Ouija Boards

Ouija Boards for Christmas?

First of all, I will start off with saying that I do not believe Ouija Boards are all that bad, if used right. The soul purpose of the board is to contact spirits and other entities from dimensions other than ours, and that's exactly what it does. I believe it is all on motive and energies that you yourself give off, and giving off bad energy is not exactly the best way to talk to something "good".

The spirit board game is to be taken seriously, and without the proper etiquette, can be dangerous. I urge you this holiday season to not buy a Ouija board, and if you end up purchasing one, at least I warned you.

While I played with a Ouija board when I was young until this very day, it has done some harm. Let me give you a glimpse into what I've experienced while messing around with one. When I was a kid, my parents happened to have the game in their collection, so my brother, sister, and I decided to play it. We started asking it simple questions like "who are you?", and "are you human?", because that seemed right to ask. It spelled out "Xavier" on the board and we were all a little freaked out because we had never heard of that word in our then short lives. Whatever we were talking to proceeded to try and show itself to us (of course we asked), and it happened to manifest itself into my sisters dolls. These dolls were looking at us, and we knew we weren't just crazy because they were leaning in toward us and were slightly moving. One crucial element when using a Ouija board is to say "goodbye" once you are done using it, we forgot to.

This is just one instance with the game, but there are many like it among people who have used the boards. If you want a haunted Christmas, be my guest.

Ghost Hunting Tips

Ghost Hunting Tips

Sometimes you have to admit to yourself that you may have arrived unprepared, and in those cases you can only blame yourself. This is just a walk through of what I do so that I can get the most concrete evidence possible. Most people think that when you go "ghost hunting" that you just do what the hunters on television do. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG. Even the paranormal investigators on TV do a lot of research on a house or about a certain entity before they show themselves gathering evidence. Ghost Adventures is now a sad excuse for this thing called evidence. They, in my opinion, make people not believe in the paranormal by acting like something is happening, and I have to admit that before season 6 they were legitimate. We ourselves try to explore the cause of an occurrence without first thinking that it's a paranormal instance. Well enough of me rambling, here are those tips that your probably going to need if your into this kind of thing.

1. Make sure that you always have at least 3 people, including you. going to investigate because with two people, it may only be your imagination. Try with two and you may understand what I'm talking about.
2. Never make things up- If your the compulsive liar type and just want things to seem "creepy" then this hobby is not for you. Make people believe using actual evidence, not what you want them to believe.
3. Try not to stir things up too much or you may have wished that you had never gotten into this sort of thing. Only demonologists should conjure up serious entities, and if you feel that you'd make a great demonologist, go ahead, but make sure that you are careful.
4. When it comes to evil entities, never try to befriend the dark energy. It's never harmful to speak to a demon, but as soon as your slighted, they will find a way to influence you into letting themselves into your body. No one likes when someone makes them do something they don't want.
5. If you believe in the energy's of objects, then you may want to carry around some sage or a silver coin. evil energies cannot handle gold, silver, or sage as they are a sign of purity. When using a Ouija board this is very helpful when warding off evil. Sometimes you let things in you don't want to, even if its within the realm of this dimension.
6. Video recorders, cameras, and voice recorders are a popular association with ghost hunting, but sometimes things can go terribly wrong with these devices batteries, so always make sure to bring a couple extra batteries. There's been numerous times where I have had to change out batteries that I charged all day because of an entity absorbing the energy. 
7. Don't disrespect the people or the residence in which you're investigating as this may bring negative vibes into a residence. It will almost definitely stir up things that you don't want there. Humanoid and non-humanoid energies alike dislike when their surroundings are renovated. I still don't understand why non-human spirits are angry when this happens, but they do.

These are just some of the basics when you go into an investigation, and there are plenty more. For right now though, I think these will get most people by for the time being. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me @stephenjpols@gmail.com. If you also know of any hot spots that we are able to investigate, it would be appreciated, and we will definitely do an investigation, no matter how tough.
 

The Evidence at the house in Alto, MI

    So the story usually goes that an investigation team went over to someone's residence and setup all their equipment and starting hearing random disturbances in their earphones or on camera. Our's weren't disturbances, they were voices heard by our team. First you have to understand that the people were sleeping in the living room upstairs (though it wasn't much of a disturbance) and that was one of the hot spots I wanted to check out, but some things cannot be done without sounding rude. 

The Investigation

    To start off, we went into the basement where we immediately were feeling chills down our spine and almost a sensation of something crawling up our backs. We got our equipment ready and started to record some video in the storage room (where I previously saw an apparition of a shadow figure) and things started to pick up there. Numerous times while in that room, we would hear something whispering right in our ears and the occasional object moving. I don't believe we caught it on camera, but everyone on the team heard the same whisper with the same deep tone of voice. No more than 5 minutes later my Night vision camera was drained of its battery, and that battery was charged for the whole day prior. 

    We then moved on to just sitting in the living room and seeing what would happen if we acted as if we were just visiting. As we sat in the dark, Anna proceeded to ask me "what?" as if I had said something and I didn't say anything. She then jumped up from the chair because something had said "honey" right next to her. In the recording it only sounds like the wick on a dynamite stick starting to burn, which we also found interesting as that wasn't explainable. While sitting we also noticed some things moving on their own and other weird noises.

    Now it was off to Taylor's room to see if any of the claims of paranormal activity he was having in there were true. We began by asking questions and trying to talk to whatever spirit it was in his room, and to our surprise, we captured it talking. I had asked it if it was true whether it was the one in the room, and it replied "I don't know" with a very fast voice. The only other experience we had in there was feeling like something watching us and the closet door opening a little bit while we were in the pitch black room.

