First Investigation-West Danville, Vermont

After two long months of waiting I finally went on my first investigation with NEPI. What am I going to do is post an outline of what we did. The times may be a bit inaccurate as, unproffesionally, and kicking myself in the butt, I kind of came unprepared. Hopefully, if NEPI is interested in keeping me, I will be more prepared. However, they didn't seem too distrest by it and kind of laughed about me coming in nothing but a t-shirt, shorts, and sandles. Saying, "I like to be cold" in 34 degree whether. It wasn't that bad, kind of nice really.


6:30 p.m.- I met up with Nancy and Phyliss at the P and D Quickstop in Lisbon where they picked me up and took me into Littleton where NEPI headquarters is; after stopping to get energized at the local Dunkin Donuts, we were off. The question was, "what are you feeling James?" I was feeling excited. No fear. Course, maybe I'm overexaggerating, there was a bit nervousness in there. I really wanted to impress NEPI.


7:00 p.m.- We arrived at NEPI HQ, excited, wanting to go, but before we left we listened to an EVP in a house in Lisbon(I believe). The house had no attendants...of the living as a voice(raspy, dead)came over the speakers of Anthony's laptop. Telling the team to "get out!" and "let's kick ass". The excitement overdrew me to get going, get to this house, and let the spirits of the dead come out of the shadows. We finally left at around 7:10.


West Danville, VT from Littleton usually takes about 45 minutes. It seemed like an eternity. Maybe it was the excitement in all of us that made time seem like it was slowing down like a little child waiting for Christmas. Or...well...it could've been Nikki was driving slow. Nancy and Phyliss said this, not me!...Anyway!


7:50 p.m.-We finally arrived at the house which sat on a hill overlooking the ghost town of West Danville. I had no feelings going into the house, but my first feeling came BEFORE we even arrived. We were going past a church with a huge, black cross on it, and my chest just suddenly tightened. The feeling past immediately after we past the cross. I really wanted to tell someone, but course, just like the haunted muffins at the P and D, I didn't want people to think I was crazy. Or TOO crazy at least.


The home was an old, Victorian style house. It was beautifully large, spacious, and at some points within the home, downright creepy. One particular room, I believe a washroom with a sink and a long counter, my ears felt like there were going to pop. As if there was a lot of pressure inside the room. Once I got out the feeling faded. I told Phyliss about it and I believe she said she felt that too as did Nancy. Micelle, the groups "feeler"-if you will-sensed a lot of feelings in a lot of the rooms. I mean, let me tell you, Graveyard Disciples, this house was huge. There were a lot of rooms in this home. Don't ask me, I didn't keep count, but let's just say the spirits could hide anywhere.


Around 8:00 p.m.-We were standing in a circle as the owners told us about the hauntings around this home. I will not say names due to that the owner wishes to keep this information confidential. The occurances include: two bench seats in the kitchen burning as if they were on fire, but no heat source anywhere. An older lady was walking on a rug that appeared to be wet, but no water source anywhere. As far as anything else goes, this seems to be it. Either my memory was fogged of the night, or I simply forgot, I do apologize, it was a long night. After that, we set the base up.


8:30 p.m. -Anthony told me to take some tempartures of each room as they were getting the base set up. This device was really neat. Pointing a small red dot anywhere in the house and it would tell the temparature where the dot is, and a wire in the front told the temprature where you were. When we first began the temprature was generally around 76-77 degrees both upstairs and downstairs. As we were doing this, Tony was measuring the electronic field around the house. I'm not putting the names of the device, because most days I'm an idiot who forgets a lot, and well, I don't want to put down the wrong name.


Lights out came around 8:45 or so as we went around snapping pictures of all the rooms. We then went downstairs, me, Tony, and Nikki to the basement. Course with the lights out, the heat turned off the temparature dropped ten degrees around 66-68 degrees. We then proceeded to do an EVP session with both Tony having a digital recorder and me having my "old school" tape recorder at hand while I took electric/magentic measurements in the room. Tony would ask the ghost why he or she is here, is there anyone here, if there is then they had premission to touch him, slap, or hit him. A few minutes after he asked that he felt someone/something touch him and there was nothing around him that could do that. We were pretty stretched out across the room. There were no bugs either. A few minutes after this, something touch the back of my ankle or as Tony put it, "did someone touch James' sexy legs?" Thanks Tony. After this, nothing happened, so we moved to another room.


At one point Tony thought he saw a figure, a white figure, poking it's head around a doorway. Tony asked if that was the spirit to not be afraid as we were here to get in contact with them. A few minutes after, Nikki saw something behind me, a figure. She snapped a figure and only got a weird look on my face. May that be the picture of the month on the NEPI site. We proceeded to leave the basement.


The rest of the investigation was nothing extravagent. Nothing really happened from this point on for about a good hour, before 11 p.m. rolled around. The owner came back in as well as her daughter and a brother of her's, I believe. We all sat around a circle as a pengelum and a dowsing rods session was about to begin. This was where it got fun, folks.

Nancy was working the pengelum as Phyliss was working the dowsing rods. Sometimes Nancy would ask a question and the pengelum would say "yes", but the rods would say, "no". This happened on quite a few occassions so we couldn't really tell what the answer was, but on one occassion we got a pretty good idea on what this certain spirit wanted. It wanted us out and it wanted it that minute. When Nancy asked if this spirit, whether it was Hattie(a medium who used to reside in the house)or the owner's father(who died outside the house)wanted us out, we do not know, but the pengelum started spinning like crazy and the dowsing rods crossed as far as they could go. Also, the owner asked if her father was here. That second she finished that question, the EMF meter went off and the pengelum spinned like crazy. The same happened when Nancy asked if the father missed everyone, which was pretty emotional moment in this investigation.

After this, we tried to get some EVP's in a room with Tony, Michelle, Phyliss and myself. But, we left soon after.

Tony told me that he got a few EVP's, but it's kind of hard to decifer them. I thought I got a picture of a hooded figure, but Tony told me the picture matrixed. I got no EVP's. But, Tony said that this was a "class C-all the way.

I hope I get the priveledge to go with NEPI once again. It was a lot of fun and very interesting. Anyway, this has been another edition of Scared Sheetless. Keep haunting Graveyard Disciples.