, they've been to a place multiple
times and then they would be like, oh, wait, we got this from
the last session. So I definitely think it's
something that you, you know, you're open to.
I think the whole process too, made me a little less scared in
the sense that sometimes people find comfort in this, you know,
if you're trying to communicate with a loved one or.
And I never really kind of looked at it that way.
I mean, I guess, you know, I thought it popped in my mind,
but, you know, talking to some of the people in the work
they've done outside these places, you know, you're, you
know, especially that that sketch artist, like sometimes he
would, a vision would come to him and you'd turn it around and
it'd be like, that's my grandma or, you know, so that's kind of,
you know, I think people find comfort.
I think the biggest thing was realizing how this can mean so
many different things to so many different people.
You know what I mean? Like I take from it, yeah, like
you could have a different feeling and experience than I
do. And maybe that's because you
believe more and maybe I don't as much or maybe you're more
open and I'm not, you know. So I think that's, you know, and
and it's a community, as you guys know, there's I mean in
there's a lot of. Crazies though, man, look,
there's a lot of crazy people in this community, so it's.
A little John, what are? You going to say to that?
He knows he's crazy. He's one of them.
I'm crazy myself. And and yeah, he's one of them.
I do agree it could give you. But well, what you're saying
about like the perspective and how like different things mean,
you know, different things. Like I'll give you an example.
Last night I was here in the tower due to the wind and
weather, and a spirit came through, I think, I can't
remember what they said their name was.
They said, you know, my name is this.
And they're coming through. And then the spirit said, I'm
going to protect you to me. So I turned around and I'm like,
I don't need your protection. Who are you?
I've never heard of you before. And then I asked my audience I
had, I had 500 people watching me.
And I said, hey guys, do you think this spirit is here to
protect me? Or do you think it's a spirit
that you know, is a random spirit either trying to attach
to me or something, right? So is there, do you, do you
believe wholeheartedly that the spirit is here to protect me?
And everybody had mixed, you know, answers because as you
said, everybody feels differently about this, that and
the other. And then like clockwork, 5
seconds later, it said, this spirit is not to be trusted.
This spirit isn't who they claim to be.
And I just, you know, and it's like, you know, they're,
they're. John uses the apps, Christy,
you've seen some of these apps now you know, so he uses a he
has a few go to that that he used.
This is where when he says they came through, this is what
they're this is he's literally hearing it.
And John is primarily a lot, really, he's all a live
influencer. So everything he's doing is
live. So the audience hears it as he's
doing it, you know, and you've seen how they work.
So it's coming through when it comes to.
I I know the, I know the equipment now.
Now you know, now you're in it, now you're in the tribe, as they
say, with this ghost stuff, right?
What? Would you ever do it again?
Would you ever go back out there?
Where would you want to go? Now that you know, now that
you've seen it, where do you want to go?
You know, so many people have like, if when they hear about
the project, Oh my goodness, what did you see?
Can we look at your files and all of that?
Like, you know, people that we work with and people in the
community, like, you know, it's interesting because like, it's
all of a sudden something that people will talk about.
They like, it's, you know, so, you know, like they want to Give
your opinion. They'll tell you stories.
There'll be a driver being like, yeah, I saw Cher just move
across the room. I'm like, Oh my goodness, you
know, so it's like wild, like people feel really open about
talking about it, which is kind of interesting because it is
kind of a deep topic, but a lot of people, they're so fascinated
by it. So I would definitely do it
again. As far as places, I feel like I
have a list going already because we would go to, you
know, we have to set places and then people like, you know what
you should go to and, you know, it's a road that you know, all
the kids would go to when we were younger.
You're. Talking about Buck out.
You're talking about Buck out, right?
When you said that Westchester, you know that's Buck out.
Yeah, The road that everyone would go to.
That's one of my. I document Buck.
Out. John's, John's live from buck
out all the time. You know, you got the Merchant
House in New York City and you know, there's a great parent.
There's a great investigator, Dan Sturgis, who's been studying
that place for like 18 years, who, you know, who would tell
you the insurance and outs of that haunted facility.
I mean, there's so many great places, right?
What is it? The Algonquin Hotel?
It's another. Girl, the Algonquin Hotel, the
city is great. So are these suggestions you
guys have for us? Maybe I should ask you.
