I received a call on the afternoon of January 13, 2009, from a family who believed they had an angry spirit acting out in their home.  This call came from a family I had known for many years and hearing the anxiety and fear in their voices made me agree to go over that evening.  

They were experiencing objects flying off walls, drawers and cabinets opening and closing, chairs moving, loud bangs, nightmares and the general feeling that someone being there. The night before, the homeowner came home to find her jewelry armoire had been emptied and the contents strewn all over her room, there was a smashed light bulb on the floor and papers from her dresser were also scattered about.  This activity had started just a month earlier coinciding with the homeowner’s Mother’s passing.  The family was sure it was the Husband/Father who passed 2 years earlier trying to give them some kind of message about unfinished business.  For this reason, I knew I needed for Chari to be there and fortunately, she was able to even with just a couple of hours notice.  Gerry and Andrew also assisted with cameras and the EMF meter.

Chari and I sat with the family and listened to their story of what had been occurring and questioned why they believed it to be their Husband/Father. They explained they had been to see a Psychic and she told them it was him. She told them something was missing and he had unfinished business he needed to take care of.  Both Chari and I felt certain it was not and that he was happily in the Light.  Our reasoning for this is that he has been appearing to people in dreams and the only time a spirit can do this is when they have passed into the Light.

Gerry and Andrew went through the home with the EMF meter and digital camera.  There was nothing out of the ordinary.  I had the digital voice recorder running the entire time.  Chari and I started our investigation in the master bedroom, where the worst of the activity had occurred.  I put the recorder on the bed and started asking questions and trying to coerce this spirit into showing itself or showing us what it can do.  Both our digit and Nikon cameras stopped working.  Chari and I agreed that this was a young boy, about 15 who followed the family home from the funeral home where the homeowners, Mother was cared for.  He needed help and was desperately trying to get their attention so they could help him.  We promised him we would help him move to the light and that he would be safe and loved there.

From there we went right down to the basement, where they had seen a figure and had the strongest sense of someone being there.  When I got down here, I could feel a strong presence right away.  I stepped into an area that almost made my knees buckle.  I could feel this spirit was much older (centuries) and much stronger than the one upstairs.  Chari felt right away that he was there to protect the young, newly married, pregnant, wife/daughter-in-law.  She spoke to him and assured him that the woman was in good hands and is being very well cared for and that his presence is causing her and her husband much anxiety and fear. 

Chari, among other things is a gifted Soul Walker.  She has the ability and gift to open a door to the Light and cross earthbound spirits.  She spoke to both the boy and man about what they had to look forward to in the Light.  She explained they had the choice to go or not and if they did go there was no retribution for not living a perfect life.  She called on helper spirits to assist and cross the two earthbound spirits into the light.  Helper spirits are spirits already in the Light, known by the earthbound spirits who are loved and trusted.  She opened the door and both the boy and man went through it.  This is an experience you can’t see happening, but you can surely feel the energy of it.  I sat taking pictures while Chari walked them through, but as of yet I have not been able to catch any of this amazing energy on film. I did however get a high pitched hum on the digital voice recorder.

We then went to the family and gave them our explanation of what had happened, who was causing it and why they were doing it.  We also told them that both had crossed into the Light, so the house should remain calm. 

The pictures we managed to get before the cameras broke showed 3 with orbs. Two shots in the bedroom showed orbs and one in the basement.  There is also a picture from the basement with light that we can’t explain where it came from.

I spoke with the homeowner 2 days later and all was calm and good.

The team for this investigation wa a large one, it included:  Michele, Gerry, Rita, Andrew, Lani, Chris and 4 of Chris' crew members.    

This is a beautiful, old, home, the original portion built in 1721 and the 3 story portion built in 1810, with a long, rich history. It is now under full renovation to bring it back to it's original spendor in the hope of opening a museum.

Residing in it at the present time are the caretakers, they have lived in it for the last 5 years.  Before them, it was occupied by interns for the state, working at Graeme Park. (adjacent property).  Going backwards in the home's history were Welch & Margaret Strawbridge, the Penrose family, Dr. Graeme and his daughter Elizabeth, Sir William Keith and it was built by Samuel Carpenter.

I've heard stories of this property throughout growing up, the one that stuck with me the most was hearing a horse whinny on the property.  The current residents had no paranormal activity that they knew of, but told of the interns having some. They would hear people talking, doors would open and close, there were bangs and sounds of people walking, and on one occassion, when one of them lit a cigarette in the house, the doors and windows slammed shut.

Two people that I know of died in this house, one being Welch's nurse and the other being Welch. River Breeze, Welch's thoroughbred racehorse is buried in the back yard.  Two fires occurred on the property, one at the main house and the other in the barn.

The caretakers gave Chris and me (Michele) a tour of the house first.  He took us through each room and gave us it's history and brought us into the cellars. One is the cellar of the original home and the other was added with addition and used as a distillary.

This is a 3 story, home with what used to be the servants quartters on the third floor.  The second floor holds the bedrooms that once belonged to Margaret and Welch Strawbridge and Mr. Strawbridge's nurse.  The first floor consists of a kitchen, foyer, Welch's study and Margaret's sitting room and a room they call the 1721 room, which I believe was the dining room.  There are several stairways winding their way through the house. Some were used by the servants and others by the residents and their guests.

the first room we entered was Welch's study.  Walking into this room my heard was spinning from all the energy.  Every step I took, I felt as if I was stepping on someone's feet.  I couldn't understand how the residents couldn't feel this.  I was snapping pictures left and right trying to catch what I was feeling on film.  This room held so much that Chris and his team decided they would begin and stay in it.  I am so happy they did too, because they got some amazing video and EVP's.

