Whistling Wraith of
Camellia Memorial Lawn
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By
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI Ghostwriter
Edited by Shannon 'Ms. Macabre'
McCabe
One of the things that is fun about being a ghost hunter for
H.P.I. (Haunted and Paranormal Investigations) of Northern California is that I
am able to head out somewhere, meet a potential client and listen to their ghost
story. This Sunday, August 5, 2007, I was doing exactly that. I went
to the quaint town of Davis and stopped over at Konditorei Austrian Pastry Cafe
and waited for my potential client. Her name is Laura (Jeanne) Garman, she
likes to be called Jeanne. Jeanne has a very bubbly personality and full
of smiles. As I ate my buttered croissant and drank my vanilla bean coffee, I
listened to Jeanne's stories. Jeanne feels she may be an intuitive,
she picks up on things that other people don't pick up on. It appears
that the paranormal may have followed her throughout her years.
Jeanne is a
single mother of 3 children and when she lived in a home in Spokane, Washington
in 1989, she knew the home was haunted by a small girl ghost. She would
hear constant laughing or sobbing. The house was over 100 years old and carried
with it, a lot of history. The sobbing and laughing of a little girl would continue, then one
night she heard somebody climbing up and down the stairwell. She heard running
footsteps.
She cried
out for her 8 year old daughter, thinking it might have been her daughter running up and down the
stairs at this late hour in the night. When investigating, her daughter was sound asleep
and there was no one around who could have caused the sound of running
feet. Later on, Jeanne discovers buried correspondence, underneath some dirt, underneath the outdoor steps.
As she went over the letters, she read on how two families were corresponding with each other and
in the letters they were inquiring on
the health
of a little girl that had consumption (an old word for TB). She moved from
Spokane to a home in Benicia. She moved into an old Colonial home.
There was a cellar to the home and when she entered the cellar, she felt
like something was dead in the cellar. It was an overwhelming feeling, she could
not stay in the cellar to long. The cellar door would open by itself on a
regular basis. One night she heard a
woman's
voice crying out to her...."Jeanne, Jeanne". This was enough for Jeanne,
she now lives in Davis and has not witnessed any paranormal activity in her new
residence. On this night paranormal investigator/scout Jennifer Baca
came over and we set our goals in investigating three locations. First
off, the East Lawn Elk Grove Mortuary off of East Stockton Blvd, Camellia
Memorial Lawn at 10221 Jackson Road and finally the abandoned Ice Crystal
Factory between 15th and 16th Street - on R Street. We brought along
another ghost hunter, his name is Pika, a Jack Russell Terrier that belongs to
me.
When we arrived at East Lawn Elk Grove Mortuary, we stopped by my
mother's (Rose Marie Roberts) grave and I gave my respects. I also stopped
over at my stepmother's parents (Mitchells) gravesite along with the Huft
gravesite to give my respects. After my silent prayers, we started our
ghost hunting. What is unusual about this cemetery is that there are
turkeys wandering around the grounds and Pika had a field day chasing them.
There was no unusual activity at this cemetery and we headed over to the
Camellia Memorial Lawn. This is when things became strange. While we took
photos and turned on our digital audio recorder, we started hearing voices and
whistles. In one location of the isolated cemetery, I heard a distinct
man's whistle, he was whistling a tune, it lasted for no more than 5 seconds.
Jennifer didn't hear the whistle. Jennifer and I, both heard a
woman's laughter, then we both heard what sounded like two children talking. The
closest homes were one mile away. There was wind. So, could have
voices been carried for a mile to our location, where we could actually hear the
voices as if they were no more than 20 to 50 feet away from us? The
woman's laughter sounded like it was no more than 50 feet away and it was a loud
laughter. The man's whistle, sounded like it was no more than 20 feet
away, in the opposite direction of the two houses that were a mile down the
road. Was this truly a whistling wraith? There was a point of time,
that Pika seemed focus on an area near a tree as if he sensed something. I
checked to see if there was any animals in the tree and there wasn't any, but he
kept looking at one area of the tree as if there was something there that only
he could see. He finally got distracted to chase a couple of rabbits and
one cat. Another time, I heard two loud knocks on a tree and I cannot
determine what caused the two knocks. This was a very strange cemetery.
Our last destination was the abandoned Ice Crystal Factory. I was
told it was once a fruit packing plant, but the sign says Ice Crystal, so I am
not sure. This factory has been abandoned since the 70s and I was told
that 2 men that worked there, were killed by the factory machinery. The
story I was told that the two factory workers were taunted by the other factory
workers because of their deformities. One of them, that was nicknamed
Charlie Crooked Teeth, had crooked teeth. The other factory worker
nicknamed Jimmy One-Eye, had only one good eye. Charlie Crooked Teeth and
Jimmy One-Eye became very close friends. I do not exactly know the kind of
machinery they were both working with, but the story goes that an accident
occurred and they were both killed by the machinery. Other stories said
that they were set-up and the machinery was sabotaged, this lead to their
deaths. Supposingly, Charlie Crooked Teeth and Jimmy One-Eye haunt this factory.
As we took digital photographs, we got some interesting orb pictures.
I took a picture in an opening of a window and got 13 orbs in one photo,
the next shot, there was no orbs. Jennifer took a picture at the location
where my car was parked at and got some orb shots near my car.
I
would like to do a further investigation of the Ice Crystal Factory and Camellia
Memorial Lawn, both places seem to have some exceptional activity. Could the
restless spirits of Jimmy One-Eye and Charlie Crooked Teeth still haunt this
abandoned factory? Are they trying to find why they died sudden deaths.
Could they be the orbs that seemed to have followed Jennifer and I, around
the factory and later seen by my car? If so, Jimmy One-Eye and Charlie
Crooked Teeth, may you both rest in peace.
For more on
H.P.I. (Haunted and Paranormal Investigations) of Northern California, check out
our website at: www.hpiparanormal.net
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI
Ghostwriter
Paranormal Cellular Hotline: 916 203 7503
Email: JazmaPika@cs.com
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