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Strathearn Ranch  / Rancho El Simi

10/6/2014

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Historical Landmark El Rancho Simi (1795) photo by Gerald S. Reynolds
This investigation was primarily to gain a little insight into the people who lived on the Ranch during the time the Strathearn family owned it.  However, as within any property which has exchanged ownership over the years as this one has, there can be many energies attached to it.  Tough to draw conclusions without in depth research  and tough to draw them just based on audio alone.  My own personal viewpoint and, that is all it is at this point is, there is spirit activity on this site.

     Rancho Simi / Strathearn Ranch has had several owners since  1795 until 1969:  They were,

  • The Chumash (Native Americans) (Pre-Spanish occupation of the land) and prior to 1795.

  • Francisco Javier Pico and his two brothers, Patricio Pico and Miguel Pico

  • José de la Guerra y Noriega

  • the Philadelphia and California Petroleum Company headed by Pennsylvania Railroad president, Thomas A. Scott.

  • In 1887, a portion of the rancho was bought by a newly formed company, the Simi Land and Water Company.

  • During the 1880s, the adobe was occupied by the Jauregues--a family of French Basque sheepherders.

  • Robert P. Strathearn purchased the adobe and 14,000 acres of surrounding land for a cattle ranch during the early 1890s.  His family owned the property until 1969.

 

This information comes from the following sources:

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Simi

  • http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ca/ca16.htm (National Park Service)

  • http://www.simitrailblazers.com/articles/THE%20CHUMASH%20AND%20HOW%20THEY%20LIVED.html ( Simi Trailblazers.com)

 

 

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In the foreground the original adobe and in the back at the end is the two story addition built by the Strathearn family.
Here is a listing of audio captures during our investigation in the Strathearn house:

197  Strathearn House

11:16 AM August 30, 2014

2:51  Unidentified female voice says a name "Patrick Ames".

2:57  Whispered male voice says "Yah you"

3:33:  Unknown voice  "Hey!  Get out of here!"

3:41  Unknown female says "We're next to him"

3:43 Rob taps a piano key and says "That was me" and then a unknown female says "No and Intelligent"

3:45 Male voice says "Hey  Rob"

3:47 Male voice says "No end to it"

7:23 Unknown male voice whispers "They don't believe I'm here"

198 Strathearn House

11:36 AM

Music Room

22 seconds EVPs  two female voices.  One says "Leave me" and the other says "Don't rush it"

23 seconds Echovox,  Female voice says "I'd be buried here today"

26 seconds Echovox, Female voice says "I got married here"

28 seconds Echovox, older Female says "Please leave us"

43 seconds Echovox female says "And Ann let them in"

53 seconds Echovox Woman and man say "Far from here in touch with him"

1:51 Echovox sounds like woman speaking foreign language.  Perhaps German.

2:21 Echovox Rob asks for Robert Strathearn and a female voice says "dead"

199 Strathearn House

12:00 PM Music Room

5:42  I ask if they like cake or pie and a voice says "cake"

5:45  A male voice says "got to have it"

5:47 a female says "Ice cream"

5:51 Older sounding female says "apple too" in regards to apple pie.

6:03 I ask what kind of Ice cream and a female says "apple"

6:10 I ask if they like chocolate ice cream and a female says "apple"

Note: So one could conclude that the question about cake or pie was understood and they even offered a third choice of ice cream.  However, apple pie seemed to be a huge favorite.

203 Strathearn House

12:40 PM Music Room

Reading of Names

1:49  Reading of Strathearn names and there is a strange unknown sound  which may be a vocalization that sounds like "don't go".

204 Strathearn House

12:53 PM Kitchen

Echovox, sounds like two females having a conversation about the investigators being in the house.  One makes a comment and the other says "Ease up, they are suppose to be here".

47 seconds Echovox I asked if Pablo Montero was present and a voice answers "NO"  Then I repeated Pablo Antonio Montero?  The same voice responds "I killed him".


