About Jessie

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I have always been a bit different. I watched scary movies when I was six, not the hard core ones but still, it was definitely not a normal thing for a kid to do. My teachers would get mad at my mom for letting me see these types of movies but we watched them together and we laughed at how silly they were to us. When my mom asked me at 19 if I wanted to move to Gettysburg and open a "ghost tour", I was all for it. After all, we both loved horror and watched ghost TV shows all the time. We also lived in Northern Virginia so we would go to Gettysburg often and go on ghost tours. We soon realized we could do better than the normal walk and talk ghost tour and so we moved and began doing investigations. We knew we were going to have to work hard to be noticed. We didn't have money to open a store front, little advertising money and we were competing with at least ten other groups. The one thing we had was we were different. We used equipment and we were always reliable and honest with our customers. We were talking about what we should call our new business and mom said we should have something that started with an A so to be at the top of an alphabetical list which still existed then so I thought about it for a while and came up with the name After Dark Investigations. It got us and we loved it. It took a couple years of being broke and struggling but it caught on. Now we have repeat customers and a good reputation in Gettysburg. I think even our competitors think we are okay. We never stepped on anyone's toes or bad-mouthed anyone. We kept focused and we are now in our twelfth year. We've experienced unbelievable paranormal events and it changed me into a spiritual person. I now know that ghosts exist and we go on after our bodies die. The whole thing has been pretty amazing.