Investigations – Page 4 – Midnight Watchmen

State of the Watchmen – 2011

2011 started off on a high note, coming back from our Gettysburg trip in December in which we were the FIRST to do do DUAL investigations at Jennie Wade House Museum & Solider’s Museum/Orphanage! Thats both places in the same night same time, we did it for nights in a row! A big thank you to our Friends Chris and Kendra from Spirit Realm Investigation who helped fill out our numbers. This was just the first of many interesting things for us. We spoke at Delaware Valley College to students in March about the paranormal, which was awesome and I hope we are invited back again! We attended our first expo in June at the Historic Bolton Mansion, in levittown. July brought a tandem investigation with NJSPR. In August Bekah Liz decided to leave the group and we wish her the best in her future paranormal plans, she is now over at Parahistory. We welcomed Mandi Simone in September to our family as our new researcher. October has been jam packed with changes & Events! We welcomed officially a long time friend and awesome person Christina Smith to our ranks. We attended our 2nd ever Expo at the historic Fort Mifflin, in Philadelphia. Our first local event we helped promote and had a table at was the Tylersport Firehouse Haunted Hayride, which was a blast! We also had our first public meet and greet at the OBR Hotel (Old bethlem Road Hotel) in Quakertown & Scheduled our FIRST public reveal of our findings of the OBR Hotel for sometime in 2012!! Should be a very fun filled night! We also have a few Open Positions available, Video person (2), Photographer, Researcher (2), and a marketing person to help with logo designs/other marketed related things.

All in all we the Midnight Watchmen are growing towards more then just ghost hunters, we are explorers of the unknown and as such I expect 2012 to really be an interesting year. We plan on having our first DVD of cases available for sale early in the first quarter of 2012! In the works is a public ghost hunt at a historic tavern and the year will also be filled with joint cases with other groups, a few new members and more importantly we’ll be shedding some light onto the dark… Knowledge and helping people is the core of our “business/hobby/field”. And That is what we do best!

In closing I’d like to thank my team from our current members to the ones who are no longer with us, as all of you have had an influence on what the Midnight Watchmen have become and will be tomorrow. Their are not words for me to express my joy and happiness in doing what we do, for me it was a dream since I was child to be a “ghostbuster”, this the next best thing to that, only thing we’re missing is an Ecto-1, but if that’s all we’re missing that ain’t too bad….

Peace,
Cedric
[email protected]

Jennie Wade House Museum, Gettysburg, PA – 12/3/2010

The Jennie Wade house, originally the McClellan home, lived through the Battle of Gettysburg and witnessed the tragic death of Gettysburg civilian Jennie Wade, as she was preparing bread for the Union soldiers. This brick house was not a good spot to be in during the fighting as it was between both armies and commonly referred to as “No Man’s Land”. Northern soldiers were setting up defenses South of town while Confederate forces were occupying the North side of town. As both armies fired on each other, the Jennie Wade home was struck repeatedly and riddled with bullets. The north side received most of the damage as it faced the Confederate position and today is marked with over 150 bullet holes. Also causing damage to the Jenny Wade house was a Confederate 10-pounder “Parrot” artillery shell. The shell hit and entered the Jennie wade house going through and causing damage to the 2nd floor wall that separated the two dwellings. Fortunately, the Civil War projectile did not explode, and remained lodged in the house for many years after the war until it was removed. Evidence of this direct hit can still be seen today while taking the tour of the Jenny Wade house. The house is now a museum and contains a Gift Shop in the rear.

Members Present: Cedric, Jonathan Brandis, Bekah Liz

Guests: Bob Michels (guide)

Time: 6:00 pm to 12:00am

Temp. (Average): –° F

Humidity: Unknown

Moon Phase: Unknown

Wind Speed: Unknown

Weather: Unknown

# of Pictures: 239

Hours Of Video: 25 Hours, 33 Minutes, 52 Seconds

Hours of Audio: 17 Hours, 31 Minutes, 25 Seconds

Findings:

Coming Soon!

Notes:

This was the first night of dual investigations both at the same time of Jennie Wade and the Orphanage/Solider’s Museum. No other group has ever tried that with the shared history of the places.

Status:

Coming Soon!

Personal Experiences – Eastern State Penitentiary

8-29-2008

Cell Block 4 Around 1:00 AM Jeff and Jon Bolton (myself) teamed up to conduct some EVP as well as temp, EMF and photo documentation within cell block number 4. We decided to sit down and place the digital recorder in the middle of the walkway in between both of us while I took EMF temp and some video with my small ir lapel cam. We began to conduct some EVP work while checking our other equipment readings; all of a sudden Jeff asked if I saw that. I asked him what and he told me it was some sort of half greenish ball, I informed him I did not. This went on a few more times and I still did not see what he was seeing as he said the shape had changed a bit. I thought he was just seeing things based off of the green exit sign approximately 10 yards away from us. He asked me to move some of the equipment and flashlight around thinking it might have been that, but I had no green lit equipment with me. As I looked at my equipment I heard him say I swear I see something on that wall. I raised my head and turned it to the right only to finally see what he saw. The doorway was the normal 8 foot high door with a gap of around 7 feet till the stone wall met the bottom of the very tall window. The image I saw was around 4 inches in width and very faint and approximately 6 feet tall. I visually checked the doorway and window to see if there was light coming in from them somewhere and there was not. Jeff and I looked at each other with a “what the heck was that look on our faces” only to see the greenish entity appear once more and this time it was brighter than the exit sign and was no way reflecting or coming in from the window or door. The light then began to move down the wall towards the floor. As it reached the floor we grabbed our gear to check it out only to have it fade away before we got it. We checked the outside for any signs of other light, but could find none. I noticed the other team in a corridor about 100 yards away and radioed them to shine any light they had down towards the doorway thinking it might have been them. Upon investigation of their lights none of them could have made that light and none of them had green. With Jeff and I fully confused we went back to HQ and check out my small IR lapel cam and unfortunately it did not catch anything which was very discouraging. The rest of the team tried to figure what it could have been and it never did come back the rest of that night, the rest of the team found nothing. ~ Jon Bolton & Jeff Robbins

Cell Block 12 Jeff and I (Jon Bolton) then decided to head up to cell block 12 to retrieve our equipment and some lite EVP work. We headed up with the one female tour guide who was required to be with anyone who wanted to be in cell block 12 due to insurance purposes. Upon reaching cell block 12 we made our way down the left side collecting the equipment we had set-up when all of a sudden the strong aroma of maple syrup filled the air. Now the female guide had told us early in the night about such smells people experienced, but I had written it off early in the night. Myself, Jeff and our guide smelled it and thought it was very weird, but again I really didn’t think much about it. We made it down to the other end and collected the rest of the equipment and did some EVP work. We started walking down the other side of the cell block only to meet the maple syrup smell again. I began to sniff the floor, cells, railings anything I could and it faded away. I walked a few more steps only to smell it again and when I stood still it faded once more, I walked a few more steps only to smell it again which led me to believe we were following a moving smell of maple syrup. I can’t explain it and I can’t even begin to try as I did everything I could to figure out where it was coming from. As the three of us stood there discussing it an air compressor kicked on in one of the lower levels probably from the Terror Behind the Walls haunted house they do every year. It caught us off guard a bit I will be honest about that, but then we all heard the sound of something heavy and something metal being dragged across the floor. We walked out of the cell block and head back down to HQ where we discussed what we had experienced with the rest of the team. Could it have been some one messing with us, very doubtful as there is only one way in and out and we were stationed at the entrance of the prison. Can I explain what we saw….no, am I going to say that we experienced something……yes. ~ Jon Bolton & Jeff Robbins