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Welcome to Lowcountry Paranormal!The coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida are bursting with rich history extending hundreds of years into the past. This history encompasses Spanish and British Colonization, the rise and fall of Native American civilizations, the Revolutionary War, the Age of Pirates, the Civil War, and many other profound historic events leading up to our present times.

Beautiful moss-covererd oaks, thick palmetto trees, expansive salty marshes, white sand beaches, and historic cities make up the landscape, and the atmosphere within encompasses the full gamut from enchanting to eccentric.  However, often with great beauty lies dark secrets.  The unique culture, history… and hardships of the region lends itself to many legends and tales, and is responsible for making this area know as one of the most active paranormal regions in the world.

...And we’re here to investigate it!  Welcome to our paranormal investigation and ghost hunting site, LowcountryParanormal.com!


Lowcountry Paranormal Blog…

Emails like this make it worth it!
Oct 15, 2008


So we’ve obviously been on hiatus from the site being that the last investigation was at the end of May!  Well, we had some side projects that we were working on -including one very busy other website (not related to anything paranormal!) but we are finally back in action!

So, we’re going through all the email, and I wanted to start of with this one that we received, because THIS is the type of stuff that really makes it all worth it!

From: ******
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 12:49 PM
To: Lowcountry Paranormal
Subject: Little Ruth EVP

hi,
My name is Shirley and my family were some of the founding members of Little Ruth Church.  Many of my family members are buried there, (Thacker, Hendley, Looney etc). We listened with great intrest of your EVP recordings, and the one of David Stiltner ( who was buried there early this year, only his skull and leg bone are buried there, he was found in the Ocala Forest in Feb. he had been missing for a while) Right after you say his name, we think the EVP says “Peacock” which was his nick name according to my Uncle who knew him.
We are still asking older family members for more information.
If you would like more information on our family cemetary, please let us know. Intresting note that there some unmarked graves of a couple of children that has since been ‘lost’. The original boundries were along my Great Grandparents’ graves, (as you go down the hill). The Cemetary was expanded about 15 years ago.
Maybe when you go back out there, let us know and we could join you, you might get more activity if there are family members out there.
Thank you,
Shirley *********

This is significant!  Why?  Because not only did I think that the EVP clearly says “Peacock” at the end, it doesn’t say “Peacock” anywhere at the grave site (so I had no clue WHY I would have that strange, abstract word on my recording), and I didn’t mention anywhere in the EVP’s description that I thought it said “Peacock”.  So, now we have confirmation that something that sounds an awful lot like “Peacock” is said right over the grave of a man with that nickname -but the nickname isn’t on the tombstone- and the family member heard the same thing I did!

I think this is all truly phenomenal, and here is the EVP we are talking about:


-Ruth Church Garble-


Investigation Link: 4/06/08 - Ruth Church and “1800s” Cemetery

Ok, this one is VERY STRANGE, and pretty long for an EVP, and both recorders caught it!  Unfortunately, you can’t make out what it’s saying, but it’s definitely human sounding… and it clearly wasn’t us.

First, let me explain what I did in this clip… I spliced together one section from another recorder.  You can hear the sound quality change radically.  I did this because the second recorder caught a bit at the end that sounds like a whisper that the first one didn’t pick up (but the first one’s quality was much better during the first part).

If anyone can decipher what this is, I’d be happy to hear from you!  lol… Maybe this is what the alleged resident succubus sounds like!  After listening to it over and over, it does sound somewhat menacing…



John: "Leon... David Leon Stiltner..."
[LONG STRING OF GARBLED EVPS]
[QUICK INSERT OF WHISPERY EVP FROM SECOND RECORDER]
John: "They were only 50, right?"

Anyway, I hope you guys understand the significance of all of that!  Always suspecting that the word “Peacock” was said, wondering why on earth and EVP would say “Peacock”, and then having a family member tell me that “Peacock” was the guy’s nickname is pretty profound to me!  I’m really looking forward to going back to that graveyard and asking some more questions now that I know the history.  I’ll probably contact the family as well!

