Ghost Hunting Team Spent Night in Haunted Mansion of Joliet

A Joliet man was shot to death at Joliet's Hiram Scutt mansion and the historic house's last buyer suddenly died inside the spooky old building on Broadway.

But when a team of ghost hunters spent the night at the place a few years ago, they didn't encounter either of those guys. Instead, they ran into the ghost of a woman who found one of them "attractive."

The Illinois Paranormal Research Association seemed to enjoy their night in the Hiram Scutt mansion. If that's the case and they have any desire to buy the place, it happens to be listed for at the super cheap price of $159,900 now that a bank foreclosed on the national historic landmark.

The IPRA produced a five-part YouTube program on its investigation of the Hiram Scutt mansion. Lead investigator David Scott explained how he and his crew were "were going to try to document any kind of paranormal phenomena we can get our hands on."

"Once and for all we're going to uncover the truth for you and make you believe," Scott proclaimed.

"We will embark on a journey to the other side and venture through the halls of this historic building in an attempt to communicate with the lost souls that may be trapped here," he said.

Scott said his team succeeded in communicating with at least one lost soul. While in the house's "doll room," he asked for a ghost to reveal itself.

"As soon as I told the spirit to make a loud noise, part of the ceiling fell off," Scott said.

"There was debris lying all over the floor," he said. "Sadly, were weren't filming at the time."

Also, a door closed on its own and lights on an electric device indicated that yes, a female ghost—when directly questioned—found at least one member of the team "attractive."

Even with all of those ghostly goings on, Scott was left wanting more.

"We didn't catch a massive amount of stuff," he said. "We did catch some pretty significant stuff."

But that's how they do it at the IPRA—taking it one creepy case at a time.

"We want the world to accept paranormal existence," Scott said. "And with each investigation we get one step closer."

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