Private Res Eugene

This 92 year old house, located in central Eugene close to downtown, has been divided into a duplex. Both residents have had their animals act strangely from time to time, from the one resident's dog barking at something unseen at various wall locations, to the other's cats becoming fixated upon something (or someone) in the doorway of their bedroom.

Activity also reported was a floor lamp moving by itself after the resident re-arranged the living room, knocking sounds during the night, and a treadmill starting on its own and going full speed while turned off. Both residents report visitors to the house claiming to feel drained or tired after their visit, as well as neither "apartments" ever feeling warm enough, even in the summertime.

The resident who initially contacted us, also stated that she had seen a clear apparition of a dog in her living room, which after looking at her for a few seconds, faded out into nothingness.

Impressions upon arrival were immediately of an older, female spirit, who did a lot of wandering between the two duplexes. EMF meter spiked to 100 as the 3 of us were standing in the resident's kitchen, and a cold spot feeling like a blast of refrigerated air swept through us. This is also the exact area where the resident says her dog will stare and bark incessantly at "nothing." It seemed like the "lady" was making her presence known to all of us!

Martina felt that the woman had died in the house. She said that she had passed away due to an illness that she had had for quite some time. Another impression received was that she saw a man in the house, but felt it was not her husband. Upon our visit to the basement, Martina could see this man working downstairs in this area, and believed that he spent a lot of time down there working, although she didn't feel he was one of the ghosts in the house, but an impression that someone was showing to her.

A VERY interesting facet to this investigation is the local newspaper that the resident, (we'll call her K.), found up in the attic a while back, and had recently come across again. She saved the paper thinking that there was possibly some significance to it. What struck the resident as odd during our investigation, is that Martina was getting the number "52" and threw out that the age of the woman in the house when she died was maybe "52." K. looked at Martina and said, "Are you sure it's 52?" Martina said yes, the number 52 kept coming up.

It was then that K. showed us this newspaper.

Now, we did this investigation on September 11th, 2004. The date of this newspaper was hauntingly dated September 11th, 1952.

We immediately agreed with K. that there HAD to be some significance to the saving and for her finding this newspaper, but for what purpose? One of the advertisements in the paper was for a Big Y Market, where a photograph graced the ad - a glowing photo of that year's Miss America winner, who was scheduled to appear at this food superstore. Still confused at the unknown connection, Martina was very much drawn to the ad, the photograph, and to the Big Y Market.

Upon our second visit to the other adjoining apartment, strong cigarette or cigar smoke was detected which we had not noticed before. Now, it must be added that the owner, who was away for the weekend at the time of or investigation, is a smoker, however, all ashtrays were CLEAN and were noted to be so. Martina also pointed out an oily/cooking smell in the kitchen, as if someone had recently cooked something with bacon or grease.
Martina also felt a spirit following her around in this apartment, who had not been there before, and re-iterated this upon her return to the others in K.'s apartment. She said he had an "Archie-Bunker" face and body-type. She said he reminded her of a "furniture salesman." It was obvious too, that he was "really curious," and Martina claimed that he had a strange look on his face while she was smudging the apartment, as if he was baffled and wondered what the hell she was doing!

Now, the resident of the "smoky" apartment was not available during our investigation. However, when K. related to her our "Archie Bunker" encounter, she was a little shocked and startled, because she herself had come home from work too many times to count, and it smelled like somebody had just finished smoking a cigarette in her apartment.

EVP's captured were of BIG interest to everyone, which is why I'm going into such detail with this synopsis. Some of the most telling voices picked up were that of a woman saying, "Check out the wiring," as well as, "Lights are so flammable." I mentioned this to K., as she had reported during our investigation that her kitchen and bathroom bulbs had blown out in the past couple of months, and now the outlets would not work. I sent her copies of the EVP's so she could hear them for herself.

Following our investigation, and due to the above EVP's, K. decided to contact an electrician to come in and check things out.

Below is an email I received from her about a week later that reported some interesting things. Here K. tells us about the results of some of her most recent research on the home- in her own words, following our investigation she became "Nancy Drew"! : :

"Seems a "Daisy" lived here for about 25 years. Moved here with her hubby, Telemacus, a salesman, in the 1920s, and who died in the house in 1942. Daisy died in 1949,, a widow. At the time she died she was living in the house with a man, Douglas, a cabinet maker. Maybe he was a tenant. And perhaps he is the guy you saw tinkering in the basement workshop, who you said wasn't her husband?

Daisy's birthday was September 12th - the day AFTER your visit!"

Wow, that's pretty validating, but the following is REALLY interesting to us! :

"I want to mention that the light in the bathroom totally blew out (and wouldn't work at all until the electrician showed up). The light blew up literally 10 minutes before you and Todd arrived! An electrician came in today and saw, right off the bat, that at least 3 old fixtures need to be replaced. He showed me a brittle wire in the kitchen socket. I asked if it was a fire hazard. He said that old wires like that are the number one cause of house fires. I think the ghost (G. prefers to call her a "guardian spirit") warned us! Maybe 'Archie Bunker' was trying to tell us about the wiring, too. Or did he just want to hang out and smoke?"

Now, I have to say, that this is an extremely validating turn of events that we have never encountered before!

We all feel that we can breathe a lot easier, thanks to the ghosts that are watching out for their living residents, and who used our visit to warn the residents of possible fire hazard. Does that mean there was, at one time, a fire in the house? Or maybe, the ghosts were just aware of the wiring and didn't want anything to happen to the people living there? I like to believe the latter, personally. It makes for a different ghost-story, without the creepiness. They are helpful, caretaking spirits- just like these people were during their LIFE.

~Todd and I wish to thank K. for her trust and hospitality while we invaded her living space, as well as her friend, "skeptic G.". who didn't show his skepticism during our conversations (maybe he was being nice!), and to C. who we didn't get to meet, but was trusting & kind enough to allow us access to her ghosts while she wasn't home. Also, thanks to the ghosts- Daisy, and her husband, for keeping an eye on the place and proliferate the well being of its current residents.

Synopsis of EVP's:

EVP 1 : "Will they Speak to me?"
EVP 2: "Check out the Wiring"
EVP 3: "Lights are so flammable"
EVP 4: "So whaddya think?"
EVP 5: Martina talks, and spirits answer her
EVP 6: Unknown Voice 1 (A name perhaps? Kathy or Katy?)
EVP 7: Unknown Voice 2 (sounds to me like he's saying, "see they found it")
EVP 8: Stream: Many different things here - faint voices, dog barking, "lights are so flammable", "Light check", toilet flushing / sink sounds, "quack quack", "Match me".