By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
St. Joseph Museums is offering a unique opportunity to stay after hours inside a potentially haunted museum.
Glore After Hours will be held on Saturday at the Glore Psychiatric Museum from starting at 7pm.
Group Tours Director Kami Jones says after doing Glore Overnight over the years, they thought of a way they could make that event shorter and more affordable for people.
"We do kind of an abridged tour of the museum for you, take you around and show you everything, and then it's complete lights out," Jones tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "Kathy Parks, who is the head of the Boo Crew out of Kansas City, comes up with her whole team and we break out into separate little groups and go around and do a full paranormal investigation throughout the entire museum and it ends at 1am."
Jones says many people have claimed to have experienced the paranormal within the museum.
"We have had, they've gotten lots of EVP's (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) here, they have gotten a lot of audio and visual things that have happened here," Jones explains. "We've been on several different television shows for our paranormal experiences, if you go on YouTube there's about 5,000 videos of Glore Paranormal that has been done here."
Overall, though, everyone who has attended Overnight at the Glore, has had a blast, Jones says.
"It's just, it's a lot of fun and it's not something you get to do every day," Jones says.
Jones says this will be a different experience from the one given during Overnight at the Glore.
"With the full overnight you get a full tour, you get a little bit more one on one time with going over question and answer of things that actually happened at the hospital and stories from the hospital," Jones explains. "Plus, there's a full catered dinner and breakfast with the overnight and you also get to sleep wherever you want to."
"So, none of those things are included in the shorter version, the shorter version is focused just on the paranormal investigation."
Jones says people that have experienced the longer event have enjoyed such a unique experience.
Tickets are still available in a limited supply for the event and can be purchased online. Jones says they plan to hold another event like this in March at the Wyeth Tootle Mansion.