Monday, June 8, 2009

Unfortunate series of events

Hello all,
I am still working hard on the catalog of haunted places in the area, and have been recruiting people to work with in the area. I have also found a colleague, or rather, he found me, who lives in Carmel, CA. He has been extremely helpful in providing information about paranormal activity in the bay area. I have recently visited one of the haunted places nearest to my home. I visited a home(private residence) off of Trout Gulch rd. in Aptos, CA. I was watching the TV in the downstairs living room, with the only other people in the house, one was napping and the other was also watching the TV with me. Most of the paranormal activity in the house has been on the upstairs floor of the house, and the living room we were in was downstairs. I was sitting in a chair near the stairwell to the upper floor, and suddenly I felt very cold, to the point where I could see my breath (at 4 pm on an 85 degree day). Then I heard a man's deep voice whispering something, like someone in an upstairs room trying to talk quietly so us downastairs could not hear. I asked the people I was with if anyone was up there, but there was no one. We muted the TV and my freinds could not hear anything, but I could hear it for another miute or two. I talked to my friend later, the one who was napping at the time, who grew up in the house. She told me that I was hearing the man (a ghost or spriti of some kind) who lived in her upstairs. She told me that the man often would whisper in a very deep voice, but the words were most often inaudible. She said that the man appears to have brown pants, with disporportionatly long legs. He walks out of either her parents room or the upstairs bathroom, down the hall way and into her room where he would glare at her from the doorway nad then vanish. The spirit is apparently malicious and has a presence that is unwelcoming. On another note, the Rispin mansion on Wharf road in Capitola, which is said to be haunted as well as cursed, burned down in a mysterious fire. Police originally suspected arson, since no one curently lives in the home, but no falmable liquid traces were found, or any other apparent cause of the fire was found. Too bad really, I would have liked to seen the house's inside, and possibly investigated the home. For more informaton on the fire, you can visit the Santa Cruz Sentinel's website (homepage of the local newspaper), or if you would like to find some interesting pics of the manison in its prime, its ghosts, or its most present state, there are some websites that have these if you care to search on google for them. More to be posted soon. -Collin Gray