See, isn't this Mansion amazing?
Look at this! It needs some fixing up desperatly!
Went to McPike Mansion. Gorgeous, even if it's falling apart. They really need money to fix it up. It's a piece of history worth saving. The paranormal team I joined...we're gonna try some fund raisers this summer and give 50% to the owners of McPike. We really wanna get people involved in helping out. This place is so much cooler than the Lemp mansion, in my opinion. It is so devastating to see it in such distress.
Anyway, we went there last night about five p.m. Left for a bit, then went back to set up for our investigation. No one was allowed in the actual house, we were all supposed to just stay in the cellar. Except the tech team to set up five cameras upstairs. Everyone went up except me and two others. We went up at the end to gather our equipment so everyone got a chance to see the house. Wow, I seriously thought I'd fall through the floor. There were holes everywhere, nothing was sturdy, wind came through the chunk of missing walls and ceiling, no windows in many places windows should be. So heartbreaking. Hopefully we can raise some money...These people are doing their best, spending every dime they have on the place, and they haven't been able to get far. We seemed to hit it off pretty good with the owners, they really appreciate us wanting to help.
They told us they were impressed with our equipment. We had seven cameras set up, five voice recorders upstairs, everyone had walkies, recorders, flashlights, we had a trunk that held most of it which folds out into a table to hold the huge flat-screen computer monitor which shows all camera views. We have a couple EMF readers. They said that everyone whose investigated so far has only had a couple of cameras. Even Ghost Lab only came in with three cameras. Wow....Well, we take this very seriously. It's not for thrills or excitement, though that is a part of it. We try to take a scientific view of it. If we can't say 100% that the image in the photo isn't just one of us or a malfunction of equipment, we toss it. We are very careful and thourough. And, at least for me and the leader, we really like the historical factor in cases like this. I absolutly love this mansion. I want to research it, know everything about it, learn every detail of the lives of the people who lived in it. It's amazing.
Wish us luck on raising money for the restoration of this historic mansion, which, by the way, was built in 1869. Wow. How can a person not want to save it? You should see the detail in the walls around the ceiling, on the edges of the steps...Just brilliant. The door, which half of it was sitting in the entryway, is huge, kind of dome-shaped, large windows in the front. (unfortunatly the windows are long gone...) My batteries went dead before I ever made it upstairs so I didn't get any photos of it, but maybe on our website our president will have something going. Oh, and we have a few EVPs from my best friends house on the site. Samantha's house. The EVP where the ghost told me to "go home!" That, I believe is on the website. Check it out. slaapi.com.
Until next time!
