Date Recorded: May 14, 2008.
Analysis Started: 9/3/2008 4:26pm
Analysis Completed: 10/22/2008 11:59am
Results:
Clip #1, 2:10 am, 0'17'' Noise filter applied.
I don't know how to quite explain this one. It appears to sound like some sort of bird. It's too loud to be outside. It's definitely in the house. This is also not the first time I've caught this sound.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Finally!! Night Recording Results from May 13th, 2008
Date Recorded: May 13, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 9/3/2008 4:26 pm
Analysis Completed: 10/9/2008 3:48 pm
Results:
I tried my hand at using some Audacity tools, namely Noise Removal. I did this because the first sound I caught was a whisper that you can barely hear over the background noise. This whisper is pretty dramatic, and the first clear voice I have caught since the first night I ever recorded.
So here is the original recording:
Clip #1, 2:23 am, 0m 10s No filter.
A whisper, "It's quiet inside."
Clip #2, 2:23 am, 0m 10s Noise filter applied.
A whisper, "It's quiet inside."
Clip #3, 2:41 am, 1m 36s Noise filter applied
Knocks, then a series of bumps that sound a lot like footsteps.
Anaylsis Started: 9/3/2008 4:26 pm
Analysis Completed: 10/9/2008 3:48 pm
Results:
I tried my hand at using some Audacity tools, namely Noise Removal. I did this because the first sound I caught was a whisper that you can barely hear over the background noise. This whisper is pretty dramatic, and the first clear voice I have caught since the first night I ever recorded.
So here is the original recording:
Clip #1, 2:23 am, 0m 10s No filter.
A whisper, "It's quiet inside."
Clip #2, 2:23 am, 0m 10s Noise filter applied.
A whisper, "It's quiet inside."
Clip #3, 2:41 am, 1m 36s Noise filter applied
Knocks, then a series of bumps that sound a lot like footsteps.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Shelby is getting touched by a ghost
The first time she reported this to me, I dismissed it. But tonight Shelby came down and brought to my attention a new form of activity.
Shelby is being touched.
The first time was on Dec 26, 2009. She had a friend over, and while they were in the dark, talking to each other before going to sleep, Shelby felt something touching her forearm softly. The touch "walked" up her arm before stopping.
It weirded her out, but I dismissed because it could have been several things. A hair, whatever.
But tonight, as I was inventorying some board games I received today, she came downstairs and told me more touching just occurred. She was painting in the kitchen, which is right above my head, and felt something softly grab the back of her shirt, and pull. it only lasted a few seconds. Sophia was the only other person with her in the room, and Shelby verified that Sophia was next to her and not behind her.
I asked Shelby to demonostrate to me what it felt like, and she pulled on my shirt softly. It almost tickled.
"Are you sure that you felt a pulling?" I asked her.
She was sure.
Shelby is being touched.
The first time was on Dec 26, 2009. She had a friend over, and while they were in the dark, talking to each other before going to sleep, Shelby felt something touching her forearm softly. The touch "walked" up her arm before stopping.
It weirded her out, but I dismissed because it could have been several things. A hair, whatever.
But tonight, as I was inventorying some board games I received today, she came downstairs and told me more touching just occurred. She was painting in the kitchen, which is right above my head, and felt something softly grab the back of her shirt, and pull. it only lasted a few seconds. Sophia was the only other person with her in the room, and Shelby verified that Sophia was next to her and not behind her.
I asked Shelby to demonostrate to me what it felt like, and she pulled on my shirt softly. It almost tickled.
"Are you sure that you felt a pulling?" I asked her.
She was sure.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Voice while we watch TV. Voices in the night.
Girls are asleep, doors shut. Around 12:00am Holly and I were watching the season finale of Survivor. Holly heard a very distinct child's voice to our left, which is at the foot of the stairs leading upstairs. The voice didn't say anything in particular. Just a vocal sigh. I heard something at the same time but didn't quite peg it to be a child's voice. Holly was positive it was a vioce.
Also, two nights ago, Holly had gotten up toin the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and laid back down. She heard a voice say "What?" from somewhere downstairs.
