WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:09.880 In the late nineteen sixties, my dad purchased twenty acres 2 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.240 of land along the southern coast of Maine, several miles 3 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:17.519 from any town or our closest neighbors. It was near 4 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:21.000 a small state park along the Kennebec River, and that 5 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.399 is where I grew up. From the age of three, 6 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.039 I spent a lot of time wandering the deer trails 7 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.600 and jeep trails, and the paths that cut through the 8 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.280 woods surrounding our property, and the houses down the road 9 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.240 that were closer to the state park. Sometimes we would 10 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:41.719 see as many as twenty deer in our backyard. One 11 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:45.759 late autumn afternoon in nineteen seventy eight, I went out 12 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:48.600 back and followed a long jeep trail to a huge 13 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.600 tree that was so tall we could see it from 14 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.479 our backyard. Winter was closing in and I knew it 15 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.520 would soon be too cold to be out climbing trees, 16 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:02.399 but I wanted one more chance to climb my favorite tree. 17 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.280 I made my way up the jeep trail behind our house, 18 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.599 through a densely forested woods to a deer trail I 19 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:11.359 knew would take me to the spot, and as I 20 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.920 walked along, I became aware of the sound of my 21 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:18.599 own breathing. The woods had become unusually quiet and still 22 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.959 in the late afternoon. I approached the tree and began 23 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.959 to climb. I was about halfway up when an uncomfortable 24 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:32.239 feeling came over me. I felt exposed and vulnerable. It 25 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.239 was a big tree, and even halfway I was pretty 26 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:37.680 high up, so I looked around from one side to 27 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.719 the other. I couldn't see anything in the light of 28 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.040 the approaching dust, but I could not shake the feeling 29 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:48.120 that I was being watched. No one lived close enough 30 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.480 to be trespassing on our property, nor had I ever 31 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:56.280 seen strangers in our woods before. Even so I felt 32 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.640 so uncomfortable that I abandoned my climb and I started 33 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.560 to walk back to the jeep trail. Not far down 34 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.040 the trail, I began to hear something rustling in the 35 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.000 leaves and the dense tree cover beside me. I stopped 36 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.000 to listen, but as soon as I did, it stopped too. 37 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.159 It started walking again, and this time a little faster, 38 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.759 and the leaves began to rustle again. I stopped three 39 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.680 or four times, and each time the sound stopped when 40 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.080 I did, and started again when I started. By now 41 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:33.319 I was completely unnerved at the time. My only thought was, 42 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.000 what is someone doing up here? I got so scared 43 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.919 that once I got halfway down the trail and I ran. 44 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:42.960 I ran as fast as I could until I hit 45 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.479 the opening into our back lawn where our garden was planted, 46 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.039 and I was within sight of the house. It didn't 47 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.639 occur to me at the time that the eerie silence, 48 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.680 the spooky feeling of being watched, and the sound of 49 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.599 some unseen something escorting me out of the woods might 50 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.919 be something other than my overactive imagination. Two or three 51 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.800 years later, I discovered a tepee type structure on the 52 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:12.360 edge of the woods near that same big tree. I 53 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.080 assumed my brothers had built it, but when I asked 54 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:17.439 them about it, they had no idea what it was. 55 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:20.919 They thought it looked cool, but figured it was the 56 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.680 work of someone else. Since the woods and brush were 57 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.280 too dense to walk through in that spot, no one 58 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:31.919 ever pursued it. I never told anyone about the first incident, 59 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.000 and before long I was too busy climbing trees and 60 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.000 exploring the woods again. Now I grew up, and I 61 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.520 eventually moved away. Only recently has it occurred to me 62 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.560 that it might have been something else, that there might 63 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.960 really be something out there. Now I think I might 64 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.159 have interrupted something while it was honeting and they were 65 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.719 letting me know they wanted me out of the way. 66 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:58.319 I never actually saw anything, but I certainly felt it 67 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.360 and I heard it. That was enough for me, and 68 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.159 I'm glad I trusted my instincts and promptly left the area. 69 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.919 I wish we still own the property. Knowing what I 70 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.960 know now, I'd love to go back and explore a little. 