Spy Camera up and running

The new spy camera is up and running. Nothing to report as yet. It is still a mystery to me why a camera that only activates with movement has so many shots that show nothing that activated it. It was true with the defunct camera and it is proving to be true with the new one. I will report anything unusual.

New spy camera has arrived. I will set it up as soon as I have time to program it. Sometime this week I hope. I will us it at the foot of the front stairs to begin with as that is where I got the last weird photo. However, I intend to move it around every couple of days.

New camera ordered

I ordered a new spy camera. Once it arrives I intend to set it up again at the foot of the front stairs. I found the old chips and took them to a processing center to see if I could determine what I was photographing. Unfortunately I don't have the know-how to properly use the facility. The pictures came up on the screen but when I tried enlarging them they cut off a quarter of the picture that had the part I wanted to see. Also I couldn't figure out how to lighten the picture. I know it can be done because an attendant who was present when I did the original picture with the figure walking up the steps beside me, lighten the photo considerably. She was not working the night I took in the other chips. I'll have to make another attempt on the chips later, hopefully when I can get some help. As for the famous stair photo that started all of this. After we enlarged the photo and brightening it considerably I made several copies. We still cannot fathom what the heck the phantom is. It is quite obvious that I am ascending the stairs on the rail side. This is to be expected as I normally use the large handrail when going upstairs. The phantom is exactly beside me on the inside, next to the wall. The phantom appears to be wearing some sort of coverall, not unlike some hospital personnel wear. There is even folds in the leg areas of the "pants". Other than the fact we have established that no "living" person went up the front stairs with me and the strange figure is wearing a type of coverall that no one in my family even owns, we have no explanation for what or who this figure is. I will note, however, that this house served several years (before I purchased it) as a doctors office and then a long period of time as a rest home. Personnel would probably have used the cover all type uniform at various times. My spy camera took almost 1000 total photos while I had it in use. All of those pictures were supposed to have been taken because the camera detected movement. Nothing is seen in most of the shots. What set off the camera? I guess if you really want to drive yourself insane; just set up a spy camera a see if you can figure what sort of "whatevers" are setting it off. You might really be surprised at what develops.

Old Chip new discovery

Some time ago I wrote about setting timed cameras about this old house. On one of those cameras I got a couple mysterious pictures that were not explainable. A close friend of mine has a much better computer than I do So, I figured we use the chip on his computer to see if we could determine what the photo was showing. That chip disappeared before we could use it in the better computer. It has been missing for months. Yesterday I found the chip laying in the middle of the seat of a woven rocking chair in the Library. We had looked for this chip for weeks, finally giving up ever finding it. Then it reappears in plain sight in the middle of a rocking chair seat cushion. To top it all off, this rocking chair is located in the Library where we keep the computer. So simply finding this chip and where we found it is mystery enough; however, when we placed the chip in the better computer we got an additional shock. As I said earlier, one frame shows the legs of some sort of phantasm that must have been eight foot tall or more. The stairwell where the photo was made was rather dark. The creature obviously set off the camera in the late evening. We still could not determine what the long legged object was. The object appeared to be translucent or partly transparent. When we brought the figure up on close inspection we discovered a second more substantial figure alongside the first going up the stairs. The second figure was wearing dark trousers so they did not show up on my smaller computer. The second figure was wearing a lighter color shirt, only the lower part showing up in the flash. The second figure was ME! Sometime when I had gone upstairs for something that spy camera had taken my picture and also something going upstairs beside me. I was on the outside of the stairs next to the bannister and what ever was on the inside next to the wall. I certainly had no concept that anything had ever gone upstairs with me, but there is the picture. A most exasperating development. We could not, even with the superior computer, determine what the to legged object was that went upstairs at my side. I was not aware of it. I have a couple other shots made by the spy camera that appear to be unusual, especially one of what appears to be a rather evil whitish face coming in from the front hall to the Parlor. Now that I have access to the better computer I must find those chips and see if we can figure these weird pictures out. My spy camera broke down and as soon as I can find another I will, again, set it up to see what developes.

