Demand for Ghost Hunters increases

URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- As midnight approached, a grassy field where the old train depot once stood pulsed with activity.

Mark DeLong, left, and Jim Willis monitor paranormal activity with a computer in Urbana, Ohio.

1 of 2 About 90 people tiptoed around night-vision cameras atop tiny silver tripods and dodged remote sensors connected to a computerized ...

surveillance system. They waited for the Lincoln Ghost Train, which some people believe passes through this western Ohio city on the anniversary of the 1865 trip that carried the president's body to Springfield, Illinois, for burial.

Ghost-hunting groups around the country are swelling with members -- their popularity fueled by television shows, the Internet and the increasing availability of high-tech equipment.

"Academics pooh-pooh all of this usually," said Julieanne Phillips, an assistant professor at Urbana University who invited the ghost hunters and organized the vigil that also included about 80 students and residents. "I'm hoping for some vindication that there might be some type of paranormal activity surrounding this."

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