Date Of Investigation: Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Investigation Site: Private Residence, Neosho, WI
Investigators Present: Amanda S and Matt S, Kyle Y (Wisconsin Independent Society of the Paranormal Guest Investigator)
Clients/Visitors Present:
This time we had the clients T and P present, and the three kids. The
oldest, D, is T's stepson and is 6 years old. M is 4 years old, and the
youngest H is 2 years old. Also present were T's friend B, and P's
cousin but they mostly sat outside around the fire with T.
Equipment Used:
Canon PowerShot AS60 Digital Camera, Sony Cybershot 8.1 Megapixel
Digital Camera, Olympus WS-300M Voice Recorder, Olympus VN-3100 Digital
Voice Recorder, Trifield Standard EMF Meter, Trifield Natural EMF
Meter, Dual Infrared Non-Contact Thermometer/Air Probe Thermometer,
Motion Sensors, JVC GR-D33U Digital Video Camera, Sony Handycams,
Wildview Model STC-TGL1 Motion Detection Camera
Weather Conditions: Clear
Average Temperature Outside: 78 Degrees Farenheit
Average Temperature Inside: 1st floor was 78 Degrees Farenheit, and basement was 73 Degrees Farenheit
Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Our Investigation:
We arrived at the house at about 7PM, at which time Kyle was given
another walk through. We asked T and P if they had experienced anything
since our last visit, and P said he was squatting down in M's room when
he was pushed down and then the room got colder. P's cousin was with
him when it happened and verified that there was a temperature change.
T's stepson D's mom
recently turned herself in to the police...apparently she had been
beating up her other kids and when D was over there she locked him in a
closet. She's going to prison. T and P had no knowledge of any of this,
and they've since cut off all communication with her. If this is a
poltergeist case, we think the trauma probably caused to D from this is
what caused it. Also, D had another experience recently where he saw an
apparition of a kid who looked beat up. He could be projecting it from
his subconscious, or it could have been psychological.
The next
thing we did was take base readings and decide where we wanted to set
up our equipment. We placed one camera in the basement in the room
where D used to sleep (all three kids are currently sleeping together
on the main floor), and another one in the second floor bedroom where
we had one last time. We put motion detectors around the cameras, and
set one on the basement stairs. Kyle had a motion detector that took a
picture every time there was movement, and we set that in the basement.
He also had a hand held camera that he carried with him the entire
investigation and used to videotape our EVP sessions.
At 8PM we
got started on our investigation. Matt had been on a poltergeist case
with his old group where they had gotten some results by letting the
family just behave like normal, instead of sitting still and being
quiet like you normally would on a ghost hunt. Since psychokinesis is
unconscious, this makes sense. So we tried it for the first couple
hours while we waited for the kids to go to bed, and focused more on
getting visual evidence.
The kids fell asleep at about 10PM,
then we shut all the power off in the house and asked for everyone to
be quiet so we could begin doing some EVP recordings. The kids all
slept in one room with P, and T went outside and had a fire in the
backyard with B and P's cousin.
The remainder of the investigation followed the same procedure as last time. We wrapped up at about 2AM.
Findings/Personal Experiences:
When we were doing our first EVP circle in the basement, the motion
detector on the stairs went off. Matt threw out his other one that he
thought might have been malfunctioning last time. This one was tested
and was working fine. The motion detector was facing away from the wall
towards where Kyle was sitting, but he was sitting pretty still and
shouldn't have been in range. But just to be sure, Matt moved it so it
would be facing the wall away from us.
During another EVP circle
in the basement later, all three of us heard a voice say "hello". We
had voice recorders and a camera running, but we didn't catch it on
tape. It wasn't very loud. We radioed T immediately. She said she had
said "hello" because she was on the phone, but she was keeping her
voice down because she didn't want to interfere. It was true they had
been keeping very quiet, and if it was her that one word was all we
heard from them the entire time. But at the same time, someone DID say
"hello" right about then. So it was probably a living person.
