Mars Hill located near Ottumwa Iowa. We will start research on an old church located at this location early this spring. It is believed that a evil entity may haunt this building.
Mars Hill is located atop a hill southeast of Ottumwa, Iowa surrounded by cornfields and woods. It is a very remote and quiet location. The cemetery was well maintained, and although a few headstones had been knocked over, very little evidence of vandalism was noticed.
It is rumored that satanic rituals had been performed inside the church. We noticed nothing to support the rumor, and although there was candle wax on a table, there were no satanic markings to suggest any rituals had taken place there. Research assistant Jenny noticed that the cemetery was covered with clamshells, we are not sure of the significance of the clamshells but we will be looking into it.
At 5:30 p.m., we focused our attention on the inside of the church where we set up our equipment and begin an E.V.P. attempt. At that point, nothing out of the ordinary was observed and the sensors we had weren’t picking up anything.
For the E.V.P we had research assistant Jill sit in the middle of the church asking questions such as, “Who are you?” “Why are you here?” etc. There was no response until she asked, “Are you evil?” At that point the needle on the sound detector spiked to about 450 Hz.
Jill continued the questioning, and again she asked, “Why are you here?” Then one of our equipment bags moved. Jill then asked another question and the bag moved a little further. There were no people within three feet of the equipment bags at that time. We shot about a dozen photos in the location where the object moved.
After that, the needle on the sound detector went flat. We asked a few more questions with no results. After reviewing the audiotape we discovered that we did pick up a very distinct E.V.P. The unidentified voice is a faint whisper, possibly a male voice. We could not hear the voice at the time, but on the tape, it appears to have been conversing with us.
This is a transcript of that tape:
START
Sounds of researchers moving around in the church.
Unidentified voice: What are you?
Don: Did you see what was moving over there?
Unidentified voice: No.
Don: Did you hear it?
Unidentified voice: Yes.
Jill and Jenny: Um… Yeah.
END
E.V.P reacorded from Mars Hill on May 26th 2001Mars Hill wav
A total of 48 photos were taken at Mars Hill on May 26th 2001; only two of the photos had anomalies. Photo Fig. 1A was taken inside the church, four photos were taken in this spot, the camera was mounted on a tripod and all four photos were taken within fifteen seconds. One of the photos at first glance had what appears to be a light reflection above the window, however on further analyses the light orb appears to be moving and since the photos were taken within only a few seconds of each other it makes light reflection unlikely.
Photo FIG2 was taken in the cemetery, I broke the first rule in paranormal photography and only took one photo, the photo has what appears to be a transparent orb shape and some smoke, unfortunately only the one photo was taken so we have nothing to compare it two.
We gathered enough information from Mars Hill to merit another trip, although we are not prepared to say that there is paranormal activity taking place at the location at this time, more research is necessary.
Objects moving-cause unknown
E.V.P recorded on tape. Source unknown
Two anomalous photos showing orbs.
CASE ONGOING
