Sorry about taking so long to update this online log, but things have been out of control lately. I’ll try to bring you up to speed on current events.

From April 18^th until May 9^th we studied the stairway. We were all excited by the photograph that I had taken on the night of the 17^th. I myself was a little disappointed there weren’t more images, but Sam’s camera seemed to have had a problem. At least that’s what we had thought at first. On the night of April 30^th Tina, Sam and myself were sitting in the dining room feeling low. During the last two weeks our investigation had run dry. The noise had stopped and our cameras hadn’t captured any images, but our blue mood was soon lifted somewhat when Laura came into the room in a very excited state. She had been looking over the rolls of film Sam and I had taken on April 17^th and she noticed something exciting. The lab where we had the film processed told us Sam’s film was fogged and that it was ruined and wasn’t worth printing. In the excitement of finding the photo I took we simply put Sam’s bad film away and never really examined it. Well now that things were going slow Laura decided to have a look at the film. Luck for us she did.

On May the 2^nd the tapping noise came back. At about 12:30 A.M. at night until about 1:15-1:20 A.M. Tina was the first to here the noise and she quickly came and woke me up. Sam heard Tina knock on my door and he was in the hallway when Tina and I came to the door of my room. Laura was the only one not to get up. We never went and woke her, and we never went to the top of the stairs. I the photos Laura brought back had us spooked. I admit it I was scared. You would think after this much time I would be use to it, but I wasn’t.

The next day we told Laura what happened and she was really pissed we didn’t wake her.

From the 3^rd to the 16^th we went through our normal rituals. We photographed and recorded the area around the stairs. We had no luck with the cameras this time, but we did record the sound of the tapping. I hope to have this sound on this web page very soon, but I have to work out the details. There were also a few other things worth noting during this time. Laura seems to be acting a little strange lately. She has become less outgoing and more withdrawn. This is not like her at all, and if anyone speaks to her about it she just snaps at him or her. Tina is staying calm, but I can tell she is a little freaked about current events. The thing that bothers me the most though is what happened to Sam. He was coming down the back stairs on the night of the 12^th and tripped and twisted his angle. It wasn’t broken just bruised badly. No one seemed to feel weird about this, but I must admit I do. Maybe it just happened, but I still feel odd about it.

The sounds have stopped again. The house is just dead quit. No pun intended. So with little else to do during the day Tina, Sam and myself have started searching around the house and the grounds. We’ve found nothing unusual yet, but the property the house on is very beautiful.

I was sleeping on the night of the 23^rd when I woke up at around 11:45 P.M. I was getting ready to go use the bathroom when I heard someone in the hallway outside my room. Thinking everyone was up because they had heard something I jumped up and went to the door to join them. I wasn’t expecting what happened next. When I opened the door I saw Laura walking down the hall from the direction of the backstairs. She was heading back to her room, and I was shocked to see she was totally nude. I started to say something to her when she came past my room, but I could see she was sleep walking. I didn’t wake her, but I did watch her enter her room and close the door. It was really weird.

The next day I took Tina to the side and told her what I had seen. She thought it was strange also. When they had lived together in collage Tina had never seen Laura sleep walk before.

I decided to stay up on the night of the 24^th to see if it happened again. I had fallen asleep, but I woke up again around 11:30-11-50 P.M. it was just in time. Outside I could hear someone walking in the hall. I rushed to the door and looked outside. I was surprised to see Tina was standing the doorway to her room as well. I started to say something, but she put a finger to her lips and nodded her head for me to look. Sure enough Laura came walking up the hall towards her room. She was sleepwalking again, and she was totally nude. After she went into her room Tina came into my room. We both agreed we would have to confront Laura with our story.

Well things have been getting really strange around here. The morning after Laura’s sleep walking episode I took Laura to the store for supplies. While we were gone Tina told Sam what we had seen the night before.

I must mention that while we were gone Laura seemed agitated and was in a hurry to return to the house. This is not normal Laura.

When we returned Sam informed me to come to his room. After putting the groceries away I went up to see Sam. Tina and he were waiting for me when I entered his room. After a long talk we agreed that we needed to confront Laura.

