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Thank you so much for coming to Indian Summer Thursday night, June 18^{th  2009}. Your lecture and class were remarkable. The pictures you have of full apparitions and faces in mirrors are amazing. The negative procedure on the full apparition of that girl is just incredible. There is no way anyone could say that she isn’t a spirit after seeing that.
I have had very positive feedback from those who attended the class. They were definitely impressed with what they saw and heard. Lynn and I feel so honored to be going with you in October to the haunted mansion. I know we’ll have a great time and get some great pictures and EVP’s. We’re so excited about it. I for one cannot wait until you are back at Indian Summer for your next lecture.
I know your coming September 17th but that just seems too long to wait. We are also very excited about you coming in and setting up your camera’s and EVP equipment. As a matter of fact everyone we’ve told so far is very excited to see what you will capture. We would like to know if it is possible to set up the cameras and EVP equipment before then so that maybe we could have the results when you come in on the 17^th. What do you think? Again many, many thanks for coming and sharing your stories and pictures with us. We look forward to a lot more return visits.

 Love & Light
Sher
Business/Marketing Manager
Indian Summer
Lynn Jones
Owner,  Indian Summer

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Letter from an Investigation:

Members of the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society shared stories of haunts – and heard a few new ones – when they visited the Propel Andrew Street High School on August 22. PPS founder and Lead Spiritual Investigator Shawn Kelly and Doreen Hill projected pictures of paranormal activity captured by their cameras at sites throughout the Pittsburgh region. The 100-or-so students had a range of reactions – from fascination and excitement to skepticism, and they kept the PPS investigators busy answering questions about phantoms, fakes, and electronic voice phenomena.

 A long-time school employee also told of ghosts said to haunt the school itself. It is known that a construction worker died while working to build the school gym, and strange and unexplained activities in that part of the school have led some to believe that the gym is a paranormal hot spot. There also are unconfirmed reports that an over-excited bingo winner fell down dead in the gym while it was used as a social hall, and that her spirit returns in an attempt to get her unclaimed winnings.

 Kelley said he and his group plan to make a night-time visit to the school in the near future to try to find and document the Andrew Street haunting.

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This weekend PPS had the opportunity to do an investigation with a family from New Oxford, PA. New Oxford is about 12 miles away from Gettysburg. I have been coming to Gettysburg for a long time now and never had the opportunity to investigate a private residence. The investigation went well and we met new friends. I totally believe that things happen for a reason.

Our clients got a hold of us through our website due to strange happenings going on in their home. (ex: footsteps, doors banging, voices being heard in the kitchen) PPS went to their house and did a very good investigation. We ran our EVP's and took tons of pictures but most of all made new friends. The one thing I love about investigations is meeting new people and hearing their stories. Upon reviewing all evidence we did not get any EVP's but we got some decent pictures. In my conclusion I will say that our client's home is haunted.

Our evidence revealed many orbs and mist, not only in the home but outside the home. We also had some personal experiences and a face that appeared outside of the home looking in.

We want to thank our new friends for allowing us to investigate their home. 

Happy Haunting!

Shawn

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Joyce's Thoughts on Restland Cemetery  (4/2008)

    Situated on 25 acres near Monroeville, PA is Restland Cemetery, a place best known for a spirit named “Walking Rosie”, although she is by no means the only ghost in residence. Rosie’s origins are a mystery, most of the stories you find online echo popular urban legends and are therefore, most likely, erroneous. Even though her origins aren’t verified, sightings of Rosie are numerous and ongoing. Other sightings over the years have involved Revolutionary War Soldiers who died in a nearby battle to spirits of those killed in a mine explosion on or adjacent to where the cemetery now stands.

   Before the land became a cemetery, it was the site of a single family farm. The farm house burned to the foundations, and a family member recounted to one of Restland’s current groundskeepers how he saw the silhouette of a boy in the flames.  The foundation itself survived the fire and was used for the administration building.

   Restland began interments in the late 1930’s and in the 90’s added a pet cemetery.  Although this is a small section, the headstones and momentos left echo deep love and deep sadness, a poignant addition to a landscape of loss. There’s no shortage of activity at Restland, so on April 12^th, we headed out with high hopes.  Accompanying the group was Joe, a representative from the paranormal “webzine”, www.Visonsonline.com. Although Joe professed himself a skeptic, he kept an open mind and his camera at the ready.

   Upon arrival, we split into two teams to allow us to cover more of the huge graveyard.  Early in the evening, we met members of Steel City Investigators of the Paranormal, a new local group also visiting Restland on a hunt that night. They’re nice people, we hope to see more of them in the future and wish them luck with their investigations.

   Although we’re still going over all the physical evidence collected (possible EVPs, reviewing all the images caught on various cameras), a number of us had personal experiences, including:

°      Several of us spotted a shadow person at the nearby tree line following us. The presence never seemed menacing, just curious. Oddly enough, I once spotted him darting from tree to tree, almost like a child hiding.  The entity followed us until we were far clear of the tree line.

