Date: 10/30/04
Time: 20:00 - 24:00
Location: Private Residence – Spruce St., Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Team Members: Tim Ellis, Steve LaPlaunt, Brad Blair, Jason Fegan, Lance Brown
Subject: Investigation of Paranormal Activity Secondary to Occupants Reports
of Strange Occurrences
History:
Ø In 1899 the LaLonde family started the building of the “Colonial”. The location of the building was approximately the center of what is now St. James Street.
While it was still under construction in a roughed in condition, John Moffley and Charles Chipley purchased it. They finished it in approximately the same year and named it “the Colonial”.
In 1905 the two entrepreneurs moved the huge house to its present location, created St. James Street and built three “cottages” on the street that still exist today. Mr. Chipley owned and operated the Chipley Insurance Agency and Mr. Moffley the American-Canadian Real Estate Agency in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Mr. Moffley died in 1918 leaving his wife, son, and Mr. Chipley in the house.
Mr. John Kenn, retired Sault Schools Librarian, has provided some research that indicates Mrs. Moffley moved on and left Mr. Chipley at the Colonial. He suggests that it was turned into an apartment house during the war when there was a shortage of housing in Sault Ste. Marie.
Since that time countless people have lived at The Colonial. Mr. Chipley owned and lived in the home until his death in the 1950’s leaving it to Mr. Charles Moffley, the son of John Moffley. It has since changed hands six times. It remained a rental until the spring of 2000 when it was converted, by the current owners, back into a single-family residence keeping one small apartment in the back for our aging parents.
Ø Psychic Phenomenon / Ghostly apparitions in the house
· Event happened in 2002: Son #3 was in his bedroom on the Second Floor. Son #2 was in his bedroom on the Third Floor. Between Midnight and 1am they both heard a constant thumping on the stairs. The thumping lasted for 15 to 20 minutes. Shortly after the thumping stopped the son on the second floor checked the stairs and when he saw no one was there, he quickly ran up the stairs to the third floor, into his brother’s room and spent the night with his brother.
· Event happened in 2002: Son #2 was in the computer room located on the main floor. It was around 1am and he was home alone. He started to hear a constant tapping on the wall, coming from the adjacent room, the Billiards Room. The tapping lasted for almost 20 minutes before he talked himself into looking into the Billiards Room. As soon as he got up and looked in, the tapping stopped. As soon as he went back to the computer, the tapping started again. At this point he went to his bedroom and shut the door for the night.
o This event happened during the summer and during renovation of
the room, so the radiator was torn up and heat was shut off. This takes away the possibility of the radiator causing the tapping.
· Event happened in 2003: Son #2, as in the previous occurrence, was getting ready for bed and heard (as he explained it) a “sinister laugh” coming from inside his wall. He quickly jumped into bed and covered his head with his blankets until he fell asleep.
o There is a walk through area behind his bedroom wall that allows you to walk around to the other side of the room. His bedroom wall is NOT the outside wall.
· A couple of times, while son #2 was walking through the main hallway he
hit an extremely cold spot that stopped him from walking. The area is by the dinning room, and each time this happened the formal doors to the dinning room were closed.
· The oldest son (Son #1), no longer lives at home. But when he
did he constantly heard voices, but never could make out what they were saying. Also, while living in the house, he would hear doors open and close for no reason, when he knew he was home alone.
· Before the current owners moved in, they owned the house for two years prior.
During these two years, the house was broken into apartments. One renter was sitting in her apartment one night. Her back was to the hallway, and the door to the hallway was open. She was working on her computer, and through the reflection of her computer screen she could see the open door and hallway behind her. It was then she noticed an old man slowly walk by her door. She quickly got up and ran to the hallway, but no one was there. There was no one else in that area since it was part of her apartment. She quickly called a friend over to stay with her, and reported the incident to the owners the next morning. Her apartment is now where the Master Bedroom is.
· There is also an “urban legend” of a past owner hanging them selves from the rafters of the tower, which is located in the third floor bedroom. However there is no evidence or records to back this story.
Equipment:
Ø 1 digital still camera
Ø 3 digital video cameras
- 5.5 hours of video
Ø 1 audio recorder with parabolic microphone
Ø 8 Thermocouple System
Ø 1 hand held laser thermometer
Ø 1 EMF Detector
Personal Findings:
Ø None
Objective Findings:
Ø Digital Video
- Bright fast moving orb seen on Master Bedroom TV. Refer to the ‘Comments’ section
for further details.
Ø 8 Thermocouple System
- consistent readings throughout investigation with no significant temperature
fluctuations, except for thermocouple #8 located in 4th floor closet which increased
from a steady state 64F to 82F in 1 minute and then returned to ~64F in 2 minutes.
Refer to the ‘Comments’ section for further details.
Comments:
Ø A temperature change from 64F (steady state) to 82F (within 1 minute) was recorded in the 4th floor closet at approximately 11:30pm. The temperature returned to 64F within 1.5 minutes. Refer to graph #1004-001. This event coincided with the attempted EVP contact within the 4th floor closet. We verified that entry into the closet to obtain the EVP reading did not produced the elevated temperature. This was done by simulating the EVP recording and monitoring the temperature at the same time. There was no temperature increase.
#1004-001
Ø Video that was focused on the Master Bedroom showed a bright “orb”. It appears at the bottom of the television screen and moves to toward the top of he screen, and then disappears. There is no other physical evidence to back this.
Assessment:
In conjunction with the interviews of the occupants and data collected the night of the investigation; it is our opinion that a follow up investigation could be warranted. After reviewing all the data collected the night of 10/30/04, U.P.P.R.S. feels there were some events that could not be explained as “normal”, and therefore a follow up investigation could help us to gather more information in these areas.
