Mississippi Valley Paranormal

MVP received an email from a woman in Clinton, IA
who was concerned about some activities going on
in her home. She has young children and they, as
well as herself, were being affected by this increasing
unexplained phenomenon. Some of the things she was
experiencing was seeing black shadows in various
parts of the house… sometimes in the shape of a man,
hearing noises, watching objects move, feeling as
though she was being watched, smelling strange odors,
blowing in the ear, and hearing footsteps. Her children,
one in particular, was having trouble sleeping, did not
want to be alone, pointed at nothing, and recently
received a burn on his skin while he was sleeping. MVP
decided to do an investigation ASAP due to there being
children involved and a team was assembled quickly to
set up a date and time to investigate.

INVESTIGATION

A team of four visited the home, which was an
apartment technically… the upstairs of a house
involving about seven rooms (living room, kitchen,
bathroom, 3 bedrooms, and patio). The team
members present were Becky, Steph, Sarah, and
Stephen. Present during the interview were the
woman who lived there and the young child that was
having the most trouble. We reconfirmed what she
had told us was happening before as well as gathered
some new information.

This is what she added to the previous information,
provided. There was an incident in which a photo
was taken of a faint misty hand pointing at a book on
the shelf. The book, in the picture, was one dealing
with training children various things, including potty
training, which is what the woman is attempting to
do now with two of her children. Before she snapped
the picture, she had witnessed another book slowly
moving on the table near the shelf. There is one room
in particular in which she feels the most activity takes
place, the young children’s room. She also feels very
uncomfortable in her kitchen, and always has the
feeling of being watched in the bathroom. A picture
on the wall of the living room shook one day. There
was unexplained pencil writing on one of the walls
on the porch. A few other people, that do not live
there, have witnessed things in the home as well …
mostly black shadows and outlines of a man and a
few things moving on the walls.

Once the interview and walk-thru were over she and
the child left and MVP was alone in the apartment.
Stephen and Sarah did an EMF sweep of the house and
did temperature checks. There were high readings on
EMF in the kitchen but the rest of the rooms were mostly
normal with no other high readings at the time. While
walking into the children’s bedroom, Stephen felt dizzy
upon entering and experienced a few cold spots. When
Steph entered the room, a short time later, she felt a
tremendously fast feeling of being dizzy, almost like an
underwater feeling. The wave passed a short time later,
but it was very intense when it happened. She told the
others immediately while it was happening. She felt as
though something had either passed through her or
drained her completely for a moment.

Several times during the investigation, it sounded like
walking and/or footsteps on the ceiling or above the
apartment. We were told that there was no third floor,
although after the investigation, we noticed there was
an attic above the second floor. We weren’t sure why
the sound came from above. There were people in the
downstairs apartment and we wondered if sound
carried somehow from below. Those sounds were
unexplained.

The team split up and Stephen and Sarah investigated
the back bedroom and kitchen areas while Steph and
Becky stayed out in the living room and conducted an
EVP session.

Stephen reported several EMF fluctuations in the back
bedroom and Sarah also had temperature changes.
Stephen reported goosebumps and hair standing up
on his arms at various times. He also conducted an EVP
session during this time with some mild provoking
included.

Sarah reports: “Steve and I were in the bedroom/
playroom, he had placed his EMF detector on, I
believe a laundry basket,and was asking for it to
go towards the EMF meter. I had an IR thermometer
aimed at the doorway. We experienced simultaneous
EMF and temperature spikes. During the first spike, the
temperature raised from 80-81 to 108 and after about
20 seconds the temp returned to normal. During the
second spike, the temperature jumped to 115. I did a
temperature sweep of that room before we really did
anything else, and there was nothing in that room that
was that hot. When we went to leave that room to go
somewhere else, I looked back into the room as we
were leaving, to be honest I don’t know why I looked
back, but when I did I saw a glowing ball of yellowish
light in the closet. It was about softball sized. We
immediately went to the closet, and Steve discovered
that there was now a high EMF in the closet, no EMF had
been detected during the EMF sweep.”

Later in the investigation both Stephen and Sarah
reported that they heard the door move in the bedroom
and towards the end of the investigation, Sarah said she
saw the yellow ball of light again in the closet.

While Becky and Steph were out in the living room,
Becky thought she heard a response to a question
with her bare ear… one that said “shhhh” but on the
audio recorder it sounds like a whistle at the time.
Sitting in the dark, with all the lights were turned
off, Steph and Becky saw the same thing at the same
time. Both were looking forward and a bright gold ball
of light, about the size of a baseball, suddenly
appeared, and seemed to move about for about two
to three seconds then disappear. They verified almost
immediately that they both saw it and tried to debunk
anything it could have been finding no explanation for
the light. They did not see it again that night.

All four members eventually gathered in the living room
to do a full team EVP session while a recorder and EMF
meter was left in the back bedroom by themselves.
Stephen was sitting in a place where he could see the
hallway wall that contained some reflection of lights
from the kitchen appliances and night light. Steph was
seated at the end of the couch closest to the hallway
so her view was straight down the hallway all the way
to the kitchen in which the refrigerator faced her.
Stephen suddenly reported that he saw a quick black
shadow that blocked out the light reflecting on the
hallway wall move very fast down the hall and was
gone. Steph looked down the hallway to the kitchen
and bedroom and about 30 seconds passed in silence.

She reports…“I was looking down the hallway towards
the kitchen and all of a sudden there was a solid black
mass about four feet tall that blocked out half of the
refrigerator. It seemed to linger there for about one
to two seconds before moving very quickly to the left
and into the wall (this wall is opposite the young
children’s bedroom). The mass was not a shadow as I
couldn’t see through it but it was pure solid black and
moved very quickly. It was something I have never seen
before. Later it seemed to come out from the wall just a
tiny bit as though it was “peeking” out but since I wasn’t
sure of that I can’t put faith into that 100%. The black
shape before that though, I know 100% was real and
was not a hallucination.”

Upon finishing the investigation, Steph checked the
penny experiment and the penny was moved about
4 inches back on the dresser. Stephen found his
camera which he thought he may have left in the
back bedroom on top of the rocking horse in there.
He was certain it was not there before, as they had
asked the rocking horse to be moved during their EVP
session. Nothing was caught on camera, so unfortunately,
we cannot prove what we saw and all of the visual
reports were just personal experiences. We did, however,
collect some EVPs which are included in the report.

After leaving the apartment/house we asked the woman,
who had been waiting outside, if anyone in the house
had ever seen strange lights. She said her fiancé had,
and he came out from the backyard to tell us that he
was sitting in the living room one night and suddenly
saw a gold ball of light appear up on the wall briefly
and disappear. The woman thinks the ball may be
connected to a recent friend’s death, but was not sure.

After getting home Stephen reported some scratches on
his back that he feels were not there before. They were
located in a place that he could not reach himself and
looked like fingernail marks. He feels that this might have
been done due to some of the provoking he was doing.
This again, cannot be evidence but we feel it important
to share any personal experiences we had.

EVIDENCE

AUDIO
response whisper to my question
Hi… Help Me
noises

PHOTOS

CONCLUSION
MVP would like to set up a second investigation,
as we feel it is warranted.  There is definitely some
unexplained phenomenon going on at the house
Update
MVP has received word from the resident that
"her one child has been waking up with scratches
on his ankle and she has felt some tugs on her shirt
a couple of times.  Other than the recent things,
the same things are still going on.