NCSS, the Niagara County Spirit Society, was formed in 2004 by senior staff members
of the Spirit newspaper, the student newspaper of Niagara County Community College.
Two of the founding members, Alicia Lucas and Harmony Curl, worked together for a
semester, but it took Jennifer Hoffman joining the staff to make the three realize they
held similar interests in the paranormal and grew up around hauntings and paranormal
activity. Spurred on by Harmony�s other job at the notoriously haunted NCCC library, third
floor, the group came together and began researching methods to capture proof of the
spirit. With their first piece of evidence in hand, they began researching other famous
hauntings in the area, and planning more trips and cases. More evidence gathered and
piled up, and the group felt they needed a name to identify themselves. They came up
with Niagara County Spirit Society, as a play on the fact that they all worked for The Spirit.
However, the group seemed to fall to pieces once its members no longer went to school
or worked together.
Nowadays, thanks to and inspired by new findings, NCSS is back up and running, and is
stronger than ever before. Alicia Lucas has since moved away, but Jennifer Hoffman and
Harmony Curl kept the spirit alive, and others, such as Kyle Roberts, Megan Dimond, and
Dan Genek breathed new life into NCSS. Today, the group still works tirelessly to
capture evidence of the paranormal, and seek a better understanding of the supernatural.
