Lakewood Private Residence – ~2000 1/27/2010 to 0100 1/28/2010
Referral Notes:
BCRS contacted us regarding an investigation of a private residence – rented apartment – in Lakewood, CO. Due to the small space, I agreed to participate w/out Sharon.
My contact Richard indicated that the contact had reported a number of visual anomalies. Specifically:
-Moving shadows along the (east?) wall beside the contact’s bed.
-Extremely proximate shadow/black mass to the contact’s head while in bed.
-Shadows appearing at the foot of her bed.
-“Beams” of light appearing in her bedroom, extending from wall to wall.
-Orb of light appearing in bedroom
-Nightlight being obscured
Contact is a 40ish female who lives alone, with a variety of moderately debilitating health conditions, including thyroid and mobility issues.
Contact interaction:
I met the contact at 0800, being the first of three investigators to arrive. Contact, her male friend and I chatted for an hour or so in her well lit and recently tidied living room, while awaiting the arrival of Richard and Kira. During this time, we discussed a variety of subjects regarding the phenomena and the environment. Specifically:
-The appearance of a shadow figure in her kitchen
-A reiteration of the phenomena in her bedroom, consistent with her previous written accounts
-Reports of apparitions around the complex by other residents, including a balding man in military fatigues seen by the apartment manager and one other resident, and the appearance of a female child, who is linked anecdotally to a female child, a former complex resident, who had died of cancer. Time frame is unknown.
Interaction impressions:
Regarding the phenomena, contact seemed to display a notable diffidence regarding the shadows and other phenomena reported – no great sense of fear, concern for personal well-being, no noticeable spiritual-based reactions. In her initial contact with Richard, she indicated a concern about ridicule for reporting these phenomena, yet seemed to regard them (conversationally) matter-of-factly and she displayed a reluctance to use the term “haunted” to describe her apartment.
Investigation:
-Low cost EMF meter, with EMF intensity alarm / flashing light
-Sony ICD-P320 Digital recorder
-Sony DCR-SR82 Camcorder, with Nightshot mode and hotshoe IR light
-Sony HDR-XR200 HD Camcorder, with Nightshot mode and hotshoe IR light
-Pentax Optio W30 digital camera (8mp)
-Tripods, etc
Upon Richard’s arrival (~2130), I turned on the EMF meter and positioned on the corner of the cocktail table 8-10” above the floor while Richard was going through introductions and contact interview.
After about 15 minutes, the meter registered a significant and sustained response, jumping from a steady 1mgs to ~3.25mgs. After two or three minutes, the meter indicator dropped back to initial baseline.
We eventually positioned the EMF meter on the floor and lined up two other meters bedside it, and during the next hour, several additional spikes occurred, all meters reading relatively consistent results. This process repeated at least 20x, in durations lasting from 10 seconds to five minutes.
Kira examining EMF spikes from EMF and K2 on the floor.
Eventually, we traced an apparently rectangular area on the floor just inside the living room entryway where the EMF phenomena would repeat. During periods of EMF activity, there was a well-defined area across the floor where the activity would register on the meters, and outside the border of the area, none would register. We attempted over the course of 3 hours to correlate these EMF spikes to regular time intervals – results were inconclusive, and unpersuasive toward an explanation of some timed EMF event beneath the floor.
Evidence – Visual
Several still shots taken the apartment revealed nothing of note.
Sony DCR-SR82 – A 35 minute recording session taken (after my departure) of the contact sleeping her bed, in the darkened bedroom (w/ nightlight on, on the opposite wall, as is her habit) was unrevealing, with the exception of faint whispering sounds that may or may not have been the result of Kira and Richard chatting in the kitchen. As the contact’s back was turned toward the wall and away from the camera, it is impossible to tell if the whispering was the contact herself. Although the contact awoke reporting that she heard a voice immediately above her head, the camera’s batteries had expired by this time and the event was not captured.
Sony HDR-XR200 – Nothing of note.
Evidence – Auditory
Approximately 90 minutes total of audio recordings were made.
Several interesting results were recorded.
“Lakewood Clip2” – Taken in the contact’s bedroom, with the door closed, there are two instances of what sounds like a child (“Veronica”?) at approximately :24 secs and :57 secs, the latter being much fainter. There is also an interesting hissing/clicking sound immediately after the second anomaly. The audio clip below is an excerpt from this recording – the anomalous voice can be heard at about the 5 second mark – the other voices are the subject chatting with Richard and Kira in the other room. Confidence 3.5/5
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“Lakewood Clip4_1” – Taken the living room during the investigation of the EMF spikes, an anomalous voice (loud) appears on the recording at approx :18 secs, just prior to Kira’s voice discussing the EMF response from a cable around the TV area. Unable to decipher. Uncertain if it was Kira, but didn’t sound like it. Confidence: 2/5.
“Lakewood Clip4_2” – Taken from the same recording session, there is an audible “breath” sound, suggesting male. Approx :57 secs into clip. Confidence: 1/5
Personal Impressions
The only interesting personal event for me was a sudden and inexplicable “chill” (goosebumps, moderate to heavy discomfort) in first walkthrough of the darkened bedroom. Lasted about 8 – 10 seconds.
My view of the contact and her relationship to these phenomena is mixed. Her reports appeared consistent, if somewhat matter-of-fact. There did not seem to be an emotional response to the phenomena – neither fear nor intense curiosity. Although she did not report being on heavy medication, I do believe that her somewhat serious chronic medical issues and her struggles with mobility lend themselves to a particularly intense relationship with her space and a heightened awareness of changes within it. I also found it interesting that despite the reported frequency of these events (as often as every other night, beginning a year and a half ago) she has made little or no reported effort to investigate/record these events herself.
Having said this, the independently reported phenomena around the apartment complex suggest this may well be an active spot, and thus her accounts must be cast in some context. Whether her experiences began after she had heard of these external phenomena or before is unclear – when asked about timeline of the external phenomena, she was somewhat unclear. She did indicate that she had experienced “unusual” phenomena more or less her whole life, although did not characterize herself as a “sensitive”.
Regarding the evidence, I would say that I did not hear any sounds coming from adjoining (vertically or laterally) apartments while in the contact’s apartment. My confidence level in the EVP recordings is low to moderate – the child’s voice (excerpted above) being the most compelling for me.
The EMF spikes were very interesting, as they did not lend themselves easily to explainable infrastructure EMF event. Personal bias suggests that a paranormal energy would likely not reveal itself with such well defined spatial borders, yet material explanations for the EMF spikes seem inadequate as well.
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