Investigations

Clay Street Investigation

Canton, North Carolina 

The spirit we discovered on Clay Street was from on going investigations.After interviewing the home owners, we were told they experienced the smell of fresh brewed coffee, cigar or pipe smoke, music from the roaring 1920s, shadows, and a full body apparition. The homeowners told me that it was a spirit of a man because they had seen and heard him. The sounds of footsteps and people conversing were often heard.I did my usual backround research on the house and it was built in 1908 and was originally located across the street and down the hill. Also, a man by the name of Jack Rector died of a heart attack in the home in 1986. After setting things up and starting our investigation, and going lights out the house took on another feel. I began speaking to who I thought the ghost was "Mr. Rector" and starting asking questions. Within a few minutes the smell of coffee brewing and pipe smoke began to occur. A little while later the sound of someone walking around in the attacj began to take place. As the night progressed, it sounded as a Victrola began to play. As we worked our way towards the music, it completley stopped.We were able to stay in the house all night and around 3am, I was heading into the dinning room. There was a ladder set up there from where the home owner had been working and as I got into the room, I looked up and there atop the ladder was a man in his late 60s or early 70s just setting there. He looked down at me and smiled, nodded his head and then vanished up into the ceiling. Unfortunatly it wasn't captured on film because we didn't know this was an active room. He didn''t seem harmful or scarey. He was very peaceful, friendly and harmless. Homeowners were trying to sell their home and weren't having any luck. They called us and asked what we suggested or if it could have anything to do with "Mr. Rector". I told them to set down together and talk with him. Tell him you are wanting to sell the house and if "he" will let it sell, he could move with them.That night, they did as we suggested and the next day a woman came to the house and bought it right on the spot.Needless to say, Mr. Rector has moved on with the homeowners.

A Historic Haunt

Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia 

A Colonial Williamsburg employee and friend called me one day and asked me to come check out his "haunted house" next time I was in town. Many times in conversations he brought up the fact that he thought the house he was renting was haunted. The building is a reconstructed building built on the original 1700s foundation and is ownded by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Unfortunatly I wasn't able to do an official investigations because of the the rules and regulations CWF has.As I arrived in Williamsburg I was told there was no need for a hotel room and what better way to check things out in the house than to stay there for a couple of nights. After staying in the colonial house for several days I experienced everything that he had told me about. Conversations in the night, footsteps walking around upstairs while we were downstairs, and when I was upstairs the sounds of thing moving around downstairs. Also, one night while I was walking around outside the house, I looked up and there was a shadowy figure looking down at me from an upstairs window. When I looked up and at him, it disappeared.  Cold spots were felt throughout the house especially in the finished basement area. Unfortunalty I can not post any of the photos I took because of where the building is located and being part of Colonial Williamsburg. But I will tell you one thing, Colonial Williamsburg IS haunted and by many. After doing some research with the resident on the house, we discovered that the building which now sets on the 1700s foundation was an ordinary, or tavern, and many Revolutionary soldiers and members of the Virginia House of Burgesses met there. There is no telling who lurks the halls here at night. Maybe even George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.

Haunted Hollow Investigation

Canton, North Carolina 

Home owners called us about some very strange and eerie activity occuring in their old farm house. The recently purchased a house built in the 1930s. We went out and talked with them and they told us about what they were experiencing. They recently gutted the upstairs and completley remodeled it, and they no longer use the upstairs. They only use the downstairs, three bedrooms and one bath. After the remodel they always felt like something was watching them upstairs and often heard noises coming from above. They also often saw what they called "shadow people" outside in the evening hours. We set out to do our investigation and as soon as we went lights out the house took on a different feel. We didn't capture anything on film but had plenty of personal experiences. Our tape recorder would not work the entire time even after I changed the batteries in it. We decided to head upstairs because as soon as the lights went out, it sounded as if something were moving furniture upstairs, when there was nothing to be moved. As we walked through the upstairs the sound of furniture being moved stopped, but felt like someone or something was watching us. Also, off in another room it sounded like a conversation between two people was taking place but we couldn't make out what was being said. As we got closer to were the sound was coming from, it stopped.We decided to head back downstairs everything seemed perfectly fine. We sat in the living room discussing what we felt upstairs when one of our investigators saw something outside. As we got to the window we saw what appeared to be three shadow people walking around outside. There wasn't any breeze so there weren't any trees or bushes blowing. The shadows were walking towards a security light the homeowners have on their drive way and as they approached the light, they completley vanished.Other than that we didn't experience anything else in the house that night. We told the home owners if they felt uncomfortable with what was going on in the home to set down as a family and tell the spirit or spirits it was their home and that it needed to leave. They said they were too uncomfortable with the house and its location (which is known by old timers as Haunted Hollow) they wanted to just go ahead and sell it, they had bought the home to fix up and resell it anyway. It took almost a year for the house to sell and it has sold at lease one other time since then. I wonder if whatever is in the house is continuing to run off anyone who buys it?

Pleasant Hill Road Investigation

Clyde, North Carolina 

Homeowners on Pleasant Hill called wanting us to come out abd check out their very pleasant ghost. Home owners said they affectionately called her Rose. She seems to come and go, and you never know when to expect her. Often times the smell of roses will float through the house when there are no roses or flowers planted anywhere near the house. They also claimed to have a ghost who plays pranks on them like hiding things or moving things around the house. Also, one of the homeowners claimed to often get locked in the bathroom while taking a bath when there isn't any locks on the door. Homeowners claimed to still not be able to locate a rubber maid container and an old glass door knob.As we investigated the home, our EMF detector disappeared and the owners cat kept chasing something around the house that we never did see. The smell of roases floated through the house several times and then the smell of freshly brewed coffee. Other than that, we didn't see or hear anything out of the ordinary. Nothing was captured on film or tape. As we were packing things up our EMF detector showed up, in the bag where we had already searched several times.The homeowners aren't freightened in anyway, they just wanted someone else to experience they same thing they were experiencing.