Pictures of Paranormality

I promised pictures from our recent investigations. Well here they are. I am not really jazzed up about the orb thing but here are some of the pics anyway. You decide ORB or Dust.







Heres an orb in the closet.










Heres an orb near a window.













Heres an orb near a gravemarker.

A Paranormal Graduation

Last night was graduation night for all the Certified Paranormal Investigators that took the class. We went over the other spectrum of paranormal that J looks into but don't really focus on. These subject dealing with U.F.Os and Cryptozoology (Bigfoot). He also talked about phantom ships and houses that disappear (dimentional shifts). Like he said, "We take the calls and do investigate but we don't focus on that subject much." After a quick review of all the subject matter we have went over for the course we received out Certificates (suitable for framing) and went to a known active graveyard to put our degrees to good use. We arrived about 40 minute later and I set up a nightshot camera to blanket the yard while we went investigating. I walked through the graveyard taking pictures for a bit and then we met and attempted to capture a few EVPs. I still need to listen to the recordings to see if we captured something but I do think we caught a couple of orbs in the pictures. I will try and post some when I get home. I also need to review the nightshot footage to see if we picked up anything. After the second attempt at a recording it started to sprinkle. J said, "All picture from this point on cannot be used as evidence due to the rain so we can put our cameras away." I quickly walked back to the Pilots Jeep and put away the video camera and started walking back to were everyone was gathered. Pilot mentioned, "Listen to the wind. Sounds like it is really blowing over in that area." I said, "I hope that is wind and not rain." Seconds later the sky opened up to a deluge. We ran back to the Jeep and the night was basically over. I highly recommend this class and would encourage anyone who is interested to take it. I think they are going to offer and Advanced class in October. I am not sure if I will be able to make it. Things around here get way too busy in October.

Paranormal Class V (The Spook House)

Back story: This house has been known to levetate plaster falling from the ceiling, countless EVPs, moving objects (crutches) and has been known to push people to the floor. It is rated at VERY ACTIVE.

Yes! It has finally arrived. We got to go on a tried and true bonified investigation, complete with motion detectors, EMF meters and wireless IR cameras. We surveyed the house with digital cameras a blazing. After covering the house from top to bottom I got out the Nightshot camera and started a sweep. After consulting with J he let me use a IR broadcaster to help with the small IR emitter I have on the camera. It really helped with the focus. Then after J had it all set up we decided to do try and capture some EVPs. The first couple of attempts I didn't get anything. We then moved to another room and BINGO. Four of us with recorders picked up something that sounded like a voice. It sounds like, "Come Here." But it could be "Im Here." It was in a mans voice. I picked up something really faint in the ground floor living room but it is so faint I will amp it up on the laptop and see what G and Pilot think. One of the weird things about this place is there is a pair of crutches that tend to move around the house. When we went to the basement there they were leaning across the stairway path. I stepped around them and then one of our group moved them out of the way. I set them back the way they were in hopes that they would move while we were there. They did not budge and inch. Other than a few orbs (dust) and a couple of EVPs, the night was pretty uneventful, but I think we all had a good time.

Lessons learned:

1. It his hard to do a real investigation with 30 people in the house.
2. You can not get 30 people to be quite all at the same time.
3. You can not get 30 people to turn off there cell phones during and investigation.
4. By the end of the investigation you will want to strangle all 30 people involved for being bone headed.

Paranormal Class III & IV

Tuesdays class was informative but unfortunately there are some older women in the class that are hard of hearing and dont know how to stay with the group went doing EVP recordings and also like to wear perfume but dont want to tell anyone about it. Needless to say our investigations was all for not. Maybe next time.

