The number one question I’m always asked by people who think I’m crazy for being a paranormal investigator is, “Don’t you get scared?”. The honest answer is: 99% of the time: no, I don’t. However, there is one study that did scare me. So scared that I ran down the stairs quite rattled. It was very unlike me and after hearing myself and seeing myself on video, I felt ashamed of how I responded. That said, many other people would probably have reacted the same way. The difference is that once I regained myself, I went back to confront what had been scaring me. So what was it?
I did some research in a place called ‘Milanos Tavern’. It is a bistro/restaurant/event center. In the 19th century it was a hotel. So why was I there? It wasn’t because of the great food. There was a story going around for years that the place was haunted by the ghost of a girl named Tilly, who was raped and murdered in the 1920s. Apparently she was quite aggressive towards men, but playful towards women. It is a study that my brother Glenn organized because he had long been fascinated by this myth. He and I had different arguments leading up to the study about how it should be conducted. That’s what brothers and sisters do! I had looked up the history and found evidence of a man’s suicide when it was a hotel in the late 19th century. He wanted to focus purely on validating Tilly’s stories, because that’s what brought us to the location in the first place. Finally I gave in and we went inside to look for Tilly.
Before the study, we met for dinner and I ate a tasty beef burger. My husband also joined us in this study, which was nice because he normally watches the kids at home. He’s not as interested in the paranormal as I am, he honestly just wanted to go out for dinner! We didn’t really expect anything. We had booked the place from 8pm to 4am and we expected to be out by 11pm.
We got information from the staff about all the strange things that were happening and we set up the DVR system to hopefully catch something. Once we started investigating, not much happened. We were able to find some random hits on the K2 teddy bear in an area with no electrical interference, and we did see a shadow on the DVR system (but after later review we were able to debunk this – damn). It was such a small area we were investigating that you couldn’t have too many people there at once, so I spent a lot of my night in the hub monitoring the DVR and trying to get some EVP and photos to watch. Then it was my turn to do some research. I took a female researcher with me because we thought that since we were the only two females, this ‘Tilly’ might come and play.
We were upstairs for a while, walking in and out of the very dusty rooms. Anyone looking at the DVR would think, look at all those ‘orbs’! No guys, it was really dusty up there! It fell apart. There were pieces of wood with nails sticking out of them, boarded up windows, carpet pulled up and rolled into the corner, empty paint cans, and even a dead bird! Thank goodness we have public liability insurance! Not much happened and for some reason I felt like sitting on the stairs to the attic. I was leading an EVP session when I suddenly heard a man’s voice whisper in my ear, “GET OUUUUT!” WTF just happened? Myself and the other researcher were the only two in the area and I knew it wasn’t her and I knew straight away it wasn’t one of the boys because they were on the other side of the building. To be clear, they were downstairs on the other side, so it couldn’t possibly be them. Well, I was shocked.
I ran down the stairs so fast. An angry man whispers in your ear to go away and I’m sorry, but go away! I have had many paranormal experiences. I’ve had some very bad negative energies attack me, I’ve heard some nasty EVP and spirit box responses and seen doors open, heard bangs, seen shadow people, all that. This experience shocked me more than ever before. It’s the first time I heard a spirit’s voice speaking to me with my own ears. I am not a sensitive person. I don’t get visions or communicate with the spirits through my third eye because I don’t have this gift. There have been times when I heard a voice in my head or an image popped up during an examination, but my brain always said it was your imagination, and most likely it is. I couldn’t debunk this. Normally I can debunk most things, but I couldn’t debunk this. I couldn’t even think of an explanation for what else it could be. I had the Holy Grail experience. I found everything I was looking for and it terrified me. It was certainly confirmation for me that there is life after death. I already believed this to be so, but for me and me this alone was my proof. My fear quickly turned to excitement. We immediately checked the video and audio recording to see if the voice had been captured. It was!!!
Once I calmed myself down, I did what any good researcher would do and went back to confront this male voice. I can tell you it wasn’t Tilly. Was it the man who committed suicide that I had investigated earlier? Nothing further happened and even a trip back to re-investigate two more studies yielded no further answers. It goes to show how much as you can plan a paranormal investigation, you just have to go with the flow because you never know what’s going to happen!
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