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…
8-6-06 Investigation
Dave and I arrived at the
memorial around 11:00pm. Dave just got off work and I really wanted to go
out ghost hunting. We got our voice recorders, flashlights and our cameras
and started to make our way up to the site. As we got closer to the
memorial, we could feel a strong presence around. Dave started asking
questions and moved to the far side of the memorial. I walked up the
stairs and took pictures at the memorial. You could hear footsteps walking
around us. At first the noises began to startle me, so I asked Dave if he
had been hearing anything strange. He told me that when we first arrived
he could see two men standing in the memorial.
As we approached the memorial we
noticed that someone placed flowers with a note attached to them. Reading
the card told us that one of the ranger's relatives placed the flowers there in
remembrance and thanking them for there sacrifice. I wanted to know if the
rangers knew of it's arrival so I began calling out to the rangers and asking if
they had seen the flowers. After a few tries and fifteen minutes I stopped
asking questions and we packed up our equipment and left the site.
Conclusion
I pulled all the audio off of all
of the recorders. We only found one voice in all of them that was
questionable. The voice could not be verified, so I let the rest of the
team hear it so they could give me there input. We decided that it wasn't
good enough to be put on the web.
We also looked through all the
photos that were captured. We found a few orbs in the area that didn't
resemble dust. I only kept one of them to put on our website...
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