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Jerome Palace
The Haunted
Hamburger
Case # B-204

Name: Jerome Palace-The Haunted Hamburger
Location: 410 n. Clark st.
Manager: Withheld
Case #: B-203
Date: August 6, 2007
Time of arrival: 9:00pm

Investigators: Frank Madrid, Lori Marshall, Jim Koch,
Bill Allen, Annie Preston.

Reason for investigation: Preliminary Investigation in preparation for
shooting Channel 3 Halloween Special.

Weather conditions: Clear and calm.
Outside Temperature: 71 degrees f.
Humidity: 28%
Wind: 0-3 mph
Geomagnetic storm activity: Quiet
Moon: Waning Crescent
Average EMF baseline readings: 1.2
EMF Spikes: to 4.7

General Impressions:

The Jerome Palace Haunted Hamburger is a nostalgic restaurant and bar on
Clark street in Jerome, AZ that offers delicious food, cold drinks and has
the atmosphere of an era of long ago. The employees there work hard in
providing their patrons with hearty meals and service no matter how busy it
is, and believe me, it get darn busy in there. There is a patio outside with
tables and a scenic view, tables inside around the bar area and nice little
dinning room upstairs. The place gives you a sense of coziness as well as an
eerie feeling, especially when you go up the narrow stairway past the
kitchen. For some reason when you are alone in the Haunted Hamburger,
you don't quite feel alone.

HAUNTED HISTORY

Back in the early days of Jerome, The Haunted Hamburger was a boarding
house for some of the miners of The United Verde Mining Company. The four
floor building was called the Wykoff Apartments and was owned by an
attorney from Prescott AZ. The building was turned into a residence in the
1940's and had a family of three generations living there up until the
1970's. After that, it was renovated into The Jerome Palace Haunted
Hamburger. The lower floors are still being used as private residences. It
is unknown at this time if there had been any deaths in the actual building,
but research is continuing and will be posted as it comes in.
Their has been reports of a little girl wearing a dress being seen on
occasion in the restaurant.
Two employees working late at night have reported seeing something or
someone rush past both of them when there was nobody but them in the
building.
The upstairs cook, while reaching for something on a upper shelf, reported
being pushed into the shelf. He thought someone was pulling a prank on him
and upon investigating the area, determined that there was nobody present .
Four years ago during another remodeling stage, there was always
something strange going on in the restaurant. Carpenter's hammers were
constantly disappearing during the night. They frequently would find them
in a pile in the attic. One carpenter experienced his tools constantly
missing when he went to get what he needed. This frustrated him to the
point of walking off the job after only one day. When the owner moved into
one of the downstairs apartments, he was awaken around 2 or 3am by the
smell of smoke and thought there was a fire in the building. Needless to
say there wasn't any fire and he thinks it may have been a dream.
There have been reports of lights turning on and off and liquor bottles
and glasses coming off the racks. Most people often report seeing female
gender apparitions in The Haunted Hamburger and you may as well upon
visiting this renowned haunted restaurant.

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The investigation

The T.Az.P.S. team met at The Haunted Hamburger approximately 9:30pm
and met with the restaurant's owner Brett. We all went inside and Brett
gave us a tour as well as an interview. After the interview, T.Az.P.S.
production crew began the equipment setup and used the outside patio as
base camp for the camera monitors while other T.Az.P.S. members ran
preliminary EMF baselines and temperature readings. All baseline and
temperature readings were within the normal range. It was a beautiful
night for the investigation.
When I first went out into the patio, I took two pictures, one right after
the other. The first pic didn't show anything out of the ordinary, but in
the second pic, there was something there that wasn't in the first pic.
Just to let everyone know, we do not have any programs such as "photo
shop" or anything similar. The only thing we do is adjust the brightness
and contrast of the photo to bring out what is already there.
The following is the photo previously mentioned......

This could be the face of a man or
woman.
It is unknown at this point
but someone is definitely there.
Photo taken by Frank Madrid

As the monitors were being watched on the patio, we had a team go upstairs
to the upper dining area for an EVP session. To get to this area, we had to
pass the kitchen located at the top of the stairway. Upon reaching the top
of the stairs, there was an odor of a musky sweet smelling perfume that
made one of the women on the team very nauseous.
It was immediately noted that there was a strange uneasy feeling at the
kitchen area that everyone felt, so it was decided to venture forth and see
what was there. Readings were nominal except where there was appliances
running. We each investigated the kitchen, which was a normal looking
restaurant kitchen, one by one so that we could compare notes and locate
areas of interest in there. For each of us, there seemed to be an area of
the kitchen that felt like another presence was in there. This area was
located towards the front of the building near a window. To me, while in the
kitchen, it always felt as if someone was there hiding from me.
This next pic was taken of the area of interest in the kitchen previously
mentioned, except from the outside of the building......

TAzPS investigator Bill Allen was in the lower dining area taking some
pictures and snapped one at the large window. He noticed a lightened
area of the pic that looked out of place. After zooming in and adjusting
contrast and brightness, there seems to be what looks like a woman just
sitting there for the camera. There wasn't anyone in the lower dining
room to reflect from the glass window, nor was there anyone outside of
the glass window. Here is what he caught in his camera.....

This is the lower dining room. Note: From the flash reflection,
there is a small lightened area at the four o'clock position on
the window.

The same picture after being zoomed and
adjustments made with contrast and brightness.
She almost looks as if she was posing for the pic.
My hats off to Bill Allen for a great capture of a
woman or girl that wasn't seen there.

This photo was taken by TAzPS investigator Annie Preston. It is of
the outside of The Haunted Hamburger and shows the area in the
upstairs kitchen window where a presence was felt by all members.
Note: the middle window at the top floor behind the sign.

These zoomed pics need no explanation other than she looks very
concerned about us being there that night. It also appears as if
there is a shadow person standing next to her.
I must commend Annie for a great photograph of an actual apparition.

MORE TO COME...STAY TUNED....

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Upon analyzing all audio for EVPs, it was determined that we didn't get any
class 1 EVPs. We did get some unexplained sounds that may or may not be of
paranormal nature. The sounds we did get were crossed referenced with
video audio, which captured the same sounds. We did get a chuckle when an
investigator asked a funny question.
As far as video footage is concerned, after going over approximately 40
hours of video footage, it seems we didn't capture anything on video there
as well.
That sort of thing happens frequently, but analysis must be seen through in
order to determine if something was recorded/captured on any media.

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