Shadow people?

Today, at my wife's store, a strange happening. We hadn't been open very long; maybe an hour. My wife was working at the checkout counter and I was working on a clock in the backroom area. My wife came into the work area and said the strangest thing had just happened. As she was working on some papers at the counter she saw someone come in the door right beside the check-out. She gave her typical salutation and offered assistance if such were needed. When she looked up, no one was there. I heard her salutation where I was working and naturally assumed some one had come into the store. At this particular time there were no customers in the store. There is no way shadow or person could have crossed that threshold. She said that whatever it was passed through from the door well into the store. No shadows would be possible from that door. A person would not have been able to pass out of sight that quickly. The front display windows are well away from the check-out counter and are so well stocked that outside shadows or reflection would have been nonexistent in that area of the store. I said, "I heard you greet somebody, but I didn't hear the door bell ring (A rather loud brass bell sounds when someone comes in or leaves). "I saw someone or the shadow of someone come in so I greeted them. But nobody was there", my wife replied. "Then come to think of it, I didn't hear the bell either". We get weird things in this old building from time to time. I guess this was just another one.

Strange voice caught on tape.

I had previously reported that I was hearing what sounded almost like short-wave bursts that appeared to be coming from an interior wall of my house that once housed a dumbwaiter that has been sealed off for over 50 years. The first time I attempted to register anything on a tape, you'll remember, my recorder was moved several feet from where it was placed and all that was recorded was a buzzing sound. I checked the recorder out and it was fully operational. So I again set the voice activated recorder out. This time I discovered that if the downstairs door from the parlor to the front hall is left open the barking of my dogs can be heard. On this trial run they barked plenty, obviously while the wife and I were out. However aside from the barking the recorder did pick up the short "radio?" blasts that we have been hearing in the hall or master bedroom. But again, even though the blasts are loud they were too garbled to tell what was being said. Just prior to my placing the recorder in the hall, I had experienced the "voice" which repeated itself five or six times and sounded almost like it was saying, "Vincent had a heart attack", it sounded like that to me but it was unclear, garbled, so it could have been something else. BTW I know no one named Vincent. But tracking down the origin of these sounds always leads back to an inside wall on the second floor of my house in an area that once had an old dumbwaiter for moving items from the second floor downstairs. But it has been sealed off for decades. I have a pair of walkie-talkies and I have tried them out on the second floor, but nothing comes through on the wall. Its a very perplexing mystery.

Hallway voice sounds again

The hallway voice has sounded again. I was upstairs changing my clothes when suddenly the voice comes in loud and clear. Sounded like it was saying "Vincent is having a heart attack". That message was repeated seven or eight times. I quickly went to the hallway and once again the voice seemed to be coming from an area close to the closed off dumbwaiter. This reminded me that I had set a sound activated recorder next to that wall. I retrieved the recorder and saw the batteries had run down. Needless to say the recorder didn't pick up anything that time. I put new batteries in the recorder; rewound the tape and hit playback. Now I get mystery number two. Unless the downstairs doorway to the parlor is open; you cannot hear my dogs bark unless they get really loud and even then its a muffled sound. With the parlor door open you can hear the barking and they sound low like they are far away. When I rewound the recorder and hit playback I got what sounded like a dog war. The recorder picked them up like they were standing next to it. Now I know what they do when I'm not at home. They bark and howl. Anyway I did pick up the strange voice at one point on the tape. I couldn't understand what it said either. Its loud but unclear, garbled. I don't know any Vincent's, assuming that's what was really said. It repeated the message over and over at least 7 times. There is never any answer. And as I have said before it sounds like a shortwave radio of some sort. But why am I picking it up in an interior wall in my house? And that brings us to the game camera which I aimed up the front stairs to try to validate a couple strange shots I got from my, now defunct, spy camera. The batteries on it had run down as well, but I retrieved the chip. I had many pictures of myself and my wife going up and down those stairs. None of these photos looked anything like the strange aberration that came up on two shots of the spy camera. So the mystery continues in this old house.

