Supplemental Investigation Report
Mississippi Belle
Submitted by Erin
We arrived at the Mississippi Belle at approximately 11:30 pm on the evening of August 24, 2007. After helping to unpack and set up equipment Tim and Judy led four of us down into the basement area to the right of the back of the kitchen. We decided that Nate and Jessica would be together in the room closest to the stairs and JJ and I would take the back area of the hallway. Tim and Judy went to go back upstairs saying they'd turn the lights off on the way up and wished us good luck. There was one light left on that has a pull string so I went over to turn it off as well. Nate and Jessica took their place in the small room and JJ and I headed towards the end of the hall.
JJ began sensing the presence of a man in his 30's or thereabouts after calling out to see if there was anyone with us who'd like to speak with us. I had never been around anyone with clairaudio abilities so this was quite different! JJ began saying what this man was telling her about how he got himself involved in a poker game in the basement and won too much money so he was basically "taken out". He seemed very concerned about finding out about his children and most particularly, his grandchildren. He said his wife's name was Sylvia. During this time I could see flashes of light where there shouldn't really have been any light at all. JJ was emotional hearing his sad story and I kept making sure that she was all right. At one point in time I saw a flash of light above JJ's left shoulder that actually appeared to look like a hand there...or knuckles. She said he was giving her a hug. As we were talking there was a white mist that formed directly in front of us, like a whispy smoke plume. JJ said that he was telling her that the room where the others were down there was "bad, awful" and that they could be harmed if they stayed in it.
Shortly after this I saw Nate and Jessica come out of the room and go upstairs. I asked if they were all right and didn't hear their answer, but I thought they'd be fine if they went up for some air since they were together, so we stayed where we were. While they were gone, a black mist formed towards the bottom of the stairs, and it looked as if a very dark shadow was slightly coming out of the entryway to that area into the hall.
Nate and Jessica came back down into the room again and it began to get much darker. (I know that sounds odd, to be darker than dark, but the light in the basement was really variable.) Tim came down shortly afterwards to see how we were doing, and JJ said that "she" could be in peril and that "they" knew it. Tim indeed confirmed that Jessica was getting uncomfortable as she felt she and Nate were both being affected in there. At that point, it gets a little strange as JJ was saying the guy she was talking to wanted them to get out of there right now and began to get more urgent. We were in a tight hallway with myself at the back of it, JJ to my right and Tim sort of in the center....something seemed to push me from behind past Tim to get Jessica out of there right away. We told her to come with us upstairs, and Tim stayed with Nate for a short bit. Jessica reported that she indeed felt as if something was affecting her and that she felt as if she getting light headed. JJ and I walked with her out to the dining room where the cool air of the air conditioner was blowing so she could get some air there and recover. Soon Nate came up as well needing air too!
We left Nate and Jessica in the dining room to go up to the banquet room upstairs above the kitchen. There was an odd smell in the stairwell going up, almost a moldy type of smell that could tend to lend a sort of heaviness to that area. JJ sensed a female presence right away. I asked if maybe it was Audrey and JJ said yes it was. She seemed to be right directly under the chandelier that hangs in that room as I could sense there was something right there as well. Almost from there to the right corner of the room and behind the bar seemed to give off a field of some sort. JJ said that Audrey was especially proud of her wonderful pies! I sat down with my back facing the windows and heard a scratching sound in the corner that sounded like it was happening inside the room. There appeared to be some sort of machine, like a portable air conditioner hooked up to one of the windows, but the sound did not appear to be coming from there. I couldn't see thing that could be the cause of this sound.
JJ also said she was picking up a man's presence in the room also. I really didn't feel any dread in this guy, it was more of a mischievous sort of feel to it so I asked him to do something to show us he was there. JJ said that he said he'd try to do something with my hair and asked if I had felt that. Actually I did feel a very slight, soft touch through my hair on the right side. There were a few light anomalies in that room. Since we were very near the river bridge, we thought that they may be caused by headlights of the cars that were coming across the bridge. The EMF meter that JJ was holding was blinking the entire time she was sitting under the chandelier in the center of the room. I asked the presence if he could make it stop, and shortly...within a couple of minutes it did indeed stop. Upon asking if he could make it blink again, it did. I continued to ask the presence to stop and start the lights blinking several times. Very shortly after I asked each question, the EMF meter appeared to respond to my requests. Nate, Jessica and Judy came upstairs as well, and we were telling them about the meter and having it stop and start again. Nate asked if he could stop it again and it did slow down. Judy wanted to check it out so she fiddled with it a bit and said that she wouldn't trust it that night as it had been acting strange anyway. Tim came up and discovered that the tape in the video recorder had stopped so he went down for another tape. JJ said she was detecting a third entity which was kinda of in the backgroud, but causing her some chest heaviness. She said it wasn't constant but there nonetheless. Tim asked if we could try to capture the EMF meter stopping and starting on command, so I sat my recorder down, picked up the camera and tried to recreate the occurrences. The light was on at this time and although it seemed to slow down, it did not stop all together. JJ and I then decided to head down to the basement area where the boiler room and office were located. Before leaving I wanted to take just one more picture behind the bar area and just before I snapped the button there was an orange glow that seemed to disappear against the wall. I was hoping I caught it on my camera, but it didn't show up.
We proceeded to the boiler room in the basement. I didn't sense anything at all in there and neither did JJ so we headed to the office. As we came out the door, however JJ said she picked up that she needed to close that door. We came down the hallway and into the office where the light was on. I took a picture down the hallway and I sat in the chair that was there. It was a typical computer chair that swivels and rocks. As I was sitting there JJ began to pick up on the entity who was with us before in the basement. We could hear Juli, Josh and Tim on the other side of the office door. JJ said that the presence they were dealing with was not him but the one we had experienced earlier when we were in that area. As I sat in the chair it felt as if it tipped back enough to give me a jolt, as if someone had pulled it from behind backwards making me jump a bit. Jessica came down after a while too and she sat in there with us and Juli came around there as well. I was still sitting in the chair and shortly it happened again! I got up and didn't want to sit in it anymore so Juli did. Almost right away after Juli sat there, she said she felt very light headed. I noticed as I was standing next to the door that partitioned off one area of the basement from the office, that there seemed to be icy air that would just cross over from the door to the desk every now and then. The overall temperature under the desk and near the door was noticeably much colder than anywhere else in the room as well. I crawled under the desk to see if there was possibly an air vent or something that may be blowing, although the breeze wasn't steady, it was just occasional and cooler. There were gaps to the other side of the basement underneath the desk, but found nothing that would have or should have produced a breeze like that. The bottom part of the desk itself was much colder than the top and the door was very cold toward the bottom. Judy came down and was ready to start wrapping it up and Jessica was totally drained from her earlier experience in the basement on the other side so we decided to all go back up in the dining room and pack up and call it a night.