My friend and mentor, well educated intellectual and former U.S. Army Chaplain Maj. Joe F. posted this case he investigated and gave me this info about believing in the paranormal:
I've noticed in this world, the people, and there's 2 kinds, who don't like the paranormal or anything remotely pertaining to it. The first, are those who are deathly scared of it. They are unsure of something they have no clue about, so they lash out in this method. And second, the individuals who don't want to accept what's in the afterlife. These types of people refuse to believe or accept that their life, like all others, will end in time.
I couldn't imagine not enjoying the paranormal. I think I would rather drop off the face of the earth. LOL.
One of my first long-term investigations came when I was 21 years of age. I had just gotten into full-time paranormal investigation and was freelance by all standards. I investigated a store/residence in the shopping village of Skippack, Pennsylvania. The owner of the shop who was also the landlord of the property had been there for nearly 20 years, and she was claiming that in her photographs there were unusual balls of light, blasts of white light that showed no clear indentity near friends, cold spots, dark shadows in areas where no light was able to penetrate, hearing noises, water running when no one was around, knocks and loud bangs throughout the evening and early morning hours.
(A little background on the landlord: A female approximately in her early 60s, roughly 5'.9" tall, around 150lbs., was born & raised outside of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, purchased the land from the Skippack Land Commission in the early to mid 1980s. Work background, she owned and ran the shop in which she started a few years after purchasing the property. She had a live-in girlfriend and fellow shop employee who was responsible for bookkeeping. She also had a boyfriend who was the Skippack Constable and was a professional truck driver who owned his own tri-axle dump truck). (The owner's girlfriend was in her late 50s, about 5'.5" tall, weighed approximately 200lbs. The owner's boyfriend was roughly 55 years old, was about 5'.9-10" tall, about 180lbs. and worked the grounds as a caretaker on his off time). Only the two female shop employees believed something unusual was going on, as the male counterpart did not believe in the paranormal.
The history of the property dates back to the late 1700s and one of the original owners was found dead in the attic from hanging. The original home itself was structured much like a traditional colonial saltbox-styled home, and was quite prestigious in its day, with three-stories to boast, and a former greenhouse. The mid-sized barn on the back lot was meant for housing horses and carriage. Over ten owners had come and gone since its building in the late 18th century.
The owner claimed in the late 1990s that she would hear voices and bangs in the late night hours, loud thumps in the early morning hours, lights would turn on and off by themselves, she would hear water running when no faucet had been turned on. He girlfriend claimed to have seen unusual dark-like phantoms outside on the raised porch. In nearly every photograph taken of a little girl that the landlord looked after for extra money, there was a bright light or blast if you will that was always near this young girl who (was blind and deaf, and didn't have a mother, but lived close by with friends).
In my initial investigation, I evaluated the occupants, examined the owner for ESP tendancies, and conducted an investigation by myself that lasted for approximately two to three days. Upon the conclusion, I was unable to determine anything remotely related to a paranormal occurrence. I deemed the case "Inconclusive".
I returned to investigate in the spring of that year, with the assistance of my older brother who was also a paranormal investigator, and had some more extensive equipment. this time I crawled under, over, through and around every possible nook and cranny there was. I was down and up several times. I had a thermal camera, stroboscope, three still cameras, and two EMF meters, along with one EVP digital recorder. On the first day, as I tried to interview the land owner for a second time, she refused to give me an interview and left the home. Unfortunately, due to inconclusive background governing a background search or formal interview with recording, I could not deem the residence as 'haunted' or not. There were questions that would go unanswered and that was simply not going to cut the case as being authentic or not.
I returned by the weekend and classified the case as "Inconclusive to a Classic Haunting". Primarily, I did uncover some foul water drainage, geological faults throughout the village and centered around the landlord's property, and found a horrible cat infestation.
* Case Report Date: January 2000 and April 2000
* Findings: Inconclusive to present the documentation to classify as an interactive haunting.
* Location: Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
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