In Buckhead, Who You Gonna Call?

In Buckhead, as the Witching Hour approached, a team of ghost hunters was staked out at the Beverly Hills Inn, where apparitions have been caught on tape and on film by two seperate groups, Atlanta Ghost Hunters and Haunt Analyst Georgia Ghost Hunters.

It's not every hotel that can boast having ectoplasm floating around in the kitchen, or glasses shattering by themselves in the dining room -- but the next time you book a room at the Beverly Hills Inn, ask for something on the third floor.

For the better part of a century, Buckhead's Beverly Hills Inn has kept a secret -- it is haunted. Not by one or two or three ghosts, but by five of them.

"Mary and Annie May Hickman, Andy, Roger -- I forgot the last one. Very surprising," said the hotel's owner, Mit Amin.

Surprising and spooky -- because the ghosts can talk.

Room 33 is where a guest-turned-ghost checked in, but never checked out.

"Some of the data that we've picked up is just truly fascinating," said Albert Roberts of Atlanta Ghost Hunters. "We've got the voice of a female saying, 'Mary.' We've got a growl that was very creepy to say the least."

These are the sounds that were picked up by Andy and Albert Roberts from Atlanta Ghost Hunters. They are the voices of the inn's permanent residents.

"I can't quite tell anybody this is definite proof of a ghost, but the fact of the matter is we are certainly getting activity that I can't explain," said Andy Roberts. "It's voices that are coming across on simple devices that are communicating with us."

The team spent a night at the inn in complete darkness.

They were armed with ghostbusting gear like laser thermometers, infrared cameras and computer spectrum analysis that quickly became computer spectral analysis.

A team from HauntAnalyst.com was also staked out at the hotel earlier this month. Harold Berryman, the director of the group says the phennomenon at the inn is real.

"There is definite paranormal activity there," says Berryman. "An apparition appeared right in front of me. It's name was John. It was materializing into a man when my wife took a picture of it, and it dissipated right in front of me."

In fact, there are several pictures that the team from Haunt Analyst took of the haunting (some seen in the video report of this story) that cannot be easily explained away as optical illusions. Now, even the owner of the Beverly Hills Inn is a believer.

"I do believe in something, said Amin. "Not sure, but what I do believe is the feeling from my guests is that it's a pleasant experience. Nothing malevolent whatsoever."

Amin said that the ghosts are completely benign. After all, the inn was a boarding house for little old ladies in its previous life.

Adds Berryman of Haunt Analyst, there is a season for haunting, and it's not Halloween.

"Most people don't know this, but ghost activity peaks around Christmas," Berryman says. "From late November all the way into February.