The Richards DAR House  page 1 page 2


Attachment A
When we first turned off the lights I followed Christine over into the wing to the 2 bedrooms and bathroom. When we got into the first bedroom I felt a strong sensation of someone wanting to talk to me and that they just wanted the comfort of knowing someone was there with them. We walked through both rooms and then went back to the main part of the house. Once we got back in there I felt that I had to go back to those two rooms. Something was calling me and pulling me to go back in there. So I grabbed Christine and told her we needed to go back to those rooms. Once in there I felt this feeling of peace descend on me, and that someone wanted to talk and was trying to tell us something. I never heard anything but I did feel someone else there with us. Then, it was just gone. Like it had seen what it wanted to see or said what it wanted to say and was satisfied and so they left.

We then went back to the main house and I kept feeling as if someone was following me. Like they were curious why we were there and wanted to watch us. It was not an uneasy feeling, kind of like a "nosy" feeling. Like they were full of questions and couldn't wait to ask us 10 million of them. You could almost feel the anticipation from them wanting to figure out how to talk to us and not being able to. Whenever we would stop it was like they were breathing down my neck trying to figure us out.

Now, in the one room, that had the quilted canopy, that I kept getting cold in...Christine felt it when we walked into the doorway and so did..(I'm embarrassed but I can't remember the other girls name! ) anyway, she felt it as well. So I walked to the door and was instantly cold. Then I walked into the room and stood in front of the wardrobe it was like icicles surrounding me. I was freezing all over. All I felt was curiosity, like they were trying to figure out what I had in the sling, and why it was cooing. I could feel their "excitement" of knowing there was a baby in the house again and all they wanted to do was see her and hold her and play with her. I could "hear" them asking to see her and touch her. They kept wanting to hold her and play, but they knew she was sleeping and didn't ask. It sounded like 2 little girls, and their Mother were around me asking all of the questions. Once I opened up the sling and showed Sammi to them they were excited to see her and they kept commenting on her hair and how pretty her skin was. The little girls kept asking their "Momma" if they could hold her and she told them no the baby was sleeping. I could feel the love they had for each other and the love they had knowing that they were looking at a little baby and that they wouldn't let anything happen to her. It was like a fierce feeling of protectiveness over Sammi. Once they got to see her I started warming back up like their curiosity was fulfilled, but one did stay with me and walk all through the rest of the house with me up until we went outside. I could feel the "cold" on my right arm, like they were walking right beside me to make sure I didn't trip and fall with her.

In the bathroom, when I was in there with Christine watching the video monitors I could feel someone in the room behind me staring at us, wishing we would leave, but "scared" to do anything to frighten us into leaving. I got the feeling he did not want us there, it was a really strong feeling that he was telling us politely to leave "his" house. It was more like a little boy, or when just entering his teens. He wasn't "old" enough to be able to tell us to leave, and knew he would get into trouble if he did do anything to make us leave. It wasn't a hatrid, it was more like why are youn in our house, what do you want and why won't you just leave and leave us alone. Almost like a feeling of "jealousy" towards us.

When we were sitting in the foyer downstairs something kept drawing me to look upstairs, and I thought I saw a shadow standing there a couple of times. It was like they were "listening in" on our conversation. (Kind of like a kid does to overhear what their parents are talking about). They would move back and forth like they were walking into one of the rooms and then would "sneak" back out to listen in again. I told the girls about it, and they didn't see anything, and once we went upstairs I dismissed it as a trick of the lights and the couch that was sitting in the hallway, but now that I think about it I "know" one of the children were "listening" in on our conversations.

I never got an uneasy feeling, never got scared, and never felt threatened. The only negativity I got was from the little boy in the room beside the bathroom upstairs. I chalk that up as to him just not wanting us in "his" house and that he was trying to "protect" his Momma and sisters. 		A Visit from the Boy Scouts

Prior to our investigation, we were visited by the Boy Scouts of America.  They were doing a report on Mobile ghosts and wanted to ask some paranormal researchers some questions.  We were more than happy to answer their questions and we really enjoyed them being there.  Below are some of their pictures in our thermal camera.  I hope that one day we can bring these young men along on one of our investigations.

Sorry guys, I forget who is who in these pictures.

Attachment B
When we first entered the house, it still had a “home” feeling to it. Like the family was still there. (example- Oakley FELT like a museum…no homey feelings remain there) Like I would walk around a corner and a whole family would be there. The back upper porch rooms bothered me. Not so much frightened, but like there were people in the shadows watching. During our initial walk through during the day, it was the bedroom with the dolls on the bed. The night of the investigation, it was the bedroom with the quilt on the bed. Actually, when Bruce and I were doing a walk through with the FLIR, I felt as if someone (a child) was looking at me through the window in the quilt room while I was walking down that windowed hallway. I stopped and did a double take, because I was sure I would look in the window and see a child looking at me. That was the strongest thing I felt.

I did not feel any adult presences, but did get fleeting feelings about kids. Could be suggestional because of the number of kids the Richards had? If nothing else, I feel it was residual energy relating to the children. I never once felt scared or threatened, the house is very peaceful. I don’t think that house will ever have any recordable activity. My gut feeling is that if there are spirits there, they are happy with the situation, pleased the house has withstood and are happy to coexist without a problem.