Ghost Hunters Ohio search to explain shadows, sounds and ghost cars

This is one of the most interesting reports that I’ve read in awhile. I love to read reports on ‘shadow people’, and this by far sounds like a very interesting case. The evidence gathered (link included) can be controversial (as usual) but it does sound a little odd.

NEWARK, OHIO – Homeowners here called the Ghost Hunters Ohio Search Team for some answers after experiencing a continued haunting in their 1898 structure that included sound and visual anomalies and a “ghost truck” that seems to come home once in a while.
Newark is a city in Licking County, Ohio, 33 miles east of Columbus with a 2,000 population of 46,279. Robert Silverberg’s novella, “Born With The Dead” is set partly in Newark, and references the Great Circle and Octagon Mounds; as do parts of The Tales of Alvin Maker series of novels by Orson Scott Card. Isaac Asimov also references the Newark Earthworks in a short story.
Investigation date: August 29, 2008. Team members present: Brenda Shupe, Darla Daugherty, Bev Nance, Christian Stewwart, Chris Barnes.
What the client reported from the past – Brenda Shupe reporting:

Back stairs: Three people sleeping in different areas of the house awoke to the sound of someone running up and down the back stairs. Upon checking they found no one.

Bedroom: Friend sleeping in this room awoke to find a man standing over him. After blinking a few times the man was gone. Client has always had an uneasy feeling in this room.

Living room: Client has caught a glimpse of a black shadow figure in this room.

Outside: Client said a ghost truck goes up the driveway and around to the back of the house. The head lights and tail lights can sometimes be seen. But when they go out back to check there is no truck there. The driveway is the only gravel driveway in the area. Client says there is no mistaking the sound of a vehicle on the gravel driveway. Recently friends staying over night heard the truck. Several minutes later they heard the back door open and close and foot steps. There was no one there. This scared them so bad that they didn’t want to stay another minute in the house and they left. Client told us that this car appears several times a year, going back to when he was a child. He also assured us that no one was ever using drugs or drinking when the car was seen.

Attic: Uneasy feelings.

History: The history of the house presented no clues as to what may be happening in the home. We did find documentation that in 1942 six members of a flight crew and two Newark residents were killed when a B-25 crashed into an apartment building located very close to this home.

Observations: Video & wireless cameras were positioned in view of the driveway, back stairs, living room, second floor landing and second floor stairs.

We decided to spend some time in the attic. We didn’t have a video camera up there as nothing has really happened up there other than uneasy feelings and we felt we had the video cameras in the most active parts of the house. Boy were we wrong. The attic consists of two finished rooms with a set of doors separating the rooms. The doors make a lot of noise when you open them. We were in the second room and had the doors closed. A light was left on in the first room. We had been discussing the temperature monitor when it sounded like someone was opening the doors. The door shook like someone was trying to jerk it open. We could see through the cracks the light from the room beyond and we could see no one was at the door.

Sound at the Door

At first we thought it was someone from downstairs coming to join us but then realized we did not hear the attic door open and we had not heard any foot steps on the wooden stairs. When we opened the door there was no one there. A video camera on the second floor landing verified that no one opened the attic door or came up the stairs. Later a vanity light just outside the doors in the other room came on by itself.

This happened just after we had heard a light tap and Chris had asked for a better sign. Again video verified that no one came up the stairs. The client said the light is never used. The light has a switch that turns. Thinking that maybe the switch had been left in a halfway position we tried to recreate the event but could not.

One evp was recorded in the attic and another one that we are not sure of at this time. The first one was picked up when we were just sitting quietly. It sounds to us like “come in here.”

Another evp was picked up in the living room. The question was asked “are you here alone or is there someone with you” As the last word “you” is spoken we hear the name John. Earlier in the night the client and I heard what sounded like three loud thumps on the wall from the living room area. Everyone else was outside taking a break at the time.

A video camera that was positioned to see the back steps went badly out of focus several times through out the night. There was no visible change in the lighting or any movement to have caused this. Nothing of interest was found on any of the other video cameras or audio recorders.

Although we did not find an immediate cause for the light turning on and the doors
rattling we are not ready to call these events paranormal until we can do a few follow
up investigations and look further into natural causes.

Conclusions

Paranormal events recorded on video: None
EVPs recorded: 1, possibly 2
Other audio recorded: yes, sound of door trying to open
Photo evidence: None
Link to evidence

Full source: Examiner.com