Columbia State Park Ghost Tour

We attended the group's monthly meeting today and they seemed like a good bunch of folks. Fairly diverse, everyone was nice, no egos, no aloofness, felt comfortable right away, which is ALWAYS a good sign.

They were headed for Columbia State Park after their meeting, to take the Ghost Tour, and invited us to go along, so we did.

So we did and I have to say, that it was pretty cool! GREAT settings, cool stories, interesting possibilities.

The whole area is quaint, and very charming.

It's certainly a drive though - I don't think that my car would make it LOL.

The group is hoping to do an investigation there - I was way into that, if we can afford it anyway! So hopefully they will have some more information on that location soon! :)

It was an AWESOME Saturday though, to be sure! Very fun!

Checking out a new group!

Well, one of the great things about the group we are with now is that they are SO open for the team to be able to work with other teams if they want more of a variety of events or experiences - so we are going to attend a meeting by another local group tomorrow.

I think it will be a nice group - the founder of the group we've been doing things with has gone on a number of investigations with this team and spent some time getting to know the group's founder and says he is very nice but has said that they have a different flavor, in that they tend to prefer private residences and that they incorporate a more religion/spiritual cast on things, which is cool as though I do enjoy a strict clinical scientific slant on things, I am also interested and intrigued by the spiritual side of things.

Moreso likely because I have been doing my first steps into shamanistic journeying this past couple of years, and well, that will obviously come into play at some point I am sure. After all, we are supposedly trying to contact spirits, so it makes sense to have that spiritual slant included to some degree.

It will be interesting to do LoneWalk again this year to be sure!

So since the primary group doesn't look like it's ever going to be busy in a regular sense, it will be nice to have another group to work with as well I think. I really like that they have a different cast on things, because variety is ALWAYS a good thing, and it brings different things to different tables.

they will be doing a Ghost Tour at Columbia State Park after the meeting, we've RSVP'ed for it, but not sure we will actually go or not - I guess it will depend on the vibe we get and if they are nice or not. I dislike that my car has been acting up, and it's a looong drive to take especially when the engine check light has been popping on for the last two days .... so not sure it's wise to take it on a road trip far from home LOL. but we will see!

Haunted Houses of California

This was a pretty cool post, sounds like it might be fun to try to check some of these out hehe!

http://www.ghost2ghost.org/?p=297

Sure would be nice to dig up some more local "hot spots" to go check out to be sure ...

Rockville Cemetery in Fairfield

Did another test run today at another local cemetery - it was cool and all, as cemeteries go.

I just really don't often get any sense of paranormal activity in graveyards. Not saying some don't have activity and that some might not have hauntings, but just overall doesn't seem like the one's I've visited had anything stirring that wasn't actually alive, lol.

But it sure was pretty, and again, not a bad way at all to spend a summer afternoon! :)

Mountain Cemetery in Sonoma

So yesterday we went bouncing around this grand old cemetery with your group and, WOW - it's a great place just to go walking for an afternoon!

Definitely would be mucho spooky at night - would LOVE to find a way to get permission to stay there overnight, to be sure.

Mostly it was just a testing ground for us to practice surveying a location, so wasn't really about gathering any credible evidence.

However, one thing of note was that a few folks had found the Lise gravesite and we had some interesting thing s happen - just a few EMF spikes, but then there was an audible interaction via the Ovibus that one of our members had brought that was recorded. Basically they asked if someone was there and received "Yes" as the answer. They then asked if they were responding to their question and received another "Yes".

So that was rather cool, although sparse - but then what can one really expect in the daylight while a baseball game is in progress nearby? LOL.

Possible EVP?

So this was the first potential EVP I got from the Mar. 20th investigation.

Check it out - I put my digital recorder into another room where no one else was. Me and my "investigating buddy" (we employed the buddy system, so I had someone volunteer to be my buddy hehe) that went into the room to put it there were the only ones who knew where in the room I put it and she never left my vicinity, nor did any of the others in our group after we came back. The other group was downstairs, and had no clue we were doing that at all.

I left the recorder there until the session ended and the group downstairs was starting to trickle up. 

Click the play button below to listen to the EVP.

In any case, it was sort of cool to find this in the lower frequencies. Is it paranormal? No clue. But it's sort of cool I think either way, lol!

So what do YOU hear?

Investigation Day!

OMG.

First Ray gets called into work at the last minute. But we think, no big deal ... he's off by 5pm, and that gives us a 2 hour period to get to Stockton, which is only an hour away.

The trouble happened because I gloated at being sooo ahead of schedule. I know this. And I know better than to gloat. But I did it anyway and the universe, as usual, smacked the hell out of me for doing it. *sigh*

So let's see. We took off on time. We hit UGLY UGLY UGLY traffic. Nasty bad evil traffic.

So it looked like we might be you know, 1o-20 minutes late. So I call before we are late, you know because that is the polite and courteous thing to do.

Turns out I'd have been pretty accurate ... had I been on the right freeway.

Oh yes. Seems I somehow ended up on the WRONG flipping freeway. Stockton is interesting - I-5 and 99 run parallel to each other and Stockton sort of sits in the middle of both of them.

So if you get on the *wrong* freeway - as I did - you might find exits named the same, but when you get onto them the directions "no longer workie". Of course you never realize it at first. Oh no, because that would be easy.

So we drove alll the way down Wilson Way (which I hope I never see again in this lifetime) to Dr. martin Luther King Blvd.

On the way we almost ran over some guy in the middle of the street clutching his chest and having the most painful expression on his face in the intersection of Bradford and Wilson Way. Scared the shit out of me! Hope he was okay, the ambulance came and scraped him off the road maybe 2 minutes later.

We saw hookers, drug deals, gun deals, people partaking of a variety of drugs, and man, I could not get out of there fast enough. Anyways after 2 hours of being lost in a really ugly part of Stockton, I somehow figured my way out and where I needed to be (I seriously have NO clue how that happened, it was practically magical!)

Anyway we finally got to where we were supposed to be, and they were nice enough to let us jump on the end of the investigation.

I didn't feel like there was anything there, but that's cool. More like a dry run was the way I viewed it, lol.

Nothing of note happened that I was aware of really, but should be interesting to see what was recorded during the evidence review meeting!

The way home was uneventful and disgustingly easy and quick. LOL!

In any case, it was an adventure and I am glad that we finally got one under our proverbial belts!! :)