The Shadowlit Realms
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My Day of the DeadWell thus far my Halloween has started out rather ghoulish and delightfully so, for I would not have it any other way.
Friday night I stayed at this little place called The Babbling Brook Inn, it was this rather lovely looking B&B and even though it was near by a main road and not too far from downtown it still had a quality of seclusions about it, for it was surrounded by trees and had a little garden area, and was tucked back.
It was awesome that the room I stayed in was called The Countess. I know thus far it does not sound very frightening, but my purpose there was to do a little paranormal investigating. And well I had thought originally that I was going to be staying in an alleged haunted Inn, until I found out after the fact that my mother who had told me about the place got the wrong inn and it was actually another place in the same general area which was suppose to be haunted.
But none the less I did have some curious events occur and it was a fun little experience. And Inns in general are a great place to find paranormal activity for some obvious reasons, and the place I stayed had been around a long time, so even if it was not noted for activity, there could still be things lurking about.
I had my type recorder to do some EVP work (electronic voice phenomena) in which disembodied voices which cannot be heard by the human ear are caught on tape. Also had an EMF (Electronic Magnetic Field) detector, because spirits require energy to manifest and EMF's detect energy and so if there is a sudden unexplained spike it could be the sign of the paranormal.
The Travel Channels Ghost Adventures was having a 7 hour live marathon Friday night, and more than anything I just love to watch them for the entertainment, they are the most hysterical ghost hunters show on TV and they were going to be on until midnight, so I was going to watch their show, and than at midnight, the witching hour of All Hallow's Eve, when the veil between this world and the next is thing I was going to do my own investigation.
Well while I was watching the TV I already had some curious things start to occur. First I heard something that sounded like someone walking around or moving about above us, only problem being, the room I was in, was sort of off on its own, away from the other rooms, there was not another room adjacent to it, or above it, so it couldn't be other guests.
At first the noise sounded like it was coming from the closet so I opened up the closet and looked around, and didn't see anything, but could hear this moving around above my head, and wasn't sure what it was. Than a little later the noise came again from the bathroom. I walked into the bathroom and heard like this scratching noise, and crawling around. It could have been an animal outside on the roof, but it sounded like a significantly sized animal. Possibly it was just a racoon or a opossum. So it was interesting, but potentially explainable.
And throughout the night while I was on the bed watching TV I would catch a stray sound that just stuck out from the usual sounds of outside noises. I would hear something now and than that just did not seem to match any of the typical noises and that made me give a bit of a start and look around, but nothing distinctive and again, things that could possibly be explained. One sort of weird thing when I was lying in bed at one point I heard what sounded like a cat right behind the head broad of the bed, which was pushed up against the wall. Maybe their really was a cat outside, but it was just kind of strange.
But then something really awesome happened. The highlight of the night. I was very excited about this. In the room against one wall there was a fireplace and book shelves on either side of it, with two chars one each side of the fire place with the chair backs to the fireplace so they faced out over the room. At one point I was sitting in one of the chairs cleaning my glasses when I heard a loud BOOM! right behind me. And I was like what the hell was that? I turned and looked, and this thick heavy book that had been on the shelf, had without any known reason just fallen over.
Then the show ends, and I go to do my official investigation, turn off the TV, a was a bit disappointed that the room was not darker, because the lights outside, had my recorder ready, brought my camera, just in case something really cool happened and I could try and snap a few pictures and see if I could catch anything, turned on the EMF device, and tried to make some contact with the otherside.
One thing that was kind of eerie and unnatural in its own right was how still and quiet it was, though there were still the outside noises going on the room itself was completely silent, and you know houses are given to make just regular every day noise especially old buildings, but I swear in the room there was not a creek or a pop.
During my investigation time, nothing much seemed to occur, there was one minor episode that was kind of interesting in which I heard what sounded like a footstep, as it made the exact some noise the floor makes when someone is walking on it.
Eventually I decide to go to bed, and for a while was just lying in bed listening for anything until I went to sleep, and whenever I am in hotels and such I always end up waking up several times during the night, so I did have my one last moment that was almost as good as the book.
I woke up at some unknown hour of the early morning, when I heard quite loudly what sounded like someone bumping into or thumping against the wooden cabinet the TV was in. It totally sounded just like a person had walked into it. I looked around the room half-expecting to see someone there.
So that was kind of fun, and than when I was getting ready to leave in the morning there was this owl perched up on a tree across the street which was really cool but too far away to try and get a good picture of.
And on the way home I stopped at a cemetery, which I always enjoy, and what better time to visit a cemetery? They had some interesting graves there, and this one head stone that was like the coolest headstone ever, I totally wanted to hang out with the dead person who would have that tombstone. I got a picture of that which I will post later.
Also I took a walk down Elm Street, stopped off in this little town and it just so happened to be along a road called Elm Street, so that was kind of funky, and bought a couple of awesome vampire books. I got The Vampire's Assistant in a collection that actually has the first three books of the series within it. And I got "The Vampire Book" which is a vampire encyclopedia with anything and everything you could or ever would want to know about vampires.
Than I also got a book called R.I.P that is shaped like a headstone, and has a collection of last words.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention. When I got home I listened to my EVP tape, and while there were no voices from beyond the grave, there was a strange sound which I could not account for and did not sound like any of the noises that I was aware. It did not match any of the sounds outside or anything within the room that I could think of. The best way I can explain it, is that it sounded like a person clapping once ever five seconds, and it happens periodically within the tape at long intervals.
4:13 PM - 10/31/2009 - post comment
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