I took my team up to the 3rd floor attic and we began there.  There really wasn't much going on in the attic, but we did and EMF sweep and tried for some EVP's and took lots of pictures.

Staying on the 3rd floor, we moved to the sewing room. A woman's presence was felt, but I wasn't sure who she was.  Then moving on to the servant's quarters, we again did all the usual work, collecting whatever evidence we could.  Again I could feel the woman's presence,this time knowing she was an African-American woman with small children, who was at one time the housekeeper.  Judging by the clothing she was wearing, I feel she was from the late 1700s.  I asked her if I could take her picture, but she wasn't in any.

We descended to the 2nd floor.  Once again, I was astonished by the amount of energy I was feeling.  The first room we entered on this floor was the housekeeper's room. I could feel her so strongly, but could not coax her to respond, leaving me to believe her's was a residual energy.  This room is now used as the kitchen for the caretakers.  I could feel a small boy of about 3, standing beside me.  I had one of my team mates take a picture of where I was feeling him by my leg. The picture showed and orb, exactly where I said the boy was.  I talked to the boy and tried to get a response, to no avail.  Then I started to feel a cat wrapping itself around my legs.  I could see this large, orange cat roaming around my legs and once again asked for a picture.  This picture also showed an orb.

Moving on through the second floor, we came to what used Nurse's room, which is now the caretaker's living room.  When we first arrived at the house, we (Chris and I) were asked to see if we could find the room the nurse died in.  Well, I knew this was it.  I could just feel her, wondering what all these strange people were doing milling around her room.  I spoke to her and asked her to show us a sign of her presence.  I asked for a knock or a bang or for her to move something.  I waited a few moments and when nothing happened, I asked again.  This time I specifically asked her to move this beautiful, stained glass, star, hanging from a ceiling rafter.  With everyone watching, the star started to slowly turn.  It went in one direction for half a circle and then went in the other direction for half a circle.  It stopped and just to make sure it was really her, I asked her to do it again and she did.  We were all surprised and excited.  This is the first time I'd ever gotten a spirit to move something for me. The amount of energy it took for her to do that was tremendous.  She really wanted herself to be known.  I joyously thanked her and we moved on.

The next room we came to was Welch's bedroom.  This room is now used as the master bedroom.  Welch Strawbridge died in this room.  I could feel a strong male presence in this room.  I didn't know who hew was though.  I spoke to him and asked permission to take his picture and started snapping of shots all over the room. When I got the film back, I was absolutely stunned to find a picture of a man.  Even stranger than a picture of a ghost, it was upside down.  I don't know why, but this happens occasionally.  I've asked the people who develop my film if they do it to mess with me and they insist they do not.  So I got a picture of a man hanging upside down from the ceiling.  I didn't care what position he was in!  I got a real picture of a formed ghost!

Not knowing of the gift we had received, we moved onto Margaret Strawbridge's room.  I could sense her all around the room.  I'm even those who don't believe could sens her warm and gracious ways.  I started asking her questions right away about her life and what it  was like.  As I was doing this I saw an orb float into a corner and asked Lani to take a picture.  She was using a digital camera, so we were able to see right away there was an orb where I had pointed.  I then asked Margaret to stand with me for a picture.  I didn't get a picture with her unfortunately, but I am positive she gave it a good try.  What I did get was a response from her on audio.  I was thanking her for standing with me for the phots and she responded in a very demure manner, "I stand".

We headed down to the first floor and into the kitchen.  We were told that when the interns lived there, someone had lit a cigarette and the windows and doors slammed shut.  No one living in the house currently, smokes so it hadn't been put to the test.  I asked if we could and we were given permission.  Gerry and I went into the kitchen and lit a cigarette, but nothing happened. We were very disappointed and moved on to Margaret's sitting room.  Walking into the room, I could see her sitting by the window in her rocking chair.  I could just feel her love for this house and I believed she actually enjoyed our being there.  In this room we kept feeling a cool breeze blowing past us.  There is no electricity and no window were open.  We did our usual photos, EVPs and video, but all we caught in this room was orbs.

We made our way into the 1721 room.  This room is still very much in the process of renovation.  The feeling of this room was different than the rest of the house. I felt queasy and was shaking.  The pictures that came from here left me wondering if my camera was broken.  We picked up blue orbs, and dancing white mist.

We then reentered Welch’s study.  The energy had lessened quite a bit.  Chris and his crew spent the entire night in this room, so I’m sure the spirits were tired and ready for us to leave.  From here we went outside onto the front porch and walked around a little of the property taking pictures of the house and grounds.  I got an interesting picture of Andrew standing on the porch.  He is surrounded by red lights.  I also got an orb in a tree. 

During the initial tour of the house, Chris and I were told a story of hidden gems in the house.  I had honestly forgotten all about it, I guess I’d heard too many similar stories from our area.  As I was standing on the porch, talking with the caretakers and their friends, I saw a velvet, drawstring, tucked away in a wall.  I was telling the caretakers exactly what I had seen and where it was when their friend interrupted saying that Chris had just told her the exact same thing.   Whether or not they found it or even looked for it, remains a mystery. 

I walked away from this investigation, knowing the spirits living in this house are very happy with the people residing with them and returning their home to a thing of beauty once again.