That night while eating dinner in the dining room we talked to Laura. We told her about the mood swings and the sleep walking. At first she was angry and didn’t believe us, but as time wore on she broke into tears. She sobbed about how she had been feeling very tired and depressed. I think we were all a little shocked by this sudden outpouring of emotion. We all quickly offered moral support, and after she calmed down we told her of our plan. Tonight when she went to sleep we would watch to see if she would sleep walk again. We also wanted to setup a digital camera on a timer to take pictures of her room. Laura looked at us all with a slight smile and agreed to our suggestions.

We spent the rest of the evening setting up the digital camera in Laura’s room and deciding on whom would take first watch.

Well we’ve been watching Laura every night and she hasn’t walked in her sleep once. We check the camera in her room everyday and have seen nothing unusual. Even her mood has picked up. Maybe it was just a freak thing, but we have all agreed to keep up the surveillance. Laura said we’re all just a bunch of voyeurs.

The tapping sound coming from the stairs has started again. Tina has started marking the times and days of the tapping on a calendar. It seems to start on the 2^nd of every month and stops about 16-17 days after starting. We are sleeping in shifts now trying to cover everything. The camera at the top of the stairs seems to have captured another image. It looks about the same as the other ones Sam took so I won’t waste space by showing the same thing again. I’m still trying to put the sound we’ve recorded on this site, but I’m still working on it sorry.

We received a surprise visit from the owner of the house today. He dropped in to see if everything was okay, and he wanted to talk to Laura. I thought maybe someone was interested in the house, but when I asked him this he just laughed. He told us he would probable never be able to sell the place, and it would no doubt sit empty after we left. There was just to many bad stories related to the house.

Before he left Tina and I did ask him about some of the stories. He told us former renters had told him about strange noises, of feeling unwelcome and no one liked the attic or master bedroom. He even admitted that he didn’t like the house, and he would love to be rid of it.

Well the sound coming from the stairs has stopped and Laura is still acting normal. During the day we’ve been getting outside and enjoying the weather. It will be getting cooler here soon so we’re enjoying our little break from the unusual. Tina and I have also been talking about going into town to see the owner of the house. We want to find out if anyone who had rented the house still lives in town.

On the 24^th around 1:00AM I was awakened by Sam. He was very excited and told me Laura was sleep walking. I jumped out of bed and quickly followed him into the hallway. Tina was in the hall and pointed towards the back stairs. We followed her to the stairs and down to the first floor. We saw Laura moving down the hall towards the foyer. She was walking as if in a trance and she was totally naked.

Her being nude was odd. When we first told her about her sleep walking she confirmed a few thing for us. She told us to her knowledge she had never walked in her sleep, and she didn’t sleep in the nude.

The three of us watched as Laura went to the front door. She raised her hands as if to open the door. Laura then took a deep gasping like breath and turned and ran back towards the stairs. We followed her up the back stairs, but at the top she walked back to her room and closed the door. We peeked in and saw her heading up stairs to the attic. In the attic she stood in the center of the room. She took many deep breathes and moaned to herself a few times, and then she turned went down stairs and went back to her bed.

We just stood and stared at her. I have to say it was the most bizarre and scary things I ever saw. I was scared shitless and I’m not afraid to admit it. We spent the rest of the night in Tina’s room. I don’t think anyone slept the rest of the night.

When Laura woke up the next day she was moody and didn’t remember any of the events of the other night. After we told her what happened she turned white, and she was very upset and cried. I suggested that we all go out for breakfast. Everyone else agreed.

That night and the night of the 26^th Laura went through the same act. On the night of the 28^th nothing happened.

Today we had a meeting outside on the front porch and reached the decision that we need help. We are out of our league and not afraid to admit it. So tomorrow we are going to start searching for a professional spiritualist.

When we started out on this adventure I took it as a joke. It was just an excuse for four old friends to get together and relive their collage days. I never really believed in ghosts. I’m still not sure if I believe in them, but I’ve seen a lot that I don’t understand. Up until June we were all still positive, but then July came and things changed. When June ended it took with it what little enthusiasm we had left. Now there was just something dark and lifeless in the air, and by the end of July we fled the house. I say fled because that’s what we did. We grabbed the few things each of us really wanted, and we ran from the house into the night. As we sped off in Laura’s car I looked back and wondered if we would ever come back? I’m now sitting in a warm hotel room many miles from the house writing this last entry.

