We finally have our new website up and running. We still have a lot more pictures to add, but it takes time to go through them and authenticate them before publishing so please be patient with us.
As you may have noticed all the above pages, except for the "About The Team" page, have been removed as they are all now on our website.
The link to the new website is: CLEAR
Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Interesting Hunt Last Night
Part of our team got together last night for a fun hunt and got some very interesting video and photo's. We haven't had time to go through the audio yet. As soon as we get everything process and this can take a while I will post a few pictures here. Working with our newest team member is great. He is organized, calm (Well there was that one little incidence at the church, but he would kill me if I told what it was. Sorry Jake, just had to throw that one in!), methodical and knows what he is doing since he isn't new to the field or the paranormal, only new to our team. In other words he works like Kyle and I do which makes it so much easier.
We also have a new website coming up soon. It isn't ready for viewing yet as I am working on design and content so give me a couple of weeks. I will post here when it is ready for viewing.
We also have a new website coming up soon. It isn't ready for viewing yet as I am working on design and content so give me a couple of weeks. I will post here when it is ready for viewing.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Welcome To Our New Team Member
First I would like to welcome our newest investigator to the team. Jake R, we are excited to have him become a member of CLEAR. Jake is a police officer and has many skills that are invaluable to our team. Welcome aboard Jake!
After a break due to illness, work load and the Holidays we are back in full swing. We have had so many contact us this month that it has been a challenge to keep up with and left us no time for our favorite thing, a "fun investigation", done only for ourselves. Fun investigations give us a chance to make sure all equipment is working properly, keeps our skills sharp and let's us just let loose and have fun with each other.
We have a private investigation coming up this week that we are excited about and several more that we have yet to set dates for. It's not always easy working around regular work schedules of the investigators and the clients but we do our best to get it done in a timely manner.
I was extremely sad this week to find out that one of our clients had an unpleasant experience with another investigating group without this group ever having stepped foot on their property. It makes the rest of us who are willing to get out there and try to prove or disprove the existence of paranormal activity look bad. We promise all our clients to never debunk them without an investigation, to never make them feel "crazy" for calling us and to believe them unless we can prove otherwise. You don't always "get something" on every investigation, but to discredit a client that calls over the phone for help without ever meeting them or visiting their property/home is something we can't even imagine doing. We, as I am sure have many other teams, had to turn down an investigation and we always feel bad about it. We had one such case this past week, we follow a set of rules while we investigate a private residence or business and with our years of experience have learned that without those rules it just doesn't work. We make those rules clear up front to each client that calls, if a client does not want to follow all those rules then we have to turn them down. We aren't being mean, it's for our safety and the safety of our clients, to get a clearer idea of what is going on in the building and to keep inexperienced people from possibly harming expensive equipment, messing up an EVP recording, etc. Our team members go through an extensive training period and spend 6 months on probation with us before being allowed to become a full team member, we do not allow just anyone to accompany us on an investigation unless it is one of our fun investigations.
We do not charge for investigations but we put our heart and soul into each and everyone of them. While we don't publicly announce where any team member works we do have medical , law enforcement and computer technology in our backgrounds, a couple of us are ordained and can even marry you. We are level headed and have little fear (I can't say no fear because we too have been scared a few times), we have been to places others would shy away from. We have an extensive "wish list" of places we want to go someday and investigate.
Thank you to everyone who has called us for help or guidance and we hope to continue to have a good and informative relationship with all of you.
Shea-CLEAR
After a break due to illness, work load and the Holidays we are back in full swing. We have had so many contact us this month that it has been a challenge to keep up with and left us no time for our favorite thing, a "fun investigation", done only for ourselves. Fun investigations give us a chance to make sure all equipment is working properly, keeps our skills sharp and let's us just let loose and have fun with each other.
We have a private investigation coming up this week that we are excited about and several more that we have yet to set dates for. It's not always easy working around regular work schedules of the investigators and the clients but we do our best to get it done in a timely manner.
