Subj: [SupernaturalFlorida] Last Night's Wild Investigation Report..... 
Date: 9/2/2007 12:32:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
From: LordOfThyNight@aol.com 
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Last night was one hell of an amazing haunting investigation. I knew it would be just wish I had more help exploring the places we visited. It has been awhile since I have done any investigations due to gas prices...lack of donations....and summer fun. But getting back into it was like riding a bike it comes to you naturally. I would also like to take the time to wish all our fans a very happy and safe Labor Day. I try to do some of our journeys during a holiday as sort of a bonus for being part of our group.
 
We visited 3 places and not once but twice a piece last night which I will get into later. James my son came with me to help me he actually is a great navigator and does better then most adults I meet. I could not ask for more when it comes to having a helper and son as good as him.
 
I had a pretty long trip ahead of me last night so I left earlier then usual. I ate Lasagna...cookies etc I tried one last minute effort to gather others who wanted to go. I do not deny people from what our society does as my believe is all of you have something to contribute to our investigations if you take what we do seriously.
 
The three places we visited were the West Orange Trail, Oakland Historical Cemetery, and Ocoee Cemetery. I felt they were mild places even a child could have done them really all very calm...serene etc but a few things happened last night that I can talk about for years to come.
 
My first mishap tonight was someone contacted me off myspace and told me they had been doing this for a very long time and wanted to help with the investigation. I swear people take advantage of my kindness. One of the reasons I am leaving this area cause I cannot deal with liars, disrespectful people I meet, and dumbasses. For some reason others thing I cannot read them I know body language, human psychology, and how the human thought process works. I guess it comes with the territory when you been doing this for so long and meeting hundreds of people over the years.
 
Let me explain why and I am sure when she reads the report she will write me tell me how much of an assh$$$ I am etc but as the old saying goes honesty hurts and very few cannot deal with it. Anyway's I met this lady and her daughter at one of those on the go type of gas stations which was a nice place they had a built into pizzeria . We were waiting for 45 minutes nobody showed so James and I bought some energy drinks they have some new ones out by Arizona there actually pretty good.
 
The girls showed up said they got lost not sure how my son and I found the location without a problem. Okay fine they got lost we met we talked a little bit. Normally when others come out and do this I hold the meet ups so they can get to know me better but on occasion people remain lurkers when they want to go out and do this its a last minute thing so they do not know possibly what to expect, rules, etc
 
So Anyway's our first place was the cemetery the girls did not want to ride with me I got the whole your a stranger thing and we don't normally jump in the car with strangers. I am not a stranger to a person when they browse the paranormal site I pay for...for free. I am not a stranger for allowing others to tag along. I am only a stranger when it comes to there selfish selves how strange. So I thought to myself yeah a dad and his son ghostbusting are a real threat to you as if my 11 year old is some serial killer. I really took offense to the whole thing because my policy has always been is we go together and leave together.
 
I never take multiple cars because a lot of places I go are historical and well sometimes parking is hard enough for one car let alone two. Florida is not like NY. In NY parking is common on the side of the road but the place we were in was mainly old dirt roads with big historical mansions big enough for one car to drive down.
 
So anyway's they hopped in barely said a word to me I tried to make conversation when someone tells me they been doing this awhile I like to know. Although I do not require experience I do like others to at least share with me a little bit about what they have done with the paranormal. Then when you hear well I have done some ghost tours I thought to myself this is NOT a tour what we do here we go into these places we document the Haunting's or activity. Its never easy you have to drive to the places...hike in them...sweat or stay frigid...face the elements...deal with psychos out at night....and many other obstacles.
 
Well the first obstacle came  up I could NOT find the first cemetery. It was supposedly only a quarter of a mile away from the gas station. But when I arrived at where it was supposed to be there was a park in its place. According to one of my map finding services they labeled the park as the cemetery instead so after that I was just driving around trying to find it because it did exist I read a historical piece on the place.
 
I could tell the girls were getting frustrated with me and its like wait a second here I cannot help that the map was inaccurate. What we do here has its perks but we go through the good and the bad just like one time some rednecks tried to block me in a road and start a fight. Just like a military chopper had flown over me because I was on a base just like the lost of my friend years ago. There is light and darkness in everything that I do but I do it for the glory and therefore I succeed.
 
I asked a guy on the bike his guess was as good as mine that it was further back into the historical neighborhood on a dirt road. I could not find it but I was glad to have only taken the one vehicle imagine two cars turning around in driveways and down dirt roads how suspicious it would be and rude to the locals? Hence the one car policy.
 
So I went to the gas station the girls had been in the car for 18 minutes maximum and they quit on me. I was like WTF I wait at a gas station for 45 minutes almost for them to just go for a 15 minute ride. So technically they drove over and hour to meet me for 15 minutes my son had dozed off so when I woke him up he was like WTF too lol.
 
I just never seen such rudeness in my life and I could tell by the body language...hand gestures....and delayed reactions that they never had any intent of helping me out. I mean how can someone be tired and the investigation didn't even technically start? So that was the excuse I am tired and were going to go home. I mean how can anybody get tired with driving around for 15 minutes its like sheesh if your tired now I would hate to see how your going to handle the cemetery walk or the hike on the West Orange Trail.
 
So I let them out to go to there car and thought wait a second the girl lied to me. She told me before we met she had a donation to give me well I never got the donation. I do not want money Anyway's if people donate to our society it gets applied to the cost of our site, batteries, film, equipment and gas for travel. People have no sense of passion or heart in what they do they want everything handed to them. Its like hey Rick nice to meet you cannot wait to see those photos from the investigation its like I bet. Were all tired in life I am suffering right now from a bad cold and was almost up for 24 hours but I didn't just give up and go home.
 