The sounds have started up as usual. We still don’t understand them, but we have all become rather relaxed when hearing them.

Laura has returned to her old self. It’s as if the sleepwalking has never taken place.

Laura and Tina were gone this morning when Sam and I woke up. They returned around noon with a package. When they came in the house they had big smiles on their faces, and they informed us they had been to the post office. Laura asked us to come into the dining room where she unwrapped the package and revealed a ouja board. Then Laura and Tina informed us that tonight we were going to try to contact the force in the house.

That night we all set around the board, and waited for the sound to start. When it did Laura had us each place a hand on the board’s pointing piece. She then began to ask questions out load to the house. Nothing happened, but it was very creepy.

The sound from the stairs has stopped. We have used the board every night, but nothing really happened until the 19^th. That night Laura was asking the "question do you have a name?" We all set there and waited for a response. No one really expected one, but suddenly the piece moved. It slowly moved towards the letter L. We all pulled our hands back in shock. We tried asking the question again, but nothing else happened that night.

Laura did her sleepwalking thing tonight. I was totally freaked out, and I think everyone else was too. I thought I would be prepared for it but I wasn’t.

Tina suggested that we try using the ouji board in the attic tomorrow if Laura sleepwalks again. Laura must be going up there for some reason. Maybe we can get the board to move again.

We setup in the attic and waited. Laura went to bed, and Sam kept an eye on her. He would inform us if she moved.

It wasn’t long until Sam raced up the stairs and told us she was sleepwalking. He then took his place at the board. Tina started asking questions out load to the house. She kept repeating the questions at a steady slow pace. After each question we would wait for a response. Nothing happened.

Soon we could hear Laura coming up the stairs, and when she reached the top stair we turned to look at her. She was totally naked, but she had had clothes on when she went to bed. Tina started asking questions again, and that’s when it happened. Laura came to a complete stop, and turned and looked at us. She had never done this before. We didn’t know what to do. She then walked over to us. As she walked past Tina she rubbed her hand across Tina’s chest and stomach. As she started past me she suddenly turned and embraced me. When she did this Sam jumped back, and lost his balance. As I pushed Laura back she said "Don’t you all want me?" She then passed out, and she went limp in my arms. As I laid Laura on the floor Tina shouted for me to come quickly Sam had fallen.

We found Sam at the bottom of the attic stairs. He was in a great deal of pain. His right leg was bent at an odd angle, and I felt sick looking at it. I asked him what had happened. Sam said he had tripped, but as he regained his balance he felt something push him in the chest. Then he just remembered feeling a lot of pain in his leg.

Suddenly Laura started screaming in the attic. I raced up stairs to help her and I was shocked at what I saw. Laura was sitting on the floor with tears running down her face, and the air around her was filled with objects. The ouja board, sheets of paper, and other junk where all fly around the room. I was really scared. I mean the kind of scared where the hair is standing up on your neck. I raced across the room and grabbed Laura. She clung to me as we went down the stairs. When we reached Laura’s room I quick told them what was happening. Laura just kept telling us to go. So we freaked. I told Tina to take Laura to her room and get clothes that we were leaving. I asked Sam if he could walk on one leg if I helped. He told me he was leaving even if he had to crawl or be dragged out. As we all went down the hall the door to Laura’s room slammed shut. Everything after that was a blur. We were out of the house and into the car and gone.

That night we took Sam to an emergency room. It turned out that when he fell he twisted and broke his right leg at the calf. He was going to be in a cast for a while. We were at the hospital until morning.

Laura and Tina had left earlier that morning to find a hotel we could stay in. So when we left we went straight to the hotel to sleep.

It’s been a few days since we left the house. We haven’t been back. All are things are there, but we just can’t go back now. Maybe later we will. Laura has been sleeping a lot, and so has Sam. Tina and I have talked about what’s happened. We’ve decided that if we go back we’re going to need help. I will keep everyone informed about our next move. If enough people want us to go back maybe we will. Thanks to everyone for your support.

Well we’re back. I would like to thank you all for the many messages we received. The outpouring of concern for our project and us were overwhelming. We’ve given all of the advice sent to us much thought, and we’ve decided to go back to the house. This time though we’re going back prepared. We’ll be adding a fifth person to our group. She will be known simply as Miss Brown. Miss brown will be our psychic medium. She will be our bridge between the known and unknown.

