Arrival
Group members Noah, Karen and Paul arrived at Willow Creek at approximately 9:00 pm – Candace would arrive later around 11:00 pm. After unloading their equipment, Paul was given a tour of the home. Before Noah and Paul came upstairs, Karen was talking with Al at the top of the stairs. She experienced feeling someone touching the middle of her back and had some hearing loss in her left ear. She heard having this kind of experience could be from a spirit trying to make contact – she told it to leave her alone, and her hearing came back.
When Paul and Noah arrived upstairs, it was noted by all three group members, as well as Al, that they felt a little dizzy in the Northwest Bedroom (NWBR). Al and Karen both felt the “Reverend” was present at the time.
The group began to assemble their equipment when Candace arrived. After Karen grabbed some of Candace’s stuff, she went to open the door in the garage to go in. She claimed it felt like someone opened the door from the inside and that the door knob was being pulled from her hand – no one was inside at the time. She tried to experiment with the door to see if she could recreate it, but was unable to.
Candace was given a tour, as well as given time to give her impressions of Willow Creek – she is another group sensitive. When the group went outside to the barn, both Karen and Al thought they saw someone move in the dining room inside the house around 11:17 p.m. No one was in the house at this time. The group finished setting up their equipment upon re-entering the house and began to investigate for the night.
Video Cameras:
1) SONY SHC-42 (Paul’s) – Bathroom
2) JVC 107L – (Paul’s) Master bedroom pointing toward upstairs hallway
3) Sony High-8 CCD-TRV85 (Steve’s) – Living Room
4) SONY Handicam DCR- SR85 w/ 2 HVL-HRILs (Noah’s) – Corner of kitchen facing toward living room
5) SONY Handicam DCR-SR80 w/ shoe light HVL-HRIL (Noah’s) – Carried with him
6) SONY Handicam DCR-HC28 (Chris’) – Placed in master bedroom after Paul’s ran out of tapes
Voice Recorders:
1) OLYMPUS-3100PC (Steve’s) – Lily’s Room
2) OLYMPUS DS-40 (Steve’s) – Living room (RECORDER FULL)
3) H2 (Noah’s) – Northwest Bedroom
4) MEMOREX MB2059B (Paul’s) – Family Room
5) RCA RP120A (Paul’s) – Old basement
6) SONY P620 (Chris’) – Lily’s Room and Master bedroom
7) SONY P-520 (Karen’s) – Free moving-voice recorder – used throughout the house/property
8) RCA (Candace’s) – Free moving-voice recorder – used throughout the house/property
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT:
Tri-field Meters
Weather Station
KII Meter
Motion Detectors
Point-and-Shoot Cameras
UV Flashlights
Investigation
After the equipment was placed and started, the group began its investigation at approximately 12:40 am in Lily’s room. An automatic writing session was conducted with Candace leading it.
NOTE: Automatic writing is a form of channeling. The channeler uses paper and a writing utensil to try to contact spirits through writing. Please see Auto Writing transcript at the end of this report for the details of this part of the investigation.
During the EVP/Auto Writing session, there seemed to be noises coming from the Attic and Master Bedroom areas. It wasn’t proven if any of the noises were paranormal or not. Two things of note occurred during the Automatic Writing session. First, Candace was able to identify the name of a young girl that had visited Willow Creek sometime previous that also had some sensitive abilities. There is no way that Candace could know the name of this girl and even the other members of PIM could not come up with her name. One would have to believe that this information was given to Candace via the spirit she was communicating with. The other occurrence happened at the end of the Automatic Writing session in which Candace stated that one of the spirits there named Sarah said, “I love you” to Al. This corresponds with several reports from other sensitives stating that the spirit known as Sarah has strong feelings towards Al. Both of these happenings could not be explained.
After the spirits stated they were done speaking, Noah, Paul and Al went outside to investigate, while Karen and Candace went to the NWBR. No activities occurred while the women were in the room. Both of them felt the Reverend was staying out of the room because they were carrying holy water and were protecting themselves from him.
