Upcoming Investigation in Arkansas

The team will be conducting an investigation this fall at the old Woodruff County Hospital in McCrory, Arkansas. Not much is known about the history of the facility at this point - the building was operated as a hospital since the 1960s or 1970s and later became a nursing home under the name John Davis Woodruff Center. The building has been out of use for the past few years.

This location was brought to our attention this summer when an acquaintance leased the facility. He provided the photo below, which was taken in one of the break rooms at the hospital and appears to show a partial-body apparition in the glass. This is just one of the many encounters that have occurred at the hospital since it was leased. When the weather cools down we look forward to spending some time at the facility and learning about its long-term residents.

Photo Courtesy of S. Peebles.

Recent Residential Investigation

Not long ago, a local resident approached us about investigating some occurrences at his house.  The homeowner said he believed the house was haunted—so haunted, he said, that his wife (who was actually the house’s owner) had moved out and refused to return. Whatever it was, she said, was suffocating her and hurting her.

We didn’t know much about the house’s history, only that it was built in the seventies and its only other occupants had been an older couple.  The wife had died while they were living in the house, but we aren’t positive she died in the house; the husband left shortly after she was gone.  

So we approached this investigation with little certainty of who might be disturbing the resident and his wife.  Could it be the old wife?  Or could it be something that was following the resident’s wife?

We did not bring all our equipment.  There were three of us, more than enough to cover a fairly small house, and we thus did not feel it was necessary to set up an alarming amount of electronics.  

My parents primarily used voice recorders, and I set about taking pictures.  

Ultimately, the house proved itself occupied by something.

We gathered the following pieces of evidence during our investigation: I captured orbs in three photographs.

The first orb is a smudge of what looks like light in motion, moving across the front of the TV cabinet in the living room.  



The second is more significant.  About halfway through the investigation, the resident’s wife and her daughter showed up to see if they could put on display some of the occurrences that had been taking place.  We went back to the master bedroom with them, because we had felt it was the most disturbed room in the house, and the resident’s wife confirmed this as well.  While we were standing in this room with voice recorders, attempting to communicate with her tormentor, I took a picture that revealed a very clear orb hovering just over her head.

The third orb was captured during similar circumstances.  Close to the end of the investigation, my dad was standing in the living room with a voice recorder asking the presence about a theory the resident’s family had come up with: that the old wife had died of a stroke.  During this question session, I took a few pictures…  And in one of them, directly in front of my dad, was the largest and clearest orb of the night.  

The last piece of evidence we captured was shortly after this, as we were all gathered around the dining table with a voice recorder, attempting to communicate with the presence one last time.  We assured the presence that if it really was the old wife, we now understood what she’d gone through, and she would see her husband soon if she would go on.  We then told her goodbye…  And we captured a very clear word, “Bye,” on the voice recorder that was not spoken by any of the people at that table.

Does this prove our theory was right?  No.  But it does prove that something was there, listening to us, attempting to communicate with us.  
And maybe now it’s gone.