*Sad info about buns below-please be aware before reading*
Over the years we have had numerous dicussions on ghost and ghost hunting and I thought I would share something I somehow got involved in.
Animal Planet has a new series called “The Haunted” that here is on every Friday evening. They do stories on families w/ animals that have been affected by the paranormal. Well, on January 29th they ran one involving rabbits.
A family here in OH was in this particular episode. They had 2 house rabbits and when they began rennovating their home activity started that was negative. Their two rabbits were affected negatively and ultimately died. The ghost hunters involved picked up an EVP on tape of a male voice stating he had tortured the rabbits. The family of course was devastated and the wife swore off ever getting more bunnies because of this experience. In the story they tell how the buns would run and play in the home but would continue to be spooked by thing constantly. One stopped eating and the vet checked both out but nothing was physically wrong. The first bun died pretty quickly after activity started and the mate soon followed.
I just balled my eyes out when I saw this story. The idea of something torturing our babies was just so sad. So I contacted an online newspaper in their town asking to be put in touch w/ the family because I wanted to send some gifts to their new bunnies. In the show they had 2 new bunnies they eventually adopted after everything stopped because they just couldn’t live w/o furry babies. So instead of the family I received an email back form the ghost hunters who told me that they really wanted to do something to promote rabbit rescue and help raise money from all the publicity they received from the show. I of course always mention rabbit rescues but they do not have one in their area. There are two HRS’ in OH and one covers the entire state except for Columbus which is where the 2nd one is. THe ghost hunters were thinking the best thing would be to raffle off the chance to go ghost hunting w/ them in August in a well known abandoned jail or hospital (cant remember which).
So I have somehow been delegated the responsibility of getting this to happen. If the OH HRS is not interested in doing this then I will contact their local Humane Society that also rescues rabbits. I just would love the HRS to get the attention and promotion from this.
Besides just sharing the story the ghost hunters also asked if I could come up with some additional ideas to help raise $ involving them. They said they would do any promotional/media appearances that were needed and also have a radio show they could help promote on as well. I know if we could get it on radios w/in a few hours of them we could get probably a lot of interest.
Any other ideas on how to use ghost hunters to help raise $ for rabbit rescue?