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THE DALLAS POST
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
uriosity fuels activity
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
A curiosity about the un-
known led Jim Fazzi and Tony
Piontkowski to set up cameras
in cemeteries.
The pair formed Deadline
Paranormal about a year ago,
and since then the ghost hun-
ters have investigated nearly a
dozen places some have claimed
are haunted.
But it’s not all seeing spooky
sights - both law enforcement
officials know that ‘ investiga-
tions can sometimes be all
about the stakeout, which re-
quires time and patience.
“We do a solid and thorough
investigation,” said Fazzi, of
Trucksville. “We compile re-
ports on the happenings and the
reports are posted on our web-
site. After our investigation, we
make our statements and dis-
play evidence. Some groups
don’t display evidence but that’s
what we're here for.”
At a recent investigation in
the Hollenback Cemetery in
Wilkes-Barre, the duo spent
hours setting up infrared cam-
eras, using different devices to
monitor changes in electromag-
netic frequencies and keeping
an eye out for unusual occur-
rences.
For all their painstaking work,
the pair sometimes comes up
empty-handed.
“The hardest part is making
sure that it’s not something else
— in a picture it could be a leaf,
or moisture, or a bug. We try to
rule everything out,” said Fazzi.
“We’ll take a thousand shots and
there might be something a lit-
tle off towards the end.”
Fazzi said it could take as
long as two weeks to complete
an investigation, which includes
visiting the site, examining all
the evidence and preparing it
for their website.
“There’s a lot involved,” said
Piontkowski, of Kingston. “We
take numerous photos of the
same area. It’s time consuming.”
But sometimes the work is
worth it. The group visited the
Hollenbeck Cemetery last year
and captured a “full-body appari-
tion” on an infrared camera,
something. Fazzi compared it to
For more information about Deadline Paranormal, visit www.deadlinep-
aranormal.com.
a ghost-hunter’s treasure.
“It was a woman who was
wearing early 1900s clothing
and she had one hand on her
hip,” said Fazzi. “We didn’t see
it happen but we saw it forming
in the photos.”
Other frightening occurrences
include picking up a low, husky
voice on a digital recorder that
had some colorful words to
share with Fazzi.
“It is said that ghosts talk in
different frequencies and our
ears can’t hear it,” said Fazzi.
“Our very first EVP (electronic
voice phenomena) was at a
house in Plains. I was asking the
spirit to come out and it cussed
at me.”
Piontkowski said in the same
house, after all the equipment
was packed, he felt something
brushing his head from his fore-
head all the way to the back of
his neck.
“It happened twice, as I was
leaving,” he said. “I can’t explain
it. It was weird.”
The group’s interest in the
paranormal stems from experi-
ences both men had when they
were young.
In Piontkowski’s childhood
home in Nanticoke, one room
upstairs was always much col-
der than the rest of the house
and gave off a feeling that some-
one was watching.
“My sister slept in there. One
night she woke up and there
was a little girl apparition, and
behind the dresser that was cat-
ty-corner to the wall there was a
Deadline Paranormal investigator Tony Piontkowski walks down
the hill at Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre after setting up
some equipment.
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Deadline Paranormal’s Jim Fazzi, left, of Trucksville, and his partner, Tony Piontkowski, of Kingston,
talk about their next paranormal investigation at Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre.
red glow,” said Piontkowski.
“My mother slept in there and
she saw it, too.”
He would love to go back to
the house to investigate, but
learned the house was recently
sold and is currently being reno-
vated.
“I don’t want to spook the
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The goal of the duo, said Faz-
zi, is to find things that can’t be
explained and to help others.
Deadline Paranormal is a non-
profit organization, and the
equipment and investigations
are all funded out of Fazzi’s and
Piontkowski’s pockets. In gener-
al, equipment ranges from about
$50 to hundreds of dollars.
Between full-time work and
having families, the pair makes
time to pursue their passion,
which they say is all in the name
of finding the unexplainable.
“People want to believe what
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can be explained on our web-
site.”
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