Guyandotte, West Virginia

November 7, 2009

We recently headed up to Guyandotte during the annual Civil War Days celebration. We decided to go up for a history tour from Huntington Paranormal and to get some footage, we also decided while we were going we might as well take a few choice pieces of equipment along with us. We took a MEL and our cameras just to see if we could find anything by accident and to test for some high EMF. First we walked around snapping a few pictures here and there. We used both a Kodak easy share and our Cannon T1-I. The tour was full of interesting stories about the towns bloody past but we stayed toward the back and took our pictures and readings. This is what we discovered.

 

A lot of the area was high in EMF this has to do with the amount of overhead wiring and in some cases the underground wiring as well. In one spot we did receive a 60 milligaus reading on the MEL, our typical baseline on the street was 1-2 milligaus. During the tour we took well over 400 pictures and got no fewer than 300 orbs. NOTE: This has nothing to do with ghosts or the paranormal but may have something to do with the high EMF. When our camera flashes fired we could actually see dust particles in the air. With the Kodak it was hard to get a picture without orbs. With it's anti-dust features and anti-artifact capabilities the Cannon did a lot better with fewer orbs. I have no doubt that many visitors returned from that area with what they thought were ghost photos. These are not ghosts but the phenomena was fascinating to actually observe in real time.

Look familliar? That's dust there is no argument about that as we could see it when our camera flashes fired.

 

 

 

 

Upon going over our photos we found what appeared to be an anomaly. It appears to be a figure but the problem here is that the yard it was taken in had Halloween decoration still in it. We had no other clear images to compare this to so without this such data we can not say it is anything paranormal but it is a good example of how easy it is for some to mistake a "strange picture" for a ghost photo. This appears to be a child in period clothing but what it more likely is, is a great example of matrixing. We want to see a figure, our eyes want to make a familiar form in this case a ghostly child from the civil war. In actuallity what we are likely seeing is random patches of color and shape which our brain interprets as a phantom from days gone by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The best chance for any paranormal evidence came in the form of this image. We can not say what this is, we can say what it is not. It is not lens flare, it is not dust, it is not a reflection or camera artifact. It occurs in frame B and not A and it is a mystery for us. We had a great trip up to Guyandotte and met some great people there. We intend to return shortly for another look around.