My House

November 2008

I have known for a couple of years that there is a "spirit" in my house. I have heard it say my name when I was just about to fall asleep. I heard it so clearly that I responded both times, only to find myself alone. Then my cat started acting strange. He would come into the bathroom, go behind the door, stand up on his hind legs and reach up as far as he could. I would look to see if I needed to clean up dust-bunnies or maybe send an insect back outside. There was nothing there.
When I bought my first digital voice recorder, I set it up in the bathroom and let it record while I slept. Out of 4 1/2 hours of audio, I heard a child's voice singing a little song. To me it sounds like, "I like to play...water". I have no children in my home nor are there any children as neighbors.

Okay, now I want more! I bought a video camera, making sure that it had a "night" feature, set it up in the hallway facing into the bathroom. When I reviewed the video, I saw what appeared to be a shadowy figure that looked like a small child peering out of the tub. Unfortunately, my video camera was not what I had hoped it would be. I learned an expensive lesson, "night mode" and "night shot" are two different things. There was horrible pixilation and auto-focusing going on in the video. I was able to capture a still from the video that shows the figure. The photo of the bathroom shows that there is nothing in the center of the tub that could have created the shape.
I tried to recreate it after seeing the figure. Again, I set up the camera and tripod but I just couldn't get the same effect. I called my W.I.G.S. buddy, Rebecca, and invited her to come over for an investigation. She jumped on it! Grabbed her digital voice recorder, jumped in the car and came over. Camera?!? Oops! Needless to say, Rebecca did a lot of EVP work that night. EVP stands for "Electronic Voice Phenomena". It is sound that is not audible with your ears but can be heard on an electronic device, such as a voice recorder.
We tried ro recreate the shadow again. We could make a shadow but it went down the side of the tub as well. The tripod. We could not get just the "head" shape. I was snapping photos left and right. (How many photos can I take of my bathroom?) Rebecca was asking questions like, "can you knock on the wall?", "what is your name?" and "is this your home?". I had set up the video camera in the bathroom, as well as the voice recorder. After a couple of hours we decided to call it a night. It was a great time. When I reviewed the video footage, I found nothing. When listening to the voice recording, I was totally amazed! We had more EVPs. How exciting is that?! Rebecca had asked if the spirit could knock three times. There were three faint knocks. There were two times that a voice said something while we were chatting with each other. I am unable to discern what is said.


Then Rebecca asked, "Is this your home?". A child's voice responds with, "No, it's pa..'s". I'm not sure if it says "papa's", "pawa's" or "pada's". My name is Paula. When I recall how little ones pronounce my name, it could be pawa or pada. It's definitely a two syllable word.

I had sent the first EVP to Debby and Mark Constantino to see if they could help me clean it up. Mark and Debby are well-known EVP Specialists. They were very nice and did so. What they heard was, "My house...Mother". Thank you Mark and Debby for the help! There is more to come from my house but that's it for now.

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