What you are about to read are details on the night I visited Hill House Manor for the first time.  This took place on Friday, July 11, 2008.  I had two other people that joined me that night, my sister in law Tina and her sister in law Mireya.  The only devices I had were very simple: my camera, digital recorder, and a flashlight. 

    As we were going through the tour with Linda, we immediately started to hear things upstairs.  Unfortunately I didn’t have my recorder on at that time.  While in the upstairs fireplace room we could hear humming.  I asked the group if they could hear it and they said yes. As soon as that was said it stopped.  Because the a/c was on at that time we assumed that’s what it was.  I never heard the humming in there again even as the a/c remained turned on through out the night.  Then when we were in the green bathroom upstairs I heard the doorbell.  At the time I didn’t know that Linda had no doorbells in the house. 

    Some general personal experiences consisted of feeling like someone was walking right behind me as I walked up the stairs.  Feeling as if we were being followed and watched most of the time.  But the following are evp’s that were caught on my recorder. 

In the fireplace room upstairs: at 10:13pm  Mireya, me, and Tina

Right away, I start to ask questions. I asked "Can you move the curtain?" sounds like (No........)

This is also when Mireya and I got touched on the arm.  The funny thing about it is that I thought it was my sister in laws hair.  I was even laughing and told her that her hair had brushed against my arm and scared me thinking it was a ghost who touched me.  In the recording you can hear her say "My hair?”  Only to realize that she knew she wasn't close enough for that to have happen. I didn't realize this until the next day.

In the murder room downstairs: Mireya, me, and Tina

 As we were walking down the stairs from the window room, I take pictures on the camera.

10:22pm    after I show Sheila a picture on my camera, there's humming or moaning (as if in pain) in the background.

10:23pm     I asked for the man who got shot and killed in that room to make contact with us by making a noise or moving something. It made a crackling  noise  right next to Tina (Sheila I believe you were by the door way and witnessed this too) Tina felt like something was beside her at that point. 

10:24pm    Right after we hear the noise next to Tina, we all walked away from that room and into the next room.  As we are walking into the next room I

say "I hope we got it on the recorder" meaning the crackling noise of course, then right after that you can hear some whispering  but I can't make out what it's saying.  I do know that it wasn't any of us.       

10:25pm    As we are walking into the next room I ask "Have we been in here?" sounds like someone other than us answered (No....)

In the bay window room downstairs:  Dominic, Joe, Mireya, Tina and me

11:04pm    sounds like a man whispering  but can't quite make out what is said

11:11pm    sounds like (ha........)

11:14pm     Dominic is trying to make contact with spirit and is talking about poker games, cigar, drinks...etc.  As Dominic is talking and asking questions right after he say something about the "finest things in life"  you can hear a female's voice say (Help.....me.......) it is so clear and so close to the recorder, it's freaky.

***Also, this is the room where I got my shorts tugged on.***

In the fireplace room upstairs:  Dominic, Joe, Tina, Mireya and me

11:51pm     Tina says "Oh my God" - she notices that the strings on the ceiling fan start moving.  We all saw it, to make sure it wasn't the a/c Joe turned the a/c off.  Continued to move. (still could have been the a/c though)

11:57pm     Strings on ceiling fan start to move in a circular motion this time allot faster.  NO A/C-even 6 minutes after the a/c was turned off, the strings start to move again.

11:58pm     Joe is talking and walking around while Mireya, me and Tina are sitting on the floor against the wall.  This is the one that freaked me out the most.  The recorder is on my lap.  There's a voice that was picked up...a man asking "Who goes there?"  The voice sounds almost malicious.  I had a couple of people listen to it even people who are extremely skeptical about these things and they had chills after hearing it.  I asked them what they thought it said and all of them said "who goes there?"

12:01am      I get touched on my arm.  The guys were verifying cold spots around me at the time with a temperature meter.  We think it was the little girl's spirit.  She stayed around me for about 5-8 minutes.  We asked her questions and assured her that we were not trying to harm her in any way.  At one point I felt as if she had sat on my lap.  Almost as if she was afraid and was trying to hide behind me then sat on my lap.  Kind of like a mother daughter thing - as if she was seeking protection from a mother figure. 

12:05am      Everyone was telling me to tell the little girl that it was ok, that we just needed to verify that it was her causing the cold spots.  Well right before I tell her it's ok, there's whispering.  I've played it over and over again but can't make it out.  Sounds like "It's nice here", "It's not fair", "That's nice hair" or "That's nice dear"... it just kills me that I can't make it out!

12:08am      While we are talking amongst us you can hear clearly a female in the background going "OOHHHHHHH" to me it's almost as if it's a sexual moan.  Basically as if she was enjoying sex to be honest.

Keep in mind this was all caught on the recorder I have.  None of it was actually heard at the time, it was when I reviewed the recordings at home almost a week later that these were discovered.  All I can say is "OMG"...................

Hill House Manor on the night of July 18, 2008. My second visit........ Lidia Quinones

    Well here I go again.  I knew I would come back just didn’t think it would be this soon.  This time seems like our group is much smaller than last weeks.  Today I’m bringing my best friends Zebbie, Alex, Sergio, and Cindy.  We meet up at the Hill House with Mandy.  I bring my same simple devices: digital voice recorder, flashlight, and camera.  Mandy proceeds to give us the tour around the house this time. 

