Un-BOO-lievable Encounters at Georgia Aquarium

Paranormal Investigators Examine Titanic Aquatic

Atlanta, GA (October 27, 2008) –

In the spirit of Halloween, Georgia Aquarium recently invited Roswell Georgia Paranormal Investigations (RGPI) to explore reports of paranormal activities in Titanic Aquatic and the Aquarium.  RGPI was asked to investigate after several volunteers reported ghostlike experiences in the Titanic exhibit, as well as in other galleries. Click here to see video of the investigation!

“After hearing the paranormal experiences described, we thought that, in the spirit of Halloween, it would be interesting for RGPI to investigate the Aquarium after dark,” explains Meghann Gibbons, Director of Public Relations at the Aquarium. The investigators spent two nights at the Aquarium in an effort to determine if the encounters were paranormal or had valid scientific explanations.

The group was broken into three teams to investigate three separate areas of the Aquarium – Titanic Aquatic, Ocean Voyager gallery and Cold Water Quest gallery. They used scientific methods that measured electromagnetic changes and temperature drops that would be caused by paranormal activity. They also incorporated “sensitives,” which are spirit-sensitive team members. The groups did not share their findings with each other; however they all came back with similar results.

An Aquarium volunteer who had a paranormal experience in the Titanic exhibit’s iceberg room was validated when investigators said that there was an older gentleman residing in the area. An elderly woman was also discovered in the First Class cabin of the exhibit. A young crew member in his early 20s was spotted and felt in one of the last rooms containing preserved dishes and clothing from the Titanic’s wreckage. As for non-Titanic apparitions, all teams sensed a Native American man in the Cold Water Quest hallway, which is outside of the new construction area.

Other venues that have housed Titanic Aquatic, such as the Orlando Science Center, have reported strange occurrences similar to the ones at the Georgia Aquarium. Billed as “unsinkable,” RMS Titanic hit an iceberg during her maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank within three hours, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 people. The exhibit houses more than 190 artifacts taken from the shipwreck’s debris field, as well as room recreations.

According to RGPI, water can help sustain and construction can instigate paranormal activity. Georgia Aquarium houses more than eight million gallons of water, and the new dolphin exhibit construction is underway to expand the world’s largest aquarium. 

 RGPI Team getting ready to investigate the world's largest aquarium!

About Roswell Georgia Paranormal Investigations (RGPI)
RGPI is a professional paranormal research group that services all of Georgia. According to their Web site, their investigations attempt to scientifically study and document cases of authentic paranormal activity, as well as help individuals experiencing these phenomena and understand the reasons behind it.