71 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.000 The whole area has been built up quite a bit 72 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.519 since then. I've heard of a few sightings a few 73 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.560 miles west of where our house was, and it makes 74 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:28.560 me wonder. I'm sixty five years old and I grew 75 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.600 up on a large farm in the corner of northwest Georgia, 76 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.759 which is within spitting distance of Chattanooga. I can see 77 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.160 Lookout Mountain from my childhood bedroom, and I have two 78 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.079 older brothers. One is thirteen years my senior and the 79 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.879 next one is seven years older than me. I was 80 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.879 very much a tomboy as a kid, running through the 81 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:51.360 woods and fields of our three hundred acre farm. Our 82 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.360 nearest neighbor was a mile away. Daddy raised beef, cattle 83 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.199 and pigs, and we grew tomatoes and beans for sale 84 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:02.639 at the farmers' markets and cheddingt in Atlna. Every Sunday 85 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:06.000 afternoon we'd round up whichever cows we had pre selected 86 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:09.680 to be taken to the sale the following day. This 87 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.519 was one of my favorite memories because it meant time 88 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.560 in the fields and woods, and it was searching for 89 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.279 cows and calves, and they always seemed to know that 90 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:21.120 they were on the market list, and therefore they would 91 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.879 run away. I say all this just to give you 92 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.920 a bit of context to my Bigfoot story. Growing up 93 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.680 in the late sixties in the early seventies, I had 94 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.759 never heard of bigfoot. I never heard anyone talk of 95 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.000 any wood boogers or the likes in the area. We 96 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.560 had deer and bobcats, and the occasional black bear and 97 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:44.439 an escaped hog that had gone feral, but nothing more 98 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.639 exotic than that. I had no fear at all of 99 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.639 anything in our expanse of pine and oak forest around 100 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:54.800 the farm. Our house sat in a small clearing next 101 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:58.439 to five cleared acres behind our house and a few 102 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.639 more cleared for pig pens and pig barns and cattle 103 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:05.399 bars and feed lots. Just behind our house was a 104 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.680 few acres of grazing, which was surrounded on three sides 105 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.199 by piny woods. The barns were two hundred yards from 106 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:17.480 the house. One night in late spring of nineteen sixty seven, 107 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.199 we had several hogs who were farrowing. It was always 108 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.600 at night, it seems, so. My mom and dad and 109 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.720 my brother were at the pig barn tending to the pigs. 110 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.399 My older brother was already away at college. Most of 111 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.600 the time, I'd be right in the midst of the pigs, 112 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.199 because there's nothing cuter than a newborn piglet, in my opinion. 113 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:40.879 For whatever reason, on this night, I'd been left to 114 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.319 sleep in my bedroom while the others were at the 115 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:47.240 pig barn. My room had one window which was fairly 116 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.079 low to the ground and it went nearly to the ceiling. 117 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.560 It also had a door to the front porch, which 118 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.800 in warm weather I kept open along with the window 119 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.360 to catch whatever breeze I could. Of course, we didn't 120 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.959 have air conditioning, but on this night I was awakened 121 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.839 by footsteps on the porch, and I looked out through 122 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.399 the screen door, expecting to see one or more of 123 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.480 my family coming back from the pig barns. But what 124 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.120 I saw instead was a big shadow. It was a 125 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.600 huge black shadow standing on the porch five feet or 126 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.199 so from my screen door. It was facing me, but 127 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.120 in the darkness, I couldn't make out any features or details, 128 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.759 just the outline of a hulking body that was so 129 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.560 tall it had to hunch over to fit on the porch. 130 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:37.360 The ceilings were eight foot tall. There it stood there, 131 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:41.519 silent except for its loud, moist breathing, which reminded me 132 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.639 of a horse after a long run. I wasn't frightened. 