About
5 minutes later, the battery on Kyle's video camera that was recording
in the basement drained when he just put it in about 45 minutes ago and
it still had about an hour of recording time left. The next morning
when he looked at it, it was recharged about 50% again. Kyle said he
watched the last few minutes of video before the camera shut off to see
if anything happened. In the left hand corner a white shape comes into
frame then fades away over about 2-3 seconds before the camera shuts
off. However, Kyle said he can state with 99% certainty that it is
either light or a reflection from his hand held camera that he was
using at the same time. He says, "It is so coincidental that it amazes
me, but I really believe it is a glare."
Shortly after, T
radioed and asked us if we had an investigator upstairs. We didn't.
When we asked her why, she said that they were sitting outside looking
in through the screen door and had just seen a small shadow figure come
out of the downstairs bedroom where the kids were, go up the stairs,
and re-enter. We went upstairs to check it out. Our first thought was
that one of the kids had gotten out of bed, but everyone was asleep and
when Matt asked T the next day to verify with the kids that none of
them had gotten out of bed, they said they hadn't. She says that they
were passed out in the same spots in the same way they were before she
went outside, and if they had gotten out of bed they would have woken
up her husband and they would have climbed into her bed, which is what
they normally do.
We set a camera on the bedroom door and a
motion detector, then went up to the second floor to do some EVP
recordings. The next day, when Kyle tried to load the memory stick onto
his laptop, another strange thing occurred. He was told that the files
were present, but they were corrupt and could not be opened. After
several attempts, he gave up on his laptop and tried to load the data
onto his PC with the same results. He was using a Sony Handycam that
recorded onto a ProPlus Memory Stick. Kyle says, "You may question my
technical abilities...but please know that I have used this Handycam at
least 50 times for various tapings and I have never had an issue with
retrieving the data." So far nobody he has contacted can pull anything
from the card.
Then when we were sitting on the second floor
doing an EVP circle we heard what sounded like something scratching at
the window. It sounded like animal sounds. Matt got up to go look out
the window and he could still hear it. Then we thought the sound
shifted and it sounded like the scratching was coming from inside the
room now, from the dresser right next to where Matt was standing. The
others said the same thing. It's possible the family could have mice
and not know it, or they could have just moved in. This can be proven
or disproven by laying out some mouse traps. There was also a bat in
the basement that we found later, maybe it found a way inside the
walls. We had two voice recorders running in the room with us at the
time but neither of them caught the sound because they were too far
away.
Final Analysis: We
still can't confirm or debunk the activity. The shadows that the
clients reported seeing weren't seen by any of the investigators or
captured on camera and were seen from outside through a screen door,
and the sounds we heard are within normal explanation. The only things
we don't have an explanation for right now are when Kyle’s camera
battery drained and then the next morning was recharged again, and what
happened with his other camera, but we need more conclusive evidence.
There are two things that could be happening. D could be a poltergeist
agent. The thing that happened with his mom could have been the cause.
Now that she's going away, D won't have the stress and maybe the
activity will calm down.
Or, D could be seeing menacing shadows in his doorway and apparitions
of kids who look beat up because of what happened to him. His mom may
or may not have had experiences in her house, or she could have just
been covering up what was really going on. Throughout the
investigation, the clients were reporting activity that we were not
able to capture or experience. 1. It could be something specific to
them. 2. They could be so freaked out because of the real activity they
have going on that they're seeing paranormal activity everywhere, or 3.
They could just be scaring themselves and there's nothing paranormal going on.
We think it would be a good idea if the family got out of the house
for awhile and went on a vacation. If there is something paranormal
going on, it's caused by stress and being in this house is creating
more stress. Then when they come back, we would try to think about
something else.
We also think it would help if the kids didn't
constantly hear talk about ghosts. We didn't ask to have the kids there
for the first investigation because we thought they might get scared,
but T said they already tell them everything anyway and the kids are
fine with it. Indeed, the kids thought our equipment was "cool" and
they were going around with flashlights playing "ghost hunters". But
then M would keep getting scared over every little thing, and later
during our investigation D was sleeping with the sheets over his head.
We think a lot of what the kids have reported could just be because
they're scared.