Psychic TV duo investigate local ghost

An episode of Rescue Mediums was filmed last week at the Inn, with internationally renowned psychics and hosts of the show, Jackie Dennison and Christine Hamlett.

Owner of the Inn, Linda Deschamps, contacted the show after realizing the existence of spirits that seemed to haunt the third floor of the building.

The crew filmed for four days in Shelburne but producer Michael Lamport was unwilling to release their findings at the Shelburne landmark until the show airs in September on the Women’s Network.

“I’m not going to say what we found here because it will give the show away,” explained Lamport.

“The whole premise of the show is two psychics from the UK come to places that have haunting or spirits and they show spirits into the light or identify who they are,” he said.

As for Lamport he claims the show has changed his belief in the spirit realm.

“I sat on the fence quite a bit,” he said, “but now having done 28 episodes I’m totally a believer.”

According to Lamport all of the crew has experienced something spooky. Hair pulled, one cameraman physically overcome by something unexplained and anomalies on film.

After experiencing first hand the haunting all over the globe Lamport does not buy the Hollywood version of ghost stories.

“The concept of the Amityville horror stuff I don’t believe that’s true,” he said, “we’ve never come across that. We’ve come across disturbed spirits and they are scary but I think that is a Hollywood manifestation that a spirit comes out and kills you.”

Co-host Hamlett remembers her first experience with the spiritual world when she was five and living in a small Chesire Village in England.

“I went to my great-grandmothers house after she died and I remember going in there and everyone was looking at what she left and what they wanted. I was really aware that my great-grandmother was still there and her thinking what are you doing with my things.”

“I was so scared then because I could see her standing there,” remembers Hamlett.

Before the show began both hosts worked at developing peoples gifts in the paranormal.

“We believe everyone has some gift whether it be healing or clairvoyant abilities,” explained Hamlett, “it’s just a case of getting to the right people to develop those gifts so they can use them properly.”

This will be the fourth time the show has come to Nova Scotia; one at the Churchill Mansion in Darling Lake, one in Pubnico and another in Kentville.

In Kentville the show explores a visit by Rhonda Wilson a woman who had gone missing over three years ago. According to Lamport police are investigating tips from the psychics.

“When I first went to the cops and gave them the information the guy put me into an interrogation room for about 45 minutes,” said Lamport adding he was even considered a suspect for a short time due to information he possessed about the case.

Crew wrapped up the filming last Monday without giving so much as a hint to the story behind the Loyalist haunting but Deschamps hopes the publicity from the airing of the show will bring tourists to the county to experience East Coast ghosts for themselves.

“This is the oldest area of Canada,” said Lamport, “there’s bound to be remnants of spirits here.”