133 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.680 I was just confused. What was this thing? Am I 134 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:54.079 seeing it? Or am I still asleep and dreaming. I 135 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.879 could hear the squealing of pigs in the distance, so 136 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.519 I knew I was awake. Just as I consider getting 137 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:02.360 up out of bed to shut the lock on the 138 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.120 wooden door, the shadow took a step off the porch 139 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:09.199 and I saw it pass by my open window and 140 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.199 head around to the back of the house well. I 141 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.079 jumped up, and I shut and locked the door, and 142 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:17.600 I pulled down the glass panes of the window. I 143 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.879 thought about running to my parents, but what would I 144 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.279 tell them. So I stayed in my room until they 145 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.160 finally returned, trying to make sense of what I had seen. 146 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.279 I never spoke to them about it, because it would 147 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:32.759 seem foolish in my family, which tolerated little foolishness, so 148 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:37.200 I kept the whole story to myself. The following summer, 149 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:40.039 or maybe the summer after that, my brother got a 150 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:43.480 copy of a magazine called Field and Stream in the mail, 151 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.480 and on the cover was a still photo of the 152 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.159 Bigfoot from the Patterson Gimlin film. Well. I was transfixed. 153 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.799 There was the shadow that I had seen on my 154 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:58.039 porch that spring night. This was a real thing, a 155 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.679 true life monster. Heart raced as I tried to put 156 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.240 the pieces together. Could this thing live in our own 157 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.720 piney woods? Surely not? I thought this Bigfoot lived way 158 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:14.600 out west, not here in Georgia. Over the next few weeks, 159 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.840 I studied the dense pine forest just behind our house, 160 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.480 which stretched for hundreds of acres. My eyes were always 161 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:24.440 drawn to that tree line, wondering if I might catch 162 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.399 a glimpse one day of what I had seen on 163 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.159 the porch. I never heard it's called, I never smelled it, 164 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:34.000 never had a rock thrown at me. I wasn't afraid. 165 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:38.200 I was intrigued. I wondered if it was lonely like 166 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:42.279 I was. Sometimes I even wondered if it had come 167 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:45.960 looking for someone or something to relieve some of that loneliness. 168 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.840 I know that sounds crazy. Two cowboys in California had 169 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.840 just discovered a monster in the wilderness, and I was 170 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:58.039 concerned it might be lonely. Well, I never saw it again, 171 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.320 but I did become a psychologist, maybe out of that 172 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:06.039 childhood connection to helping the lonely, or maybe not. In 173 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:10.360 any case, I've always been fascinated with other people's experiences 174 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.559 with Bigfoot, and I truly appreciate the form that you 175 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.080 provide for them to share their stories with the rest 176 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:22.480 of us. For several years, we lived out in the 177 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.360 country where nothing much ever happened. My life was and 178 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:30.159 is typical of most people. Our property begins at the 179 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.519 bottom of a hill, with our house on the opposite 180 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:36.120 end atop of bluff, and the driveway is very steep 181 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.960 and difficult to get up in bad weather. I used 182 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.200 to work with mentally and physically handicapped adults in a classroom. 183 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.679 There was one individual that had several disabilities, and he 184 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:51.120 took a liking to me. He had surgery that resulted 185 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:55.120 in complications, and sadly, he passed away the following day. 186 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.399 A few weeks after that, I started noticing some sounds 187 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.120 late at night when I was in the office. I 188 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.720 didn't think anything about it because we lived in the 189 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.120 country and there are lots of sounds that make no sense. 190 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.679 And one night, while I was surfing the net, I 191 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:15.120 turned around and saw what looked like a see through, 192 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:19.080 floating white mass with long eyes and a droopy mouth. 193 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:23.440 It was completely transparent, but it floated right near the door, 194 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:28.000 and it wasn't moving. Needless to say, it scared me 195 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.200 a bunch. Actually, I thought I had fallen asleep and 196 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.600 I was dreaming. These occurrences started happening more and more 197 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.639 as the weeks went by, and I started talking to 198 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:42.519 this ghost, but I never got any reply or outward response. 199 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.720 After several weeks, I kept racking my brain trying to 200 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.320 figure out why I was seeing this translucent image more 201 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:53.759 and more, and then it finally hit me. It was 202 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.240 the ethereal image of this man from my classroom who 203 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:01.799 had passed away. There was a strange incident that involved 204 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.559 him and me before he died. One day in the classroom, 205 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.080 just weeks before his demise, he walked up behind me 206 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.840 and patted my back. It was like some creepy ripples 207 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.200 spread through my body, and it gave me goosebumps. I 208 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.960 think he actually had physically passed something to me. I 209 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.240 kept talking to this ghostly image that had first appeared 210 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.480 in my office. I directed it to go home. Maybe 211 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.080 this being was waiting for me to recognize it as 212 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.440 my former student and that it was now okay to 213 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:38.240 pass on to the other side. It never came back again, 214 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:44.000 but things were soon becoming more interesting. Two weeks later, 215 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.840 I started seeing a progression of images and ghosts going 216 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.120 from my son's room on the north side of a 217 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.519 house to my bedroom, where my now ex was sleeping. 