Strange pounding

This time the unexplainable occurred in my wife's store which is located in a very small village in Ohio. We have had several unexplainable episodes in this old 1800's structure. This time it was pounding noises, not unlike someone pounding on the outside wall with their fists. The episodes happened several times today. We even (one of us) stayed outside to see if we could figure it out. Even with one of us in plain view outside the pounding continued. No one but us were in the store for most of the episodes but they occurred twice with customers present. One customer commented that we must have someone working next door. There is a shop next door that repairs automobiles but it is for sale and is only open sporatically. Today it was not open and besides the pounding did not sound like a hammer but more muted like a fist. Besides that the pounding sounded like it originated on the opposite side of the store from the closed shop next door. The pounding ended in the early afternoon. still unexplained. If the pounding was outside, like against the wall of our store, the person must have been invisible. The sounds erupted even when one of us was outside to witness it. The sounds seemed to be coming from the parking lot side of the store. There are no structures on that side of the store for quite some distance. If the sounds were originating from somewhere inside of the store; where? No, there are no water pipes on that wall from the side entrance to the store front. In fact, the store was built lathe over studs, a simple shell on that side. There was no wind today which is extremely rare for this area. So when the wind isn't blowing we really notice the fact. I suppose there is an ordinary explanation for the pounding; but we certainly couldn't find it.

Early memory of the paranormal

Something took place in the night when I was very young. The event has never faded from my memory even after at least 70 years. I think it was my first encounter with the paranormal. At the time my bed was still in my parents room, so I could not have been more than 3 or 4 years old. I was moved in with my older brother by the time I was five, maybe before. The episode began with my being awakened by the voice of a little girl who stayed with her aunt and uncle next door. She called my name at least twice as it was this that woke me up I recall saying "What are you doing here?". It was the middle of the night and the girl would not be wondering around and even at my young age, I knew it. Then came the cryptic message, "Mary says to get up at Moon." As she said this she moved closer to my bed and then she just disappeared. My mother was awakened by the talking and wanted to know what was going on? I tried to tell her and she said I had just had a nightmare to go back to sleep. I was teased about it the next morning at breakfast, especially by my older brother who had his own bedroom. But my mother said, "He was talking about Donna Sue and even making up her answers". Whoa, no way was I talking for Donna and if this was a nightmare how did my mother hear two voices. This episode was so vivid that I have never forgotten it. Donna Sues mother remarried and Donna went back home to live. I even saw her wedding announcement, many years later, in the paper. I wonder sometimes why this episode has stayed with me. Dreams, if such it was, are usually forgotten quickly. Yet if this dream had any meaning, I'm totally in the dark as to what it might have been. I'm guessing this took place around 1942 or 43.

Ghost of a child

As I have mentioned before, my wife uses a different bedroom due to a leg problem that that requires attention at off hours during the night. Last night we turned in about midnight; she to the room we call the Noah room and I and our two schnauzers the master bedroom. This morning my wife told me about an episode she experienced last night in the Noah room. She said her leg was bothering her and she was in the process of getting up to take care of it (she had not as yet turned on the light which is on an end table beside the bed), She caught movement out of the corner of her eye. When she looked toward the movement she said she distinctly saw a child, of 3 or 4 years of age, with long light brown hair, and dressed in a long white gown move across the bedroom and out into the upstairs hall. She did not see the child's face as it was turned from her but she recognized the gown as the type that very young children were often dressed in (both sexes) during the 1800's and early 1900's. She knew she was not having a waking dream as she went about correcting her leg problem and then got up to go to the bathroom. The Noah room is never pitch black with the lights off as there are three windows, one of which fronts main street and its street light. She was uncertain whether the child was male or female because this type of night dress was common for both in that time period. There were young children in the household of the builder and original owner of this 1857 house. Perhaps the spector was one of them. This is not the first time my wife has witnessed a "ghost", so she knew pretty quickly what she had witnessed. People generally do not believe in ghosts until they, themselves, experience it. Knowing you are seeing something extraordinary can have a profound effect on a person. The strange thing is, you are not scared, like the cartoonists imply. Curious, yes, or questioning; but not scared. Interesting.