Thursdays class was pretty dry at first. We went over basic investigation skills and how to keep track of and document information about the site of the investigation. J showed us copies of the paper work he has the owners sight for permission and history of the site. We then walked to a near by site where a young lady was killed in a car accident. There was a cross beside the road and a tree that had the bark messed up on it so we all placed our recorders at the site and J started questioning. I dont think anyone elso got anything but for some reason it seems that every time J has a recording he gets something. I am not sure what is happening. Is it the model of recorder? Is it that he is better at picking them out of the back ground noise and once it is played a couple of times we start to hear it? Maybe it is that he has been investigating this kind of stuff for a while and ghosts talk and know that he is sincere about his work and are more willing to use his equipment. Depending on what you believe in you can choose the best answer to suit your needs. It is weird and strange and interesting and kind of creepy and the bad thing is that no one can really tell you anything certain about it. It is always changing and No One is an expert at it. I really dont know what to think about it. When our group gets that first Class A EVP I will probably SH-T. Heres to wishful thinking.

Network DOWN

This sleepy little towns wireless network was completely down all day Wednesday. It was weird. I felt very isolated not being able to get on line to blog or surf or email people. I think our email is working but we still cannot surf the web. Hopefully we will be back up later today.

Also..
Last night about 8:30 my friends and I went to a local cemetery that has a old church there and tried to do some homework for the upcomming class. We spend about an hour walking around in the dark. We gave the grounds the full court press with the equipment we have and came up snake eyes. I was hoping we would get something because this place is supposed to be active but it was all for not. It may be because of the crickets and other bugs in the background drones out any EVPs that may be there. The night shot and digital camera showed nothing. We will try again maybe when it is a bit quiter and not so hot out.

Waisted Effort

Im a little upset right now. My brother-in-law saw fit to bring up two s-it eating dogs and drop them at my Mother and Father-in-laws house to take care of while they s-it up and dig up the yard. Yesterday I just about when ballistic. I came home and cleaned out our dogs pin and gave him feed and fresh water. I was walking in the house and was wondering why my fountain in the super secret project pond was not spraying. Upon closer inspection the whole pond was tore to shambles. The rocks were disturbed, the fountain was tipped into the water sturring up all the sediment some the pond looked a muddy mess, the plants was all out of there pots and chewed up and floating on the water. I my first thought was one of them s-it eating dogs got loose. I walked over to the pin where the pains in the a$$ are kept and low in behold one is missing. Steaming, and not from the outdoor heat, I walked over and started straightening up the mess. The plants are a complete lose but it looks like all the fish made it from what I could tell from the muddy water. I finally got the fountain working and the waterfall placed back like it was and called a few people to vent my frustrations. The first victim was my beloved Brando. Since she is down South with my Mom she said upon the news she nearly got sick. I tried to keep my tone at a civil level and help her from becoming ill but let her know the facts. I then called my Mother-in-law and told her. She said she would be home soon. Next I called my Father-in-law. He is kind of a no nonesense kind of guy. He asked me, "Well did you shootem?" I told him that it was not the dumb dogs fault that my pain in the a$$ Bro-in-law is the problem for dragging these flea ridden things up here. The plants can be replaced but a torn liner in the pond will take alot of work to replace. My Bro-in-law is still on vacation and is supposed to come back today or tomorrow. I am not sure how this one is gonna play out. Wish me luck with the patience I need to keep from killing someone.

Sweltering Monday

Its Hot! So hot and humid you have to almost swallow the air. I hate it when it is this hot. You cant do anything outside except bake. With the wife and kids venturing down South I was hoping to get some small things done outside like straighten the garage and spray so weeds but if it is this hot I dont think it will get done. I need to start on some Halloween projects but I think it will have to wait. I am thinking on improving on my acid spitter design and build a new better one but I dont know if it will make it. My only hope is that July will get all this hot weather out of the way to make for a pleasant August. Heres to wishful thinking.

Tomorrow is Paranormal Class III. I am planning of taking the laptop to get set up to analyze EVPs. I already downloaded a free ware version of Ghost Hunter and my wonder wife saw fit to buy me my very own copy of An Idiots Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings. She is such a peach. It does have some interesting information in it. I guess I will read it instead of using it to club her over the head with it. (Love You Brando ;) ) Well I better get back to work. C U L8R

Too Hot

Today was just plain HOT. This weekend we have just stayed in the house and tryed to keep cool. The short amount of time I was outside I came back in with my shirt drenched. I would like to try and straighten up the garage this week but it looks like it will be more of the same. I hope everyone stayed inside this weekend but if you have to venture outside please drink plenty of liquids and stay in the shade.

