places are thought to be haunted by Indian spirits. Not a good place to build, you would think.
And yet, someone had—a man named Jeremiah, who had owned not only the ground on which the house was built but also any number of acres around it. Apparently, the entities that haunted his land, which he’d referred to as “dirty folk,” had driven him crazy enough to burn his house down.
The police had responded to the blaze in horse-drawn carriages, and they’d taken Jeremiah away. In the end, he’d accomplished only part of his purpose. He’d burned down the house, all right, but its foundation had been preserved. It was on this foundation that Maura’s grandparents’ house had been constructed.
Armed with this knowledge, the couple made the decision to have the entity removed by their clergyman.
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GRANT’S TAKE
W e were probably a little crazy to try to lay that copper pipe in that little crawl space. One wrong move and we would have been ghosts ourselves. But our business is helping people, and we do that any way we can.
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GOOD SPIRITS AND BAD DECEMBER 1999
P eople have all kinds of personalities and dispositions, good and bad. So, apparently, do ghosts. And sometimes, you get both kinds at once.
Pia and John Devine lived in a two-bedroom bungalow in a suburban community in central Rhode Island. The first inkling they had that something was amiss was when their two-year-old son, Jack, woke up screaming in the room he shared with his younger brother Joshua. When Pia went into the room to see what was the matter, the hysterical Jack pointed to his rocking chair.
It was empty, but Jack kept pointing to it as if there had been someone sitting in it. Pia did her best to soothe her son, then she put him back to bed.
She was still pondering the incident the next day when she caught a glimpse of a strange figure in her kitchen—a woman wearing white. It shook her up. And soon after that, she felt a male presence in her basement and a female presence elsewhere in the house.
She didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, she heard about T.A.P.S. and gave us a call. Four of us—Grant, Keith Johnson, Andrew Graham, and I—visited her house to see what we could find.
By then, the Devines had experienced other disturbing phenomena. Pia had heard a female voice singing lullabies in her children’s room. John had felt an uncomfortable presence in the master bedroom late at night. And Pia had discovered what sounded to us like ectoplasm on the children’s unused changing table.
She had inadvertently captured yet another phenomenon. Pia, who was an accomplished violin player, had recorded herself playing one day. When she played back the recording, she could hear faint voices calling her name.
T.A.P.S. wound up spending two weekends collecting evidence at the Devine house. We found what appeared to be three distinct supernatural entities. One, a female, was clearly interested in the children. A second seemed to wish only to be left alone in the basement. The third, a spiteful spirit, seemed intent on agitating the entire Devine family, as well as the female spirit.
While we were conducting our investigation, both Jack and Joshua were in hysterics, and neither of them would go to sleep. However, they were fine once they left their bedroom. At one point, Pia went into the children’s room and came out petrified. When Grant and I went to see what disturbed her, we found that the room was five degrees warmer and the air was difficult to breathe.
We addressed what we believed was the mischievous entity, and the room went pitch black. The air seemed to become even thicker, and the temperature shot up another sixteen degrees. We couldn’t speak for a moment, it was so oppressive in there.
Finally, we were able to find the words to call Keith, who blessed the room. After the blessing, the children seemed to have no trouble going to sleep. However, to rid the Devines of the mischievous entity, we would have to bless
And yet, someone had—a man named Jeremiah, who had owned not only the ground on which the house was built but also any number of acres around it. Apparently, the entities that haunted his land, which he’d referred to as “dirty folk,” had driven him crazy enough to burn his house down.
The police had responded to the blaze in horse-drawn carriages, and they’d taken Jeremiah away. In the end, he’d accomplished only part of his purpose. He’d burned down the house, all right, but its foundation had been preserved. It was on this foundation that Maura’s grandparents’ house had been constructed.
Armed with this knowledge, the couple made the decision to have the entity removed by their clergyman.
----
GRANT’S TAKE
W e were probably a little crazy to try to lay that copper pipe in that little crawl space. One wrong move and we would have been ghosts ourselves. But our business is helping people, and we do that any way we can.
----
GOOD SPIRITS AND BAD DECEMBER 1999
P eople have all kinds of personalities and dispositions, good and bad. So, apparently, do ghosts. And sometimes, you get both kinds at once.
Pia and John Devine lived in a two-bedroom bungalow in a suburban community in central Rhode Island. The first inkling they had that something was amiss was when their two-year-old son, Jack, woke up screaming in the room he shared with his younger brother Joshua. When Pia went into the room to see what was the matter, the hysterical Jack pointed to his rocking chair.
It was empty, but Jack kept pointing to it as if there had been someone sitting in it. Pia did her best to soothe her son, then she put him back to bed.
She was still pondering the incident the next day when she caught a glimpse of a strange figure in her kitchen—a woman wearing white. It shook her up. And soon after that, she felt a male presence in her basement and a female presence elsewhere in the house.
She didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, she heard about T.A.P.S. and gave us a call. Four of us—Grant, Keith Johnson, Andrew Graham, and I—visited her house to see what we could find.
By then, the Devines had experienced other disturbing phenomena. Pia had heard a female voice singing lullabies in her children’s room. John had felt an uncomfortable presence in the master bedroom late at night. And Pia had discovered what sounded to us like ectoplasm on the children’s unused changing table.
She had inadvertently captured yet another phenomenon. Pia, who was an accomplished violin player, had recorded herself playing one day. When she played back the recording, she could hear faint voices calling her name.
T.A.P.S. wound up spending two weekends collecting evidence at the Devine house. We found what appeared to be three distinct supernatural entities. One, a female, was clearly interested in the children. A second seemed to wish only to be left alone in the basement. The third, a spiteful spirit, seemed intent on agitating the entire Devine family, as well as the female spirit.
While we were conducting our investigation, both Jack and Joshua were in hysterics, and neither of them would go to sleep. However, they were fine once they left their bedroom. At one point, Pia went into the children’s room and came out petrified. When Grant and I went to see what disturbed her, we found that the room was five degrees warmer and the air was difficult to breathe.
We addressed what we believed was the mischievous entity, and the room went pitch black. The air seemed to become even thicker, and the temperature shot up another sixteen degrees. We couldn’t speak for a moment, it was so oppressive in there.
Finally, we were able to find the words to call Keith, who blessed the room. After the blessing, the children seemed to have no trouble going to sleep. However, to rid the Devines of the mischievous entity, we would have to bless
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