Results of EVP recordings from May 11, 2008

May 11, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 6/12/2008 12:15 pm
Analysis Completed: 6/19/2008 11:28 am

Results:

Clip #1, 12:56 am, 0m 24s
A bunch of pops from what I'm pretty sure is the shower stall in my bathroom. These pops are repeated for almost 30 seconds.

Clip #2, 4:22 am, 0m 11s
It almost sounds like an object rolling along a surface and then striking another object. The striking sound is pretty loud, and I'm pretty sure this is also in my room based on it's volume.

The bed moves and wakes me up three times last night

Last night I felt the bed shake about three times, each in separate incidents. However, shaking is not the best verb to describe the movement.

It's like laying on your back, with your knee up. As you fall asleep, your knee will start to fall. You'll feel it falling and jerk the knee back up to the vertical position. This action creates a lateral movement of the bed, and that's what I felt.

Each time I felt it, I checked if Holly was the cause. Nope, she was on her stomach. No way to cause the movement. So other than someone (or something) standing at the side of the bed, giving it a little shove, I have no explanation as to it's cause.

Quiet over father's day weekend

I had lots of company in the house this past weekend, and as a result things were and still are very quiet.

I'm experiencing a slight lull in the desire to record. I still have about 9 days worth of material from early- and mid- May to analyze, and things are so quiet that I haven't felt the need to break out the recorder at night.

I had my mom visit from Puerto Rico over the weekend. She had some business to attend to locally, so she stayed with us. I also had 3 friends over to play games all day on Saturday. With all the commotion in the house, I wonder if we scared off the ghosts?

All this week, the atmosphere in the house has been much lighter. Going to bed, I listen for tell-tale sounds of activity, and really don't hear much. Granted, there are some here and there as I'm falling asleep, but I wonder if I'm really just getting used to them?

I was in the kitchen with Shelby last night and out of the blue she said, "I just saw something white flash over there." She was pointing to the living room area, which is connected to the kitchen. I and Holly have seen "white flashes" before, which I think are apparitions you see out of the corner of your eye. But we had never talked about them with Shelby before. So she saw this on her own without any suggestion from us.

Anyway, I'm about done analyzing May 10, and will put up the results soon.

I wish a belated Happy Father's day to all you Dads out there!

Results of EVP recording from May 10, 2008

Recording Date: May 10, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 6/10/2008 11:37AM
Analysis Completed: 6/12/2008 9:12AM

Results:

Clip #1, 1:39 am, 0m 10s
I only saved one of these little knocks but there have been at least 5 more previous to it, starting 10 minutes after I went to bed.

Clip #2, 1:51 am, 0m 15s
About ten minutes later, two little taps in succession. Something is definitely in my room and moving stuff around.

Clip #3, 2:00 am, 0m 12s
This clip really demonstrates that I have poltergeist activitly. You can hear someting sliding across a surface, and then slamming into a wall, or a door - hard to tell. When I heard this raw from the recorder, it really sounded to me like this was the door to the washer/dryer room being slammed shut! I heard this a few days ago and reported in here in this blog.

Clip #4, 4:31 am, 0m 11s
This is a strange noise, like maybe the duct work in the walls is being given a little shove.

Clip #5, 4:47 am, 0m 12s
A very loud and obnoxious bang. This seems obviously like something was lifted from a nearby surface in the room, and slammed or dropped back down.

I catch a glimpse of the little girl

Last night, Holly and I had went to bed, and I was watching TV until I fell asleep (this is a better alternative than laying in bed in the dark and listening to the sound of something walking around in your room and making noises).

The TV is located to the right of the master bathroom doorway. The bathroom was dark, and the lights were off in my room, so the entire room was lit only by the light of the TV.

I was watching TV, and caught movement in the bathroom doorway with my peripheral vision. By the time I looked over at the doorway it was gone, but I'm almost positive what I caught in my peripheral vision was the shape of a little girl, stepping into the doorway quickly to see if I was still awake, then quickly stepping backwards into the darkness of the bathroom.

Holly tells me of an encounter

Late last year I built Holly a large 2-person swing. It's playground height, so you can get some serious air on it. Sometimes Holly and I sit on the swing and share a beer. We pour it in wine glasses because I think you get more bouquet from the beer that way than drinking it from a long neck bottle.

Anyway, tonight's selection was Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. Yum. The smell of cherries is almost overwhelming from this brew, and it is indeed delicious.

So we were sitting there, relaxing on the swing, and I was taking sips of my delicious ale, and Holly said, "Something happened last week that I've been putting off telling you."

Great.

"What happened?" I asked.

"I walked into the downstairs bathroom and flicked the light on. A female voice yelled 'Hey!' like I interrupted her. She didn't sound happy."

Ok, so my wife interrupted a ghost while it was relieving itself? Do ghosts think they still go to the bathroom?

"What did you do?" I asked Holly.

"I calmly told the voice that this was my bathroom and I'll use it whenever I want."

Good for you Holly. Good for you.

And while I made the tone of this post light, there was a reason why she waited over a week to tell me what happened. It really spooked her.

New procedures for this blog

Today marks a turning point in the format of this blog. Until now, I had many anecdotes and sound clips I needed to "back fill". You might have noticed with the dates of the past postings I reviewed a whole night of recordings quickly and posted the results the next day. In truth, a night of recording takes several days to go through. It's tedious and boring to listen to hours of silence or my snoring.

So right now I am working on the May 10, 2008 recording. When I get done with that I'll post it immediately. I already have a draft of that blog entry and am making comments directly into it as I hear sounds.

I wake to the sound of running footsteps

I was woken last night by the sound of running footsteps. They were loud and pronounced and just like what I've been catching on the recordings, like someone running on a hard surface. I lay there, realizing I finally was listening live to these sounds. I could not tell where they were coming from - it sounded like the ceiling or the walls.

I wasn't scared. I remember thinking, "Is that Jack digging at the carpet?" Our 8-year old mutt does that sometimes to get comfortable (and promptly gets yelled at for it), but I knew it wasn't Jack. It was the same sounds I kept catching on the recordings.

Based on how quick the steps were, I'm pretty confident that it's a child.

Unfortunately I wasn't recording last night, so I won't have these sounds to put up. But they eventually stopped and I went back to sleep.