“We can tell when someone’s not right with one another, when we need to back off or go to another room in a house.” “As an all-women paranormal team, we can feed off each other,” Reyes said.
Jennifer Gonzalez uses a directional listening device in an attempt to detect the presence of spirits on Saturday. They get together once a month to go over their findings, plan future ghostly explorations, and watch movies - most recently Hocus Pocus, a 1993 film about teenagers finding witches in Massachusetts. On weekends, this group of a half-dozen women take late-night trips together to explore abandoned jails, cemeteries, old homes, and shops. “Even the movie franchises know that women can do it just as well as men can,” said Sydney Reyes, one of the team’s founding members. The Ghoul Gals are, as far as they know, the only female paranormal investigative team in Central Texas, and one of the few in the country, aside of course from the all-female crew of the recent Ghostbusters remake.
