It was a hot day this Saturday. Temperatures hovered from the extreme high 90s to the lower triple digits. Anybody present felt sun baked to say the least. Fortunately it was not humid like many of the days we have experienced in Southern California this summer. Nine of us had shown up to investigate the Mentry house, the home of Charles Alexander Mentry. His house stands within Pico Canyon and once in this dry and dusty canyon there was a town called Mentryville. There are Wikipedia pages and other websites of which you can learn the story of Mentryville but here in this writing I will talk about the possible ghosts of the Mentry house. Most ghost stories are personal experiences and for the nine of us this would be no different. I cannot tell you the complete story as of yet because we are still reviewing our recordings and photos and videos and rehashing in our minds the events of this day.
The highlight of the day. A day filled with many interesting things was what took place in what I believe was the living room of the Mentry house in its hey day. First level of the house, the big room to the right just as you step into the house from the veranda or porch. This room has a walkway directly to the kitchen with what looks like a serving area and window. Which means it very easily have served as a dining room for large gatherings of people as well. There is as equally large room on the south side of the house, just across the hall from this one. Six of our crew decided to do an EVP and ITC session in the large room I first described. All sorts of toys and tickler items to tantalize the ghost into perhaps interacting with them were on the mantle of the fire place and on the floor in front of it. A toy truck, a bottle of Holy water, a device for detecting EMF with different colored lights that surrounded a sphere in the middle. On the mantle of the fire place was an Ipad that contained a application utilized for ITC or Instrumental Trans Communication, along with a Teddy Bear that has a KII / degause meter built into it. If the EMF field of the ghost touched it, blue lights on it's feet and hands would light up accordingly.
It was during this session that a young lady with possibly some intuitive ability, sensed the presence of perhaps a small child. She felt the presence touch her on the shoulder and said it felt like the weight of a child leaning over her. Resting on her back. I had been out in the barn investigating it and when I came back to the house and into this room the young lady was sitting on the floor. As I was standing in the doorway observing the room and what was going on, one of the other investigators who had a heat detecting camera asked me if there was perhaps water laying on the floor to the right of the young lady. Looking down, I could see no water but to my surprise there was a hand print. Excitedly I said "There is a hand print!" Pointing at it as I said this. The investigator with the heat detecting camera immediately came over and looked at it as well. We were surprised to say the least. Everyone in the room looked at the hand print in astonishment. Of course the thought crossed our mind that perhaps the hand print belonged to the young lady. After all it was right next to her leg and it was certainly not out of the question it could have been her hand print. Upon examining the print a couple of things became apparent. One, the substance allowing the print to mark the floor was heavier than water. The young lady had a water bottle and when she moistened her hand and touched the floor the water barely showed up and evaporated almost immediately in the hot air. Secondly, when the young lady placed her hand on the floor and raised it up the area appeared as hot on the heat sensing camera. The hand print in question showed up as dark or cool in reference to what the camera was measuring. The act of trying to duplicate this print was repeated three or four times and always with the same result as described.
One very interesting thing about the hand print which was observed by a few of us was, it began to fade later in the afternoon. There was no doubt it was fading.
Is this paranormal is the big question. The answer is I do not know for certain. I will say that I have been in this house and this room several times before and have never noticed this hand print before. Also, many of us were in this room long before this hand print was seen and nobody saw it until I noticed it. In laying down all that stuff on the floor, you would think somebody would have seen it. A couple of things which may be in favor of it possibly being paranormal is that it showed up as dark on the heat sensing camera and that it began to fade later in the day. In addition, things which were heard or recorded during the EVP / ITC session could add to the validity of the hand print being paranormal. That is yet to be determined.
The highlight of the day. A day filled with many interesting things was what took place in what I believe was the living room of the Mentry house in its hey day. First level of the house, the big room to the right just as you step into the house from the veranda or porch. This room has a walkway directly to the kitchen with what looks like a serving area and window. Which means it very easily have served as a dining room for large gatherings of people as well. There is as equally large room on the south side of the house, just across the hall from this one. Six of our crew decided to do an EVP and ITC session in the large room I first described. All sorts of toys and tickler items to tantalize the ghost into perhaps interacting with them were on the mantle of the fire place and on the floor in front of it. A toy truck, a bottle of Holy water, a device for detecting EMF with different colored lights that surrounded a sphere in the middle. On the mantle of the fire place was an Ipad that contained a application utilized for ITC or Instrumental Trans Communication, along with a Teddy Bear that has a KII / degause meter built into it. If the EMF field of the ghost touched it, blue lights on it's feet and hands would light up accordingly.
It was during this session that a young lady with possibly some intuitive ability, sensed the presence of perhaps a small child. She felt the presence touch her on the shoulder and said it felt like the weight of a child leaning over her. Resting on her back. I had been out in the barn investigating it and when I came back to the house and into this room the young lady was sitting on the floor. As I was standing in the doorway observing the room and what was going on, one of the other investigators who had a heat detecting camera asked me if there was perhaps water laying on the floor to the right of the young lady. Looking down, I could see no water but to my surprise there was a hand print. Excitedly I said "There is a hand print!" Pointing at it as I said this. The investigator with the heat detecting camera immediately came over and looked at it as well. We were surprised to say the least. Everyone in the room looked at the hand print in astonishment. Of course the thought crossed our mind that perhaps the hand print belonged to the young lady. After all it was right next to her leg and it was certainly not out of the question it could have been her hand print. Upon examining the print a couple of things became apparent. One, the substance allowing the print to mark the floor was heavier than water. The young lady had a water bottle and when she moistened her hand and touched the floor the water barely showed up and evaporated almost immediately in the hot air. Secondly, when the young lady placed her hand on the floor and raised it up the area appeared as hot on the heat sensing camera. The hand print in question showed up as dark or cool in reference to what the camera was measuring. The act of trying to duplicate this print was repeated three or four times and always with the same result as described.
One very interesting thing about the hand print which was observed by a few of us was, it began to fade later in the afternoon. There was no doubt it was fading.
Is this paranormal is the big question. The answer is I do not know for certain. I will say that I have been in this house and this room several times before and have never noticed this hand print before. Also, many of us were in this room long before this hand print was seen and nobody saw it until I noticed it. In laying down all that stuff on the floor, you would think somebody would have seen it. A couple of things which may be in favor of it possibly being paranormal is that it showed up as dark on the heat sensing camera and that it began to fade later in the day. In addition, things which were heard or recorded during the EVP / ITC session could add to the validity of the hand print being paranormal. That is yet to be determined.