Joining the others on the main floor, the group then investigated the Old Basement, the Shed outside and then the Living Room back in the house – Al did not continue investigating at this time. No activities occurred during any of these parts of the investigation.
The group concluded its first night of investigating around 3:00 am. Noah and Karen slept in the NWBR, while Paul and Candace slept in the Living Room. Al was on the couch in the Front Room. No unusual activities occurred while any one was sleeping.
Automatic Writing Transcript
In Nursery/Master Bedroom
What was your favorite animal Lily? – MOO
How old are you? – 4
What year were you born? – 4/18/1875
Is Sara your mom? – (no answer)
Are you a Zier? – YES
How are you related to Sara? – (no answer)
Are you scared of anyone in the house? – (no answer)
If your name Lily or is that a nickname? – (no answer)
She put “BEATS ME”
Who beats you Lily? Lily, who hurts you? Is it the Reverend? – NO
Did Sara hit you? Who hit you? – MOM
Is your mother’s name Sara? Did your mommy let you drown? – SHE DID IT
Mommy let you drown? – TRIPPED ME. HIT HEAD
In the spring? In the summer/ in the Fall? When did you drown? – POND, SPRING
In the pond, on this property? – YES
Do you know who Robbie is? – COUSIN, TRIED TO HELP.
What was his last name? – BLAMAND
Lily did you live in this house? – YES
Was this your room? – YES
How many brothers and sisters did you have? – A LOT?????
What was your daddy’s name? – SAMUEL
Do you know who the Reverend is? – BAD, HURT GIRLS and MOMMY
Do you know what his name is? – JACKSON
Is that first or last name? – LAST
Do you ever use your rocking chair I gave you? – YES
Do you like it? – YES, MOMMY TOOK MINE. DADDY GAVE ME.
Lily, you don’t talk to me that much. Are you afraid of me? – NO
Do you like any of us that come visit you? – MOMMY WON’T LET ME
Mommy won’t let you what? – TALK. HITS ME.
Is your mommy still in the house? – YES
Did you follow me home the last time I was here? – NO
Do you know if any of the people here followed me home? – MOMMY, DIDN’T TRUST YOU
Did mommy do something in my house to let me know she was there? BANG ROOM. I SCARED ERIC
Lily have you been trying to talk to me? – (no answer)
Lily, what was the name of the blonde teenager girl who comes with her sisters and mommy and daddy to visit. She sees you and talk to you. What’s her name? – TASHA, no, MANDY – SHE LIKES YOU, I DON’T LIKE IT
Mandy likes me and you don’t like that, why? Her mommy and daddy are my friends. I like Mandy and I like her friends. And I like you. – OK
I consider you to be a like a daughter to me. – ME TOO
You’re so quiet with me. How come? – MOMMY WON’T LET ME
Who is mommy? I want to talk to mommy. What is mommy’s name? – YOU KNOW HER
Is it Sara? – YES
Sara, I want to talk to you. Are you Lily’s mommy? – (no answer)
Sara, are you in the room? – (no answer)
Why is it that your daughter, our daughter, is telling me you won’t let her talk to me. Is that true? – BAD GIRL
Why bad girl? Lily’s a good girl – HE LOVED HER MORE
Who? What? – HUSBAND LOVED HER MORE
It’s a different kind of love a father has for his daughter than his wife. Don’t you understand that? – (no answer)
Lily said you beat her. Why? – IT DOESN’T MATTER NOW
What do you mean it doesn’t matter now? – *She’s laughing*
Did you beat Lily? – *She walked away and isn’t listening*
Why won’t you talk to me when I have someone here to help us communicate? – TRESPASS, DON’T BELONG HERE.
I told you they were going to be here – ????
(KAREN SAID THIS) Did you follow me home to scare me? Is that why? – YES
Why would you try to scare Karen? – ANOTHER WOMAN
You need to start talking to me – ON MY OWN TIME, NO HELP.
