Investigation
Location:
Wayne County
Cemetery
Lavalette, WV
June 2011
Information:
This cemetery is located in Wayne County, WV and was
established in the 1870's. The claims
from this cemetery include seeing a head-less
apparition roaming the cemetery during a full moon,
phantom horse and buggy sounds, and several have
claimed to have heard their names being called out
by an unseen entity.
Investigation
Overview:
We were contacted by the cemetery caretaker who
asked us to check out reports of a haunting in this
cemetery. Our group arrived before dark and we did a
walk-through of the cemetery and took baseline EMF
readings while getting familiar with the
area. There were no EMF readings on our KII
meter throughout cemetery, with the expectation of
walking directly underneath power lines located at
the very
backside of the cemetery. Just before dark we sat up our chairs
around an unmarked stone and began an EVP/KII
session near the location of reported activity. Within minutes we were getting
readings on our
KII meter in the area that during the walkthrough
that had no initial readings and was far from power
lines.
Out of four investigators who were present, three
began to feel uneasy in the area in which the
sightings of the head-less apparition had been
reported. While there, we spotted and heard several
animals in the woods, but no sight of anything
paranormal. After a time the KII was no longer
giving us any readings and we decided to head to
another section. In the next section of the cemetery
we had absolutely no KII meter hits.
The caretaker had left but came back to check on our
progress, we told the her about our KII readings and
we offered to take her out to where we had been.
Walking back up to the spot we had been before, the
KII started flashing so we stopped and asked for
some responses. Our questions were seemingly
obliged, so much so the KII lit up entirely several
times. We began to walk back down when the KII lit
up once more, this time right next to a Confederate
soldier's grave. We stood for several minutes as the
KII seemed to respond to our questions before it stopped.
The rest of our time there was dark and quiet, some
fog rolled through and it began to rain so we
decided to pack up for the night. Overall our
experience at the cemetery was good but
unfortunately we did not see or experience any of
the reported activity. While the KII meter hits were
very exciting, that alone is not conclusive enough
to prove the claims of activity at this cemetery.
