Arrival
Noah, Tony, and Gravy arrived at Edinburgh Manor at 1:00 pm. They met with a caretaker to get a key to the back house and the Manor itself, to pay, and to sign release forms. After completing these things, the caretaker left, leaving the team to bring in equipment and start setting up.
On the 2nd Floor, a Sony DCR-DVD610 camera was placed covering the staircase and the 2nd Floor Hallway on the Women’s side. Also in the 2nd Floor Hallway on the Women’s side was an EDI+ datalogging meter that was in view of the camera.
On the 1st Floor Men’s Side, the team placed a Sony HDR-CX160 multi-spectrum camera which covered the Men’s Hallway leading back toward the Main Entrance and the Men’s Rec Room. Also placed in the 1st Floor Hallway was a Zoom H1 digital audio recorder which was also covering the Children’s Room. Partially down the hallway was an EDI+ datalogging meter.
In the Children’s Room, a Sony HDR-CX160 multi-spectrum camera was placed along with an EDI+ datalogging meter and a Touch Flashlight.
In the Basement, a Sony HDR-CX160 multi-spectrum camera was placed in the Laundry Room. This camera covered the entire Laundry Room and the Trigger Object Bank that was placed on the table located in the middle of the Laundry Room. The camera also covered the hallway between the Laundry Room and the Cafeteria. Also included in the Laundry Room was a Zoom H1 audio recorder. The Trigger Object Bank included a geophone, Touch Flashlight, DM X-930 Dark Matter Detector, the PIM Platter, bullet, cigar, cigarettes, deck of cards with Ace of Diamonds on top, pair of di showing snake eyes, Playboy magazine, whiskey, Bible, crucifix, Holy relic, Rosary, Holy water, and a harmonica.
In the hallway between the Laundry Room and the Cafeteria, a MEL8704R REM/ATDD/SDD meter was placed. This meter was using the REM and SDD functions only and was placed in this hallway to alert the team if anything moved down the hallway and came close to the meter. Also placed in the hallway was an EDI+ datalogging meter.
In the Cafeteria, a Sony HDR-CX160 multi-spectrum camera was placed to cover the Cafeteria and the hallway between the Cafeteria and the Laundry Room. Also placed in the Cafeteria was a Zoom H1 audio recorder.
Lastly, covering Joker’s Hallway was a Sony DCR-DVD610 camera.
Once all equipment had been placed, the team went around and took baseline readings at 4:19 pm. This readings can be viewed below.
The team then went around and started and time stamped all equipment beginning at 6:07 pm. Time stamps, from a designated atomic watch, are used as a point of reference and make cross referencing easier during evidence review. Once all equipment had been started, the team then headed out for dinner and left the building empty.
At approximately 8:15 pm, the group returned from dinner, re-entered the Manor and started and time stamped their control recorders. From this point on, PIM members are required to speak in full voice and tag any noise they make.
Tagging is the process of calling out noises investigators make during an investigation. Noises investigators make can be anything from bodily sounds, such as stomach growling or breathing noises, to external noises, like squeaky shoes, shifting or chairs creaking. Tagging is required from the moment a piece of equipment is started until the time it is turned off. This allows for easy identification of noises heard when reviewing evidence. When an investigator makes a noise, it is their responsibility to tag it or say, “that was me.”
Every member of PIM is equipped with a Zoom H1 audio recorder, which is used as their control recorder and an Extech RHT50 or Extech SD700 datalogger. Control recorders are not only used as another recording device, but also to document the sound contamination that an investigator might create during an investigation. Control recorders are started and time stamped first before any other equipment is started and they are turned off last to ensure any anomalous noises can be cross-checked. Control recorders are also placed in a Faraday cage. A Faraday cage is a container that can block EMF frequencies. The construction of the cage will determine how many different EMF frequencies the cage will be able to block. Faraday cages work by generating an external static electrical field which causes the electric charges within the cage’s conducting material to be distributed such that they cancel the field’s effect in the cage’s interior. PIM’s cages are designed to specifically block out FM and some AM radio frequencies from interfering with their audio recorders, thus creating false EVPs.
At 8:30 pm the group began the investigation on the 1st Floor.
Investigation Night 1
8:30 pm – 1st Floor Men’s side
The group spread out on the 1st Floor Men’s side with Noah sitting outside the Children’s Room, Gravy sitting inside the Children’s Room, and Tony sitting in the hallway that leads to the 1st Floor Men’s Rec Room. After getting settled the team began the investigation by observing control silence starting at 8:32 pm.
