Location Description and History

Casa Armijo was constructed of adobe sometime before 1880 by El Colorado Don Juan Armijo y Maestas, and later sold to Ambrosio Armijo. It is the classic placita (little plaza) style, developed for defense against raiding by nomadic Native Americans. During the turmoil of the early settlement of Albuquerque, the the building was used as a fort and a refuge. Later. still occupied by the Armijo family, it was used as an early trading post. In 1930 it was restored from a ruin to its present condition and remodeled in conformity with its old character. It is also the only building in Albuquerque with an intact placita (indoor patio). The tree growing inside the restaurant's main dining was built around, sealing the placita and the newly formed room from the elements.

The Casa Armijo is haunted by at least 4 spirits, according to the present managers of the building. The vast majority of reported phenomena seems to occur in the women's restroom and upstairs area.

Readings were fluctuating between 4 and 7 milligauss. The field vanished after several minutes and we could not reacquire it. The room across from this used as a storage area and has activity associated with it as well. it is believed that there is an unfriendly spirit there that dislikes women. In this room we also found a field similar to the one in the manager's office.

We then moved downstairs to the room that is believed to be haunted by the ghost of a eight year old girl. EVP samples were collected here and through out other locations in the building.

Another interesting EM event occurred in the hallway, just before the door leading to the women's bathroom. A strong D/C field of 4 nanotesla was discovered in the middle of the hallway, about 7 feet above the floor. We initially believed that this field was associated with the magnets of the speakers located near by, but after the film was developed, interesting images were in the pictures.

At the end of our investigation we decided to perform a test to see what effect positive ions have on the suspect targets. Several orbs were captured on film and IR video during the test. It appears that the increase of positive ions seemed to excite the targets. They moved up and down the stairs rapidly, appearing only as a "streak" of light on the IR video camera. Personnel were stationed at the foot of the stairs, in the area upstairs adjacent to the stairwell and next to the positive ion generator which was placed half way up the staircase. EM fields fluctuated between 10 milligauss and 3 milligauss. Photographs taken during this event show orange colored "orbs" in them.

Photographs

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Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)

Question asked	Possible response	Listen
What is your name?	Sounds like "Victoria"
How old are you?	Sounds like "eight"
Is there anybody here?	Hard to make out

Video

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	Positive Ion test, Part 1 The first part of our test with positive ions. The lights in the video are an IR source and cannot be seen with the naked eye.
	Positive Ion Test, Part 2 The second half of the positive ion test conducted inside the La Placita restaurant.

An analysis of the video revels that the source of the lights visible in the infrared spectrum seem to be originating from the fourth step from the top of the staircase. No such lights were visible during the control test when the positive ion generator was not used.

It is not known at this time if the lights were a by product of the positive ion generator or a artifact created by the video camera during the event. Future tests of the operability of the video camera reveled it to be in perfect working order.