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Nolan Ridge Cemetery - Jennings State Forest, FL

I’ll just flat out start with it… I think this place is hot with activity.  ...And from the EVP evidence we have gotten, we aren’t sure if we’d necessarily consider what is there as “benevolent”!

There are all sorts of local rumors about this place, but there really isn’t a definitive source of information (and I think this page is the only page on the entire internet about it at this time).  Of course, like most local rumors, legends, and tales… I don’t usually believe a single word of it. 

We’ll keep trying to find out more information about it, and I don’t want to even write what I’ve heard because it sounds a little silly.  But check out our evidence and you can make your own opinions about what is going there!

This cemetery has the same style as Padgett-Mosley Cemetery, and also a large percentage of younger deaths.  It’s one of the four cemeteries in Jennings State Forest, and I consider it a “must see”. 

Investigations we've done here...

• 4/27/2008 - Bell Cemetery II and Nolan Ridge IV

• 4/08/08 - Manning Cemetery and Nolan Ridge (III)

• 4/04/08 - Bell Cemetery and Nolan Ridge (II)

• 3/29/08 - Padgett-Mosley Cemetery and Nolan Ridge

Evidence we've found here...

Here are the EVPs and other audio evidence that we have found at this location. Please see the above "Investigations we've done here" section to read more about the context...

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-“I Love You”-

GHOSTS LOVE ME!  Both Katie and I absolutely believe that this IS NOT Katie! Admittedly -as some of you probably know- Katie and I say “I love you” to each other probably ad nauseam to the average bystander. There is definitely without a doubt an “I love you” said here, but it is NOT Katie. You have to trust me on this… even though it’s female, it’s not “consistent sounding” to the rest of her audio sounds on the two 10-minute recordings. It’s too close, too bright, and too clear compared to her speaking immediately before and after it. Also, it’s way too soft… it’s almost like someone tried to whisper it in my ear (or rather… right into the recorder). At the time of this recording, she wasn’t standing close enough to me for a whisper like that to be as loud as it was, in fact… I don’t think it would have picked up anything if she did whisper anything that softly.

Also, very much unlike me… I don’t acknowledge that she said anything at all, and I’m sorry… but if I didn’t respond to Katie’s “I love you”, I don’t think she wouldn’t have left it hanging!

John: "Gah..."
[camera turns on]
John: [humming a lovely melody] "hmmm hmm hm hmm hmmmm."
[camera "ready" beep, and I take a picture]
EVP: I love you
John: "I wonder if it annoys some of these people to have to hear a church service every Sunday."
Katie: [giggles]

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-“They Know Who We Are”-

This is a fantastic EVP that gets better every time I hear it.  Not only is it fairly clear and multi-syllabic, it’s in context to what we are saying.

Katie: "Are there any Padgetts here who would like to speak with us??"
EVP: [very faint] They know who we are.
John: "That's funny that this... [camera beep and picture snap] I mean, I assume these people..."

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-“Turn Around”-

This is a great one, and is extremely creepy when taken into context!  This was one of the more audible whispers, and as you can hear it sounds very much like a strong “TURN AROUND”.  What’s funny is that right as this EVP occurred, at that EXACT SECOND I thought I saw something moving over my shoulder and I thought I saw eyes reflecting some light.  What’s not on this clip is that immediately a few seconds before, I state out loud that I thought I saw something.  Immediately following that is the EVP, and I ask to hold Katie’s flashlight so I can shine the light on the area.  Perhaps I’ll edit that clip to include that soon…

I won’t lie… I was a little scared when I thought I saw something. The flashlight didn’t show anything but some sparkles of the grave’s “bling"… but now that I hear this sound right at the same time all of that was going on, it’s quite unnerving!  What’s funny, too, is that I *did* turn around! lol…

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-Bark and Wailing-

This one gets better and better every time I hear it.  And we believed this occurred at the same grave in which we got the great EVP from the first visit that says “They know who we are” (the grave of Katie G. Barrett)!  What’s peculiar is you hear something that sounds like a dog bark right when the clip starts, but there were no dogs anywhere close to where we were.  We could occasionally hear dogs far, far away in the distance, but there weren’t any up close (and too far for the devices to pick up), and that sound *isn’t* on the other recording device! 