Also, two nights ago, Holly had gotten up toin the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and laid back down. She heard a voice say "What?" from somewhere downstairs.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The little girl lets the cat out
Each one of my daughters has a cat. And each one of those cats live full time in their respective owner's bedrooms. When you have 3 dogs and 3 cats, and the two species don't really mix, you have to draw political lines. Therefore, the cats live upstairs and the dogs downstairs.
Last Friday [12/4/2009], my wife went into Shelby's room, a location that has hosted some activity in the past, to give Shelby's cat Smokey, some water. She did that task without incident and when she finished, Holly remembers closing the door.
Now closing the door is essential with cats in these rooms because if you don't close the door, the cats venture out of their rooms and wander downstairs and by crossing the set political line, become fair game for the dogs, causing all sorts of ruckus and chaos. (Why Holly was watering the cat and not Shelby is a cause for further discussion that is beyond the scope of this blog.)
About fifteen minutes later, Holly and the girls were downstairs talking about their day,. The dogs started running over to the stair landing and barking. This caused everyone in the room to look over at the stair landing to see Smokey peeking his head through the rails and looking at everyone in the room.
Shelby also saw something else: she saw a little girl also looking through the rails at everyone in the room. Shelby saw that the girl has long brown hair and a pale face, but little else since Shelby was looking at her across the room and through a set of bannister rails. And then she was gone.
No one besides Shelby saw the girl.
Last Friday [12/4/2009], my wife went into Shelby's room, a location that has hosted some activity in the past, to give Shelby's cat Smokey, some water. She did that task without incident and when she finished, Holly remembers closing the door.
Now closing the door is essential with cats in these rooms because if you don't close the door, the cats venture out of their rooms and wander downstairs and by crossing the set political line, become fair game for the dogs, causing all sorts of ruckus and chaos. (Why Holly was watering the cat and not Shelby is a cause for further discussion that is beyond the scope of this blog.)
About fifteen minutes later, Holly and the girls were downstairs talking about their day,. The dogs started running over to the stair landing and barking. This caused everyone in the room to look over at the stair landing to see Smokey peeking his head through the rails and looking at everyone in the room.
Shelby also saw something else: she saw a little girl also looking through the rails at everyone in the room. Shelby saw that the girl has long brown hair and a pale face, but little else since Shelby was looking at her across the room and through a set of bannister rails. And then she was gone.
No one besides Shelby saw the girl.
Theory on residual hauntings
Many of the paranormal experts seem to thing residual haunting are like VCR tapes. They are energy memories that play out over and over again. For example, if someone sees an apparition that walks through a wall, the experts label that as a residual haunting because at some point in history there was most likely a door or a portal of some kind where people used to walk through.
I have a problem with this explanation. What causes these "memories" to trigger? Where is the memory even stored? Where does the energy needed to manifest such phenomena come from? It seems too random and I don't accept the "it just happens" answers.
In July 2009, my oldest daughter Sarah saw an apparition. It was a farmer that was walking up our hill, next to the driveway. She watched him until he basically walked into a large bush and disappeared. The fact that he did not try to avoid the bush means he would be classified as residual activity.
This got me thinking long and hard about residual hauntings. Here is my theory: residual hauntings are memories of events that the spririt is remembering at that moment. Have you ever day dreamed or remembered something that happened in your past? I believe spirits still have this ability, and remember things that happened in their past life.
And the moment they remember it, the memory actually takes physical form, playing out in the exact spot that the actual event occured in the past. Imagine if you could store your memories, then play them like a hologram any time you wanted. I think spirits have this ability.
I have a problem with this explanation. What causes these "memories" to trigger? Where is the memory even stored? Where does the energy needed to manifest such phenomena come from? It seems too random and I don't accept the "it just happens" answers.
In July 2009, my oldest daughter Sarah saw an apparition. It was a farmer that was walking up our hill, next to the driveway. She watched him until he basically walked into a large bush and disappeared. The fact that he did not try to avoid the bush means he would be classified as residual activity.
This got me thinking long and hard about residual hauntings. Here is my theory: residual hauntings are memories of events that the spririt is remembering at that moment. Have you ever day dreamed or remembered something that happened in your past? I believe spirits still have this ability, and remember things that happened in their past life.
And the moment they remember it, the memory actually takes physical form, playing out in the exact spot that the actual event occured in the past. Imagine if you could store your memories, then play them like a hologram any time you wanted. I think spirits have this ability.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
