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Subject:
[ParanormalFlorida] Last Night's Old Masonic Temple Investigation
Report....
Date: 9/17/2005 10:02:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: AngelOfThyNight@aol.com
To:
ParanormalBuffalo@yahoogroups.com, Paranormalflorida@yahoogroups.com,
paranormalghostsociety@yahoogroups.com,
ParanormalGhostSocietyConnections@yahoogroups.com,
ParanormalGhostSociety@groups.msn.com
Last
night was a real thriller and I want to thank Rebecca and her husband who
are in charge of Slaughterhouse productions for giving us the opportunity
to investigate such an old historical building along with the Deland
Jaycees.
I must say that when I found out a little bit of history on the building I
was quite intrigued. Maybe what is even more odd is that when I first
moved here I use to go inside this building to hang business cards and
fliers. Figured hell maybe some of them women who do yoga on the
second floor would call me up and tell me they need some ghostbusting done
lol. Nahhh seriously I always use to have mixed feelings about the place
so to be able to get inside to investigate it is totally awesome.
This is the second week in a row we have been asked to investigate a
location and honestly that really makes me feel good that our organization
is starting to reach out to the community.
We took this investigation very serious as this time I brought my own
recorder its old does not work well but I wanted to cover every angle in
this 15,000 square foot structure. With Halloween coming up next month
this is really good for us to get a chance at something like this and
hopefully draw in some more investigators and attention to our site.
Anyhow we left about 8pm a little earlier then usual and so our
investigation begins here.
Deland Old Masonic Temple
We parked and seen a group of people outside it turned out that they were
helping construct the haunted house which will be completed and opened
starting October 13. The one unique thing about this location is that we
do not have to keep it private since Slaughterhouse Productions is having
a haunted house here all of you locally have a chance to see how eerie
this place is yourself.
I took us up a back entrance and into the Yoga Center which I thought was
someone's apartment so quickly I had all of us head out and use the main
entrance lol. I walked down the long hallway where their was a lions
fountain and to the left was a gallery and to the right a bakery. We went
upstairs past the yoga center and up some very dark wood stairs to the 3rd
floor. I had worn my sunglasses so I had to be real careful going up the
steep steps but I made it just fine.
I got upstairs and the 3rd floor was fairly dim I guess a fuse had blown
but their were a lot of people cleaning the 3rd floor and getting ready to
build a haunted house maze type of structure. I met with Rebecca and she
went over some history then talked to a few other adults who told me a few
tales of their own.
Rebecca gave us a tour she showed us the contraption on the floor, a room
where supposed executions may have took place with electrocution, and
explained to me some of the stories about how bodies were hung by a wood
beam along one of the walls. I do believe that their is something years
ago that happened here that perhaps was horrible you could just feel a
darkness within the building itself besides many different entities around
me.
I usually am use to not having so many around me when I investigate so at
the same time I was sense ghostly energies their were many different human
energies or emotions. For example one girl I could sends was totally into
what we do with the group and had questions for me but she was to shy to
ask me about our group. Another guy was just totally intrigued I could
sense he was into what we were doing, another girl thought I was cute
sorry being psychic has its benefits lol, and another person their I
sensed fear from them. So I had to weed threw all the physical emotions
and put myself beyond that to sense out the ghost.
What I felt is many of the ghost were hiding their was a dark room with 3
deep closets with many things stored I felt the entities talking to
eachother hiding in this room. The room was very eerie it had a fireplace,
a couple windows with one that was opened, and a lot of weird junk like a
rams head. It looked like at one time this room was used for recreation.
Rebecca was still talking with us so I was looking around at the same time
then she showed us an old cargo elevator and the studio where one of the
recorders often's captures EVP at. My back was turned and Jason
spotted a rat behind me running up a cog wheel into a hole in the ceiling.
The old gears were fascinating but it seemed the elevator was inoperable
at this point.
I took some recordings cause I suspected a lot of energy here maybe cause
it was near one of the stairwells. Then we took off our own separate ways
to investigate. James mentioned when we first arrived seeing a man
standing by a contraption under the floor. He said the man had a rope
around his neck and eyes. He told me that another man approached him said
that he was glad we arrived. While all at the same time he seen a ghostly
woman, girl and man. They told him that they were killed by two men cause
they tried to help the man that was lynched. The woman was apparently
stabbed along with the little girl and the man was shot. But it seemed
like the ghost had no problems coming out for us since they knew we
were not here to build the haunted house.
