Every once in a while I grab my team and we investigate abandoned cemeteries. Not because I believe that there are ghosts there but because it keeps us all on our researcher toes. I use cemeteries to train new researchers, test new devices, and keep the veteran researchers from becoming complacent during investigations. Practice makes perfect and when requests are slow to come in, this is what we do. We are not Ghost Hunters and never will be. We do not actively seek out “haunted” locations we are asked to come and investigate to try to explain what is happening. We are researchers and like every great researcher, we must keep up to date on the latest technology and practices. I do not begrudge anyone who does call themselves a ghost hunter. I respect what you do and I know for a fact, that without the hunters we wouldn’t know what to do with most of the equipment we have. I’m just saying that we do not seek out these locations normally.
With that said: Excerpt from the survey done in 2000 for this particular cemetery just to give you an idea as to how the place looked. Our night vision camera refused to behave so we have no photos but I will go back and take some daylight pictures and update this post as soon as I do.
Though the cemetery is still in use, it is in extremely poor condition, and many gravestones may soon be lost to neglect. At the time of the survey weeds, shrubs, and trees made it difficult to complete the work. Many gravestones are leaning, sunken, broken, deteriorating, or just plain missing. Several graves have only a funeral home marker (marked by the letter "F" to the left of the death date). There are many more graves in this cemetery than the survey shows if one includes the sunken graves, mounds, and the pile of fieldstones found near the back of the cemetery. The church building is still standing, but it appears to be abandoned.
I attempted to do the survey in rows to show possibly relationships, but the rows are very irregular. I started the survey AT THE ROAD and worked back through the cemetery. A date that appears to fall between the birth and death columns indicates that there was only one date on the stone, and I could not tell if it was a birth or death date.
The oldest date on a grave was that of Larence Morrow, whose birth date reads: ___ 24, 1835. His death date was unreadable.
The first EVP we obtained was two footsteps. I hated how these turned out upon upload to sound cloud. You may have to listen to it a couple times. The footsteps are faint but after you hear them, you can clearly hear our trainee say that he is now leaving. It did freak him out a bit but he hung in there.
The second one is a breath or a sigh, none of us were standing anywhere near the voice recorder as it was atop a gravestone alone.
Lastly, this one is the most difficult to hear once it was uploaded and is best heard with headphones. Again, it is barely above a whisper. We enhanced the audio only to make the volume louder; it is clearly audible without any enhancements but the upload completely distorts it. We believe it is saying, "I'm judging you," referring again to our trainee.
If anyone has any recommendations as to a better uploader please let us know! Please, tell us what you think and leave comment below. Remember to "like" us on facebook by following the link on the right. You can also follow us on twitter @WNCPRS as well. If you would like us to investigate your area, send us an email here.
http://snd.sc/l49xNA
With that said: Excerpt from the survey done in 2000 for this particular cemetery just to give you an idea as to how the place looked. Our night vision camera refused to behave so we have no photos but I will go back and take some daylight pictures and update this post as soon as I do.
Though the cemetery is still in use, it is in extremely poor condition, and many gravestones may soon be lost to neglect. At the time of the survey weeds, shrubs, and trees made it difficult to complete the work. Many gravestones are leaning, sunken, broken, deteriorating, or just plain missing. Several graves have only a funeral home marker (marked by the letter "F" to the left of the death date). There are many more graves in this cemetery than the survey shows if one includes the sunken graves, mounds, and the pile of fieldstones found near the back of the cemetery. The church building is still standing, but it appears to be abandoned.
I attempted to do the survey in rows to show possibly relationships, but the rows are very irregular. I started the survey AT THE ROAD and worked back through the cemetery. A date that appears to fall between the birth and death columns indicates that there was only one date on the stone, and I could not tell if it was a birth or death date.
The oldest date on a grave was that of Larence Morrow, whose birth date reads: ___ 24, 1835. His death date was unreadable.
The first EVP we obtained was two footsteps. I hated how these turned out upon upload to sound cloud. You may have to listen to it a couple times. The footsteps are faint but after you hear them, you can clearly hear our trainee say that he is now leaving. It did freak him out a bit but he hung in there.
The second one is a breath or a sigh, none of us were standing anywhere near the voice recorder as it was atop a gravestone alone.
Lastly, this one is the most difficult to hear once it was uploaded and is best heard with headphones. Again, it is barely above a whisper. We enhanced the audio only to make the volume louder; it is clearly audible without any enhancements but the upload completely distorts it. We believe it is saying, "I'm judging you," referring again to our trainee.
If anyone has any recommendations as to a better uploader please let us know! Please, tell us what you think and leave comment below. Remember to "like" us on facebook by following the link on the right. You can also follow us on twitter @WNCPRS as well. If you would like us to investigate your area, send us an email here.
http://snd.sc/l49xNA
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