More of the weird

This morning my dogs got me up promptly at 8:15. They must have built in alarm clocks. The both jump up and down on the bed and shake themselves vigorously. If that doesn't get them the desired result one of them will them brush my face with their long beard. That gets my attention. I keep the bedroom doors shut because I do not want the dogs running all over the house at night. My wife keeps her door shut because when she keeps it shut that room is the warmest of the upstairs rooms. We have basically two upstairs halls. A short one that goes from the front stairs and north past the master bed room and ends at the trunk room. The other hallway is much longer and runs south from the master bedroom, past the Noah room on the left and the Green room on the right. Yjis long hall is always dark, even on a bright sunny day this hallway is at best gloomy lit. So you can imagine how dark it is at night. I did install a small floor level night light about midway; but that just didn't seem like enough light when you have a bathroom run in the middle of the night. So recently I installed a bright motion light over the doorway from the master bedroom. The light woprks very well, it even comes on when I reach the top of the backstairs and turn to go down the hall to the bedroom. So I got up and got dressed and the dogs and I went down to the Noahs room where my wife sleeps since she has a serious leg problem. Anyway the dogs bounded into the room and was in the act of getting my wife up. She said "Why did you wait so long to let the dogs in?" I said "What do you mean? We just now came from the bedroom." She then said, "Yhe hall light has been going off and on for at least a half an hour." Keep in mind that over the doorway to the Noahs room is a transum and she could see the light through that. We had not gone down that hallway except when we entered the bedroom. That was our first time in the hall way. Nothing very small will trigger that light. A mouse wouldn't trigger it. A bat might but there was no evidence of a bat. The dogs would trigger it; but they were in the bedroom with me. I have checked the light several times and so far it has only come on when it was suppose to. If my wife watched it come on several times thia morning before the dogs and I could have activated it....then what activated it? More strangeness in an old house.

Weird results

I placed a sound activated tape recorder on top of a tall display case in our hall way right beside the wall where these short blasts of speaking seem to be originating. I left the recorder there for several days. This area of our house is rarely used by us. It is a section of hall yjat runs parellel to the front stair case and goes past the western door of the master bedroom and dead ends at the trunkroom (where Christmas decorations are stored. When I went to get the recorder it was not where I put it. I could not find it. It had not fallen anywhere around the area. I aasked my wife about it. She assured me she hadn't even been in that area of the house. I returned upstairs and did a double check of everything. I found nothing so in discust I turned and walked down the hall yoward yjer master bedroom; inyending to return downstairs. As I passed the door of the trunkroom I saw the recorfer sitting on a box of Christmas decorations. Total surprise. That box of decorations was a good 15 ft from where I placed the recorder. I saw the tape had run out so I placed new batteries inn the recorder and rewound the tape. When I played the tape the first quarter of it was blank or had distant voices which I determined were my wife and I and someone at our front door. So that was explained. Then the tape set up a buzzing for the rest of the tape. Just buzzing. Testing the recorder I found it works just fine. So whats with the buzzing?

Christmas photos

I printed many of the photos I took during Christmas. I detected no orbs or whatever those artifacts are. I also took many pictures of my neiece's house which was decorated to the nines. Her house is also very old being only about 25 years newer than mine. She had every room decorated including a Christmas tree (even in the bathroom), no artifacts were evident in those pictures.If orbs be paranormal then it appears my spooks are far less active now. But as I have said before it may be because we aren't home as much as we use to be.

This is super weird

I will not say the following account is paranormal because it sounds too much like someone on a walky-talky or ham radio. It all started last week. I had a gentleman come to the door wanting to buy an old van of mine that sits in the back of our driveway. As I was explaing to him that I wasn't ready to sell yet, we both heard a short blast of a voice that seemingly came from the front staircase or hallway. As no one was even near I wondered what its source could be. The fellow I was conversiong with asked if I had a radio on? I said "No", but I would think a radio would continue playing; not just give a short blast that couldn't be understood. The fellow left and I walked the hallway looking and listening but nothing happened. Later in the week as I was working in the Parlour the "voice" was heard again and a few minutes later even again. There are no radios , walkie-talkies, or two way radios anywhere in the hallway or Parlor, nor outside between my house and the storage building next door. I was perplexed but figured it had to have a logical explaination. The voice , definitely male, is loud but you cannot makle out what is being said. So last night as I entered the masterbedroom with our two schnauzers the voice boomed forth again. Both dogs ran to the wall on the western side of the bedroom and started barking. This wall has a semicircular bulge in it where a dumbwaiter was once housed (It was closed off in the 1950's sometime). I opened the bedroom door to the upstairs hallway by the front stairs and the voice was very loud. It sounded like it was saying, "....AB here..." or something to that effect. I really started investigating the hallway at this point and the voice sounded several more times and I traced it down to approximately where that old dumbwaiter was. There is no opening to the dumbwaiter from the attic or basement or at any point on any floor. It was completely sealed off. What the heck is causing these short "radio?" messages to come booming forth from this wall? I heard this voice at least 7 times last night and the dogs immediately reacted to it each time. Ghost ? I really don't think so; but what on earth is causing it to come through a very old, sealed off, dumbwaiter shaft?