It appears that the resident ghost at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, N.C. is fixated on a particular guestroom. Dr. William P. Jacocks, a physician with the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, retired to Chapel Hill and lived at the inn from 1948 until his death in 1965. A kind and gentle man, he had a fun-loving sense of humor and seems to enjoy teasing guests who stay in his room on the third floor by locking them out occasionally. Last fall, a couple returned to the room to find that their electronic keys wouldn't work. Hotel maintenance workers, unable to unlock the door, had to climb a ladder and crawl through the window. Once, the room's door had to be taken off its hinges because it could not be unlocked.

A team of professional ghost hunters was brough in to explore thse curious goings-on. at  In 2002, these paranormal phenomena researchers set up super-sensitive microphones, digital cameras, infrared video cameras and electromagnetic sensors in three guest rooms.

Over a four-hour period, the equipment captured the sounds of footsteps in an empty and secured room; an orb-like object moving through the air in one of the rooms; the faint sound of notes from a piano (there were no pianos nearby nor one being played in the inn a the time); and a few softly spoken words including what sounds like "hey" and "might have won."

Who might this ghost be? It is suspected to be Dr. William Jacocks, who lived at the inn from 1948 until his death in 1965. Jacocks liked riddles and jokes, and, over the years, his ghost seems to have enjoyed teasing guests buy locking them out of the second-floor room where he lived.

The findings can be viewed at www.hauntednc.com.