SJGR Case #99-089:Private House, Philadelphia, PA


Date Of Investigation: 11/28/99
Time: 10:00pm - 1:00am
Weather: clear, mid 40's
Location of Investigation:  Private House, Philadelphia, PA
Investigators On Scene: Jonathan Williams, Hildred Robinette, Anne Palagruto, Dave Juliano, Jeff Wilkins, Pam Porado, Lyn Huselton, Cindy Huntsinger, Jen Mikula, Norman Williams 
Equipment Used: 35mm cameras (Nikon N60, Sure Shot 60 Z0OM & others), EMF detectors, 2 Sony DCR-TRV103 w/"nightshot", APS Camera, 3 Olympus 340R Digital Cameras, tape recorders, two way radios, thermometers, barometer, Trifield EMF meter.
Film Speed: Kodak 400 35mm, 800 kodak gold, 400 Fuji 35mm.
Video Tapes:  8mm 
Audio tapes: TDK 60min
Photos taken: 524
Positive Photos: 24
EVP's: 1
Video: numerous anomalies - Clip #1 , Clip #2

The Case Photos and Information

The Basement
The First Floor
The Second Floor



 
 
 

Case Video Clips

Clip #1 - The door creaks and opens slightly by itself as two investigators walk by, looped 2x.

Clip #2 - An orb-like anomaly flies from the lower right to the upper left, then reverse in slow motion.


 
Events Reports by Witnesses

*Cold spots and rooms
* whispering and voices
* family cat acting strangely
* quick moving forms
* problems with lights in various rooms
* long list of tragedies have occurred here


 
The Events:

10:00p - Started investigation
10:00p - Inves. Robinette entered living room and felt a spirit in the area.
10:03p - Inves. N. Williams got a positive EMF Reading on stairway 1st/ 2nd floor. An EMF meter is reading the fluctuations in electromagnetic fields.  When we first arrive we take preliminary readings and map out the locations of power lines, appliances and other EMF sources.  Most normal readings are in the range of 9.0 - 30.0 on the EMF meter.  These are typical EMF readings in a home.  Anything that registers in the 1.0 to the 8.0 range and cannot be traced to a source is attributed to spirit activity.  It is commonly accepted that spirits are made up of energy and that EMF meters detect that low level of energy accurately.
10:03p - Inves. Robinette entered baby's room and felt spirit of a child.
10:05p - Inves. Robinette  felt a cold spot in the middle bedroom / 2nd Floor.
10:10p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the middle bedroom. An orb is one of the many ways that spirits appear on film.  It is believed that cameras capture spirits because they are capturing an event in a split second, faster than the human eye does.  Often a person will not see anything at the time of the photo.  The camera actually captures the pure image as it is, without having a brain to interpret the data first. 
10:23p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the basement.
10:23p - Inves. N. Williams got a positive EMF Reading in basement.
10:25p - Inves. Robinette and Huselton heard bathroom door squeal without being moved or touched.
10:25p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the stairway 1st /2nd floors.
10:28p - Inves. Juliano got a positive EMF Reading in Basement.
10:28p - Inves. N. Williams' camera locked up temporarily.  This is a common occurrence when there are spirits present.
10:28p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the basement.
10:28p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the basement/laundry room.
10:30p - Inves. Robinette encountered a flower-like smell in each 2nd floor room.  Unexplainable smells are very common in hauntings.  Spirits seem to have little problem affecting our sense of smell.
10:31p - Inves. Juliano took an orb photo in the basement/laundry room. 
10:32p - Inves. Robinette heard a child whisper on the 2nd floor.
10:35p - Inves. Robinette encountered a cold spot in the 2nd floor back room.
10:36p - Inves. Robinette heard a child laughing in the 2nd floor back room.
10:38p - Inves. Palagruto heard child ask for mommy on the basement steps. - Inves. Juliano took an orb photo on the basement steps at the same time. 
10:39p - Inves. Juliano took an orb photo on the basement steps.
10:40p - Inves. Robinette, Wilkins and Huselton heard a loud voice say "tell me" in the  2nd floor middle room.
10:41p - Inves. Porado encountered the smell of heavy perfume in the dining room.
10:41p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the basement/laundry room.
10:41p - Inves. N. Williams sensed a spirit by the couch in the basement.
10:42p - Inves. Robinette heard heavy breathing in the 2nd floor middle room.
10:45p - Inves. N. Williams sensed a spirit by the steps in the basement.
10:45p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo on the basement steps.
10:45p - Inves. Juliano took an orb photo on the basement steps. 
10:45p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the basement steps.
10:45p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the basement steps.
10:48p - Inves. Robinette, Wilkins and Huselton heard a loud in the 2nd  floor back room.
10:50p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the basement steps.
10:54p - Inves. N. Williams felt a slight push by steps in basement.
10:56p - Inves. N. Williams' camera locked up temporarily as his hands start to "tingle". 
10:58p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the basement/laundry room. 
10:58p - Inves. N. Williams got a positive EMF Reading in basement.
10:58p - Inves. N. Williams hand "tingles" by steps in basement.
11:01p - Inves Porado had her hair touched in the basement on couch.
11:04p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the kitchen.
11:08p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the basement steps.
11:08p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo on the basement steps.
11:09p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the basement steps.
11:10p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo on the basement steps.
11:15p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room. 
11:18p - Inves. Juliano took an orb photo in the living room.
11:24p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room.
11:25p - Inves. Robinette, Wilkins and Huselton encountered an unusual odor in the basement.
11:26p - Inves. Huntsinger felt someone touching her hair in the baby's room.
11:26p - Inves. Juliano took an orb photo in the baby's room. 
11:27p - Inves. N. Williams took an orb photo on the 1st /2nd floor stairs. 
11:28p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room.
11:29p - Inves. Porado recorded a temperature drop (75-72) in the front bedroom.  Temperature drops are common in hauntings. It is believed that spirits use the heat energy in the air as a power source.
11:31p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the living room.
11:32p - Inves. Palagruto took an orb photo in the living room.
11:35p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room.
11:38p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room.
11:41p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the 2nd floor back bedroom.
11:42p - Inves. Porado encountered a cold spot in the middle bedroom.
11:59p - Inves. N. Williams took an orb photo in the 2nd floor back bedroom. 
11:59p - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the 2nd floor front bedroom.
12:00a - Inves. Porado observed a curtain move in the middle bedroom.
12:00a - Inves. Porado got a positive EMF reading in the middle bedroom.
12:03a - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room.
12:11a - Inves. Palagruto's head was tapped in middle bedroom.
12:11a - Inves. Palagruto and Porado heard whispers in middle bedroom.
12:11a - Inves. Palagruto and Porado heard voices in middle bedroom.
12:11a - Inves. Palagruto and Porado's camera flashes will not go off in middle bedroom.
12:15a - Inves. Porado's arm was grabbed and held in middle bedroom.
12:42a - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in living room
12:48a - Inves. Palagruto felt somebody behind her shoulder in the middle bedroom.  Inves. Juliano took an orb photo at that exact moment.
12:59a - Inves. J. Williams took an orb photo in the living room. 
1:00a - End of Investigation.



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