Morning!

So I spent most of my morning writing up an article for the “San Pedro haunting“. Which I hope you guys enjoy.

I ran across this other article that was sent to me by another reader. A mother desperate for answers, turns to the Maine paranormal Society in order for them to explain the “man” that her son sees in their closet. Creepy to say the least!

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BIDDEFORD — The odd burning sensation on her legs started as soon as Dani King moved into the old brick mill-turned-apartment complex.
In a few weeks, her 2-year-old son started talking about the man in the closet. She cleared out the coats and stuff filling the shelves, but didn’t see a thing.

“The second time he mentioned ‘The Man’ I got on the computer. I’m like, ‘Screw this; I’m getting somebody,'” said King, 20.

“He’s very insistent, ‘Man!’ But is the man bad? ‘No.’ Either way, a man in my closet wasn’t a good thing.”

She visited the Web site of The Atlantic Paranormal Society, TAPS for short, stars of the Sci-Fi Channel’s “Ghost Hunters,” and looked up their Maine contact.

A month later, in mid-January, the Maine Paranormal Society was at her apartment door. The scared child had moved the case to the top of their list.

An hour before unloading equipment and rigging up four night-vision cameras, lead investigator Jim Blanche, a Westbrook emergency medical technician, convened with the team to talk about the case at a local Wendy’s, a team ritual. Case manager Holly Densmore laid out particulars. First, they’d try to debunk the claims, come up with real-world explanations, she said.

Densmore’s mother, Nan Pummill of Freeport, researched the site and found descriptions of a 1652 Indian massacre near the mill.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if this was Indian spirits,” she offered.

The fourth member of the team, Jennifer Moreau, joined the group more than a year ago because she wanted help making unwanted apparitions go away. She agreed with Densmore: Nearly 90 percent of sightings and phenomena can be disproved.

Most. But not all.

“I’ve seen spirits as solid as me or you. It’s not cool; it’s not cool at all,” Moreau said.

‘Ticky, ticky, ticky’

After quick introductions, King gave the ghost hunters a quick tour of her two-bedroom apartment. The burning sensation in her legs — “It feels literally like someone’s holding a lighter to you, but very quick” — usually happens at night in the living room. So does a weird dripping sensation, as if water drops had fallen from the ceiling and landed on a bare arm or a leg, but there’s no water there.

The closet in question was off the kitchen. King said she asked her son, “What does the man do?” He answered, “Ticky, ticky, ticky.” That’s his word for tickle.

They’ve lived in the apartment for four months.

Blanche and team trained cameras on the closet, the boy’s bedroom and the living room. A folding table in King’s bedroom served as command center for the night.

Maine Paranormal Society, formerly the Central Maine Researchers & Investigators of the Paranormal, became a TAPS Family Team by having a similar style to the TV “Ghost Hunters,” Blanche said. Local groups act as a sort of screen.

“If we get something rocking, we’ll give it back to them and they’ll probably come up here,” Moreau said.

They conduct about one investigation a month. Afterward, it can take weeks to sort through the potential evidence (hours of digital video and voice recordings).

While King, a younger cousin, two cats and two chinchillas watched, the apartment was swept to measure electromagnetic fields and temperature. Finally, everyone settled in the living room. Densmore and Blanche donned head lamps but kept them turned off. They introduced themselves to the darkness.

“My name is Jim. I’m here to do an investigation.”

“My name is Nan. I’m here to hopefully get a chance to meet you.”

Then, on to the questions. Was this spirit tied to the mill? Tied to this room? Could it blink once for yes, twice for no?

Most of the assorted meters were quiet.

Blanche asked, “Are you the man in the closet?”

Still nothing.

Caught on tape

Densmore smelled perfume.

“I keep getting grandmother. Very nurturing and protective type thing,” she said.

She wondered whether someone in the room had brought the ghost in with them. Then, later, whether it could be a ghost from another apartment, one that occasionally passed through.

The team packed up after four hours of investigation — that smell and one person feeling a phantom drip the only personal experiences.

Blanche said this week that it was Densmore’s digital recorder, placed close to the closet, that appeared to pick up the best evidence that night.

In a one-second clip, a clear woman’s voice can be heard saying what sounds eerily like:

“I found your son.”

It’s not the voice of anyone who was in the apartment during the investigation.

King doesn’t have answers, yet — and her son still sees “The Man” — but she’s glad she had the team out.

“I thought it was pretty cool,” she said. “My apartment looked like a Hollywood set.”

Full source: Morning Sentinel