Archives: St. Petersburg
5th Avenue South
Private Home
August 8, 2002
(The motorcycle at the far right
is the one the home owner's son
saw move on its own).
5th Ave. South
St. Petersburg
Private Home
August 8, 2002
It can be said that children have a unique relationship to ghosts. Perhaps it's the innocence of the young that allows them to see into the unknown. Or it's their susceptibility to the pranks of older children that make them tremble deep in the night. Regardless, every parent has dealt with an awe-struck child's amazing accounts of paranormal activity, be it real or imagined.
The team experienced two separate investigations based upon the reports of children. The first investigation took place in August at a residence on 5th Ave. South. A mother and son recently moved into the new house, and were puzzled by sporadic occurrences of unusual phenomena.
The events included a toy motorcycle revving up, a cat dish flipping over, and the house alarm resetting itself. The boy also reported bathroom doors that locked of their own accord when he was taking a shower, and both found the bathtub plugged and filled with water and ooze one morning. Pink dots also mysteriously manifested themselves in the carpet during a single night, with several still visible despite a steam cleaning.
Three members of the team arrived to survey the scene. During the investigation, there was very little EMF (electromagnetic field) energy. Images picked up no anomalous activity. Temperatures fluctuated only near windows, an obvious place of heat exchange. The family pets acted normally.
While the pink dots could not be explained, no one witnessed them being created. They were not there that night when the family went to bed, but were discovered by the mother the next morning. However, the cats roam freely through the house, and could be suspects. Similar circumstances surrounded the mysterious bath water filled with ooze. Could it have been muck in new pipes that had somehow gotten into the bathroom?
The interview revealed that the young man was the sole witness of activity. The mother saw the results of the manifestations, but viewed nothing directly herself. Her son also enjoyed reading volumes of the Goosebumps series. He could quote passages from his favorite texts, which did include a story about ghosts. One book also inspired a nightmare about an entity holding him down in bed.
The team concluded that the son had a wonderfully creative mind that was possibly stimulated by the excitement of a new school year and the recent move into the family's first house. No evidence was found of haunting activity while the team was there.
A second investigation on 68th Street North in November had different results. The homeowner's 7-year-old niece was witness to several manifestations of her deceased uncle, who died in the house after a long battle with cancer. The child had shown strong psi tendencies in her former residence, where she and her family witnessed haunting activity.
We arrived with 6 members, who split into two teams of three. During the investigation, sensitives picked up a strong male presence throughout the home, particularly in rooms where, it was later learned, the uncle spent a great deal of time in life. EMF spiked several times, including in the exact place where the man died. Temperature fluctuations were recorded throughout the house, extending to several large pockets of cold air.
During the interview, the homeowner's two brothers revealed a strong psi ability that ran through the family line. Both had interactions with ghosts before and both felt the presence of the husband through dreams and the home itself.
As children, how many of us awakened to things going bump in the night? Can we truly say that there was nothing there, that it was simply the byproduct of an active imagination? It could be that we did experience something fantastic, now a memory corrupted by time and the rationing of an adult mind.
