Private Residence

Columbus, OH

Investigation Start: 2100 (9:00pm)

Investigation End: 0300 (3:00am)

Investigators:  Ryan Wyse, Jeremy Weekly, & Kyle Weekly

Site Demographics:

    This was a brick building constructed in the early 1980's.  It consists of 3 townhouses, each with a basement and a second. The basement mainly holds the unit's utilities and the laundry area. There is also storage and an area for play.  The main floor houses a half bath, the kitchen, and the living room. The second floor houses 2 bedrooms and a full bath.

Investigation Report

Claims of Activity

This case was referred to us by our friends at the Buckeye State Paranormal & Haunting Investigators (www.bsphi.com).  The client was very concerned that she had a demonic type of haunt by the activity she was having.  Claims of activity ranged from night terrors of her children, moving objects, full body apparitions, objects disappearing and reappearing in different locations, and voices.

Equipment Location

• 4 static IR cameras were placed in the home.  One was located in the living room, one located in the bedroom where the family slept, one shooting down the basement stairs, and one in the other bedroom.  These all are linked back to a DVR security system.

• Wireless audio was failed to work and was placed out-of-service.

• Digital voice recorders were placed in the bedroom with the family and in the other bedroom.

• Each investigation crew carried a Sony Nightshot Handicam, digital voice recorder, EMF/K-2 Meter, and digital thermocouple thermometer.

Investigation

Due to the client's extreme fear of the activity the family had been experiencing, the investigators went to the location the previous day to interview the client.  After the interview, the investigators went through the home and performed a preliminary investigation. During this time, an EVP of a female was captured on the voice recorder.

Woman's Voice

During the night of the investigation, a few personal experiences occurred.  The first was two Kyle while Jeremy, Ryan, and the client were upstairs performing an EVP session.  During this time, the kitchen table that housed our command central began to shake vigorously.  Kyle immediately radioed for Ryan & Jeremy.  When they got to him, he was very shaken and explained what happened.  Unfortunately, no evidence of this was captured.  This just goes to show that not even the command area is safe from the paranormal.

While investigating the upstairs bedroom, Jeremy and client kept seeing a dark shadow pass by the doorway.  Unfortunately, we were unable to capture this on video, because the IR illuminators of the camera drowned our anything that was dark.

During this same time upstairs in that room, all three heard the sound of a woman's voice.  This was captured on the voice recorder.

As the three were leaving the room right after Jeremy and the client stated they were seeing the shadow figure pass by the door, Ryan got an instant smell of cigarette smoke in the hallway.  This lasted only for a few seconds and then was gone.  This was significant, because no one in the house smoked and the home did not have the smell at any other time.  This was also significant, because the client stated that she had found an ash tray in the home while cleaning one day and through it out in the trash.  She returned in the home to find the same ash tray sitting on the kitchen table.  This event was the reason why the client contacted help.

While leaving command central after a break, Jeremy began to get EMF spikes on the K-2 meter.  While he was attempting to make contact, the client began to have a paniced look on her face.  Ryan asked her what was wrong, but she could not respond verbally.  This lasted for approx. 10 seconds before she finally took a large breath and stated that she had an overwhelming feeling of fear and was unable to talk or breathe.

While Ryan and Kyle were upstairs in the bedroom with the client, a shadow was captured on the video camera.  We are not declaring this paranormal, but we do think it is interesting.  That is because the shadow looks as if Kyle, who was holding the camera, scratched his head with his right hand.  However, the camera is in his right hand, so he couldn't have done this.  There is a wall behind him, so no other shadow could have made this.  He attempts to recreate it, because he saw it himself, but he was unable to.

After reviewing the evidence, there were many EVP's.   Although we were unable to obtain any good video evidence, we captured more EVPs in this investigaiton than in any other investigation we have performed.  The audio is below.

• This is a woman's voice that was captured on our Sony Handcam.  It was heard by all three in the room

Woman's Voice

• The client requested that she be able to speak to the spirits in the home about her oldest daughter who she feels may be sensitive.  During this, she asks if they are mad that she know things are going to happen and there is a small female voice that makes a sound like to say "yes."

Direct Response

• Jeremy is explaining to the client why he got into this field.  He is telling her that he asks himself why paranormal activity happens and why aren't people in heaven like we are taught. During this, you hear a man's voice come in and say "No."

Man's Voice

• While in the bedroom chatting about the events of the night, there was a strange whine that you can hear over a few seconds.  This was not heard by anyone in the room.

Strange Whine

• While the client was asking the entities to make themselves known by performing various things, she asked for them to make a whistle sound that she though she had heard earlier in the night.  Right after she asked it, there was a faint whistle sound.

Whistle Sound

• Jeremy was explaining how he felt uneasy in the bedroom at first during the investigation, but was feeling more relaxed.  At the very end of this clip, you hear a man's voice real faint say "Don't Worry."

Don't Worry

Director's Report

This investigation taught us a very important lesson.  "Don't judge a book by it's cover."  After meeting with the client, it was evident that the entire family was scared to death of their home.  After hearing all of the claims of activity, it seemed that the mother was suffering from an overactive imagination and was causing the children to feel the same. However, after reviewing the evidence, we were confident in saying that there was a haunting occurring there and that she was not making it up.   The only question was whether it was the location, an object, or a person.  There were so many factors discovered in our background investigation that we were unable to point to a direct source.  We were, however, confident in saying that it was not the location that was haunted.  The activity had never reached the level that it was at before now and the neighbors stated that they had never heard any strange noises throughout the night until the family moved into the home.  The oldest daughter stated that the activity started when she received an old doll as a gift from a woman the family didn't even know.  The daughter spent some time at her grandparents in Florida and the activity followed her.  The doll was in her possession at that time.  However, the mother also reported that she has had paranormal experiences since she was 16 years old.  So it is unclear what is causing it.  A recommendation was given to pack up the doll and ship it away or dispose of it all together in an attempt to stop the activity.  Reports a few weeks later revealed that they did this, but there was no luck in the activity stopping.  The client was very concerned about the home still, so we contacted our friends at The Ohio Paranormal Society (www.theohioparanormalsociety.com).  This group is comprised of Christians who perform cleansings of homes to ride them of spirit entities.  TOPS was very eager to help us out with this case and we thank them for it.  We were also in close contact with another group called Paraex (www.paraex.org).  Since the client had contacted them as well, their Associate Director Jessna Woods and myself coordinated our efforts in an attempt to help the client.  However, since our investigation had determined that there was a haunting and their organization is scientific based like ours, they opted to not perform their investigation in an effort to not stir up anymore activity.  All of our evidence was shared with Paraex.  Evidence revealed multiple different voices on the EVPs.  Since the 2 daughters are seeing the apparitions of a woman in white, an old man, and a black slave woman, it is unsure why these entities are trying to make contact with the family.  The 3 year old son also constantly sees the apparition of man that he calls "Toby."  This investigation was by far an interesting one and we hope that they are able to finally live in peace or at least learn to coop with their new roommates.

Ryan Wyse, Director/Lead Investigator

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