    We all noticed that after that there was pretty much no activity happening in any of the other rooms that we investigated. Everyone felt as if the spirit was trying to get away from us and not make anymore contact. Then there was something that caught our eyes while filming on my other camera. All of us wanted to go out for a smoke break, so I placed the camera facing the hallway in the basement. About 3 minutes into the recording a darkness started to form at the end of the hallway and go towards the camera. The even more weird part is, is that the LED attachment I have on the camera was just as bright when we came back downstairs as it was when we went outside.

    Now you ask yourself, do I deem this residence haunted? After the small amount of evidence that we gathered, I would not consider this house haunted. I do think there are a couple of spirits that are lingering around that have unfinished business. We had more luck when we were interviewing the family about the experiences, and at that time, I would've considered the house haunted. All I can base my opinions on is the evidence that was acquired. The happenings in the house are unexplainable, which is why I cannot say for sure of what lingers on their property.

Finally, a house investigation

For a while we emailed a lady who described her kids paranormal experiences with their house and surrounding the yard. A couple weeks later, we met with said lady and found out that the person most effected by the energies in their house was the 19-year old son of hers named Taylor. His girlfriend elaborated on the subject and also told us about her experiences while staying at their house.

Taylor described his experiences as haunting and puts a large amount of fear in his life. The first thing he told us about was that he will not sleep in his room in the basement because of some entity messing with him while he sleeps, as well as nightmares ensuing only while he slept in that room. There is a figure that stands in the corner by the closet and makes him feel like he's being watched throughout the night. Now he sleeps on the couch in the living room. He also spoke of his friend who died in their living room last January, and how he believes that his spirit is roaming their residence.

One personal experience I had while I was there is when we headed downstairs, and I looked into the storage room on the left, at the bottom of the stairs, and saw a very opaque shadow man walk into the wall. I decided to not state this until later as I didn't want it to bias the information needed to start our investigation. While in the room, my wife had her purse tugged on by nothing explainable, and when I stood in front of the TV, I was pushed on the shoulder into the TV with nothing there pushing me.

His girlfriend told us that she had seen a phantom of an old man by the sliding glass door. What was significant about this is that 20 years prior another woman said she had seen the old man outside the sliding door, and both stories were described the same in detail. Taylor's mom was also very informative with this story. During the middle of the night, you can hear footsteps going up and down the stairs for elongated periods of time, according to his girlfriend.

Animals have always been said to see the paranormal world and whimper. They have 3 dogs that will not go downstairs no matter what. I thought to myself that this might mean there's a somewhat evil energy lingering in their basement.

This house is an investigation I look forward to because its a tale of violence, fear, and not knowing what is lingering at the residence. Our physical investigation will be this coming Saturday, and I will be accompanied by my fellow investigators Angela and Anna. We have 1 night vision camcorder, a camera, and a regular camcorder, as well as our phones for recording EVP's. This is going to be one "hell of a night".

York Creek Apartments

York Creek Apartments, Comstock Park, MI

   To start off with the EVP's I captured, I want to tell you that none of the recordings were doctored other than me boosting the volume so you can hear what was on the recording clearly. There's the visual side of the paranormal world, and then there's the audio part of it. 

   My son's room can make you feel like your being watched, followed, or touched. These recordings were from his room, and I started recording because my friend Moby and I heard something. It almost sounded like a clown laugh or you could compare it to a witch's laugh. We sat in my living room at 3 in the morning, very startled, and we though it would be a good idea to record. After we checked out the audio, we were surprised to have caught anything, but we did. This was on May 23, 2014.

   This first recording is of June 12th, 2014 at about 10:30 at night. My wife sat in the room as a witness that it was dead silent. The recording is about 7 minutes long so we just have the part that matters, then evidence. After this clip my son started yelling, "DIE, DIE, DIE, etc.", and its in the original recording. Maybe I'll just let you listen for yourself.

https://soundcloud.com/clockwork-investigations/your-gunna-die-today-evp001

This second clip is of a couple days prior on June 6th, 2014 at 1:30 in the morning. It comes from a recording that is about 4 minutes long, so I have taken just a piece from that recording so you don't have to listen to all the white noise. It first says "Get out, stay out", and then proceeds to say "I abandoned him, I love him", that's what I could understand anyway.

https://soundcloud.com/clockwork-investigations/i-abandoned-him-i-love-him-evp002

7 Mile Cemetery and Ada Cemeteries

Photo taken at 7 mile cemetery
Plenty of orbs

7 mile cemetery orbs

More 7 mile cemetery orbs

Ada Cemetery: orbs above and around Austin 

Ada Cemetery orbs

Ada Cemetery orbs cont.

Two very large orbs on and above the gravestones and you can also see eyes in the woods in the background.
Photo taken at the Ada Cemetery where the Ada Witch to said to reside.

Hell's Bridge, Rockford, MI

Photo captured at Hell's Bridge, Rockford, MI

Have you ever wondered why you hear the creeks in the floor at night? Was there ever an occurrence that traumatized you as it was too intense for the mind to handle? I had these questions not to long ago as my whole life has been filled with paranormal encounters. This photo was taken with my camera at Hell's Bridge in Rockford, MI. The white light is what I believe to be ectoplasm as it has no consistency with an orb and it is a solid object coming out of nothing. My friend who was with me saw the white-growing glob a few feet to the left and said it was moving so I captured a picture as she was saying this. I have a lot of pictures from that night that show massive amounts of orbs. This was in the complete dark and no one was standing on the other side of the bridge (to our knowledge).

More random orbs 

Orbs floating around Angela while standing on the bridge