Investigation Report

Location: Oliver House, Bisbee, AZ
Date: 14 October 2002
Personnel Participating: Cody Polston, Bob Carter, Team 1, 93.7 KRQ
Weather Conditions: Clear
Humidity: 31%
Geomagnetic Storm Activity: Geomagnetic K-index of 4
Temperature: 72
Number of Photos taken: 379
Number with possible targets: 10
Average EM Readings: 7 mg
Average M fields Readings: 1 nt
Average E Field Readings: 1 vpm
Cold Spots detected: None
Hot Spots Detected: None
Olfactory Phenomena: None
Visual Phenomena: None
Type of Investigation: Ghost Hunt

All information and photos Copyright 2002 to 2005 by Cody Polston, Bob Carter and SGHA. All Rights Reserved.

Location Description and History

A historical home in Bisbee, the Oliver house is haunted by several spirits. Edith Oliver built the house for executives of the various mining companies until they all merged in the Dodge Phillips corporation.

The house has also served as a boarding house for miners. Twenty seven people have died in the home since its construction. The house is also the scene of a unsolved murder.

In the late 1800's, Nathan Anderson was shot between the eyes in the room at the top of the staircase. It is rumored that Anderson was bedding the wife of a local policeman who shot them both before heading downstairs to kill everyone in the parlor.

He then committed suicide.

Today the house is a Bed and Breakfast, tucked away in Bisbee.

Reported Phenomena

In the Grandma room a older lady died of natural causes and seems to stay in the residence as a kind of protector. She moves the rocking chair and prefers to rock in front of the window. She is seen late at night in the room, either in the rocking chair or dusting the room.

People staying in the Purple Sage room have witnessed the shutters and doors opening and closing by themselves.
The Plum room has moving cold spots and people have the feeling of being watched.

Doors open and close in the hallways. Footsteps have also been heard.

The Investigation

The Oliver House Bed and Breakfast was our choice of accommodations during our stay in Bisbee. We were accompanied on this ghost by by DJs and staff from 93.7 KRQ (Tucson) to prerecord a Halloween program for the Donovan Show.

We started out by doing EM sweeps of both floors of the building and then focusing on the areas where we found interesting EM fields. The three main areas of reported activity, the Purple sage Room, the Plum room and the Grandma room all had unusual fields associated with them. Many of the fields would move about and then vanish completely.

We also detected unusual EM fields in the "Murder Room". Video shot in this room shows an "orb-like" object as it moves out from the center of the bed. A strong D/C electromagnetic field is detected before the object turns and flies into an investigator's chest, who is lying on the bed. She immediately gets a very unpleasant feeling and has to leave the room. The timing of these events is what makes this video interesting.

After the ghost hunt, the Team hunkered down in their individual rooms for the remainder of the night. Cody and Bob shared the "Murder Room" but did not have anything unusual happen during their stay.

Photographs

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Video

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Cody points out an area where a strange electromagnetic field is being detected. As he shows the area where the field is, an "orb-like' object moves towards the center of the picture from the left bottom of the frame.

This object is interesting because it vanishes in center frame. Dust and airborne pollutants move across the picture, exiting the frame as the particle moves in front of the camera lens.

More "orb-like" objects in this video clip although the last two are probably dust particles. The most interesting "orb' originates from the center of the dresser and moves off towards the left of the picture.

A strong D/C field was detected during this particular occurrence.

This video was shot in a room where several murders took place.

In the first section an "orb-like" object moves out from the center of the bed as a strong D/C electromagnetic field is detected.

The object then flies into an investigator's chest, who is lying on the bed. She immediately gets a very unpleasant feeling and has to leave the room.

Nothing serious here, just a little bit of "ghostly" humor at the Oliver House.

Initial Conclusions

In addition to several video clips, we also got several interesting images. The picture of the second floor hallway (left) was taken after a EM field of 9 milligauss was detected and being measured.

The "white mist" in this photo and the one taken after it, actually block the view of the investigators in the hallway. The third picture was taken down the hall right as the EM field scaled downwards to zero on the meter. It contained nothing of interest and was "normal".


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