Miss Brown is a bit of a mystery herself. She contacted me right from the beginning of our little adventure. Strangely enough the first e-mail I received when I started this web page was from Miss Brown. She had contacted me out of concern and felt that we were headed for big trouble. She had forewarned us of many of the events that took place. At first I just thought she was some weirdo, but as more and more of her predictions came true I became a believer.

From the beginning she’s expressed her fear for us, but her worries mostly centered on Laura and Sam. She always seemed to sense darkness around them. Many times she offered her services to us, but I always declined until now. I’ve talked it over with the group, and we’ve decided to accept her offer. When I contacted her by phone she said she was already packing to come. It will take her about four days to get here, but before she hung up she left us with strict orders not to go back to the house until her arrival.

So now we wait. We plan to enter the house again on September 1^st. All four of the original group will be going back. Laura is the most fearful, but she feels it is important to the investigation for her to go back. Hopefully Miss Brown will add new insight about the events in the house. All we can do now is wait. Bye

Miss Brown has arrived. She's not at all what I expected. She appears to be in her early forties and very attractive. She doesn't come off as crazy or a kook. She seems very professional and there is a bit of mystery wrapped around her.

We all introduced ourselves, and we thought it would be nice to have dinner and discuss our plans. At dinner Miss Brown was the life of the conversation. She brought a much needed freshness to our adventure, and when dinner was over we were all filled with new purpose. Tomorrow we'll return to the house.

As we pulled up to the house you could feel the tension in the car. We were not happy to be going back, but Miss Brown gave us the extra strength we needed to get through the front door. As we entered the house Miss Brown came to a complete stop. Sam asked her what was wrong, and she said she felt something around us. Miss Brown said, "We are definitely not wanted here." but the feeling left her as quickly as it came. I started feeling very nervous.

After that little excitement we decided to retrace our steps from the night we left. The upstairs rooms were a mess. It definitely showed we were in a hurry to leave. I also noticed Sam and Laura were hanging back from the rest of us. I don't think they really wanted to come back, but they felt as if they needed closure to what happened to them.

I really had the creeps when we went up to the attic. Sam and I checked the camera equipment and we were surprised to see the digital camera was still working. I wanted to look at the photographs in the camera a soon as possible.

After we had all looked around we all went back downstairs and began to settle in for the days ahead. Once Miss Brown's things were brought in and placed in her room we decided to have a nice dinner. The mood in the dining room was very gloomy. During dinner Miss Brown suggested we stay up tonight and see if anything happened. She thought it would be better if we all stuck together. We could all sleep in the morning since nothing seemed to happen then anyway. We all agreed that this was a good idea.

That night as we set at the top of the back stairs Miss Brown suddenly set up straight. Then as if on queue the tapping sounds began. I looked at my watch and it was 12:30 A.M. Miss Brown stood up and said she could sense a great deal of energy around us. She said she also felt much confusion and anger. We set with her until 1:20 A.M. when the tapping sounds stopped. After they stopped Miss Brown said she could no longer sense anything. We talked for a while longer then headed off to bed. Before we left Miss Brown stopped Laura and told her not to sleep in the master bedroom anymore.

That nights after that went much the same. Miss Brown did develop a better feel for her surroundings. She had come to believe that the entity we were dealing with was that of a woman, and that she felt great anger and confusion from her. This surprised all of us since we had always believed it was the original owner of the house who disappeared mysteriously. She also felt as if the woman was looking for something.

Once the sounds stopped there wasn't much to do. Everything was very still and peaceful. Sam and I took this time to down load the images off of the digital camera. We had put it off long enough. The images we found were very shocking and scary. Laura was very shaken by what she saw. She remembered very little of that night.

On the 22nd Miss Brown came to us with a very strange request. She wanted to sleep in the master bedroom the night of the 23rd. She said that the idea came to her in a dream the night before. She felt as if something was telling her to do this. Laura was the first to beg her not to sleep in the room. The rest of us also suggested that this was not a good idea, but she insisted on going through with her plans.

I thought the way Miss Brown was acting was very strange, and when I shared my thoughts with the others later they agreed. Everyone had a very bad feeling about the 23rd.

