By David
Miller (Lead Investigator)
Truth Or Myth You Decide
History
In the summer
of 1780 Captain William Phillips, a captain appointed by colonel John Piper, was
given the honor of being accompanied by 10 men to search Morrison’s Cove and the
Woodcock Valley.
Captain
Phillips and the 10 men he got together set out July 15,1780,and marched from
the Cove up over the mountains, into the valley. All of the homes and the farms
were deserted. At the time there was no sign of any Indian life, but they
would be soon surprised. As the night crept up on them they found a
deserted home that belonged to Frederick Hester. Captain Phillips and his
ten rangers stayed the night and waited to the next day.
Sunday July 16, 1780, nearly breakfast time the men awoke to find
the entire home surrounded by Indians. With having 60 Indians surrounding the
home, and all of them armed the men silenced them to wait for any hostel
movement.
For reasons I
don’t know, one of the Indians open fired on the men. As it was self-defense,
the men open fired on the Indians Killing two, and injuring two others. All of
the rangers were not harmed in the fight. At the end, there was to many Indians,
and Captain Phillips surrendered. A few Indians took Captain Phillips and his
son, and the men hand their hands tied up and taken into the woods where after a
while they stopped and tied all of the rangers to trees. There bodies where
found with arrows sticking out of them, and scalped. They were all cut down and
buried at that site…
Our First
Investigation
Jan of 2006,
The Pennsylvania Ghost & Paranormal Research Team did studies on all of the
stories that were found on the ranger’s memorial. In the beginning of January
two of the investigators Dave and myself got equipment together and set off to
search for the site. When we found the memorial we parked and turned on our
cameras and our two digital voice recorders. We started walking up towards the
memorial, when a loud noise grabbed our attention. We noted that the sound could
have been anything as woods surrounded the whole area. We continued up to the
memorial to take pictures and get readings off our temperature gun. The
entire area stayed at a steady 30-degree mark, so we continued to do our
investigation. We both started asking questions to see if we would get any signs
or voice recordings to go with the myth. After the investigation, we left to go
back home to review our equipment. We heard voices in the background of our
questions. We found several different voices answering us as we were
talking to them. We kept reviewing the recording to see if there was any other
sounds that could make us believe that there was a haunting.
I took all of
the information over to the founder of the website (Joe). After reviewing the
information we all came up with the conclusion, that the ranger's memorial is
haunted.
Not to long
after that all three of us went up, with two video cameras, three digital voice
recorders, temperature gun, and two digital Cameras. As soon as we got out of
the car we could feel something was out there, watching us and moving around
with us. We could hear whispering in the wind and see shadowed forms.
As we made our way around the memorial Joe said “I feel really cold here” at
that moment we took pictures of him and also took readings from the temperature
gun. No readings showed on the gun, but he still believed there was
something other than us in the area.
New
Investigations
Dave and I drove up to the memorial and got
out of the car. We could sense that there was something else here.
We moved slowly up to the monument, taking pictures from every direction.
For some reason, we stopped at the bottom step leading up to the monument.
Footsteps of people walking started to get our attention. Taking a few
steps back, I was thinking about leaving. Dave looked at me and told me
that there’s nothing to be afraid of. After that Dave and I walked up the
steps and around the memorial. I started asking questions and taking
readings. Dave sat on the other side of the memorial, so we could get
everything.
The investigation was complete and we were on our way back to the car, when I
heard something behind me. I turned slowly to see a cloudy figure standing
near a tree next to the memorial wall. I froze for a moment and lifted my
camera slow. By the time I got my camera up, the figure faded away.
That was the first entity that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I felt
very special to be able to see it…
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