T he renovations to this historic mansion are scheduled to be completed summer of 2009.  I highly recommend, if the opportunity arises to visit and take a step back into the past.  The past truly does come alive here.

American Legion Post 308

Investigation #2 - Memorial Day

We had been invited back for the Memorial Day ceremony.  Gerry and I (Michele) arrived as they were preparing to begin.  We were curious to see if we could catch any spirits attending the daytime ceremony using infrared film and lenses. 

The ceremony was beautiful and moving.  A wreath was laid at the foot of the cannon that adorns the front yard of the post.  Individual roses were set upon a chair, one for each fallen member of the armed forces from the area.  Heads bowed in respect as a prayer for their souls and expressions of gratitude were avowed.

We wandered around separately taking pictures of all that was going on with the ceremony, crowd and building.  When the ceremony was finished, we were invited inside for coffee and Danish and given free reign of the building.  We decided to stay among the group of people in the bar/dining area, figuring the spirits would be among them.

As I was roaming around, I ventured into the Walton room on my way to the kitchen.  I walked through the open side of the French doors that separate this room from the bar, and standing on the other side of the closed door stood a soldier in full uniform as plain as day.  I saw him, he startled me (which I believe he meant to do), I realized I didn’t have my camera with me and went back to get it.  I don’t know what made me think he would wait for me, but that’s the way it went.  Of course, when I returned he was gone.  I was excited to have seen him and angry with myself for ever putting my camera down. That has not happened since.

A little while later as I was standing in the dining room, I looked into the bar area and saw another man, this one in full dressed blues, mingling with the members.  I took his picture and he showed as a mist looking almost like Mr. Peanut.  That’s what I wanted to call it, but the Commander of the Post said it was who she calls “Oscar”, so that’s what I called him in the photo album.

With having these experiences and taking 6 rolls of film, we decided to leave until the night investigation.

The night investigation included, me, Gerry, Andrew and Marc, We started around 9PM. There were still patrons in the bar, so we headed right to the 3^rd floor.  This was Marc’s first investigation with us and I was anxious for him to experience this place.  After showing him around, we teamed up, Marc and Andrew and me and Gerry and headed off to different rooms.  Each team had a digital voice recorder and several cameras. 

Marc and Andrew started in the dormer room and we went to the back office.  After a while, Andrew came into the back office and asked if he could sit (in the dark) with his IR camera.  I stayed with him asking questions for a while and then went into the small kitchen area to sit down and try for EVPs in that room.  All was dark and quiet, when I heard crash, bang, boom and Andrew came not running, but walking quickly, out of the office.  He was shaking and pale and having trouble catching his breath.  I asked him what happened. He told me he had sat the camera on the desk and saw a figure in front of him. Thinking it was me playing a trick on him, he put his hand out to touch it/me and his hand went right through it.  This was his very first apparition.  With recorder in hand, I went into the room and reprimanded the ghost for scaring him.  I was astonished when listened to the recording and heard a woman’s voice saying “sorry”.  After taking Andrew outside for some air, I went back into the office and started another EVP session.  One of the questions I asked was, “Did you mean to scare Andrew?” and again I got a response on the recorder saying, “No”.

We moved down to the second floor.  Marc was asking questions and the rest of us were taking pictures and videos. I could hear Marc asking if anyone was in the room with us and if it would please communicate with him.  We are always very respectful of the ghosts and spirits.   He told me, he turned around and saw an orb floating around Gerry, so he started snapping pictures.  He caught the orb on camera and on the recording you can hear a male voice saying, “Hello, hello”.  We also caught the sound of the pool balls again.  I did go back to check this out and you can only slightly hear them playing pool on the 2^nd floor.  What we caught sounded like it was right next to the recorder.

We then went down to the 1^st floor. By this time all the patrons were gone.  We were in the Walton room doing and EMF sweep, when my meter started going crazy.  It wasn’t just registering and beeping, it was vibrating.  The way it was acting didn’t make any sense.  I was not near any electric wires, and the closer I got to the floor the more it reacted.  There is no basement under this section of the building and I asked if there could be wiring and was told there wasn’t.  Even if there was it just didn’t calculate, it was just in one very small area.  Andrew was videoing this occurrence and when we looked at it you can see this light zipping all around me.  Believe me, it was not a bug.

Later that evening we went into the dining area.  We were all sitting around a table discussing our experiences of the night.  We all started feeling as if we were being watched, so we started shooting pictures.  We caught several orbs in the room and a light anomaly.

We made our way into the bar and all sat down at the bar with the Legion officers, (Mike and Dana).  We kept our recorders going and just carried on conversation with each other.  I could feel someone standing next to me and see somewhat of an arm on the bar.  We were all seeing a black figure going through the dining room.  It is very rare when several people see the same thing at the same time.  In the pictures it came out as a dark mist.

By now it was almost 4AM, so we decided to finish up.  We had a very exciting day and night and found a lot of amazing evidence.  The Legion is considered an on-going investigation for us, because there is so much going on in this wonderful, old, building.

American Legion Post 308

Investigation # 1

This is a building that was previously owned by some of my family members.  I had had several experiences here in my youth and was told of many more.  I contacted the manager to ask permission for us to investigate.  He agreed and we set up an appointment for a walk through and interview of the employees.

This is an old 3 story, building built in 1714 that has gone through many renovations.  It was originally a family home and was then converted into apartments and is now a bar and dining hall with the upper 2 floors used as storage and office space. 

