Equipment

Last fall when we first started investigating in the field, we were very limited on equipment. What little we had involved a video camera with night vision, a regular tape recorder, flash lights and digital cameras. We have recently added a digital voice recorder to our investigation equipment along with a voice editing computer software program. We have also added a ghost meter like this one shown in the photo. A ghost meter is simply a emf detector where emf stands for electric magnetic field. It is believed that spirits give off an electric magnetic field that can be detected by these devices. One should carefully examine a cause for detection however as leaks in electrical wiring or plumbing may set these off as well. A high reading off of electrical wiring or plumbing in a building should be corrected as soon as possible as it can make a person who is sensitive to magnetic fields nauseous, dizzy, cause headaches and even cause hallucinations or a feeling of being watched. These are also known as K2 meters. We are very excited to be gathering new equipment for our field investigations and hope to be adding more soon.

Laurium Manor

http://www.pasty.com/discuss/messages/994/1555.html this link has a discussion about some of the stories of Laurium Manor being haunted. There was a double suicide, murder within the Manor and once was set up as a funeral home for awhile. We are considering this location for our next investigation. Have you ever stayed at the Laurium Manor? Did you have an experience paranormal activity? We want to hear your story! Share your story by leaving a comment!
We will start by going on the tour to get the history of the beautiful bed and breakfast it has been restored to, then renting a room there for a night. Share your ghost stories about the Laurium Manor with us in the meantime!

Haunted Accounts: Eagle Harbor

A first hand report on the Haunting of the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse, at Eagle Harbor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Keweenaw Peninsula), on Lake Superior.
"I enlisted in the Coast Guard on Nov. 3, 1975, and was transferred to Lightstation Eagle Harbor in Jan.1976 where I spent three years.
I am wondering if you had heard any stories of the lighthouse being haunted by any other people? The reason I ask, is because I lived a year in the light house, a year in the big white house, and a year in the short brown house.
At the time,(I can't speak for the present time) the lighthouse and the white house were heavily haunted. The brown house was fine. But shortly after I moved into the lighthouse, strange noises would come from the bedroom on the second floor, like furniture was being dragged heavily across the floor, with sounds of loud footsteps. The light switch at the bottom of the tower, would mysteriously click on and off continually. I could see the light coming on from under the door to the tower on the main floor. When I would open the door and look down, it would stop, until I closed the door. My alarm clock would be in a different spot in the morning, or turned off in the night.
I was constantly calling the Coast Guard District Office in Cleveland, complaining that the lighthouse was haunted and I wanted a transfer, and they just shrugged it off.
A guest once claimed to have seen a ghost in the bedroom late at night, a man in a plaid flannel shirt with no face. The next morning, she left the light house in extreme fear, and never came back.
After tolerating this for a year, the white house became vacant, and I anxiously moved in. This house turned out to be worse. I would be awakened in the middle of the night, especially in winter by voices in the bedroom. Footsteps would be heard downstairs late at night on the hardwood floors. They would then slowly come upstairs, down the hall, and stop at the entrance of the master bedroom. By this time, I would be absolutely terrified, laying in bed covered in sweat. The footsteps would start again on the ceiling, a few minutes later. Strange things and noises would happen almost continuously.
A year later, a vacancy came up for the brown house, and I moved in. In this house, I never heard or experienced anything strange at all. Probably a good thing, or I would have gone completely nuts. I was stationed there so long, many other families would come and go. Everyone who lived in the white house and the lighthouse were terrified of the hauntings. They were not a constant thing, they would just come and go in phases.
I am wondering if you have heard this from anyone else, or if anyone has ever died in or near the lighthouse?"

Inhuman Spirits

Inhuman spirits are thought to be spirits that have never been in a human form, thought to be demons and of evil intent. They possess incredible strength, capable of moving large and heavy objects such as throwing tables across a room. Highly imaginative they can take any form they please and do what they please with their surroundings such as turn water to blood, muscle to jello, wood into rock. The only thing that seems to match their strength is their intelligence. These spirits can not only be downright scary, but extremely difficult to eradicate as well. They do not attach themselves to a building nor an object as a residual or intelligent spirit would, but rather they attach themselves to actual humans. This gives them no boundries of where they can go and many times will go where ever the human they attach themselves to goes. They are the type of spirit that is known for human possession or that will try to possess a person. They feed off of a persons emotions such as fear, anger, hatred or anxiety, the stronger the persons emotion, the stronger the inhuman spirit seems to get. They can also cause negative personality changes in a person they possess. This is not a spirit to be taken on by yourself and you should seek the help of a qualified proffessional when dealing with this type of spirit.

