Paranormal investigators will be spending Halloween night inside a well-known Davenport mansion.
On Saturday, October 31, 2015, Rock Island Paranormal will investigate the Rock n' Roll Mansion at 1229 Brady Street, home to 104.9 The Hawk, 97X, and B100.
Before the building became a radio station in the late 1980s, the Rock n' Roll Mansion was Hill and Fredericks Mortuary. The funeral home was originally built in 1929, just before the stock market crash, and was considered state-of-the-art at the time.
Today, the embalming room serves as an office, and the chapel area has become a studio.
DJs, though, have long reported unexplained phenomena in the building, including an elevator that supposedly moves between floors.
"The power was cut to this in 1987, and DJs have reported throughout the decades that they would find the elevator on the third floor, they would find it at different variations and would hear it going up and down," said Joni Mitchell, a DJ at The Hawk.
Others have reported hearing mysterious footsteps above the studios, even though no walkway exists. There are also stories that a janitor quit after seeing the form of a lady while vacuuming in an upstairs office.
"There's some great stories, and we'd like to help validate those stories, and even if it's a small clip, we can come back and say, 'We did find something, you're not nuts,'" said Jason Hess with Rock Island Paranormal.
Hess and Jeff Schafer conducted a final walk-through at the mansion last week, marking places where they plan to leave cameras and using an EMF meter to detect any changes in the electromagnetic field.
The pair say the building certainly has potential.
"We did pick up a disembodied breath and heard some movement down in one of the rooms, so we're gonna have audio down there and a camera set up, so hopefully we can document more if there is something there," said Hess.
Tune into WQAD on Monday, November 2nd at 10 p.m. to see the results of RIP's investigation.