Their was a balcony which led to a long hallway with a ladder leading into
the attic. Also their was a hole in the wall with a secret room also like
an attic with lots of wood beams. Jasmine mentioned not feeling to swell
about this area. She said she had some pretty bad feelings and did not
like it here.
Jason and I crawled up the ladder later on into the attic. We found a door
and ended up on the roof. I have to admit the activity was very high on
the roof. It also was one of the highest points in Deland so I was able to
watch all of downtown from above. Jason and I found another ladder leading
to even a higher roof so we climbed it. I was in a state of glory like I
just won a race so Jason took my photo lol.
The roof was peaceful but at the same time we were very high up and so yes
we had to be very cautious. Their are energies very capable of
pushing you or bumping into you. We did enjoy the view climbed back down
onto the lower roof. Jason and I walked along the edge as the roof sloped
down and we came out into a hidden area. I felt kind of watched up here
this roof reminded me of something out of a movie like a gargoyle might
sit up here perched over the town just watching.
I came back inside however and worked my way downstairs James and Jasmine
waited for me. It was funny having my spotlight and camera while climbing
these ladders just hanging off my arms.
I then checked a hatch in the floor which led to a power room then Jason
and I lifted up the floor boards and found an area which was hollowed out
with a drainage hole. Being an antique shop at one point its possible that
they used this to drain finish, paints, and wood stains. I could be wrong
but that was my impression. The other one I had was that its possible it
had a darker purpose maybe to drain blood if its true about the bodies
that were hung in there.
I wanted to be locked inside it but I did not want to scare anybody around
me so I just took photos, inspected the material, looked down into the
hole. Their was a lot of saw dust in here probably came off the old wood
flooring. Also near here was a giant archway. The Masonic symbol was
engraved into the wood. It looked like at one time a podium maybe an alter
was in front of this archway. I believe that this archway was in the exact
center of the building almost so yes it was a origin of energy. The walls
on the archway had reddish to brown marks that ran down the wall maybe
moisture caused the wood stain too bleed or maybe it is something else.
Behind this archway were a left and right passage. The left one went into
a dark room with a few closets and a cargo elevator the right one went
into this room with a fuse box and some other box which looked like a
switch to the electric chair. Then to the very far right and left were
wood stairs that led to a balcony. The structure was set up very much like
a temple would be and I would assume whoever spoke to their followers
stood within the archway. I mentioned to the team that the archway may
have been used as a portal of some kind it may seem crazy but the
architecture here served a purpose what it was remains unknown. But I am
on the money that I can tell you. This place had a tainted aura especially
near the archway. It made me wonder what were the Masons up to when this
place served as a temple?
I walked around to the recording studio that one man uses. I heard he
wants out of here cause when he tries to record music he gets a lot of
EVP. I knocked on his studio door cause I had a feeling he had my recorder
since I could not find it. He did then asked me what I was doing I
explained to him we were recording ghostly voices then he mentioned how he
has had his studio blessed. By this time someone got the fuse
working and all the lights went on ohhhh my eyes the light just was a
shocker to me. When you work a lot in the dark that is what you become
accustomed too.
He gave me it back and I moved the recorder around some various areas one
time under the floor board, in the secret room, near the cargo elevator
and even in two different closets. I wanted to make sure that I captured
something of a ghostly nature. I did take off a few times alone and one
time I seen an orb moving in the flash right in the entrance to the dark
room.
I tried to interview most of the adults during my investigation as one of
the ladies mentioned hearing manly footsteps behind her one night. Jasmine
also talked to a few people and I was pretty intrigued by the various
stories and similarities here. I kept looking up at the ceilings their was
many holes above us and these giant beautiful artsy air vents in the
ceiling. From my research they said the ceiling here is roughly 16 feet in
height but it looked a lot higher maybe twenty possibly.
I also noticed the imprint of another archway just like the one we
investigated which led to a couple dark rooms. It seemed that the archway
had been sealed up and the double door ways had been covered up with
plaster and concrete. How you could tell is the seams were visible. I
thought maybe we found a secret room but a hole very high up with a
T-shirt stuck in it made me more curious to see what was inside was it a
room or way to the outside.
