Article | Greenfield Recorder | 2007

• Charlemont Inn

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Friday, October 19, 2007

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‘Ghostbuster’ to visit Charlemont

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CHARLEMONT – Over the years, the Charlemont Inn has attracted ghostbusters and paranormal enthusiasts, who’ve carried with them everything from infrared cameras, motion sensors and electromagnetic sensors, to dowsing pendulums and holy water.

Today, it’s to be visited by the owner of the Amherst-based company, HouseHealing.com, whose business card reads, “David Franklin Farkas, Technician of the Sacred.”

Farkas said that he plans to give a free talk titled “Everything you know about ghosts is dead wrong” and maybe even kick Casper — who’s long overdue on his payments — out of the inn.

One of the owners of the Charlemont Inn, Charlotte Dewey, claims she was skeptical about the inn’s reputation until one morning several years ago, when she saw a bag of floating State Line Potato Chips in her kitchen.

“I said, ‘Put those down, Elizabeth!’” Dewey said, using what a psychic who visited the inn told her was the name of a 14-year-old spirit in the house.

Tales like that have kept the inn’s reputation for ghost stories alive for years.

On Thursday, Farkas said that he’d heard about an inn with a floating bag of potato chips before, but hadn’t realized that the story was connected to the Charlemont Inn.

Farkas claims that he clears houses of negative energy and sometimes even ghosts.

If you take a cursory look at his Web site, househealing.com, you’d think that Farkas was a real estate agent. But look at the print and you see that he’s offering something a bit more unusual.

“Our proprietary Quantum Grid Restructuring process actually changes the energetic structure of the building itself at the subatomic and etheric levels, removing and clearing distortion and damage caused by past emotional traumas and dramas, which are normally unseen but definitely not unfelt,” it says.

Farkas said that when he was in his 20s, he was trained by psychic healers, who were trained by indigenous psychic surgeons in the Philippines, and that he was mentored by a Cherokee medicine man.

“There’s a recurring funny thing that happens with ghosts,” Farkas said. “If I’m having a counseling session with them, one of my first questions is, ‘Do you know you’re dead?’ The answer that I get consistently is, ‘Oh, that would explain a lot.’”

Those interested in hearing Farkas’ talk can show up there at 7:30 p.m. or contact Charlemont Librarian Bambi Miller.

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The Charlemont Inn…

The inn, which is on Rt 2 in Charlemont, MA, bills itself as ‘A Place With Characters’ and was included in a PBS Special called ‘Things That Go Bump In the Night: Tales of Haunted New England.’ This trailer shows the inn and the innkeeper telling a story about ghost phenomena there.

I had heard and frequently retold this story, not knowing it was from the Charlemont Inn. I got to discuss the details of what happened with the innkeeper when I was there doing my talk ‘Is Everything You Know About Ghosts Dead Wrong?’

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