Finally, after a year of waiting...

The club, since its founding, has had one overall goal: do an overnight in Richardson. Monday at 2:30 PM, our request was finally, finally approved, and tonight the Paranormal Discover Club will be overnighting in the building that started it all!

I took a picture because I was so excited

Since Richardson is one of the most notably haunted places on campus, we've been recording and researching there for a year now (the club was founded in September 2011). Though we do catch a lot of really great evidence, it's hard for us to tell what's actual evidence, and what's background noise from the life going on in the building.

So after pestering pretty much everyone in a position of authority here at Adams, we will be meeting Jared (head building manager of Richardson) at 6 pm by the front doors to start the night. We will be locked in from 6 pm until 8 am tomorrow morning, and we're hoping for some good evidence. Thank you to everyone who supported us along this quest; we'll be sure not to let you all down tonight!

Hectic Ghost-Filled Days

It's been a busy couple of weeks here at ASU, and the club has been going at it like crazy. We've started expanding, we're becoming official, planning haunted tours, investigating... It's hectic haha. In the midst of all the excitement and whatnot, we've been catching some interesting things.

From Becca being grabbed, to watery footsteps that mysteriously end, to voices on Audacity, we're not sure what to make of all this activity.

So keep your eyes peeled everyone, because the stories will be rolling in!

EVP Sessions on SoundCloud!

So yesterday (8-23-12) Becca, myself, and our new member Emily went into Richardson and did some investigating. While in there, we kept hearing noises coming from a locked door that sounded like someone pushing against it and turning the knob (I'll have more on that, read the blog to follow and watch the video soon to be posted). We took some EVP's, and we actually caught something! Start with the recording at the bottom, not at the top!

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The first two sounds I flag are some thumps that sound like they come from on stage. The last flag is what sounds like footsteps walking towards my computer (which was left at the top of the stairs on the stage next to the door Becca and I don't like). The footsteps pause, and faintly in the background you hear us coming up from the basement. The footsteps then hurry off the stage, and a moment later you hear the three of us come onto the stage.


Richardson 8-23-12 2
The only sound that was significant was a weird shuffling noise right by my computer before we come back into the auditorium.

Richardson 8-23-12 3
This one is FULL of evidence! Most of the noises I flag are the sounds of the locked door being played with. It sounds like something is pushing against the door, making the deadbolt hit the lock. Something very noteable that we caught, though, is a voice. At 15:39 in the recording, a low, unidentified voice is heard saying what sounds to me like "you came back". If you remember what I mentioned earlier, we caught a low voice last year that said "LEAVE NOW". Maybe they're linked?

Feel free to go through the recordings, and if you find anything else odd, comment or email us at paranormal.discoveries@yahoo.com!

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Shadow People

Shadow People are one of the most common paranormal encounters that are reported. For those that don't know, Shadow People are described as paranormal shadow-like figures that resemble humans (if you want to read up on them, go here).

I don't believe in ghosts as much as I do Shadow People, mainly because I feel like I see them more than I do entities. Ever since coming back from Alamosa, I've been seeing things out of the corner of my eye.

I work at a place called Good Earth Garden Center, and it's been around in it's current location for several years now (I'm thinking about thirty years). There is an old house in the back of the lot that we use for our break room, and the house itself is rather old. It was at the end of the day, and I was just coming back into the house to grab my purse. All the lights were off, so the only light was from the small, dusty windows that were letting in a bit of light. Right by the shelves where I had my purse is a door. It opens out (towards me), and it was open just a crack.

As I approached the door, I could see something standing right beside the door. In the little gap between the door and the jamb, it just looked like a mass standing there, blocking out the light from the other room. Thinking it was one of my coworkers, I called out a greeting as I bent down and grabbed my purse. When no one replied, I stood back up.

The mass in the door was gone.

The only direction anyone could have gone was either out into the main room where I was, or farther back into the room. Upon opening the door the rest of the way and looking around in the tiny room, it became apparent that no one else was inside.

That's not the only encounter at my work, however. There have been many instances where I can hear footsteps walking on the gravel behind me, but when I turn around, no one is there. I've seen flickers of things disappear around corners, and I've heard disembodied voices coming from empty rooms.

Who knows? Maybe there are more than just flowers at Good Earth.

While We're Away

Well, it's that time again. The school year has come to an end, and until next August, we won't be doing any paranormal investigations.

Next fall, we'll be losing two of our members: our co-founder Jake and our tech manager Lauren. We'll miss them a lot, but both have promised to come and visit us, so keep an eye out for that.

Until we start up again, I figured I'd fill you all in on a few mysterious things that have been happening with me lately that continue to keep me on the edge of my seat and remind me why I started this club in the first place.

Being back home in Colorado Springs for the summer, I'd assumed all my paranormal encounters would be at a minimum. I, however, was wrong. It was the first morning back from school, and I was home alone in the dining room, enjoying some delicious cereal. It was just myself and my boyfriend's dog, and things were quiet.

From upstairs, the floorboards began to creak. Not just a "the house is settling" kind of creak, either. I'm talking "it sounds like someone's home and walking around" kind of creak, which was very unsettling because I was, in fact, the only person home. The house is set up a little different: on the main floor, you've got the living room, kitchen, and dining room. Upstairs is a bedroom and bathroom (which belong to my boyfriend's parents, who were both at work) and then downstairs in the basement is my boyfriend and I's room. So, to hear creaking footsteps coming from the bedroom above me was a bit unsettling.

At first, I let it go. I don't like jumping to conclusions, and my cereal was pretty delicious. As I was getting up to put my bowl in the sink, the top stair coming down from the bedroom creaked. I froze and waited, and a moment later, another creak came, this one a bit lower. At that instant, my boyfriend's dog jumped up and raced around to stand at the bottom of the stairs, and he began barking like crazy. It wasn't one of his carefree "hey there's another dog outside" bark, it was this hellish, ferocious bark that I'd never heard from him before.

A moment later, there was a flurry of creaks across the bedroom, which sounded as if someone was hurrying across the room, and then from out of nowhere they ceased. The moment they did, the dog stopped barking.

Whether it really was the house just creaking, or whether there was someone there, I don't think I'll ever know. My boyfriend's family isn't a big believer when it comes to ghosts. It was really intriguing though that when they all came home that night, and I told them what I'd heard, they'd just laughed and said "Those are just our visitors that live in the attic".

Witch Statue Update

One of our allies at Adams, a wonderful lady by the name of Berna, did a little research for us. She was the one who had originally mentioned the statue to us, and when we returned to her with the proof of the date of death, she got really excited.

As it turns out, it's an old tradition to put a non-existent date of death on witch's graves. It's believed that if you put a real date (like october 31st) the witch will be able to return to the living world when that day rolls around. So, to keep her where she belongs, those who buried her put October 36th so that she would never be able to return to us.

Wihelmina Becker was buried in a family plot that seemed to consist of her husband and their four children, with an aunt or two thrown into the mix. It's interesting when you realize that it was only her grave out of the six that had the nonexistent date.

So, thanks to our good friend Berna, we've got one of Alamosa's many mysteries solved.