Jason grabbed the very tall ladder and I climbed it slowly pulling out
this shirt stuck in the hole. It was hard to maintain my balance cause we
had the ladder leaning fairly steep so I could get close to the wall. I
looked into the hole and was shocked it actually was in alignment with a
steeple across the street with a very old church one of the first built in
Deland. So yes I felt like I was in the movie National Treasure. You must
understand that the Mason's were very mysterious type it in on the
Internet and their is so much information out their.
What I then concluded is that at one time this archway was much like the
other and that what was actually covered up was windows which over looked
downtown Deland why they were covered up remains a mystery.
Jason and I then climbed back up into the attic this time exploring it
much deeper. This had to be done very carefully and let me explain why.
Their were holes in the floor and the entire flooring was weak, broken,
missing wood, missing plaster, etc etc The wood beams across were quite
sturdy but you could tell they suffered from rot and some weakening. Jason
and I found a series of think planks nailed to various beams which we
carefully walked on leading to the room below. We could see others below
us as their was a giant hole and Jasmine mentioned everybody seeing our
lights through the floor boards above. I am sure others were nervous about
us being up their but just remember PGS loves old attics and they love us.
I did not even capture any orbs yet the attic was very dusty so that has
to tell you something about this place. I think many orbs that we did
capture were very real. I did once again talk to the studio recorder he
came out pulled me aside to ask me a few things and talk with me awhile
more. He seemed pretty scared of what is here and from my perspective I
can only imagine how eerie it is some nights when he does his recording
and has to leave the building to lock up alone at night.
Then James and I visited the cargo elevator and James said a little boy
was watching us from this square hole in the wood. We really drew in a lot
of curiosity here. I sensed some children ghost here they took an interest
in James. He mentioned to me that one of the boy ghost was a bully and
tried to push him. They perhaps were just being typical boys. I caught
James in a dark room looking at something and their was a lot of cold
spots near the center of the room and of course near the secret
compartment under the floor.
I went back up the winding steps to the long hallway with the ladder
leading to the attic. I peaked in the hole in the wall which was a secret
room and heard some whispering in the dark. Sounded like little children
talking amongst each other I knew they were discussing me. Then I felt
another presence and this one perhaps was not the nicest of entities but I
felt something rush quickly and breath right in my face hissing. It was
like a snarling sound or a sigh. But wow what an enormous amount of
energy. Hence my theory that some things here were hiding and that just
proved it right their for me. I grabbed James put him up to the hole and
he said he seen the shadow of something move real quickly.
I did a lot of walking around Jason went up in the attic a couple times
and Jasmine was sitting on the job shame shame lol. I do not blame her
though it was roughly 100 degrees since heat does rise. We found a giant
old turbine or fan up in the attic but it was very old and most likely in
operable. At that time we noticed that the haunted house being constructed
was coming along. I love going to haunted houses but then again I go to
haunted houses every week lol so for me Halloween is everyday.
We started to tone down the investigation I took the last of my photos
went up on a balcony and noticed many nails pulled out of the wall to
about 3 inches in a straight line on a beam. They were very thick old
nails the purpose they served I do not know. I also noticed walls with
what looked like book shelves once existed. The masons probably had
shelves and other things constructed into the walls since it was a temple
at one time.
We did have a lot of fun though here Jasmine found her fun with a rams
head, James met some kids to play with, Jason kept busy exploring every
single nook and cranny and of course me I just was intrigued with the
entire place. We even had time to take some funny photos for our
Para-Comedy page. We also a lot of high EMF readings in areas that Rebecca
showed us or told horror tales about so I do believe that something of the
supernatural is here within this building.
In conclusion to the report as we left we did do a quick walk around on
the second floor then the first floor. Even the second floor I sensed some
energies as that floor had many halls and dark rooms which were locked up.
As we entered out into the parking lot their was a cardboard figure behind
a iron gate which looked like a person it did almost fool me into
thinking I was seeing a ghost.
We had a lot of fun last night and I am sorry about the late report I went
swimming today cause I have had my eye on this really cute blonde
that has been sun tanning all week lol. So you know how that goes guys:)
had to go whistle and daydream..... but seriously I just have had a
busy day with my sons so its nice to finally get the report out their. I
hopefully will get some sends out tonight as well.
We do hope to make a return trip here in a couple weeks. We will try
to investigate the building when less people are around probably just walk
threw the haunted house, rooms etc in the dark. We probably will sit
somewhere silently and just listen as well as recording some EVP things of
that sort.