°      A number of us entered an area with a hedge fence surrounding it. This is a family plot, and the air inside that area feels quite charged. One of our members reported a small “shove” when no one was nearby. Again, not something with evil intent, more of a way of a presence making itself known.

°      Another person in the group caught sight of a man and woman standing inside the hedge area. The woman was dressed suggesting a 1910-1920 era look. The man was dressed in what looked like similar period clothes, but seemed more plain. Unfortunately, the apparitions disappeared quickly, as they so often do, and we didn’t get a thorough look.  The second group attempted to collect some EVPs in the hedge area, but every time they asked a question the wind picked up considerably and made recording a challenge.

°      One of our group was walking along a path with a partner when they were hit in the head with a small rock or twig. There was no one within a distance that could’ve thrown anything at her, and no nearby trees or shrubs. This wasn’t a malicious thing, she reported feeling it was more of an “attention getter” event!  

°      Finally! A couple of team members in the second group caught sight of Walkin’ Rosie. We all hurried that way when we heard, but I don’t believe we caught photographic evidence. Several of us felt we saw an apparition, however. Was it Rosie? We didn’t get any identification from them.

°      Our investigation ended in the pet cemetery area, where I got caught up reading the stones and suddenly looked up and found myself alone. I could hear the group, but I’d let them get out of my sight. As I stood up and began walking to them, I distinctly heard footsteps behind me, but when I turned there was, of course, no one there. This is one of Rosie’s favorite tricks, I wonder if that was her send off for the evening!

   All in all, we felt it was an interesting night and we did come away with many personal experiences. Hopefully, when we have finished analyzing the physical evidence, we’ll have some great photos or EVPs to share.

Shawn's thoughts....

INVESTIGATION IN CHESWICK, PA  March 2008

In early March of this year, my son and I decided to contact the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society to come investigate what we believed was our ghost. I found them online and after exchanging a few emails with Shawn and Doreen I felt comfortable inviting them to check out the house. They both seemed kind and knowledgeable.

Two things led me to seek their help. The first happened about six months after we moved in. My  son heard a female voice behind him say “Excuse me, do I know you?” It was three AM; I was upstairs asleep, and when he turned, no one was there.

We agreed that such a question seemed to indicate confusion, but we weren’t sure what to do. Shaken, but curious, we simply waited to see what happened next. Then one Sunday I was talking to a friend on the phone and heard the female voice close behind me say, simply, “Hello”.

I stood up and turned to see who was in my house, and before I could say anything to my friend on the phone, she asked “who said that, who’s there?”  No one was. No one was in my house; no one was outside, and she had heard the voice as clearly as I did.

I decided to call in the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society. Although I’ve always been interested in the paranormal, a presence that seemed to want to communicate was out of my league. The team arrived one Saturday night and while I had expected an interesting evening, what I got was one of the most memorable of my life!

The PPS team was great, they were courteous and respectful. They listened to our stories about the things that had happened, and they listened to my son and I clumsily explain the ways in which we tried to explain away some of them! In the end, we had some things that might be explained by noisy neighbors, or my cat, but a book  whose cover asks “What’s a real ghost like?” that lands four feet away from a bookcase where it was firmly shelved….. well that is a little harder to dismiss.

Neither my son nor I were prepared for what the team did find, although in retrospect, we should have known something was wrong. There was a negative “presence” in my son’s room. No one has ever really considered that room “comfortable”, and I was uncomfortable if the door to the room was open. There was also another presence in the room, seemingly being held there by the first.

Although what I saw and felt happen is difficult to put into words, the end result of the PPS team “clearing” my child’s room was nothing short of amazing.  Immediately the room felt different, almost lighter, and easier to breathe. I was reminded of something my mom said after her cataract surgery: “I didn’t realize how bad my sight had gotten until it was restored.” I had not realized how oppressive the atmosphere had become until that weight was lifted.

We didn’t hear from our “female” ghost that night, but there could be many reasons for that. The negative presence required more attention, so removing it from the home became the priority. I believe the PPS team was successful in that effort. I wish we’d had another time to attempt contacting her, but I have since moved so she’s going to remain a mystery.  

The team conducted an investigation that was thorough; they were courteous and curious about the house and its events, respectful and kind to me and my son.

I feel I need to especially single this team out for the way they handled the non-paranormal part of the evening. I was living in a duplex next to someone who is very negative and had actually been harassing me. When he saw the team arrive (watching me was part of his general creepiness) he became very confrontational and angry because they wanted to photograph the outside of the house. The entire team treated him with courtesy and remained calm, effectively diffusing the situation despite his continued monitoring of our activities.

All in all, I considered the investigation a success. Both my son and I wish to thank the whole PPS team for all their efforts, the evening was informative, eventful and fun!