Riverside Inn likely will close in the next few months. Christian County obtained a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to buy and raze the building, which the Finley River has flooded several times in the past years.

Over the years, however, besides being known for its food and ambiance, it’s also earned a reputation for its ghost stories. Some people have seen plates thrown on their own. Others have seen the green-glow of its late former owner, Howard Garrison, walking with his cigar. Conversations from unknown sources have blossomed in the greenhouse. That’s why some say, when you dine at Riverside Inn, no matter who’s with you, you might have an extra dinner guest sitting at your table.

One room where employees hate to go is the second floor banquet room called the Colonnade Room. A medium once visited and said something ominous stays in this area: a murderer from a past life.

That’s one of the newer parts of the restaurant. In one of the oldest parts, the Greenhouse, folks have heard conversations at all times of the day, even after closing.

Looking onto the Greenhouse is the second-story apartment where Garrison died in 1974. Underneath the Greenhouse is the secret gaming room where, during Prohibition, men would come to drink and gamble. Men could also go upstairs into the apartment to visit a lady known as High Dollar Red.

Once again, KY3 News and PIOSWM (Paranormal Investigators of Southwest Missouri) teamed up. PIOSWM covered the restaurant with its equipment, hoping to catch an image of something.

The group has done it before. For example, they have a photo that they took at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Ark. They say it's a shadow-figure wearing a cowboy hat, sitting at a table when no one was in the room.

“We go looking to disprove ghosts,” said PIOSWM co-founder Mike Haney.

Two main things happen during an investigation: experiences and evidence. PIOSWM will call a place haunted if enough evidence is collected.

Last year, when we visited Landers Theatre with PIOSWM, we recorded a disembodied voice calling out into the night -- something called an EVP.

“EVP stands for Electronic Voice Phenomenon,” said David Glidden, the other co-founder of PIOSWM. “It's believed entities communicate on a different frequency but, when it goes through a microphone, it filters out that frequency and can be heard on the device.”

The sound recorded at Landers Theatre sounds like “David, David, David.”

Back at Riverside Inn this month, unfortunately, the investigators found Riverside Inn provides a lot of experiences that don't help in calling a place haunted.

Before the lights even went out in the kitchen, we heard something. It sounded like five notes from a piano off in the distance. We had no clue who was hitting the keys.

It turned out to be easy to eliminate that as a ghostly phenomenon. What sounded like a piano being played was just some pipes being rattled when an ominous freezer compressor turned on.

With that taken care of, we turned off the lights and began the investigation. Every sound raised a question.

“What is that?” asked Haney.

No one knew, until Haney and Glidden double-checked the monitors.

“It looked like a white shape came into frame,” said Glidden.

The men said they’d have to wait to analyze the footage after they got back to their office.

After that, still in the dark, the two teams took opposite sides of the restaurant.

One started in the apartment. Just like the the inn’s staff says, voices came from just outside window. Was it from the Greenhouse, or from the secret room? It turned out later that the audio was too low on PIOSWM’s recorders to be analyzed.

Could that disembodied voice have been High Dollar Red? If this lady of the night had anything to say to us, the team could not make it out.

The other team was in the Colonnade Room. This night, Glidden might just have seen him. A white mist was seen floating along one wall. Trying to figure out what they saw, all four in this room heard something go bump in the night, and then heard what sounded like “tweet!”

“It was like a whistle,” said Glidden.

One team also heard a growl. The recorders also did not pick that up, so the investigators say that’s just another experience.

A recorder picked up a strange “chirp” inside the Colonnade Room. But PIOSWM ruled this too, only an experience.

At the end of the night, PIOSWM could only make one conclusion.

That's not to say those who had experiences were imagining the events. It’s just, on the night the investigators were there, nothing made solid contact with them.

PIOSWM regularly has folks folllow them on investigations of the Brown Mansion in Coffeyville, Kan. Visit their website for details.