-John

PS- The story in the email does check out: “Officials release ID found at camp site; seek contact with family, friends” -Ocala.com, Feb. 27th, 2008

Posted by John
Lowcountry Paranormal Web Ghoul
10/15/08 at 06:33 PM

The “Daylight Infrared Photography” section is up!
May 25, 2008


For those of you looking for a cheap way to add a very effective ghost hunting tool to your arsenal, check out our new site page, Daylight Infrared Photography - “How to” guide for taking ghost photos in daylight.

This shows how you can use a cheap lens to temporarily convert your digital camera into a device that photographs the infrared spectrum… the spectrum where the most compelling photographic/video evidence is found!

As far as investigations, I’ve got a bunch more evidence to go through and post.  Sorry for the delay, but I’ve been busy with the development of several other sites.  Good news, though… this includes our sister site, “Haunted Lowcountry”, a site containing ghost stories and haunted legends from South Carolina’s Grand Strand to Florida’s First Coast!  Some stories are already up, but more is on the way soon, so check it out!

-John

Posted by John
Lowcountry Paranormal Web Ghoul
05/25/08 at 11:44 PM

Weekend plans in St. Augustine…
May 01, 2008


This weekend we’re planning a trip to St. Augustine!  I really can’t wait!  It’s such a beautiful, fun city, plus it happens to be chocked full of ghost stories and potential hauntings.  It’s only a 45 minute drive from home, but we still don’t get over there as much as we’d like.  At some point we’ll stay and investigate some of the haunted inns, but I’m crazy excited just to visit rest of the city too.  The potential is high for us to get some really great evidence as long as we can find a quiet moment - in such a big tourist town that might be challenging.  Wish us luck and have a good weekend!

Posted by Katie
Lowcountry Paranormal Ghost-Herder
05/01/08 at 08:58 PM

RSS feed now on the site!
Apr 30, 2008


Exciting times, exciting times!  The RSS feed is now up and running for Lowcountry Paranormal investigations!  I’m still working on adding membership functions and comment sections, but already I can set up others to do “affiliate investigations”.

Got some evidence but nowhere to put it??  Let me know and I can set you up.  Then this site… will be our site! 

Unfortunately, my computer is in the shop for a while… sure, I have access to another one, but there is some evidence on it from three investigations that I’m going to have to wait a few weeks on before I can go over it!  Ooops.  Well, ordinarily I would have kept it on the recorder just in case until I finished going over it, but we returned it to the store.  If you want high quality EVP recordings… don’t use RCA digital voice recorders!  The Olympus ones are out of this world, though, and that’s what we at Lowcountry Paranormal are exclusively using right now!

-John

Posted by John
Lowcountry Paranormal Web Ghoul
04/30/08 at 06:48 AM

The site… has arrived!
Apr 25, 2008


The Lowcountry Paranormal site is FINALLY “open for business”!  There is much more information that needs to be put up, but at least the framework is up-and-running now.  Look for an RSS feed soon so that you can get updated whenever we have completed and posted a new investigation!

We’re looking forward to posting our investigations as well as having “guest authors” share and describe their own investigations and evidence!  In fact, if you have stumbled on this page and have some great evidence that you’d like to share, let us know and we can set you up as an affiliate Lowcountry Paranormal investigator.

-John

Posted by John
Lowcountry Paranormal Web Ghoul
04/25/08 at 07:49 PM

Most Recent Investigations…

• 5/10/2008 - Old City Cemetery and “School Four”
Downtown and Riverside - Jacksonville, FL


This investigation took us to two of the most classic and infamous Jacksonville locations, Old City Cemetery and “School Four”!

Each, honestly, was a bit of a let down in it’s own way, but we did get a couple of things worth sharing!  While Old City Cemetery was disappointing because of the noise, the homeless, and the decline of that part of the city in general… Annie Lytle Elementary School, a.k.a. “School Four” has proved to be a colossol “urban legend” run amuck.  In fact, every Jacksonville resident would be well served to read my location page on “School Four”! It’s amazing how a little digging can “enlighten you” about many of the things you’ve believed for years!

