"Mr. Muurrphy," Tom Carr called out to an empty room. "We'd like to talk to you."

I stood in the corner of a room in the Historic Lehi Hotel hoping that my growling stomach wouldn't be mistaken for a ghost.

Clueless as to what we were really getting ourselves into, Daily Herald photographer Craig Dilger and I went on a ghost hunt of the Historic Lehi Hotel, 394 W. Main St., early last week with paranormal investigators from around the state. The hotel was opened in 1887, and people who know the hotel tell stories of guests who never left and supernatural kisses.

"Misterrrr Muuurrphy," Carr called out again. "Tap twice on the wall if you're here."

I shivered a little, remembering the investigators told us that a ghostly presence often makes the air temperature drop. But I was standing against the window. I was unsure of whether to believe in a supernatural being standing next to me or that a 100-year-old building has drafty windows.

There was no tap.

"I can feel him here," Carr said matter-of-factly.

Each of the five investigators had video cameras, digital cameras and a few even had voice recorders or Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) sensors.

The sensor Carr held in his hand had a row of lights in different colors -- green, yellow, orange and red. The sensor measures very low electromagnetic fields. It is believed that ghosts cause a disruption in the ambient electromagnetic fields, which are picked up by the sensor.

As we walked into an upstairs bedroom the lights flickered all the way to the red.

"Whoa," Carr said. "There is something here. This [ELF sensor] is going crazy."

Pop. Click. Flash. One camera after another went off in hopes of catching orbs in the photos. Carr held the sensor in front of him.

"We want to talk to you," he said again. "Do you want us to leavefi Touch the sensor twice if yes and once if no."

The sensor went up to the red twice.

"We want to talk to you. Are you happy herefi Twice for yes and once for no."

Again, the light lit up to the red twice.

The ghost answered a few questions before exiting the room and leaving the investigators baffled. The pillar of cold air left and the sensor's lights stopped blinking.

Legend has it that decades ago there was a man with terrible asthma who lived in one of the rooms. The other hotel patrons thought he was strange. He was quiet and carried a doll with him everywhere. After a horrible asthma attack one night he died, and people say he never left. The investigators walked in each room, waiting for any clues. Video cameras with night vision were perched at the entrance of a few of the upstairs rooms, waiting to catch a flicker or an orb.

We found the Bride's Room. A shimmering wedding dress displayed in the corner sent chills through my spine. The legend in this room is that any single man who sleeps there awakens to a supernatural kiss.

Carr and another male investigator sat on the beds in the room, and joked about which of them wanted to lay down and wait for the kiss. But it only took a couple minutes before the sensor's lights frantically blinked and one of the men said he felt a cold pressure on the left side of his body.

They talked to the ghost while recording everything with a voice recorder, which they'd check later for Electronic Voice Phenomenons (EVPs). But the ghost's presence left as quickly as it had appeared.

After every room had been checked, some of them twice, the investigators packed up all their cameras and equipment. It wasn't their most rewarding hunt, nothing like the numerous cemeteries they've walked through.

The hunters won't have to wait for next Halloween season to use their equipment, though.

"It's always a good time for ghost hunts," said John Webb. "Not just at Halloween."