10/26/2019
After out first investigation at the ROHS Opera House we decided a second visit needed to happen. We had some things happen that we couldn’t fully explain during the first visit and wanted to see if we could build on those experiences. We went back to the ROHS Opera House, but this time brought more investigators. Nearly our entire team was there along with guest investigators Jason Massey and Jerry Muniz from “From the Shadows Podcast”.
After setting up cameras in the hot spots we divided up into 3 teams. Team 1 was Aaron, Jason, and Jerry. Team 2 was Mandy, Kayla, and Johnny. Team 3 was Mark, Maryann, and Kyle. Team 1 went into the auditorium to begin their EVP session. Team 2 went upstairs to the Aeolian room and Team 3 stayed at home base to watch cameras.
Team 1 seemed to have the most activity during this part of the night. During the EVP session they claimed to hear noises and was not able to debunk them. Jason had his first major paranormal experience. He was sitting in one of the chairs and was asking questions. His EMF detector began to go off as if the spirit was trying to respond to his questions. He heard footsteps and then described what he said felt like a spirit passing through his body.
Team 2 started an EVP session in the Aeolian room. There wasn’t a lot of visible activity, but they did manage to catch some EVPs. They also learned that with Team 1 down in the auditorium, they captured some auto contamination. We had to go back over the audio closely after the investigation so that we could figure out what parts were contamination.
Team 3 sat patiently waiting for the other two teams to return to home base. Once they returned, Team 3 was told about the experiences that were had. We took a short break.
Kyle decided to test his luck with the paranormal and explore the Auditorium on his own. The rest of us watched the cameras and listened to the audio closely during his investigation. Unfortunately, the opera house was silent so he came back to home base so we could try out next experiment.
We decided to venture out into the opera house as a large team. We thought maybe a bigger group in one area would be a trigger for spirits that haunt the location since at one time it was a very active opera house. We started in the Aeolian room, moved to the hallway, and then the balcony. The night had gone quiet…or so we thought. While sitting in the balcony one of the claims we discussed was that people hear whistling coming from the stage. We decided to test that claim to see if we could get any kind of response. We whistled and to our surprise we heard a response. This wasn’t an echo. This was a deliberate response coming from the stage. We did this several times and continued to have responses to our whistles. During this activity, Maryann mentioned feeling like she was touched on the arm. This happened twice. She decided to move over by where Mark was sitting. A few minutes later Mark felt something touch his arm at the same time Maryann felt something touch her shoulder. We were not able to debunk this. With excitement high and the early morning hours quickly creeping up on us, we decided to call it a night.
Before leaving, Maryann, Kayla, and Mark went up to segregation room. This is the part of the balcony that had been made available for African Americans. The room had its own water fountain and bathroom.The view was awful. There is a slight opening in the wall so that if you are lucky enough to have one of the few good seats you would be able to see most of the stage. The other seats were blocked by a wall. We decided to try to do an EVP session in that room even though we knew the audio would most likely be contaminated by the heater. During our EVP session all 3 members of the team felt overwhelmed with sadness at the same time. We tried to get answers to questions, but with the heater running, it was too noisy to hear anything on the audio.
After leaving the segregation room we decided to call it quits. We packed up our gear, said our goodbyes, and headed back home to get some sleep before reviewing the audio and video that we collected.