- music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, from the movie Breakfast At Tiffany's, as sung by Audrey Hepburn)
Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.
Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.
This haunting melody, composed by Henri Mancini, with mystical lyrics, written by Savannah's favorite son Johnny Mercer, helped catapult Audrey Hepburn to super stardom and eventually won the Academy Award for best song in 1961. It is from this great song, whose title and story line sprung from the amazing lyrical mind of Savannah native Johnny Mercer, that our next location took its' current moniker. However, the building that currently houses the Moon River Brewing Company has had an extremely storied past filled with tragedy, death & murder (click here to read more about the history of The Moon River Brewing Company). You would never know when you walk into this unassuming tavern, that the building is filled with multiple spirits, many of whom are not at all pleasant. Some of these spirits have even attacked patrons, employees and the occasional television personality. Ghost Hunters & Ghost Adventurers have both filmed episodes at Moon River. And I think it is safe to say that each group of paranormal investigators left Savannah with a new found respect for the spiritual activity that they encountered at Moon River, and some even left a bit confused about what actually happened to them there.
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| Moon River Brewing Company - Savannah, Georgia |
The first photo shows an orb in the room adjacent to where we were standing. In the second photo the orb has disappeared in a matter of seconds.
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| Moon River Brewery - Basement |
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| Moon River Brewery - Basement |
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| Moon River Brewing Company - Basement |
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| Moon River Brewing Company - Basement |
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| Moon River Brewing Company - Basement |
By the time we made it up to the second floor and met up with the others, the tour guide was wrapping things up and people were starting to head downstairs and make their way to the exit. We stayed upstairs for a while after the tour, walking from room to room snapping photos in rapid succession and taking audio recordings. While taking photos in the keg storage room, we captured the following images.
If you look closely above the four pony kegs lined up in a row, you will see a large orb against the dark gray wall.
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
In this photo you will notice that the orb is gone.
On the left side of the following photo you can see two small, bright orbs appear, and in the lower right hand corner (towards the bottom of the keg) is a blue orb.
The last image in this series of photographs, shows a large, very luminous ball of light form in the vicinity of where the blue orb was in the previous picture.
After getting this visual evidence, I began to think that there might actually be something to legends I had heard., so I decided to try to provoke the spirits even more to see if it would increase the amount of activity we were receiving. After I did this, the following evp was recorded in the keg storage room. At the beginning of the audio clip you hear me speaking to my wife. Next, you hear a voice that sounds like a little girl at first, but soon changes as the entity completes its' statement. Keep in mind, we are in a bar on a 21 and over pub crawl late at night - there were no children in the building! Finally, the clip concludes with a sinister sounding laugh.
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
In the final evp that we captured on the second floor that evening, you will hear the same exact sinister sounding laugh from the previous clip recorded a few minutes later. However, what is even more impressive to me is what follows. The recording concludes with a woman saying "Hitchhiker Ghost".
Now, you have to understand that I reviewed these audio clips two years ago, and when I first came across this part of the recording all I heard was the laugh. But when I gathered up the audio clips that I wanted to use for this post last week I listened to it again and heard, to my amazement, "Hitchhiker Ghost" for the first time. What makes this astonishing (and you will have to take my word for this one), is that last year after a trip to Disneyland, my wife and her brother decided that they would start putting together a You Tube Channel so that we could finally share the evidence we were collecting with other people who are also interested in the paranormal. Being big fans of Disneyland, they decided to call the channel Hitchhiker Ghost, after the hologram apparitions that end up in your car to take their picture with you at the completion of the Haunted Mansion Ride. I know this sounds hard to believe, but I had not heard those words in the recording until last week (two years after the recording was made and one year after my wife and her brother named our You Tube channel. Is this a coincidence, possibly. However, I have learned since I started doing paranormal investigations, that a lot of things similar to this start to happen when you go poking your nose into places that are spiritually active. I have encountered this type of pre-cognition during other investigations, most notably outside a private residence in Albuquerque (but that is a story for another time). I'll leave the final decision to the reader, but the order of events is still extremely troubling to me since the presence of pre-cognition is one of the signs that exorcists use to verify that an individual is in fact possessed by a demonic entity and is not just psychologically disturbed. I need to stop now because I'm freaking myself out and I need to go to sleep soon.
On our second visit to Savannah, we scheduled another pub crawl, but we weren't able to make it work with our other plans. Therefore, we decided to head out to Moon River on our own one night after we ran ourselves ragged site seeing during the day and early evening. After we had a couple of beers, we asked our waiter if we could go into the basement and up to the second floor to look around. The waiter said that it would be fine so we headed to the basement with a few ladies that we had met at the bar that night who were also interested in the paranormal. While we were in the basement that evening, we took the following pictures.
Now you see it.......................
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| Moon River Brewery - Basement |
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| Moon River Brewery - Basement |
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| Moon River Brewery - Basement |
Now you don't.
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| Moon River Brewery - Basement |
We took several other photos like this in the basement before we finally decided to go to the second floor. Once we were on the second floor , we found a door that led to the roof where the mechanical units are located. When we got outside, we took this picture with a large orb floating above the heating unit.
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| Moon River Brewery - First Floor Roof |
When we went back inside, we took these photos up the stairs leading to the third floor (which is closed off due to structural problems with the floor framing). In these four images, you will see an orb appear and disappear on two separate occasions.
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| Moon River Brewery - Third Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Third Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Third Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Third Floor |
Next, we joined the others in a large room near the stairs leading down to the first floor. In this room we took the following series of pictures (please note that the girl seated in the chair has an electronic device in her hand that emits a yellow light - that is not an orb).
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
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| Moon River Brewery - Second Floor |
If you believe that orbs contain spiritual energy, then these photos should provide adequate proof that there is a great deal of activity on the second floor of the Moon River Brewing Company. Finally, I decided I would leave the group and do an evp session on the opposite end of the second floor where it was quiet. While I walked around by myself, I captured these two evps.
Pretty interesting evps considering I was walking in an area that was really quiet and far away from the rest of the group. To say the least, I was really impressed with the paranormal occurrences that took place during our two visits to The Moon River Brewing Company and I look forward to investigating it again in the future.
Next up on the paranormal tour of Savannah is The Pirates House.
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