Ambrose Hall haunting investigated
Adam Hurlburt
Issue date: 11/1/07 Section: Features
The rest of the four-hour investigation went rather slowly with a dip in activity from slim to nil. One investigator, about ten minutes before the two o'clock wrap up, reported a few unexplainable lights moving about in the Western most hallway that were, unfortunately, unsubstantiated by the rest of the group.
At 2 a.m. all the lights in Ambrose hall came back on and the equipment is packed up.
One week later the local branch of IPART's "fearless leader" Joe Harris meets me with the results of the investigation.
"We didn't get any visual evidence or anything like that," Harris says, "but we did pick up a few EVPs."
Harris and his crew picked up 13 EVPs to be exact. EVP stands for electronic voice phenomenon. EVPs are the recordings of disembodied voices that are not heard while investigating, but do show up when the digital audio recordings are reviewed.
These voices are often attributed to ghosts. Sometimes an EVP will be barely noticeable, fuzzy statements, buried in static and other times they can be clear as day, obviously the sound of a human voice when no one, in fact, who was the there at the time was talking.
EVPs can be gathered just about anywhere, however. According to Amerine, "I could sit in a ditch on the side of the highway and pick up EVPs."
This is an odd bit of circumstances which may lead one to believe that these sounds have firm grounding in an easy explanation, things don't get difficult, in fact, until you run across those EVPs that respond to questions or statements made by investigators.
As for the EVPs gathered at Ambrose, there are a number of "hi's". There are a few longer statements, however. Once of the clearer EVPs gathered is that of a voice whispering "there is something wrong with me" after one of the female investigators speaks on a feeling she is having.
The most unnerving of the EVPs is a recording of a disembodied, seemingly female, voice that in an ascending cadence seems to say, "Jesus is dead."
Obviously because of the lack of evidence, IPART can neither confirm nor deny a haunting in Ambrose Hall. I am in the same boat. I am leaving it open, though. I would rather leave this decision to the reader. I have presented what I believe to be a fairly detailed account of the investigation and the evidence presented, now, what do you think?
For more information on IPART, visit their website at www.diepart.com.
At 2 a.m. all the lights in Ambrose hall came back on and the equipment is packed up.
One week later the local branch of IPART's "fearless leader" Joe Harris meets me with the results of the investigation.
"We didn't get any visual evidence or anything like that," Harris says, "but we did pick up a few EVPs."
Harris and his crew picked up 13 EVPs to be exact. EVP stands for electronic voice phenomenon. EVPs are the recordings of disembodied voices that are not heard while investigating, but do show up when the digital audio recordings are reviewed.
These voices are often attributed to ghosts. Sometimes an EVP will be barely noticeable, fuzzy statements, buried in static and other times they can be clear as day, obviously the sound of a human voice when no one, in fact, who was the there at the time was talking.
EVPs can be gathered just about anywhere, however. According to Amerine, "I could sit in a ditch on the side of the highway and pick up EVPs."
This is an odd bit of circumstances which may lead one to believe that these sounds have firm grounding in an easy explanation, things don't get difficult, in fact, until you run across those EVPs that respond to questions or statements made by investigators.
As for the EVPs gathered at Ambrose, there are a number of "hi's". There are a few longer statements, however. Once of the clearer EVPs gathered is that of a voice whispering "there is something wrong with me" after one of the female investigators speaks on a feeling she is having.
The most unnerving of the EVPs is a recording of a disembodied, seemingly female, voice that in an ascending cadence seems to say, "Jesus is dead."
Obviously because of the lack of evidence, IPART can neither confirm nor deny a haunting in Ambrose Hall. I am in the same boat. I am leaving it open, though. I would rather leave this decision to the reader. I have presented what I believe to be a fairly detailed account of the investigation and the evidence presented, now, what do you think?
For more information on IPART, visit their website at www.diepart.com.
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Sarah Clough
posted 3/16/09 @ 9:26 AM CST
I like articles like this. Great Article! Thanks!
Catherine Dering
posted 3/20/09 @ 10:19 AM CST
I thought this debate was about them, as opposed to featuring them. Whoops.
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