The reports of activity were:  glass ashtrays would disappear for weeks and then show up all in the same, out in the open spot.  Employees and members would see an apparition they called “Oscar”.  They used the name as code so as not to scare the customers.  The bar tender, reported that she was cleaning up in the kitchen one night and put some pans and bowls on the counter and they started to spin around.  Women were very uncomfortable using the new handicapped accessible bathroom.  There were reports of black shadows and a “creepy thing” that were seen in the dining room and on the upper floors. 

The manager gave me a tour of the building, during which I sensed something in the dining room.  The second floor didn’t appear to have any activity while I was touring, but the third floor was quite a different story.  There were 2 rooms on this floor that made me feel very uneasy and I wanted to leave quickly.  I was not shown the basement on this tour.

The team for this investigation included me, Gerry, Rita, John, Andrew, Chris and his wife, Kitty.  Chris, being our Psychic Consultant wasn’t told a lot about the location.  I toured the building with him and two officers of the Post.  I listened to and recorded everything Chris had to say to check it against what I had already written down and felt.

We started with the entire crew on the 3^rd floor.  The first room we came to was a dormer room.  This is the kind of room that was used as a nursery or a room for the servant’s children in the time it was built.  This is also one of the rooms I didn’t want to spend much time in.  Chris started telling us what he was seeing and sensing.  There was an entity in this room, who traveled the building and he believed it to be the “creepy thing” we were told of.  He went on to say that it shows itself in red.  The pictures from this room while he was saying this showed a red mist around Chris, a figure in red and orange, and streaks of red on the entire photo.  I could sense a little boy hiding in a cubby hole and told Chris about it.  I was warned not to believe it was a little boy, it was the entity he just spoke of.  Now I could see the boy, he was about 3 with blond hair and big, blue eyes.  He was reaching out to me as if he wanted a hug.  I heeded Chris’ warning and left the room.

Andrew and I went off to another room to video and try to get some EVP’s.  While we were exploring the 3^rd floor, upon entering a room used for an office, I walked into a cold spot.  I announced that I was in a cold spot and Andrew started to video.  My hands felt like they had been soaking in ice water and then my camera died.  While I was replacing the batteries, Andrew was still filming and started saying that he was seeing flashing lights on the door through the video screen.  We were joined by Kitty who immediately announced that her camera had died also. (Note:  we always start every investigation with brand new batteries in every piece of equipment.) The cold spot diminished and we moved on to the next room.  When I got home and checked the audio recording, I found that files that had been erased months ago had reappeared and the file for that room had recorded itself 3 times in different files.  The video taken during the cold spot, showed red, flashing, lights moving around the door and also the door was opening with no one touching it.  We didn’t notice the door moving while we were there because we were all too busy trying to get our equipment back up and running properly.  The photos I got in this cold spot, look like flames and smoke.

While on the 2^nd floor, Chris was seeing a lot of ghosts, some soldiers and some civilians.  He knew the layout of the original home, which I was able to verify through building plans.  We didn’t get much evidence on this floor.

We then went into the bar/dining area.  We started in the dining room to see if we could catch the black shadow or “creepy thing” on EVP, film or video.  Chris was seeing a lot of soldiers in this and the bar areas.  We all felt as if we were being watched.  Andrew and I went into the bathroom that women don’t feel comfortable in.  I tried to catch EVP’s and took pictures while Andrew videoed.  As I turned to leave the pitch, black room, a hand appeared in front of my face.  I thought it was Andrew messing around with me and told him to get his hand out from in front of my face.  He responded from the far end of the room “it wasn’t me. I’m back here.”  Then I went to open the door to leave and it was pulled right out of my hand.  Although I had this experience, nothing showed up on the video.

We then went on to the cellar.  The cellar is part of the original home and stands only 5 feet high.  The floor is all stone and there is a root cellar and what seems to be a prayer grotto.  The energy down here was intense, and I was shaking and having difficulty breathing and speaking.  I could see a group of men in suits in the root cellar and the walls of it lined with cases of whiskey.  I knew it was used during prohibition to store the illegal substance.  I asked Chris what he was seeing and he was seeing the same as me.  Then I heard a gunshot.  I told Chris of this and he agreed someone had been shot, but didn’t die from the wound.  We then simultaneously saw the flash of the steel of a knife.  This wound someone did die from.  We were drawn to the grotto.  The energy here was mixed, some good, some bad.  I could see a woman praying to a statue of the Blessed Mother and laying flowers at her feet.  I could also see men in black robes praying to someone quite the opposite.   The pictures from this area were amazing.  The stone walls glowed, not in all but in many.  I also caught a figure in white robes at the grotto.  We also caught several, large, distinct orbs.

We finished the evening by speaking with the officers, members and employees writing and recording the stories of their experiences.  We were told that the Post gets very active during their ceremonies and were invited back for the Memorial Day Ceremony.

Gerry and I went back the following week to show them our evidence.  While we were told of hearing people speaking and walking around on the second floor, so we decided to leave a digital voice recorder overnight.  We returned the next day to retrieve it and were surprised by what we caught.  You could hear what sounds like pool balls slapping together during a break.  There is a pool table downstairs, but you cannot hear it loudly on this floor.  They sounded like they were right next to the recorder.  Then about 3 AM you can hear a plane fly overheard (a real plane) and then you hear what sounds to be the bolt action of a rifle, time after time.  Just after this the recorder with no shut off timer, shut itself off.  I checked the batteries when I got it home and they were still full.  I questioned whether someone could have been up there at that hour and was assured the entire place was empty by 2. I can only believe that the ghost soldiers don’t like the planes flying over head.