The night of the 23rd arrived. All day there had been tension in the air. I had talked to Laura earlier that morning and she expressed real fear for Miss Brown's safety. Many times that day Laura tried to talk Miss Brown out of sleeping in the room, but when night came she entered the room and closed the door.

We all went to my room and waited. Around 11 P.M. we heard the door to the attic slam. We all ran into the hall and tried to open the door to the master bedroom but it was locked. Suddenly Miss Brown screamed and we could hear footsteps coming down the attic stairs. The door to the room was flung open and Miss Brown stood nude in the doorway. She ran passed us towards the back stairs. As she ran she screamed about knowing where she was. We all chased after her in stunned disbelief with Sam hobbling behind. When she reached the bottom of the stairs she ran into the kitchen and started banging on the wall. When we came in behind her she begged us to help her open the area under the stairs. Sam asked why and Miss Brown just sobbed that she was under the stairs. Then she set on the floor and cried. Laura and Tina covered her and helped her upstairs and put her to bed in Tina's room. When the girls came back down Sam and I told them we should bust a hole into the area under the stairs. The sounds we heard always came from the stairs and maybe there was something under there causing the noise. While Sam was talking I had left the room, and I now returned with a pry bar and hammer from the car. It took us a good hour to break through the plaster and wood. As soon as we made a hole big enough to put a light in we looked under the stair. Sam poked his head into the hole and then jumped back. He said there were stairs going down into what looked like a room. We worked like mad to make a hole big enough to fit through. We then entered the space below the stairs and found the stairs leading down. They were rough stone steps that went down to a small room. Sam went first with me helping him because of his broken leg. As the light from our flashlight lit the small room we all let out a gasp at what we saw. Lying on the floor was the mummified body of a dead women. She was partly covered with a brown cloth. We stood there frozen by the sight in front of us. Then we heard it. We were shocked out of out stupor by the scream of Miss Brown upstairs. We headed up the stairs as fast as we could. When we reached the kitchen Tina asked if anyone smelled something burning. Then we saw smoke coming in the doorway from the dinning room. We left Sam in the down stair hallway and raced upstairs. When we reached the top of the back stairs the upstairs hallway was filled with smoke. We ran to Tina's room but Miss Brown was gone. We screamed her name and ran into the rooms, but we couldn't find her anywhere. Then Laura pointed to the master bedroom, and pouring from the room were flames. The room inside was consumed in flames. We ran down the back stairs and told Sam to get out of the house. Outside Laura went to the car a called the fire department on her car phone. As we waited we stood and watched as the house was consumed by fire. By the time help arrived it was too late. We told them about Miss Brown, but there was nothing they could do. It was many hours before we found a hotel and went to sleep.

Well this is most likely the last installment of our investigation. The house was destroyed by fire. We were scared to death about speaking with the owner, but instead of him being upset he was happy. He had spoken with the fire department, and they told him that the fire had most likely started in the upstairs. The house was very old and the fire quickly consumed the house. The best thing we could have done was to leave the house. There would be no trouble with the insurance company, and the house had always been a pain to him. This was a chance for him to start over. He would build a new house on the property in a new location, and maybe this time he could earn a prophet.

We didn't mention the room under the backstairs, and no body was found in the ruins of the house. We also didn't mention Miss Brown to anyone. Laura, Tina and myself were upstairs at the time of the fire, and not one of us saw her. We called for her and looked through the upstairs rooms, but she was gone. When we left the house the front door was open. We thought she had run down the front stairs and out of the house, but when we went out she was no where in sight. Her car was there, but she wasn't.

For over a week we've waited to hear from Miss Brown. She has never contacted us. I have sent her e-mail, but that account no longer is in service. We've tried calling, but the number is no longer in service. Laura even called a friend who lived in the same city as Miss Brown, but when her friend went to the address Miss Brown gave us no one livid there. The landlord even told Laura's friend the apartment hadn't been rented in over a year. We all know it's not impossible to fake an identity, but what would she gain by doing this. Why go to such lengths over strangers. There is also the fact she knew so much about us. Things no one should have known. Who was she? The thing that bothers us the most is was she real at all.

I suggested going back to the house and digging in the area we found the body. I was quickly shot down, and I was too scared to do it by myself. I guess we're scared of what we might or might not find. It will be a long time before we rest easy again. You must be wondering if I believe in ghosts now. The answer is simple. Yes.