(Radio Iowa) – The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors have given permission for a local group to investigate claims the old county home known as the Prairie Hills facility just outside of Sioux City is haunted. Dave Lafleur of the group Para 9-1-1 made the request. “I’ve seen stuff and heard stuff that would make the skin crawl on the back of your neck that you wouldn’t believe,” Lafleur told the supervisors. “But I’ve also been able to go into places and put stuff to bed and prove that it is environmental stuff that’s causing issues or things like that.”

Lafleur says there have been people who have worked at Prairie Hills who have heard or seen things they couldn’t explain. “I just want to go in there and give answers to the people who have worked in that building for years and centuries and be able to tell them ‘Yeah what you were seeing is actually really true going on. Or, nothing is there, we can’t find anything,” according to Lafleur.

Prairie Hills in Woodbury County

He hopes to talk to current and former county employees about their experiences, and says they will report back on the investigation. “Anything that we find — as far as evidence, whether it be video or audio evidence, or pictures, whatever that may be — all that stuff will be revealed to the board if you all wanted to see it or hear it before anything else was done with it,” he says.

Supervisors chairman, Rocky DeWitt says the county is not paying the group to do the investigation and the investigators will sign liability waivers. “I see no harm in allowing these folks to go out there and do what they do. They do not expect compensation from the county. It could helpful for some entertainment purposes,” DeWitt says.

DeWitt says he will accompany them for a one-day private investigation that’s expected to take ten hours. The Woodbury County Supervisors approved the investigation on a 3-2 vote. Para 9-1-1 has been investigating area phenomena since 2008.