IN AUGUST OF 1999, we got in touch with Chuck Shramek of Rock 101 KLOL. He responded that he and several late night DJs had had some strange experiences in the booths of one of Houston's oldest rock stations. Manifestations ranged from poltergeist activity to full apparitions. Poltergeist activity was described as desk-mounted phones jumping off their hooks and landing 3 feet away, stuffed animals walking along shelves, or jumping off of the shelf. Visual manifestations included strange and unexplained shadows appearing out of nowhere, and a disappearing hispanic woman dressed like a cleaning lady.
History: The radio station is in Montrose, one of Houston's oldest neighborhoods. The building sits on the site of one of the old Jones family (of Jones Hall fame) homes. The Joneses were a powerful, wealthy and respected part of Houston society in the early 1900s. In recent decades the Montrose area has had its share of violent crime, and at least one murder and one violent rape have occured on the premises. The building also houses an AM news radio station that we will remain unidentified.
First visit:
Other than unexplained and sudden drops in temperature, the early part of the evening was uneventful. EMF readings were sporadic, but considering the sheer quantity and power of the electronic equipment involved in a radio broadcast, it's hard to eliminate "natural" causes. In attendance were Terri Higgins, Pete Haviland, Carolyn Phinny, Katie Phillips and Joe Perez. Also present was Laurie Kendrick, a morning show DJ. After about 3 hours we were packed and discussing the phenomena with Ms. Kendrick in the first floor lobby (the building is 2-story). There was no one at the second floor elevator call button, or at the first floor call button, when all of a sudden the elevator door slammed open and slammed shut. Naturally this happened when all of our equipment was packed away (you've never seen 5 paranormal investigators unpack so fast in your life). Pete Haviland re-opened the door by pressing the call button and the door slid open slowly. Pete stepped in and felt a brief cold spot in one corner. Katie Phillips followed him in with an EMF detector, but the detector revealed nothing abnormal. Pete Haviland rode the elevator back up to the second floor. When the door opened he caught a fleeting glimpse of a hispanic woman wearing a denim shirt. The other investigators were on their way up the stairs at that time. We then tested the elevator's normal function. When the car arrives at a floor, the door opens before the car comes to a complete stop, thus there's a bit of a bounce when the door opens. There was no such movement when the door opened on its own.
Second visit:
We arrived on the Saturday before Halloween with KPRC reporter Brendan Keefe. As he was interviewing Katie Phillips, he asked if it were possible that the DJs were just seeing things. At that point, a camera bag on a table in the background fell off of the table. The bag had been sitting there for 10 minutes or more, and Katie felt the room temperature behind her dropping rapidly. Ten minutes later, Mr. Keefe was interviewing various members and preparing to re-enact the elevator incident mentioned above. He, his camera man, and 4 members of Lone Star Spirits were standing in front of the second floor elevator door at this time when suddenly the door began to open and shut repeatedly. When the broadcast went out, that was NOT a re-enactment that viewers saw. We also noticed an EMF spike in the middle of the hallway in the accounting department, and the spike coincided with some of our cameras failing.
Photographs taken on both visits revealed nothing unusual, but based on what we witnessed on both occasions, we are fairly certain that KLOL is haunted. Repeated tests on the elevator failed to produce the kind of malfunction that we witnessed on both investigations. If you would like to see the broadcast that went out on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before Halloween '99, contact KPRC at www.kprc.com. 
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