EVPs / Echovox Audio
I asked if they liked cake or pie in the way of deserts and received multiple answers with both cake and apple  as in apple pie being named.  A third choice of Ice Cream was offered by the spirits as well. This was recorded in the Music Room of the Strathearn House.
The following photos were taken by a full spectrum camera.  The lighting in them has not been adjusted.  They are not proof of ghosts or do I claim them to be.  They are interesting for the images that appear in them but, I cannot claim or prove that the images represent a spirit.  Any conclusions as to whether or not they are a spirit will be those made be each of you the individual viewer.  I will say, that one of our team who is very much a sensitive in his own right claims to have seen a woman in this dining room dresses in 1800s style clothing and where her hair up.  Whether or not that lends any credence to these images is up to you and what think.  I will note the primary three photos were taken with the shade raised on the window to the left which let in the day's sunlight.  A fourth picture was taken with the shade down at my suggestion to see how that would effect any picture taken.  As you can see there is no image with the shade pulled down.


Two possible conclusions in regards to the picture with the shade pulled down are 1. The images with the shade up is matrixing  or our imagination, or 2. The spectrum level of light at which the spirit make become visible to this camera designed to detect such levels of light was enhanced by the sunlight.  We will never know either way for certain.


See what you think.
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1st of three consecutive full spectrum photos
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Same first picture but zoomed in and cropped. A square highlights the subject. What do you think?
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Picture 2 and the image may be more apparent to you in this photo. It seems to be more well formed and with more detail.
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Picture 2 zoomed in and cropped.
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Picture 3. Matrixing or do we see the image of what appears to be a young woman in a high collar, old fashioned long sleeve blouse with a long dress and her hair up?
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Picture 3 zoomed in and cropped.
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Picture 4 with the shade pulled down on the window to the left. What do you think?
10 Comments
Craig R. Carpenter link
5/27/2018 06:33:35 am

You were told to never claim a thing! Following the Great Depression a gentleman looking for a place to live with enough land to raise some crops to help his family changed his surname to Strathearn to further his claims as he moved into a home in what is today Wood Ranch. The name was selected from a banner sign over the driveway. The gentleman was arrested and charged accordingly but was allowed to keep the surname and remain in that area, however the family was told never to try to claim anything. It takes Nobilty, to be Strathearn. The name was actually the name of a corporation, Strathearn and Company, my grandfather and Grandmother's company which based on my understanding includes Strathearn Steamship, Strathearn Cattle, Strathearn Mining, Strathearn Savings and Loan, and in Simi Strathearn Glass. Strathearn Glass remained in operation in Simi until approximately 1967 at which point in time several of the artisans moved to Scotland and setup shop there. The Strathearn Glass workshops were moved to the Strathearn Historical Park at that time. My wife and I witnessed the buildings being moved as my grandfather assisted some of the artisans get their savings out of the Savings and Loan. While the buildings were being moved to the Historical Park the sidewalls fell apart and could not be put back together. The buildings were put on display as farm sheds at the Historical Park.

They were told never to claim a thing!

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Penny Koehler link
7/17/2018 09:37:34 am

July 17, 2018


Greetings!

This is a request for permission to include the following photo in an elearning text (see link below) that is owned and copyrighted by United States Post Office.

Historical Landmark El Rancho Simi (1795) photo by Gerald S. Reynolds

This image will be used in an eLearning curriculum about Native Peoples and Missions in California. This interactive curriculum for 4th graders is based on the 2016 California State Board of Education’s California History Social Science Framework, “California: A Changing State.” This is a mini-course with the goal of addressing this subject in a historically accurate and culturally sensitive manner.

This curriculum will be published by Saint Mary’s Press, a nonprofit education publisher and may be distributed in whole or in part.

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Craig
7/17/2018 10:25:31 am

The Strathearn Family didn't really ever own a thing. A gentleman changed his surname in the 1930's following during the Great Depression to match the signage above a drive way in an effort to claim ownership of a home his family had taken up residence in inappropriately. They were told to never claim to own a thing. The Strathearn Family never owned Strathearn an Company which included Strathearn Cattle and Strathearn Glass which was located in what is today Wood Ranch on what is now part of the lower part of the golf course. "STRATHEARN" IS LINKED TO NOBILITY NOT A LAST NAME. IT IS A WAY OF LIFE WITH A FOCUS ON NATURE AND NATURAL THINGS. IT IS NOT A SURNAME ALTOUGH IT BECAM ONE FOR THAT FAMILY. ARTISANS FROM STRATHEARN GLASS MOVED TO SCOTLAND IN 1967AND OPERATIONS THERE AFTER ACQUIRING ANOTHER GLASS COMPANY.

