First and foremost, we are a group of people who love the paranormal. We enjoy studying the paranormal and learning about the field through study and experience. Although we love the field, we are always skeptical. It is important to maintain an open and somewhat skeptical mind during an investigation, and to make every effort to reasonably disprove any event you may find to be paranormal. We all come from different backgrounds, and would like to share a little about ourselves.
Our current members are:
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Steve Vatsula:
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I grew up with a very open mind, thanks to my parents, I remember at about age 10 I did my first EVP (not knowing what EVP's were). I set an old reel-to-reel tape recorder up in a closet of an old farmhouse that we rented. I was asking questions off the top of my head trying to contact the owner's father who had died, when I played back the recording there was a reply. Been hooked ever since then!
Since then I have had other paranormal experiences, but it wasnt until I met my soon to be wife that things really turned me to the paranormal. We moved into an old farmhouse in Illinois, about 3:30 every morning we would hear what sounded like a drum beat and then someone walking down the stairs.
We moved to Scott County, Indiana years later, we bought a very old farmhouse out in the country. Things started to happen once we started to renovate, just like you hear about. Our son would claim to see things and eventually our daughter, my wife and I would also be experienceing things that could not be explained.
Since then we have moved into Clark county, Indiana, and there have been things going on that we cannot explain. And no, we did not move due to paranormal activity, we just bit off more than we could chew on the old farmhouse.
My wife and I had been with a couple of paranormal groups since about 2005. With our last group we decided to break away with some surviving members and form the Kentuckiana Paranormal Investigators (K.P.I.)
And as Paul Harvey says, and now you know the rest of the story. |
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Karen Vatsula:
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I didnt believe in the paranormal until I met Steve. I was raised under a strict religious up bringing.
It wasnt until we first moved into an old farmhouse in Illinois that probably opened my eyes to the unknown. We would start hearing a drum beat around 3:30 am just about every morning. We would also hear footsteps up and down the stairs, well I will admit that it scare me. But after talking to Steve, he sort of calmed me down but I still kept one eye open, so to speak.
When we moved to Southern Indiana in Scott County, we bought a truly haunted house. There were all kinds of things that would happen, from faint muffled voices and music to unseen footsteps and even my own experience of seeing a full body apparition. Our son would say he had seen things that Steve and I would blow off; we soon came to believe the accounts our son had told us about.
It wasn’t until maybe 2005 that we joined a paranormal group and it just really blossomed from there. My husband and I have been together now for 25 years and as far as our paranormal investigations, well, we go any where and every where together. You got ghosts, we are there. |
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Joseph Jarboe:
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and moved to the Louisville area for school. I started in the paranormal field as the webmaster for our former group, Kentuckiana IGT. After attending multiple hunts, I had my first experience in Henryville, IN and it has drawn me further into the field and heightened my curiosity of paranormal phenomena. |
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Sarah Brewer-Jarboe:
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My interest in the paranormal started at a very young age. I grew up in an old farmhouse in Harrison County, Indiana. It was there that I had my first paranormal experiences. My paternal great-grandmother was very interested in the paranormal and encouraged my curiosity by passing along past issues of her ‘Fate’ Magazine subscription. Although some members of my family discouraged this, my interest in the paranormal has never faltered. I joined the Indiana Ghost Trackers in January of 2008, and then branched off to form Kentuckiana Paranormal Investigators in January of 2009. Being a paranormal investigator is something I thoroughly enjoy. My husband, Joe, is also a member of KPI. My brother and sister-in-law are also paranormal investigators with a small group based in West Lafayette, IN. My favorite part of investigating is looking at all the evidence we’ve collected. I have had so many personal experiences and my best piece of evidence was caught in the old farmhouse where I grew up, and where my parents still live today. I am excited about the possibilities to come for KPI and cannot wait to see what haunts the future holds! |
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Rachel Cross:
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I have been interested in the paranormal since I was a little girl. Ive had both good and bad experiences with the paranormal. I was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana and currently live in Otisco, Indiana with my daughter and husband and four animals. This is my first ghost hunting group I’ve ever been with. I’m very open minded and always wanting to learn more. |
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Mike Vatsula:
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I have been interested in the paranormal since I was a little boy, I always seen things that no one else could see and till this day I’m the same way. I like to go to places where there is activity and hope to have some sort of experience happen to me rather it’s a whisper in my ear or a pulling on my pants. I’m a tire/lube tech by day and a paranormal investigator by night. I like those bump in the night stories and would love to experience the thrill of seeing a full body apparition of a spirit. I live in Charlestown and have had experiences in every house I have ever lived in nothing bad or evil just felt and seen things that I could not explain. |