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10/18/08 - Pine Lake Area - Bristol, Ct

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    CPEAR was contacted about this case from someone that had went out to Pine Lake around the high ropes course with a group of friends to check out the place for themselves, because they heard stories about the place being haunted. They also heard stories about two girls being murdered out there or possibly committing suicide. The location is also listed on TheShadowlands.net as being haunted.

     She said that they experienced hearing footsteps, whispers in the dark, seeing shadows, and feeling of being shoved. Similar claims are listed on the Shadowlands web page along with hearing ropes tightening on their own and moving by themselves.

  So CPEAR decided to investigate....

 

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It really is a very beautiful place during the day and would be the perfect place for a picnic.

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Nice view of a section of the lake.

The Investigation:

       First we went out during the day to check the place out to see what we were dealing with for an area. I have to say, it is a real nice park. Pretty cool how they put up all the high ropes.

       A team of 5 of us went out there Saturday night with all of our equipment.
We had Emf meters, KII meters, video cameras with night vision, IR
thermometers, and digital recorders. We split up into 2 teams. Some of us
took the side before the dirt bridge (the side where the houses are) and
the rest started in the Labyrinth area and worked our way to the center
where the big tarp is with the picnic tables.

       We kept our eyes and ears open for shadows, whispers, footsteps, ropes
tightening, etc...

       A few things we did notice is if it is a little bit windy, you can hear the
ropes stretching and moving around. It does sound like they are being
tightened, but nothing more than the wind.

       Another thing we picked up on is...even though the traffic from the
surrounding streets is far off in the distance, their headlights still show
up on a lot of the trees around the high ropes course and make it seem like
there are shadows moving amongst them.

       The footsteps people are hearing are one of two things....one, even though
you may not see them at night, there are still animals roaming around the
woods and making noise as they move through the bushes and leaves. Two, we
did run into a few other people while we were out there. So that could also
be the cause of the whispering people are hearing out there, not to mention
people talking from the surrounding houses near by.

       When it comes to the feeling of being shoved.... the only logical
explanation we could come up with, and it happened to a few of us, is in a
lot of the areas, the ground is uneven and it's very easy to stumble. 

       We didnt catch any EVPs or have any personal experiences where we can say
the place is haunted.

     Oh, and watch out for false orb pictures. There is a lot of dust in the air all around the area and you will get pictures of what looks like orbs.

       We did have 2 things happen when it came to our EMF meter and Thermometer. While investigating by the benches on the smaller half of the high ropes course (near the houses), our EMF meters were spiking up to about a 4 over the benches and then going back down to nothing. This happened a few times around that area. We couldnt find a cause for it.

     We tried a test with the IR Thermometer in the same area where we asked the
possible spirit if it could lower the temperature from 30 degrees down to
20 degrees. Sure enough within about 5 to 10 minutes the temperature went
from 30 to 22 degrees. We then asked if it could raise the temp. back up and nothing happened right away, but a few minutes later the temp was back up to 30+ again. So thats something that could be paranormal or there could have just been a cold breeze going by at the time to make it a coincidence.

Conclusion: 

     I cant say the place is haunted. If it is, whatever is there didnt make a strong enough
attempt to make itself known that night.

Video of EMF spike and Temperature drop coming soon.......

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