We Don’t Talk

Earlier this year, at the end of February, I received an e mail from a lady telling me that something strange is happening in her home and wanted me to come to check it out. It wasn’t anything she could put her finger on. When she described what was happening, I felt that it could be natural and asked her to keep a journal of what was happening. It was in the middle of winter and she lived in the southern tier of Minnesota. I was willing to go there, but I wanted to wait until the weather was better.

A few years ago, the young couple bought an old farm and wanted to start their dream of having an organic farm. This is where the animals are raised on natural food. Such as the chickens were free range, and the cattle were grazed on the chemical free grass. They used no pesticides or herbicides, nor do they grow genetically modified food crops. The farm had a main house and a guest house. An elderly woman lived in the house that was going to be going into a retirement home. The couple loved the house from the beginning and wanted to restore it. They decided to live in the guest house until the renovation is done. The house has good bones to it; it was last updated in the 60’s and had a lot of paneling all over the house. Yet there was a good indication that something elegant was hiding beneath the paneling which they wanted to restore. As they started to gut the house, strange things started to occur. The feeling of being watched, hearing doors slam shut when no doors were on the doorways. In a room where they stored things the paint on the wall was in perfect condition suddenly pealed and fell off the wall in only that room. At the time, I did not think much of the occurrence; paint will peal off the walls with the changing of the temperatures. Just before our trip to Iowa, she called me franticly. Her husband walked into the kitchen part of the house and saw a lady sitting in the dinning room. He stood there startled staring at her. She turned to look at him and disappeared. I set up an appointment with her to investigate her home when we came back from Iowa.

I had a rare chance to try an experiment on this case. Two of my members had teenagers who were very interested in ghost hunting. I usually do not allow such young people on a case, but both their parents were coming to the investigation and it gave me a chance to see if a spirit would react differently to them then to adults. I had found that ghosts don’t react to well with young adults. I think it may be because many young adults are a bit self centered and don’t have much in the way of life’s experience. One thing I did stress to them is to be respectful to the spirits. All my members were to show respect. I on the other hand was going to try for the bad guy approach to see what will happen.

The trip was quite interesting. From a paved road we turned onto what seemed an endless dirt back roads. We finally arrived at our location and I was quite surprised to find what seemed in the middle of no where, a large farm with several buildings. As we arrived the young couple greeted us warmly. We walked to the guest house you can see that they planed out their farm carefully. Each building was in easy reach and they had a number of chickens wondering around. The small herd of cattle was at the far end of the farm along with pigs and other live stock. They had a personnel garden fenced in that was closer to the house where they grew a number of vegetables. Also what came to greet up was a number of dogs. They were all kinds of breeds. They ranged from German Shepard to Labs. The young couple also inherited another dog that was left by the owner.

The group consisted of Kathy A, Ladora and her daughter Jade, Linda and her daughter Damita, and me. Both the daughters are teenagers. Even though they are teenagers, both young ladies are very mature for their age. As long as I had the parents permission and they were with them I had no problem with these young ladies on an investigation.

After the introductions, Kathy A and I toured the house. The house was fairly large and at this time it was in the middle of being gutted for remodeling. Though they had the farm for a few years, they worked on the house as time allows. As we toured the down stairs, I could see why they wanted to bring the house back to the original design. It had a large kitchen, the kind you don’t see anymore, a dinning room, parlor, a room in the back; I would call a mud room. Here people coming out of the fields would remove the muddy boots. What didn’t fit was the staircase. The staircase was lovely and it was something that should have been shown off. Instead it was enclosed in its own room. I examined the wall where she said the paint pealed off. I can still see sections that were still attached to the wall and it didn’t quite make any sense that it would have pealed so badly. I do know that expansion and contraction due to temperature and moisture changes may cause this but the plaster underneath was in great condition. I didn’t feel anything as I was down stairs, however, once I got up stairs this was another matter. There were 4 bedrooms an area where you can walk out on a balcony, a bathroom, an attic stairs, as well as the back stairs to go down stairs. It was here I felt that I was being watched and followed. As I got to the attic stairs I noticed how steep they were. Kathy A explored another room near by. As I looked up the stairs I decided I was going to take a peek up in the attic when I heard a little girl’s voice. I wasn’t sure if it was Kathy talking and I asked her if she said anything. She said she didn’t. On my recorder I got a little girl saying either “help me” or “Chelsea”.

I left one recorder up stairs in the central bedroom where I felt the most activity and left it running the whole time we were there. We checked the basement. Basements are always creepy and this one was no exception. After the tour each of us paired up and took turns touring the house. I had Jade and Damita team up. Both these young ladies have psychic abilities. Jade has some and she is at a cross roads now in her life where she has a choice to develop further if she chooses to or let it stay as it is. Damita is Linda’s daughter. Because Linda grew up with this ability she knew what Damita was going through and was able to help her understand what was happening and encouraged her to develop her ablities.

Both girls, perhaps because both are psychic, have gotten some good responses. As they toured the house, at one time they asked if the spirit could knock, and they raped on something 3 times. They received a response of 3 knocks.

I must note here. Something very interesting happened in the house. Remember I said I had left the recorder up stairs; it would seem that whoever was in the house responded by the recorder, yet the girls herd it down stairs.

Also at the time of the knocks, a mans voice can be heard saying “We don’t talk”

As the girls continued to walk around they hear a laugh. When they asked him to do it again they heard a noise and thanked the spirit. The noise they heard was a voice it sounded like mercy or Murphy.

Another time when they looked at the stairs leading to the basement you can hear on their taper recorder don’t go down. Both girls saw a shadowy form moving around in the basement.

While Linda and I walked around I heard some say get out while I was in the kitchen. As we walked a very loud voice of a girl called for Tony.

We switched partners around through the evening. During the time when Jade was with her mother Ladora, on her recorder we picked up a voice saying get out of my….and then Jade talked. I am going to assume he said house.

With Linda and Damita, a voice on the recorder said no one in my house.

We also left the recorders going while no one was in the house and we did hear a young child saying ha…then a woman saying don’t you dare. Also a heavy sigh by the recorder.

When Kathy A and Ladora walked around they got a voice on their recorder. “don’t you cast down”

All in all I have to say we did get some very interesting things on the recorders. However nothing major came up on our photos.

Once again I found provoking is not for me. Even though I did get some evps I believe I would have gotten more if I was nicer.

Because of the great verity of clear voices we have picked up I would say that this house dose have spirits in it. I did ask the owners if they would be interested in having other ghost hunting groups come to the house and they said they think it would be alright. If your group is interested, please contact me and I will pass the information to them. I am hoping to return to the house in Wells as time permits.

To hear the evps please go to my web site. You can google it Minnesota’s Beyond the Veil
The connection is on the bottom of the first page, thank you.