I was extremely sad this week to find out that one of our clients had an unpleasant experience with another investigating group without this group ever having stepped foot on their property. It makes the rest of us who are willing to get out there and try to prove or disprove the existence of paranormal activity look bad. We promise all our clients to never debunk them without an investigation, to never make them feel "crazy" for calling us and to believe them unless we can prove otherwise. You don't always "get something" on every investigation, but to discredit a client that calls over the phone for help without ever meeting them or visiting their property/home is something we can't even imagine doing. We, as I am sure have many other teams, had to turn down an investigation and we always feel bad about it. We had one such case this past week, we follow a set of rules while we investigate a private residence or business and with our years of experience have learned that without those rules it just doesn't work. We make those rules clear up front to each client that calls, if a client does not want to follow all those rules then we have to turn them down. We aren't being mean, it's for our safety and the safety of our clients, to get a clearer idea of what is going on in the building and to keep inexperienced people from possibly harming expensive equipment, messing up an EVP recording, etc. Our team members go through an extensive training period and spend 6 months on probation with us before being allowed to become a full team member, we do not allow just anyone to accompany us on an investigation unless it is one of our fun investigations.
We do not charge for investigations but we put our heart and soul into each and everyone of them. While we don't publicly announce where any team member works we do have medical , law enforcement and computer technology in our backgrounds, a couple of us are ordained and can even marry you. We are level headed and have little fear (I can't say no fear because we too have been scared a few times), we have been to places others would shy away from. We have an extensive "wish list" of places we want to go someday and investigate.
Thank you to everyone who has called us for help or guidance and we hope to continue to have a good and informative relationship with all of you.
Shea-CLEAR
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Big Weekend Ahead
We have three investigations going on next weekend. Friday night is one just for us, a fun one to just play around in Jacksonville, see if we catch anything and laugh at ourselves. Saturday we have two to cover, both serious the first one won't take long (we hope, sometimes you never know until you get there) and has been planned for a while. The other one is a referral and needs immediate response. It is in a large private residence that will take all night and all of our equipment. So set up and break down time will be a while too. Also the paperwork required on a private business or residence is considerable and I am still trying to get that in order.
This is the first time in a while that our Georgia members will be up to join us, so Saturday we will be investigating with a full team of 10 and I have a feeling it's going to take all of us to do the private residence. I'm a little nervous but excited at the same time over that one.
We had two of the members from Georgia go to the Tallassee, Alabama Confederate Armory last night and got some amazing results on EVP and photo evidence. It will take us a while to go through the photos to rule out any normal occurance vs paranormal. So these won't be published for a while.
Being a Pug owner and lover I was particularly excited over one picture. It is well known that Pugs are more tuned in to the paranormal than other breeds, my Pug is no exception. But in one photo we clearly have a ghost pug (neither my Pug nor I were present for this investigation) in the window of an abandoned armory building, so clear that we can even see the mask, the black ears and the curled tail. Even more exciting this picture was taken in daylight. Ok, Ok, I can't resist a sneak preview of the pug!
Please keep in mind I have enhanced this particular photo for you to easier see what I am talking about. This did not show up in other pictures taken of the same window and we haven't quite been able to figure out what the thing beside it is. Since it's an old armory, possibly a helmet?
This is the first time in a while that our Georgia members will be up to join us, so Saturday we will be investigating with a full team of 10 and I have a feeling it's going to take all of us to do the private residence. I'm a little nervous but excited at the same time over that one.
We had two of the members from Georgia go to the Tallassee, Alabama Confederate Armory last night and got some amazing results on EVP and photo evidence. It will take us a while to go through the photos to rule out any normal occurance vs paranormal. So these won't be published for a while.
Being a Pug owner and lover I was particularly excited over one picture. It is well known that Pugs are more tuned in to the paranormal than other breeds, my Pug is no exception. But in one photo we clearly have a ghost pug (neither my Pug nor I were present for this investigation) in the window of an abandoned armory building, so clear that we can even see the mask, the black ears and the curled tail. Even more exciting this picture was taken in daylight. Ok, Ok, I can't resist a sneak preview of the pug!
Please keep in mind I have enhanced this particular photo for you to easier see what I am talking about. This did not show up in other pictures taken of the same window and we haven't quite been able to figure out what the thing beside it is. Since it's an old armory, possibly a helmet?
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Batteries Included
What is with the batteries in my house? I keep finding batteries everywhere. At first I blamed my son for taking them out of things we use considering I usually have to worry about him stealing batteries more than I do the spirits taking them. But this time he is innocent and all electronics have batteries in them, and he said it with a fairly straight face so I believe him. I always buy cheap batteries so I know my "brand" but these that I am finding are all different brands, but always AA. Then last night I got a call from a team member saying he was confused because as he went to get the equipment out for our upcoming hunt all the batteries were missing from the radios, the meters, the camera, etc. and he couldn't find them anywhere. I asked him what kind he used, he replied various brands and named them off. Guess what I have all those brands in my house. He lives a few hours from me so it is a mystery as to how or even why they ended up here.
