Haunting

Late Night Encounter at School

January 26, 2013 by Cynthia Leave a Comment

Christ Church, Oxford University

Back in the 1990s I was given a tremendous opportunity to study abroad. For several summer months, I attended Christ Church, Oxford University studying Monasteries and Cathedrals of Medieval England. Not a very practical subject but I found it fascinating.

During my time there, some my classmates and I rotate whose dorm rooms we would study in for the next day’s class. I remember one evening towards the end of my stay, I stayed late studying in my friend’s room which was across the campus from mine. We had our final the next day so I stayed later than usual.

To get back to my room I had to pass the cathedral, under a tower to cross Tom Quad. It was late a little foggy so I was a little uneasy to begin with as I started walking alone back to my room. After all isn’t this how most horror scenes start. The girl walking alone near old stone buildings with plenty of hiding spaces so the murder could hid before jumping out of the shadows.

A murder didn’t jump out at me, but I did see a man as I was walking near the cathedral. A first I thought it was one of the professors taking a late night stroll around the campus until I took closer look. The man had no legs or feet, he was hovering above the ground. Not to mention the strange clothes he was wearing. Just as quick as I saw him, I blinked and he disappeared into thin air.

I quickly ran the passage under the tower and thru Tom Quad all the way back to my dorm room. I stayed there until day light showed itself and I rarely walked the campus at night alone.

For the remainder of my time at school, I never mentioned it to anyone for fear of being ridiculed. However, since then I have read stories of similar encounters there.

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Was It Haunted or Just Creepy?

November 4, 2012 by Cynthia Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, I used to travel a lot for work. I would stay in all sorts of hotels due to their proximity to the conference or event I was attending.

A short time ago, I took a business trip out to LA and had the opportunity to stay at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. This hotel’s haunted history, as legend has it, is the last place the Black Dahlia (aka Elizabeth Short) was seen in 1947 before her dismembered body was discovered in a weedy patch south of town. I completely blanked on this fact until I was mentioning to my fiance that I hated passing one of the staircases near my room. I always felt like there was someone standing on the floor above watching me as I walked past it. He reminded me of where I was and that it had a long history.

It was at that point that I started to think about other locations that I stayed in that were creepy and wondered if they too had shady pasts that could have left either residual energies behind.

There was one location in NYC that I stayed in. It was a small boutique hotel not to far from where my conference was being held. From the moment I saw it I had an uneasy feeling about it, but I attributed it to the fact that it was under construction and in an unfamiliar part of the city and it was getting dark. I checked in and went up to my room on the third floor. The elevator was small and smelled a little funny. The worst was when I stepped off of the elevator onto my floor. I was met with something that made me feel so uncomfortable, I ran to my room.

Mind you this, was years before I learned how to set boundaries with entities and how to protect myself and my space. I went to the evening conference event and returned around 11:00 because I had an early start the next day. Again, I reached my floor and was met with the uneasy feeling I had as I got off of the elevator. As a light sleeper, I could hear footsteps pacing up and down the hall. However, I never found anyone in the halls when I would look out my door. The next two nights, I had similar experiences.

Back then, I didn’t have the nerve to ask the hotel staff what it may have been for fear of being ridiculed so to this day, I still don’t know if the hotel was haunted or just creepy.

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Working in a Haunted Location

July 22, 2012 by Cynthia Leave a Comment

Many years ago, I worked in a haunted location. For over two years, I would encounter or hear of co-workers having encounters with an old woman who perished in a fire in the original house. The original house was knocked down and a larger one was built in its place. About 20 years ago, the house was converted into an office for our company. My desk was on the second floor located within the floor plan of the original house. Our desks were cubicles with six foot partitions to create a small space of our own.

While there, this woman made her presence known in several ways.

The first sign was phantom breezes and rustling of papers. Some coworkers would hear papers moving on my desk and walk around the corner to speak with me. More than once, they found my area empty because I was either out of the office or on the first floor. This was one of the most common occurrences.

The next common occurrence we encountered were phantom footsteps on the second floor. This happened during our late night meetings in the first floor conference room. Many times, we would be waiting for the meeting to start and hear someone walking knowing that no one was upstairs. The footsteps were easier to hear at night because the office was quiet and it was easier to hear.

I had a great experience with her although it only happened one time. I was having a bit of a stressful day, which was an oddity for me with this position. I had crazy days but I rarely felt stressed. Before my my boss stepped out for lunch, she gave me a few words of encouragement to help me push through the issue at hand. I went back to my desk with her words ringing in my ear and I started to work thru what I needed to do. I soon started to let it get to me again but instead of hearing words, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I thought it was my boss who had come over to offer some additional encouragement, however I was surprised when I turned around to find that I couldn’t see anyone there. Was this the woman providing her support and encouragement just like my boss.

Maybe one day I will have the honor of investigating the location to know exactly what I experienced but until then, I will only have experiences to explain what or who is there.

Filed Under: Paranormal Experiences, The Paranormal Tagged With: Encounter, Ghost, Haunted Location, Haunting, Phantom Breezes, Phantom Footsteps, The Paranormal

What Class EVP Is It?

June 2, 2012 by Cynthia Leave a Comment

Over the years, I have captured more EVPs than any other type of evidence of the paranormal. Some are faint whispers barely audible to the human ear and others are crystal clear and loud. Many people don’t realize that the clarity and audibility can place an EVP into different categories or classifications. It’s is a grading system and is subject to what the person hears and how they interpret it. Here are general guidelines I use for EVP classifications along with examples of EVPs I have captured over the years.

Class A EVP

A “Class A EVP” is clear and distinct. It is loud enough that you can make out what is being said and usually does not require headphones.

Below are two examples of what I consider to be a “Class A EVP”.

The first was captured at Fort Mifflin in 2011 in the Torpedo Room.

FM Torpedo Part 2 – Get Out

The second was captured in 2012 at a church in New Jersey.

EVP of Man in the Basement

Class B EVP

A “Class B EVP” is distinct and loud however not everything is completely audible. It may require some amplification or filtering and use of headphones.

Captured in 2010 at the Union Cemetery, this “Class B EVP” is of a child-like voice behind myself and my fellow investigator, Dave. I classified it as a “Class B EVP” because although you can clearly hear someone, you can’t absolutely understand what it is being said.

Union Cemetery 9 18 2010 5

This “Class B EVP” was captured in 2010 at Merchant & Drovers Tavern Museum.

Tavern EVP 15 Be Quiet

Class C EVP

A “Class C EVP” is undecipherable or unintelligible. It is clear that the EVP is not created by a living person but you can not make out what is being said even with amplifying or filtering the message. Below is an example of what I consider to be a “Class C EVP”.

This EVP was captured Mansfield Cemetery in 2011. Note: This audio clip has been enhanced so that you can hear it.

Mansfield Cemetery EVP of Lady saying Come Child

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Top 5 EVPS for 2011

December 29, 2011 by Cynthia Leave a Comment

Every year, I review all the great places I have investigated and the evidence I have captured. I also choose and share my top favorites. In 2011, I had some really great EVPs so it was difficult to choose, however, I’ve managed to choose my top five favorite EVPs for 2011.

EVP 1 – Casemate 4, Fort Mifflin

Dave and I were investigating Casemate 4 where he had a personal experience where the light of a window was blocked by something. We quickly ruled out our shadows because I was not in the room nor was he moving. While trying to see what it could be, we were joined by some of the boys who were asking questions about our equipment. The following EVPs or Electronic Voice Phenomimums were captured during this conversation.