This is a beautiful cemetery, very well-maintained, with rolling hills and lovely flat areas, covered with tall stones and tall trees that have been here for quite a while.
It is surrounded by woods, and although it is situated on a main thoroughfare, once you are over the
main hill, you are quite alone.
Well, maybe not.
The point is, you can barely hear the traffic outside and the nearest neighbors are too far away
to be heard. Next door is a business and the other side has a house for sale. Hmmm.....
The house and its' grounds are quite abondoned in appearance, and the area behind Oakridge Cemetery is woods and open fields.
There seem to be a couple areas for our veterans of several wars here, one complete with a flagged area to honor them.
On one side, is what appears to be a children's area, with many small little stones. It is on a small
hill, with large bushes around it, and many little areas in which to hide.
"D" Cemetery has always been active, but it is not the kind of place that makes your heart thump
in your chest, if you know what I mean. There are bursts of cold air, sometimes standing areas of
cold air you can walk in and out of.
There are voices, always voices, sometimes just on the edge of hearing, that make you pause and listen for a moment. As soon as you decide you didn't hear anything, they start up again. Weird.
And there are the typical footsteps on the gravel path behind you.
This place has an oddly unique attraction, and as you go through the pictures, I'm sure you will
see what I mean.
In the children's area, I was surprised to hear this sound on my recorder. It sounds to us like a child yelling, "Grammpaaa..." from a distance, and then other young voices join in.
EVPS
We had been out of the car for a few minutes and were standing quite a few feet away from it, in the back of the cemetery. The almost vacuum-like sound you will hear is NOT a sliding car door or anything physical we are doing, as we were standing still. Listen for the breath at the end of it. The knocking sound at the tail end, is me pushing the handle of my recorder into position.
PHOTOS
"Doesn't anybody want their picture taken?"
"No"
Now, I have no idea what this is at all. I am standing perfectly still, as I do when I know I am in front of, or next to an entity. I am trying to let them know they are safe, it is okay to come out. The sound is mechanical to me, but I was not moving. At all. And it actually sounds like I lose a second or two, in this second vacuum-like anomaly.
Listen to the sound come back up, when the clicking noise is over, and you can hear me again.
Here is the third vacuum-like anomaly from this place, and I am not even halfway through my 45 minute tape yet!
No, I never stop my tape from the moment I turn it on, till the moment it clicks off by itself. And the clicking becomes a heart pounding after the sound comes back up.
Listen to a quiet voice a moment later, that says,
Think Ya Know Who's Got It
I asked "Who guards the gateway?" At the end of the recording, listen for the whispered,
Jeannie
Jeannie
anomaly
anomaly
NO
Grammpaaaaa
breath
vacuum sound
We are Michigan ghosthunters,
a Michigan group of paranormal investigators
looking for evidence in Oakridge Cemetery, of
hauntings, spiritual and ghost
activity through photos, and voice
recordings, or EVPS.
Think ya know who's got it
The above ^ photo is also in the back, and here we see a lineup of orbs coming around the bend. Just wandering over to see what we are doing. Roll your cursor over, and see a bright orb hovering near a spot on the far side, known to be active. Across from this spot, is the children's section.
The above ^ photo is in the back, where we parked, and behind us is the woods. Roll your cursor over the picture and it becomes another bright orb on a hillside. This spot has a little girl associated with it. It is near the front of the cemetery, and the girl has been seen at night and very early in the morning by passing motorists, some of whom have stopped to help. (!)
he above ^ photo is in the back near a veterans section. Here is something I have never seen before. There are a pair of antlers nailed to a tree back here. Roll your cursor over it for a closer view. Later on, there is an interesting photo that may have a connection to this deed.
see a huge orb that made it's presence known by way of a very brief super cold breeze, and a prickly sensation up and down my back.This particular spot has always given me the heebies, but most especially at night. I would rather walk up and over the hill, than walk over this path in the dark. I can't explain it, but the feeling is as if I will walk into something, face to face. The feeling is strongest when you are walking from the back of the cemetery to the front.
The rollover picture is a very bright orb going quickly up the side of a hill.
The above ^ photo is in the same spot I hate to go in. And now there are three orbs guarding the path. Yes, that is the hood of my car you see in the bottom of the picture. I told you I have great difficulty going through this spot on my own. Roll your cursor over and see an orb quickly moving away from us, into the bushes.
The photo above ^ was taken in the very back, along an edge of trees in which there are many stones, hidden and grown over. That may explain the orb cloud. But, then again.... Above and to the right, is a small veterans section. Just opposite this stand of trees, is the antler tree. Or, the
'Oak-a-lope', as we affectionately call it.
Roll your cursor over it, and see how much closer we are to the veterans. Now, a yellow orb has come out to see who we are. See the hidden stones? There are more back there, believe me.
The photos to the left were taken in the very back, just around the corner from the veterans.
Look above at the orb in the low branch of the small tree.
It looks a bit like it is behind the branch,doesn't it?
Now, look below at it. It has changed a bit and now appears to be moving around the branch.
This happened at the same time I got an anomaly on my tape recorder. I was telling what I thought was a child to not be afraid, to come on out, we would not hurt it.
The sound on my recorder was messed up with a series of clicks, (no explanation), and the sound came back up, slowly, as if it was being pulled out of a vacuum.
~ Below, listen to the second vacuum-like anomaly~
WEIRD SOUND
The photo above was taken opposite the woods, near a stand of trees. See the bright orb hovering near the stones?
The photo above was taken in the very back, right along the edge of the woods.
See the orb hiding back there?
The photos above was taken on the hill in the Children's Section. There is a feeling there of an older child, maybe one used to being in charge of younger ones. You almost feel as if you need permission to hang out there. Every time I came back to this spot, I seemed to catch this one bright orb.
Touch the photo on the right and see it moving away.
The photo above was taken in the same spot, and I could hear what sounded like a harsh whisper in the bushes next to me as I climbed the small hill. Touch the picture and see the view I had off to the side. I seemed to have a lot of company every time I went near the hill.
The photo above ^ is a pretty good one. Keep in mind, it is only about 6 or 7pm, and it is summer, so it not even close to getting dark yet.
Yikes. What the heck is this???
It appears to be a glowing figure in the woods, about ten to fifteen feet from the antler tree. Does that have anything to do with it? We don't know.
Touch the photo to see the same spot barely .38 seconds later. Not 38 seconds,
POINT 38 seconds. That's about a third of a second.
Impressive.
Is it a figure? You be the judge. It has all the earmarks of a human figure.
It has the bodyshape.
It is the right size for a human figure, although that is not a priority for
an apparition. Looking at the super blow-up below, it becomes evident that it is behind the bushes, not sitting on top, or in front of.
It leaves no light on anything around it, which is typical. It also means it cannot be an incandescent light, or fire light, or any other mechanical/electrical light, because that would