Residual VS Intelligent Spirits

What is the difference between a residual spirit or an intelligent one? Residual Spirits are the type you most likely will come across most often while out investigating a haunting. Residual Spirits are in fact not ghosts at all but are an imprinted memory. This memory will keep repeating itself, doing the same thing over and over and over. You can not interact with it, it is not aware of your presence and can not be communicated with. The apparitions are simply recordings of a past event in a place where that memory of the event was so strong and full of emotion that the energy has remained in an imprinted recording. An intelligent spirit is an actual ghost that has remained for what ever purpose it may have and can communicate and interact with you. They are made of of energy and they require energy to pull from in order to manifest or do things to attract your attention such as shaking a table or throwing a book down. Since they need to draw from surrounding energy in order to communicate or manifest, it is for this reason you may experience equipment failure such as a battery draining on a fully charged video camera or lights flickering, or that feeling of being under water you may experience. Since they pull energy from the surrounding area it is also for this reason why you will feel a room get really cold or cold spots in a typically warm area. These type of spirits generally have a purpose and although not related to you , may be seeking your help. It is thought that these spirits are the energy of a person who has died unexpectedly or traumatically and will seek out ways to communicate with you and typically mean no harm to anyone.

Assinins

Assinins, our second place of Investigation

This was our second site for paranormal investigation, proving much more promising than our first site at Louis hill. This will also be more than likely our last site until winter is over. This is Assinins Orphanage which is near Baraga, this photo was taken in the early 1900's. This was the last mission that Father Baraga, the Snow Shoe Priest built back in 1843. The Original orphanage burned to the ground where they erected a new and bigger one however had problems dealing with the influxes of children so would build and add on haphazardly including several staircases that were built for seemingly no reason, leading nowhere. A bizarre maze of a sort of Winchester mansion where today is a condemned building as it is in a state of ruins and falling apart. Locals say the dead still reside there where the sounds of children playing or screaming can still be heard and doors mysteriously slam shut, footsteps can be heard or the light of a lantern from a nun that had fallen down a staircase, after tripping on a child's toy, lantern still glowing but her body dead can still be seen through the windows at night. One of the things I truly love about paranormal investigating is the history behind the site of our chosen location. This orphanage has a colorful and rich history of it's past which includes cruelty, abuse and even murder. One such story is of a small girl, who one night froze to death by playing outside in a blizzard, which then her body was placed on display in the lobby as a warning to the other children of the consequences. One boy was forced to wear a dress all day long after he accidentally stepped over the line into the girls play area. Many children were placed here, mostly from poverty ridden families and included 60 Cuban refugee boys and girls where this catholic mission provided a roof for them but little more. Punishments were severe and cruel within these walls and chores were immense leading to boils on the children's knees. I can only imagine the horror and miserable existence these poor children had to endure here through the great depression era. There is a small cemetery down the road marked mostly by unnamed blank crosses, so many without a name to remember them by. There is a church on the premises as well however has a history of burning down every time they rebuild it. The church has burned to the ground on at least 2 occasions now having to be rebuilt. Assinins means "Little Rock" and was named for the first chief here that Father Baraga Baptized. A man by the name of James had grown up in this orphanage, having spent almost 7 years there, had come out with his story to the newspaper of what it was like to be there back in 1986, interestedly enough he died 9 days after the article appeared in the Lanse sentinel.

On our Investigation of the site, you could feel the presence very strongly of things there beside us. We thought we were recording some great evidence as a dark shadow stood in a window, peering out at us and moving as we were video taping the whole scene. However when coming back to review the video tape, that whole section was completely gone.........not unusual for spirit activity for your recording equipment to not work. However in viewing the pictures taken by digital camera, the little sliver of a cropped photo you see if you put it in a picture manager and blow it up, you see a fiery object, almost like a fiery face in the picture. This place had some real interesting activity going on where we experienced some personal experiences at yet not much caught on actual evidence other than the fiery face which there was nothing there that could of caused that as where that appeared was where a large bell sits in an empty concrete parking lot.

Louis Hill

In October, we headed out to explore an area known as Louis Hill which is supposedly an area known for roaming spirits. This picture here is the only one that turned up with orbs in it which is much easier to see in the larger format. We had hiked about 2 miles into the woods when complete darkness had fallen, before turning around to hike back out. Our supplies were limited to a tape recorder, digital cameras and a video camera with night vision.

For the most part it was an uneventful night other than getting spooked by all the animals passing near us in the night. We did however hear the calls and voice of a little girl and as we were leaving, one of our members felt tugging on her coat sleeve as a child would do to get your attention. You could even see the sleeve on the coat being depressed as someone grabbed it. However nothing really showed up on any of the equipment unfortuantly. This picture is full of mist however we were getting cold patches mixing with heat to form mist that night.

Heading into the woods in the location of Louis Hill before it got pitch black.