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Jefferson Barracks Ghost Hunt September 6, 2014
GPS 38.518834,-90.275063
Our group, as part of the living history events, conducted an overnight ghost hunt at Jefferson Barracks.
Areas investigated:
Old Ordnance Room
Veterans Memorial Amphitheater
Powder Magazine
Stables
Laborers House
Rail Road Tracks, including old RR station ruins and the road running parallel to the RR tracks
Investigators’ personal experiences:
One investigator positioned along the back stone wall of the Powder Magazine, saw a light that resembled a partial manifestation of a human figure.
The sounds of wooden doors slamming sporadically were heard coming from within the Laborers House throughout the night -- these were reported by many investigators.
While using a hand held green laser pointer with a dot pattern grid, a beam of dots was projected across the back wall of the Powder Magazine. It passed over something no one could see standing about four feet from the wall!
At the Old Ordnance Room a white mist followed our sensitive investigator for several seconds before fading away, just as we attempted to photograph it.
Several members of our group experienced creepy feelings along the dirt road that runs parallel to the Rail Road Tracks.
Two investigators thought they saw a moving shadow in the fields by the Amphitheater, but weren't 100% certain of it.
The voices of children were heard around the Old Ordnance Room. Oddly none of these voices were captured on audio.
One member of our group is a sensitive, and she penned this report of her experiences at Jefferson Barracks.
We spoke with an eyewitness who on a previous overnight campout described his sighting of a white mist figure in the grotto area behind the Old Laborers House.
Below is the video, audio and photographic evidence collected during this investigation. I recommend using headphones for listening to the EVP and audio.
Many computers roll off the high and low frequencies. You can test your computer’s audio with this high frequency test and low frequency test. Ideally 20-20,000Hz is perfect, but 80-15,000Hz or worse is common and some sounds will be inaudible because of poor audio speakers.
Clip 1 You will notice there's a maintenance truck’s headlights over the wall, in the distance. The workers, the last to leave before we were alone in Jefferson Barracks, are at another building down the road and speaking in German. This is very faint, and extremely hard to hear without headphones at maximum volume in the beginning of the clip. Then the voices of three investigators are heard. At the 4 second point an EVP voice is heard loudly speaking German; It can't be the work crew-- this is so close it's almost louder than us, and we were standing next to the camera. The source has to be close to be that loud. I had this clip sent via a mutual friend, Mike, to his friend in Cologne, Germany for translation. He said its saying "Stop" distinctly, then again, but not as loud, "Stop" a second time. Then at the 7 second point a muffled EVP voice speaks, saying "JA JA" which in German means Yes Yes, but the way it is pronounced it is kind of cheering like
"come on" or "lets go".
I started looking into why people who spoke German were working in Jefferson Barracks. During World War II, 540 German POWs were held in Jefferson Barracks, and two are buried here. The German government pays special crews to maintain the graves of their military. This is just a theory, but if they heard people speaking in their own language, wouldn't they try to make contact with them?
Clip 2 was recorded in the courtyard of the Old Ordnance Room. Listen toward the end of the clip for a male EVP voice saying "Help me". This is a phrase often heard during our Tri-County investigations in Villa Ridge.
It’s also worth noting that all of the EVPs collected during this investigation were male, although we did hear some children's voices in the early morning hours, something we didn't expect to hear, or know why. Strangely none of those voices turned up in our review of the footage.
Clip 3 You might need headphones for this clip because most computer speakers roll off these frequencies. Listen for the sound of a ghost horse trotting over a paved or cobblestone road. My first suspect was Buddy, my friend’s horse from the Civil War History event, and the only horse in the park, but he received his honorable discharge from duty with his last rider before dark. This footage was recorded around midnight. Note that the horse in this clip is wearing horseshoes and trotting; no one was riding Buddy at midnight. This brings up questions I don't know the answers to.
A - Were horses ever buried in Jefferson Barracks?
B - Did horses die in Jefferson Barracks? (likely)
C - Would the ghost of a cavalry officer return with his horse?
D - Is this an intelligent or residual haunting?
Also unknown -- when and where the original roads occupying Bagby St and North Rd were located.
While on this subject, clip 4 is related.
This contains the sound of someone with a metal hammer pounding furiously, like a blacksmith hammering on an anvil. Again I checked and the only hammer was used early in the day to stake the tents and Buddy's tether outside the tent. This was early in the day. What’s truly strange is that I was running my friend’s camcorder on the neighboring hill where the Powder Magazine is located at the same time this was captured, and this sound is absent from his recordings. These two sites are less than a five-minute walk from each other.
Clip 5 We did get some orb photos here, but so many can be attributable to dust that I ignore most of them.
What’s interesting here is one that can be seen top left on video. This isn't a bug or dust, it’s a genuine self-illuminating light of unknown origin.
Clip 6 Something has triggered the motion sensor -- you can't see what triggered it, but a few things are telling. The camera’s auto focus makes no attempt to refocus. Any visible object, a leaf falling from a tree, or an insect flying by won't trigger the motion sensor; it requires something more substantial to do that, but the camcorder will respond because of the changes in brightness, and will refocus in response. This didn't happen. That means the motion is of an object that is either transparent, or reflects no light.
Just after the motion sensor is finished chiming there is a weird sound I can't account for. It’s not from any of my equipment.
Clip 7 was recorded on Tape 1 just as I was setting the camera above the gate and making position adjustments, which is the reason for the camera shake in this clip.
This EVP voice sounds angry -- it’s saying "Son of a ------bitch!" The human voice in the background is Greg talking.
Clip 8 I suspect is a residual EVP voice. It says "quittin' time".
Clip 9 contains a single streak of light at the top of the stone wall.
There is a bridge overlooking the road and RR tracks where we had experienced weird feelings earlier. I took this photo 3436 and a zoom of the object of interest. I need to return to the area to discover whether there is an object down in the field that's causing this anomaly.
At the end of the clip I can hear the words "JA JA" which is German and means yes yes. But the way it is pronounced it is a kind of cheering like "come on" or "lets go".
At the end of the clip I can hear the words "JA JA" which is German and means yes yes. But the way it is pronounced it is a kind of cheering like "come on" or "lets go".
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