Final report on the "Anchorage"
Last night the C.O.R.P.G. Investigated  the Anchorage in Marietta, Ohio and had a night
full of paranormal activity.  We arrived at the Anchorage around 8:10 due to bad weather
and a lot of traffic.  Marietta was having a festival going on with fireworks and such.  
When we arrived  we were greeted by Scott Britton who works for the Historical Society.
 After introducing ourselves, we set up our safe zone in the main hall way of the huge 22
room mansion.  After setting up the equipment we had Scott take a group photo of us
where immediately  my camera started acting crazy, not wanting to function.( a normal
thing, we are told that happens quite often with investigators there) After a few minutes
of my camera that kept giving me a "zoom error" finally started working and we were
able to take a few group photo's.  The group photo from Rick's camera(Rick is the
founder of c.o.p.r.g.) had a lot of orbs,which the other pictures did not.  

Finally after getting the group photo's Scott began giving us a tour of this massive
structure that is going through a lot of restorations.  We started off on the main floor
getting a tour of the main parlor and hearing of Scott's personal accounts of hearing
footsteps and ghostly voices.  Next we made our way to the music room where Eliza
Putnam and her husband would host concerts of all kinds for their guests.  After
touring all of the downstairs(which is quite a maze) we made our way to the second
floor where the Putnam's master bedroom is located along with some of the worker's
quarters are located as well(people say that the stairwell leading to this floor is where
the spirit of Eliza Putnam has been seen quite a bit)  then it was onto the next floor
known as the children's playroom and finally up to the tower where Eliza is also said to
be spotted overlooking the city with a grand view.  It's easy to see why Mrs. Putnam
doesn't want to leave her home.  After touring the upstairs, we made our way back
downstairs turning out the lights as we made our way down to the first floor and into
the basement.  

After the tour was over we began sweeping the different floors with our EMF detector
and taking temperature readings.  Rick and I decided to start in the tower and work our
way down as Jeni and Nancy started in the basement and worked their way up.  After
getting some promising readings we began our investigation.  Rick and I grabbed a seat
in the tower, took some photo's and did some evp recordings.  We didn't really get a
whole lot in the tower besides a great view of the city,or so we thought, so we made our
way down to the children's playroom where later on after downloading and going over
the evp's I found that we were not alone.  Throughout our conversations and cracking
jokes to pass our time we picked up a woman's laughter, laughing at our wisecracks
with us.  After about 20 minutes we made our way downward into the master bedroom  
where Rick's two way radio continuously made strange clicking sounds while we were
asking questions.  After leaving the master bedroom we made our way across the hall
into one of the children's bedroom.  We didn't really get a whole lot here.  We did get
lost a few times while exploring.  So we ended up checking out some of the worker's
quarter's and came across some interesting and very old medications in different
boxes(apparently used for the patients when the home was a nursing home)  After
awhile we decided that it was getting late so we made our way back to the safe zone to  
wrap it up.  After meeting back up with the ladies who was also done taking
photo's,EMF readings, and evp's of all the upstairs.  We started packing up the
equipment and getting ready for the long drive home.  We said our goodbye's and
headed out.  Not feeling as though we had very much, we were hoping for some great
evidence either on film or evp's.  After catching up on some sleep.


The next morning (9/9/07) after some much needed sleep we began sifting through the
evidence we had collected.  After going through over 300 photo's(weeding out the possibles
and northing's) I only found about 25 photo's that revealed some pretty good orbs.  After doing
a lot of extensive research on these things we have come to call orbs, I have yet to get very
excited about any that I have seen due to so many different possibilities such as dust, etc.   I
would rather catch a possible full body apparition any day which is pretty rare but does happen
from time to time.  I finally made it through the photo's and began the long grueling evp
extracting.  Right from the start while Rick and I were in the children's playroom I figured out
pretty quick that we were not alone and was in fact joined by the presence of a female spirit
that began to laugh at our jokes and wisecracks.  In one part of the recording I say to
Rick(while holding the digital thermometer) "I can think of a few other things that I could do with
this"(while cracking a joke like, come here baby, let me take your temperature).  OK I know this
was uncalled for but we thought it was funny and apparently so did the female presence who
laughed along with us.  I also mentioned something about " I bet if Jeni sees something, she
will freak out and be scared"  Throughout this conversation as well the female presence
laughed along with us, especially when Rick announced that I had better watch what I say
because the recorder was on and Jeni would get me.  The female presence got a good laugh
at this one.  

After leaving the children's playroom we made our way into the master bedroom where Rick's
two way radio started clicking like crazy although no one was calling us.  Every time we would
ask a question it would start clicking.  After leaving the master bedroom we made our way
across the hall to one of the children's bedroom.  While in this room we came across an eerie
clipping entitled "The first Marietta hanging" with a detailed description of a man who was hung
after committing a murder.  OK, now I was creped out.  While in the room we also came across
some very old medicines we believe were used when the house was a rest home.  I found one
medication that was used for constipation as I told Rick to radio down to the ladies and ask
them if they were feeling constipated, we again heard the sound of a woman's laughter.

While Jeni and Nancy were in the basement, they picked up a very clear woman's voice saying
"I can't breathe" on Jeni's recorder which shook both of us up when we heard it play on the evp
processor.  Later on in Jeni's recording while they were in the music room she ask if Eliza
Putnam was with them in the room and got a very clear male's voice stating "no" Also when she
asked if someone wanted their picture taken with them she caught a very clear"yes" again by a
very prominent male voice.  There was just one more grade"A" evp captured that night.  While
in the shower room Jeni asked the question "Can you say anything"? We picked up a very
clear prominent male voice replying once again with the answer "no"

For some reason Rick and I were followed by a female presence while the ladies were followed
by what we believe to be the spirit of the Colonel from long ago.  I guess maybe the spirit's in
this home are I guess you could call a partial.  Needless to say, we are looking forward to
returning to the Anchorage in hopes of encountering our friendly and very talkative spirits once
again.  Only this time hopefully we will be camping with them overnight in hopes of being
entertained and entertaining even more.
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