Lakeland Skeptics Society

Hello! I am Wesley Riley, The new secretary of The Lakeland Skeptics Society. I am a Junior in high school and will be graduating in the year of two thousand ten. I am glad that you all have elected me within the terms agreed upon at the beginning of the school year. I will try and bring a good element of work to the club, starting with my first investigation as an officer. 

I will also try and actually use this page as well rather than having it just have an opening paragraph. I will post internet stories, myths and other great paranormal related things i find on the internet that either relate to the current matter we are in or just something i think its pretty cool. 

I do hope i fill this seat well and look forward to any feedback (good or bad).

This investigation was pretty extravagant. The night had its ups and downs. The crew gathered at the driveway at around six thirty maybe six o'clock at the earliest. Mr. Daniels rounded us all up in the kitchen to break down the rules, regulations, and to give us the juicy back story behind the houses paranormal activity in its entirety.

We then proceeded by taking a tour of the house guided by the home owner. She brought us into the old section of the house and showed us around the rooms. When we  got to the daughter Kara's room where she then told us about the experiences the family has had.

At around seven thirty the action started. We went lights out and went the areas where we were assigned privously. My team went outside first, this team consisted of club members David Van Petten and Thomas Harbour. We started with an evp session behind the house on a picnic table. We asked some decent warm up questions to get the ball rolling and moved on to more difficult stuff when we weren't getting answers. After a short ten minute session we decided to listen to our work. By the time we got to the questions a cat was playin around on the table getting us to pet it and jumped like mad when the emf meter jumped after we replayed a question on the evp recorder. This was the first interesting thing to occur. 

We then proceeded to do a little investigating. We took out an 8.0 mega pixel camera and started snapping shots. Our main goal was just to get familiar with the area. We did a perimeter sweep with the emf and walked a ways in the woods on the back side and through the fields on the left and right of the house. . . we found nothing paranormal just a few creepy things such as frozen buckets of water in sixty to seventy degree weather and old clothes and animal bones. We then decided to conduct another evp session while running the emf by the well outside the front door. One question made the emf meter flip for about twenty seconds but we got nothing else.

After our outside investigation was over we headed inside to meet up with everyone else. When we got in a group was circled around the giger meter and it was obviously acting up. But shortly after we walked in everyone recognized that the switch was happening. The next to group to go out side was Erica woods group. Our slightly more creepy inside shift began. 

We made an agreement with the other group run by club president Aaron hines to regulate the rooms rather than sectioning it off for the shift. This gave everyone a chance to have there way with all the rooms multiple times throughout two shifts. we conducted a few short evp sessions in every room but came up with nothing. This whole shift was dry, zero emf activity.

When the third and final shift before eleven eleven rolled around, David, Thomas and me were bummed. We decided on taking a short fifteen minute break with just an emf running but no questions being asked. And i guess that this somewhat saddened or angered what ever we were not giving our attention too because it conjured a glow stick and dropped it from the cieling. This action was the first sign of an intelligent paranormal event. After this occured we were all on high alert and anxiously awaiting for 11:11 to roll around.

We counted down the minutes and when it finaly arrived we had some signs of paranormal activity from the back left room. Erika's group believes they heard foot steps from the attic.   Mr. Daniels and I decided on putting my voice recorder in the attic in hopes that it would hear something.(data not yet retrived) Mr Daniels then started using a mountain dew bottle to strike the cielling hoping to intise some paranormal activity. 

The night then continued with its regular set of evps and emfs here and there untill about two or two fifteen. The night was starting to get dull but we were all hoping that the dark hours would bring some great stuff and it did. We had activity in the living room on emf and giger coupled with a great four to six degree drop in temperature. Physical contact with the unexplained is still in speculation. 

After another four hours of searching we wrapped it up. Mr Daniels dealt out the voice recorders to the officers to listen to and we began to file out one by one after some quick disscussions on the nights happenings. Most of us were rather tired and wanted to get home and sleep more than anything at this point which motivated us to end all conversation and leave.