[Final Entry of this series of posts]
Now at some point after that I was handed someone’s EMF detector (we weren’t hunting ghosts with tech stuff, but we had two recorders and two EMF detectors just in case something came up). I went downstairs to the “home base” and put my domra hat, damaru, and the EMF detector on the table. Now the home base room is the entrance to the seminary in the back, it’s basically where you dump your stuff, has a coffee marker for guests, etc. It’s also a bit “removed” from the rest of the seminary, it’s been warded so the spirits don’t wander in, that way there is a room that’s off-limits if someone is getting overwhelmed by the experiences. They have also checked out the room in terms of EMF, and there are no floating EMF points, and nothing to set off the detectors unless you’re against a wall following the electrical system. I toss all my stuff on the table and go outside to chat with folks. Suddenly one of the our group runs out, calls my name, and tells me I have to come see something. I run inside and the EMF detector is going wild. It’s sitting on top of my hat, on the table. There is nothing metal in the hat, all fabric. A friend picks up the detector, it stops, puts it back on the hat, and it starts again for a bit, and then stops. After some giddiness, I head back outside, a few minutes later I’m called in, it’s doing it again. This time we took another EMF detector and as it got close to the other one, it started going off, showing something was happening, it wasn’t batteries dying or a frayed wire or whatever. Then they both stopped. We put the EMF detector on my drum. I went outside, and was called back in a few minutes later, it going wild again. Damarus don’t have metal in them, they’re wooden frames with leather heads, mine has a small ring of metal for some tassles, but that’s it. There is nothing in the damaru or on the table that should be setting off the EMF detector. At this point it seemed like the EMF detector would run until someone obviously paid attention to it. It continued to do this off and on for half an hour, no one, my group or the tour guides had a good explanation. Sadly most of my group, myself included, were a bit fried, we’d been at this for five hours, this coupled with the room ward made it hard to sense. Were there spirits who were looking at my ritual items? The behaviour felt like little kids, like they were poking at my stuff until we paid attention and they’d run off. Was it actually my ritual items still carrying/releasing energy from the ritual? Not sure, but it was definitely interesting.
While my friend won this night in a contest, we have already been making loose plans to come back next year. If you can make it out to Madison Seminary for an investigation, or if you want a place to really test your skills, I really have to recommend Madison Seminary. When I heard it labelled as the most haunted place in Northeast Ohio, that felt like a horribly gimmicky statement. After spending six hours in it though, I can say it definitely earns that title, and if it’s not the most haunted place in all of Ohio, it would still definitely be in the running.