Quakertown House

Investigation # 3 - The Clearing

I received another call from the homeowner that the activity was still escalating.  Now she was scared and honestly, so was I.  I started making phone calls to see if I could get someone to go clear the house.  I called one friend who gave me a couple of numbers for mediums she knew and trusted.  I started to dial the first name on my short list, but hung up the phone.  I needed to call the second name, Chari Wurtzel.

I reached Chari and told her who I was and why I was calling.  She told me she doesn’t usually answer the phone, but this time knew she had to.  I filled her in on what had taken place and asked if she could help.  She asked permission to do a remote viewing of the home and I granted it.  I also sent her all the pictures we had gotten there.  She needed time to prepare for this, as it takes meditation and prayer.  I waited for her to call back.

Chari returned my call later that evening and told me there was a malevolent entity in the home as well as several other spirits.  She went on to say there was a portal under the house that was open and allowing these entities access.  She was worried that the malevolent one was changing into an evil entity.  Now I knew we were in for it.  She explained that this was more than she could handle and gave me the name of a Native American Shaman, who specifically does this kind of work.

I called this Shaman, who was just packing her car with her kids to go on vacation.  I sent her the pictures and she also performed a remote viewing.  Neither of us believed it could or should wait the week she would be gone, so she gave me the number of her once, long time, apprentice, Thunder.  Thunder was also a Native American Shaman who specialized in clearing malevolent ghosts.

I called Thunder and sent him the pictures just as I had the others.  We talked for quite a while as I unfolded the story of this house.  He agreed to help and would go the next day because there was a baby involved.  I was so relieved. 

Thunder explained to me that the entity was not so much after the baby as it was trying to get to the baby’s Mother through the baby. (I should back up a little here and inform you that the baby had been having breathing problems by this point and had been taken to the Emergency Room 3 times in a week.  Once at the hospital the doctors couldn’t find any reason for his symptoms.) I and Thunder were both afraid that real harm could come to the baby if we didn’t act quickly.  I called the homeowner and set it up.

I have never met a Shaman before and didn’t know what to expect of him or the ceremony.  Thunder arrived with his apprentice.  He was dressed all in white cotton, and carried a couple of bags while his apprentice carried another bag and a drum.

We got through the introductions and I was extremely grateful to be allowed to assist with his clearing ceremony.  He started with his prayers with which we all turned to the north, south, west, and east, up to the sky and down to the earth.  His prayers were beautiful and mesmerizing.  He burned sage, sweet grass and other herbs.  He had each of us swallow a drop of his protection medicine.   He took the baby’s mother aside to remove an attachment. I watched as he prayed over her, she started getting wobbly; I thought she was going to fall over.  Thunder took her hands and then put his face close to hers and took a very deep breath, as if he was sucking something out of her.  I couldn’t hear what was being said, so I just watched and wondered.  When they were finished, I asked her what happened and she told me he took the attachment off her.   She furthered to say that she could actually feel it being pulled out of her.  I have heard of this, but never seen it in action.  I was in awe of this man.

Thunder handed the young woman a bundle of sage for her to drop at each and every door in the house.  He had his apprentice bang a rhythm on the drum and gave me a sack of sage and herbs for him to smudge with.  He carried a beautiful Abalone shell to burn the herbs in and a wing from an owl to fan the smudge with.  He was mostly silent in prayer and walked with his eyes closed as we went from room to room.  I felt privileged to be witnessing his wonderful ceremony.  He stopped occasionally to say what he was seeing and feeling and to ask the homeowner and I questions.  He identified the man and the young girl I felt in the nursery and he went right to the same closet I did saying there were spirits hiding in there.  As he walked and prayed and smudged, with the ceremonial beating of the drum, the energy around us was like I had never felt before.  I could feel it swishing and swirling around us and as each spirit crossed, you could actually feel it go past.

The young girl who died at the hands of her father, crossed over very easily for him.  I heard him tell her that her father could never hurt her again and there was only love on the other side, the same as I had with no success.  The difference was that he had the ability to take her by the hand and walk her to her waiting loved ones.  She told him she had died just the way I’d seen it.  The man was a different story.  He refused to leave.  I saw Thunder look at his apprentice, they both nodded their heads and closed their eyes.  They seemed to be deep in a trance.  I question them about what had taken place at this point after they finished their work and was told they had to drag the man out of the house.  They convinced him there was no retribution in the light and he agreed to go.

The 4 yr. old, little girl grabbed a hold of my leg while we were going through the house once again.  I could feel her little arms squeezing around my knee.  I could actually feel her fear.  She was to cross because all she knew was in that house.  I told Thunder what I was experiencing and feeling and he started to speak with her, gently trying to get her to go to her loved ones in the light.  He called for helper spirits to ease her transition.  I could feel her grip ease and disappear as she crossed. I was completely overcome with emotion and started to cry.  My sense of loss was so real and intense, I wondered if this little girl had been residing with this family or with me.  It didn’t matter anymore, she was where she belonged; in the light, in the love, with all her family and friends.

Feeling we had cleared all the spirits in the house, except for one, the fiancée, Thunder spoke with the homeowner about letting him go.  He explained to her that the only reason he had for staying now was her hold on him.  She agreed to let him go and helped Thunder cross him into the light.

When we walked into this house this evening it was difficult to breath, the upstairs was horrible, it was so heavy and it was like trying to breath under water.  When we left this house, it felt so amazingly different.  It was like someone opened all the windows to a fresh new day.  We were happy and felt as though we had succeeded in our goal.  We all went home.