Yesterday we all decided to turn our radar on at the same time, in three different towns to see what we would get. All words coming from all three radar's kept spitting out similar words. Not so nice words. Makes us a little uneasy about the upcoming hunt. It was made clear that something doesn't really want us there.
Yesterday we all decided to turn our radar on at the same time, in three different towns to see what we would get. All words coming from all three radar's kept spitting out similar words. Not so nice words. Makes us a little uneasy about the upcoming hunt. It was made clear that something doesn't really want us there.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Moving/Column Orbs
As an investigators we don't get excited about orbs as so many are nothing more than dust on the lens, small bugs, the camera strap, etc. But moving orbs also known as column orbs do excite us. The things listed above do not cause this type of effect on film or digital. This is energy in motion.
While sitting on my balcony one night my pug started getting a little antsy. Pugs are suppose to be very tuned into the paranormal, mine definately is and there is actually a web site about this. Dr. Brandy Stark has contacted me to talk to her about this but I have not had time to get up with her on it yet. Paranormal Pugs Anyway due to her behavior I just started randomly shooting pictures and was excited to see this amazing photos of moving orbs.
While sitting on my balcony one night my pug started getting a little antsy. Pugs are suppose to be very tuned into the paranormal, mine definately is and there is actually a web site about this. Dr. Brandy Stark has contacted me to talk to her about this but I have not had time to get up with her on it yet. Paranormal Pugs Anyway due to her behavior I just started randomly shooting pictures and was excited to see this amazing photos of moving orbs.
This one was shot first, there is absolutely no lighting below my balcony, not even a street light.
This one was shot about 3 seconds after the one above. Now the orbs are moving in a different direction.
Our Witch
We have a hunt coming up on the weekend of the 24 and another on the 25th.
On the 24th we intend to enter the woods. Have I told you how much I hate hunts in the woods? Well, I do because I am terrified of insects and have myself convinced if I can't see them in the dark then there must be millions of them there, just waiting to get me. But we have a site that has some very interesting noises coming from it, usually between 2 am and 4 am. Before the noise starts the neighbor hood dogs get extremely agitated, start to bark and then howl. Then from the area comes a noise like nothing I have ever heard before, honestly it sounds like Chewbacca to me from Star Wars fame. It is not a dog, it's not a cat, not even a big cat, I have no idea but we are going to see if we can track it down. So yeah, this isn't going to rank on my list of favorite hunts, woods, insects and crazy animal noises. All things I don't like. Give me a good or even a bad spirit any day just keep the insects please.
Also on the 24th we are going to the city cemetery. I see many spirits there in the day time that want to visit and talk but we haven't actually gone to this particular cemetery at night before. So we are going to try to get some EVP recordings done and take some pictures in there. This one is more or less just to amuse ourselves, we like to do this from time to time just for fun. If we get something then great, if not then we will have had fun trying.
A while back we did a hunt at a well known area here that was used for human sacrifice for many years, not legend, but police and church documented. My ex came upon one of these sacrifices when he was in high school by accident and was promptly chased away by the coven. He was with some friends from high school, they never had believed the story of the sacrifices and were simply looking for an out of the way place to have a beer drinking party. He left there terrified and a full believer. Many years later we were handed three cassette recordings from a local preacher to take home and listen to after telling him about an experience we had in our own home. Let me just say I was more than shocked at the names on that tape of the people participating in this coven. Teachers, preachers, doctors, a few business men and many, many residents in town and all the activities they were doing. I would never in a million years have guessed. We listened and gave them back to the preacher and I assume they are to this day still locked up in the church safe.
