Waverly Hills Sanitarium Investigation

Another experience on the 4th floor occurred with Nicole S, Lisa Krick, and Jenny Krick while performing laser experiments down the long hallways. At one point, Lisa and Jenny were down the same hallway while Nicole and I were together both shining lasers down the hallway. Several times, they were broken or the red laser beam seemed to move closer to us. A window at the end of the hallway continuously became blocked at times like someone was standing in front of it.

Another time on the 4th floor later on during the night, Nicole S, Dave Guss, and I were performing more laser experiments. At one point from the ambient outdoor light, I saw a black figure crouch down at the end of the hallway and begin to walk towards us. Another experience that happened only several minutes later, scared me for quite some time that Dave and I actually jumped and grabbed each other. Nicole S had been sitting in a chair shining the laser beam down the hallway while Dave and I stood next to her. Approximately 15 feet in front of us on the right, a shadow figure came out of the doorway, stood there, and preceded to walk towards us. I believe with our sudden movement, it darted back into the doorway.

While performing an EVP session in the 4th floor operating room with Nicole S and Dave Guss, there were many temperature fluctuations and cold spots that seemed to move around the room, but never venture over to Dave. None of us had temperature equipment, but there were drastic differences. The windows were open, but there were no drafts coming in and the outside temperature was much more humid and hot than the particular areas.

My final experience occurred in the 1st floor morgue with Nicole S, Dave Guss, and Matt Hucke. We were all sitting and performing an EVP session and I kept seeing a shadowy figure behind Matt Hucke near the gurneys. Nothing emerged in the still photos from my digital camera. I felt like I had been touched one time on my hand that was resting in my lap. I was sitting in the middle of the room and I checked to make sure that there were no spider webs or anything. Also, my hair had been pulled back and there were no loose strands on me.

EVPs: Several possible ones. 

Jim Graczyk: This was my second trip to Waverly so I was pretty geared up for this event. I would be assisting other members as well as investigating this enormous location. Waverly is full of surprises along with strange feelings so I will try to explain my occurrences I encountered.

I was partnered up with Jim P. throughout the majority of the night and we worked rather well as a team. Each of us was always within eye sight and we always suggested ideas on where to explore. Communication was the key!

The first event I encountered was on the fourth floor as Jim and I were helping set up the command center. As we finished hauling gear up to that area, Jim and I decided to wander down the fourth floor hallway toward the opposite end of the building. This was the location were shadow people have often been encountered and the long dark hallway could be a little hectic. As Jim and I were walking down the hallway, of course no flashlights on, I started to get the feeling as we shouldn't be here and run. It was as though we were walking into some place we shouldn't be invading and just get away. I didn't say anything to Jim P., but am guessing since our pace picked up without saying a word; he might have been thinking the same thing. As Jim P. and I got into the stairwell up to the fifth floor the feeling subsided. We explored the fifth floor without any problem. As Jim P. and I descended back down the stairs I thought to myself, here we go again down that fourth floor hallway. This time as we made our way back to the command post, I didn't get that feeling but we both kept checking the side rooms and behind as us. Nothing happened and we survived that incident.

Later that night, Rosemary, Jim P. and I were conducting an EVP session with Frank's Box on the fourth floor in a side patient room. It was my first time personally working with Rosemary and that piece of equipment. Jim P. and I watched and listened as Rosemary asked questions. Once in awhile, either Jim P. or I would wander a few feet and look down the halls to see if anything or anyone was coming toward us. Jim P. and I did see shadows moving around down the hall and told Rosemary. We moved the EVP session and watched the shadows moving, some staying their distance while a few seemed to be getting closer to us. Jim P. and I did watch behind us and checked our sides too. No surprises were going to be tossed at us! We finished up and we did walk where we saw the shadows and nothing or nobody was there. We were now at the opposite end of the hall where we did the EVP on the fourth floor so we made our way down to the third floor.