I did study the recorders today as well listening carefully and I did
capture a few weird things like a ghostly whistle and then a man talking
very southern saying giving it a shot twice. Its as clear as ever and
Jasmine also heard it today told me it sounds like a southern man. So it
turned out to be a successful investigation. Of course the rough part was
focusing cause their were a lot of people their, hammering, moving of wood
etc but we took ALOT of photos, a lot of voice recordings in different
areas and James seen a few various entities. We did not tell him the
history I wanted to test his accuracy and after he seen a ghost with a
rope around its neck he seemed right on with the lynching that went on
here at one time.
We also got free tickets to the haunted house which is totally cool cause
Now sometime next month James and I can go here to enjoy it. So a lot of
nice things came out of investigating here. See if more people would have
showed you also could have gotten a free ticket so being a part of our
team has its advantages.
But we must also ask ourselves what really happened here I mean the
building is as mysterious as some of the ghost that haunt it. I feel their
is much more to experience, see and learn about this place. The upstairs
was very much deteriorated so its age showed here but so did its ghost
which are part of Deland's history more then likely. I think some bad
things happened here murders, maybe occult activity, and history as well
threw the years. Its a really eerie place! I use to remember going for
walks late at night past the building, in the alleys behind it etc who
would have ever known it had such a dark history. Peace
Rick
Subject:
Last night's investigation report from Jasmine
Date:9/17/2005 5:12:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: fireicewitch76@aol.com
To: AngelOfThyNight@aol.com
Last nights investigation was really cool. We had the pleasure again
of
being invited to explore a very old building, this time locally here
in De land.
I was so tired upon leaving Rick's place as I had a pretty tiring
day of
driving and running around, but I was excited to go because not only
had Rick
been telling me that this building had a lot of history but also
because his son
James would be going with us as well. James is such a cool kid, he
is also
clairvoyant and I knew he would be able to see and interact with
what ever
might be their. We left a little earlier then we normally do but it
made no
difference and so our investigation begins at the.........
Masonic
Temple
When we arrived we met a very nice lady named
Rebecca, We all introduced
ourselves and she started telling us about some of the legends she
had heard
about the place. She took us on a brief tour of the 3rd floor (the
supposed hot
spot of the building) She spoke of stories that she had heard of a
small
child being crushed to death under the elevator, that the building
had a history
of lynching's and murder, that a possible occult and or the Masons
themselves
had used the building to make sacrifices, & that Ford motor
company had
taken over the place in the 1930's. She was uncertain of most of the
information
so I guess that's why she called us in.
When you get to the top floor you walk in and it's just a giant
room, Rick
immediately felt a high level of energy upon doing this. I was drawn
instantly
to the far right corner of the room and to the top of the stairs
that over
looks the entire room, the 2 spots that drew me in were completely
diagonal
from one and other. I couldn't wait to go up their and see what I
felt.
We were taken into a room were we were told that possible
electrocutions
were done, This seemed quite odd to me and just not likely. There
was a huge
power box and another equally large box in this room with a sort of
a crank on
it, if you were to go on to the other side of the room there was a
huge black
round object, most likely what was used to either pull a cord
through or just
how they wired things back then. It was defiantly really old
probably late
1920's early 30's. The felling I got was that the room was used to
either
power the building or that floor.
We then went into a larger room, it was a lot cooler in there, THANK
GOD!
did I mention that the place was well over 100 degrees! When we
first got
there I was already sweating and I hadn't done anything lol...
Anyhow in this room there were several closets and a lot of
miscellaneous
stuff laying around we were then taken into a hallway and by that
was the
elevator that is no longer in service. We were standing around
talking and Jason
spotted a rat, it was kind of funny to watch everyone gasp. I asked
rick for a
flashlight and the EMF detector and James and I headed off to the
upstairs
balcony were I had been drawn to.
When we were back into the main room James told me that he had seen
a ghost
and that he had been buried underneath the floor. Rebecca had shown
us that
we could actually open up this part of the floor, upon doing so there
was
about a good 6 to 8 inches of extra space also it was made of either a
Polly
resin of some kind, hard plastic or maybe even slate? With 2 drain holes,
we were
told that this is how body's may have been disposed of. James put the EMF
up
to it and got some pretty high readings.
We then went to the upper balcony. The place had a very church like
feel to
it, the staircase was a bit winding and very old. There were a
couple of
holes in the walls and a ladder leading up to the attic. The
impression that I
was getting was that this is were people of higher power meaning
people who
could judge or rule would sit. It had a very dark feeling to it and
I felt that
at anytime I could have been pushed over the balcony.