Control silence is the practice of sitting quietly and getting accustomed to the normal sounds of the building. It allows for investigators to get a baseline of normal building sounds. The team spread out along the hallway. Noted during control silence was the crickets, stomach noises, and an air conditioner.
Shortly after control silence began, Noah heard a beeping noise that he could not locate at first. Tony and Gravy also heard it. After a brief investigation, it was determined that the beeping noise was coming from Noah’s Extech SD700 meter. Control silence was restarted at 8:36 pm. After control silence was complete, team reported hearing the IR light fans, stomach noises, building noises, and traffic.
Noah began the EVP session at 8:38 pm. An EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) session is the practice of asking questions and leaving ten seconds of silence in between in hopes of capturing a response via an audio recording device. Rarely is a response heard by the investigator’s ears and when a response is heard by human ears it is called a disembodied voice.
No activity occurred and the group decided to head down to the 1st Floor Women’s side at 8:56 pm.
8:56 pm – 1st Floor Women’s side
The team spread out on the 1st Floor Women’s side. Gravy was in front of Room 102, Noah sat in the middle where the two hallways met, and Tony was sitting closest to the 1st Floor Women’s Rec Room.
Control silence was started at 8:58 pm. Again, right after starting control silence Noah heard a strange noise, this time a humming sound. The group investigated to try and determine if there was a light on that could be turned off, but none were found. In the end, it was determined the noise was coming from an overhead light and the group restarted control silence at 9:02 pm. The group reported hearing the humming noise, flies hitting windows, and building noises. Also, right after the control silence was restarted, a piece of plastic that had been taped over a window on a door in the middle of the building on the 1st floor fell off. The team quickly went and secured the plastic back over the window, returning to start the EVP session.
Gravy began the EVP session at 9:08 pm.
After asking multiple questions, no responses were captured. This EVP session was concluded and the team decided to head to the 2nd Floor at 9:23 pm.
9:23 pm – 2nd Floor
The group spread themselves throughout the middle of the 2nd Floor. Noah was sitting at the top of the stairs, Gravy was sitting toward the Women’s side and Tony was sitting towards the Men’s side.
At 9:29 pm, Gravy reported hearing a high-pitched noise. Noah and Tony did not hear the noise and it was not captured on any recording devices. At 9:32 pm, control silence was started. The team only reported building noises being heard during the control silence.
At 9:35 pm, Tony began the EVP session.
At 9:48 pm, Noah thought he heard a sound like someone taking a step right when Gravy was starting to as a question. This was not heard by anyone else and was not captured on any recording devices.
No other events occurred and the EVP session was concluded, and the team headed to the 2nd Floor Women’s side at 9:49 pm.
9:49 pm – 2nd Floor Women’s side
Noah was sitting toward the side with the bedroom, Tony was sitting toward the Rec Room side and Gravy was sitting at the hallway junction. Control silence was started at 9:51 pm with only building noises reported.
At 9:55 pm, Gravy started the EVP session.
No events occurred during the EVP session and the team decided to move to the Men’s side at 10:05 pm.
10:05 pm – 2nd Floor Men’s side
Noah was sitting at the hallway junction, Gravy was sitting toward the Rec Room side and Tony was sitting toward the bedroom side. Control silence was started at 10:07 pm with only building noises reported when control silence ended.
At 10:09 pm, Noah began the EVP session. At 10:10 pm, Gravy reported hearing what he described as a “cape flapping” noise. No one else heard the noise and it was not captured on any recording devices. The team concluded it could be the sound of birds roosting outside flapping their wings.
No other events occurred during this EVP session and the team decided to head to the Basement at 10:13 pm.
10:15 pm – Basement Joker’s Hallway
Noah sat in the Joker’s Room, Tony sat in the room directly across the hall from the Joker’s Room, and Gravy sat in the hallway toward the Cafeteria. Control silence was started at 10:21 pm and only stomach noises were noted.
At 10:23 pm, Gravy started the EVP session.
Despite asking many questions to the Joker and anyone else that might have been present, no events occurred during this session and the team decided to head to the Cafeteria.
10:31 pm – Cafeteria
The team spread out in the Cafeteria. Control silence was started at 10:33 pm. Noah reported hearing movement in the wall that is crumbling and traffic noises were also heard.
At 10:36 pm, Tony began the EVP session. During this session, Noah continued to hear what sounded like movement noises in the deteriorating wall behind him. He was uncertain if the noises were just being caused by the wall deteriorating or if there was an animal of some kind moving.
No other events occurred during this session and the team decided to move to the Laundry Room.
