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Investigation 3
Portsmouth, R.I.
April 6, 2009
Temperature: 66 degrees at arrival (interior temperature)
Barometric Pressure: 29.15 in.
RISEUP investigators present: Kenneth DeCosta
David DeCosta
Ryan Lantini
David Grady
Shayna Drinkuth
Tom Stewart
Geographical and Historical Data
This is the third investigation at Natures for the team. Nature’s is a New Age specialty store located in Portsmouth, R.I. dealing primarily with merchandise related to the metaphysical/holistic and spiritual aspect of life. There is an abundance of geological items, especially stones, crystals and selected minerals that are not only beautiful ornaments but are also said to promote healing and spiritual awareness. Many of these items are made into jewelry on the premises. There is also an abundance of fossils and seashells for the serious collector of these types of items and various ornaments and statuary pertaining to New Age philosophy. Along with these, one will find a rather extensive and eclectic collection of Native American artifacts on site.
A startling new fact has come to light regarding nature's. it has been learned that in the great hurricane of 1938, which destroyed neighboring Island Park (below) and devastated much of the eastern seaboard, a house washed up from the waterfront and came to rest on exactly the spot where nature's now stands.
This was revealed from old pictures of the location - showing the displaced house - which were then overlaid on top of pictures taken of the plaza today. Judging by the landmarks that still exist, we were accurate to within a foot of matching the locations exactly. From what we can ascertain from records and anecdotal accounts, there were at least two people found dead inside the home, including a small child. This perhaps may explain - or help to - why on the surface there would appear to be no sound reasoning behind the activity that occurs here.
Activity
Responding to reports of paranormal activity from the owner and employees of a small business in town, we have conducted multiple investigations centered on unusual phenomena in the basement. Our previous investigations to the establishment on November 4th and November 14th 2008 had a combination of personal experiences centering around observing visible blue flashes of light in the basement, audible whispers, the sensation of being touched, sense of a “dark presence”, along with some spikes on the KII meter which on the surface appeared to be intelligent responses to questioning. The group was asked to return to Nature's for a third follow-up investigation as the day before our investigation (June 5) witnesses (including one customer who had no knowledge of the claimed activity) said they heard footsteps running up the basement stairs. They went to the basement door to find no one. The owner was downstairs at the time working in the machine shop and when called down to - said she heard nothing
Investigation
There were numerous
personal experiences reported at Natures on this night. Ken reported seeing the
same visible blue flashes of light in the basement that were seen on the
previous investigations. In one of the corners of the basement (where in the
last investigation one of the investigators sensed a “dark presence) the
investigators reported a couple of different phenomena. Ken saw a shadow moving
from his right to left across a doorway that disappeared into the shop boiler
room and Shayna and Tom clearly heard a whisper emanating from that same
location prior to that.
There were a few instances where our
walkie-talkie’s downstairs was going off at various intervals. It's quite easy
to dismiss this or any other occurrence to mere coincidence, but rather than
ever simply writing off anything, it is best to try to come up with an answer to
have a clearer picture should this occur again.
A sweep of possible radio and microwave
signals was made using the sensitive Tri-Field meter which did not register
anything that would suggest the walkie occurrences were any type of radio
interference. This reading was taken both before and after a Cox Communication
truck in the parking lot was there. The communications system inside the truck
would not seem to be the cause, nor any radio equipment inside the Cox
Communications building itself.
To that end, Ken picked out those instances
where the device went off by labeling times and corresponding questions or
statements that were made when it did so. He also noted the time between hits to
see if a pattern developed. There is one important variable to keep in mind when
considering all this: The chances of the walkie-talkie going off after a
question increases because most of our verbal communications are in the form of
a question.
Walkie Observations
According to
the analysis, there were 33 "hits" on the walkie, 13 of which were what we'd
call random, 20 of them follow a question or some commentary
There were 64 questions asked (hard to keep
accurate count, but we feel comfortable with that number). The number of hits to
questions asked is extremely high (over 50%), but also bear in mind this doesn't
account for any question that would result in a "no" and not elicit a
response (paranormally-speaking anyway).
If you take out the random hits, almost 1/3
of the questions asked resulted in what we'd call an "intelligent" response. Not
entirely convincing, but still high if you factor in possible "no" answers which
- theoretically - would result in no response at all.
There is no discernible time pattern
between hits - they range from mere seconds to minutes.
There was no positive response to any
repeat question that previously not been responded to. This takes a little of
the randomness out of the equation. If there was no hit for a question, and the
same question was repeated, there was still no hit. In that same vein, four hits
came after the same four questions or variation of it - "Can you do it again?" -
were asked.
Another very interesting hit was one
that was asked to occur on the count of three (the chances of a random noise on
exactly "three" is approximately 1 in 250).
The percentage of random hits to
intelligent hits hovers around 40%. On the surface, this is too high to claim it
is paranormal. Yet the high percentage of "hits" to questions again is also
very dramatic, and is in a much higher range than we (or anyone) normally get
when doing EVP work.
As mentioned earlier, we came armed with new data concerning the history of the immediate area resulting from a tragic and violent act of nature that had occurred 70 years earlier. it is difficult, if not impossible to say any line of questioning revolving around those events orchestrated more activity than usual, but neither can it be completely dismissed. out of respect for those hundreds who lost their lives in this catastrophic event, we chose to temper our emphasis on this somewhat.
Conclusion
In addition to the growing number of personal stories, experiences and anomalous
KII spikes caught on previous investigations; this follow-up gave us the first
piece of audio evidence captured in this location. While we still cannot say for
certain if this third follow-up at Natures actually brought any clarity to the
events taking place there, there still remains the possibility that the owner
and staff do indeed share the property with a yet-unknown entity. This location
will continue to be monitored and future investigations will be scheduled thanks
to the openness of its owner and her employees.
While we cannot say for certain if the
second follow-up at Natures actually brought any clarity to the events taking
place there, there remains the possibility that the owner and staff do indeed
share the property with a yet-unknown entity.