Private Residence Investigation, Columbus, Ohio

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Date: Friday night, October 31, 2003

Moon Phase: Half

Solar Weather: M class solar flares, geomagnetic storms

Investigators present: Hillary M., Shonda A., guest investigator Donna.

Equipment: Olympus C-3000 digital camera, Kodak DC280 digital camera, RCA digital voice recorder, Sony digital video camera with Nightshot, Extech EMF meter, Olympus 2000 Digital Voice Recorder, Sony Digital-8 Handycam, Extech IR thermometer

History: The house was built in 1922. The man who originally owned the land built the small house for his two daughters. Neither woman ever married. The first sister died in the 1960s (we think). The other sister lived alone in the house for the rest of her life, until she moved into a nursing home in the late 1990s. She died soon after. When she moved to the nursing home, a nearby church bought the property. The church renovated the house, updating it with indoor plumbing, then rented it to a young family. The present owner bought the house less than a year ago.
  The owner of the house, Kelli, is a personal friend of PRSNA's, and some of our investigators believe her to be a very gifted psychic. Kelli has a roommate who is also psychically sensitive. Kelli also owns two dogs, which spend most of their time in the house.
  Kelli believes that the first floor is the most active, as well as the stairway leading to the second floor. Three apparitions have been seen in the house, by two different people. An older woman, believed to be the former owner, has been seen in the kitchen, and moving through the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. A man in a top hat has been seen by Kelli's roommate, moving up the stairway to the second floor. A young soldier in a blue coat has also been seen by Kelli, outside behind the house. Kelli believes that the spirit of a large cat roams the home as well. She has often seen an indentation on the furniture, as if a cat was curled up there, and her dog often chases something unseen throughout the house. Kelli and her roommate have also heard tapping on the walls, particularly when she has left dishes undone. She believes that this upsets the woman that used to live there. The tapping has been heard throughout the downstairs, the stairway, and even Kelli's bedroom. Kelli has often smelled a strange, woodsy smell in the stairway, too. In addition, Kelly has often seen flashes of light out of the corners of her eyes in all areas of the house. It should be noted, however, that headlights from cars move through the house as the cars pass down the street out front.

Investigation: The homeowner, Kelli, met us at the home at about 10:40 p.m. She gave us quick tour of the small house, then Shonda sat down to interview her, while Donna and I roamed the house taking control pictures and temperature and EMF readings. We found the downstairs temperature to average 72 degrees, and the temperature upstairs to average 74 degrees. We located two spots within the house that had elevated EMF readings, for which we could find no source. The first one, at the top of the stairs to the second floor, was slightly elevated and held at a steady 2.4. The second one was in the doorway between the living room and kitchen, where the EMF meter fluctuated between 2.7 to 3.0.
  Since Shonda was interviewing Kelli, Donna and I decided to walk around the exterior of the house to take some pictures and take note of points of interest, such as where the electrical lines enter the house. As we approached the back of the house again, after making a full circle, I took a picture of the area between the back of the house and the outbuildings. The picture revealed a large orange orb on the trunk of a tree. Kelli would later tell us that this is where she's seen an apparition of a young soldier.
  At approximately 11:30 p.m., we spread out in the living room to begin an EVP session. Fourteen minutes into the session, Shonda's camera begins to malfunction, and it will not take a picture. Almost five minutes later, Shonda and I heard a two-tone whistle, but nobody else in the room heard it, and it did not show up on our recordings. We obtained several pictures of moving orbs in this room.
  At the end of this recording session, we turned on the lights, and I went to work checking batteries and changing SmartMedia cards. Shonda walked over to the doorway into the kitchen, and began taking pictures into the dark room. After standing there for a few minutes, she let out a soft squeal and came bounding across the room to where I was sitting. I asked her what was the matter, and she stated that she felt something moving rapidly toward her from the other side of the kitchen. I immediately snapped a picture and got an orb in motion on the other side of the doorway. The very next picture showed a stationary orb, but now on our side of the doorway!
  At 12:35, we moved into the kitchen. A few minutes later, Shonda, who was standing near the doorway to the living room, began to have difficulties with her camera again. Eight minutes into the recording session, I heard a squeaking noise in the stairway to the second floor while I was standing at the bottom. We obtained a few positive pictures in the kitchen, but most of them were taken from the kitchen looking into the living room. We left at approximately 1 a.m.

Conclusion: Although we were only in the home a little over two hours, we obtained several pictures containing moving orbs. We also obtained a few EVPs. Although I did not obtain any orbs on infrared video, Shonda did get a couple on hers, which was set up in the living room. Based strictly on the data that we collected, we do believe that at least one very active spirit inhabits this home. Due to the EMF reading and pictures obtained, as well as Shonda's experience of feeling something moving toward her, we feel very strongly that the doorway between the living room and kitchen is the most active spot in the home. This area seems to be so active, that the possibly of a vortex should be considered. However, we would have to provide much more evidence to come to this conclusion. We would like to investigate this home again in the near future.

Thanks to Kelli, and her roommate Donna, for allowing us to conduct a formal investigation of their home.

Submitted by Hillary Murdoch