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- Strange Encounter in Cheboygan County, Michigan - Is The 'Dogman' Back?
- Fortean / Oddball News: Monster Croc Photo, Welsh Big Cats and Portal / UFO Over Ohio
- Paranormal / Spiritual News: Pendle Witches, 1883 Murder Probe and SRI Case Update
| Strange Encounter in Cheboygan County, Michigan - Is The 'Dogman' Back? Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:07 AM PST  Hey, I'm Mike from the Cheboygan, MI area. This is true what I am about to describe. On November 24, 2010 me and two of my friends went out at night around 12 am. We were not hunting but had weapons. We were looking for a spot to set up our blinds for the muzzleloading season when we crossed from a field with tons of deer beddings. We came into another field with none whatsoever. We continued through this field and came across some kind of game trail. We decided to venture down this trail into the woods. We got maybe 300 yards back in it and started hearing heavy breathing and snapping sounds in the thick brush to our right. We thought maybe coyotes but we got to a corner and were stopped in our track. In front of us, maybe 60 yards away, was something blacker than the woods standing on two feet and stood between 6'8" and 7'4". We slowly turned away and back tracked. Before we got to the field the same thing was in front of us again. We turned around for a second and then turned back...it was gone. When we got into the field we noticed there were four or more of these creatures, one on each corner of the field just standing there. We saw one move halfway behind a tree. At this point we were freaking out. We made our way through the field and got to the edge and there was one standing directly in the middle of the trail entering the woods. We hauled butt back home and the whole way we felt like we were being watched and stalked. We have been out every night since then. We have learned do not use lights because it comes closer than 60 yards. The closest it has been to me was maybe 25 yards and was moving closer. At that point I shot at it. There were five total that we saw the fist night and after I shot at one. We went out last night and there were only four and they seemed more aggressive. In the field, it seems they tried herding us into a corner. You can believe this or not, but I am in the Michigan National Guard and I put what I saw on my warrior ethos and army values.  **********  Last fall, my son and I were driving on US-41/M-28 towards Three Lakes in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (where I live). The beast ran across the highway near Tioga Creek. I had not heard of this before reading Phantoms and Monsters, but this is exactly what we saw. We are familiar with all animals living here. Moose regularly cross in front of drivers, so we watch the sides of the roads carefully. We were very puzzled and thought it might be some mutant wolf and could not figure out what we witnessed. It ran fairly fast about 50 feet in front of our truck. It was so strange because the front of it was much higher up than the back, larger than a wolf. Very strange to see it on your website. NOTE: I contacted the witness and asked for any further detail of the sighting. This is what I received: It did not look exactly like the video or drawings I saw, but VERY close. The side view shape of the animal was almost like an ape shape, with the front legs longer than the back legs which made it run funny. It ran like a bear runs, with the exception of the back legs being shorter if you can picture that. The front, from the angle I saw, looked like it must of had a wide chest. The head appeared wolf-like, but it definitely was NOT a wolf. The color was brown and black mixed. The hair seemed med-long, like a wolf, and I remember thinking it might of had mange, must of had patches of hair missing. I was telling my son, who is 13, about what I had found on your site and asked him what he remembered. He gave the same description, how very strange and out of place it was. He said that this spring he saw the same type of thing on a logging road near our house (I do remember him telling me that at that time) and it was the same thing. He was riding his dirt bike (we live in an extremely remote area) and it ran across the trail. I know where he is talking about because I pick berries there and do get a weird feeling like something is watching me. A neighbor told me that area is "Bigfoot Central", which I did not know or believe. But after doing further research today, there are a lot of reports of strange creatures in this area that go back many, many years. Who knows what it is, but as long as it's not hurting anything, I hope it is left alone. I am very familiar with the wildlife. I do hunt and know my tracks. I have not seen any strange tracks, but now will really keep my eyes open. Please keep me informed if you get any other reports from my area. Rhonda ********** In April 2009, I also read about an account in Wisconsin, but with a different twist: My girlfriend and I went