While many of us would tremble and flee at the sight of a ghost, there is a local family actively hunting them out.
And they seem to be making friends – supposedly engaging, chatting with, and even touching the city’s spirits.
Alongside her mother and sister, Kahlia McClymont runs paranormal tours of Logan’s spookiest sites.
Through their business Transcendental Paranormal, which began two years ago, the family have led almost ten tours investigating and debunking potentially paranormal activity.
“We have quite a lot of different equipment, some of it’s really simple stuff, some is a bit more complicated or expensive. We look for electromagnetic field energy fluctuation,” Ms McClymont said.
“We do a hands-on tour, where we let everyone get amongst the gear and the equipment.”
The spirit box, Ms McClymont’s favourite piece of equipment, detects backwards-running radio frequencies that, when played forward, produce words through static noise.
Ms McClymont says she has heard her name, her sister Tianna’s, and her mother Elise’s names spoken in spirit box recordings.
“I have quite a complicated name, so for what we deem as a spirit to actually be intelligent enough to say my name through a spirit box is some of the spookiest stuff I’ve heard.”
“People who got to experience the tours, their names have also been said, or a loved one has spoken to them.”
Beenleigh Historical Museum, in particular Carroll House, a home originally built on James St Beenleigh and moved to the museum site in 1998, has regular spirits that Ms Bird said the tours had detected numerous times.
“There is a child spirit in the house that we have communicated with every single tour,” Ms McClymont said.
“It doesn’t matter who’s with us because we have different people come with us every time. We always get something from her in some form of communication.
“Her favourite way of communicating is touch, so she’ll actually go up and grab you or pull your hair.”
She said the tour groups detect a number of “regular spirits”, many of which have shared their names.
“We’ve learned names and bits abut them, they’ve come back, and that’s how we know they’re an intelligent spirit.”
“We will get new spirits, but we do have some recurring spirits as well.”
Ms McClymont doesn’t know the name of the young girl known to frequent Carroll House; she refuses to tell them.
“We do know she has got dark hair, she wears a little white dress, and she’s about seven years old.
“Her name is the one thing we’ve never gotten out of her.”
Spirits are often connected to the historical site where they are detected. The young girl has only been detected in Carroll House, which makes Ms McClymont think she had ties to the original house or an object in the original house, like a painting or piece of furniture.
“She won’t go into any of the other houses on site, so we do believe that she has some sort of connection to that house.
“She turns the taps on, and we can hear running water, and there’s no plumbing. So you know, for us to be able to hear running water, without any plumbing, how do you debunk that?”
