| Ghosts & Haunts in Missouri Investigations August 2003 of a haunted private residence. This is our second field investigation of this private residence. Our return to this home was in response to a phone call from the worried owner, who contacted us because of a recent alarming experience. The owners have lived in this home for approximately 20 years and have learned to live with the paranormal activity in their home. In the past they have seen the ghost of a little boy who plays in the home, and that of a little girl who has been seen walking up the long gravel driveway to the front door. There is the ghost of an old man who is also seen upstairs. The types of activity reported by the owners have ranged from the sound of footsteps running down the stairway to a shadow figure seen moving in different parts of the home. This shadow figure may also be responsible for one particular event in which something slammed the bathroom door on the first floor. This is an area of the home where the figure has also been seen. Numerous small events have been noticed, like something turning off the crock pot left to cook, a tanning bed which keeps shutting down on its own, and phone answering machines which fail to work after just a few days, but when removed from inside the house will resume to function. The owner contacted us after experiencing a new alarming event. After calling her childern to come downstairs they replied back to her that they didn't want to come downstairs because they wanted to stay upstairs and play with (their friend). They had no guests in the home. She then started going up the stairs to get them when she felt something on her shoulder pushing her back; she lost her balance and stumbled back down the stairway. In the years they have lived in this home, they have never experienced anything physical let alone being pushed down the stairs. The owners have been making plans to demolish the existing home and build another one on the same grounds. We can only speculate that this might be tied into the recent aggressive disposition of whatever is occupying the home. In our previous investigation of this residence we captured a photograph of a skull figure in the room where the ghost of the old man has been. We had also experienced our equipment been manipulated. We conducted our investigation between 8pm and 1am using multiple night shot camcorders, EMF meters, Tri-field meters, 35mm and digital cameras, thermal scanners, and motion sensors. During the investigation, this digital photo was taken with a Minolta 5 mega pixel digital camera from the end of the long driveway leading to the home Photo 1. None of the more than a dozen or so photos taken from this spot at the same time with this camera contained anything unusual that would account for what is seen in the top right hand side of this photo. During the investigation several strange events took place. While we were upstairs standing in the doorway to the room where the ghost of the old man has been seen, one person in our group felt the presence of someone walking past him. At the moment this occurred, another member standing just behind him with an EMF meter in his hand experienced a spike from 0 to 10 milaGauss for one or two seconds before it returned back to zero. Another strange event occurred shortly before we packed up the remainder of our equipment to leave for the evening. Two of our investigators who were up on the second floor had a bizarre encounter. One of them felt someone tugging on his shirt while another investigator also on this floor felt someone pulling on the leg of his trousers. Both of these incidents of something tugging on their clothing happened within minutes of each other, and neither of them told each other what had happened to them until returning downstairs. This type of activity involving tactile experience almost never happens during an investigation. Other unusual things documented in the home were strong electromagentic fields coming from a wall built by the owners which contains no electrical wiring. PAGE BACK |
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