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Moving Glass Page Introduction
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Before I tell you about the séance I must tell you why we conducted it.
My house has been haunted for the past 12 years that I have lived here. Several people have witnessed apparitions in human form and not only do we have foot steps in the hallway each night, but there are many other paranormal events taking place here.
Dr. William Roll sent three of his colleagues here in 1989 and I presently have another researcher investigating my hauntings.
We know very little in regards to having a séance but it's the one thing that we had never attempted. People kept telling us to try and communicate with the spirits here, so we did.
The séance
It was August 3, 1996 and I invited my friends over to hold a séance. They arrived at 9:00pm, so it was my husband, myself and two of my friends.
We set the mood by turning out all of the lights and only had candles burning at the table. We sat around for about 30 minutes and concentrated only on the spirits and the house.
We then set up two video cameras, one aiming at the table and the other aiming down the hallway. We checked behind each other to make sure the cameras were on and working properly. We selected my husband to be the speaker. It was 10:00pm when we began.
We sat around the table, held hands and said a prayer. My husband asked for the spirits of the house to come forth and give us a sign. As he kept speaking, asking for a sign from the spirits a small ball of light flew from one of the candles up into the air.
Then he asked for a spirit to play just one note on the piano (later on tape two piano keys were played). After about an hour we felt we had no real evidence, so we took a break from the table.
We decided to look at the video tape. At the beginning of our tape the picture was full of static and it was very fuzzy. You could hear the sound perfectly.
The interference lasted about 10 minutes into the tape and then the picture slowly began to clear. We do feel that something was in the room with us at the beginning of the séance that possibly caused the interference.
We began again around 12:00am, with the same scenario. My husband asked again for the spirits of the house to give us a sign.
Again a small ball of light fell downward off of the same candle as before, which we captured on film. Right after the light, two of us (one being myself) heard a very faint tapping noise.
For the next hour there was only silence. We broke the session and decided to call it a night. It wasn't until the next morning we knew that we had some concrete evidence.
My friends left for home around 1:15am, that's when I set things up for the night. My hallway has carpet, so first I laid large sheets of flip-chart paper on the hallway floor and set my tape recorder on the floor next to the hallway door, turned it on and went to bed.
The next morning I was listening to the tape and all of a sudden I heard one piano key being played and then another. Remember at the séance my husband asked for a piano key to be played.
As we listened further we could hear all three of our dogs at the front door barking as though some-one they didn't know was there. The barking lasted for several minutes.
Then you could actually hear the paper on the hallway floor crunching, as if some-one was walking over it. So maybe we did stir something or some-one up on the night of the séance because the morning after proved very rewarding to us.
We haven't had another séance since that date and my researcher has the original tape recording of the foot-steps. I do still have the original video and I will get the original tape recording back when he is done with it.