Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: Ghost in the machine???
I can honestly say that I have been a part of an investigation that has fully restored my belief in the paranormal. I will explain then get to my question for everyone.
Without going into to much detail... I am working with a very established, Georgia based, ghost hunting team that is being documented by an independent film maker. There have been some amazing stuff so far but nothing that I have been directly linked with (in the same room or witnessed with my own senses). That all changed last weekend when we investigated a house here in Georgia.
The home owners had complained their young daughter was being harassed by something unexplainable. The parents had personal experiences also but could not take it bothering the child. As proof to their claim, a digital answering machine was shown that had recorded conversations with the daughter and the 'entity' using the recorders memo feature. We reviewed the audio and I did hear what seems to be another voice talking to the child. The skeptic in me would not accept this as proof since none of us where there when it was recorded.
So, the director of the documentary wanted the young girl to reenact the conversations as she had before, holding the cordless phone and recording from the base as a memo. There were approximately 7 people in the room and three outside in the hall. The child finished the recording which was played back immediately into the boom mic. Everyone in the room heard the EVP loud and clear on playback and looked at each other in shock. This was no joke. We were all there - and reviewing the video clearly shows nobody talking when the EVP occurs.
The EVP itself was troubling. I had not heard cussing yet, close, but not like this.
As the night progressed, I had more experiences than I ever had in the past two years investigating. I got responses to my questions in the form of spine tingling scraping noises. I heard something exhale, very heavily, right in front of me, which rattled me the most.
Anyway... the home owner no longer wanted the digital answering machine and gave it to the film maker. Tonight, I added a line out to the recorder and we played all recorded memos into CoolEdit. There are 24 minutes of recordings and it is full of EVPs. Some are class A EVPs and other are a little hard to understand. There is no doubt something is being said by something that sounds very sinister, and it is not the mother or daughter. These same voices are on recordings made with other DVRs while we were there, suggesting that it was the same 'thing' as the other recordings.
After we finished getting a good copy of the audio, the film maker hands me the recorder and tells me to take it home. And... I am ashamed to say that I am a little frightened by it. I had a recorder in my hand when this was happening - and it did not pick these sounds up (although I got something later on with this recorder in with same voice as the digital answering machine). The video camera in the room did not pick up on these voices... So could it be something special with this recorder?
I have it in my car at the moment... maybe I will get calm down tomorrow and bring it in. Am I over-reacting on this? _________________ -Beach
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:12 am Post subject:
Hey Tim! Neat story, especially since I know you were struggling with believing all this stuff or not, just like me.
I feel for the kid most. Not sure I'd bring that thing in my house either, and no I do not think you are overreacting. Trust your instincts. Perhaps it is like Frank's box, somehow special enough to pick up voices of the dead unlike anything else we have seen?
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Am I correct in thinking that what is recorded in memo mode is what is heard through the handset? In that case, did your team try linking the recorder to a different handset, to determine if it was the recorder or the handset? I'd be curious to see what would happen if you tried a brand-new handset with the recorder in a different location.
I'm also curious as to what is being done for the family. Keep us posted on that, if you can.
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:15 am Post subject:
Hi Tim,
Wow! That's very interesting and yes, a little disturbing but more intriquing at least from my point of view. You're not over reacting to be worried about bringing it in. I know others have had similar experiences recently. But if you do find yourself able to do so, we'd love to hear some of it if possible. The first hand experience in real time had to be a real eye opener, especially if you were having doubts. I would also be interested in knowing the follow up with the family and what was done to help them.
Joined: Jun 09, 2006 Posts: 609 Location: Duluth, GA
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:48 am Post subject:
Definitely interesting.
A couple of things to try.
1) Same girl different location to see if it some how linked to the location.
2) Same location different person to see if it is linked to the girl.
3) Same location, same girl, different machine to see if it is linked to the machine itself. _________________ Eeek the Kat (aka Darren)
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Hey Mooney! Yes, we had someone there who performed a "spiritual cleansing". I have never witnessed this procedure and I did not know how effective it would be. That was answered the next day when I heard that it got so bad there after we left that the family moved out.
I'm not sure if they are back in the house at this point. I'll try and remember to update when I find out. _________________ -Beach
Am I correct in thinking that what is recorded in memo mode is what is heard through the handset?
Actually, the handset did nothing as the mic was built into the base. The handset was just something the child used to talk with the "monster" as she called it.
When I disassembled the base to add the line-out, I noticed it had a fairly large mic - much bigger than expected. We thought the activity was centered around the child but I recorded a memo on it much later in the evening and a received a class A EVP response from it. _________________ -Beach
1) Same girl different location to see if it some how linked to the location.
Howdy Eeek... I also would like to do more with this family but I am not sure if that will be possible now since I heard how rattled the parents were over what happened after we left.
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2) Same location different person to see if it is linked to the girl.
Yes, we had several things happen to the group when the family had waited outside. Physically, a pen was thrown out from under a bed, I received responses when I would ask if it would give me a sign of its presence in the form of loud scraping noises from inside (or outside) of the closet in the room. Once a loud punch sound was made from behind a wall that had been a window but was sheet rocked over (due to activity). Also, one of the members stated he had been scratched on his arm.
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3) Same location, same girl, different machine to see if it is linked to the machine itself.
That would have been a good idea. Nobody thought of that... I will add that different recorders were used and did have activity on them, just not as frequent as it is on the digital answering machine. I just wonder how much more activity we could have picked up if the children were still in there with us.
Hopefully, I will have some news soon and I will update everyone. _________________ -Beach
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:
Beach wrote:
Howdy Eeek... I also would like to do more with this family but I am not sure if that will be possible now since I heard how rattled the parents were over what happened after we left.
Has the family had any experiences outside of the house? (Possibly something following one of the family members.)
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Yes, we had several things happen to the group when the family had waited outside. Physically, a pen was thrown out from under a bed, I received responses when I would ask if it would give me a sign of its presence in the form of loud scraping noises from inside (or outside) of the closet in the room. Once a loud punch sound was made from behind a wall that had been a window but was sheet rocked over (due to activity). Also, one of the members stated he had been scratched on his arm.
Definitely sounds like a good night, sorry I could have been there.
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Hopefully, I will have some news soon and I will update everyone.
Please keep us posted, would love to hear what the resolution to the issue is. _________________ Eeek the Kat (aka Darren)
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I will add that different recorders were used and did have activity on them, just not as frequent as it is on the digital answering machine. I just wonder how much more activity we could have picked up if the children were still in there with us.