out to feed deer for the hunting opener on Nov. 22, 2008. We were in the Chequamegon National Forest in northern Wisconsin. It was November 21, 2008 and the time was 12:10 AM, it was totally dark out and light snow was falling with an accumulation of about 1 inch covering the roads. The Temperature was 11*F and the wind was blowing from the northwest with a wind chill of 0*F. We made a U-turn to the left onto an unfinished ATV trail in one of our 4X4 Pickups heading towards last years feed pile. I got to the bottom of the hill and backed in and parked. I got out my pistol and loaded it, I then put it in my holster, I grabbed my headlight with 3 LED bulbs and secured it on my head, I handed her a shaker LED flashlight and proceeded to the back of my truck where I had a 5 gallon bucket with just under 2 gallons of corn and 3 apples in it strapped down with 2 of my ATV straps. I put the tailgate down, unstrapped the bucket and put the tailgate up. I walked around my side and then in front of the truck to her passenger side as she was putting mittens on. We both started to walk together, her just behind and to my right side when we both noticed a fresh set of tracks in the snow heading down wind of us in the same direction we where walking. At first it was not the size that caught my attention, it was "WHAT IN GOD'S CREATION MADE THESE TRACKS" immediately my skinned crawled as I looked around with my head to see if what we just had come up on was in sight. I glanced back down in disbelief at the tracks. I was in a slight stage of shock as I looked at her she looked at me and we both looked down at 4 well-formed footprints of some kind of scary tracks that either of us had ever seen before. I sized my shoe beside one of the tracks and realized it was about 3 inches longer than my shoe which measures 12 inches heel to toe, and about 1 inch wider than my shoe which measures 4 inches at it's widest width. Whatever we witnessed the foot prints of has 2 pointed talons on the end of it's foot that are isometrically the same with a rectangle shaped heel. The talons joined on the outside and at the same length in between the talons on each foot. They are 15 inches long and 5 inches wide with 64-inch strides. I have a 36-inch stride at 5'10" tall to give an idea of the possible size of this creature, running or not we do not know. I believe we just missed seeing what caused these tracks and what ever made the tracks was still in the area and possibly watching us. My girl told me to load my pistol and keep it out, I did not argue. At first she wanted to leave right away but the sheer adrenaline and interest of what caused the tracks I believe is what kept us there. I said "okay let's get out of here" but again, interest kept us there looking at the tracks. My fear slightly subsided enough to think about the upcoming deer opener and decided I have the pistol and we will be okay. I started to walk the same way the tracks went up a hill on the trail when I stopped and looked back at her while she was still staring down at the prints. I said "come on lets get this over with" she caught up to me as we walked together, she said to me, "if this thing gets a hold of me put a bullet in my head" I thought about that as we kept walking. We went deep into the woods down a steep hill where I new the feed pile was from last year. We got to where I wanted the pile to be, I took the lid off the bucket and dumped the corn and apples out and stepped on the apples, I snapped the lid back on the bucket and said "let's go" We started to climb the hill when I realized we where off track and had to walk left to reach the trail to get back to the truck. I started to think that this was the scariest thing I have ever encountered and felt panic over coming me. I new where I was and finally we got back on the trail and walked down to where we could see the tracks of the creature again. We both stared at them for about 5 minutes. When we got back to the truck just 20 yards from the prints, she got in and closed her door. I went behind the truck, opened the tailgate and re strapped the bucket down and closed the tailgate. I got to my side of the truck and took the clip out of my gun and got in. I threw my head light off my head as we drove away thinking and then I said, "I am not coming back here" and she agreed. We where both scared and could not believe what just happened. It was a month earlier and 1.1 miles walking through the woods from where we witnessed the tracks that a different friend and I where camping. I went to bed early and fell into a deep sleep. I woke up to the sound of my friend walking behind the tent and my first reply was "what are you doing back there?" I woke up a little more and realized my friend was sleeping, breathing kind of loud next to me. I sat up against my gear and grabbed my pistol and flashlight and sat there cold and scared in the dark. I woke my friend up and told him what I could hear and he said, "Ah it was probably a deer or something" The temperature was around 26*F. I looked out the flaps of the tent