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cool short, but I didn’t understand editing back then—that takes years to develop. Nonlinear editing was just getting started and I was trying to teach myself how to use it. Most people didn’t have the right computers to do this stuff then.
    When you make your early projects, you think you’re heading for the big time. At the time, it’s the best piece of work you’veever produced. Now I can laugh at that stuff, but I had to learn, I had to grow as a visual storyteller and filmmaker, and the only way to do that is to keep plugging away.
    Soon Aaron and I were getting together a lot to cut short videos. All the while we were learning how to edit.
    Aaron Goodwin wasn’t the only discovery I made my sophomore year. This was also the year I found Virginia City.
    With spring break coming up, Veronique and I decided to take a road trip… and what better place to visit than paranormal hot spots?
    We drove north to some of the old haunted mining towns. We drove up into Tonopah, a town whose biggest claim to fame has always been that it’s the halfway point between Reno and Las Vegas.
    About a century ago, Tonopah was one of many Western boomtowns where miners flocked to look for gold and silver. At its Belmont mine, seventeen men tragically lost their lives in a fire in 1911. People said the mine, the Tonopah cemetery, and other places nearby were haunted. When you start talking to locals and you can get them to open up about ghosts, you learn a lot about a community.
    Keep in mind, this was back in 2001. There weren’t all the ghost hunting shows on television that we have now. Plus I wasn’t on TV, so no one knew who I was back then. When I walked up to someone to ask if they knew of any haunted places, I often got funny looks. It was way different than today, when people seek me out to tell me about their local haunts.
    Eventually we got some locals to open up and learned about a place called the Mizpah Hotel. We heard about a “Lady in Red” who had been seen walking the hallways and by the windowsof the fifth floor. The story goes that she was a former mistress of one of the building’s owners, who kept her in a suite on the fifth floor. But trouble came calling when the woman’s boyfriend found out about her situation and strangled her to death in the hallway outside of her room. Apparently, she mainly haunts the fifth floor, but also makes her presence known in some of the other guest rooms.
    We couldn’t get inside the building because it had been shut down and closed up. So Veronique and I parked our car across the street from the Mizpah around midnight. I took out my camera and began videotaping the windows. It looked really cool, because the moon was right over the building. As I panned across the windows on the fifth floor, I saw something weird. “What the hell?” I exclaimed—you hear me say it on the videotape.
    I zoomed into this thing in one of the top windows. I was like, “What is this?” I looked at it and then outside the car. I was looking for reflections, maybe a car light, maybe a neon light on a building across the road—but nothing. So I looked back and saw it start moving from one room very slowly into another room, passing the inside frames and into the next room before the glowing stopped and it disappeared. Veronique watched the same thing. On the tape you can hear us talking about this weird light. We couldn’t explain it. It was wild, and I’d captured it on camera.
    There we were in the parking lot staring at this anomaly, and I knew I had to get in there to look around. It would take another ten years to finally get the chance.
Ghost Adventures
filmed at the Mizpah in season five. You never stop thinking about some haunts.
    After Tonopah, Veronique and I went by Area 51 near Rachel, Nevada. We drove all the way up to the fence where they’ll shootyou if you go any farther. There are a bunch of zigzagging roads with small black boxes that I’m sure contain cameras and other