I got another phone call from the homeowner the very next morning.  She claimed,  they were hearing banging coming from the master bath and she couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched in both the dressing and bathrooms.   She said it was really spooking her.  I assured her she and her family would be alright and I would call Thunder.

I called Thunder and we arrange to meet that night at the house.  Once again he did a complete walk through to see if he could find where this new ghost came in from.  It came in through a portal in the garage, that Thunder located and we validated through use of our equipment.  He cleared the new ghost from the bathroom and closed the portal in the garage.   We had the homeowner go upstairs and tell us if she still had the same feeling.  She didn’t.  We were all quite relieved and happy.

The house was quiet and the family slept peacefully through the night for the first time in years.  I call every month to make sure things are still quiet and they have been every time. The baby was having no more breathing problems, they were all feeling more energetic and the house felt amazing.

Quakertown House

Investigation # 2

I received a call from the homeowner a week after our first investigation.  She informed me that the activity had really picked up since we had been there.  Gerry and I headed right over.

The feeling of the house was a bit heavier than the first time and it was a bit harder to breathe on the third floor.

We were told of all the new activity that they were experiencing, what concerned us most was the entity seemed to be focusing on the baby.  I was truly afraid we angered it with the blessing.  This does occur occasionally.  You must keep in mind, we were specifically asked not to clear this house, because the homeowner was still holding on to her fiancée.

I could more strongly feel the presence of a man in the nursery and the young girl was there also.  The fiancée was making his presence felt more strongly too.  I was afraid I had done something wrong when I did the blessing.  I couldn’t understand what.  I did the same as I have before with no problems. 

I could sense a man (not the fiancée) and a young girl still in the nursery.  I tried talking to the girl (whom I believe did not realize she was dead). I believed she was unintentionally frightening the baby.  I told her she was dead and she needed to move on because she was truly scaring the baby.

I tried to talk the young girl into the light.  I was telling her that her Mother and Father were on the other side waiting for her.  As I said this, I received the same vision I had on the stairs the previous investigation.  I saw a man, this time I knew it was her father, swinging a bat into her head.  Not having put the pieces together earlier, telling her that her father was waiting in the light was the WRONG thing to do.  I knew she would not leave at that time.  I talked to the man by the door to the room and told him he had to leave.  I told him to go to the light where there would be no retribution.  I prayed he would go, but somehow knew he wouldn’t.  There was something or someone in this house that he wanted and it was up to us to figure it all out. 

I left my house that evening with all intentions of setting up a camera in the nursery for the night.  Much to my chagrin, when I went to get it from the bag, I realized I’d left it behind, so I used the next best thing and set up a digital voice recorder to run through the night.

I got all the new pictures developed the next day before we went back to retrieve the recorder.  Once again, we got light anomalies and energies.  There was also one, I had taken of the baby in the kitchen, just to see if I could catch anything around him.  This picture came back with a hazy, white, column of light beside the baby.   I brought these to show the homeowner, who once again was amazed by what we had captured on film.

It took a couple of days to go through 12 hours of recording.  At first I was disappointed, but then things got better.  I could hear the baby being put down for sleep and the others going back downstairs.  The room would be quiet and then you could hear banging, like cabinet doors being slammed.  The baby would startle a bit and then fall back to sleep.  Then about 2AM, you can hear hands clapping loudly and a female voice saying, “Baby! Baby! Baby!”.  I wondered to myself, who on earth would do such a thing and immediately called the homeowner to see if it had been one of them.  She assured me that none of them had or would do that, they were all asleep at that time.  I caught it!  Now, how do I stop it?

I told the homeowner to move the baby out of that room and to have him sleep with his mother.  This was done right away and for a couple of nights, the baby slept peacefully.

Quakertown House Investigation

#1 of 3 investigations ending with a clearing

·        Report of paranormal activity:  

·        Lights turning on and off by themselves

·        TV changes channels and volume and turns on while unplugged

·        Doors being held or pulled shut

·        Nine month old baby being awakened every night screaming

·        Baby’s mom always tired and experiencing migraines

·        Dog growls at nothing

·        Homeowner’s Mother pushed off stairs

·        Doors opening and slamming on their own

·        People being slapped

·        Feeling of dread

·        Breathing is difficult on second floor

·        All kinds of electrical and electronic problems

·        Covers being pulled and held over heads while sleeping

·        Being touched

Residing in house: 

·        One 40 yr. old female (Mother/homeowner)

·        One 20 yr. old female (Daughter)

·        One 17 yr. old male (Son)

·        One 9 month old male  (Grandson)

·        One 20 yr. old male (Baby’s Dad/ Daughter’s boyfriend)

Three story, house with apartment and garage as first floor, built on land owned by Evangelical Mennonite Church.  It is yet unsure if there was a church on the property.

First floor is two bay, garage and a studio apartment.

Second floor is living quarters for family, consisting of kitchen, living room, dining room, bedroom and bathroom, screened in porch and deck.

Third floor consists of nursery, bedroom, bathroom and master bedroom suite.

Walk up attic.

The family experiences activity everywhere in and outside of the house.

Original Investigation

Team members:  Michele, Gerry, Rita and John

Equipment:  Digital voice recorder,3 digital cameras, camcorder, 35mm    camera with 800 speed film, digital thermometer, EMF meter

Arrival time: 8PM

Left: 12AM

Upon arrival we were greeted by the residents.  The homeowner gave us a tour of the house and explained the different kinds of activity they were experiencing.  We were very concerned about the baby waking up screaming every night.