10:47 pm – Laundry Room
The team spread out in the Laundry Room. Noah started the EVP session at 10:56 pm.
No events occurred during this EVP session and the team decided to take a break.
11:07 pm – Break
Once the break was over, the team decided to restart the investigation in Joker’s Hallway in the Basement.
12:12 am – Joker’s Hallway
This time Tony was sitting in the Joker’s Room, Gravy was sitting in the room across the hall from the Joker’s Room, and Noah was sitting in the hallway closest to the Cafeteria.
At 12:16 am, Gravy started the EVP session.
No events occurred during this session and the team moved to the Cafeteria.
12:21 am – Cafeteria
The team once again spread out in the Cafeteria. At 12:22 am, Tony blew a kazoo that he found in the room. Noah then started the EVP session.
At 12:25 am, Noah heard a sound like someone inhaling sharply. No one claimed to have made the noise, but no one else heard it. This noise was not captured on recording devices.
At 12:28 am, Noah heard a high-pitched noise. Again, no one else heard it and it was not captured on any recording devices.
No other events of note occurred during this EVP session and the team moved down to the Laundry Room.
12:34 am – Laundry Room
Team spread out in the Laundry Room, taking different spots than the first time they investigated this space.
At 12:38 am, Gravy started the EVP session. At 12:39 am, Noah hears a strange noise that Tony and Gravy do not hear. Despite trying to find the source, nothing definitive is found. It is noted that it is possible the noise came from one of the pieces of plastic covering the windows from the outside.
No other events occurred during this session, and the team took a quick break at 12:48 am to change cards in their cameras. The team then continued the investigation on the 1st Floor.
1:04 am – 1st Floor Women’s side
Tony sat outside Room 102, Gravy sat on the Rec Room side and Noah sat at the hallway junction.
No events occurred during this EVP session, so the group moved over to the Men’s side of the floor.
1:10 am – 1st Floor Men’s side
Noah was sitting near the Rec Room, Tony was sitting in the Children’s Room and Gravy was sitting at the hallway junction.
At 1:12 am, Gravy began the EVP session.
No events occurred during this session and the team moved to the 2nd Floor.
1:20 am – 2nd Floor
Gravy was sitting toward the Women’s side, Noah was sitting toward the Men’s side, and Tony was sitting at the top of the stairs. Gravy started the EVP session at 1:22 am.
No events occurred during this EVP session and the team moved to the Men’s side to continue the investigation.
1:29 am – 2nd Floor Men’s side
Noah was sitting toward the bedroom side of the hallway, Tony was sitting toward the Rec Room side of the hallway and Gravy was sitting at the hallway junction. At 1:30 am, Gravy again started the EVP session.
Unfortunately, nothing occurred during this session and the team moved to the Women’s side.
1:39 am – 2nd Floor Women’s side
Tony was sitting at the hallway junction, Noah was sitting toward the Rec Room side of the hallway and Gravy was sitting toward the bedroom side of the hallway. Noah started an EVP session at 1:41 am.
Despite asking many questions, no events occurred during this EVP session and the team decided to end the investigation for the evening at 1:55 am.
The team went around and stopped their recording devices for the evening and set things to charge overnight. The team left the building for the night at 1:56 am.
Investigation Night 2
The team decided to conduct some daytime investigating since there was time. The team started and timestamped all of the equipment and then headed to the 2nd Floor.
4:41 pm – 2nd Floor
The team spread out on the 2nd Floor in the center. Control silence was started at 4:42 pm. The wind had picked up compared to the day prior and could be heard along with the standard traffic.
At 4:44 pm, Noah started an EVP session. No event occurred during this session and the team moved down to the 1st Floor.
4:56 pm – 1st Floor
Upon reaching the 1st Floor, the team realized that outside weather conditions still needed to be taken so the team headed outside to do that at 4:59 pm.
After completing the outside weather conditions, the team headed out to dinner at 5:10 pm.
The team returned from dinner at 6:30 pm. At this point it was decided that Tony, Gravy, and Noah would each spend 30 minutes solo inside the Manor while the other two remained in the bunk house. Tony went first and entered the Manor at 7:15 pm and after getting his control equipment running, headed to the 2nd Floor to start the solo investigation.
At 7:45 pm, Noah entered the Manor as Tony’s solo investigation had ended. After getting the control devices started, Noah headed to the 2nd Floor to begin the solo investigation.
7:48 pm – 2nd Floor Women’s side
Noah began control silence at 7:51 pm and noted traffic noises.
