However, there was an incident in 2001 occuring during Cleveland Indians spring training that swayed many people to believe.
WTAM, flagship of the Cleveland Indians radio network, sends its radio shows, 1 at a time for a period of 1 week, to Winter Haven, Florida for Spring Training. Also sent is the station's Indians beat reporter.
In 2001, this beat reporter had been at a rented house in Florida for a couple days, nothing much was really going on at camp and he was mostly spending his time at this house playing on a PSOne. He started to notice strange electrical things going on. Light bulbs burning out almost immediately after being replaced. Lights coming on in the house that he didn't turn on, etc.
At 3 AM, he called and woke the station's program director. The stuff going on was getting worse, and had gotten to the point that it actually scared him out of the house.
Eventually, the beat reporter spoke with the afternoon drive talk show host about what was happening, and a psychic called in. She spoke about 2 ghosts being in the house and that one of them was in the same room with the reporter, while they were on the phone and that this ghost was by a brown paper bag. At first, the reporter was confused. He didn't see any brown bag, until he moved slightly, saw it, then remembered that he had put some empty soda cans in this bag earlier that day. The reporter then felt a slight wave of cold and got very freaked out, right on the air. Not screaming-into-the-phone freaked, but you could tell he was very worried.
Well, the reporter left the house and stayed in a hotel for a couple days until a new place to rent could be found. The psychic sent some...cannot think of the name now, scratch sticks?? Basically incense sticks that have a calming effect on ghosts. They put them around the house and things started to calm down.
But as soon as they could, they got everyone from the station out of that house.
Now, I might have normally suspected that this could have been a station stunt, until the beat reporter was asked to tell his story on Art Bell.