ASK AROUND ABOUT "THE DUCHESS", SAMUEL AND PERL ROYER, IN REGARD TO WOOD RANCH, AS WELL AS CLIFFORD AND MILDRED CARPENTER, AND CHARLES A. COFFIN AND HIS WIFE, SOME OF MY PREDECESSORS.

THERE IS HISTORY WITH SIMI THAT IS IGNORED.

THE LAST CATTLE GRAZING IN OAK CANYON WERE THERE AS PART OF A LEASE AND WERE REMOVED FOR THE LAST TIME IN THE MID 1960's. THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF YHE LAND AND NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF GRASSES WOULD ONLY ALLOW GRAZING FOR A FEW MONTHS A YEAR.

I WAS PRESENT WHEN THE LAST OF THE CATTLE WERE REMOVED FROM OAK CANYON. I WAS ALSO.PRESENT WHEN THE WORK BUILDINGS FROM STRATHEARN GLASS WERE MOVED TO THE STRATHEARN HISTERICAL SITE. TOO BAD THE SIDE WALLS COLAPSED IN THE PROCESS. WE DID SAY IT WAS OKAY TO DUSPLAY THEM AS FARM SHEDS. THEY WEREN'T I HOPE I DON'T REGRET LETTING LISTED INCORECTLY.

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Penny Koehler link
8/10/2018 02:15:09 pm

Hello. Thank you for the information. We would like to use this image in our elearning program and meed your consent. Feel free to connect with me at [email protected]. Thank you for your time.

Penny Koehler
Saint Mary's Press, Winona, MN

Robert
2/18/2019 08:02:34 pm

Craig, are saying the R.P. Strathearn family were/are not actually Strathearn? If you are, I find that very inyinterest as our history has been deeply researched way back into Scottland. This includes the Richardson lineage as well.

Robert
2/18/2019 08:23:18 pm

Strathers didn't own the ranch?

Robert
2/18/2019 08:37:33 pm

Jim Strathearn was my great grandfather. As a kid I spent my time on Middle Ranch, long before 118 was pushed through to Moorpark.

Penny Koehler link
9/14/2018 12:28:18 pm

September 14, 2018


Greetings!

This is a request for permission to include the following photo in an elearning text (see link below) that is owned and copyrighted by Gerald S. Reynolds.

Rise of the Rancheros, by Gerald S. Reynolds (i can't paste the image into this message, but if you contact me via email I can send you what image we are interested in.


This image will be used in an eLearning curriculum about Native Peoples and Missions in California. This interactive curriculum for 4th graders is based on the 2016 California State Board of Education’s California History Social Science Framework, “California: A Changing State.” This is a mini-course with the goal of addressing this subject in a historically accurate and culturally sensitive manner.

This curriculum will be published by Saint Mary’s Press, a nonprofit education publisher and may be distributed in whole or in part.

The projected release date is November 1, 2018 with a tentative selling price of $5.00.
We anticipate publishing approximately 30,000 copies during the life of this curriculum.

We are seeking the right to publish the material in the United States.

If permission is granted, please sign and return one copy of this letter via mail, email, fax. Full credit will be given in the published work.

I’d be delighted to get you in contact with our editors and they can share more about this curriculum if you have questions.

Thank you for your time.

Penny Koehler
Saint Mary's Press
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Laura Grenier link
8/8/2024 11:02:01 am

Thankss for sharing this

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San Jose CA link
3/26/2025 03:53:26 pm

This article provides a fascinating glimpse into the paranormal history of Strathearn Ranch and Rancho El Simi, blending historical context with supernatural investigations. The detailed storytelling and investigative approach make it an engaging read for paranormal enthusiasts and history buffs alike. Adding firsthand accounts, EVPs, or investigative techniques could further enhance the intrigue. A compelling exploration of California’s haunted past!

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