and could see the fire had died down and it was dark out there. I stood up and told my friend that I was going to the truck to warm up and get some sleep. I asked him if he wanted me to leave the pistol and he said, "no I'll be alright". I left the tent and walked to my truck about 80 yards away and started it up to get warm. I turned my lights on a few different times to see if what had walked by the tent was in sight. I did not see anything; I turned my truck off and fell asleep. Whatever walked by the tent was bipedal and made 2 steps into my sound range and out again. I did not hear any other noise from what ever walked by. I looked around the next morning for footprints but leaves covered the ground and I did not detect anything. A little more than 2 years earlier. It was summer and I was at this same location riding my ATV alone, I stopped and got off walking down to a near by lake and was looking at the water and how clear it is when I could hear up on the hill above the camp ground we had stayed at a huge tree snap and hit the ground with a big thump as branches snapped off it and other trees as it fell. I got back to my ATV quickly at the time thinking a bear or buck was up there and I was not sticking around to find out. 2 months later that summer I returned to this spot again riding my ATV, I shut off the wheeler and stood around close by thinking about the last time I was there I was scared off by something. I was there about 5 minutes when all of a sudden I could hear branches snapping off of trees as what ever was breaking branches was coming down the hill closer to where I was. I got on my wheeler never to return until my friend and I camped there a little over 2 years later in October. My first 2 experiences with this creature while I was alone made me think it was possibly a bear or a buck deer, trouble with this theory is that I have come up on bear a dozen or so times and every time, the bear is running as fast as it can in another direction and what ever was making the tree sounds was not running any where. A deer also runs away at the first presence of a human. Now that we witnessed these creatures' footprints I put the puzzle pieces together and realize that this creature is living in this area and it has probably been there for a long, long, long time. I have learned it means us no harm (yet). It only makes a sound when I am alone (tree breaking). It is always down wind of me (us). It is out in the day and or night. It can see in the dark. It uses the wind to it's advantage every chance it gets. It can hear well. It can smell good. It waits until we are vulnerable to approach us when 2 of us are together. I could possibly have smelled it and did not know what I smelled. I (we) have put 4,000 miles in this forest on my Grizzly ATV through deep desolate, thick wooded, swamp, lake areas and have now proved to ourselves that this undocumented at this time creature is in fact out there. I know where this creature is living and plan on an expedition to prove its existence. I want to document this creature because I feel everyone that enters the forest has a right to know it is there and for other various reasons. I am open to any and all that would like to comment or ask questions in discussing my encounters with this creature(s).   |
| Fortean / Oddball News: Monster Croc Photo, Welsh Big Cats and Portal / UFO Over Ohio Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:19 AM PST  Photo of Monster Crocodile Surfaces couriermail - Could this be Normanton's own "Loch Ness Monster", an elusive 8m giant that has residents in the Gulf thinking twice before taking out the tinnie? Rumours of a massive croc lurking near the township of Normanton have revived memories of the famed 8.6m monster shot in the Norman River in 1957, and claimed as a world record. Local pastor Elton Thompson sparked a frenzy last week when he produced photographs of a croc slide about 1km from town, which indicate the presence of a huge animal with a girth of up to 2m. Now fisherman Clint Spry has revealed photos he took of a huge croc in the Norman River with a tail "as long as my boat". "It had locked jaws with an albino crocodile and was just throwing it around like a rag doll," Mr Spry told The Sunday Mail. "The tail on it alone was as long as my whole boat . . . 3.8 metres." Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. Related Coverage * David Murray: Welcome to my nightmare * Gallery special: Amazing crocodile pictures End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Pastor Thompson started a sensation when he put his photos of huge slide marks and claw prints on his Facebook page and relayed a story of a crocodile recently spotted at the same location that was "at least as big, if not bigger" than the legendary 8.6m Savannah King, that has a life-size replica in Normanton. As national media outlets picked up the story, locals debated whether the croc really was that big or, well, just a crock. One publican insists: "It's a wives' tale. There are no crocs that big near Normanton." Others are adamant an oversize croc has been in the area for some time, growing bigger every year since Queensland banned commercial hunting in the '70s. Long-time local Terry Cummings didn't hesitate when asked if he thought an 8m croc could be lurking in the area. "I was here in the '50s and saw them that big," he said. Herbie Harold, 52, who found the original slide marks and alerted his pastor, said he had seen a massive croc in the same spot once before. The Sunday Mail enlisted Mr Harold's expertise last week in a bid to find the monster. *********** Farmers in West Wales Terrified of Big Cat Attacks walesonline - Farmers in rural West Wales say they are terrified of a suspected big cat on the loose following a spate of attacks. At least nine confirmed sightings of the beast, described as a huge jet-black cat, have been made in Pembrokeshire in the past few days. Livestock has also been reported missing. Members of the local community have been put on high alert after the savage killing of a pedigree sheep in Princes Gate which experts say could not have been caused by a large dog or similar predator. The mysterious animal has even been spotted leaving a farmyard carrying a lamb in its mouth. Others say that a cub has been spotted with the beast, suggesting there may be at least two adult predators prowling the Pembrokeshire countryside. Farmer Malcolm MacPhee, of Great Redford Farm, said he was convinced the most recent attack, which took place on his land last Wednesday night, was the work of the panther-like creature. The Suffolk sheep was found by its owner torn to shreds. Mr MacPhee said: "What we didn't realise at first is that the sheep's neck was broken. "Experts have now pointed out to us it was a clean kill, not something synonymous with a fox, dog badger or any other predator. "The sheep had its shoulder ripped off, with the flesh stripped off to expose its ribcage, while claw marks could be seen along its carcass." He said his neighbours had spotted big cats at least six times in recent years in the area south of Narberth. "There have been two seen on different occasions – the larger one is about four feet long with a long, thick tail curved at the end," he said. In recent weeks, the killings of two calves, a heifer and two sheep have taken place in Princes Gate. Now farmers are adamant that the attacks are linked with the sightings of a big cat. Farmer John Mathias, of Parcsaison, Princes Gate, said he had seen the beast twice. "A couple of years ago, I saw it carrying a big lamb in its mouth across my yard. It left a paw print in the slurry, and it was the width across of my glasses," he said. "I've seen it a couple of times recently as well. "About 100 yards away from me, I could see its green eyes, there was no mistaking it for another animal. It looked like pictures I've seen of panthers in the wild. "There was one morning as well when the fields were covered in snow, and it ran across – it stood out a mile on the white backdrop." The latest incident has been reported to police, the Farmers' Union of Wales and Pembrokeshire Council. A senior animal health inspector from the council visited Mr MacPhee's farm last week. Council spokesman Len Mullins said: "He examined the carcass and took photographs which have been sent to a unit of the Welsh Assembly in Aberystwyth for further investigation." The last cluster of big cat sightings reported in Pembrokeshire was in 2006, with reports coming in from as far afield as Johnston, Clynderwen, Newgale, St Florence and Steynton. Big cats are known to have a hunting range of 50 miles in one night. Big cat consultant and expert tracker Danny Nineham said: "It's impossible to say whether a black cat has taken these animals in Pembrokeshire without investigating the land, carcass, environment, looking for faeces, etc. "But I can say that there are a lot of big cats in West Wales, I've seen them myself, and investigated a number of sightings in Pembrokeshire. "We've got leopards, black leopards or panthers, pumas, American bobcats, you name it." Another Princes Gate farmer, Alan Williams, was adamant that Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire were rife with big cats. "The last time I saw one was probably a fortnight ago," he said. "I've seen big black panther-like cats and brown ones. "We've lost seven ewes – we just find them with broken necks and sometimes all we find left of them is a skeleton and a rug-like carpet of skin. "I know farmers who have found carcasses up trees where the animal has dragged it up to eat. "We even had one in one of our sheds once, although we didn't hang around to check. "If you see one of those, you get out of there." Cats such as leopards and pumas were popular fashion accessories in the 1960s and 1970s and could be purchased legally in Harrods. In 1976 the Dangerous Animals Act made keeping big cats illegal without an expensive licence, driving some exotic cat owners to dump their prized pets in the wild. Due to a loophole in the law, it was not illegal until 1981 to release a big cat into the