218 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.159 There were all kinds of visuals streaming past. One looked 219 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.360 like a gypsy. The man short and had a typical 220 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.879 hat of the nineteenth century and a heavy wool suit. 221 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.440 And all these images were in gray tones with no 222 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.879 color at all. One night, I got up to go 223 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:14.720 to the bathroom, and afterward I walked into the living 224 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:17.639 room to get a drink. There was a white cloud 225 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:22.039 hovering above a chair. Maybe logic would determine that it 226 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.279 was a reflection through the window, but we always closed 227 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:28.799 all the curtains before we went to bed. I walked 228 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.879 over and placed my hands around it, and the orb 229 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.679 felt cold and clammy. I was able to press my 230 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.080 hands into something that seemed to be the consistency of 231 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.759 a dense fog. There was a distinct temperature difference around 232 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.639 that chair. One evening, my son came out of his 233 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.519 bedroom and walked down the hallway to the family room, 234 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.240 and he stopped and stared at me for a couple 235 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:57.360 of minutes. He asked how I got there. He claimed 236 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:59.519 that he just saw me back in the office sitting 237 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.679 at the well. I'd been in the family room for 238 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:07.200 well over an hour. We kept hearing bells from somewhere 239 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.360 in the house, and cans would fall off the shelf. 240 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.480 Our little Yorkshire terrier would go into the kitchen and 241 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:18.759 start growling and barking for no reason. And we coexisted 242 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.080 for several years with these strange spirits. Not everyone was 243 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:29.080 entertained by these so called phantoms. Some visitors to our house, well, 244 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:33.840 they never came back. They always felt uneasy. The house 245 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.440 was two years old when we bought it, and the 246 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.039 previous owners were more than happy to move out. They 247 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.000 chose to build another place rather than to tolerate all 248 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.600 the unearthly occupants they never invited to share their living 249 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.519 space in the first place. I think the bluff that 250 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.000 we were living on top of was an Indian burial ground, 251 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.000 and the spirits were coming through me because of a 252 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.639 man who touched my back and sent chills through my body. 253 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:04.120 He knew he was not long for this world, and 254 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.320 he gave me a part of him to help him 255 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:09.639 pass on to get to as much needed eternal rest. 256 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:14.240 Robert A. Baker, a well known skeptic, an author, and 257 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:19.519 investigator of paranormal events, was fond of saying there are 258 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:25.279 no haunted places, only haunted people. Anyone who has ever 259 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:29.519 had a paranormal experience would probably disagree with him, But 260 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.960 I wonder if it's possible that his assertion contains a 261 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:37.000 grain of truth. Why is it that some residents of 262 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:41.480 a supposed haunted house can have dozens of paranormal experience 263 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.120 while others living in the same home notice nothing unusual. 264 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.120 It is as simple as varying levels of sensitivity to energy, 265 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.519 which many people believe spirits to be and that same 266 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.840 spiritual energy and intelligence are the actual souls of once 267 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:05.159 living people. In recent years, electronic equipment can measure environmental 268 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:10.440 changes such as abnormally high levels of electromagnetic energy, changes 269 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.000 in temperature and barometric pressure, and other common signs of 270 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:20.120 paranormal activity are becoming popular tools for investigators. Readings from 271 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:24.240 these machines can help confirm and verify impressions of people 272 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:29.360 who are experiencing unusual activity. We moved out of that 273 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.840 house a few months later, and since that time, neither 274 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:37.080 my son nor have I witnessed another ghost. A person 275 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.879 sees things out of the corner of their eyes, but 276 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:44.120 nothing as real as the experiences like we had. It 277 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.039 was a house and not a home. It was a 278 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.759 great location, but I knew there was something not right 279 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.639 from the time we first saw it, and now we 280 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:53.840 know what that was.