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The famous Comedy Store, located on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has been rumored to be the home of active paranormal activity. Owner Mitzi Shore and comedians throughout the years have made permanent mental notes of their personal brushes with the paranormal. The Comedy Store was definitely near the top of the ISPR list of possible Ghost Expedition/Los Angeles sites. Shortly after relocating to L.A., we approached the manager.

We set up the first ISPR Investigation to begin at 11:00 pm on a Monday night. Monday nights are traditionally a little slower for business and the crowd would have thinned out by that time of night. Larry, Maria, Steve and I met outside of the club at 10:45 pm. Larry was hoping to record some spectacular readings with the equipment. Maria and I were looking forward to the possibility of channeling some entities. And Steve wanted to get his "ghost fix" for we had gone several days without conducting an Investigation and as Steve as well our Paranormal Researchers admit, "this stuff gets to be additive!" We met with Matt (the manager) and Janet as well as a few other staff members. We instructed them not to tell us about any thoughts or experiences regarding paranormal activity inside. We moved inside the building and walked down the long, dark hallway sporting black and white head shot pictures of comedians who had played there over the years (Roseanne, Seinfield, Bob Saget, Pauly Shore, Sam Kinnison and many others). We entered the main stage room and immediately perceived the extreme darkness and thickness to the atmosphere. Maria placed her hand over her chest and revealed that she was having a difficult time breathing. That is common in a place that is active with paranormal occurrences, but that does not necessarily denote a negative situation. I continued walking toward the stage and climbed on top. My heart began racing and I was overwhelmed with feelings of anxiousness and excitement. We are sure that that sensation came from many, many years of comedians performing on this same stage. We also felt the same sensation in the Green Room of the Comedy Store although we didn't measure any extraordinary measurements of temperature of electromagnet fields. Larry met me on the stage and although he could feel the excited energy, there were no significant scientific readings to be measured.

We climbed off the stage and met up with Maria and Steve in the middle of the room. Maria and Steve were still facing the stage and simultaneously saw a shadow standing next to the stage on the left. When Larry and the others turned their gaze to the same direction, they witnessed the shadow exit the room on the left side. Larry instructed both me and Maria to sit in a booth seat in the back of the main section. The stage now appears to be up front to the right. Within a couple of minutes, the atmosphere changed and we began to laugh almost uncontrollably. Steve measured a drop in temperature of eight degrees proving that the coldness Maria and I were experiencing was not a psychic impression. The magnetometer needle was oscillating right in the middle of the scale. Through our laughter and at the same time, Maria and I were relating to Larry and Steve that we could feel our arms and necks being "touched". My hair, which is parted three quarters over to the left, started moving. My shag bangs which were tucke d behind my ear on the right, kept moving onto my face near my nose. I kept moving it back behind my ear and it kept moving back onto my face. The right-hand collar of my shirt was moving up and down. Then it stopped. Maria took a large gulp of air in and from the light of Larry's flashlight, we could see her face change. At first, it was a blank stare and then took on a totally different look. She smiled an ear to ear grin and looked right at me (I was seated to her left). It was a flirtatious smile and one Maria herself, doesn't bestow upon another female. I masculine chuckle emitted from her mouth. Her shoulders seemed to broaden as she transformed and projected a masculine image. This was the guy who was making us laugh! The magnetometer was doing a wild ?dance' and the temperature dropped two more degrees around Maria. Larry asked the entity who he was. "Gus." Larry restated the question as, "Your name is Gus?" "Frank", was the reply. "Now your name is Gus?" The male voice coming through Maria stated, "I like to be called Gus." Maria's head turned toward me and offered another huge smile, I started laughing again and in turn, so did Gus.

As a transmedium, Maria hosts many entities and when she does, she seems to go completely out of body during the experience. She remembers nothing of each incident. Often times, if the entity does not want to exit her body, Larry starts talking about Maria's son. That usually does the trick quickly. Since this was not a negative event, and Gus had no problem communicating, there was no reason to ask him to leave too soon.

The Manager of the Comedy Store, Matt, had seated himself next to me on my left. Larry asked Gus if he knew Matt. Maria/Gus looked directly at Matt and began laughing a hearty non-stop laugh as he pounded the table in great amusement. Everyone soon joined in on the laughter except for Matt. He looked as though his world was being severely rocked not to mention, little frightened. "Matt's a good kid," offered Gus when his laughter subsided a bit. "What do you think about the Comedy Store?" Gus did not reply to Larry's last question so Larry rephrased it to ask Gus if he knew this place was the Comedy Store. "This is Ciro's," Gus stated with solid authority. We found it most interesting that Gus was familiar with the Matt, the manager of the Comedy Store, yet did not recognize the building as such, instead saw it as the nightclub it used to be during the 1930's. Maria was still hosting Gus when Steve saw the shadow standing behind Larry. Larry could feel the shadow on his back but didn't say anything. Gus spoke up without question and offered, "There's no reason to speak with him...no one should speak with him." The shadow backed off and retreated to the exit, left of the stage. At this point in time, several comedians entered the main room and joined the ISPR Investigation in progress. Gus departed. Maria came back.

Larry decided to change locations and continue the Investigation in another area of the Comedy Store. We walked through many different rooms and offices followed by larger audience than what we began with. We felt the man with the broken back or neck upstairs in one of the offices. It was understood by many of us that he committed suicide, felt like he knew the place and had some affiliation with it.

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