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CUPPA COFFEE & MORE owner Jill Barnes, center, poses for a picture with Jael De Pardo, left, and Devin Marble, right, hosts of "Haunted Highway," which will feature Pardo's coffee shop on the SyFy Channel Tuesday. Courtesy photo
A local ghost hunter will be featured Tuesday night, July 31, on a program called Haunted Highway.
Jon Almada, who lives in Shingle Springs and has a business called Ghost-Rider-Investigations, was interviewed last month by a film crew from the program in the Cuppa Coffee & More shop on Main Street.
Owned by Jill Barnes, the coffee shop owner couldn’t have been more excited about being chosen as the place for the interview.
Barnes said the opportunity arose after the segment producer, Patrick Powell, came into the shop for an iced coffee. “We were talking and then he asked if they could film in the shop saying it was a nice venue and he wanted to use it as a backdrop,” she said.
“We’ve been told we have a couple of ghosts in the coffee shop,” said Barnes. “Prior to buying this location, the previous owners had a different ghost hunter come in with equipment and check it out.”
Asked if she’s ever seen any ghosts in the coffee shop, Barnes said, “Yes, we’ve seen vapors moving through the room.”
Barnes said that during the interview she learned Almada has done many investigations on Main Street and has encountered “lots” of ghosts. One apparition he said he encountered was at The Bookery. It was only two or three feet away and they startled each other when they came face to face.
The episode featuring Almada is called “Louisiana Swamp Woman/Pioneer Cemetery” and will be featured on Tuesday, July 31, on the Syfy channel.
Contact Dawn Hodson at 530-344-5071 or dhodson@mtdemocrat.net. Follow @DHodsonMtDemo on Twitter.
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Jon AlmadaAugust 01, 2012 - 12:24 am
Thank you for the story and kind words. We we're not able to interview directly before the on-air presentation due to the rules we were under with the network, but the Mountain Democrat did a great job with what they had to go with and thank you for understanding our position. GRI is not a business per se' - we're a research group that has been investigating since 2006 and have indeed encountered a lot of interesting evidence of the paranormal in our travels throughout El Dorado County and all the way to Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. The Bookery case has not yet been revealed to the owners and we did have some interesting evidence to share with them. We had to take a bit of a break due to the illness and subsequent passing of my father so we have not had the chance to present that case to them and to cover both the explainable and "normal" causes of what people might call a haunt and then the items we cannot make sense of through conventional explanations. We investigate unusual locations, specializing in outdoor investigation, but can and often do investigate hotels, businesses and local homes as the case may warrant. Additionally, I am a paranormal docent spending several times a year aboard the U.S.S. Hornet leading teams through the ship as one of several such members. I just recently completed my 11th time aboard in early July. We do not charge for investigations and base our work on scientific principles and a "middle of the road" approach, keeping an open mind while looking for conventional explanations for the cases we work on. Our website is http://www.ghost-rider-investigations.com for more information. Again - thank you so much! Jon Almada Director/Founder Ghost Rider Investigations.