The family living in the house are old friends of some of the GLPARS members. They asked GLPARS to come and perform an investigation to see if anything could be found. Some reports of activity include:

• Footsteps on the stairs
• Footsteps downstairs
• Small figures and movement in the upstairs TV room
• Odd sounds in the basement
• Feelings of being watched in the basement

There are two adults, three children, two dogs, two guinea pigs and one cat in the house.

The house is an older home in the Indian Village historic neighborhood of Detroit. The age of the home is estimated to be 80-90 years. The home has two full floors plus a full-sized basement and attic.

The following equipment was used:

• 1 Cellsensor EMF Detector
• 3 Olympus Digital Voice Recorders
• 1 Kodak DX4530 Digital Camera
• 2 Sony HC38 (with NightShot) video cameras with HVC-IR external lights

There was great interest from the residents of the home in the investigation process. With this in mind, we decided to keep the group together and not split up.

We decided to target the basement and upstairs TV room. Todd and Paul did a complete EMF sweep of the areas that were of concern. Since this is an old home with old electrical wiring, we were not surprised to find some areas of higher EMF. One area was in the basement near the stairwell, but not quite reaching it. We initially thought that perhaps this was causing a "fear cage", but the EMF zone seemed to be approximately two feet in diameter and did not flow over onto the stairs. The EMF fields in the upstairs were caused by old light switches, outlets and old phone lines.

We left a voice recorder in the following locations:

• Living room
• Upstairs TV room
• Basement

We had a video camera running in the basement and carried the other with us. The digital camera was also carried with us.

None at this time.

To be honest, we were not really expecting to find a whole lot of evidence with this investigation.  Our main purpose was to try to debunk as many of the claims as we could.  We were successful in determining that a couple of areas in the home were producing high EMF readings, which could cause some issues to someone who is sensitive to them.  Because of the architecture and layout of the home, sound seemed to carry very well. Between that and the fact that there are five pets, we feel that many of the footsteps heard could be explained via non-paranormal happenings.

Much to our surprise, we were able to capture three EVPs that we were not able to explain away.  No one present had any strange feelings or feelings of being watched.

Beased on our findings and the reports from the family, we think that there could be a minimal amount of paranormal activity happening in the home.  We are not able to call this house haunted per se.  There seems to be no negative feel to the house whatsoever.