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Haunt Investigation
August 5th, 2004
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Background & Site History
Rick and Laurel, who are both very interested in the paranormal, have lived in a haunted apartment in Oklahoma City for many years. Various types of activity have been reported to happen mainly centering around a television entertainment area in the living room, which is decorated with Native American, religious and war memorabilia. Normally, as reported by Rick and Laurel, most activity would occur while they were in the bedroom trying to fall asleep, when noises would be heard from the living room around the TV area. Upon inspection, evidence of RSPK type occurrences would be found, including moved items on the television proper, photographs flying off the wall and landing several feet away, and on one occurrence a mirror flying across the room in their bedroom. Most RSPK occurrences were either heard from another location, and the evidence found later, while on a few occasions residents physically witnessed the anomalous movement themselves. Subjective feelings were also noted both in the living room and bedroom closet area by both residents.
Preliminary Findings & Hypothesis
Several basic investigations with handheld equipment had already been done by the OKCGC, in which very unstable AC magnetic fields were reported on the handheld frequency-weighted Gaussmaster. Erik Smith of the OKCGC noted that the fields didn't seem to be transient in any way - the actual baseline AC EMF readings seemed to vary with respect to time. Several EVP had been recorded as well, which is common in places prone to RSPK type activity (the vibration of a magnet in a microphone could considered PK in itself). This peaked my interest, as myself and many other researchers have always suggested EM fields and other varying environmental data to be the cause of most hauntings. Preliminary AC EMF and electric field sweeps were done, to find an AC EMF mean background field of at least 1-1.5 mG, with elevated electric fields of up to 100 V/m (a large TV was the source of the high electric fields) in the living room area. AC EMF fields in the intersection from the hallway to the living room were found to be a standing 12 mG - the cause was a refrigerator on the other side of the wall. I speculated that this enormous standing field alone was enough to wreak havoc on any biological matter passing through it (epidemiology studies suggest to try to stay away from AC EMF fields of over 2.5 mG) , and could be key to this haunting.
Because most activity seemed to happen in the living room, while the residents were in the bedroom, I chose to log both non-frequency weighted AC magnetic fields and horizontal axis (N-S and E-W) static magnetic fields on Arcadia's A/D converter in both areas for an hour each, at a rate of 2.5 hertz, averaging 10 samples taken back to back. My thoughts on the haunting was that the elevated/unstable AC EMF fields, as well as potentially unstable static magnetic fields in the bedroom area, could be triggering the RSPK type phenomena being reported by the residents.
Living Room Findings
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Click to view graphs from this area:
- AC Magnetic Fields Graph
- Static Magnetic Fields Graph
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Measuring equipment was set up near the television (which was off), to get a view of the magnetic fields in the area that experienced RSPK activity the most. Static magnetic fields showed several interesting oscillations, in which I have never seen before in prior control runs. The graph starts with an odd frequency of ~.02 hertz, and around the 1,000 second mark, a small spike marks a new constant frequency of ~.04 hertz, which seems to slow down and then speed up again after several minutes. AC EM fields show semi-smooth transitions between 1.3 and 1.8 mG, with small spikes, normally of around .2 mG, which is fairly normal for an electronically dense area. As shown in the table below, both AC and static magnetic fields in the living room area show more statistical variance than typical control runs.
| Field Means, Standard Deviations (SD) & Control Log SD for Comparison |
| Field |
Mean Strength |
SD |
Typical Control SD |
| Static Magnetic Fields: N-S: |
-166.48 mG |
0.98 mG |
< 0.5 mG |
| Static Magnetic Fields: E-W: |
-216.01 mG |
0.723 mG |
< 0.5 mG |
| AC Magnetic Fields: |
1.58 mG |
0.144 mG |
< 0.09 mG |
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Bedroom Findings
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Click to view graphs from this area:
- AC Magnetic Fields Graph
- Static Magnetic Fields Graph
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Measuring equipment was set up on the bed, near where the residents would place their head while sleeping, to get an idea of what kind of magnetic fields are being induced in the brain. Just as the log in the living room showed, static magnetic fields showed a constant frequency of ~.04 hertz, which again seems to slow down and then speed up again after several minutes. AC EM fields show amazing temporal spikes of up to 2.3 mG, some lasting a little over a minute, with no visual periodic pattern. As the table below shows, both AC and E-W static magnetic fields in the bedroom area show more statistical variance than typical control runs. Take the time look at the AC magnetic fields graph (link is to the left), as it shows very interesting spikes, and much more standard deviation than most control runs.
| Field Means, Standard Deviations (SD) & Control Log SD for Comparison |
| Field |
Mean Strength |
SD |
Typical Control SD |
| Static Magnetic Fields: N-S: |
-159.87 mG |
0.449 mG |
< 0.5 mG |
| Static Magnetic Fields: E-W: |
-189.03 mG |
0.559 mG |
< 0.5 mG |
| AC Magnetic Fields: |
1.17 mG |
0.227 mG |
< 0.09 mG |
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Conclusions
The findings are very clear, as I hypothesized, very unstable AC magnetic fields were present throughout both areas, especially in the bedroom. A small (27 mG) difference in the E-W static magnetic fields between the bedroom and the living room suggests a local item retaining its own static magnetic field, possibly the refrigerator. Odd frequencies of ~.04 hertz seemed to be present most of the time in the static magnetic fields, which did not seem to be geomagnetic in nature, since control logs have never shown this background frequency. This extremely low frequency could be effect the brain in such a way that could help trigger the reported haunt and RSPK episodes, especially when combined with the complex AC magnetic field variances in the bedroom area. I would suggest that these temporal magnetic field patterns, high density (>10 mG) AC magnetic fields found in the hallway, odd static magnetic field frequencies, and added geomagnetic activity could be triggering the RSPK type experiences reported by the residents. This is an on-going investigation, so more information should be available in the future.
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