There was a pretty big hole in the wall so I stuck my head inside to
have a
look, I was saying hello & James dared me to go inside of the
wall, I told
him to dream on, besides all the spiders that I could see in there I
just had
a very uneasy feeling, we went back down to find Rick and Jason to
tell them
about what James had seen, and what we had found.
There were a lot of people their working and setting up because they
are
going to use the place for a haunted house this Halloween. That's
actually cool
for all of you guys because you will be able to go to the same place
we did
so you can see for yourselves how creepy it is. Being there were so
many
people there it was very hard for me to focus in on stuff because of all
the
different energy's that were there, meaning both alive and past.
We all wound up splitting up at this point, I was off in the large
open room
full of junk, I walked into a closet and was asking for something to
show
its self or give a sign, at one point something was right beside my
left ear
and I heard a very strange sound like a zap, it sounded quite
electrical. I
journeyed on and found the guys.
James had made some friends with some of the children that were
their so he
was off playing. I told Rick to go up to the balcony because there
was a way
to the attic. We all went up there together, of course they were
just dyeing
to get up onto the attic so after a few pic's Jason and him went up
the
ladder and disappeared.
I just kept busy wandering around trying to zone in. I went back
down to the
main area and started to talk to people and ask questions, I took
was being
quizzed and asked about what it is we do, what I see so on and so
on. It was
actually nice to interact, I got to find a lot of information out
and here
stories but most of all I was starting to zone in a lot better.
I was starting to get the impression of possible occult activity. I felt
that some children were murdered there as well as woman. I also felt
that men in
dark cloaks were present. When I say that the place had a church
like
feeling to it I do not by any means mean a holly church. There was
lighter colored
wood on the floor, basically wood that had not been walked on as
much, it was
in the shape of a rectangle or what I was getting was a possible
alter, this
was also with in 8 feet of the hole in the floor with the drain
holes.
Rick and Jason came down from the attic. Rick had told me that he
had stuck
his head inside the same hole in the wall up their that I did and
something
Hissed at him in his face. I was thinking to myself hahahah! Being he
always
teases me or tries to scare me it was about time he got a taste of his
own
medicine.
We all went back into the room with all the junk and were taking
pic's,
there was a goats head on the table and I just couldn't refuse! I
was pretending
to slip it the tongue and I actually did by mistake ( that was
pretty gross)
I posed for a few more silly pic's and we all split up again.
I went and sat in the far right corner of the room and starting
talking and
asking for something to talk to me touch me ect. I can not say that
anything
really happened, I sat there for a few min and then I moved on.
I decided that I was going to go sit by the elevator for a little
while and
see what I could pick up on. Nothing major accord but I did feel l
really un
easy sitting by myself. I had the feeling of being pushed, maybe some
one
died this way? I don't know I just really did not like being there
for long .
We all met back up in the main room, we did some investigating on
the floor
board that we could open up, Rick took some pictures and again we were
getting high EMF readings.
I had mentioned to Rick on how I was feeling and I asked him if he
had any
of the same feelings that I was. He told me that It could have very
well been
possible that if any occult type of activity did happen that the
center of
the archway (the center of the room) would make a great place
for a portal.
Rebecca then pointed out to me that the same exact design of the
archway had
appeared to once have existed on the opposite side of the room.
There were
some holes in the wall & I asked if we could borrow a ladder
because their was
a shirt stuffed onto one of the holes up top.
Good old Rick climbed away! When he pulled the shirt out of the wall it
was
exactly across from a church across the street.
We took a lot more Pics and pretty much wrapped it up from there. I felt
very drained and I know a lot of it was from the heat, but I was
also very
drained by energy and trying to focus.
We went outside and took some Pics as well, I noticed a small doll
shop 2
stores over that gave me the creeps so I had to look inside. And then we
all
headed back home.
I would just like to thank everyone that let us
come out and investigate, it
was really cool. I like doing this stuff a lot more then the ten
mile hikes
in the woods, in the dark,......Halloween is coming soon!! I really
hope that
some of you guys will show up to this months meet up and get to know
us all,
and of course Rick's Halloween party is coming up soon too!!!! WOOOO
HOOO be
good people! Till Next time....
Jasmine
PGS INVESTIGATOR
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