Let me give you a brief reason as to why we even talked to this preacher about this. My oldest son at the time was about 15 and had crush on this girl, Cynthia. I never saw the beauty in Cynthia, today she would be considered Goth, back then she was just strange. I found a note she had passed him at school one day and noticed that she signed the t in her name as an upside down cross but thought she was just another kid going through the "I don't really know what wicca is (very peaceful religion, by the way, nothing evil about wicca)so I want to dress in dark clothes and be a witch" phase and she would outgrow it. Now, God love him my son is literally terrified of all things paranormal, unfortunately for him he does have the gift, but is so scared of it he blocks it out but when he can't and it creeps up on him his first thought is always to run away. It also gives us plenty of ammunition to torment him, nothing better than getting him all scared and worked up. I remember him spending the night in a motel one night as an adult because he saw something in his own home that scared him. Anyway, he is invited to dinner at Cynthia's house, he isn't old enough to drive so we dropped him off. I remember having a very strange feeling about the house but what really got me was the black squirrels. Now there is nothing wrong with a black squirrel other than they are rare here. This girl's yard and trees were full of them, up until that point I had only seen one in my entire life and to see 30 to 40 in one yard was very strange. He had dinner and we went to pick him up, this was before the days when all kids had cell phones and Cynthia's family didn't have a house phone (remember that part). Poor kid was scared to death, told us how strange they were, all of them dressed in black, he said they had an altar set up in the living room, the more he described I knew they were Satanic followers. The next day at school he sent her a note and told her he didn't think they should be boyfriend and girlfriend anymore. She was enraged and started firing notes at him like you would not believe, threatening notes. He brought them all home to us. I talked to the principle on Friday and he talked to her parents. The following Sunday I wasn't feeling well after church so I had my husband drop me off at home and the rest of the family went to my in-laws for Sunday dinner. I ran a tub full of hot water and bubles and had just settled in with a book and a candle to read it by. The candle would not stay lit even though there was no air blowing to put it out. Then the lights in the house start to flicker on and off. Then my house phone rings and the caller ID simply said "Cynthia", remember they had no phone. The lights continue to flicker and I hear growling sounds, I had a Great Dane at the time who was a lot like Scooby Doo, afraid of everything, he was literally cowering in a corner in the living room. The phone keeps ringing, on most of the calls no one said anything but the caller ID always said "Cynthia", on the last call someone, a man, said "Are you afraid yet?" Damn right I was! Instead of having the good sense to just say yes I replied with a "Fuck Off", probably not the right move. Now I had no lights on in my house, off completely. I quickly recovered and decided lunch at the in-laws was better than a bubble bath with Satan so I called my husband to come and get me, loaded up the dog and left. All was calm when we returned home hours later. The next morning we met with the preacher, told him the story, and he immediately was aware of this family and then he enlightened us on a lot of things we were unaware of and gave us the tapes to listen too. They were confessional tapes of former members of the coven, tell all tapes about the meetings and sacrifices in the area we went hunting in a few months back. I refused for years to go anywhere near that area to hunt.
A few months back I let the team talk me into going. We had a not quite so nice run in with "The Big Witch" as I have named her and for ghost hunters that do this all the time I have to tell all of us left a little shaken and more than ready to get out of there. Again I left there saying I would never go back. But now I have to because my old pal "The Big Witch" for the first time I have ever known has travel away from the area and showed up at my house. I tried to get a picture but it isn't very clear. I am going to show you the original picture, the enhanced picture and then the enhanced with the features labeled.
On the 24th we intend to enter the woods. Have I told you how much I hate hunts in the woods? Well, I do because I am terrified of insects and have myself convinced if I can't see them in the dark then there must be millions of them there, just waiting to get me. But we have a site that has some very interesting noises coming from it, usually between 2 am and 4 am. Before the noise starts the neighbor hood dogs get extremely agitated, start to bark and then howl. Then from the area comes a noise like nothing I have ever heard before, honestly it sounds like Chewbacca to me from Star Wars fame. It is not a dog, it's not a cat, not even a big cat, I have no idea but we are going to see if we can track it down. So yeah, this isn't going to rank on my list of favorite hunts, woods, insects and crazy animal noises. All things I don't like. Give me a good or even a bad spirit any day just keep the insects please.
Also on the 24th we are going to the city cemetery. I see many spirits there in the day time that want to visit and talk but we haven't actually gone to this particular cemetery at night before. So we are going to try to get some EVP recordings done and take some pictures in there. This one is more or less just to amuse ourselves, we like to do this from time to time just for fun. If we get something then great, if not then we will have had fun trying.