Rosemary, Jim P. and I made our way toward the third floor to see if we could pick up some EVP in that area. So we couldn't have missed anything in the all and made sure nothing would come between the three of us. Now we walked all the way down to the opposite area of the hall passing through the long hall. We were just about the same area where we did EVP on the fourth floor but only on the third floor. Rosemary did her thing and asked questions. Once again, Jim P. and I watched the hallway. Rosemary decided to move the experiment into the hallway. All three of us saw shadows moving and Rosemary made a direct point to say that whoever is there that they were not to get close to us, touch us or cause any harm. I did see a shadow coming pretty close but strayed away on Rosemary's comment. Rosemary was pretty intense session and all three of us were trying to focus on the shadows down the hall. The shadows were different sizes it appeared to be. As Rosemary was asking questions, Jim P. flinched and said something causing Rosemary to react and scream. I at the moment had my hands full holding parts of Franks Box since we were mobile. My reaction was to turn toward Rosemary and Jim P.! I got startled and don't recall exactly what I said, but it was probably a curse word since I had no clue of what the heck just happened. Jim P. apparently had a bat fly pretty close to him and ducked, but we thought otherwise and just reacted. We laughed at the moment and got back to our session. Later, as we still were watching the movement down the hall, decided it was time to move closer. As all three of us were walking back down the hall in total darkness, I saw some sort of black mass on the floor in front of us. We turned on flashlights and immediately saw an old raggedy dusty ball. Rosemary and Jim P. investigated the area as well as picking up the ball. The ball was dusty and old and Rosemary took some pictures of it! All three of us were puzzled since there was no way we would have missed that ball when we walked down the hallway earlier. One of us would have kicked it since we were almost shoulder to shoulder! There were no other investigators in the area during our time on that floor so this ball remains a mystery.

Rosemary, Jim P. and I did do EVP session on the fifth floor and in the morgue area on the first floor. Rosemary would go on to review those as well as the previous floor we investigated.

I reviewed my digital pictures and did see anything out of the ordinary. My findings are that there are shadow people on both the third and fourth floor. Be careful of the few bats flying around, they won't hurt you but fly pretty close. No other events happened to me at the investigation.

Dale Kaczmarek: I did not pick up anything more than unusual with EMF sweeps. However while doing a mini-box session with Guiley, J. Tito, and Joey Tito captured an unusual picture. Joe was experimenting using a remote controlled truck and calling on the spirit of Timmy to move the truck. When Guiley asked Timmy to move the truck the voice I heard come over the mini-box sounded like "It's hard". Guiley then suggested that Timmy bring some friends to help move the truck. I immediately snapped a IR picture down the opposite end of a vacate corridor and later found 3-4 shadowy figures of differing heights that appeared to be about 30 feet away.

Matt Hucke: I experienced nothing out of the ordinary at Waverly.

At the beginning of the investigation, we split up and wandered off from the area where the equipment had been brought in; I was with Dave Guss. We thoroughly explored the first and second floors, briefly explored the fourth and fifth, then joined others in the group at the command station on the fourth floor. From there, we went to the tunnel with other members.

After a break in the visitor centre, I returned to the building with Nicole, Nicole, and Dave. We performed a brief EVP experiment in the first-floor morgue; I reported feeling a bit of pressure in my ears, but nothing else unusual. After this, I sat alone quietly on the third floor for a while, on the side of the building with the large open windows, hoping something might manifest, but nothing did. I shot many infrared photos then. I then walked in on an experiment conducted by a non-GRS investigating team, in which they asked "Timmy" to manipulate a number of balls on the floor. Though I watched this experiment for about thirty minutes, the balls did not move on their own during this time. After this, we gathered the equipment and departed.

Jim Piscopo: At Waverly I was teamed up with Jim G. Rosemary asked us if we could help her with the EVP equipment. We took the stairs to the fourth floor and turned right. We went to the last room on the right and set up. While Rosemary was doing the EVP Jim and I walked to the door and we saw shadow people about 30-40 feet down the hall. We called Rosemary over and we watched them for about 10 min. There were at least 3 of them with on being taller than the others. We watched then going back and forth between two rooms. After about 10 min. we gathered up the equipment and walked down the hall. In the middle of the floor where the shadow people were was a dusty old ball that wasn't there when we walked down the hall earlier.