As we are slowly realizing that this is the same spot we were in before, I say “Are there any Padgetts here? ...Are there any Barretts here?”, and in the background you can hear a wailing sound.  That wailing sound was NOT audible to us!  It was not on the other recording that we made at the same time, and I didn’t hear anything else that sounded like it on this recording.

If only I had shut my big face up, because if I had gotten that sound without me talking over it, it would scare the bejeezus out of even the most stoic person, and qualify as one of the best EVPs we’ve gotten!

Worthy of mention… this particular gravesite has a husband and wife that died very young on the same day, pretty much ensuring the death was quite tragic.

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-Redman-

This one isn’t spectacular by any means, but it is a very strange noise that I haven’t heard on any other parts of all my recordings.  As I said in the last investigation of this location, there was a grave with a Redman Chewing Tobacco logo, a wild turkey, and a bulldozer.  I’ve really tried to get this guy to say something, and there is a peculiar, very high-pitched response (almost like a “uh huh").  Once again, it’s not on the other recording and I haven’t heard a sound like this before (so I don’t think it was the recording device somehow). I’m not claiming it’s paranormal, but it’s certainly not really explained, either, so it’s worthy of mention.

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-“Whoop”-

This isn’t one to write home about either, but once again… this isn’t an animal, it wasn’t picked up on the other recorder, and it doesn’t sound like anything my recorder has done before.  It’s just a strange “whoop” noise in the background.  We South Carolinians are fiercely loyal to our state, and this was a South Carolinian’s grave.  I start talking about South Carolina, and I get a quick “whoop” that isn’t repeated anywhere else on the recordings (or on the other recorder).  Once again, it’s not the best evidence, but definitely odd. 

Funny… the “tombstone knocking” sounds I got in Edisto were right after I said “South Carolina”.  lol… I think I’m on to something!

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-Typical Whispering-

Like I said earlier, there was a lot of barely audible “whispering” sort of sounds in the first few minutes after we walked into the graveyard.  This is nothing really special (unless it’s, umm… scary shadowy things whispering about Katie and me), but it’s a quick sample of what I’m talking about! It was basically just a barely audible ambient aura of whispery background sounds.  Sure, sure… this could be something that can be explained, but we didn’t get sounds like this the other times we were here so I thought I’d point them out.

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-“I already picked up the thing” (?)-

This was from the graves of Katie G. and Charlie G. Barrett at Nolan Ridge… the same place where we’ve gotten other EVPs such as “They know who we are” and various wailing noises!  This couple unfortunately passed away on the same day when they were 28 and 34, so there has to be great tragedy associated with them.

I can’t make out exactly what is said, but it sounds a little like -and has as many syllables as- “I already picked up the thing”.  If anyone else has any other ideas what is said, then please let me know!  This once again sounds sort of like a response to us… not directly, but ABOUT US -just like the “They know who we are” EVP.

John: "Katie G. Barrett. We've gotten a lot of things from you..."
EVP: (sounds something like...) I ALREADY PICKED UP THE THING(?)
John: "...Charlie G., Katie G. Barrett... are y'all both here?"

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-Screaming!-

This was definitely not heard at the time of recording! lol… It’s blood curdling screams, and what’s funny is for those of you that know the Smurf Video that we made, it sounds very similar to the two stock, free domain screaming sounds I spliced together for Smurfette when Gargamel picks her up at the very end!

This is another bit of evidence that makes me inclined to think that maybe this location is inhabited by things that aren’t quite, umm… benevolent.

John: "This is Johnney Nolan. An "E Y"... is that a female name??"
EVP: [BLOOD CURDLING SCREAMING]
Katie: "I don't know."
John: "Don't know."
EVP: [MORE BLOOD CURDLING SCREAMING]

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-“They Watch Us”-

This is one of those that both of the recorders picked up, but one part was better on one and one part was better on the other.  Therefore, I spliced the two tracks together so you will hear the static and hiss change slightly when one ends and the other starts.

The end sounds like “They watch us”, but the sounds in the middle are interesting, too.  It almost sounds like a loud, distant gunshot sound or slapping noise that is “echoey”, and you can hear a few other noises mixed in there.

[Recorder 1] John: "Loving son and brother. He made it to 40... on the nose."
[Recorder 2] EVP: [Slapping, echoey noises, and a few sounds from second recorder spliced in]
[Recorder 1] EVP: [from first recorder] THEY WATCH US

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