Clearwater Ghost Hunter

I am now working on a gallery of hundreds of photos, going over videos, EVP’s, compiling other peoples photos that attended and emails from visitors who have shared their experiences at the Belleview Biltmore with me.  I expect to be finished in less than a week.

Included is very special report from Faith Look

Faith Look

Find out more about her at angelswithfaith.com
She attended the event with my wife Mary and I and her abilities are amazing!   She will attend future ghost hunts with me when her schedule permits.  All the ghost hunting equipment can’t match a persons ability to communicate with the dead.   I found the need to pull out all stops and go into the Biltmore with both guns blazing!  She also does Angel Readings and more so check out her website.

Updates will be happening daily until i finish.

I have been holding out for the overnight stay before i unleash the fury of investigation data. So far I have visited the Belleview Biltmore 3 times each time taking hundreds of photos, videos and EVP with my Olympus DS30 which so far I have uncovered 2 worthy of offering up to the critics to evaluate and explain. May 16, I will be joining Orlando Ghost Tours on their overnight package as the final countdown to closure happens to the Belleview Biltmore Hotel for renovations. This time I will live it up like any of the famous guests like Babe Ruth enjoying all of the facilities and drinking in the grandeur of this historic hotel. I will also do extensive EVP and infrared photography during my investigation at dead time: 3 am.
My next update will be the last for the Biltmore until its re-opening scheduled for 2012, where if all goes as planned it will be restored to its original state as it appeared in the 40’s. If done correctly, this could be Tampa Bay’s most spectacular place to stay bar none. I have many other reported haunted places that i will investigate after i publish my reveal.

Historic Belleview Biltmore Hotel

The following is my exploration of the historic Belleview Biltmore Hotel. Paranormal investigation of the historic and reportedly haunted Belleview Biltmore Resort in Clearwater, Florida by Tim Huck of Dark House Entertainment on Saturday, Feb 21st 2009. It inspired me to create a special website dedicated to this Historic Hotel and others I plan to visit. I consider myself lucky to be able to take over 300 pictures of the inside, outside and secret areas of the Belleview Biltmore Resort prior to it’s closing at the end of May, 2009. The Belleview Biltmore will remain closed for up to 3 years for renovation. I have not seen anything on the internet that provides this much detail of the inside not even their own website. I decided to present it myself for those who are curious and seek this information of this historic hotels past . I have heard many stories of hauntings, a suicide, seen paranormal photographs and television news investigations that gave me a calling to revisit the place where a few years ago I was hired to participate in a national television commercial for the Toronto Blue Jays inside the Belleview Biltmore Hotel and snapped my first orb photo when my DJ partner stood next to Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Lyle Overbay. I photoshopped it out because he thought it was a glitch in the camera, but I saved the original and here it is:

Orb by Tony Johnson with Lyle Overbay

Areas of the Hotel resemble the Overlook Hotel in The Shining which adds ambiance to my paranormal investigation.

The Shining like Biltmore Hotel

Due to overwhelming information I wish to provide I will be in a constant state of updating so check back often. If you have any personal experience or evidence you would like to provide contact me tim@clearwaterghosthunter.com Thanks to Orlando Ghost Tours who provided great information, EVP evidence, supplying EMF detectors

Leaving my mark at the Belleview's Haunted 4th Floor.

and access to parts of the Belleview Biltmore that is closed to the public. I highly recommend them. I will update this daily, check back often to hear my story. Here are some of the photos i took that night.

Maisie Plant

She Wore a Pearl Necklace.

Mae Cadwell Manwaring Plant, better known as Maisie, was born in 1878. Maisie was married to another man when she met Morton Plant, the son of Henry Plant, a self made transportation tycoon and land developer. Henry Plant built, among many other things, the first buildings of what is now the Belleview Biltmore Resort. Morton Plant was immediately “stricken” by Maisie and decided that he must marry her. He offered Maisie’s husband 8 million dollars–an offer to good to refuse. It was accepted, and Morton and Maisie were married in 1914. As a wedding gift, Morton gave Maisie a home, the Plant Mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Sometime in their relationship, Maisie saw a strand of perfectly matched Oriental pearls, with a price of $1.2 million dollars, which she just had to have. She asked Morton to buy them for her, but he felt they were too expensive and he refused to purchase them. Maisie had her heart set on the pearls and felt that the $1.2 million dollar asking price was fair, but Morton would not budge. So Maisie figured a way to get them on her own.

She bartered the purchase of the pearls with the owner, a Mr. Cartier. He gave Maisie the pearls and she gave him the Plant Mansion on Fifth Avenue, which subsequently became the House of Cartier. It is open to this day on that location. We are very sorry to say that somewhere, sometime, Maisie’s pearls just seem to have vanished. Cartier Jewelers would love to have them in their collection. Big question today is, still, where are Maisie’s pearls?

Maisie is rumored to have lost her treasured jewelry at the Biltmore. Some say her ghost is still walking the halls looking for her lost pearls.