Paranormal team tries to connect with sailor spirit on Battleship

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Here in the Tar Heel state we don’t have ghost busters, but we do have a group called the “Positively Paranormal Team.”

“We like to set up equipment and try to catch spirits voices or apparitions on cameras. Whatever we can get at the time,” Matt Shelar, the team leader, said.

They are trying to find spirits on the USS North Carolina Battleship. The group visited the Battleship to find the spirit of one of the five sailors who died during an attack 75 years ago.

The team says the ship is haunted based off of their previous experiences on board.

However, they say these are friendly spirits lurking in different parts of the ship… acting as reminders of the past.

“The battleship is most definitely haunted,” Matt Shelar, team leader, said. “It’s nothing evil that I’ve ever experienced but I’ve been on the ship now about six times and every time I’m here, I get some kind of evidence that the ship is haunted.”

The team tries to communicate with the spirits anyway possible from using electro-magnetic fields to playing sounds like sirens and alarms that were played on the ship in times of emergency.

They said sometimes, the ghosts will communicate back but any noises don’t scare these paranormal finders.