Park Resident Opens Paranormal Business, Just in Time for Halloween

If all things supernatural, ghostly and paranormal pique your interest, then Suzanne Sorrell is your lady.

The Manassas Park resident started her business, Evermore Paranormal this year.

The business name is inspired by the love between she and her husband, Sorrell said.

“When my husband and I met we always said, we’ll love each other evermore and that’s just something we’ve always said to each other," she said.   "It means into eternity; infinity ... it kind of means, somewhere out there we’ll always be together, which is perfect for paranormal.”

 She’s not a medium or a psychic, Sorrell pointed out.  But rather, the goal of her business is to coordinate and lead groups on ghost hunting excursions and tours.

 She also visits locations upon request and conducts private ghost investigations, she said.

The ghost investigations are free. Sorrell said if clients are required to pay for a ghost investigation, then they would expect a ghost to show up and generally, that’s not how it works, she said.

In 2003, when the show Ghost Hunters first aired she became really interested in the paranormal.   Around that time, she was also diagnosed with breast cancer, which got her thinking about death and the afterlife, she said.

But it was many years ago when she was still a child, that she saw her first ghost, Sorrell said.

She was 13-years-old when she saw the apparition of her mother's boyfriend shortly after his death, Sorrell said.

 For a few months after that, she witnessed poltergeist activity, such as items flying off the shelves. “Every time I came home from school, things were being shoved off the shelves and no one was there," she said.

 She grew up, went to college and basically forgot about the paranormal for the most part, though she continued to have death dreams.  She would dream that someone had died and a few weeks later, that person would be dead, Sorrell said. That's happened about six times in her life, she added.

 Within the past few years she’s visited several places that are said to be very active with spirits of the deceased, she said.  

People like her who are sensitive to the paranormal get certain feelings when they are in these places, she said.

 Last year, she and her husband visited the Farnsworth House Inn in Gettysburg, which is dubbed, “The Most Haunted Place in America.”

 “My husband is a skeptic and I drag him out to all these things … he was a 100 percent skeptic, but now he believes a little bit,” smiling, she said.

 Sorrell said she stayed up all night in their inn room hoping to catch something, but she dozed off in the early morning hours.

 When she got home, she listened to audio she'd taken that night with her digital recorder.  The device had picked up sounds of knocking on her door and a big crash in her room.

“ …  None of it I heard or saw with my own eyes, but it was on my recorder,” she said.

Spirits can be heard on a different frequency than what is detected by the human ear; this is why ghost hunters use recording devices and cameras, Sorrell explained.

This is known as Electronic Voice Phenomena, or EVPs she said.

On her second visit to the Farnsworth Inn, she photographed a toy levitating in her room, she said. It is very rare to capture levitation, especially for a new ghost hunter, Sorrell said.

 There are 13 known spirits at the inn and one of them is a little boy named Jeremy who died many years ago after he was trampled by a horse, she said.

Mysteriously, it was a toy horse with a boy as its rider that she photographed levitating, Sorrell said.

 She also experienced EVPs on this trip. “Nine minutes into my recording, I hear kids giggling in my room,” she said.

 “Really, if you are a ghost hunter all you need is a flashlight, a camera and a digital recorder … that’s all you need. You can upload the stuff to your computer and then get some headphones so you can hear it better,” she added.

 “In a year I’ve done so much. Every where I go, I've gotten Electronic Voice Phenomena. You’ll hear people talking and they’ll answer. I’m a talker anyway, so they seem to like to communicate with me,” Sorrell said.

 Over the past year, she’s purchased more advance equipment that detects electromagnetism, which is essential to ghost hunting.

 Sorrell has also taken classes on the paranormal and is currently enrolled in a  class on demonology that's due to start this month.

“Now that’s the side I don’t want to get into,” she said. “And another thing, I don’t want to bring any spirits home with me.”

 For more information about Evermore Paranormal, contact Sorrell at 571-409-4068, msvaghtr@aol.com or write to her at p.o. box 717 Manassas Park, Va 20113.