1000 Steps - Spokane, WA

On 11/29/09, an impromptu ghost investigation was sprung on me by Larry and his coworker. His coworker was going to bring a camcorder and we were bringing a camera and digital recorder.

The place: Greenwood Memorial Terrace a.k.a. "1000 Steps"

There is an abandoned set of stone steps off the side of the road leading to the top part of the cemetery. It's very hard to see off of the side of the road and you have to go on a dirt trail up the hill slightly to get to them. They are not very safe as they are broken and the top portion are completely unusable.

The tale behind the name, "1000 Steps," is because people who start climbing never reach the top out of fear of the ghosts that appear before them. Some people claim to see apparitions, mist, orbs, you name it, they've reported it.

We staked out the site beforehand, but couldn't find the steps. When we came back at around 10pm, we found them. Unfortunately, it was a very foggy night, so none of the pictures came out well. This is a terrible picture of the steps:

It may be hard to tell, but these steps at night look like they came right out of a horror movie. On a cold night, as this was, you can see your breath and if you have your flashlight pointed up, that mist will come right back in your face causing disorientation and illusions. I can see where the tales come from.

Scary? Not really. We made it to the top. There were probably 20-30 steps in total and again, the top steps were in complete disrepair.

At the top there was a tomb and more gravestones. We did some EVP work, took a lot of pictures that wouldn't come out well because of the fog and felt nothing. Granted, this was probably by far the creepiest cemetery I've seen. Everywhere you looked felt like you were walking around in Hollywood's best vision of a haunted cemetery. But no activity occurred. No EVPs were found. This was an even worse picture that came out and yes, that is a flashlight giving me light for the shot. It was THAT foggy.

Salt Lake City, UT

Because we're starting this blog after we've already done several years of research and investigations (independently and together), I'm going to surmise most of it in 1-2 blogs.

We started together in Salt Lake City, UT. I lived in the Avenues which is the oldest neighborhood in the area. I was literally less than a block away from the Salt Lake City Cemetery. This became a natural place for us to start our investigations together.

We started with the local "urban legends" and went to several of the notorious graves. We were unorganized and mistakenly allowed some people to come who didn't respect the seriousness of our research. This meant not only did we never encounter anything paranormal, but we could have gotten ourselves into trouble. Lesson learned!

We found a friend of Larry's who was older and well informed on actual "hot spots" around the city. The Old Mill near Cottonwood Canyon was too dilapidated to even go into (but I'd put money on there being actual hauntings there) and the old asylum-turned-children's-hospital-turned-hotel in the avenues was under construction with watch guards. There were many misses and very few hits.

We wanted to investigate the Fort Douglas Military Museum, where a reported ghost haunts the hallways, but because of Veteran's Day it was next to impossible to get in touch with anyone willing to give us a shot. Refusing to let our mistakes and lack of activity where we went get us down, we decided to investigate the cemetery instead.

On the night before Veteran's Day 2008, we visited the Fort Douglas Cemetery (aerial pic). It was too well lit, but had a very serene and calm atmosphere. We did not think we would get any activity at all, but did some EVP work since we were out there already. After about 20 minutes of investigation, we continued on to the other sites we had planned for that night.

We were pretty surprised to find that that we actually caught something on the digital audio recorder that night. Trying to debunk the sound the best we could, it could not be remade. We caught what sounds like an older man sighing. We were standing next to a general's gravestone, just listening. Larry had the recorder in his hand down by his waist, he wasn't even holding it up. We really didn't think this place had anything to offer. Here is the EVP we caught, you can decide for yourself whether it's paranormal or not:

The rest of the time we were in Utah, we did not catch any type of paranormal activity. But we really didn't cover many places and we weren't organized, so we have a lot more work to do once we go back. This time with more organization and more equipment. We WILL be revisiting Fort Douglas.

A little about us and our promise to you...

Welcome to our blog! Our motto, "Dive into the paranormal," is what easily describes how we take the approach to our search for the unexplained. We have big questions that require big answers.

It's an understood fact that some things simply cannot be explained. However, it doesn't mean we cannot throw ourself into every possible answer and at least have an educated guess to the answer.

Just because we research into the paranormal, doesn't mean we believe absolutely everything out there. The age we live in is one that requires everybody to think more critically and outside of the box. Our technology has come to a point where we can no longer always believe what we see or hear.

So we give this promise to you. On our search for the unexplained, we will never produce to you any document, photograph, sound file or any other type of evidence that has been doctored to show something paranormal.

We have our own theories, as does everyone, and of course we will be adapting to the ever growing field of paranormal research. We are small but we will grow larger. We will be moving every 1-2 years to another part of the world, so the sites we investigate and the research we find will come from everywhere. As humans, we are never strangers. We share the same home.

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