Ghost Hunt with HPI August 9, 2008

HPI Ghost Team showed up at my shop around 3:30. The shop was still open for business at the time, we had to wait until all the customers had left the shop. HPI had three new investigators join their team. The investigators that showed up were: Kurt, Krista, Rhonda, Mark, Ann, Shaunda and Dave. Everyone had been in the building on other investigations, some with other teams. The only new person was Shaunda. They all went to look around the building for awhile, until all the customers had left the shop. We then locked up and sat down and met everyone and talked for awhile, they all enjoyed seeing Otis again and meeting Baxter for the first time. After that, Phil and I went home with Otis and Baxter in tow. The team then held a meeting as to what they were all going to try that night and just walk around the building. They also set up some of there equipment, to play white noise while we were all gone from the building. Phil and I went back to the shop about 5:30 to head to the Koffee Kup for dinner with everyone.

After a great dinner at the Koffee Kup and some enjoyable conversations we all headed back to the shop. The team brought in the rest of their gear and set everything else up. We then just sat around and talked about things for awhile. Phil then went home with Otis and Baxter for the night.

The team mainly wanted to investigate in the furniture room, as we always seem to have a lot of things going on in that room. We all went down stairs as a group and just sat for awhile. Then we started to do some EVP work. While doing some EVP work, a really loud noise was heard by all of us. The noise was right between Ann and I. I said to Ann, “please tell me that was the building settling!” Ann said no, I thought it was you. Everyone else had heard it also. It was so loud. It was like a really loud creek, or maybe moving furniture. That made me a little nervous at the time. A few of the other people kept watching the hallway to the upstairs. I think they said they had seen dark moving shadows. There were also some noises heard in the hallway between the holiday room and book room.

We then all went upstairs to take a cookie and popcorn break and talked about a few things that happened. This was the first investigation that Kurt's tummy wasn't making noises, but mine sure took over.

We all headed back downstairs after the break and split up some between the steps and the furniture room. Kurt was using a K2 meter on the steps. While he was sitting on the steps the K2 meter kept going off. A few of the other investigators went to watch it. I really don't know a lot about the K2 meter as far as to what it all means. I'm sure that will come out in their report of the investigation. Shaunda and I were sitting in the way back of the furniture room. Suddenly, Shaunda felt a really cool spot on her feet and no where else. She asked to to put my foot over there to see if I could feel it also. Boy, could I feel it, but just on a few of my toes. I had open shoes on, I could feel this really cool spot as I moved my foot near where she was feeling it. I pulled my foot back really fast. We then went upstairs for another break.

After our break, we all headed back to the furniture room to do more EVP work. We all sat in the back of the furniture room again as a group. While sitting there, the group wanted to play some spir-com noise. I had no idea what that was. They started playing it and boy was it spooky sounding. I sure would not want to listen to that for to long, it sounded very spacey. We then played some old music from the twenty's and thirty's. That was kind of fun to listen to. Boy, singing sure has changes, it is much better now days. We listened to that for awhile and then they switched it over to white noise. I don't know what I was thinking when they did the switch, but when the white noise started I about flew out of my chair. It sure spooked me.

We then did some work with dousing rods for a little bit. Everyone was able to give them a try. Kurt said it was something when they would move on their own while in his hands. We then asked the spirits if they minded us using the dousing rods and the told us they did not mind us using them. Some of the ladies then switched over to the pendulum for a little bit. I started to dose off during all of this. I was so tired. After that, we called it a night and all headed upstairs to get our night gear set up. Nothing unusual happened on the main floor that I know of, I fell asleep really fast.

I slept in the toy room, Ann and Shaunda slept in the tool room, Mark, Rhonda and Krista slept in the front room. Kurt and Dave slept downstairs. Kurt slept in the furniture room and Dave set up camp in the hallway by the holiday room. In the middle of the night, Dave was woken up with a really creepy feeling and had to move out of the hallway and into the furniture room with Kurt. He said he felt like someone was there with him and they were watching him. Dave had done another investigation in my shop with another group and not to much happened at that investigation, so he really didn't think my place was haunted. I think by the time the night was over, he was thinking a little different about it.

In the morning, a few of the people had woke up. Krista, Ann, Rhonda and Kurt were all sitting in the front room. I think Kurt was on the phone and the ladies were all talking to each other softly. Suddenly I heard everyone talking really loud about what had just happened. They were all so excited that it woke me up. I got up and walked out to the front room and asked what happened. They asked if I had just talked to them while I was still in bed. I told them no, I was still sleeping until I heard them all talking loud about something. All three of the ladies said they were talking to each other and a forth person joined in on the conversation. They had me go back to where I had been sleeping and asked me to talk soft. They all said no, that is not what we heard. Wouldn't you know it, everyone had also just shut off their recorders. Everyone turned on their recorders and continued to pack up. Kurt and I were talking and suddenly Krista turned to us and asked me what I wanted. Kurt and I both just looked at her and said we didn't say anything. She said, yes you did, I heard you say my name. Krista was shocked, because she said she heard her name said, and she also said it sounded like my voice. Kurt confirmed that I did not say her name. In fact, everyone said they had not said her name. Hopefully that was picked up on the recorders.

Shaunda then went out to finish packing up her bedding and when she walked out to where she had slept, there laid a statue. She was all excited about it. Shaunda said, that statue was not on the floor next to her bed when she walked out of the room. It did not look like it had been bumped off the shelf. If it had been, I'm sure it would of broke. It was just laying next to her bed. We could not even find a spot on the shelf from where it should have been sitting. Very strange things sure were going on in the morning. No one wanted to leave at that point. The Krista and Ann then used the dousing rods again on the main floor. They asked if anyone was in the room with us. They then asked if they owned anything in the room. They said yes. Krista then asked her to point to the item. The rods then pointed to the coat rack. Then Krista would hold each coat out, to see which coat was hers. It finely said yes to a old fur coat. Then Ann shut her eyes so she could not see the coats that Krista was pointing to. They then asked her to tell her which coat was hers. When Krista finely pulled out the fur coat the rods then said yes. That was really cool to watch, since Ann could not see what coat Krista was showing. They all had to get ready to leave then because they need to get back home for other appointments they had for the day.

All in all, I would say it was a very good investigation. We had a lot of great personal experiences happen to everyone though out the night and morning. I can't wait to have the group back again. They are a fun great group.

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