By David Miller (Lead Investigator)

History

On April 24, 1856, The Cox’s family sat down for breakfast.  After breakfast (Samuel) the father was getting ready to go out into the woods to hunt. While (Susannah) the mother was cleaning up after breakfast, the two young boys George  (7) and Joseph (5) went out the door to go with their father.

As time went by Samuel took a different path home, not seeing that his two boys were following.  As the boys followed their father deeper and deeper into the woods they realized that they had lost him.

When Samuel arrived home, he found out the boys followed him into the woods.  He went out to call for them, but there was no response.  Samuel raced over to the neighbor’s house to get help and then called upon the other neighbors for additional assistance.

The night came fast, but it was warm that evening so he knew his boys would survive the darkness.  As the sun came up the next day, the search started again. This time with a lot more people than they had before.  The men searched for miles for the boys, but no one came back with any information about the boys.  The parents of the Cox children began to look guilty and the other town’s people began to accuse them of murder. 

             About 12 miles away, a farmer named Jacob Dibert had a dream that he could not understand.  He explained that in his dream he was doing a solo search for the boys.  As he was rummaging around for any signs, he came across a dead deer.  He decided to follow the blood trail it had left behind, but to his surprise he found a small child’s shoe at the end of the trail.   He continued to follow the trail searching desperately for another clue of the boys.  He crossed a creek and followed it until he saw a large tree that had fallen down.  At the end of the tree, where the roots were, he saw two boys lying together dead.  Jacob didn’t know what to think about his dream when he awoke, but he did know that he had to tell his wife.  After telling her, he woke up many nights after, having the same dream.  Finally he told his wife to tell her brother about the dream, hoping that he would know what it meant.  Her brother (Harrison Whysong) told them that the woods that he described were familiar to him.  They got some people together and went out into the woods to see if what he dreamt was actually there.  They followed the dream exactly the way it happened and found the shoe and the deer exactly where he did in his dream.  It ranged from two to five minutes after that, when they found the two boys dead at the foot of a tree that had fallen down.

The 1^st Investigations

At the beginning of our investigation, Dave and I started just going up to pay our respects.  As we were moving around the memorial, we would feel a presence of something that we could not see.  After hearing that my sister (Ashley) and her boyfriend (Joe founder of the website) were doing investigations. We asked them if they would want us to help them out, since they both worked and I had nothing better to do. I told them that Dave and I would go out and see if the places that everyone were talking about being haunted were real or a hoax.

The memorial was actually the first stop we made, because we knew a lot about it and also had feelings there before.  When we got there we had a camera and a DVR.  We started asking questions about their deaths and why they’re still stuck wondering the woods.  We got a voice recording right after the first couple questions.  After that we got many more feelings of them being around and also a lot more Voice recordings.

            On the third investigation we were walking around the memorial asking questions and taking pictures. When Dave told me to take a picture of him.  At first I looked at him and said “what”, because at first I didn’t hear him.  When I did take the picture I didn’t see anything that would be worth keeping.  When we left there and went home to review the evidence, I looked through the pictures and zoomed up on all of them.  I wasn’t aware that the picture I was zooming up on was the one I took of Dave earlier that night.  I thought I saw something in his hands, so I zoomed up, and when I did I saw something around his left hand.  I asked him if he had anything else in his hand that night and he said no.  With the gloves that he wore that night, it was too hard to hold anything else.

I took the picture to Joe to see if he could find out what it was, but he couldn’t even figure out what was there.

To this day we can’t figure out what was in or around Dave’s hand that night, but we also have the unsolved question of the remaining spirits of Pavia.

                New Investigation

                Dave and I started going back to the memorial with more equipment after a while.  We took an EMF detector, thermo gun, and infrared cameras.  We also had all the older equipment that we had before like our digital voice recorders and digital cameras. 

                The investigation started and we began to notice that the sense of a presence was not as strong like before.  We walked further up the trail to discover that our feelings became stronger the further back we walked.  After doing some research we discovered that the memorial itself had been moved at least 3 times due to various reasons.  Our theory is that the actual death of the boys took place further back on the trail, thus the stronger feelings.  During the investigation I realized that I brought a squirrel hat along, since the boys used to collect them I thought it would be a good idea to bring one.  Dave put on the hat and we continued.  Dave wore the hat because the boys seemed to have a better response to him, why we don’t know.  As we walked Dave noticed something moving in the woods, which oddly enough appeared to be human.  I stood still and Dave crept towards it, trying to see if it was real or an illusion.  Dave made a dead stop and told me to start snatching pictures because he saw two small figures run to the right of us.  I began taking pictures all around me, trying to catch any kind of phenomena.   As I was taking pictures I noticed the stillness of Dave again, and like before he pointed in a direction and told me to take pictures.  This time he said that he saw a very large white orb in the distance, which sat by its self in between two trees.  The orb caught in the picture, as you can see below, is the brightest and most solid orb we have photographed yet.  The orb is not done by illusion or rain/dust/snow because the weather was clear that night, and a single piece of dust does not appear like that on a digital photo.

Later that week I went to our founder’s house (Joe) to show him the footage of the evidence from that night.  The pictures and the various EVP’s amazed him, which were recorded on that one evening.

                The last investigation that Dave and I did involved him taking pictures on a night with a full moon.  The picture you see below was believed to be a full moon, but after analyzing the photos again we noticed that the bright circle was continuous and moving throughout the photos.  One other detail we noticed was that in another picture the bright circle (down below) was captured in the same photo as the moon.

One night I took my girlfriend and her friend up to the memorial to show them around and what I do in my spare time.  I thought it would be a good idea to snap some photos, just incase, but I didn’t think I would actually get any type of paranormal evidence.  The picture you see was a gust of fog coming towards my right hand side.  When I snapped the photo, it was nothing I’ve ever seen before, so I kept it.  Our founder (Joe) believes that it could be Echo Mist.