The Deering Estate
The Deering Estate offers ghost tours where guests can bring their own recording equipment in hopes of picking up something otherworldly. A new installation at the museum features sounds recorded at the estate that might not be made by ghosts but they are typically undetectable by the human ear. Paranormal is a sound installation created by experimental sound group Frozen Music. Their goal is to challenge people s understanding of the sounds they interact with everyday, most notably the sounds they re unaware of.
Gustavo Matamoros is a Venezuelan sound artist that worked on Paranormal. The sounds that you hear from there are not necessarily real-time sounds, Matamoros said. They were captured at frequencies above 20,000 hertz and brought back down. The sounds may sound ethereal because they ve been slowed down.
Haunted places exist all over the world and come with a myriad of strange and mysterious histories. These places seem to, for whatever reasons, draw in paranormal phenomena like moths to a flame, and it can sometimes be difficult to assess why this should be. Yet in other cases we can guess at what propels the spooky reputations of such places, and one of these is the estate of a 19th century business tycoon who happened to build his formidable estate upon an Indian burial ground. Hijinks ensue.
Back in the 19th century, Charles Deering was doing rather well for himself. His father was William Deering, founder of Deering Harvester Company, his brother was the millionaire industrialist tycoon James Deering, and he himself was the chairman of the board for his father’s company and would eventually take it over. He was a successful business man and philanthropist who had more money than he knew what to do with. In 1890, Deering began spending more and more time in the state of Florid
It s the most wonderful time of the year: the end of it. The decade has gotten off to a catastrophic start, and everyone s ready to ring in what should be a less catastrophic new year. (Fingers crossed.)
But before we welcome 2021 most of us from the safety of our own homes there is Christmas-season fun to be had, if you re game.
Muster whatever holiday spirit you can and check out the best events of the season South Florida as to offer. While ugly Christmas sweaters and pajamas are encouraged at most of these, facemasks are mandatory at all of them.