* As we were walking up the stairs to the 3^rd floor, I got a massive headache to the right side of my head.  With this I got the image of a man swinging a bat or large stick into a young girl’s head. 

We started our investigation on the 3^rd floor in the nursery.  The feeling of the third floor was nervous and uneasy.  It was a little difficult to breathe, almost like it was a very humid day.  The nursery was bright yellow and looked quite comfortable.  We sat in there and took pictures and tried to catch EVPs. The temperature of the room was 70 and equal to the rest of the house.  The EMF meter spiked at the closets on both sides of the crib.  I could sense a young girl, about the age of 14. I could also sense something in the closet and someone by the door to the room, but nothing appeared. 

In the daughter’s bedroom, catty-cornered to the nursery, the feeling was a bit cooler.  The door to the attic is in this room.  I had the feeling of being watched as we sat in there to do our work.  We took pictures, video, and EVPs in this room.

We then went into the Master Suite.  The feeling in this room was very different than the other rooms.  The room felt heavy and I was immediately drawn to an area at the foot of the bed that made me feel weak, shaky and dizzy.  I asked the homeowner if anything had happened on the spot and was told, it was the place her deceased fiancée used to stand and talk to her every morning before work.  Her fiancée died 2 years earlier.  I then heard a man cough in the room (there were 3 females at the time) and asked the homeowner if her fiancée had a cough. She confirmed that he did.  I suddenly knew how he had died. I asked her if what I was getting was true she turned pale and asked how I knew.  “I just do” was all I could say.

The main bathroom on this floor made me feel very uneasy and I couldn’t stay in it very long.

We then carried on to the main living area.  The feeling in this area was warm and welcoming.  I could sense the spirit of the little girl here about the age of 4. She would hold my hand and tug at my shirt. She followed me the rest of the night. We did the same as upstairs and took lots of pictures and video and tried to catch EVP’s. 

Then we went down to the studio apartment.  The homeowners Grandmother had lived here for several years before she died 3 years prior.  It had only been rented for a short time since then.  We were told of activity that took place in the comfortable apartment.  The Grandmother would talk of cabinets and doors opening by themselves and her TV turning on and off in the middle of the night.  We worked as we did in the rest of the house.

We then went into the garage for the main residence.  The other garages are rented out and we were not allowed access.  I was drawn once again to an area that was thriving with energy.  I believed this to be a portal from the amount of energy it was expelling.  We worked here the same as the rest of the house.

We blessed the house before we left, but did not clear it upon request of the homeowner.

Although the night was filled with experiences for me, we did not experience any of the activity reported to us.  This is not unusual though.  When we started reviewing the pictures, video and audio, it was quite a different case.

In the downstairs apartment, we caught a face on a wall. (Since I use 800- speed, film, I do not use a flash.) In this area I also got streaming, colorful, lights.  I sent the picture of the face to our Psychic Consultant, Chris Myers for identification.  His response almost knocked me off my chair.  He said it was the face of a young, girl around 14, who died from a horrible injury to her head.  Now, I understood the vision I’d had.

The pictures from the master suite, showed a rainbow column of light in the place I had been drawn to and a lot of orbs throughout the room.  We got several other pictures with energies and light anomalies throughout the house.

The family was amazed by what we had captured and so were we.

Welcome to the Horsham Paranormal Society Blog.

Hello everyone!   I am Michele, the founder of the Horsham Paranormal Society.  I thought you’d like to know how we began on this wonderful journey into the unknown.

Ever since I was young, I have seen and felt spirits and entities.  Growing up, it scared me so much that I learned to shut it out. In my teens and early adulthood I had many unexplainable experiences. When my children were young, they would tell me about a black shadow man that would visit them. Being the Mom, I tried to make them believe it wasn’t real. I couldn’t comprehend my young sons going through the terror I went through, so just to be safe I called our parish Priest to bless our house. The activity in that house stopped after that.

 In 1992, my husband, 3 sons and I moved into the house I grew up in.  Well, it was like the house was welcoming me back, and once again I started having paranormal experiences.  At first I was terrified,( believe me,  you’d be too if you walked into a room and saw a man or woman or child you don’t know standing there), I came to realize  they weren’t going to hurt me and became more curious than scared.  I started reading and learning all I could about spirits, entities and the afterlife.  There were several ghosts haunting my home. I have to say I was very happy when others started seeing them too.  At least I wasn’t crazy. 

We had a tall man, who wore black, who used to love to stand behind me and stroke my hair.  What a weird experience that is, having your hair or skin stroked by someone who isn’t there.  He also liked my son’s girlfriend and made himself quite known to her.  An elderly woman also stayed there.  She wasn’t as obvious as the man in black, but made herself known through scent mostly, but would appear occasionally. There was young boy about the age of 6 who liked to play pranks and hide things.  He would show himself occasionally also.  The man in black was and still is the most prominent ghost in my home.

About 5 years ago, things started showing up in my/our pictures that we just could not understand.  There were a couple of pictures with these huge, tornado like clouds by me. I started emailing them to friends and family to see if they had ever seen anything like them before.  I was told everything from them being vortexes to spirit guides.  I sent them to Sylvia Brown, who informed me they were my spirit guide.

About 2 years ago, it really started to get crazy in our home.  I was seeing and feeling all kinds of spirits and entities.  I was feeling tired all the time and getting very depressed, and I was always out of sorts.  I had started having dreams of deceased family members coming to me and telling me they were worried. With this I decided to call a local, much respected psychic medium, by the name of Theresa Roba.  I told her about the dreams I’d been having and all the activity I was having and she gave me a reading right over the phone.  She also suggested that I have our home cleared, and I agreed wholeheartedly. 