    We start the investigation with all of us in the fireplace room.  Mandy starts to tell us the story of when she was in there and heard the closet door rattle.  On my recorder the spirits mock her by saying “Door rattle”.  From there we think we don’t feel anything so we decide to continue to the next room.  We end up in the foyer upstairs right outside the fireplace room.  Mandy then starts to tell us about the closet that’s between the window room and the fireplace room.  She starts to tell us how a psychic said she saw something inside the closet in the corner.  As Mandy begins to open the closet door, I feel extremely anxious, nervous and scared for what ever reason.  She opens it and asks me if I’m ok.  I tell her that I am that I was just afraid to see something in the corner of the closet. During this time my recorder picks up a voice of a female in distress saying “NO..” right before she opens the closet door.  Was I feeling what the spirit did as the closet door was opening?  The spirit sure didn’t sound like they wanted that door to open at all.  At one point Mandy was explaining to us how a door was found open.  The recorder picks up the exact words Mandy says “the door was open”.     

    From here we go downstairs to the murder room.  Mandy tells the group about the man who was killed there.  She feels a slight tap on her back and suggests us to go into the next room to see if we feel anything else.  Mandy decides to go into the restroom to do some evp’s which I had not done.  She goes in the restroom first and I follow.  Alex has a temperature meter and follows behind me.  As soon as we walk in there Mandy must have felt something because right away she had a weird feeling and said “Eww”.  She asks:  Can you tell us what happened in here?  “Something bad happen in here?  My recorder picks up a little girl saying “Mommy……..”  “Mommy………” sounds like a little girl scared looking for her mother.  Then the creepiest of the night for me happened.  I feel a cold spot by my arm and felt like spider webs on my arm.  As Alex was trying to catch the temperature I hear Mandy behind me ask if anyone else could see the back of my shirt move.  Alex tells us that the temperature is dropping extremely low!  Then Mandy asks me if I feel anything behind me.  At this point I don’t feel anything except my shorts feel like they are being moved from side to side.  Mandy, Alex, and Zebbie see my clothes being played with.  I think this is the little girl I call Sam.  Just to make sure it’s her, I ask……”is this little girl I call Sam?”  “Is it a little person or an adult?”  Then I just say “ If it is a little person go ahead I’m ok with that”.  Mandy said it looked like my back was being patted on and form the angle she could see that it was a little person that was playing with my clothes.

 Now we are going into the Bay window room.  Here I start to feel a really hot spot, something I had never felt before.  Apparently the temperature was dropping on the meter but that one spot sure was HOT.  Mandy starts to talk and asks for spirits to close a door.  We hear something which we think is coming from outside at first.  But then I could hear it inside the room almost like a grunt.  Mandy heard it too we heard it twice.  Well in reviewing the recorder later something says “put your hands on your side” As we go into the next room which is the room up front by the porch, I start to ask for the spirits favorite number.  I thought I heard “3” and I asked out loud if any one had heard 3?  Everyone says no. Mandy hears someone say “Maybe” I heard it too.  We confirmed that no one in our group had whispered that.  The recorder picked that up as well.  I find it amusing how now we are actually hearing them while they say something right then and there.  After a while we all just go for a break and go to the safe side of the house.

Sheila and I decide to go back to the fireplace room just the two of us.  I don’t think we lasted more than 3 minutes.  Sheila starts to make contact and we hear a slight noise but nothing big.  However I start to feel really uncomfortable at this point.  It almost felt as if something was in there with us and was staring us down.  Right away I tell Sheila that I can’t be in that room any longer so we start to leave.  When I play the recorder back it picked up something when we were going through the foyer upstairs.  I was telling Sheila that I didn't mean to be chicken shit.  In the background you can hear a female shouting “OKAY………”  I had asked Mandy to go back upstairs with us since I felt weird.  So then it was Mandy, me, Sheila, and Zebbie in the fireplace room once again.  Mandy’s chest starts to feel heavy and notices that something really is there.  Regardless we all start to talk about where we are from.  Zebbie tells us that she’s from Northisde and I add Samson Park.  The recorder picks up a few things while we are talking in there. “Did you hear about your teacher?”  No one was even talking about any teachers in that conversation. When I say Samson Park something says “No way….”.  Then at some point I get on my cell phone to call Alex to come up stairs.  The recorder picks up “put the phone down”. 

Murder room:  Me and Zebbie

    I ask what’s your name?  voice says “SAMUEL….”  I ask how old are you?  Voice says “21”  I ask are you mad because we’re here?  Voice says “No……”  ***remember this is the name I picked up on from last weeks visit.   I was calling the little girl Sam.  Whether this has a connection with that or not I have no clue, I just think it’s FREAKY……

    We decide to do our last walk thru for the night with the entire group except Mandy.  We go through the house and when we make it to the green bathroom upstairs…Zebbie checks to see if the closet door remained closed or if it was open.  As we are all standing in there stiff as a board, we start to hear heavy breathing from the corner.  I say "ok everyone stop, freeze can ya hear that?"  We all freeze and listen.  The heavy breathing was getting more and more intense and heavier.  Almost as if it was mad or upset.  The heavy breathing scared us all and we practically ran down the stairs to the safe room to tell Linda.  This is what our night concluded with.  Can’t wait to get the evp’s downloaded for all you to experience what we did.  I made a mistake by not getting a digital voice recorder with downloading features.  As soon as I find one I’ll transfer the evp’s from one to the other then download.  If you are wondering if any of what I’ve experienced is true or not, just ask Linda or Sheila.  I’ve had them listen to most of the evp’s on my recorder and they can tell you that what I’ve said is on that recorder!  I love the Hill House!!!

Lidia Quinones