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 Beyonder
Investigation #1
Bath School Disaster Memorial Park
Bath Township
Michigan Status: Completed
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| May 18, 1927 For the past few months, Kehoe had been hiding dynamite and other common explosives of the time period all over the school grounds. He had also filled his car up with shrapnel, debris, and more dynamite. On the morning of May 18, he put put the plan into action. The first thing that he did that morning was bash his wife, Nellie's head in and threw her body in a wheelbarrow. He then tied up all of his farm animals, and used some more of his explosives to destroy the farm. As his farm burned with the animals inside, he got into his car, and drove toward the school. Good thing for him, all fire departments and authorities had their hands full with the farm. That gave him the opportunity to do the unthinkable.
Investigation May 20, 2006...79 years and 2 Days later I attempted to collect some E.V.P. as well, but it was pretty windy, and people were constantly talking in the background throughout the night, so the conditions weren't so good for it. Out of 60 pictures I had taken, ONLY 18 pictures DID NOT have some sort of anomaly, and that includes pictures that the flash didn't work right, or were too blurry due to me moving around. If you take out the dark ones and the blurry ones, there were only 10, but 42 good ones. Any investigator will tell ya, that's pretty freakin' good. (or bad depending on the conditions) Naturally, I don't plan on showing you all 42 pictures, but I do plan on showing you a few with a little background on WHY I decided to take them. These are 'orb' pictures, and I have an idea what you MAY be thinking....Orbs? Come on man, you've seen one orb, and you've seen them all. Dust, man. Dust! Ok look, That's how I feel about them for the most part too. I'm a believer in the paranormal, but orbs are just dots on film. This is a little different for me because, I TOOK THE PICTURES. I had a REASON for taking them. It wasn't just random picture snapping. There were other factors and tools that led me believe that I should take them, and that I would get something odd on film.
Here's a hard fact to get realistic about. After the rain, as short as it lasted, and as little as it may have been, ALL pictures beyond this point I think should be judged on a MUCH harder curve. They're contaminated with moisture, or at least the possibility of moisture, and unfortunately, in my opinion that possibility cannot be ignored. If this were a REAL investigation, I'd be inclined to ignore them altogether. I'm a tough judge. Shortly thereafter, a few of us had found ourselves interested in the northeast corner of the park near large concrete pieces of the school that had been left behind from the explosion. We kept picking up on cold spots in the air. As a matter of fact, I pulled out my IR thermometer, and took some readings. At one point it said 51 degrees Fahrenheit. I moved my arm about 2 feet to the left, and watched the temperature drop to 39 degrees Fahrenheit. That was pretty cool. Also in that area, one of the other investigators had an EMF meter which was beeping like crazy. Needless to say, more pictures were taken.
It's funny that when you're out on a hunt looking at the little screen
on your camera, there are things that you may have captured that you
don't even notice. There are also SOME things that look great on that
little screen, but when you get home, and actualy analyze them, they
turn out to be nothing at all.
A wise man once said, "You never count your money when you're sittin'at the table. There'll be time enough for countin'when the dealin's done."
The same principle applies here. Although theres nothing wrong with a
peek at your evidence while in the field, you can't make any real
decisions on anything until you've seen everything in its best form.
With pictures that means, either develop them or analyze them with your
computer.
The first image below, when I took it, and looked at it on the little screen, it didn't appear to have anything at all on it. When I got it home, and blew it up onto the computer...Well, take a look. The second one below was interesting because I had a feeling to look up in the tree above me. Tim got 3 or 4 sets of batteries drained near those trees, and I lost 2 sets. So, I figured what the hell. I got underneath them pointed the camera up, and flash. On my screen, it looked like nothing.
Now, the first two images were taken before the rain, but when the last one was taken, the rain had already fallen. Please keep in mind, the EMF readings were positive in the area of the last photo. There were also multiple occurrences of cold spots there as well. (The EMF readings were debunked on the next investigation.) When looking at my screen, which is about the size of the last thumbnail above, I noticed a bunch of orb-like anomalies within the bushes. Now, the first thing I thought, 'well, it did drizzle a little bit, so this has to be moisture or water.' I tested that theory. I knelt down, and ran my arms through the bushes, and they were as dry as a bone. Could it be flash reflection? No, I didn't think so. It just didn't look right. They looked pretty odd though. I got them home and looked more thoroughly. Can't be certain but I think they're little blue flowers. That brings me to something else to chalk up as a learning experience. In the dark, there was no way to see the flowers properly. It's best to see your territory in the day prior to an investigation. Unfortunately, that option was not available to me this time around. Beyond Paranormal Investigations of Southeast Michigan has recently done a followup investigation at the Bath School Disaster Memorial Park on July 29, 2006. For my personal views on that particular investigation, Click Here. For the Beyonders OFFICIAL report, Ckick Here. |
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