The night Theresa arrived to clear my house; she was surprised at how much activity there really was.  I showed her through our home and took notes as she commented on what she was sensing and seeing.  She gave me the names of all the ghosts I was familiar with and informed me there were several more.  She told me the stories of how they died and why they were there.  I was able to verify much of what she said through research.

Our man in black had a name!  It is Harry and he was a caretaker on the property our house was built on.  She identified a young, african-american, male named Jeremiah and he was killed in a structure collapse on the property.  I filled a dozen pages of a legal tablet with all the information she was giving me.  She then went on to clear and bless our house.  I wish I could find words to explain what it was like to watch her and to feel the energy a clearing produces. After this experience, I was hooked.  I started going to Theresa’s seminars and galleries so that I could learn as much as she could teach me.  On this particular night, I brought the “tornado” pictures with me so that Theresa could identify them.  She thought they were amazing and beautiful and said she had never seen them before. She also asked me to pass them around so everyone could see them. As I was doing this, I ran into Rita, who was an old acquaintance from our children’s younger days.  We got to talking during the intermission and learned we both shared this thirst for knowledge of spirituality and the unknown.  We exchanged numbers that night and started talking frequently over the phone.

For three days after the clearing, our house was calm.  On the afternoon of the third day, there came a horrible crash from the attic.  All our pets and I ran into the kitchen, because that’s where it sounded like it came from.  I ran outside to see if the roof collapsed.  I was grateful to see it hadn’t, but couldn’t understand where the noise would have come from.  I mean it was LOUD. My poor cats and dog were all really shaken, needless to say, so was I.  I decided that something fell in the attic, even though in the back of my mind I knew we had insulation blown in just days before.  My house was clear, this I knew, I was feeling so much better and things weren’t going crazy anymore. Oh boy was I wrong! Later that afternoon, my dog started to growl at an empty corner.  This was a behavior I was all too familiar with.  This very same day, our phone rang and our own number came up on the caller ID.  The message was nothing but static.  I called the phone company to see how this was possible and after speaking with several people was told they couldn’t figure it out.  The incident with the phone occurred 2 more times over the next 2 days.  The dog’s growling and the cat’s nervousness and hissing were getting worse.  Then, I saw the man in black standing at the bottom of my basement stairs.  My husband, Gerry was coming out of our room and saw a young, African-American, male walking into our son’s room.  He was so clear, that Gerry thought he was our son’s friend, Ray and went into the bedroom to say hello.  He got into the room and asked, “Where’s Ray?”  Our befuddled son had no clue what he was talking about.  Gerry insisted that he just saw Ray walk into his room.  Ray was not there.  This spurred the next call to Theresa and we set up another date for her to once again clear our home.

When Theresa came this time, she brought a young, psychic medium that she was training with her.  This young medium was Chris Myers, one of our psychic consultants.  Again I showed them through the house, but this time I had a digital voice recorder so I could record everything they said.  I am so glad I had that little gizmo, because they sure had a lot to say.  The pair identified the ghosts who refused to leave and their reasons for staying in my home.  She also explained that the our experiences over the last few days had just been the ghosts letting us know they were still around and planned on staying. For this clearing, I invited my new friend, Rita so she could see what it was like. Theresa also brought a good friend with her and Chris and my son’s girlfriend was also there.  We formed what is called a “Circle of Love” to cross the stubborn spirits and the others who were drawn to the energy.  We took pictures through the entire night and recorded every, single word that was said.  While in the Circle of Love, the energy rushing through and passed us was amazing.  Theresa made the white light and opened the door for the spirits to pass.  As the spirits were crossing over, Theresa told me that Harry and Jeremiah refused to leave.  They love being in our home and act as our protectors. I made an agreement with them; they could stay if they stopped startling me and throwing my things.  Earlier that evening, as Theresa and her friends were arriving; one of my figurines flew across the room.  I am so happy that others saw it! I was afraid I had angered Harry, the older, much stronger spirit and was a little scared of what lie ahead of us that night.  Fortunately all stayed calm and peaceful.  Many more spirits were crossed that night.

After Theresa, Chris and Michelle and Rita left, I started listening to the night I had recorded and looking at the digital pictures we took.  The pictures were full of orbs, following us all around all night and going through the center of the Circle of Love.  WOW!!!! Talk about amazing!  I was even more amazed listening to the part of the recording taken during the Circle of Love.  In it you can hear Theresa and Chris, coaxing and offering to help Harry and Jeremiah cross and then very clearly you hear an older man’s voice saying, “We don’t want help.”  I had purchased the digital voice recorder in hope of catching spirit voices, but never really believed I would.

Rita, Chris and I spoke of starting a paranormal investigations group, but everyone was so busy.  That January, I had become ill and was hospitalized for a week.  I brought a bunch of my books with me. I was reading a book of Sylvia Brown’s, when this young, male, nurse entered my room and introduced himself as Marc.  We started to chat about our mutual interest and experiences.  I told him I was trying to start up a group and he said he would love to be a part of it. After I got home and was feeling better, I started calling people I knew whose houses were every bit or more haunted than mine. . We got several cases from those calls and we’ve been investigating ever since. The Horsham Paranormal Society was born. Our son Andrew was interested in being our videographer, so he joined with us and then came our son Dale and his friend Lani.