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                        Ripley’s Believe It or Not!®Museum

                             Formally   Castle Warden

                                                  02/17/08

                                                 

 

History of building: The history of the building is located on the page of our

last investigation at Ripley’s. Here is the link     Ripley’s history

 

Present: Scott, Sprout, Lori, Toni, Tom, Craig also guests Susan and Greg.

 

Duration: Recorded from 10:20pm till 3:26am

 

Equipment: Pyrometer, gauss meters, trifield, audio recorders, 7 infrared cameras,

3 video cameras, digital cameras, EMF meters, pyrometer, ultrasonic listener,

dowsing rods and mini disc.

 

History of haunting: The history of haunting is located on the page of our

last investigation at Ripley’s. Here is the link  Ripley’s history

 

Personal experiences: Everyone in the group had a experience on this investigation.

* Sprout- We did 2 evp sessions by the moose on the 3rd floor balcony.

2:28am The first session I saw a 3 foot shadow shaped like a dark line tilted

at a angle. This line came towards me and through the doorway to my left.

* 3:00am The second sitting I saw quick shadows darting around the ferris wheel

and saw 2 different black shadow people on either side of the circus room door on

the second floor.

2:20am I also smelled smoke near the vending machine after coming down from

the penthouse.

 

* Scott- 12:17am While sitting in the theater I saw a thin black shadow move into the

theater from the exit doorway.

* 2:23  During the EVP session at the moose, I felt like something was around

me and then felt like my heart was pounding out of my chest. I got up and

approached the Bone room and heard Craig say “he felt chills running up his spine and

he felt it in his heart”. At this point I called everyone outside for a break.

* I smelled fire by the elevator on the 3rd floor during the tear down of equipment.

 

* Lori- While Craig was having a experience in the bone room, I leaned against the

display and also feel a prickly, poking sensation on my back and that point I pulled away.

 

* Toni- In the interactive room at one point Tom, Susan and I heard what sounded

like a small explosion and a woman screaming. We quickly went into the room

with the “gate” and saw nothing out of the ordinary and could not determine what

made the noise. Susan radioed Greg and he said it was probably the

“Lightening Machine” in the Gate Room. He also said it should not be activated

unless someone puts money in it plus it was turned off. Tom, Susan and I tired

activating the machine by touch and nothing happened and Susan reached down and

unplugged it machine from the wall. I have no idea if it was turned off before she

unplugged it. Also note: we had been down in the interactive area for a good

45 mins and it had not activated once during that time.

 

* While setting up my Hi-8 in the “Music” room, it appeared that my night shot was

not working. A “torch light” was brought in for light to record by when it was plugged

in it no longer worked. At this point I decided to use the spot light built into the

Hi-8 on. I made a comment about if their were any orchestra players in the room

then They should prove it by striking up the band. At this point the light on the

Hi-8 went out.

I can not say it is paranormal of course simply because I was having so many

problems with the camera to begin with. So I left the camera recording in darkness

thinking audio was better than nothing. NOTE: Upon returning home the torch light

worked and also my Hi-8 and the night shot was once again working almost perfect

as well as the spot light built into the camera.

 

* 12:23am While Lori, Sprout, Greg and myself was in the Bone room doing an EVP

session I had a moment of severe dizziness and anxiety. I felt as though I was being

approached from behind, which was impossible since I was sitting with my back to

the wall. It lasted maybe a minute at best. After that the room felt empty.

 

* At one point, everyone had left the building except for Tom and I. Tom was at the

monitor and I was sitting on the stairs with my back to the third floor. Several

times I thought I heard foot steps coming from the Bone Room, which was the next

floor up and felt like I was being watched. Susan also experienced this at a earlier

time that night.

 

* 2:30am I went to sit with Scott by the moose on the third floor and I immediately

began to see shadows moving all about and started to feel very dizzy. I felt like

the room was spinning and I was being “pulled” down into the floor beneath me.

This was also accompanied by an extreme sense of nausea.

 

* 3:00 During the second evp session on the third floor, Scott began his question and

answer session and I began to see shadows moving around again. I got this very

random and angry thought in my head to tell Scott, “You don’t know”. I turned my

head to speak these words and recognized that these were not my words or thoughts

and opened my eyes and saw a low dark shadow swirling in front of me pretty much

at my feet. I heard something mechanical come on downstairs. It sounded like

maybe a TV had turned on and was playing music and was accompanied by what I

perceived as a feminine laugh. I saw a shadow moving back and forth on the lower

landing, this had no real shape and was very fluid in motion. At one point I did

witness the lower landing illuminate as well and sense we were all on the third floor

and not using flashlights I can safely say it was not caused by anyone in the building.

 

* Tom- 3:00 I was able to see shadows moving around us while doing the second

evp session by the moose. I also smelled fire on the third floor after we called the

investigation.

 

* Craig- 2:26am Tom, Lori, Susan and myself were in the bone room. I asked couple

questions when I began to feel a chill in my lower spine this is like at 2:29 I asked

Susan if she felt anything since she was closet to me, she respond no, at the time

the chill that was in my lower spine was moving up to my shoulders I then asked

Susan to come lean by me and she did so but moved away instantly I asked her

what was wrong does she feel something? she replied with yes. Then the chill

went away, I paused for a few moments and then asked another question the chill

came back to my shoulders then it begun to tingle.  Lori got up and came by me

and stated it was cold in the area. The tingle I was feeling in my shoulders was

now in my chest around my heart area. This experience was not frighten it was

cool and I am glad I got to experience it.

 

 

Report on evidence:

 

* 11:26pm In the circus room we captured what we believe is a man saying

“Cut you, cut you now”. It is similar to a EVP we captured on our previous

investigation. Click on location photo below to hear.

                  

 

* 12:45am In the bone room we captured what we believe is a man saying

“Not yet, just one minute”. Click on location photo below to hear.

               

 

* 3:14am The moose hallway we captured what we believe is a man saying

“Rachel”. Click on location photo below to hear.

               

 

 

Below are 2 videos that were caught on our secondary DVR, in the interactive room.

Note: The dust orbs “dorbs” that were captured on video all had the same

fast flight path. The two videos below are very distinct in their movement.

Also the camera was set for motion and sound activation.

 

* 10:57pm This orb type anomaly had a strange characteristic in which it moves

like the shape of an M.

                  

 

* 1:04am This orb type anomaly which is also resembles something called a rod is seen in this video. The interesting part is that it is also producing a electrical sound.