WILTON — Shooting a documentary about the Blue Lady is like prosecuting a mobster in court — few people are willing to admit to being witnesses, says movie producer C.C. Carole.

“People don’t want to admit they felt a presence or have seen something out of the corner of their eye,” Carole, of Merrimack, said. “They don’t want people to think that they are crazy.”

Despite her trouble finding witnesses, she was eventually able to find eight people and “Tracking Lady Blue” is scheduled to debut on her website, www.everythingshow.com, on Halloween, Oct. 31. DVDs will be for sale.

The Blue Lady ghost, stories say, haunts the Vale End Cemetery in Wilton. Laurel Abagis, 16, of Merrimack, who believes she may have seen the Blue Lady, was brave enough to give Carole an interview at Locals Café in downtown Wilton.

In a phone interview with The Cabinet, Abagis told the story of her visit to the graveyard with her cousins at around 8:30 p.m. on a September night.

“We were just walking around trying to see if we could find a ghost,” Abagis said. “We saw flashes out of the corner of our eyes it could be something.”

She doesn’t think it was a car because the flashes were coming from the woods. Abagis said she cannot wait for the movie to come out.

“It’s going to be a big deal,” she said.

Carole won’t say whether the Blue Lady will make a cameo.

“There will be some hair-raising scenes and some action as well,” she promises. “What’s the sense of having a ghost show without a ghost?”

The Blue Lady supposedly is Mary Ritter Spaulding who died in April of 1808 and was buried on top of her husband, Isaac’s, first wife, also Mary Spaulding. The two even share a gravestone, though no one is sure why the she haunts the cemetery.

The Blue Lady got her name from the description of her appearance as a blue beam of light.

Carole said people who are using flashlights as they walk up the hill behind Spaulding’s grave are more likely to have created the beam.

She has been a ghost hunter for 15 years and is co-producer of GhostStoriesofNewEngland.com, which will also show “Tracking Lady Blue.”

Now, she is producing a new television show called “The Huntress,” which will cover her quests for ghosts and hopes it will be broadcast on Bravo or the Discover Channel.

It’s not always an easy job, Carole said. It’s difficult, she said, because the ghosts mess with her equipment. Carole’s batteries died inexplicably several times during the shoot at the cemetery.

She said ghosts have the power to interfere with electronics because they exist as electric fields themselves.

Her explanation is that a human body produces energy that remains when the physical body dies. She said the energy is more likely to produce a ghost if the person died a horrible death or was busy on Earth.

Olof Echt of the University of New Hampshire’s physic’s department dismisses Carole’s theory and says living creatures are kept alive with chemical reactions within their bodies. When the reaction stops, the person dies and no energy floats way.

If Carole’s explanation is true, every living creature would become a ghost when it dies.

Carole hunts the ghosts with heat, sound and electricity detectors. Heat detectors work the best, she said, because ghosts cause the temperature to drop five to 15 degrees in specific areas.

The Blue Lady isn’t the only specter in the cemetery, Carole said. The Grover Guy, a small Satanic figure, also lives there.

Carole encourages anyone who plans to visit the cemetery to call the police in advance. For safety and security reasons, Wilton Police Chief of Police Brent Hautanen asks people not to visit after dark.

Fortunately, Carole says, ghosts can be found during the daytime too.

Carole’s work includes filming videos for international blues star John Butcher and she also had her own television show called The Everything Show. Recently she was the executive producer of a rock concert called the Mohawk Reunion II in Shirley Mass. Carole also said she was the most watched comedienne on YouTube.com in November 2006.

 

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