On your own time you’re going to help me without help, is that correct? – YES
Are you going to show yourself to me? – MAYBE IF REVEREND ALLOWS
It’s what I want Sara, not what he wants. Do you understand? – MOLEST
Who did he molest? – EVERYONE BUT LILY
Girls? Boys? – WOMAN, girls only
Was he from Shannon? Lenark? – SHANNON
What years? – 1830-1890
The reverend can’t tell you what you can or can’t do. Not while I’m here. Do you understand? – YES, AFRAID
As long as I’m here he can’t hurt you. He can’t hurt Lily. – HE’LL TRY
There is no negative energy in this house – OK
Is the Revered over by Lily’s Room? – YES – SLEEP NOW – TIRED
You’re going to sleep? – YES
You need to rest now? – YES
We’ll talk later – LOVE YOU
One last question before you rest, have you entered me? – *She’s grinning – she’s still grinning*
Impressions
Karen’s Impressions
Upon doing my walk-through, I felt Lily was in one of the rocking chairs in the nursery, while Sarah was in the master bedroom (she seems more protective of this area than she did last time).
I picked up on the Reverend in the NWBR, but for some weird reason he didn’t feel like too much of a threat compared to last time.
There was a woman in the closet of the Blue Room who I felt was from the 1800’s. She seemed really sad. Not sure why.
On my way to the new basement, I felt Joe at the top of the stairs like how he normally is. In the basement though, I picked up on a male in his 20’s.
While we were sitting around on the first floor, I felt Lily came downstairs and almost wanted to play a game with us all.
Once again, there was that constant feeling of someone looking in through one of the windows in the front room area inside the house.
In the shed I felt there was a male who was crying out, “Why?! Why?! Why?!” as if he were in a panic.
Robbie actually seemed to be in better spirits (no pun intended) than the last time we were there. He seemed to move around the upstairs area a bit more. He still seemed to cling to me as if he wanted to protect me.
Throughout the investigation, I would pick up on some interesting things.
The first time walking out to the tree in the back, I had an image in my mind of 3-4 people standing around it – a woman, two men, and a black male hanging from the tree. Perhaps this was Joe? Who knows.
I felt the same male in the barn I felt the first time we were here (my “womanizer”). While walking to the tree the second time around, I felt the presence of several Native American spirits. They felt like they were all over the hillside watching us. I couldn’t tell if they were protecting us, or eyeing us down. I actually felt kind of nervous when I felt their presence.
Candice’s Impressions
* Boardman – 1st owners? – Aided in hiding of English or Irish immigrants (all white)
* House all white w/ white columns and wraparound porch. Barn red, still on property then, as well as immense fields and pastures. Long dirt/gravel driveway still there.
* Lily, young girl, drowned in pond on property (pond no longer there) – mother tripped her. She hit her head.
* Outside entities are Native American. Want him to work the land, happy about it. Have great respect for Al, protect him and land. Something once buried in field was moved, they want Al to find it.
Living Room – Nothing there
Office – Oppressive, general feeling
Closet in office – Heavy/large oppressive feeling, 1-2 people aware & hiding
TV Room – Nothing
Pasture – “Crowded”; Lots of people past fence line (15-18), respected boundary; A lot the attracted to us in the house (8-10)
New Basement – Something hiding in cubby under stairs, old hiding spot – curious NOT evil; Residual emotions; Black guy, underweight, scruffy, goatee/beard
Bathroom – Nothing
Kitchen – Residual; Cooking (4 people), older woman, younger woman, preteen girl, young boy
Washer/Dryer Room – Residual emotions seeping in from outside
Old Basement – Whole in wall, something once hidden, now missed/moved; Storm/cellar door to outside once escape route to outside
Upstairs Bathroom – People looking in from outside, curious
NW Bedroom – Residual emotions; Moderate oppression
NE Bedroom – Territorial teen girl
Nursery – Left rocking chair occupied by woman (Sara) – mother, Blonde, light grey hair; Plain, flower print, yellow dress; waiting to talk to Al
Master Bedroom – Little girl (Lily) plays peek-a-boo in closet, Likes to hide on the floor of the closet
Machine Shed – Nothing
Cornfield – Something once buried has been dug up and removed
Hay Loft – Rear upper, (8-10) people hiding
South/Lower Barn – 5-6 people hiding among livestock – cows/pigs
