Deborah Finley had anticipated this weekend for the airing of her business on the A&E Biography channel.
The owner of Finley’s Bar & Grill in north Manteca recently received a letter from the network informing her of the kick-off for the new season of My Ghost Story scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday.
But Tabatha Vega heard otherwise from A&E.
“They told us it probably won’t air until the weekend of Halloween (Oct. 30),” she said on Thursday.
Vega is the founder of the Lathrop-based Ghost Research Investigators of the Paranormal.
Last February, she and the GRIP team – included was her daughter, Tyrah, Dana Mierkey, Eileen VerHulst, and Chris Dulay – discovered what was described as “a hot spot of activity” at the business located at 10477 S. Airport Way.
It also validated what Deborah Finley had believed during the 16 years of owning the century-old building. She had experienced her share of paranormal activity.
In her True Ghost Story, “Finley’s Haunted Bar and Grill,” Mierkey recalled her experience of that first encounter.
“From the minute we got there at 9 p.m., my cell phone turned itself on three times in a 15-minute period, my camera wouldn’t function correctly and at the same time this is occurring a voice on Tabatha’s recorder that she left running when we first stepped in the building is heard to say ‘I’m right here.’
“Tabatha calls out in the first half hour of being there ‘is there anyone here? Can you please make a noise?’ A rustling sound is heard coming from the kitchen followed by a very loud crash as a large pot placed upon hooks on the ceiling came crashing down startling everyone. Tabatha reacted immediately and went to the kitchen and was using her school teacher voice asking it to make a noise again. She conversed saying the crash of the pot didn’t scare but excited her and encouraged the unseen entity to do it again,” Mierkey wrote.
The My Ghost Story segment was made possible by Mark Phillips’ Philms and Telephision.
Finley and her husband, Mark, were flown down to Culver City by the production team of for the taping of the interview, with free lance videographer / cinematographer Zach Settewongse spending an entire day last March to film the exterior and interior shots of the place.
The owner of Finley’s Bar & Grill in north Manteca recently received a letter from the network informing her of the kick-off for the new season of My Ghost Story scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday.
But Tabatha Vega heard otherwise from A&E.
“They told us it probably won’t air until the weekend of Halloween (Oct. 30),” she said on Thursday.
Vega is the founder of the Lathrop-based Ghost Research Investigators of the Paranormal.
Last February, she and the GRIP team – included was her daughter, Tyrah, Dana Mierkey, Eileen VerHulst, and Chris Dulay – discovered what was described as “a hot spot of activity” at the business located at 10477 S. Airport Way.
It also validated what Deborah Finley had believed during the 16 years of owning the century-old building. She had experienced her share of paranormal activity.
In her True Ghost Story, “Finley’s Haunted Bar and Grill,” Mierkey recalled her experience of that first encounter.
“From the minute we got there at 9 p.m., my cell phone turned itself on three times in a 15-minute period, my camera wouldn’t function correctly and at the same time this is occurring a voice on Tabatha’s recorder that she left running when we first stepped in the building is heard to say ‘I’m right here.’
“Tabatha calls out in the first half hour of being there ‘is there anyone here? Can you please make a noise?’ A rustling sound is heard coming from the kitchen followed by a very loud crash as a large pot placed upon hooks on the ceiling came crashing down startling everyone. Tabatha reacted immediately and went to the kitchen and was using her school teacher voice asking it to make a noise again. She conversed saying the crash of the pot didn’t scare but excited her and encouraged the unseen entity to do it again,” Mierkey wrote.
The My Ghost Story segment was made possible by Mark Phillips’ Philms and Telephision.
Finley and her husband, Mark, were flown down to Culver City by the production team of for the taping of the interview, with free lance videographer / cinematographer Zach Settewongse spending an entire day last March to film the exterior and interior shots of the place.
