The Locket
Saturday October 4, 2003
Investigators present: Chris, Jay, Lorie
Length of visit: 2hours 30minutes
Pictures - Chris' Journal Entries
The team arrived at 19:00. When the client first contacted us, she related several instances of what she considered a negative presence. During our interview, she stated that she was a part time antique collector. Two months prior she had come into contact with a small locket pendent at an antique auction. Since she acquired the locket, strange things had happened around the house. She started to become upset and uncomfortable, which was very evident in her body language, and it was our understanding that she no longer had any patience for what she was experiencing and wanted the locket out of her home.
The paranormal activity that the client related to the team:
- She and her daughter had strong feelings of being watched. They also claimed that these feelings held a lot of aggression.
- Most of the activity occurred around the staircase - thumping and banging. She described it as somebody franticly running down the stairs leading to the front door.
- Odd smells around the house became regular - from roses to perfume to rotting meat - depending on the overall feeling of the house
- Both the mother and daughter claimed to catch glimpses of full apparitions running up and down the stairs out of the corner of their eyes.
- Activity had only begun to occur two months prior to our investigation, shortly after acquiring the locket.
- Physical contact such as hands on shoulders and being pushed down the staircase.
- The client claimed the phenomenon had entered her bed one night while the locket was in her bedroom. She moved the locket to another room.
- The husband had relocated the locket to his downtown office for two weeks. During that time the house was very quiet. The locket came back after that two-week period and the paranormal activity began again.
The team wandered the house independently to follow our spidey sense. Amazingly enough we all ended up in one room together - the spare bedroom. We were unsure as to why we were all led there and began to brainstorm for a reasonable explanation. We came to the conclusion that the root of the paranormal activity was located in this room. All of our attention was focused around a cabinet in the room (however we didn't open it due to privacy issues).
We asked the homeowner where the locket was at the moment. She went to retrieve the locket. It happened to be located in the cabinet that the team had been drawn to. Upon physical contact with the locket we all came to the conclusion that it had A LOT of energy. It was warm to the touch. It sent tingly sensations throughout our hands and arms. It also had a tendency to make us feel dizzy after holding it for a period of time. None of us were able to focus on any specific life force except for Chris. While holding the object he got a vision of a woman in her mid-twenties with long dark curly hair (we will refer to her as Lady-X). She was of slight build and had long dark curly hair in her youth and greyish white hair in her old age. She lived a full life and was living around the 1920's to 1930's period. Chris also felt a really strong sense of ownership. It was as if this was somebody's treasure and death wasn't going to get in the way.
After having this vision, Chris chose not share it right away. Instead, he asked the client if she had any intuitive images. She did and described Lady-X down to the finest detail. After much discussion we all came to the conclusion that locket itself was the variable in question. The client wanted nothing more than to be rid of all paranormal activity in her house so we suggested removing the locket from the property. The client kindly donated the locket to CAPI for research and experimentation.
Post investigation meeting at Denny's
The team decided that a good experiment would be for each team member to take a turn with the locket in their own home for one month each. By doing this, each team member can experience and document any and all activity attached to the locket first hand. Chris, being the most eager (keener) and demanding, took the first shift. Filled with excitement and anticipation, he rushed home and immediately designated a prominent location for the locket on a shelf on his desk. This is where it would spend the next couple of months.
Update
The locket has never left Chris' possesion. It was decided following his experiences with the locket (read his Jounal entries) that no other team member would take it for any length of time. Since his move from Bowness, the locket has been quiet.