Yeah, there's some places. I mean, these are like anytime,
yeah. I've got, I've got a list of
places here in Westchester that are, you know, definitely,
definitely haunted. Yeah, there's a lot, you know,
you know, John, John spends a lot of time in cemeteries as
well. If you've ever seen his live, he
goes and and cleans headstones and talks to spirits while he
does it. That's kind of the big, you
know, it's, that's his thing. You know, the older, the very
old graves that are, you know, those sections of the cemetery
that you know out. Here they're very scraped the
Moss off and yeah, yeah. But very respectful too.
You know, that's the biggest thing too.
Like I wanted to be respectful throughout all this.
I'm not, you know, it's like, because like I said, you know,
whatever, I don't want to think it's all fake.
And then all of a sudden something comes home and my 2
year olds. Oh, go ahead.
It's, it's interesting because you know, you said, you know,
you had the rosary in your pocket and this that and the
other and you're trying to protect yourself.
SO1 big thing that I that I'm about is I'm an atheist, right?
I, I have nothing to pray to, OK.
I'm about dominance, but being respectful at the same time.
You have to be very respectful, but you also have to be
dominant, you know, and that's how I go about protecting myself
in these situations. But respect is a big, big, big
part of it. Yeah, Chinese is a lot, you
know, talks about intent a lot, you know, like I, you know, you
cannot, you know, break this barrier or whatever.
My intent is some. People use groceries.
That's it, that's it. What?
Do you think? What are your kids?
What do you tell your kids you're doing this this month
when you were filming this stuff?
Like when they say how was work do you tell them or is it?
Yeah, no, I. Are you going to show them the
segments? I don't know.
You know what? That's a good question.
I have not decided yet. They've seen some of the
commercials and they're like oh mom, Oh my little my 7 year old,
she drew a picture and it was of me like hunting ghosts.
Oh, that's, that's that's. Adorable both your kids are
little You have you have. Yeah, 7 and a soon to be 3 year
old and Oh my God, yeah, yeah. But they, I had to be careful
because a few times they would hear me talking about it, you
know, over the phone or, you know, to my husband.
And then like mom, I'm afraid. Can you move, move this off the
table? Because in the middle of the
night if I see that, so I was like, no, so I've been better.
So you know what I think I just stand.
I don't know. But I guess I want the viewers.
Maybe I will have them watch. Right, right.
Exactly. Christy, first of all, thank you
so much for taking the time to be here with us.
What do you want just to close it?
What do you hope viewers take away from the haunted tri-state?
You know when they watch these it's over, it's over.
It's every tell us when it is where they can find it and I'm
gonna we'll certainly post the link to your YouTube channel in
our link tree and our bio and on this when we when we drop it.
But where can they find it? When is it going to air and what
do you want viewers to walk away from?
Hopefully. Yeah, so you can watch it every
Wednesday at 9:30 through the month of October on News 12.
So throughout the tri-state, if you have news 12, turn it on,
you can watch it there. Then you can also watch it
streaming on News 12 New York and then, like you said, YouTube
as well. So 930 new episode every
Wednesday they'll be re airs too.
So if you don't, you know, if you miss it, don't worry.
I think viewers just need to be to be open to it.
You know, this is a, you know, this is just something to kind
of explore. You know, we hear all these
things in our community. So why not have a, you know, why
don't we look into it? Let's you know, let's go into
these places and there's a lot of history.
You learn a lot about the craft, which John, you know, you know
about and how the tools work. So it just kind of comes from a
place of kind of just informing you and then, you know, the
other side. We got the skeptics coming in
and then we just kind of let you decide what you think out of
that after watching it. And then you got the people who
are saying you're messing with the forces of nature, you're
doing the devil's work. We get a lot of those, which is
great. It's always great fun Christy,
look, thank you so much. I hope this is fun.
I hope you had a good time with the scene today yes, thank you
thank you enough. I'm glad we were able to get
this going with you and I'm looking forward to watching the
entire series. I think it'll be great and
we'll. Check.
Who knows, maybe, maybe next year you'll be with us.
I'm one of these. I'm not going you.
You can now you can go, you can take him, you go with him.
I'll stay back here and I'll watch from my my office, which
is fine. Well, that's it for another
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