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Strauss Mansion Investigation

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The Mansion is a 21-room house built in 1893 for use as a "summer cottage" by a wealthy New York importer and merchant .

It is now a museum that is part of the Historical Society of the town it calls home.  We do not have the permission yet to use the name of the location but once we do, we will list it by name and not just as a museum..

The investigation took place on December 9th 2006.  This was our first investigation of a home so everything was a bit of a learning experience.

 We arrived about 7pm or so and finished up around 10:30 pm or so..  So it wasn't a very long one but it did produce great results.. We didn't have much to set up so it took us about 30 minutes to get ready and then the fun began.. The following is the results of the investigation. 

 

To view the evidence collected from our August 2007 investigation of the strauss mansion please click the link below .  You will need Quicktime to listen to the audio files.

STRAUSS MANSION  AUG. 2007 INVESTIGATION

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THE PHOTOS
The photos below were taken throughout the house.  ORBS have been talked about so much in this field, are they spirits or just dust?   Im not saying that what is shown in the photos are spirits, it's a 50/50 split that it could be spirit or just dust.  I chose these because the orbs in the photos are pretty bright and there are dust obs that apear in the photos with these and they seem different to me..   I will let you all be the judge of what you think they may or may not be .  I would like to point out that the 11th photo down is a photo of a real coffin that was found in the basement when the house was bought.
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The photo below i thought was pretty intresting because there is a object near the christmas tree that is not an orb , but more like a a White Rod or something or an orb in motion.. There is an Orb in motion at the bottom of the dress as well but the one next to the tree does not look to be an orb to me .. 

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THE EVPs
We also captured many evps this night,  from names being said to what we think is the piano being played and i have to add that the piano was broken and does not play at all.. I ran my finger down all the keys and not one made a sound, i don't think there were strings in it...
 
The first is of what we believe is the piano keys being played.

Piano Playing Unedited

Piano Playing Edited

These Next Evps are what sound like screams.  Now we were told that nothing ever happened in the house that they knew of,  but i would like to mention that back in the 80's there was a harror movie filmed in the house and i was thinking that maybe somehow a few of the scenes left some kind of impression and our recorders picked up on it ...  I would also like to note that The one titled " Help Me Please" was an evp that is heard after the scream in the one titled scream two unedited.  So this has still got us a little stumped and may need to look into the houses history a bit more.

Scream One Unedited

Scream One Edited

Scream Two Unedited

Scream Two Edited

Help Me Please

This next evp is what we believe to be a name being spoken.. We believe they are saying " Lucy ", it sounds like a child saying it.. This house has changed hands many times over the years so its a little hard to know the names of all those that lived here.. The names we do know of  do not include a " Lucy" .. It's also possible that they are saying " You'll See " ..

Lucy Unedited

Lucy Edited

These next evp were recorded in the Library of the house.. You will hear me speaking first.. Im explaining to another member that i normally dont ask questions like " do you want us here and stuff like that " and right after i say that you will here what sounds like one of these three " Tell me " or " Tommy " or " Tony "... Please note that you will hear a sound like " mmmm" that is the other member making the mmm sound that he understood what i was saying.. The evp starts just before the mmmm.... It sounds as if it's and old time radio, it just has that sound to it, like a static sound..

Tell Me Unedited

Tell Me Edited

This next evp was recorded on the 3rd floor in an old apartment..  It is heard right at the beginning of the clip just as i start to speak.. You will hear what sounds like " Hey There " or this sounds a bit funny but i really sounds like a woman saying " Hey Baby " lol ...  We were told that squaters lived in the house when it sat empty for years so who knows who lived in this apartment.. Or maybe the spirit has a crush on one of us lol...

Hey There Unedited

Hey There Edited

And this final evp is a very clear one.. It's of someone saying " How Come? " but what makes it more special is that when its played in reverse it says " Mother ".  I thought this was probably our best evp of the night.. It  sounds like a young woman or little girl and it sounds as if shes responding or trying to join the conversation of myself and another group memeber.

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How Come Reversed "Mother"

THE VIDEOS
(These videos show what could be orbs)..
The first was recorded in the Library,  we had bee sitting in the room for about a half hour and then we got up and went downstairs and about 5 minutes after we left this object floated toward the camera and then out of view,  It can be seen on the right side of the screen..  I looped the video twice ... I wish the quality was better but when uploading to photobucket the quality got a little bad.

This second video was recorded in the basement.. It's had to see in the background but there is a coffin leaning against the wall.. It is a real coffin that was found in the basement when the house was bought and they do not know where it came from..  The orb apears to come from the area of the coffin or even out of the side of it . I also looped this video twice as well and again i wish the quality was better ..

NEW!!
 
This next video is the same as the above video only in slow motion to show that the orb is comming from the side of the coffin.. I thought that at normal speed it was a little hard to tell but seeing it slowed down you can see it alot better.