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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Meux Home Museum successful Downtown Fresno is simply a Victorian mansion that has been successful Fresno since the precocious 1800s, and though regular tours of the location tin beryllium booked to larn astir the Meux family, a caller benignant of circuit tin link visitors to the household directly.
Kimi Lopez is simply a docent for the Meux Home Museum. She tells guests each astir the Meux family's history, including Dr. Muex's surviving relatives.
"I bash a fig of different things, but I pb time tours present connected Friday afternoons," Lopez said.
Lopez is besides a Paranormal Investigator, and has been for implicit 17 years.
"I'm the Lead Investigator," Lopez said. "We started it a twelvemonth ago. We are the archetypal paranormal squad to ever beryllium capable to analyse the museum."
Lopez says she and her team, 911 Paranormal Rescue Fresno, are the lone ones allowed to analyse paranormal enactment astatine the Meux home.
"As a paranormal investigator, I spell done the location utilizing a batch of technological equipment," Lopez said.
Lopez says she and her chap investigators measurement electromagnetic fields, somesthesia and different metrics to find anomalies and marque interaction with the spirits successful the home.
"All these things unneurotic amusement america erstwhile thing that is not earthy is happening," Lopez said. "We commencement a batch of our paranormal probe connected what is known retired there. What is the municipality legend? What is the story?"
As a docent for the Meux Home, Lopez says she tin assistance visitors who are conscionable arsenic funny arsenic she is astir the paranormal - but determination are conditions.
"These were living, breathing quality beings, and we were going to participate the location and beryllium respectful," Lopez said. "No antagonistic provocation. We're not going to shriek and outcry astatine this family."
Lopez says the intent of the paranormal tours is to study, investigate, and learn.
"1887 mightiness beryllium thing that we perceive implicit EVP (electronic dependable phenomenon) connected our recorder," Lopez said. "I tin say, 'That's the twelvemonth the location started to beryllium built. That's the twelvemonth the Meux household moved to this location. That's our history."
Lopez's 911 Paranormal Rescue Fresno is really a 501(c)(3) accredited nonprofit. She says the paranormal investigations assistance lend backing towards the preservation of the Meux Home Museum.
"There are different tours that don't spell done the house, but they halt astatine the location and they archer municipality legends. They don't archer close history," Lopez said. "We archer the existent communicative and speech to the family, done the past of the house, and hopefully done the past of the spirit."
To find regular tours of the Meux home, visit the Meux Home website. Tickets for the adjacent paranormal probe astatine the Meux location are disposable done 911 Paranormal Rescue's website; determination is much accusation connected the nonprofit's societal media.
