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| Beautful stone work at the cemetery. Photo by C. Arick |
We have a cemetery near our house that is a beautiful and historic. My
family happens to really love the paranormal, which means we really love
Halloween. My husband and I also dabble in paranormal investigations in
our free time. As part of a homeschool lesson for our son, I
decided last Friday that it was the perfect time take a Halloween themed field trip. Paranormal
investigations require interesting tools- tools that are great for
teaching science, on top of the interesting history lessons you learn
researching your investigation area.
About 5 pm,
after my son did some research on out town's history, we gathered our
ghost hunting gear, installed fresh batteries, gave each piece a test
run to ensure it was working and headed to the little cemetery. We employed a
digital voice
recorder, a digital camera, a ghost box,
and EMF detector. We snapped some photos and started our EVP session.
We enjoyed reading the old headstones and imagining the people's
stories. My son kept a keen lookout for our town's more famous residents,
like Capt. William Russell.
I took out our
ghost box and turned it on. There was only one problem: no sound! It
was strange because I had just replaced the batteries and tested 15
minutes ago (we live about a minute by car from the cemetery). I
fiddled with it, a little peeved because its not cheap, but no matter
what I did I could not get sound from it. We've had the ghost box for a
couple of years and used it many times never encountering such a
malfunction. I ended up putting it away to fix when we got home, bummed
that it might be dead.
A few minutes
later, my son called to me. He found a
headstone that intrigued him. It was small and marked differently than
the others. It simply said 'INFANT 1896-1896'. I headed over to him with
digital recorder in hand. When I got near to the headstone, I hit
record on the recorder. I remarked that I couldn't imagine what it was
like to lose a child (though I could, I said this for my son's benefit) adding that the loss was so sad. I wondered who the child belonged to, but before I
could really study the surrounding graves to match baby with mother, my
son was off somewhere else.
A little while
later, as the sun started to set, we concluded our investigation. Other
than the ghost box malfunction, there was nothing out of the ordinary at
the cemetery. We got into the car and I decided to check the ghost box
to see if it was working yet. Yep, it worked, much to my relief. My son
asked to see it, so I handed to him. He rolled down his window and stuck
the box out of the car at
which point the sound from the box immediately ceased. I had no
explanation for it.
We went home and
immediately started reviewing our digital voice recordings. We had about
10 minute long bursts of recordings. My son got bored after the third
recording, so I let him go do his own thing while I put on my headphones
and kept reviewing. I came to the recording of the infant gravestone.
Much to my surprise, a voice stuck out like a sore thumb not only to my
ears, but in the visual frequency graph, too. The following links are
snippets of those recordings, raw and amplified:
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| Old headstone Rendering by C. Arick |
http://www.divshare.com/download/16010289-e29
I know it says download, but if you click the link, you can listen to the recordings directly at the site!
I
won't tell you what I hear, but will say that I thought it was a
relevant comment to the subject matter at the time. It was also the only
thing we recorded for which I did not have an explanation. We look
forward to going back to see if we can repeat the results from our
little field trip soon.
Happy Halloween!!
Do you believe in ghosts? Have any ghost stories you want to tell?
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