Clearwater Ghost Hunter

How do I sum up my experience at the Belleview Biltmore Hotel?

I will say that my personal experience has changed my opinion on ghosts in general. Always the skeptic, I ribbed my wife for the stories she told me about her childhood experiences regarding ghosts and it wasn’t until after having two notable experiences where I actually saw a ghost that I began to seriously consider these stories as truth.

My first experience happened one night as I was walking into my bedroom. I saw a young girl following me and thought it was my daughter (assuming she wanted to crawl in bed with mom) so without saying anything I kept walking into the room.  I entered my bedroom, knowing I was still being followed, and was shocked that my wife shut the door slamming it in what I thought was our daughter’s face.  After opening the door and looking around, we discovered both of our daughters were in bed asleep. I then realized it was not our daughter and was in shock at what I saw. My wife knew it was a ghost but I just shrugged it off as my mind was playing tricks on me.

As my life progressed, the paranormal experiences increased, also. I was still seeing the same little girl in our hallway periodically but along with that I was seeing shadow people.  I knew it couldn’t be my eyes playing tricks on me or fatigue because there were too many to write off.

It wasn’t long until I discovered a previous high school beauty named Faith on a social network. As we briefed one another on what we had been doing since high school, one thing led to another and I was hired to build a website for her. angelswithfaith.com

As I built her website we had many opportunities to discuss the paranormal and she sparked my interest in ghost hunting.  The Belleview Biltmore was a slam dunk for my first investigation because it was the place I had captured my first orb. I was at this hotel shooting a television commercial for the Toronto Blue Jays with my DJ business clearwaterdj.com and although at the time I dismissed it as dust, I now know it was much more than that.

While ghost hunting at the Belleview Biltmore I had readings on my EMF detectors that soared. Funny….TAPS will go on and on about readings of 1.2, 1.9 (HA) mine were usually 17-23.  I could explain certain areas due to wiring. But there were areas with NO electric power that were giving off very high readings and I would return to the same spot and find it at zero. I used a KII meter like TAPS and a MEL-8704, which is way better than TAPS EMF equipment. This equipment is awesome and why TAPS isn’t using it is beyond me!

I also used an Olympus DS-30 voice recorder and found EVP’s of a hostile disembodied voice telling me to basically “F myself” and another one identifying himself as “Walter”.  Oddly enough, when I booked a room for our ghost hunt, they gave me the EXACT room where “Walter” identified himself.

At the Belleview Biltmore I saw a full blown apparition of a woman dressed as you would in the 30’s and as I chased her down the hall she vanished to the right. When I got to the end of the hall I noticed there was no hallway where she went – only a wall. So much for that being a real person trying to crank me!  As my wife, Mary, was trying to figure out why I was running down the hall she saw the bottom half of the woman go into a wall. As I climbed the steps of the fourth floor stairs to the fifth floor,  I felt like I was walking in water. I was very light-headed, sluggish, and felt a chill as I heard a woman say; “don’t go up there, they are mad at me”.  It was only in one ear, mid flight on the steps and everything seemed to be moving very slowly-like  in a car accident.  Then I heard two men arguing just past the fifth floor door so I turned and asked my wife, “did you hear that?” she said “no” but I thought she was pulling my leg because they were arguing very loudly. I then thought of the security guards and convinced my wife we should scurry along so we didn’t get caught.

After I got my bearings, I realized a woman, which was obviously a ghost, just whispered in my ear! I told my wife what happened and she was dumbfounded that she heard nothing.

My cameras captured many controversial orbs but also an apparition-one that has been very hard to debunk. I thought it was a light smear, yet as I analyzed photos similar in no way could it be reproduced. Was it the Holy Grail of ghost hunting? You decide.

In conclusion, I will say based on evidence that TAPS and GHI has used to conclude that a place is haunted, I believe mine is stronger than most they have put forward and I go on the record with the following:   “Based on the evidence collected and numerous personal experiences, the Historic Belleview Biltmore Hotel is indeed haunted”.

Chris Koharki -

I am so excited that I found your site. I have been searching for more proof of the hauntings at the Biltmore and to confirm our own experiences. Well here goes.

I cannot remember exactly when we (myself, husband and son) were there it must of been when my son graduated college in the summer of 2004. We went with him to look at Florida locations to move to and we stayed at the Biltmore. We had a small room for one night but the hotel saw we were staying for a week so they moved us to a bigger room. It was a suite actually I think on the 2nd floor it was the room in your pictures at the end with the balcony over it. The room over it was actually the presidential suite. Well we stayed there one night and got no sleep at all. We kept hear a certain noise all night. We called the front desk and they said they would send someone but never did. This happened a couple of nights. One night I was hit in the face with a pillow. I looked and my husband and son were sound asleep. A while later it felt like someone took my ankles and pushed down on them. Again everyone else was asleep. I woke up my husband then and told him what had happened. He went down to the desk again and told them but they never would admit to anything. They moved us then to the presidential suite for one night. It was beautiful but we had a strange experience there too. Out of the clear blue we heard a loud sound like a fog horn or like a ship coming into the harbor. We ran out to look and nothing was there and no one else seemed to hear anything. We were moved the next morning to another room and the hotel bought us dinner. We asked lots of questions but got no answers to if the place was haunted or not. We finally left to go home but we talk about it often and would like some answers. I am so glad to have found your site. I understand TAPS will be there next month and am looking forward to seeing what they come up with. I want to go back when the hotel opens again. Since all of this happened we are now living in Naples FL. I will never forget my experiences there.