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                                       Evidence Captured at the Cunningham House
                                                                Clayton Illinois 
 
  
The following pieces of evidence have been thoroughly analyzed.  We threw out what we could possibly explain and
have been left with several evps and videos. After reviewing many long hours of recordings, which was made more
difficult by the clients dogs who seemed to bark at us constantly (or maybe they were barking at something else),
we are presenting here what we feel are the best of our evps and videos.  We referenced the different rooms on page
one so you can get a feel for the rooms where our evps were captured. Almost all of our evps were captured on the
second floor of the Cunningham's house. 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                           The Office Room
 
     
    The office room was in the back side of the second floor. The Cunningham's had begun remodeling in this room but
stopped, along with the remodel of the whole 2nd floor, after the activity excelarated. We had our RCA digital voice
recorder in this room. We set up this recorder before any other recorder was set up and closed the door to the room.
These voices, which we believe to be two separate voices, were all captured in this room, door shut. The blue room was
right next to this room but the evps that were captured in the blue room are not captured on the recorder in the office
room. 
       
 
                  
                                                Deborah is coming. 
                                                                                                     
                                                
                                                 I saw you coming.
 
                                                 
                                                 Kathleen bring my coat.    
 
                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                 
 
                                                                                                                                                    The Stairs and Upstairs Hallway
 
   
    As you can tell in the picture of the stairs and upstairs hallway, the Cunninghams have worked really hard at trying to
remodel the upstairs hallway and stairway by stripping woodwork to refinish it and stripping the wallpaper to finish the
walls. Did these actions stir up the activity in their home? It's possible and there have been many reports of this happening
to owners of these old homes. At the top of the stairs we picked up one very audible evp when we asked a question on
the RCA digital recorder and a second evp of someone humming could be heard on the brown Olympus digital recorder
left in the hallway. Can they hear us, see us, is this why we have responses to questions? This is still an unanswered
question in paranormal investigating, although as more and more investigators pick up their names, answer to questions
and voices telling them what they should be doing, maybe soon this question will no longer be unanswered.
                                         
                                         *Please make sure you turn your volume up.
 
                                                                                                         
                                                                                Asking if there is anyone here and response.
                                                            
                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
 
                                                                                                                                                                               The Pink Room
 
    The Cunningham's two daughters rooms were upstairs at one time. One of the rooms, which we call the pink room from
the color it was painted, had activity that was very unsettling for the Cunningham's. They could often hear voices in this
room which was the final room at the end of the hallway, just to the left of the base of the stairway that leads to the attic.
Their parents, who had questioned what the girls were experiencing at first, decided to spend a night in the pink room.
During the night the little white vanity chair that you see in this picture moved from one side of the room to the other side.
Unfortunately, we do not have any video evidence of this kind of activity but we did pick up two very clear evps in this
room on Teri's Sony digital recorder. By now hopefully you have noticed that it didn't matter which recorder we used, they
all picked up electronic voice phenomena in one form or another.  
 
                                    
         We hear a child's voice, then a woman's voice and then "Karen"                         
 
                                                                                    
                                                                                  "She's in here" Is this evidence of an intelligent haunting?
 
 
                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    The Blue Room
 
    One of the last rooms that we left our digital recorders in was what we refer to as "The Blue Room", again because this is
the color the room has been painted.  This room had a great deal of interest for us during our investigation on November 7th.
This was also, one of the girl's bedroom at one time, but no longer. The Cunningham's experienced the door opening and
shutting in this room and the phenomena of items moving off of the bookcase in this room. The closet door would also open.
In this one room you will see us post evps, an incident where our camera moves and most importantly, what happened when
Les and Greg came to visit the house. Can one room be haunted all by itself? We believe it can. Can one room be more haunted
then the rest of the house? Well, the blue room fits that bill.  We ask that you take a particular interest in the last evp. It's
significance with Les and Greg's visit is quite uncanny.
 
                                                             * Please turn your volume up
 
                                              
                                          During the investigation our team heard a ball bouncing in the blue room and it was captured on two recorders. 
 
                                                                 
                                                                                                                        
                                                               
 
                                                                    
                                                       
                                                                Although we didn't capture the "ball bouncing" on every recorder, we did catch the sound on the camcorder.
                                                              
 
 
                    

 
 
                                                                                                                                                                         Video Evidence
 
 
 
 
 
                                                 
 
 
    On November 22nd our team members took our digital video recording cameras back into the Cunningham House overnight. On this night no one was
at home at the Cunninghams. The video clips are all from one camera set up in the blue room of the house. The camera was positioned towards the door
to capture anyone who may come into the room overnight. No one does but on three separate occasions the camera moves up and own on it's own.
Although this is not conclusive evidence that this was paranormal we have decided to include these video clips on our evidence page because we can't
explain why this happened. This is an upstairs room with no other way to get into the room except through the door.  
 
 
 
 
 
                                                          
        As we curiously investigate the possibility                                   The Cunningham's oldest daughter telling about                                 Coldness felt in blue room by team
          of paranormal activity, we ourselves seem                                   a recent experience she had in the bathroom                                   
 
          to attract curiosity from our fine furry                                          of a cold hand felt on her leg.                                                          
 
          flying friends. The attic of the Cunningham house.  
              
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                Photo Evidence
 
 
                  Learning to analyze evidence while being very skeptical and open at the same time                
        
is one of the hardest parts of paranormal investigating. We often question whether
        we actually have any kind of video evidence when many times on the audio evidence
        we now have a good ear as to what is normal or abnormal. As in any kind of study                
        
you have to learn how to view evidence. Les was key in helping us view
        our evidence from a different theory. Les whose own photographs are remarkable
        and have been posted on paranormal websites explained it to us in this way. When
        looking at orbs, if you increase their size and the pixelation becomes less defined 
        then it's most likely dust or a bug. However, if you increase the size (which means
        by zooming in onto the picture) and it becomes more defined then you may be 
        looking at an actual energy orb. During our visit with Les and Greg to the Cunningham
        house we picked up one orb that we believe borders these theories. As we zoomed in
         there seemed to be a child's face forming in the blue ball captured by their Christmas 
        tree. These three photos show the original, the first zoom in and the last zoom in on 
        the blue light by the tree.  
 *Blue orb right hand side
 
 
              
                                                                                                                                           
 
                                                                            *Blue orb first zoom in                                                                     * Final zoom in, is there a face here?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 

                            

                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                    

      
 
 
                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                  
 
 
                                   
 
 
        
 
 
                    
 
 
 

 
                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                  
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                   
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                   
 

 
   
 
  
 
 
   
                                                                                                               
 
 
 
   
 
 
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