Paranormal Class II

Last night we started checking out ghost hunting equipment. We went over IR tempreture checkers and IR detector devices. We looked at a Sony Night Shot camera and Trifield Natural EMF meter. They even showed us low tech investigation equipment like baby powder or flour to mark a piece of furniture that is being moved. We got to do a hands on investigation at the arena where there has been a stabbing to see if we could catch anything on the digital cameras or on the voice recorder. We all gathered around and he told us he was going to make a recording and try to be very quite but if you need to make a noise, make it loud and clear to be able to filter it from the faint noises of an EVP. (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) He started the recorder and everyone was very quite for about 30 seconds and then some people started to shift there feet and move a bit but nothing major to hamper the recording. J said, "Is there anyone here that would like to talk? If so speak into the red light and we will hear you." There is a red LED just above the microphone on J's recorder. Then we hear a distant owl and traffic noises. After about 3 minutes he stopped the recording and started listening to it with the speaker on the recorder turned up. At first there was something very quick and faint. J's said it sounded like a HELP ME! but it wasn't very good. Then you heard him ask the question about if anyone would like to talk and then about 20 seconds later you can here a normal speed sound that sounds like HELP ME. The second one was very easy to pick out and hear. I couldnt believe that it actually did pick up something in such a short time frame. He told us that he gets more EVPs in a five to ten minute recording than a long 3 to 5 hour one. He also said that it is pretty common to pick up EVPs where snap shots of orbs are somewhat rare. Most are dust or bugs. I asked if he has ever place two recorders side by side and got the same EVP and he said yes. He has also placed them that way and gotten two seperate EVPs. It is very strange. I am not sure what to make of it but it is interesting. He asked if any one of us are wanting to join his group or start there own and he would help them out in any way he can. After a brief talk about this work I can see that he is not in it for the money because he does not charge but if it is far off he askes if they can help with a hotel room. The more people out doing this work the more information that can be gathered. Like he said in the first class, "You need to be sceptical but open minded." I believe that he is. He does not go over board the first time someone brings up a photo of a bug or dust. Hope to find out more in the next class where we will cover EVPs in detail. See ya later.

Paranormal Class

Paranormal class was pretty good last night. Since this was the very first class you could tell he was a little nervous. We started at 8 pm and it ended at 10. He handed out about 40 papers with information. It was a little dry but for someone who does not watch Ghost Hunters and knows the terminology might find that part engauging. He told about there groups stand on how they try to investigate using scientific approaches instead of phychics and ouija boards. They are after physical evidence that can be reproduced for anyone to see. We then went over theory and concepts and some of the theory was pretty neat. You can tell he has put alot of thought into his work. He mentioned that this part is pretty dry and he was correct but this is what you have to go through to get everyone on the same playing field. Thursdays class is equipment. It will be neat to try out some of the equipment and learn how to use it. I will keep you posted on the classes as they happen and also any evidence or experiences we may encounter. Wish me luck.

So Far So Good

So far we have went a week without a lose in the super secret project pond. I hope the wave of death is over. Since then I have manage to slam my truck into a close line pole that is located pretty close to the driveway. I have pretty well obsessed over this action for the past week. It seems to be a big distraction for me and my mind is having a hard time focusing on anything else. I need to get it to the shop and see how much the damage is going to cost me so I can get beyond this incident. I think until it is fixed it will plague me like a splinter in my mind.

We went camping this weekend and young Yuri put at least 35 miles on his bike in two days. He is getting so big and he loves to ride his bike. Truth be known he probably has more like 40 miles since some of the time we were not with him with our odometer to track. Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

A Family, Stricken

Its happened again.... Death has stricken the super secret project pond. Twice in two days the small inhabitants have met a untimely demise. There were the best of the best among their kind. I give these fish a twenty one bubble salute. Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub......Oh yeah....Bloooey. So long poor fishies. I will miss you Stinky and Nemo. Goodbye. (Sniff...sniff)