Sightings First Visit
Report by: Debra Pickman
During the weeks prior to Sightings first visit, Tony and I discussed and argued a lot about whether or not to allow them, or for that matter any other group, come to investigate, or otherwise invade our private lives.
I also felt that there were people that Sightings could involve to help us define exactly what was happening. And although, it was my belief that this case was unusual and that the paranormal community might be able to learn something from the experiences we were having, Tony could only think of how we would become a public display for ridicule and then marked as frauds by our friends, family and community.
We will save it to say that Tony reluctantly gave in to my curiosity and desire to learn more about our haunting. And Although he had agreed to allow Sightings to come we fought almost every day prior to their arrival. His biggest fear was that we would be the laughing stock of the community and he just knew in his heart that Sightings true motive, was solely to make us out to be frauds on national television.
To say the least, we were very stressed by the time the film crew showed up and really had no idea what to expect during their visit.
In trying to head off any unexpected turns of events, we asked that Sightings view and analyze several of our photos before pursuing the investigation. We didn’t want to be caught off guard if the strange photos we had could be explained by other means and not paranormal.
Edson Williams, a visual effects supervisor specializing in creating illusions analyzed several of the photos and negatives. He was especially interested in the Christmas photos, the crayon photo and the photos of the blue masses. In analyzing the Christmas photos he was impressed with the light refraction which lent credibility to them not being faked. Additionally, he tried to recreate each of these photos and could not do so.
As it was, the crew was very nice. Upon their arrival the sound man John Woods and camera men Phil set up their equipment while Greg Cooke, the Field Director talked us through how things would work, and what we should expect. The crew wired the microphone for my initial interview, while I tried to calm my nerves. As I sat in position, just inside the doorway of the kitchen, Tony watched from the rocking chair in the living room. He was holding Taylor and, for sound purposes, trying to keep him quiet.
We started the interview, but shortly into it had to pause due to the neighbor’s saw wrecking havoc with the sound. As we waited, Tony called me from the other room, “Deb”, and then raised his left arm showing three bloody scratches.
I went in to look at the damage to his arm and the camera operator quickly followed to film while I addressed the injury. Tony reported having felt a coldness at one point, but didn’t think anything of it at the time. Not knowing what the scratches meant, I decided that we would stop all filming until Barbara’s arrival, which was expected within the hour. Tony and I simply did not know if Sallie was excited or angered by the film crew being in the house and did not want to take the chances of it being the latter.
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