A while back we did a hunt at a well known area here that was used for human sacrifice for many years, not legend, but police and church documented. My ex came upon one of these sacrifices when he was in high school by accident and was promptly chased away by the coven. He was with some friends from high school, they never had believed the story of the sacrifices and were simply looking for an out of the way place to have a beer drinking party. He left there terrified and a full believer. Many years later we were handed three cassette recordings from a local preacher to take home and listen to after telling him about an experience we had in our own home. Let me just say I was more than shocked at the names on that tape of the people participating in this coven. Teachers, preachers, doctors, a few business men and many, many residents in town and all the activities they were doing. I would never in a million years have guessed. We listened and gave them back to the preacher and I assume they are to this day still locked up in the church safe.
Let me give you a brief reason as to why we even talked to this preacher about this. My oldest son at the time was about 15 and had crush on this girl, Cynthia. I never saw the beauty in Cynthia, today she would be considered Goth, back then she was just strange. I found a note she had passed him at school one day and noticed that she signed the t in her name as an upside down cross but thought she was just another kid going through the "I don't really know what wicca is (very peaceful religion, by the way, nothing evil about wicca)so I want to dress in dark clothes and be a witch" phase and she would outgrow it. Now, God love him my son is literally terrified of all things paranormal, unfortunately for him he does have the gift, but is so scared of it he blocks it out but when he can't and it creeps up on him his first thought is always to run away. It also gives us plenty of ammunition to torment him, nothing better than getting him all scared and worked up. I remember him spending the night in a motel one night as an adult because he saw something in his own home that scared him. Anyway, he is invited to dinner at Cynthia's house, he isn't old enough to drive so we dropped him off. I remember having a very strange feeling about the house but what really got me was the black squirrels. Now there is nothing wrong with a black squirrel other than they are rare here. This girl's yard and trees were full of them, up until that point I had only seen one in my entire life and to see 30 to 40 in one yard was very strange. He had dinner and we went to pick him up, this was before the days when all kids had cell phones and Cynthia's family didn't have a house phone (remember that part). Poor kid was scared to death, told us how strange they were, all of them dressed in black, he said they had an altar set up in the living room, the more he described I knew they were Satanic followers. The next day at school he sent her a note and told her he didn't think they should be boyfriend and girlfriend anymore. She was enraged and started firing notes at him like you would not believe, threatening notes. He brought them all home to us. I talked to the principle on Friday and he talked to her parents. The following Sunday I wasn't feeling well after church so I had my husband drop me off at home and the rest of the family went to my in-laws for Sunday dinner. I ran a tub full of hot water and bubles and had just settled in with a book and a candle to read it by. The candle would not stay lit even though there was no air blowing to put it out. Then the lights in the house start to flicker on and off. Then my house phone rings and the caller ID simply said "Cynthia", remember they had no phone. The lights continue to flicker and I hear growling sounds, I had a Great Dane at the time who was a lot like Scooby Doo, afraid of everything, he was literally cowering in a corner in the living room. The phone keeps ringing, on most of the calls no one said anything but the caller ID always said "Cynthia", on the last call someone, a man, said "Are you afraid yet?" Damn right I was! Instead of having the good sense to just say yes I replied with a "Fuck Off", probably not the right move. Now I had no lights on in my house, off completely. I quickly recovered and decided lunch at the in-laws was better than a bubble bath with Satan so I called my husband to come and get me, loaded up the dog and left. All was calm when we returned home hours later. The next morning we met with the preacher, told him the story, and he immediately was aware of this family and then he enlightened us on a lot of things we were unaware of and gave us the tapes to listen too. They were confessional tapes of former members of the coven, tell all tapes about the meetings and sacrifices in the area we went hunting in a few months back. I refused for years to go anywhere near that area to hunt.
A few months back I let the team talk me into going. We had a not quite so nice run in with "The Big Witch" as I have named her and for ghost hunters that do this all the time I have to tell all of us left a little shaken and more than ready to get out of there. Again I left there saying I would never go back. But now I have to because my old pal "The Big Witch" for the first time I have ever known has travel away from the area and showed up at my house. I tried to get a picture but it isn't very clear. I am going to show you the original picture, the enhanced picture and then the enhanced with the features labeled.
Original Photo
Enhanced Photo
Labeled Photo, the small lights are nothing more than a radio tower
and some distant street lights.
At any rate we are going to try to lure the witch back to her own place and away from mine on the 25th. We also have another spirit that has been harassing all of our team after two of our team members had a run in with him many years ago. He has decided to make a reappearance for whatever reason so hopefully, we can send him back or at least contain him.
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