Private Residence, Springfield, Illinois
July
20, 2012 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm
Investigators:
Trish, Vicki, and Dave
Background:
In
July of 2012, CAPS was contacted by a woman in her late twenties who was
concerned about her residence. The
client was initially interviewed by phone followed by a second face to face
meeting in her home on July 18th.
The
client moved into her current residence in February of 2012. The client reported that she has had
unexplained experiences since she was a young child, but that the experiences
at her current residence were concerning to her. These included hearing strange noises,
sensations of being watched, and regularly occurring strange but very vivid
dreams. The client lives in the
apartment with her three children, ranging in ages from six to ten. Although they had related no specific
experiences, the client said she can tell they feel "uncomfortable"
from time to time.
The
location is an apartment on Lawrence Street in West Springfield, Illinois. The structure is a renovated residential home
built in the 1960's that had been later subdivided into one and two bedroom
apartments. The client's unit is located
on the second floor, the uppermost level of the structure. During our initial walkthrough one of our
investigators reported hearing a possible light voice and the door in the
client bedroom appeared to close as if on cue.
Based on these initial findings, CAPS agreed to perform a more thorough
evening investigation on July 20th.
The
Investigation:
The
CAPS team arrived just before 9:00pm.
While video and audio recorders were being set up, a K2 sweep was
performed which indicated low to moderate EMF readings throughout the entire
apartment.
One
of the first area's investigated was the bedroom door which the client had seen
close on its own. We did find that this
particular door does have an odd feel to it, almost feels as though it has a
magnetic/suction type feel to it.
Based
on the information collected by our sensitive, she felt her divining rods
suggested there might be three spirits in the home, two males and a
female. They seemed to be somewhat
possessive of the home, so perhaps she felt they may have been early residents
of the home.
During
a Spirit Box session in the mother's room, we picked up possible names, Bill,
Bobby, and Lisa. At that time, an
investigator standing in the doorway began to experience an itchy feeling as if
something was crawling up her leg. The
feeling became so intense that she had to leave the room.
When
we moved to the kitchen to continue the Spirit Box session the team experienced
what appeared to be a cold spot. At the
same time the K2 meter, which was sitting on the counter away from everyone,
spiked into the red indicating a powerful wave of EMF had passed.
Later
in the living room, two investigators said they both felt static electricity on
their arms; one developed a headache for about ten minutes. While still in the living room we heard a
loud dragging noise which we captured on our audio recorders. At this same time, the K2 meter again spiked
into the red twice. At that moment there
was another loud noise. We were also
able to capture the sound of footsteps in the living room which sounded as
though they were coming from above us, which was interesting since this
apartment is on the top floor of the building.
In
addition, we also captured what sounds like a metal against metal tapping noise
while in the living room.
Conclusions:
The
findings of mild to moderate EMF levels throughout the apartment have been
known to affect people who are sensitive, and can result in feelings of being
watched and paranoia. It has also been
suggested that such locations may provide the necessary physical energies which
might promote paranormal phenomenon.
The
findings on the bedroom door were indeed intriguing. A balloon test in the doorway provided no
evidence airflow in the apartment was causing the door to close. Our equipment failed to detect any electric
currents that would substantiate any magnetic devices. During the evening, our video camera failed
to capture any movement of the door.
Although
we were able to capture a number of very interesting audio clips throughout the
investigation, we must recognize that this is an apartment building and that we
weren?t the only occupants at the time.
Even the footsteps that we felt were coming from above us could in fact
have been caused by the other residents in this aging 50 year old structure.
At
the moment we would have to classify our findings as inconclusive. We do feel however that if there is indeed
any activity, we find no evidence that it appears to be malevolent in nature.
EVPs
This EVP was captured in the livingroom, at about 3 sec. appears to be a male voice.
This one was captured while we were using the Spirt Box in the kitchen.
At about 6 sec. this noise seemed to come from the kitchen, but was captured on the livingroom recorder.
This loud sound in the livingroom is at about 4 sec.