Return to Octagon Hall

Date: May 28, 2013

Location: Octagon Hall; Franklin, KY

Our prior trip to Octagon Hall yielded one of the best phenomena we’ve ever captured: the floating pillar of light in the winter kitchen.  Despite its inhuman appearance, this specter is arguably the closest we’ve come to capturing a full-body apparition; it certainly behaved in a human-like manner.  And it was because of our prior success that we decided to return as a group to the Octagon.

The night began with a trek down to the cemetery to set up a flashlight and video camera.  While in the cemetery, I snapped a few pictures and captured in one what seems to be a moving orb, a small horizontal smudge of light.

"Moving orb" observed in the cemetery. 

Shortly after this event, Don went upstairs with a voice recorder and tried to find a silent location.  This proved to be difficult, and when he casually expressed his frustrations by saying “They sure are noisy, aren’t they?”, his voice recorder picked up on a very casual response that he didn’t hear at the time: “Yes.” This EVP can be heard below. 

The only other notable event of the night occurred when Hayley and Beverly went down to the winter kitchen.  Like before, we had set up an infrared camera that was aimed towards the room’s fireplace.  Between the camera and the fireplace was a table, and on this table was a flashlight, placed there so that any possible presence in the room could turn it on and off in front of the camera.  Shortly after Hayley and Beverly entered the room, the flashlight began to roll across the table.  There are, of course, a number of perfectly normal explanations for this, and Hayley was unfortunately blocking the camera’s view of the event.

Image showing the original location the flashlight left in the winter kitchen.

Image showing the location of the flashlight after it rolled across the table while Beverly and Hayley observed.

The Octagon did not provide us the excellent results that it did the first time, but capturing something truly remarkable on every visit to any place, no matter how haunted it is, is not a realistic expectation to have.  We’ve enjoyed every visit to the Octagon, and it has provided us hours and hours of quality investigation.  For obvious reasons, we maintain that Octagon Hall is extremely haunted.

Mitch.