UK countryside. According to Mr Nineham, it is a combination of those factors which has led to the recent sightings. "These animals are not indigenous to this country, but the reason why they're so elusive is because they are adaptable, they're survivors," he said. "In the Victorian age, these animals became common pets with the rich and elite. "Travelling circuses would use them and of course many would have escaped. "But in my opinion, the Dangerous Animals Act, which was introduced in 1976, has been a huge factor. "One thing is for sure about these cats, they are very good at finding each other. "And although they don't officially exist according to the police or wildlife records, I can tell you they are certainly around." **********  Portal Over Austintown, Ohio? MUFON CMS - Austintown, Ohio - November 23, 2010 - Unedited: I was driving doing some shopping and saw this object in the sky. I thought it was strange so I filmed it from a shopping plaza in Austintown, Ohio. The video title is the same as the short description on here.It appeared to be an oval shaped fiery object hovering in the Southern skies. This happened at around 5:oopm EST. I looked at my cell phone time to confirm it. I really didn't know what to make of the object. I tried to find a closer location to the object but it appeared (can't be positive) to be moving slowly away once I was at the 2nd location of filming. The second location was just a little further down the road at a bigger shopping plaza. At this point I lost sight of the object in the trees. I again tried to find a 3rd location but the object was no where to be found and there were many trees obstructing the skyline. I then went back to the original location to see if it was still there, it was not. I do not know what this was. I have gotten several emails already by folks swearing this is a portal to another dimension. Not sure what I believe. Click for video ********** Russian Scientist Recreating Ice Age Yahoo - Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer. Later, the predators will come — Siberian tigers, wolves and maybe leopards. Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filling the vast emptiness of Siberia with grass-eating animals can slow global warming. "Some people have a small garden. I have an ice age park. It's my hobby," says Zimov, smiling through his graying beard. His true profession is quantum physics. Climate change is felt most sharply in the Arctic, where temperatures are warming faster than anywhere else on the planet. Most climate scientists say human activity, especially industrial pollution and the byproducts of everyday living like home heating and driving cars, is triggering an unnatural warming of the Earth. On Monday, negotiators representing 194 countries open a two-week conference in Cancun, Mexico, on reducing greenhouse gases to slow the pace of climate change. Zimov is trying to recreate an ecosystem that disappeared 10,000 years ago with the end of the ice age, which closed the 1.8 million-year Pleistocene era and ushered in the global climate roughly as we know it. He believes herds of grazers will turn the tundra, which today supports only spindly larch trees and shrubs, into luxurious grasslands. Tall grasses with complex root systems will stabilize the frozen soil, which is now thawing at an ever-increasing rate, he says. Herbivores keep wild grass short and healthy, sending up fresh shoots through the summer and autumn. Their manure gives crucial nourishment. In winter, the animals trample and flatten the snow that otherwise would insulate the ground from the cold air. That helps prevent the frozen ground, or permafrost, from thawing and releasing powerful greenhouse gases. Grass also reflects more sunlight than forests, a further damper to global warming. It would take millions of animals to change the landscape of Siberia and effectively seal the permafrost. But left alone, Zimov argues, the likes of caribou, buffalo and musk oxen multiply quickly. Wherever they graze "new pastures will appear ... beautiful grassland." The project is being watched not only by climate scientists but by paleontologists and environmentalists who have an interest in "rewilding." "This is a very interesting experiment," said Adrian Lister, of the Natural History Museum in London. "I think it's valid from an ecological point of view to put back animals that did formerly live there," he told AP Television News. He disapproved of suggestions to rewild nonnative species — for example, relocating elephants and rhinos to the American plains. Zimov began the project in 1989, fencing off 160 square kilometers (40,000 acres) of forest, meadows, shrub land and lakes. It is surrounded by another 600 square kilometers (150,000 acres) of wilderness. It is an offshoot of the Northeast Science Station, which he founded and where he has lived for 30 years. Already icebound by October, the park is 40 kilometers (25 miles) inland from the station, accessible only by boat in summer and by snow vehicles after the rivers freeze. A 32-meter (105-foot) tower inside the park gives constant readings of methane, carbon dioxide and water vapor. The data feeds into a global monitoring system overseen by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Zimov's research on permafrost, greenhouse gas emissions and mammoth archaeology has attracted world scientists to his laboratories, a small cluster of cabins and a tiny chapel on a rocky bluff above a channel of the Kolyma River. A 20-bed barge is used for field trips in summer, and a $100,000 hovercraft is on order. Zimov sometimes uses an old Russian tank to bring supplies from the Chinese border, 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) away. Part of the station's attraction — and deterrence — is its remoteness. It is 6,600 kilometers (4,000 miles) and eight time zones east of Moscow. The nearby town of Chersky, with some 5,000 people, has few amenities, and the nearest city, Yakutsk, is a 4-1/2 flight. Many researchers, particularly Americans, prefer to work in Alaska or northern Canada, which are more accessible. "Most of the Arctic is in Russia, and yet most of the Arctic research isn't," said Max Holmes, of Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, director of the Polaris Project, which has sent undergraduates to the station for the last three summers. Zimov started the park with a herd of 40 Yakutian horses, a semi-wild breed with a handsomely long mane that is raised by Yakuts and other native people for their meat. Short, sturdy and broad-backed, they survive harsh Siberian winters with the help of a furry hide, thick layers of fat and the ability to paw through a meter (3 feet) of snow to forage. Of his first herd, Zimov said 15 were killed by wolves and bears, 12 died from eating wild hemlock that grows in the park, and two slipped through the perimeter and made their way back some 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to their original pastures. But he bought more. Now the horses have learned to avoid poisonous plants and to resist predators. Over the last three years, more colts were born and survived than horses lost. The challenge is to find the right balance between grazers and predators, and how to help his animals get through their first winters. His workers still give occasional buckets of grain to the horses to supplement their diet with salt. About half the horses come regularly to the cabin where a caretaker stays year-round. The other half are rarely seen except for their tracks. Zimov also has had problems with the moose that he brought inside his enclosure. Moose still live in small numbers in surrounding forests, and the males jump back and forth over the 6-foot-high fence. In September he traveled to a nature reserve on Wrangel Island, about five hours by boat across the East Siberia Sea, and brought back six 4-month-old musk oxen. One died a few weeks later. The others are kept in a small enclosure and fed hay until they can fend for themselves. His objective is to see whether a thriving population of grazing animals will regenerate grasslands that disappeared long ago, which would slow and even halt the accelerating pace of permafrost thaw. So far, he says, the results are encouraging. Today he has 70 animals in the park. He wants thousands to restock Siberia. To bring 1,000 bison from North America would cost $1 million, Zimov says, a small price to pay. "If permafrost melts, 100 gigatons of carbon will be released this century," he said. "What's $1 million? One regular grant."  |
| Paranormal / Spiritual News: Pendle Witches, 1883 Murder Probe and SRI Case Update Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:58 AM PST Is Pub Haunted by Pendle Witches?  Local legends say the Cross Gaits Inn, Blacko, Lancashire was used to imprison some of the famous Pendle witches and that the ghost of a woman with a dog has been seen sitting by the fire.Andrew Duxbury took the reins of the Beverley Road pub in June 2007 and said he has been told by different regulars that some of the witches had been held in the pub's cellar. The witches were hanged after being suspected of murdering 17 people in and around the Forest of Pendle. Mr Duxbury closed the pub for a refurbishment and used this as a chance to investigate the pub. He was hoping to find a trapdoor down to the cellar when the carpets were lifted, but there was no access to any rooms below ground. It appears the cellars may have been filled in with concrete. But Mr Duxbury is undeterred and is continuing to scour the pub and history books to learn about its ghostly past. He said: "A few of the locals have told me that there was some kind of holding cell for witches in the pub's cellars.  "They say witches used to be held there before transported to Lancaster Castle."I don't know if any of the Pendle witches were held down there. "The locals tell me there were shackles and chains down there. "I am disappointed we can't go into the cellar. It appears to have been filled with concrete." He added: "I wanted to refurbish the pub because it was dated. "And I thought it was a good opportunity to see what was down there." He said the thought of ghosts did not scare him. Mr Duxbury said: "I have been told there is the ghost of a woman with a dog who sits by the fire. "I haven't seen her yet, but during winter time when the fire is on, it is said to be cold where she sits. "I'll have to wait and see." ********** Paranormal Investigators Look Into Michigan Murders chicagotribune - Standing in the pitch-black barn on the old Crouch family farm off Horton Road, Randy Waltz posed a question to the darkness. "Are you happy you got away with it?" asked Waltz, a forensic paranormal investigator. He and his partner, Denise Gowen-Krueger, waited as a modified AM/FM radio, known as a "hack box," scanned frequencies. Scattered throughout the barn, four digital voice recorders sat ready to pick up voices, heard and unheard -- their red recording lights sharp in the night. "Yup," a voice over the radio said. Waltz and Gowen-Krueger have been investigating the 1883 Crouch murders for two years. They have spent hours inside the barn and at cemeteries communicating with the spirits of those involved. They think they have solved the case. About midnight Nov. 22, 1883, Jacob Crouch; his daughter Eunice White; her husband, Henry White; and Moses Polley, a Pennsylvania cattle buyer, were shot in their beds. No one was convicted of the murders, and 127 years later, the mystery lingers. Waltz and Gowen-Krueger said the voice they heard Sunday night was Daniel Holcomb's, Jacob's son-in-law. Holcomb stood trial for the murders and was acquitted in November 1884. Holcomb, they think, with the help of his brother, Henry Holcomb, and their farmboy, James Foy, shot the four. "He's admitted to us, 'Yeah I did it, but I'm dead, so I don't care,"' Waltz said of past conversations with Daniel Holcomb. Waltz and Gowen-Krueger detail the evidence against the three in a book due out in January, "The Veil Beyond the Grave." "There are skeptics, and I don't blame them," Waltz said. On Sunday night, Waltz and Gowen-Krueger wanted to get the spirits talking again. Gowen-Krueger played several minutes of prerecorded sounds the spirits would have found familiar -- farm animals, trains, a windmill turning, people snoring, rain and thunder. "It's going to bring the spirits out to you because everything becomes more familiar to them," Waltz said of the sounds. "We're going to see if we can stir up Pandora's box a little bit." In past trips to the farm, Waltz and Gowen-Krueger said they have talked with Eunice White and Daniel Holcomb. Other times, the two believe they have heard from Jacob Crouch and Polley but cannot be sure. They said they have spoken with Daniel's wife, Susan Holcomb, during days at the Crouch/Reynolds Cemetery, Waltz said. She was buried there after being found dead in her bed Jan. 2, 1884. Susan has been informative, Waltz said. Eunice White is often frantic and disturbed. She believes she is still alive and nine months pregnant, Waltz said. She is concerned because she cannot find her husband or her father. Daniel Holcomb does not like the two of them, Waltz said. He called Waltz names and tells Gowen-Krueger she needs to go to therapy, they said. Holcomb was not talkative in the barn Sunday night. The night before, he had a lot to say, often with foul language, they said. The two asked questions, invited others in the barn to speak, and every once in a while the radio would pick up a response. Waltz said the spirits were speaking in between the radio frequencies. They did not get very far in their first hour of investigation, but Waltz said it was still early. The two planned to stay out until 2 a.m. "This is what we do," Waltz said after the first investigation session ended. "And we don't always get results." Now that Waltz and Gowen-Krueger believe they have solved the infamous murders, they are trying to figure out why. Last summer, the two visited the barn on a rainy day. Waltz said he started talking with Holcomb, telling him he had enough evidence to convict him and hang him. "I know who killed them," he said he told Holcomb. "The only thing I want you to tell me is why you did this, because I don't see a motive behind this." While Waltz talked to Holcomb, Gowen-Krueger noticed rain falling down the side of the Spring Arbor Township barn in a strange pattern. It was the shape of a noose with a body hung by the neck. "Pretty good evidence," Waltz said. ***********  On Thursday, November, 25th, Jamie and Barry conducted a second evidence gathering vigil at the client's home in Surrey, UK. in preparation for a distance clearing by Irene. The clients had indicated that the house has been quiet since the last vigil. The following condensed recordings were the result of the latest SRI probe: Master Bedroom - this is a condensed recording from a 25 minute session in the front (master bedroom). There are several banging and bumping sounds coming from the attic and throughout the room. Voice EVP - this EVP was recorded during the session. 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