The Jamestown Possession

We spent two days at the Jamestown Hotel. Each night had paranormal activity throughout the hotel. Notably, each night, you could hear disembodied voices screaming in the hallways. Door knobs rattling, doors shaking, and footsteps down the hall and stairway.

But perhaps the most interesting (to me) was my buddy’s possession event on the last night of our stay at the hotel. Mike and I actually went to the same high school together (Watsonville High) for a bit. We didn’t know each other back then, but when he joined the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office our two paths crossed again.

Mike retired from law enforcement recently and was looking for things to do with his new found retirement time. So, he connected with me to go on some ghost hunts. I hooked him up with Lingering Souls Paranormal to join their Jamestown investigation. 

He got a lot more than he bargained for in the end. Mike is a natural skeptic but he opened himself up just enough to let in some creepy dark entities. One of which took possession of him.

To put this into context, there was a basement in the hotel. We all know basements are a breeding ground for all things bad! It’s what makes scary movies scary! Every employee we talked to had something to say about the basement. 

The basement was the hotel’s storage space and employees have to go down there daily to get supplies. Some employees had no issue with it while others had paranormal encounters and/or an uneasy feeling about the space. 

Mike went down to the basement late at night with a few other people. He himself said the feeling down in that space was not entirely good. After about 30 minutes of investigating the basement, Mike came back upstairs and sat with Cherie, Trevor, and I to talk about his experience in the basement.

A few minutes into our conversation, Mike faded off and stopped answering our questions. After moments of awkward silence, I looked up at him and saw that he was starring off into nothingness.

I quickly realized he had that “possessed” look. A look I have come to know with a few members of Lingering Souls Paranormal. Some of them had that same look over the last year during certain investigations.

So I did what any good camera guy would do…I got up and started video recording the event while Cherie sprung into action calling on Michael the Archangel. After a spritzing of Holy water and a prayer, we witnessed the dark entity being extracted from Mike’s body.

Check out the video clip above. Watch Mike’s eyes and hands as we deal with possession and extraction. 

After the extraction Mike could not recall the incident (typical of possession). Even after watching the video playback he could not recall and was actually in denial of the possession. In fact, the last thing Mike remembered was being down in the basement. He can’t recall coming up the stairs and sitting with us having a conversation before the possession showed itself to me.

We may never know what type of entity resides in the basement, but it has dark energy. So be careful what you open up to while investigating.

By the way, Mike is doing much better now…

Video footage by PTash