Noah walked around the 2nd Floor doing mini-EVP sessions. Nothing occurred during these sessions and Noah decided to move down to the 1st Floor.
7:58 pm – 1st Floor Children’s Room
At 7:59 pm, Noah started an EVP session. There were no events noted during this session and so Noah moved to the custodian closet where the documented suicide had occurred.
8:02 pm – 1st Floor Custodian Closet
Noah continued the EVP session in this room, attempting to get anything to communicate with him. There were no responses heard or recorded and Noah decided to head to the 1st Floor Women’s side.
8:07 pm – 1st Floor Women’s side Room 102
Noah once again conducted an EVP session in Room 102 but there were no responses heard so Noah decided to head down to the Basement in the Cafeteria.
8:11 pm – Basement Cafeteria
At 8:14 pm, Noah started another EVP session. No events happened during this session and Noah moved down to the Laundry Room.
8:18 pm – Laundry Room
At 8:19 pm, Noah started an EVP session. Despite asking numerous questions and asking anything there to manipulate items in the Trigger Object Bank, nothing occurred and Noah ended his solo investigation at 8:23 pm when Gravy entered the Manor.
Gravy began his solo investigation at 8:25 pm.
At 9:00 pm, Tony and Noah rejoined Gravy in the Manor and headed to the Laundry Room in the Basement to continue the investigation together.
9:04 pm – Laundry Room
At 9:05 pm an EVP session was started. At 9:07 pm, a plastic noise is again heard coming from what seems down the hallway that leads to the Cafeteria. Noah and Tony investigated to see if any of the plastic had fallen off any of the door windows that had been used to block out light and nothing was out of place. Due to the increased wind, it is believed the sound may have came from outside the Manor due to the plastic that was placed on the windows from the outside.
Nothing else occurred during this session and the team moved down to the Cafeteria.
9:31 pm – Cafeteria
The team spread out in the Cafeteria and Noah started an EVP session at 9:35 pm.
No events occurred during this EVP session and the team moved into the Joker’s Hallway.
9:44 pm – Joker’s Hallway
Tony was sitting in the Piano Room, Noah was sitting toward the Cafeteria, and Gravy was in the Joker’s Room. At 9:47 pm, Tony started and EVP session.
Nothing occurred during this EVP session and it was ended at 9:57 pm and the team went and changed cards in their cameras.
After changing cards and restarting the cameras, the team decided to continue the investigation on the 1st Floor Women’s side.
10:13 pm – 1st Floor Women’s side
Tony was in Room 102, Noah was sitting at the hallway junction and Gravy was sitting toward the Rec Room side of the hallway.
There were no events during this EVP session and the team headed to the Men’s side of the floor.
10:30 pm – 1st Floor Men’s side
Noah was sitting in the Children’s Room, Gravy was sitting in the hallway that leads to the Rec Room, and Tony was sitting at the hallway junction.
At 10:33 pm, Gravy started and EVP session. At 10:34 pm, Tony reported that he felt like something small had hit him in the chest. Tony couldn’t find anything on the ground and cameras did not capture anything hitting Tony.
There were no other events that occurred during this session and the team headed up to the 2nd Floor.
10:58 pm – 2nd Floor top of stairs
Tony was sitting at the top of the stairs, Noah was sitting toward the Men’s side and Gravy was sitting toward the Women’s side.
At 11:06 pm, Gravy started and EVP session. Some strange noises were noted that appeared to be coming from the Attic. It was concluded that it may be animal activity.
Nothing else occurred during this session and the team moved to the Women’s side.
11:16 pm – 2nd Floor Women’s side
Noah sat at the hallway junction, Gravy sat toward the Rec Room side and Tony sat toward the bedroom side. Gravy started an EVP session at 11:18 pm.
Once again, there were no events of note that occurred during this EVP session and the group moved to the Men’s side of the floor.
11:27 pm – 2nd Floor Men’s side
Gravy was sitting toward the Rec Room side, Tony was sitting toward the bedroom side and Noah was sitting at the hallway junction. An EVP session was started at 11:30 pm by Gravy.
Nothing occurred during this session and the team left the Manor at 11:41 pm initially to take a break. However, once the break concluded the team decided to pack up their equipment and prepare for the trip home the next day. The investigation was officially concluded at 12:29 am.
Conclusion
PIM has been able to investigate Edinburgh Manor many times over the last few years. Each investigation allows PIM to build upon the study of this location. This investigation was quiet overall, but PIM still learned something about Edinburgh Manor. PIM looks forward to their next investigation at this location.