Old City Cemetery:

Old city cemetery, as I described on the location page, isn’t an ideal place… Click here to read more!


• 4/27/2008 - Bell Cemetery II and Nolan Ridge IV
Jennings State Forest - Jacksonville, Florida area


We got two fair EVPs from our second visit to Bell Cemetery… both of them a direct response to what we were saying or doing!  One of them is very hard to hear because I was using a new EVP recorder and I didn’t have the low filter set properly… it was lost in the rumble a little bit.  It’s still barely there though!

Unfortunately, our audio evidence from our fourth visit to Nolan Ridge was CONTAMINATED!  How was it contaminated??  ....By the loudest secada bugs in the history of the planet Earth!  The more experience you have doing this stuff, the more you get amazed at what can ruin every bit of evidence you have.

Like I said, the Nolan Ridge audio had to be scrapped, but I’m pretty happy with the ones from Bell… Click here to read more!


• 4/26/2008 - Padgett-Mosley 2, St. Margaret’s, Little Ruth Church 2
Jennings State Forest and Green Cove Springs, FL


This investigation showcased the very brief life of my RCA digital voice recorder… which was promptly returned to Wal-Mart after I listened to the absolutely deplorable, horrendous quality!  Lesson learned… don’t spend $30 on a DVR.

We went to three locations this time: a return to Padgett-Mosley, a new spot: St. Margaret’s Church, and a return to Little Ruth Church.  We caught a couple of EVPs, including one that would have been a great one, but it was caught with that poor-quality RCA so it distorted!  The one from St. Margaret’s was pretty good, though…

Let me say a few words about that RCA… it really was the poorest sounding audio I’d ever heard.  It distorted so bad, even on low volume sections, that when I swore… it sounded like “Jeezthuth KKKKrrrrith”! lol..  I downloaded the… Click here to read more!


• 4/08/08 - Manning Cemetery and Nolan Ridge (III)
Jennings State Forest - Jacksonville, Florida area


Although there were some odd noises at Manning Cemetery, nothing really made the cut for presenting based on our standards.  I guess that adds a little more to the theory that the place is either hot or not!  Worthy of mention though, there was another creepy, loud whisper that was caught on BOTH recorders, but I couldn’t make out anything intelligible.  I guess I need to leave an English Dictionary next time I go for better communication! lol…

However, never seeming to disappoint, Nolan Ridge gave us a couple of EVPs worth sharing, including BLOOD CURDLING SCREAMING and one from around the grave of “Katie G. Barrett"… again!

Don’t forget to reference the “related locations” link at the bottom for more information about these two locations and directions on how to get there so you can… Click here to read more!


• 4/06/08 - Ruth Church and “1800s” Cemetery
Green Cove Springs, FL


This was truly a mix of cemeteries today… one was modern, and one had Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans buried there!  Unfortunately, the noise pollution was off-the-charts at the historic one.  I think my ears are still ringing from trying to listen for evidence over the roar of the cars and trucks on the highway! 

At Little Ruth Church, however, we did get a couple of interesting things (even though we weren’t chased by succubuses like the “urban legend” suggests).  One of them seems to be a direct response, and the other one is a very strange EVP to say the least!  If anyone can tell me what it says -and it’s saying things- please let me know!

So like I said, the historic Hickory Grove left us empty handed, but we got a couple… Click here to read more!


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About Lowcountry Paranormal…


Lowcountry Paranormal is a team of “Scientific Ghost Hunters” that investigates coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida… from the Grand Strand to the First Coast!  This area includes such historically haunted cities as Charleston, Savannah, and St. Augustine. 

Leaving out the so-called over-ther-top “spiritual” and “psychic” aspects of paranormal investigations that has given such a bad name to a phenomena worthy of much more study, we are attempting to capture raw scientific evidence to further the credence and viability of paranormal research in the larger, mainstream community.

Lowcountry Paranormal coverage map… from South Carolina's Grand Strand to Florida's First Coast!

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