| 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. |