Date
and Time: October 18 2014 – 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Moon
Phase: Waning Crescent 23% of full
Weather:
Mild and cloudy, +16 C
Location:
Colchester Historeum 29 Young Street Truro Nova
Scotia
Investigators:
Earl Lattie, Darcy O’Neill, Dawn-Leigh Werenka, Amanda
Dyke + 16 guests and paranormal fans.
Paranormal
History of Area: The Colchester Historeum is a
location that Paranormal Investigations Nova Scotia has investigated in the
past and gotten evidence. The common story told about the building is that a labourer
that was working on the exterior of the building was on his scaffolding
platform when he saw the face of an elderly woman looking out of the archive
window. Startled, he went inside the building and up to archives only to find
not only nobody present, but the windows were papered over on the inside. There
was no way he could have seen anybody looking out at him. A previous curator of
the historeum was constantly losing scissors in the building, and was also
firmly convinced that the building was haunted.
Baseline
Temperature: The ambient room temperature varied between
each floor, which is to be expected (cooler in the basement, quite warm in the
attic.) Several people mentioned walking through cold spots, and the sensation
of a cold draft passing by them.
Baseline
EM Readings: While baseline EM readings were quite low,
each group throughout the night experienced spikes in the EM field. These
readings registered on both the K2 meters as well as the MEL meter. Many of the
strongest readings were registered around historic items and artifacts, none of
which would be emitting a power source. The highest readings of the night were
registered in the attic meeting room.
Camera
Evidence: No anomalies were caught on camera.
Video
Evidence: No anomalies were caught on night vision
or full spectrum video camera.
EVP
– Ghost Box: Relevant answers and names were
recorded during EVP and spirit box sessions, including the same voices and
names that we recorded during our first investigation at the Colchester Historeum
in 2013. On several occasions our K2 meters were showing high readings as the
responses were being recorded.
Laser
Grid Evidence: Several guests reported seeing something
moving through the beams of the grid, showing movement. A group also reported
seeing weird lights near the windows that the workman reported seeing the older
woman looking out at him. I and other members of my team have seen something similar to this at a location we investigate in Hants
County.
Investigator/Guest
Evidence: Throughout the evening guests that were
working with the members of Paranormal Investigations Nova Scotia reported a
lot of activity in meeting room on the top floor as well as in archives.
Several guests had the sensation of something touching them or moving through
them during the investigation, as well as noticing physical objects moving on
their own. On two separate occasions a picture and a bassinet/carriage moved on
their own in front of witnesses who swore nobody was touching the objects at
the time.
The laser grid was set up to shine its beams across the length of the
archives, with particular attention to the windows that the worker saw someone
looking out at him from. Movement and odd lights were reported by guests
watching the grid, and roughly at the same time one of my investigators saw
what she reported as a shadow figure moving through the basement, in the area
where the wood working equipment is stored.
We greatly enjoyed our second investigation
of the building, and are looking forward to continuing with find raising events
with museum staff in the future. All of the feedback that I have gotten from
the people who participated has been positive, with many glowing comments about
the event and the building itself. Several people who attended the event have
messaged me asking how to get involved with Paranormal Investigations Nova
Scotia as well as where to buy gear of their own.
Thank you to the curator and staff at the
museum for once again being so eager to host us, it is an event that we look
forward to eagerly each year. Thank you also to the great crowd that showed up
to investigate with us, it was amazing to meet everyone and to share this
fascinating hobby with members of the public.