So they left I went to a few gas stations asking about this hidden cemetery. It is not marked and its very well hidden trust me. But I will not get into that since that goes with the rest of the report as to how I found it and how we succeeded in investigating it later in this report. So instead I need to cool down I was pretty upset and we skipped the cemetery for a little bit and went onto our second investigation which would be the West Orange Trail. On the way to the trail I pulled off in another hiking area and seen 3 wild dogs they probably belonged to the house nearby but still I would not have gotten out of the car even if you paid me seeing the saliva dripping out of the barking dogs mouths.
 
West Orange Trail
 
This is a real special place in my opinion was not even sure what we would see along the way. James and I had about a mile of hike ahead of us maybe a little more. We parked the car near one of the entrances to this historical trail. The trail is unique cause it goes for over 22 miles through all kinds of towns and historical places. Of course I was more concerned with hiking in a given area of significance so with my research I was able to find a good area for us to focus on.
 
James and I hiked to the restored bridge which use to be a railroad bridge. It said west Orange Trail as you enter it. Normally people bike the trail but we were on foot. Parts of the trail were lit other parts curves into the woods. The trail cuts right by one of the oldest citrus orchards in the state of FL. We seen the orange trees but no oranges so I was disappointed I had plans to pick some since I am sick. My son wanted to help me load my backpack with them.
 
The trail was quiet it ran along a busy road for awhile but nobody was out it was late and we were just enjoying the walk. James is  a hell of a hiker when were stranded he hiked for miles with me a couple years ago. I must say the bridge was very dismal haunted hard to say.
 
Eventually we would arrive an old railroad station and if you know me I love old train stations. They converted it into a welcome center but it still had the old look with rockers on the porch and its original look. The upstairs of the station looked vacant. We played at the playground a little bit....walked around the place took our photos and it was set up like a park with its picnic benches and such. There is supposed to be a monument here called the Hull Monument we never found it I searched a good half hour on the grounds.
 
We also took the trail past the station and it crossed right into another county. We then turned around this project is supposed to eventually be a 200 mile long trail. I would love to bike that if it was cooler but this is Florida its all about mosquitos, humidity etc and the humidity was starting to eat away at my lungs I was coughing like crazy and having a really hard time breathing last night.
 
Nothing stood out of the ordinary during our hike but you could see where the train tracks use to be and how it meandered through the town...woods...around the station etc It was like a scene out of an old movie. By this time the moon was out brightly and the skies were clear just as I said they would be in an earlier posting. It was a really nice night and well then the ghost activity had started up.
 
We walked past a wooded area and James looked behind us. He started running and looking back. I am like calm down buddy what's the problem. He is like dad there is two shadows chasing us and they are running fast towards us. I looked back I did not see anything but my senses were up. Something was looming in the area I mean when you do this long enough you can go investigating all night but there is always one place that stands out and this was it.
 
James kept running he refused to walk next to me he turned white as a ghost and he said dad what would you do if you seen what I just seen. So I told him watch what I will do. James seen two shadow like entities the two shadows combined into one creature. I am not sure what we were dealing with but he told me as they starting coming towards us both of them combined.
 
So after the shadow closed in I turned around real quickly and stood my ground. I was hoping to get whatever it was on film. James told me that when I turned around it stopped and stood still. Then it darted off into the woods whatever it was. It did not seem to mind our backs turned but it appeared to shy away from confrontation when I addressed it so that was that. The same area we experienced this at earlier we had gotten some EMF readings at so this section of the trail in my opinion did have something paranormal occurring for whatever reason it was.
 
When we hiked further there was a gas station there was a cop sitting outside talking with the cashier and just having a break. I went up to the cop and asked him how to get to the cemetery. I seen him studying me weird he was like ummm I do not think he expected me to talk to him or ask him such a question. Here I am standing in front of the cop with my gear, backpack, and about 4 different weapons concealed on me.  But he gave me the directions I thought cool.  Because earlier I went to three other gas stations and none of the cashiers could give me decent directions. One cashier told me just look around Oakland you will find it its like yeah ummm Okay Oakland is a few miles in size with many many dirt roads you could drive around all night. People just have no common sense down here in Florida its like would I be here asking for directions anybody can visit the town finding the place that's another story.
 
So Anyway's the information the cop gave me was gold he said there were two cemeteries in the town one was white one was black. At this point the cemetery I wanted was the one I read the history piece on so I went with that one. I went into the gas station and James got a orange creamsicle slush. It was good but I did not get one I just cared about ghost and the cemetery.
 
After my purchase the cop ran in the gas station and said to me oh by the way the cemetery is closed the sun is now down. I thought yeah right when does that ever stop me. But knowing from experience I am sure he would probably patrol back there now that I asked him about it like a boy and his father are going to harm the cemetery or something. Nothing but a bunch of uptight people in Florida.
 
We went back onto the West Orange Trail and along the fence was a huge valley. Beyond that fence was the oldest orange grove in the state of Florida. You could tell this was it because it just went over a mile long and there were a few orange trees growing. But most of the area was overgrown with vines and foliage. I caught something in the grove with my eye. It was a red ball of light way off in the distance. It was pretty large and it hovered above the trees then disappeared into the grove.  I thought about going into the grove but when you sit there and look at a forest in a valley that goes for a mile or two that looked like a jungle you kind of think wait a second A. I need a machete B. I know there is a pack of wild boars that would love to trample me and C. Where is the goddamn oranges on the trees lol so the glowing red light was enough confirmation for me.
 
Eventually we arrived at the old bridge the car was still there we were relieved and ready to move onto Oakland Cemetery.